You used to get tokens with your pizza …. for those big, free-standing arcade games…. at the then-new Chuckie Cheese’s, way back when, which I loved cos it had a room full of wonderful animatronic characters.
So I blew mine on sucking at the only two I sort of liked….
One had big, wing-flapping ostriches (maybe) you controlled, or maybe rode around on, bumping into things, and missing targets, till you died…it might have been called “Joust”. The other had aliens raining down, kinda like space invaders but more complicated, that you shot at in vain till you likewise died….whereupon a synthesised voice sarcastically announced (my favorite part) “Some Galactic defender YOU are, Space Cadet.”
I probably played them each a half a dozen times. No video games before or since, and never one on a computer or my phone…oh… except a few hands of solitaire on Windows 3.1.
You used to get tokens with your pizza …. for those big, free-standing arcade games…. at the then-new Chuckie Cheese’s, way back when, which I loved cos it had a room full of wonderful animatronic characters.
So I blew mine on sucking at the only two I sort of liked….
One had big, wing-flapping ostriches (maybe) you controlled, or maybe rode around on, bumping into things, and missing targets, till you died…it might have been called “Joust”. The other had aliens raining down, kinda like space invaders but more complicated, that you shot at in vain till you likewise died….whereupon a synthesised voice sarcastically announced (my favorite part) “Some Galactic defender YOU are, Space Cadet.”
I probably played them each a half a dozen times. No video games before or since, and never one on a computer or my phone…oh… except a few hands of solitaire on Windows 3.1.
Did I just lose all my nerd points?