The Small Victories That Get You Through Life
Holding down the high score on Tempest at Ground Kontrol in Portland.
I’m vaguely ashamed by my rather weak 109,526 high score. Back In The Day my average score would be around 200-220K after twenty minutes or so. Still, I’ll take what I can get. Ground Kontrol’s machine is in terrific shape (along with their Robotron machine which gave me a quite a workover)
October 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Nice! You know this means you need to get a full size console to practice on at all times.
Remember Francis’ place and that one summer when there were four arcade games available?
October 30th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
maybe you’ll be in the sequel to The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
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October 30th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I am so going there the next time I’m in Stumptown. Robotron and I got a date.
October 30th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Of course I remember Francis’ arcade collection: Tron, Dig Dug (both of which Ground Kontrol have) but I can’t remember the other two.
October 30th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
And yeah, The King Of Kong is one of better movies to come out this year.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
DRAGON BONUS!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:57 am
Bosconian and one other. Galaga maybe?
November 1st, 2007 at 10:27 pm
It was one of those Galaga type ripoffs. He did rotate a Xevious ripoff in there for a while. Ahh, before the days of playstation and nintendo, coming home from work late at night and staying up till the wee hours playing video games on a real machine.
I’m half heartedly trying to convince D that a pinball machine would look good in the living room. The new place certainly is big enough. But she’s not going for it. Although I suppose I could cram one in my office. It’d be next to the treadmill but it’d fit.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Congrats!!
MCMLXXX–1980. Strange but until reading this post I had totally forgotten about Tempest. Over the past few years, whenever old video games come up in coversation I’ve made mention of Battlezone, Space Invaders and PacMan. I was never very good at any of them but I liked Battlezone and Tempest a lot. Wir sind echte Fossilen, nicht wahr?
November 21st, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Wir sind echte Fossilen, nicht wahr?
Ground Kontrol was one of the few places I’ve been where I was the oldest person present.