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Well, it's a different state now since I've moved, but it's still the same area. (Long story  )

Pumped!!!
 
http://www.theday.com/local/20170625/old-fashioned-arcade-proposed-for-olde-mistick-village

In cleaning up my parents' house, I've got the unenviable task of looking through their thousands of photographs and deciding what to keep.  It's exhausting.  Then, out of nowhere, comes this gem.  It's a picture of my mom and dad all gussied up...but off to the right of the frame, it's our old TV setup!  I went ahead and cropped it to the good stuff. 
 
Please note it's a console TV.  And what's on at that moment?  Star Trek!  Check out that VCR.  I don't know why or how, but my normally cheap father sprung for one of the smallest VCR's available.  It was an RCA, and it lasted forever.  We didn't normally get to play Atari on this TV (the dreaded fear of harming that valuable TV), but once in a while, when I was sick, I did, and it was AWESOME.
 
 

You are a hero. 

Perhaps this will help:
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_download_and_run_Doom

There's a link to the final release shareware version of the original Doom for DOS.

Me and my buddy were just talking about Schwinn Sting-Rays today.    

I told him having had an older brother, I never owned a new bike in my life!

This sounds like it will be right up our alleys. He's a fantastic writer. I'm looking forward to this.
 
Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316392235/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_RJPtzbVH8NBX8
 
A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhood
 
It's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons and advertising jingles that they'll be humming all day. A father-one of 3M's greatest and last eight-track-salesman fathers-traveling across the country on the brand-new Boeing 747, providing for his family but wanting nothing more than to get home.
 
It's Steve Rushin's story: of growing up within a '70s landscape populated with Bic pens, Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. Sting-Ray Afternoons paints an utterly fond, psychedelically vibrant, laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of an exuberant decade. With sidesplitting commentary, Rushin creates a vivid picture of a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning of parental, brotherly, sisterly, whole lotta love.

Some overdue posts
 
First, a really, really overdue thanks to Ballblazer:
 

 
The europda is a bit of a mystery since it does not work with 2 button 7800 games, but both buttons work with 2600 games and single button 7800 games. This may be a 2600 only model from overseas, which I never heard of before. Once I find my other europad, I'm going to open both up to see if I can tell a difference. 
 
And thanks to the Game Czar:
 

 
I didn't even realize the over sized, sci-fi lizard theme. Cool!

Here's what I put in: (along with what I passed on)

Pal Combat is the same as regular combat, but at 3pm it pauses for tea. 

Good show.

Animal House is the origin of Food Fight!

From Ballblazer...for future draft considerations...
 
More PSP movies (some great ones!)  And a PAL Combat board.  WOW!  I'm sure I can find a special place on my Combat throne for that. 

 
And just like that, my PSP collection has grown from the small box into the large tub. 

 
THANKS BB!
 
 

I hope Cindy treats you well. 

Well, I always thought a tropical storm delivered a tropical punch.  At a bare minimum, keep an eye on your blood sugar levels. 
 

update........

I'm on the line, ArenaFoot is to the right of it!   Hunker down Feetz!

The box is back!   My camera just...well it sucks, sorry guys.  I was gonna edit it and make attempts at humor but the camera wouldn't cooperate.   I think I at least got all but a couple of tiny items in the vid.

Thanks for everyone who joined in!  Hope you enjoyed it.

I'm on the line, ArenaFoot is to the right of it!   Hunker down Feetz!

Stay safe.

I'm on the line, ArenaFoot is to the right of it!   Hunker down Feetz!

I'm on the line, ArenaFoot is to the right of it!   Hunker down Feetz!

I'm on the line, ArenaFoot is to the right of it!   Hunker down Feetz!

Ha, that's great!
 
I'm hoping we end up getting some rain from Cindy.

I'm on the line, ArenaFoot is to the right of it!   Hunker down Feetz!

You guys did it up good this time around. The junk is piling up, I will definitely be in on the next one!!