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SiO4
03/31/24 1:34:32 PM
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When someone says to you they've been gaming since Pong, they might really mean it.
This brings back some real feels.

This whole thing is GenX as fuck.

https://youtu.be/An8d4gfxXfU?t=394

@TheAteam in particular.

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wanderingshade
03/31/24 1:42:04 PM
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Only thing more Gen X than this is The Transformers: The Movie and Pac-Man.

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lolife67
03/31/24 1:48:10 PM
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Yeah, I used to watch this every morning.
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TimeForAction
03/31/24 1:52:39 PM
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People asked how I got good at beer pong

its because I grew up on the grand prize game
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SiO4
03/31/24 3:05:20 PM
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lolife67 posted...
Yeah, I used to watch this every morning.


I can't say that I did, but I can completely feel it, on so many levels.
That Pong game was an added surprise.

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Irony
03/31/24 3:05:48 PM
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What's the matter kid don't you like clowns?

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SiO4
03/31/24 3:28:38 PM
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Irony posted...
What's the matter kid don't you like clowns?


Ya, for real.

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archizzy
03/31/24 3:38:09 PM
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WGN Chicago was a superstation (like TBS and TNT) so it was nationally shown all over the U.S. so even though many people had their own local "Bozo" I was used to the WGN Bozo and Cookie. Every morning when I would get up before school in the majority of the 80's I would get a bowl of cereal and sit down and watch Gumby & Pokey, then Smurfs, then The Bozo Show would come on. Right when the grand prize game (the bucket game) was over at the end it was time to fly out the door and catch the bus.

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SiO4
03/31/24 5:10:37 PM
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archizzy posted...
WGN Chicago was a superstation (like TBS and TNT) so it was nationally shown all over the U.S. so even though many people had their own local "Bozo" I was used to the WGN Bozo and Cookie. Every morning when I would get up before school in the majority of the 80's I would get a bowl of cereal and sit down and watch Gumby & Pokey, then Smurfs, then The Bozo Show would come on. Right when the grand prize game (the bucket game) was over at the end it was time to fly out the door and catch the bus.


That's cool!
Was it really on every morning?

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archizzy
03/31/24 5:17:38 PM
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SiO4 posted...
That's cool!
Was it really on every morning?

During the week yes. At least in that time frame it was. I didn't watch it past the late 80's. I think I stopped watching around 1988 or 1989.

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SiO4
03/31/24 5:39:57 PM
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Damn, that's some Weekend shit all week. Not bad!

I was a PBS kinda family, so we took what we got.

Still, there is something about that show that takes me back. Honestly, to a lost time.

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HudGard
03/31/24 5:42:29 PM
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My 5th grade teachers son ( a grade behind me) was on that show as one of the participants

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LeoRavus
03/31/24 5:51:46 PM
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Seems like fashion changed at the stroke of midnight 1980.

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furb
03/31/24 5:54:22 PM
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I watched this as a kid. Grand Prize Game always looked easy and it frustrated me how people failed at it.

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ablegator
03/31/24 6:13:00 PM
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Brand new crisp 50 dollar bill

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archizzy
03/31/24 6:14:57 PM
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furb posted...
I watched this as a kid. Grand Prize Game always looked easy and it frustrated me how people failed at it.

There was people who would miss when you can literally just bend over and drop it in the bucket lol. It frustrated me too.

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_____Cait
03/31/24 6:17:56 PM
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I definitely watched this.


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Foppe
03/31/24 6:22:39 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4bada485.png

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PballDepot
03/31/24 6:30:26 PM
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Foppe posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4bada485.png

Jon Favreau in his best role

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SiO4
04/01/24 9:28:28 PM
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TimeForAction posted...
People asked how I got good at beer pong

its because I grew up on the grand prize game


Was this you?
This kid even has his hung over hair ready to go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aPSTjugpfM

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