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This Squad Challenge ends tonight at Midnight PST! Good luck everybody! -
Scrapyard Dog (Lynx)
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Sadakichi Sebun: Hideyoshi No Ougon (PC Engine)
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Just a reminder to everybody that this Squad Challenge ends tomorrow night at Midnight PST. Good luck everybody!
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Toys R Us
After all these years Toys R Us is still with us
A girl runs with her shopping cart. Inside is an Atari 800 Computer with Frogger, Pac-Man, and more!
R to L: Atari 5200, Atari 5200 Trak-Ball Controller, Intellivision II, ColecoVision
Board games, Footballs, Dungeons & Dragons, and Atari accessories
Star Wars Millennium Falcon play set and action figures from Kenner
Children's Palace was another toy store where kids' Christmas dreams came true!
This totally rad dude got the most bogus Nintendo games at Toys R Us
Atari, Nintendo, and Sega at Toys R Us
There was no feeling in the universe quite as magical as opening that one present you had dreamed of all year
These are the memories that last a lifetime
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K-mart
Before Walmart and Target, K-mart was the icon of American consumerism
K-mart was one of the most popular destinations for Atari games!
People spent a lot of time shopping for deals at K-mart
Or was it Zayre? Today Zayre is gone but spun off other retailers like TJ Maxx and BJ's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrL8QDbpH_Y
Hill's was another department store with plenty of toys & games!
Caldor was another good place for bargain hunting
Caldor is often remembered for its Orange and Brown rainbow "C"
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Woolworth
Woolworth's were general stores. Once part of Main St. USA, by the 1970s Woolworth's were inside malls
At Woolworth's you could grab a hamburger or hotdog while you shop!
'60s style Woolworth's
'70s style Woolworth's
'80s style Woolworth's
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Sears
For decades, Sears was the go-to place for Holiday Shopping adventures
Sears Wish Book (1989)
Checking out Atari, Intellivision, and Odyssey 2 games at the counter (1982)
Service Merchandise
Service Merchandise had everything from silverware to video games
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Arcades
Time Out Arcade (1982)
Inside Time Out
Time Out Arcade (1990)
Space Port Arcade
Atari Adventure was the Atari Store of the '80s!
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Electronics Boutique
The second floor was 2 Legit
Tape World
Most malls had a photo place to get your pictures developed
What's a mall without an optical center?
Before there was social media, there were Food Courts at the mall
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Large modern sculptures were often a part of mall scenery
Fairline Mall (1981) outside of Detroit, MI was and is iconic of the Taubman malls
The same view of Fairline Mall today
Fairlane Mall (1981)
The previous picture as it appears today
Other malls that were once cultural epicenters are left in ruins
Fairlane Mall had a monorail providing transportation to a nearby hotel
Neon malls of the '80s
Glamour Shots
Posters of Patrick Swayze
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Scenes from Shopping Malls
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Montgomery Ward
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This time of year always brings back great memories of Holiday Shopping with my family at Kay-Bee, Toys R Us, Sears, Woolworth, and all the great places that always made going to the Mall such an adventure. Here's a look back at some of the sights and memories from an era long past. I hope you'll share some of your holiday shopping memories too!
Kay-Bee Toys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB_cAK8CbXA
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Nectaris (PC Engine)
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Energy (PC Engine)
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Zool (Sega Master System)
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Tweenies - Doodles' Bones (Game Boy Color)
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@justin & kamakazi20012 - Interesting choices. You wouldn't often see Cybermorph or Baldies listed but both are, in my view, criminally under appreciated games. Its great to see them represented on your lists!
Raiden nearly made my list too but I felt that between Zero 5, Tempest 2000 and MC3D I had enough thumb punishing arcade action represented. If I had a second player with me, it would definitley be there.
I've been seeing a lot of love for Hoverstrike and i-War lately. Could it be that these have become the Jaguar's sleeper hits 20 years on?
These were the games I grew up with. I never thought they were bad, I thought they were awesome! I had received one of the very first Jaguar systems in the Fall of 1993 before they went on sale across the country. At that time there were few games available, but what I had I loved dearly.
Jaguar felt very underground, like a well-kept secret that only awesome people had figured out. I had already been collecting 2600 and 7800 and had a Lynx, which meant I was used to having to hunt down games wherever I could find them (story here) and figure out on my own what games were good. In those days the hunt was half the fun!
Back then there wasn't a social media mob of bratty selfie-taking video game bloggers and corrupt disgusting video game critics beating me into submission with the ideology that Jaguar was to be loathed and laughed at. In the early days I played the games I had and for the most part I absolutely loved them.
Cybermorph in particular felt like magic that first morning I brought the Jag home. I had loved Star Fox on Super Nintendo but Cybermorph took it to a new level for me. It did feel slightly unfinished, I wished there had been more music and more action-oriented objectives to be achieved in the game. But the ability to circumnavigate an entire planet rather than fly in a straight line along a predetermined path was wonderful. I was also impressed with Skylar’s ability to actually speak, it had usurped the nonsensical horn-like “Charlie Brown’s Mom’s voice” of the StarFox characters. I was not disappointed and nobody was there to instruct me that I should’ve been.
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Justin .....will there be team logos??????????
When they're completed, yes!
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Adventures of Lolo (NES)
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Here's my list:
- Cybermorph
- Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy
- Atari Karts
- Raiden
- Tempest 2000
- Sabertooth and MaximumRD
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Xenophobe (XE)
Ha! TWO Xs!
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Ecco the Dolphin (Sega Master System)
Squad Challenge - Centipede (Atari 2600)
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And now for something completely different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOnL6O-wQmQ
Our next Squad Challenge is up! http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/1338-squad-challenge-planet-smashers-atari-7800/