For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 17, 2013

If portable video games, hope a good stash of batteries has been brought.

They didn’t have portable video games in 1984. Arcade games only. At home, Atari was state-of-the-art. Game Boy didn’t come out until 5 years after this strip.

Cougar alert.

was going to paris in `59, we were held at heathrow for 12 hours because of fog over orly

Puh-leeze! I wish you would stop trying to rearrange the story line to suit your misperceptions and misconceptions. Do you also devote this much time and energy to analyzing the “Roadrunner” cartoons? “Animaniacs” must drive you up the wall!

NO, When I was younger (About 10 or 11, I am 34 now) I was flying back east from California and we had to stop in Chicago. My sister and I were taken to a room that was specifically set up for kids who were flying alone. It was okay.

that’s a tough choice! in the 1980’s i had a coleco vision.i used to play donkey kong,donkey kong jr.,frogger,popeye and pitfall on it.

Not sure of the timing on this. Did they have video games when this was set?

I live in a college town, and once had a student so busy texting on his phone walking from the dorm, toward the street. I had the green light, and he never even looked either way, if I hadn’t noticed him, and wondered if he was planning on stopping at the light and slowed down or I’d have hit him for sure. And when I honked the horn at him, he was very surprised that I was annoyed with him.

First video game I played was Pong in 1973.

I remember two early games: Space Invaders and Berserk. The second one, every time you escaped a room the game voice would say “Chicken. Fight like a robot.”

I’d be freaking out just like Elly.

he always wins at old maid

So much like us.

Often wonder why some people take time out of their day to read comics. They then carp, pick, whine, and post unfailingly snarky comments about the characters and story lines. Being snotty is, of course, their right but, if you dislike a strip so much, why bother reading it??

So much for worrying, Ellie.:).

Someone care to correct?It seems I read once that they do have seat-belt extenders for those that need them. Part # – get this --FAATSO

pretend it is today…problem solved….

Pacman was out by, I think, 1982. I remember others being out by then too. The arcade machines quickly became commonplace. I remember playing Pacman at Pizza Hut around 1983.

got held over in Shannon, Ireland one evening about 30 years ago. i came out of the alcohol blackout about mid-atlantic….the next afternoon

The only way I can find my first use of computers was by checking a timeline for AutoCAD; I know that I taught myself that program back when version 2.1 was current (and see that it came out in 1985) so that means I had learned the current word processor and spreadsheet programs in 84 and since I was doing all my drafting by hand, so I was 47 when I taught myself CAD. And around 45 when I first studied Basic in a night school class so I could program my lovers’ first TRS.

The classic video game of this time was Dragon’s Lair, an interactive video game with the same rich animaton from Don Bluth, who brought us classics like Land Before Time and An American Tail. Another great video game from Bluth was Space Ace.

That ain’t gonna happen today. Kids would be left to entertain themselves.

Mike is having the time of his life and his parents are dying!