Turbovee- Kangaroo rescuing her joey? Never heard of that one! Sorry, but for some reason that makes me laugh! What, did you have a lot of kick maneuvers or what? Heehee. Funny. Hey, I can go back even further than that. I remember when I was a teenager, about 5,000 years ago, we had a local skating rink. I went to it religiously for 7 years. They had a small arcade and I remember playing some really silly games there. They had one where you played with another person (dual joysticks, oh boy!) and your ships were on opposite sides of the screen and were basically just drawn triangles. The enemy were larger different sized triangles and other geometric shapes that slowly floated down in between you both, randomly firing at you. You had two buttons that turned your triangle, and the joystick was for movement with a button on top for firing. Then there was another one where you were a cowboy in the middle of the screen holding a gun shooting at aliens or whatever that randomly appeared in a vertical line on both sides of the screen. And then, of course, we can't forget centipede! I remember the skating rink had this cheap indoor/outdoor reddish-brown carpet, and when you shuffled your skates back and forth quickly, you could create a pretty good static electric shock. So we (small group of bored invididuals) would spin our wheels in front of a machine and then touch a quarter near the slot and the zap would actually turn the machine on as if you put a quarter in it. These are the lengths we went to even back then to play a game!!
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