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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 26, 2023 19:49:53 GMT -5
I had an undomed home version circa 1970. The players wore no helmets (nor the goalies masks) and the teams were Montreal and Toronto. I wanted the Bruins vs the Rangers, dammit! A few years later my cousins had a hockey table with swappable players; I think they had six teams available. Great memories indeed, even if I was pretty lousy.
No worse then the old electric football games, where the vibrating field would just cause the players to bunch up in the middle every time.
Still, pretty fun when you're 11 though, learning formations and play set-ups. But inevitably, no matter the formation, it would just end up being a mass of figures in the middle every time.
Until video game football came along, I always had more fun with this--
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2023 19:54:56 GMT -5
It was always fun trying to get a clean pass to your center. Then you would carefully keep the puck out of reach and begin the slow approach...followed by ramming speed and hopefully the right flick of the puck into the goal!
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Post by berkley on Apr 26, 2023 20:03:00 GMT -5
Who remembers playing these back in the day? The bubble dome hockey table, I LOVED those things. Had an un-domed "home version" as well, not nearly the same as the real thing but still fun in between outings (except the puck would go flying out of that one all too often with "competitive play"). I love my video games too, but man, these are still the coolest to me. I had an undomed home version circa 1970. The players wore no helmets (nor the goalies masks) and the teams were Montreal and Toronto. I wanted the Bruins vs the Rangers, dammit! A few years later my cousins had a hockey table with swappable players; I think they had six teams available. Great memories indeed, even if I was pretty lousy.
I was pretty bad at it too, but I remember that if you could get the puck to the centre, he was pretty much unstoppable. edit: oops, didn't see that Supercat already said that.
As kids in the late 1960s we had a primitive version that had a big marble instead of a puck because the players couldn't move position: there were no slots, they were anchored to one spot and all they could do was swing around and whack at the marble "puck", which was continually in motion. The players were two dimensional and made of tin or something.
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Post by Duragizer on Apr 26, 2023 23:40:14 GMT -5
Lately, I've had strangers approaching me online, asking if I'm willing to sell them some of my collages as NFTs.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 28, 2023 9:29:11 GMT -5
Is there anything better than Captain Kirk fighting the Gorn ? I could watch that all day.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 28, 2023 12:53:20 GMT -5
Is there anything better than Captain Kirk fighting the Gorn ? I could watch that all day. Yeah, it's pretty epic...
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Post by The Captain on Apr 28, 2023 13:34:59 GMT -5
Who remembers playing these back in the day? The bubble dome hockey table, I LOVED those things. Had an un-domed "home version" as well, not nearly the same as the real thing but still fun in between outings (except the puck would go flying out of that one all too often with "competitive play"). I love my video games too, but man, these are still the coolest to me. I had an undomed home version circa 1970. The players wore no helmets (nor the goalies masks) and the teams were Montreal and Toronto. I wanted the Bruins vs the Rangers, dammit! A few years later my cousins had a hockey table with swappable players; I think they had six teams available. Great memories indeed, even if I was pretty lousy. We had a undomed version from later in the 1970s when I was growing up. Teams were Philadelphia and the Islanders. My best friend had found one in the trash, while doing his paper route, with the Canadiens and Leafs, so he took all of the players off of the pegs and we had four teams total to play with. Much as we loved that, our preferred home hockey game was Strat-O-Matic. He’d gotten a set from the early 80s and we were forever scouring garage sales, flea markets, and newspaper want ads for older sets.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 28, 2023 14:30:23 GMT -5
"Well done, good and faithful servant".
Booting up my home computer, I was struck by how fast it is compared to my much more recent machine at work. It's an old 2009 iMac, and on top of being pretty quick on its feet it can run my non-subscription version of Photoshop... for which I am definitely grateful. I love Photoshop but loathe the subscription business model.
The only drawback is that many websites now demand that certain browsers be updated to versions that I can not run anymore. Forget Safari or Chrome; I am stuck with Firefox (which isn't such a bad thing, actually). And for certain sites, forget it; I have to use the tablet.
I feel like my computer sometimes. Still functional, but feeling the rest of the world leaving me behind.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 29, 2023 5:22:16 GMT -5
"Well done, good and faithful servant".
Booting up my home computer, I was struck by how fast it is compared to my much more recent machine at work. It's an old 2009 iMac, and on top of being pretty quick on its feet it can run my non-subscription version of Photoshop... for which I am definitely grateful. I love Photoshop but loathe the subscription business model.
The only drawback is that many websites now demand that certain browsers be updated to versions that I can not run anymore. Forget Safari or Chrome; I am stuck with Firefox (which isn't such a bad thing, actually). And for certain sites, forget it; I have to use the tablet.
I feel like my computer sometimes. Still functional, but feeling the rest of the world leaving me behind.
No way, you're a quality human being and this world needs more like you.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 29, 2023 7:35:42 GMT -5
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 29, 2023 7:51:05 GMT -5
"Well done, good and faithful servant".
Booting up my home computer, I was struck by how fast it is compared to my much more recent machine at work. It's an old 2009 iMac, and on top of being pretty quick on its feet it can run my non-subscription version of Photoshop... for which I am definitely grateful. I love Photoshop but loathe the subscription business model.
The only drawback is that many websites now demand that certain browsers be updated to versions that I can not run anymore. Forget Safari or Chrome; I am stuck with Firefox (which isn't such a bad thing, actually). And for certain sites, forget it; I have to use the tablet.
I feel like my computer sometimes. Still functional, but feeling the rest of the world leaving me behind.
No way, you're a quality human being and this world needs more like you. What he said.
Cei-U! I summon the Canadian of incalculable value!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 29, 2023 8:07:29 GMT -5
Who remembers playing these back in the day? The bubble dome hockey table, I LOVED those things. Had an un-domed "home version" as well, not nearly the same as the real thing but still fun in between outings (except the puck would go flying out of that one all too often with "competitive play"). I love my video games too, but man, these are still the coolest to me. back in the day? Pffft.. They have what they call a 'museum' close by.. mostly pinball, but a few other things (including the USA-russia Hockey).. for a ten spot you can stay as long as you like and play anything that works. great place! We definitely had one at home as well (my dad painted the guys himself so he could have the Bruins vs. the Canadiens)... never worked quite as well as arcade ones, but pretty well until my younger brother was a toddler and toddled onto it and smashed it to bits.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 29, 2023 11:22:33 GMT -5
(...) Still functional, but feeling the rest of the world leaving me behind.
Well, you can hang out with me, then...
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 29, 2023 17:26:58 GMT -5
They have what they call a 'museum' close by.. mostly pinball, but a few other things (including the USA-russia Hockey).. for a ten spot you can stay as long as you like and play anything that works. great place! The one near me charges $20. They were voted the world's favorite pinball arcade in 2021 and 2022. www.nextlevelpinballmuseum.com/
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 29, 2023 17:32:50 GMT -5
They have what they call a 'museum' close by.. mostly pinball, but a few other things (including the USA-russia Hockey).. for a ten spot you can stay as long as you like and play anything that works. great place! The one near me charges $20. They were voted the world's favorite pinball arcade in 2021 and 2022. www.nextlevelpinballmuseum.com/Nice! Definitely similar..,. the one near me only has a few non-pinball machines, and while I think they did have about 200 machines... maybe 50 didn't work... the owner and his wife were defintely puttering around trying to get stuff working.. it's pretty new. Nice guy though, he gave us a tour when we walked in and told some stories about the how he got some of the machines. His pride and joy was a Star Trek: the Movie one signed by some of the cast. www.electromagneticpinballmuseum.com/
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