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<blockquote data-quote="Crawley" data-source="post: 202738" data-attributes="member: 2300"><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0579.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0579.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Speaking of Pong these guys were playing it on this tiny console.</p><p></p><p>I have to say its really neat to go around the room and see people of all ages experiencing consoles from every generation. Part of the fun is actually trying to figure out the archaic games and working with the non-ergonomic controllers. Some of them you have to scratch you head at trying to figure out just what they were thinking.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0635.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0635.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>If you owned a Commodore 64 or Amiga this controller was the one to own. Basically the Xbox 360 controller of the 80's. </p><p></p><p>Comfortable as hell to hold and buttons (on the underside) easy to get to. Loved this thing.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0569.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0569.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Although I didn't get to play it they had Duke Nukem 3D hooked up to four computers so you could play multiplayer deathmatch. Last year they did this (and Doom) and it was a hell of a lot of fun playing those multiplayer.</p><p></p><p>In a different room they did have 8-player Quake deathmatch set up on some old Mac computers and I did get to play that. And fun as always.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0534.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0534.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>And finally in this room a nice little shrine to Ralph Bear who created Simon. </p><p></p><p>There's a few handheld type devices scattered around the room you can play with that are kinda fun. Including a Speak and Spell and a Dataman which I recall from my childhood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crawley, post: 202738, member: 2300"] [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0579.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0579.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Speaking of Pong these guys were playing it on this tiny console. I have to say its really neat to go around the room and see people of all ages experiencing consoles from every generation. Part of the fun is actually trying to figure out the archaic games and working with the non-ergonomic controllers. Some of them you have to scratch you head at trying to figure out just what they were thinking. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0635.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0635.jpg[/IMG][/URL] If you owned a Commodore 64 or Amiga this controller was the one to own. Basically the Xbox 360 controller of the 80's. Comfortable as hell to hold and buttons (on the underside) easy to get to. Loved this thing. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0569.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0569.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Although I didn't get to play it they had Duke Nukem 3D hooked up to four computers so you could play multiplayer deathmatch. Last year they did this (and Doom) and it was a hell of a lot of fun playing those multiplayer. In a different room they did have 8-player Quake deathmatch set up on some old Mac computers and I did get to play that. And fun as always. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0534.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Midwest%20Gaming%20Classic%202015/IMG_0534.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And finally in this room a nice little shrine to Ralph Bear who created Simon. There's a few handheld type devices scattered around the room you can play with that are kinda fun. Including a Speak and Spell and a Dataman which I recall from my childhood. [/QUOTE]
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