For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 21, 2013

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 11 years ago

    You’re such a bad influence, Gordon.

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    TheSkulker  about 11 years ago

    You know this old if you can get games (plural), for a buck!

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    Wren Fahel  about 11 years ago

    On my 16th birthday, I met a REALLY cute boy at school, who came into the office to ask if he could put up fliers for a new video game arcade (I worked in the office one period a day). He asked me if he could take me to the opening. When I asked my parents, my father (who usually left things like that to my mother) spoke up with a firm “NO”. The arcade was in a “really bad part of town” and (of course) he didn’t know the guy. Naturally, I was upset (yeah, I actually said, “I’m 16! Stop treating me like a child!”) but very soon after I had reason to be thankful, as the guy was M-A-J-O-R trouble, as was the place!

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    nananonie  about 11 years ago

    I like the new pictures they are great

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    lightenup Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Parents usually have good reasons for what they say. Sometimes they don’t make sense, but it’s better to not wait for trouble to happen for them to make sense.

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    Rockyhammock  about 11 years ago

    And to think what Gordon turned into.

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    gaebie  about 11 years ago

    And my paper today has John searching around at midnight for the schools hamster that got loose in the house. Why isn’t it the same strip as Gocomics?

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    summerdog86  about 11 years ago

    In my day, if your mom didn’t want you to go in there, then you definitely would check it out.

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    sjsczurek  about 11 years ago

    Video games!With prices so low they are INSAAAAANNNNNNNE!

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    sjsczurek  about 11 years ago

    Got some people here from the tri-state – NY, NJ, Conn area, yes?=Too bad that Crazy Eddie went out of business. Used to love those TV commercials he had.

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    danlarios  about 11 years ago

    peer pressure

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    Momothor14  about 11 years ago

    The pictures at the top make them look demented!!!

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    yankeetexan  about 11 years ago

    I lived in a very small town & everyone knew everyone. If I or my two siblings did something our folks knew about it before we got home. School bus driver would call telling them I didn’t get on the bus to go back home from an away game & got in a car with some boys. He knew the boys & my parents did too. Being a young girl in the 60’s things were a lot different then than they are now. PLUS my folks knew they could trust me & the boys that were brothers & went to our church.

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    JanLC  about 11 years ago

    Some of you guys are responding as if the dollar would buy a video game. In those days, the dollar buys only a few tries at playing it in an arcade. Home systems were rare and expensive.

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    coffeeturtle  about 11 years ago
    “frontier town,” ???

    -———————————How could I become a Pinball Wizard if I didn’t get to go to Crazy Eddy’s???

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    hippogriff  about 11 years ago

    Coffee-Turtle: Frontier town was Lynn’s quote. I thought Cromir was a suburb of North Lake, ON. North of the population belt, but hardly frontier.

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    iced tea  about 11 years ago

    Kids didn’t listen to their parents any better then than they do today. Michael and Gordon needed to be in church.

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    loves raising duncan  about 11 years ago

    Some one is gonna get it!

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    USN1977  about 11 years ago

    We had the Starbase Zero video arcade when I was a little boy, which the parents hated just because they thought it encouraged truancy. Well, there was one dad who was cool with it, my dad, because he worked there one summer! :)

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    USN1977  about 11 years ago

    Not to mention Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong. Fortunately Wreck-it Ralph is helping expose today’s kids to why it was a crucial part of our youth.

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