Star Wars, Nothing But STAR WARS…
Full copy of the featured image, including Instagram tag of the artist:
because I think the whole image is worth seeing. Someday, we are going to change how featured images on posts work here, because I find the cropping tiresome.
This is a bit late, but DiaryMistress’ Valentine’s Day present to me was a trip to a retro-arcade that is filled with video games and pinball machines from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. She took me there specifically because when we were first dating, we spent a lot of time in arcades playing this:
which, as any good 80’s nerd knows is from the Star Wars video arcade game from Atari. This retro-arcade had one, and we played it until our old hands and arms got too tired from pulling the triggers 🙂 .
It was a very sweet date for her to plan, and I really appreciated it – we had so much fun! We will be back soon, I think – we both made the leaderboard, and it was a pretty close competition.
For reference, the entry title is from this:
Can’t hardly ever think about the SW theme without thinking of this.
Never mind the arcade machines, you’d have to tear me away from the pinball
@williamthebloody they had some awesome pinball machines too, but they were more modern and had lots of extra geegaws, like a Simpsons machine that would sometimes launch five balls at once. We did spend quite a bit of time with those – I loved pinball as a smaller child, before I loved video arcade games as a larger one.
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I use to play those arcade games and use to go to the pinball places but then it got expensive but I still like them…good thing for the internet.
@jaythesmartone this place charged a flat fee and then you got unlimited plays on all the machines, so it was better than pumping quarters into the machines was in the old days.
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What an awesome gift! So glad you and Mistress had fun 😄
@teamarea it was great, thanks!
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Oh, how fun! I need to do that for my husband. Stargate was his game. Ms. Pac-Man was mine. And galaga. And frogged. Oh don’t forget donkey kong! We were mall rats in the 80’s, lol.
Frogger
@catholicchristian they had all of those, except I don’t think they had Stargate. I played a lot of Galaga back in the day!
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Hate to admit it, but I go as far back as the original — Pong!
@startingover_1 me too! Pong on the first Atari console in black & white on the TV 🙂
@thediarymaster For me it was a screen built into a table at a restaurant. I think it was before Atari. I’m getting seriously old. 🙁
@startingover_1 I remember those!
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LOVE that SW art… and wow, that’s a nice V-Day gift. Not long ago, at work, we had an exposition of retro-arcade games and computers. You had a bunch of Commodores, Ataris, etc. It was a “petting” exposition, folks were allowed to touch 🙂 Traveling back in time IS possible! 🙂
@thenerve that’s so fun, an arcade game petting zoo 🙂
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Star Wars is great! :^D
@albatrosswing it is! One of my cultural touchstones, I guess HA.
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The arcade date sounds fun! Very sweet of her to think of.
@queenofegypt yes I though so too 🙂
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I love Retro 80’s and 90’s items! And I miss going to the arcade as a kid 😢 … I’ll have to see if there is something similar in my area. 😊
@angelgrl87 you should!
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