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Also an arcade cabinet in the break room.

Sounds like a new tradition to me.

Mario wuuuuut

Still with me. I finished the orange ghost and started the last one, but it's been a stupid couple of weeks and I keep falling asleep early during the only quiet time I have - at night. I've got a different crochet project I have to put in front of this one for a birthday party next weekend, but I promise I'm hurrying as much as I can. The birthday present is almost done, I've just got to sew some teeth in a monster, and I'll finish the pink ghost and send the box along.

You could always pop in for dinner one night. I did that when I went, even brought my sister and BIL with me. I got caught up hanging out with family that day and don't think I even went to PRGE.

I got the box today. In all honesty I'll probably sit on it for a couple weeks. I'm not quite 3/4 done making my addition to it. What I took: - Power Lords ad - Space dino Demon Attack cart - Minstrel's Legend magnet - Nice Frog Bog overlay to swap out with one I've abused What's going in: - Pitfall II cart for a console that is not Intellivision. Commodore? I don't remember because I can't play it. - Triforce vinyl decal for somebody's car window - A set of handmade reversible Pac Man ghosts. I need to make faces for the orange one and sew it together, and I haven't even started the pink one yet. X-Ray is still in there. I'm tempted to take it, but I'm not sure what I could swap for it is comparable - I've got the source code disc from a DVD game Bill F. worked on called Spycraft. He was donating a bunch of archives and arcade cabs to the Strong Museum and didn't think they would want it, so I took it. Maaaaybe? Anyway, I'll update once I finish the ghosts and get this big 'ol beast out the door. Kudos to whoever alphabetized the loose carts and overlays.

The right answer is probably homebrews I'd never be able to replace, but the honest answer is sentiment, practicality, and spite. In that order. - Diner. It's nowhere near my favorite game, but it's signed by Keith and he was tickled that I asked him to. - LTO. It's loaded up, and realistically I wouldn't replace my collection if I lost it. - NES Uninvited. It's such a dumb game but I wanted a nice copy so bad, and it took way too fricking long and too much effort to get it for an okay price. Or maybe I'd change my mind and drop it and say DEUCES as I watched it go up in flames, and grab my Switch instead.

First, this is amazing and thoughtful. Second, your brother must be pretty special because I can't imagine putting this much work into a gift for mine.

I have a ton of stuff that eludes me because it all got hella expensive and I can't just stumble on $6 games at thrift stores anymore.

I don't about *cool*, but it was cute and didn't look overly difficult. But then I'm a seasoned pro at biting off more than I can chew when it comes to crafts, so maybe I'll just throw my Frankenstein's Monster duplicate in the box and randomly mail you a bunch of lil crochet toys 6 months down the road so I don't hold the box up till 2024. 🙃 Google says Simi Valley is about 50 miles. Not terrible, but also not terrible for me to mail a big box. We can figure it out.

Haaaa, I haven't even started making my little craft thing. Guess I'd better get cracking!

Or I guess I could just save you a click. Duh. Side note: I had it backwards. Guitar Lessons are in the brochure, so Spanish must've been in the Google magazine. 2079690928_KeyboardComponentBrochure0280271980(2).pdf 947294827_KeyboardComponentBrochure0280271980(1).zip

I actually got it scanned a few years back. Somebody needs to necro bump that thread, it was a good one. And it turned out to be a two or three of a kind, so oooops.

It's never too early to call dibs on Frog Bog.

Separate from that though, I think I have a brochure around here that teases Spanish for the KC, and years ago I was Googling something or other and found scans of an old magazine that mentioned guitar lessons for KC.

It's been ages since I've seen them, but a couple boxes of those game idea forms programmers had to fill out survived. If I remember correctly Tower of Doom's form is in there. Not with that name, of course, but Connie started with the form. I'm glad that game made it past the programmer idea phase, at least. There was another that I thought looked so cool and the lady clearly put a ton of thought into it with several colored illustrations and a fancy presentation folder, and Keith proceeded to tell me every single reason it would never work as a game. Womp womp.

I mean as long as you don't have people's kids scrounging through the medicine cabinet, under the sink, or a knife block it's probably fine. Children are going to act like feral raccoons no matter what, don't need a board game to drive us crazy when we're probably already there. 🤷‍♀️

Still hasn't made it to me, but somebody let me know if it's coming. I want to make something stupid for it and I need to get my act together.

Snakes. They're fast and take two shots to kill. They're basically dragons with an axe.

Probably. I think I'm the one who sends to you, and I work the exact hours the post office is open. You're gonna have to wait till I have a day off work till I can mail it. 🫠 Assuming *I* get it before Christmas.

I'm pretty sure I'm friends with the guy you bought it from. Small world! I guess to be fair, there can't be *that* many release party copies out there, let alone available for sale. But yeah, I texted him yesterday to see if he still had his photos from when he put it up for sale and he sent me this:

Oh I love this game. 1. Keith Robinson 2. Stephen Roney 3. David Akers 4. Dave Warhol 5. Bill Fisher 6. Ray Kaestner 7. Mark Kennedy 8. Dale Lynn 9. Michael Breen This was probably signed at the release party in Manhattan Beach, CA at The Comic Bug around 12 (?) years ago. I have mostly the same set of signatures on my own copy.

When I went in 2018 there was a Best Western within walking distance and they let me park there for $5. The lot was almost suspiciously empty though, even with the cheap parking. It's either gross or nobody staying there rented a car. The Intellivision guys all seem to stay at Eastlund. (I did not, but I invited myself to dinner every night.)

This is the part where I creep in and ask if there's any chance of a ROM release for home arcades later. I'm still fussing with the controls for Intellivision (that black pile is a pair of Flashback controllers and adapters I'm waiting on more cords for), but if I could just throw that in the arcade ROM folder and play...

I've got a sealed Mission X you can just have. It's not perfect, but it's not bad. The white back is a bit off white with age, and there's a dent on the top rear corner and some sticker gunk where somebody tried to peel off the price tag. If you want it though, PM me your address and I'll drop it in the mail next time I scrounge up a box. You collect shrinkwrapped variants?