The Decline of Vegas

As a youth in Kemah. There was an old liquor store called Captain Okies.

He had the KISS pinball game and Defender Video Game. My brother would live in there. My grandpa was a union welder in Texas city and would give us "slugs" in case we ran out of quarters. There was a stop and Go on the bayou just down the road that had Pac Man and Centipede. But you could never get on the games. quarters were stacked up 7 deep across the bottom of the screens. and if you were good at Pac Man playing for over a half an hour was not that difficult, once you knew the patterns.

Games of our youth deserves its own thread.

 

I used to play Stargate for hours on one quarter...so I can relate. In fact, I almost entered (or had serious discussions about entering) a Stargate gaming competition with a friend because we thought we were so good. 7-Eleven was the closest place in walking distance to play this game...and I had two from my house almost equal distance walk. lol. I think they got tired of me.

 

Stargate was supposed to be defender 2 yes/no?
Came out in the early 80's?
I'm 58 you have to be close in age.

 

still everywhere, was at the Palazzo a few weeks ago.

 

yes, yes, not quite (although I did hang around older kids like you in my youth which got me in big troubles (we were invincible!))

 

That's how I react when I shop at HEB these days. I can get a kilo of dark roast Ruta Maya beans at Costco for 9 dollars less than they cost at HEB. I was a member of Costco for years before the Pandemic, let it expire during that recent unpleasantness, and joined again the other day so I could save a lot on a set of tires for the SUV. I knew the coffee beans would cost less, but nine bucks less? HEB's prices, on a host of things, are nuts.

 

So true. I'm depressed that I don't need a new TV.

 

You can always get a casket. They never go bad

 

Nah, definitely not interested in one of those. I'll let someone else buy one for me, when needed. That's if a jar isn't the alternative.

 

It's the jar for me.

 

Couldn't resist.

 

Across from Klein Forest in the early 80`s we had a stop n go that had Stargate and Asteroids and next door was a donut shop; we would get a donut before school and hit Stargate for a good 20-30 minutes.....................I loved both of those games.