Justin

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

Arcades Time Out Arcade (1982) Inside Time Out Time Out Arcade (1990) Space Port Arcade Atari Adventure was the Atari Store of the '80s!

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

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

Scenes from Shopping Malls

Montgomery Ward

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

Nectaris (PC Engine)

Energy (PC Engine)

Zool (Sega Master System)

Tweenies - Doodles' Bones (Game Boy Color)

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.

Adventures of Lolo (NES)

Here's my list: Cybermorph Trevor McFur in the Crescent Galaxy Atari Karts Raiden Tempest 2000

Xenophobe (XE) Ha! TWO Xs!

Ecco the Dolphin (Sega Master System)

Montana Jones (3DO)

Pinball (NES)

I need to get a clear Jag shell, those look really, really cool.

Masters of the Universe - The Power of He-Man (ColecoVision)

Desert Bus (Sega CD)

lol NO! Possibly in the Atari Cup Tournament we will have something like that.

Lynx Casino (Lynx)

Hi Arena! We're just playing regular classic Centipede for this challenge. Everybody has it, it's on all of the Flashback systems, something everyone can play. We will have lots of ways for you to play hacks and homebrews in other events ^GREAT suggestion Professor! This is exactly why the Scoreboard exists! Arenafoot, your scores are something special. I would encourage you to start a new Scoreboard thread for Centipede TB and Millipede TB and post your scores! Someone else may come along and try to top them. Scoreboard offers casual competitive gaming in an open format without deadlines or even the need for another player. Think of it as a friendly and relaxed Twin Galaxies. It's a great format for setting high scores on hacks, homebrews, and arcade games. You could have an amazing score and somebody else could spend all year trying to top it. Hacked versions of games could also be played in Danisen League so long as both players agree on terms beforehand. High scores achieved in Squad, Danisen League, or Atari Cup can always be added to the Scoreboard if you think your high score merits recognition.