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OMG!!! It's gonna be an 80's weekend with the release of the A-team and the Karate Kid and to keep with the theme here comes another flashback to 80's when I was a kid. I'm at our local arcade that just opened, the Red Planet arcade. It was situated inbetween the grocery store and hardware store. You can go to the mall, but it was miles away and you had to ask your mom to drive you there. So more often we would hang out at the Red Planet, it was just a bike ride away from home.

This is a drawing of my buddy, Robbie and I. Robbie had the idea to take a washer and tie a string on it and stick it in the token slots to get credits on the machines. I told him it would never work and he was full of it. From what I remember, he said that he got a couple of credits. I never saw this, so don't go out attempting this. It's funny to remember those times, of just hanging out watching other people play video games, while you're waiting for your turn to play. Waiting to get the chance to get the high score... Although... I DID get the high score on Dig Dug and Crazy Climber a few times. Wassup!!! That's right "BOB" got the high score suckas!!! Man, I could have been on "Starcade". [link] I would have totally schooled those guys.

Oh, and here is the greatest video game of all times! I was crazy addicted to this game: [link] What's yours?
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~Baka-Ranger-Green Feb 25, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
True arcades how I miss these (90s kid but still) I was big on Gauntlet Legends and Metal Slug
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~ILikeShirts Sep 24, 2011  Student Artist
Lol love this picture! Especially chunk in the background :) GOONIES!!
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~turbanxl Aug 29, 2011
This is awesome !
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*BobbyRubio Aug 30, 2011
Thanks!
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~Prototype66 Jul 13, 2010
awe man! Wassup Crazy Climber!!
I kicked its butt!!!!! Love this piece, it is totally me!
I lived in PinballPetes here in lansing!
Star Castle, Defender, Gorgar, Centar, Space wars,Asteroids, battle Zone, Donkey Kong,Missle Command! Good god I could go on all day!!! Im such a geek!
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*BobbyRubio Jul 14, 2010
PinballPetes is a great name for a arcade.

We had the Gold Mine, Red Planet and Tilt in San Diego. Oh and there's also Chuck E. Cheese.
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~Prototype66 Jul 15, 2010
Cool Chuck! yea but not too many good games in the one by us here in Lansing.
Petes had 5 locations back then and the mall had Aladdins Castle.
Then when I was like 5 or 6 my dad help these developers open a a place called the Olde World Village Mall. They had a mini theater that "babysat " us sprats with cartoons and an arcade called Fat Daddy's Pinball Arcade!

Ah memories!
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~Gwnne Jul 7, 2010  Student General Artist
Aw, this is so nostalgic, evenifIwasn'taliveduringthe80s,fff. I love the colors too.
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*BobbyRubio Jul 7, 2010
Thanks! it's okay that youweren'taliveduringthe80s... now I feel really old. But that's alright, with age comes experience.
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~Gwnne Jul 7, 2010  Student General Artist
You're welcome!
Aha, still, it woulda been a cool era to grow up in, I think. I suppose they all have their merits though.
So true!
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