June 5, 2020
Episode 4 - Arcades, Games & Memories


Join Toscano & Chang as they bring back the memories of arcades and video games of the '80s!
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The plane the play Smile everyone,
smile both. I think they want of
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them the eighty for the Fantady.
Welcome my friends, Welcome two back to
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the eighties on Fantasy Island. I
love you more, I love it you're
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listening to back to the eighties?
Watch one point tent? Watch Watch what
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else did you you are? As
you can hear with the laughing going on
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in the background, just kind of
on changing here with you on back to
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the eighties. Welcome my friends to
another night. Chang. How the heck
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are you? Oh? If I
was a calendar, I'd be all filled
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up with goodness. And how are
you? My favorite Italian Mexican human being.
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Obviously we're supposed to be in lockdown, but at the same time there's
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millions of people who think that's okay
to not being lockdown. Well, we're
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here, what are we doing reminiscing, having some nostalgic memories? And by
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the way, speaking on nostalgic memories, I got some nostalgic coffee here right
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next to me. Oh, and
what kind of coffee is that? Ethiopian?
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Oh? Ethiopian? Now? Is
it made of Ethiopian children? Did
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he children pick the beans? Neither
one of those is a pleasant thought as
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I'm sipping this or is it Ethiopian
call be made in China? China?
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Welcome Chang, Welcome everybody to back
to the eighties. This is Taskano and
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Chang. As I always like to
say, I am sitting next to the
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ever so wondrous the man of a
million illusions, wondrous Chang. Thank you
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for such kind putdowns, my Italian
friend. You know, every time I
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hear your voice, I hear a
toilet flushing in the distance. I don't
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quite know why that is. Sometimes
I think, and you're talking too much,
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Masa. But again, what are
you going to do? I want
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to welcome everybody else because to my
left is one of the strongest Italian men
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out of the eighties. I mean, Toskano used to be able to bench
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press. I'd say, how many
booty socks? Forty thousand, oh,
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at least two, the ones I
always had on. But you don't want
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to hear something funny, bro,
I never used to wear booty socks until
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I got older. You know,
as you become I'm older, you know,
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things bother you and the longer socks
would make me itchy. So I
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said, now booty socks it is. Now, was this missus Tuscano's shopping
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ideal or did you specifically tell her, noney, I want you to get
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me some booty socks. And that's
it. And it's funny because we've been
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fooling around with this same joke for
ages, because when we used to do
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the other radio show, you and
I, I actually used to put my
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foot on top of the desk and
show everybody yes and small. As a
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matter of fact, the jokes started
one day I believe we were well,
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of course, it started one night
when we were we were recording, and
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I think you had your legs crossed. Yeah, I think I think I
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was probably under the influence of Chang
Changhaitis and I looked over to my left
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and I remember seeing those and then
it was over. I mean, the
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jokes just started flowing. That's when
we had, uh see greedy boy as
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our as our board. If remember
the Lord of the Board. You used
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to love it when when you used
to call him the man boy, the
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man boy. If Man Boy is
listening, I'd like to give him a
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fond to skotto and shang Howdy party
man boy as well. All right,
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well, I want to welcome you
guys to this madness that we call Back
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to the Eighties that premiers every Friday
for your enjoyment and throughout the week.
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You know what, We've got so
much going on, so much chaos,
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so much just nonsense that you know, when you tune into Back to the
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Eighties you get a little bit more
nonsense. But this time it's at least
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we'll bring you a little smile.
And right now, I think the world
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needs a smile of some kind.
Yeah, I mean yeah, I agree
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one hundred percent. As a matter
of fact, I want us to go
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back to go way way back to
eighty one. Oh my gosh, I'm
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talking nineteen eighty we're actually nineteen eighth. My goodness, I was. I
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was very young, so but I
was wasting money at arcades, which brings
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us to tonight's topic. Tonight,
we enter the doors of your favorite arcade.
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That's right. Tonight we talk about
the video games that made us waste
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money, waste pairs of shoes,
and most of all, get our parents
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angry at us. Tonight, we
want to bring you back to nostalgia,
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and we want to talk about a
few of the favorite games. Pretty much,
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not only voted on did you know
change that there's there's a Hall of
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Fame and world record four games and
arcades, you know what. I had
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heard that rumor. I am unfamiliar
with the location, but I did hear
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that, and I remember when I
heard that, I thought that is just
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ridiculous. And then on the other
side of my brain, I thought,
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hmm, that is one place I
would like to go and get back into
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some donkey call. I would like
to play some fenders, maybe some asteroids.
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Now, remember the video game was
the child of Pong. I'm sure
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some of our older listeners, including
listeners our age, remember Pong. Oh
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yeah, yeah, you remember?
Well, yeah, that's the seventies game,
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I believe seventy two, seventy three. Did you know? I ended
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up finding out that the oldest video
game ever. I originally thought it was
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Pong, but apparently there was a
guy who was a physicist by the name
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of William Higginbotham or Higginbotham nineteen fifty
eight. He created what is thought to
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be the first video game ever and
it was just a simple tennis game.
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Yeah, so similar to Pong.
Wow, what arcade did you fancy back
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in nineteen eighty. You give me
your answer, then I'll give you yours.
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And let's see if any of our
listeners recall either one of those places.
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Well, because I lived, I
lived very near to the city of
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Norwalk, and in Norwalk, Oh, they have the very famous golfing stuff.
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And so my favorite arcade throughout my
entire childhood was golf and stuff,
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and so I spent tons and tons
of money and and aggravating my parents and
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we had birthday parties and the whole
nine yards and it's still around. That's
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what's fascinating that those plays, some
of those places anyway, are still around.
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And golf and stuff is one of
those that, you know, it's
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a nice thing that you live so
close when you watch the Karate aid and
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you can just walk on over Dan
your son wax On, wax Off.
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So there is a museum, it's
called the National Museum of Play. It's
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called the Strong, Yeah, the
Strong National Museum of Play. And you
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can go visit them whenever you want. You have it's Museum of Play dot
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org. And they've got tons of
information regarding you know, the Hall of
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Fame inductees. And you were mentioning
that you wanted to play don Key Kong.
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Did you know that they were barely
inducted into the Hall of Fame in
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twenty seventeen. Really, yeah,
barely. That's insane because was that not
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the birth of the Mario brothers?
Mario, that is correct. You see
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how I did that? You see
the way that's set up, that set
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up itself. Hey, my god, and you know it's funny, comical,
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genius. Today there was a guy
from pest control that came over to
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the house and he asked me for
my name, So I gave him anyway,
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I said, my name is Mario. And the first thing that comes
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out of his mouth is, hey, Mario, where's Luigi? And I'm
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looking at him flap tie five with
that guy. Yeah, I'm looking at
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him, and I'm going, yeah, I've never heard that one before throughout
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my childhood. Now, I bet
you you thought that was a racist comment,
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you being a telling you who is
the all I've worked that into?
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I see, I see. But
let's go back to nineteen eighty all right,
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So nine I was at the Electric
Planet, Electric Planet? Where was
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that at? Yes, Now,
the Electric Planet was the home of the
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Electric Planet, was the beautiful city
of Montabello, California with your boulevard in
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the garmar? Was that the one
that was like a like a pirate ship.
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No, that one was in La
Puente, And I still have not
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got the name of that, so
damned me for not doing that. But
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I will have the name of that
particular arcade on our next show, because
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I'm going to do it now because
a funny story, that one that's like
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a pirate ship. When my friend
and I were about twelve or thirteen years
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old, my buddy took his mom's
sky blue Ford Fairmont station wagon. Remember
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those? Oh dude, yeah,
I believe my grandmother had a Yeah,
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well he was thirteen years old.
I was thirteen years old or something like
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that, and we went to this
place and we're thirteen year old kids driving
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on the freeway. M So you
were on the five correct or or closest,
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you know. I don't even remember
where we were on. I was
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just so afraid that we were going
to get into an accident. And here's
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my buddy going, oh, man, I've driven on the freeway tons of
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times. He was like thirteen.
But yeah, so I want to take
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you back to nineteen eighty and the
reason for that is because in nineteen eighty,
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the release of a very very famous, if not the most famous of
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all video games, or at least
the most successful video game of all time,
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sold three hundred and fifty thousand arcade
cabinets in nineteen eighty, wrecking up
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over two billion dollars in revenue,
which would be an equivalent today of about
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three point four billion dollars. Tell
me you want to hear what that game
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was? I want to hear that
game because I have an idea. But
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I'm thinking it's one of two to
go ahead and play it and let me
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see if I'm correct in my own
name, which it was so famous that
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they even made a song. I
got a hocket moll of quarters and I'm
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added to the game. Oh man, how does that? How does that
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strike you? You're nostalgia? That
is insane. I haven't heard this.
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And the greatest thing about it is
that the chorus says the name of the
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game. I mean, it's obvious
by the intro, but the name of
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the song. Do you remember what
the name of the song? Here?
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It is pac Man Beaver right crazy? Yeah? So were you pretty good
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at pac Man? Or or did
you suck? Like a lot of other
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ago. Well, here's here's the
honest truth. I loved pac Man the
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look, I loved the whole idea. Yea, I loved the music.
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I love the atmosphere that surrounded the
game. But I could never get past
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the second level, second or third
level. And yeah, the same thing
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goes with just because it bored me. You know, I said, Okay,
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it didn't change maps. It still
looks the same. It maybe changes
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a little bit. So I would
really, really, unless I was really
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bored and there was no other video
games available at that time, really,
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I wouldn't waste my money on pac
Man. Yeah, now that is insane,
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because I would play that thing and
I got up to level I think
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the highest was six, maybe seven, and I enjoyed it because it became
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more rapid the more levels you went. I mean, sometimes those little flying
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bastards would just come at you and
gobble you. But the biggest joy I
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used to have is eating the cherries
and then being able to dominate every little
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blue meanie on that screen. That's
what it was all about. Domination,
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eating the blue meanies, eating the
cherries, getting your cherry pie. Yeah.
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Yeah, and believe it or not, believe it or not, the
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the world's champion okay, the world
champion gamer for pac Man. I believe
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he crossed over the two hundredth level. And by that point, you know,
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the original designer of the game,
they never thought anybody was ever going
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to get there. So part of
the screen is garbled up. You see,
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like a bunch of gibberish on it, and so you only played like
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on half of the screen. So
it's very interesting. You know. It's
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funny that whenever I hear somebody talk
about games of today, and of course
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we can't compare him, because today's
games look like the real life, so
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we're not going to go and compare
them. That's it was just another time
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in the world. However, if
you want to drive a kid insane,
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a competitive kid insane, put him
in front of an eighties game and let
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him see if he can cross over. For example, Donkey Kong. Do
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you remember how hard it was just
to pass that first level? Oh?
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I hated Donkey Kong. Sometimes sometimes
I just like felt breaking the screen,
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you know. Sometimes I would just
get tripped up on those damn barrels and
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I just couldn't get past it.
I Donkey Kong used to just irritate me.
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You know, I would like to
go. I used to go to
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the zoo and throw bananas at the
monkeys just because I was defeated heavily in
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Donkey Kong. Another interesting fact,
if we jump over to nineteen eighty one,
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Donkey Kong was one of the first
platforms and the only second game ever
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to feature multiple levels. Yes,
and Donkey Kong was incredibly difficult to play.
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I think I got up to level
four or level five, but that's
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it. I couldn't go on.
It was like the first game that had
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a storyline and had a damsel in
distress. If you remember, yes,
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yes, you could be the hero, you can get the gorgeous girl.
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Yeah yeah. But back in the
eighties, I think everybody that was a
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teenager was trying to get that peak
of success where you are the arcade wizard
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and it comes with a hot chick
and a sporty new Levi jacket. You
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remember those days, Oh, I
remember those Levi jackets that if it was
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wintertime and you wore one of those, you were going to freeze to death
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because they weren't Yeah. Yeah,
And if you put a member's only jacket
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on then, I mean, you
can cruise any chick that you wanted at
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a dance party. Bro. That
was just one of the weak stages of
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the eighties. But that's another story. We're going to take a sharp break.
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When we come back, we'll have
more of this talk of the greatest
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back. You were on the hang
with Tascano and Chang. We are discussing
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video games here at Back to the
Eighties and Tascano, we're talking about video
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games. We were talking about Donkey
Kong and we were talking about of course
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pac Man. What was one of
your favorite Space Sage games, Mine had
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to be Galactica. I just thought
that was pretty cool that the way the
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ships you could just line them up
and fire away, and then they would
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spin off and come at you at
all kinds of directions. I thought it
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was a little bit more action packed
than Asteroids. How about you, Well,
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I like it. Now, are
you talking about Galagha or Galaxian,
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because because Galaxion was first, Yeah, Galaxion was first, and then after
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Galaxion it spawned Gallagher. That's anyway. That's according to some of the information
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that I'm that I've been reading.
If somebody out there knows something different or
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knows the official version, please let
us know. Here at back to the
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eighties, So your favorite game was
Galaxion, right, yes, Bro?
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That and Defenders. I used to
like the Space Age games were just like
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Killer Bro. I mean, you
put yourself right there. You know you
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think you're in a space war.
Yeah? I agree. So my favorite
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game President, my favorite game of
all time was a game that I don't
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know. You may have heard of, it may have not, but I'm
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gonna let you listen to it and
then you tell me away. So that
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was my favorite game of all time. It came out of nineteen eighty two
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by the company called Namco, and
it's a game called Excevious. It's spelled
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yeah, it spelled xEV io u
S and it features a little spacecraft that
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shoots both a double firing system and
also shoots bombs at different locations as these
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flying discs go in the air,
and also these little stations that are on
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the ground shoot at you as well. But the cool thing that made me
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just get so psyched about this game
was that there were little cheats in the
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game, and that was as you're
crossing this green valley with a kind of
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rivers running through it and things like
that, you can shoot bombs in areas
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that were blank or there's nothing there, and sometimes you would have like an
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extra life appear and then you'd shoot
it and you know, you'd get your
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extra life. So that was my
favorite game of all time up until we
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get to number one. But I'm
not gonna be talking about that just yet.
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Now. Was that the game that
used to shoot from the front and
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the rear? No, No,
no, I know, I think I
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know which one you're talking about,
but no, this is totally different.
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Now. Jumping over to nineteen eighty
five with the North America eighty five eighty
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six. With the North American release
of the Nintendo Entertainment System in nineteen eighty
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five and the Sega Master System,
the focus switched heavily to developing home gaming
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systems. So that's where everything changed. Although arcades were still the thing,
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people having fun at those arcades.
I mean, it was still huge,
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but it was something that was looming
in the horizon. And something else happened
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two years prior. And this is
what I think was interesting. In nineteen
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eighty three, And I don't know
if you remember this, bro, a
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lot of news segments featured the moral
fight against video games by concerned parents,
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and did you know that that nearly
killed the video game industry? Yeah,
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I remember that. I was a
senior in high school in eighty three.
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I remember that, and I was
already kind of growing out of video games
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by then. I discovered women and
finding that singing with bands gets you a
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lot of chicks. So I didn't
play too many video games, but I
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remember that happening, and I thought, you know, what kind of conservative
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crap are we going into? Where
you're going to jeopardize one of the greatest
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entertainment packages that we had in that
generation. And I believe that was the
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era when we started going into tokens. Now, check this out. Before
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nineteen eighty five, the industry had
made twelve billion dollars in video games a
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year. Twelve billion dollars. That's
a huge industry. A whole lot of
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quarters, a whole lot of quarters. Now, once parents started fighting against
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the video game companies and then the
console wars started, they went from twelve
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billion in nineteen eighty five, they
only made one hundred million dollars. Wow,
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now that's huge. That's a huge
loss for arcades. It was a
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pastime when you think about it,
playing video games was a pastime. You
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know. It was just something you
did and and something that everybody did,
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you know. But back then,
remember it really didn't matter what age.
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I remember going to arcade still even
after I had graduated, and there was
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people of all ages, you know, I would see people older than me,
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people in their twenties, and it
was like it was always fun,
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man, because different generations, the
zest that they had for some of these
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games was pretty intense. Yeah,
I used to enjoy watching older, older
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cats play some of the young cats
man. Oh, and the battles that
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they would have. That was great
to see. Do you remember it was
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a hockey table, was like it
was supposed to be glass over it like
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a home and it was kind of
like a foosball table, but it was
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hockey players with the sticks and everything. That was one of my favorite games
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of all time. Oh yeah,
dude, I remember that game where you
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your your hockey players are sliding with
those little flat Yes, that's the one.
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That's the one every every now and
then you had one guy that couldn't
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turn all the way around here.
We get pissed off and I got a
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week. Yeah, you know,
I remember that. Do you remember?
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Oh home man, I'm gonna go
out on a limb here. Back in
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the seventies, real quick. I
don't know if you remember the game Electric
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Football. I do remember Electric Football. The sports games where the she nuts
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back then roll Oh no, they
were. They were extremely popular. Around
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nineteen eighty two. There was a
game that I used to play across the
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street from my house. It was
at an Alpha Beta supermarket. They had
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three video games. They had pac
Man, they had my favorite game,
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Exsebious, and they had the game
called USA Olympics where you could play several
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different sporting events in that game.
It was just awesome. I remember my
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friends used to come up with a
method to press the buttons quicker so that
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the little man would run faster until
they would put a pencil between the pinkie
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and the index finger going over the
middle and ring finger and they would press
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on one side of the pencil whether
pencil eraser was pressing the other button.
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It was genius, but it never
worked for me. You know what,
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I bet you that that would have
worked when you were playing Remember that first
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boxing game that they put out,
punch Out, wasn't it? Yeah,
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punch Out? You remember that game. I think that probably would have worked.
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That trick on that game would have
worked. That was a crazy game
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too, It was, Yeah,
it was hard. I remember punching the
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crap auto machines. We're getting tossed
out of arcade. That game was insane.
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You know. After that, I
remember them coming out with like a
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sequel to punch Out, and it
was called Mike Tyson's punch Out. Do
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you remember, yes, dude,
of course, the game. The game
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after I'm gonna cook a while,
children, I'm gonna I'm gonna hit you
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so hard. Let me take a
quick moment, and mentioned that On our
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Facebook fan page, a lot of
people have given us comments on what their
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favorite games were. Gary Done said
that his favorite game was Air Combat from
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Atari. Robert Deetz says Donkey Kong
and Burger Time. Jason Atkinson says his
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favorite game of all time is gallagha. Let me take a couple more.
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Scott Chamberlain says Defender and Rampage,
and a young lady by the name of
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Sarah Kelly says Rampage, and Brent
cast says Pole Position. Oh, Pole
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Position. That's a game that Wow, that was a game I used to
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like to play. I'm giving air
fives to all those cats, man.
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That was That was some good games, bro. I mean, now what
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about days, Bro? What what
do we have nowadays? I'll try to
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play a video game with my grandkids
and don't wook my butt so quick.
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I looked stupid. I'd just rather
go out there and watched the grass groll
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Bro instead in front of a video
game against get My get my skinny flat
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butt handed to me by my nine
year old grandson. Bro, there's a
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gentleman by the name of James Jolly
who says pac Man, Matt Bryant says
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Rygar and wonder Boy. I don't
remember that one. I don't remember that.
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Dorothy McCumber says Gorf, and Jeremy
mcgoon says Tempest. Remember Tempest?
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I remember Tempest? Oh? Yes, I remember Tempest. Bro. So
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these were all classic games of that
era. Point it was more of a
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mind game, bro. Yeah,
it was very difficult. I mean,
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you know what game wasn't difficult.
Do you remember Tron? How many people
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out there listening you remember Tron?
I used to love playing Tron, but
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I hated it because I always used
to crash in those darn little motorcycles.
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Yes, I hated that part too, Bro. That was that was a
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trippy game. Man. I used
to try to play that game under the
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influence of a LSD, and I
did I think I was better under the
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end? Think I think I think
you were playing other video games. Let
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me quickly run down the world's record
or the inductees to the Video Game Hall
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of Fame. I'm just gonna run
down real quick and twentieth places, you
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know what. Actually, let me
do this before I run down the list.
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I'm gonna let you hear Number twenty
because Number twenty is probably the hardest
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game I had ever played up to
that point. And it was a game
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that came out in nineteen eighty three, and it was made by a company
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called Cinematronics, and it follows the
adventures of well, I'm not even gonna
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tell you, I'm gonna let you
hear it for yourself. Here we go,
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The dragons Layer. You will become
a valiant knight on a quest to
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rescue the fair Princess from the touches
of an email dragon. You control the
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actions of a daring adventurer finding his
way through the actual of a dot wizard
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who has enchanted it with traitorous monster
and obvious computing hinting the mysterious cabins middle
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over the castle. You're obviously you
couldn't be so this dragons Layer. Yes,
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And what made it so awesome is
that it was a cartoon. I
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mean, and I don't mean it
looked like a cartoon. It was a
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cartoon, and so people flocked to
this game. But it was just so
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so darn hard. I don't even
think I made it through the guy's first
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few steps after encountering a bad guy. Yeah, that's where I was at
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on that game. That's kind of
like the grandfather of modern day gaming.
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I would I would say, on
a hunch, would you agree? Definitely?
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I know that it was way way
way ahead of this time, and
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it was just a game that just
it was stunning, stunning to look at.
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Yeah, I would have much rather
watched it in a movie than get
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my butt handed to me on that
game as many times as I did.
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But that was that was a pretty
cool game. Yeah. And then Disney.
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Yeah it didn't Disney come up with
Gragon Sellers a movie or something like
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that, Yes, I believe.
Yeah, that's when Disney started getting greedy
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and capitalizing on just about everything.
And that is something we can touch on
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Toscano and Chain once again, if
you just joined us here with Toscano and
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Chain here back to the eighties.
We want to remind you that we have
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a Facebook fan page which you can
go ahead and pay a visit and leave
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us a little note there on what
topics you'd like to discuss. Every single
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Friday when we get together here with
all this madness, we'll discuss some of
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these topics. Back to back to
the video games, Number eighteen on the
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list is Tempest number seventeen. Here's
a game that I really liked because the
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visuals were just nice and I was
actually pretty pretty decent at it. And
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that's Centipede. Oh yeah, Centipede. I forgot about the dead game.
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That game it kind of easy,
kind of not, but the graphics on
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that thing were pretty cool. Yeah, that was a pretty cool game.
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Ye number sixteen, rating as all
hell, all of them, all of
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them. Man number sixteen on the
list that made it was my favorite game.
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Exivious number fifteen, Donkey Kong Junior. I'm going to skip a few
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down the road and going to go
to Frogger as number twelve. Okay,
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I needed that game. That was
a great game. They even had Star
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Wars the game. Did you ever
play this because I didn't really see much
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of this game and it was a
game that was released in nineteen eighty three
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based on the movie. Yeah,
so yeah, I don't remember seeing that
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game around. I really don't remember
seeing that game. So jumping up to
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number seven, we had Donkey Kong
made it number six Burger Time. Number
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five is the one that you just
mentioned, which is Tron. Number four
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was created in nineteen eighty two.
Number four was very famous. Believe it
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or not, I have never played
number four, and that's Cubert. I've
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never played that either. I've never
even heard of that game up until this
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segment. Well, Cubert, I'm
sure you've seen it. You probably just
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don't remember. But your goal is
to hop from one cube to another,
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change the color of every pyramid without
falling off or getting caught by the bad
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guys. Yeah. One of one
of its very popular antics was whenever Cubert
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was caught by the enemy, a
dialogue bubble shows up with little curse signs,
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you know, representing yeah, representing
swearing, and it was yeah.
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So it was very very successful.
Number three, of course, what are
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we gonna say? It's miss pac
Man. Number two, galagha, and
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we come to number one. Now, I went really really fast and I
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skipped over because we just don't have
that much time on the show. But
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number one, brother, I'm going
to play you the sound effect. This
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was to become my favorite game of
all time, and it was the very
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first time was nineteen eighty three when
it came out and it was called Now
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everybody and their grandmother knows what that
game is and that's Super Mario. This
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came out. This came out after
the original Mario Brothers game, which,
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by the way, I played the
original and I never understood it, never
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got it. I sucked at it. And then when Super Mario comes out,
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that's when everybody said, Oh my
gosh, what is this. It
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was great to play. It was
easy, and yet it was challenging and
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had different levels. It was just
a great, great game to play.
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I was way better at Super Mario
than Mario Brothers. Yeah, it was
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pretty easy to play, man.
You know. There was some games that
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were pretty easy, and then there
was some games that would just get you
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so pissed off. You go out
there and slap yourself a thousand ties for
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wasting quarters getting your ass kicked on
those things. But yeah, Super Mario,
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bro, that thing was so easy. I used to just like to
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cream my buddy, you know,
left and right on that game. Bro.
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I mean, that was like the
big thing back then, man,
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when you could just like beat your
buddies and you got bragging rights all the
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way home, whether you're driving or
walking. You know. Oh no,
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it was a fantastic time. It
was an era that brought so many kids
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together and We looked forward to the
weekends because it was a time where we
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can just ride our bikes. Maybe
we got invited to a birthday party.
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Maybe you know, your parents were
just that those cool parents that allowed you
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and went with you to some of
the arcades. You know, whatever it
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is, or was it after school, You know that you got together with
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your friends and you stopped by maybe
the local liquor store to play the arcade
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games. But whatever it was,
it was just a time that made us
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all smile. Man, that was
a time, bro when you could go
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to your local liquor store play video
game. I'll never forget so many times
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then I would hear the liquor store
clerk call hey, four at a time,
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four at a time. You other
guys, get your bikes off the
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glass and get the hell out of
here. I remember those days, you
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know, Yeah, because sometimes,
man, the liquor store, depending on
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how many games they had, Dude, they would get packed. Man,
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I remember putting people putting your quarters
on the game Dex and then going next.
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It was insane, man, I
remember those days, man and boy,
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I swiped a lot of baseball cards
roll during those years brow when people
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were like lining up to play video
games. Nobody was paying attention to anything
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else. So me and Top's got
along just great. On that note,
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we're gonna take a little break when
we come back. It's your favorite time
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in mind. It's the time that
we call the chain grease, don't go
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away. This is back to the
eighties. That's right, Welcome back to
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the eighties. This is the time, ladies and gentlemen, This is the
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time we've all been waiting for,
because it's the time when we allow the
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man of a million illusions, the
ever so wondrous Chang to delight us in
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those things that made us all angry
back in the eighties. Oh yes,
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and in his honor, Yeah,
and in his honor, we now call
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them changrys. So Chang take it
away. Well, everybody, I'm gonna
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have to get a couple of things
off my chest right here. You know
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what gets me changry about the eighties? Skinny jeans? You know what gets
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me changries about the eighties? What's
that? Penny loafers without the pennies?
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Oh yes, you know what gets
me changry. Lover Boy's headband. You
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know what got me changry back in
the eighties, what's that parachute pants that
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were too tight to be called parachute
pants. You know what got me changry
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back in the eighties? Leg warmers. You know what got meat changry back
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in the eighties when men used to
wear leg warmers. Oh, you know
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what got me changry back in the
eighties, the name alone molly Ringwall.
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Guy couldn't go after that. You
know it got meat changry back in the
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eighties Going to an arcade and none
of their games that you liked were there
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because the only games they had were
from the seventies before. Yes, I
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hated that. A lot of pinball
back that, a lot of pinball,
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Wizard. You know what got meat
changry back in the eighties when they discovered
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to cut my fishing wire off my
rigged quarter. You know what got meat
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changery back in the eighties Going to
your favorite fast food restaurant and finding out
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that all you had was change in
your pocket and you couldn't even get a
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ninety nine cent menu. You know
what used to get me changry in the
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eighties when I would cup a field
because I smelled oplinite and it was a
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guy. You know what got me
angry back in the eighties going to the
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boys locker room and the locker room
smelled like aquanette. Oh yes, I
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remember that a lot when I played
football, but not too many guys like
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me that had long hair, and
that was kind of an omen Yeah.
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You know what got me changry back
in the eighties, really quick rockabillity music.
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There, I've said it. You
didn't like stray cats, I don't.
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I don't bother chasing mice around.
I slip in an alley all holding
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into the moonlight on a hot summer
night. No, I'm not a big
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fan of rockabilly music. Bro.
I was a dedicated metal head. So
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we're kind of arrogant and tough.
If you know what I'm saying, definitely
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do this has been back to the
eighties. I am Tuscano. I just
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want to remind you guys once again
to don't forget that our show comes on
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every single Friday. You can get
in touch with us by going to our
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Facebook fan page. You can even
write us an email if that's what you'd
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like to do. Right, it's
a nice letter. Back to back to
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the eighties. Now, that's back
the number two. The Eighties Radio at
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gmail dot com. Also coming up
in the very next episode of Back to
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the Eighties, we're going to have
a special segment that involves love hate letters
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from you the listener. So send
us your love hate letters of whatever it
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is and we'll read them here with
a special segment called love hate letters.
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That's right. Now, we're going
to have two special jocks that do that
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special little absolutely love hate letters.
Yep, absolutely, Me and Tisconna will
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be taking a break. Well.
These two guys around, we're gonna we
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hope you welcome them with open arms. These guys are a couple of professionals,
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couple of doctors. They know all
about love and hate, and we
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hope you welcome them with open arms. That's right, And on behalf of
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Back to the Eighties, we want
to wish you a very safe and happy
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er week. Be careful going out
there with the protest because sometimes you never
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know what you get, So be
good and stay safe and join us next
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Friday as we come back to the
eighties, and as Tiscanna was saying,
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you guys be safe out there.
Remember we still have a virus. We
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have a lot of anger in the
streets and if you're not going to be
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part of the solution to put a
hand in there and change things. Then
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you know what, my brothers and
sisters, you are the pollution. We're
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gonna take this one out. We
hope to hear from you again next Friday.
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Be safe, stay lifted and gifted. This is the chang Asta,
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La Vista and Ohriday.
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The plane the play Smile everyone,
smile both. I think they want of
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them the eighty for the Fantady.
Welcome my friends, Welcome two back to
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the eighties on Fantasy Island. I
love you more, I love it you're
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listening to back to the eighties?
Watch one point tent? Watch Watch what
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else did you you are? As
you can hear with the laughing going on
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in the background, just kind of
on changing here with you on back to
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the eighties. Welcome my friends to
another night. Chang. How the heck
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are you? Oh? If I
was a calendar, I'd be all filled
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up with goodness. And how are
you? My favorite Italian Mexican human being.
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Obviously we're supposed to be in lockdown, but at the same time there's
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millions of people who think that's okay
to not being lockdown. Well, we're
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here, what are we doing reminiscing, having some nostalgic memories? And by
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the way, speaking on nostalgic memories, I got some nostalgic coffee here right
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next to me. Oh, and
what kind of coffee is that? Ethiopian?
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Oh? Ethiopian? Now? Is
it made of Ethiopian children? Did
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he children pick the beans? Neither
one of those is a pleasant thought as
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I'm sipping this or is it Ethiopian
call be made in China? China?
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Welcome Chang, Welcome everybody to back
to the eighties. This is Taskano and
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Chang. As I always like to
say, I am sitting next to the
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ever so wondrous the man of a
million illusions, wondrous Chang. Thank you
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for such kind putdowns, my Italian
friend. You know, every time I
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hear your voice, I hear a
toilet flushing in the distance. I don't
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quite know why that is. Sometimes
I think, and you're talking too much,
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Masa. But again, what are
you going to do? I want
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to welcome everybody else because to my
left is one of the strongest Italian men
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out of the eighties. I mean, Toskano used to be able to bench
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press. I'd say, how many
booty socks? Forty thousand, oh,
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at least two, the ones I
always had on. But you don't want
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to hear something funny, bro,
I never used to wear booty socks until
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I got older. You know,
as you become I'm older, you know,
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things bother you and the longer socks
would make me itchy. So I
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said, now booty socks it is. Now, was this missus Tuscano's shopping
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ideal or did you specifically tell her, noney, I want you to get
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me some booty socks. And that's
it. And it's funny because we've been
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fooling around with this same joke for
ages, because when we used to do
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the other radio show, you and
I, I actually used to put my
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foot on top of the desk and
show everybody yes and small. As a
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matter of fact, the jokes started
one day I believe we were well,
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of course, it started one night
when we were we were recording, and
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I think you had your legs crossed. Yeah, I think I think I
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was probably under the influence of Chang
Changhaitis and I looked over to my left
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and I remember seeing those and then
it was over. I mean, the
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jokes just started flowing. That's when
we had, uh see greedy boy as
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our as our board. If remember
the Lord of the Board. You used
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to love it when when you used
to call him the man boy, the
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man boy. If Man Boy is
listening, I'd like to give him a
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fond to skotto and shang Howdy party
man boy as well. All right,
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well, I want to welcome you
guys to this madness that we call Back
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to the Eighties that premiers every Friday
for your enjoyment and throughout the week.
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You know what, We've got so
much going on, so much chaos,
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so much just nonsense that you know, when you tune into Back to the
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Eighties you get a little bit more
nonsense. But this time it's at least
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we'll bring you a little smile.
And right now, I think the world
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needs a smile of some kind.
Yeah, I mean yeah, I agree
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one hundred percent. As a matter
of fact, I want us to go
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back to go way way back to
eighty one. Oh my gosh, I'm
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talking nineteen eighty we're actually nineteen eighth. My goodness, I was. I
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was very young, so but I
was wasting money at arcades, which brings
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us to tonight's topic. Tonight,
we enter the doors of your favorite arcade.
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That's right. Tonight we talk about
the video games that made us waste
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money, waste pairs of shoes,
and most of all, get our parents
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angry at us. Tonight, we
want to bring you back to nostalgia,
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and we want to talk about a
few of the favorite games. Pretty much,
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not only voted on did you know
change that there's there's a Hall of
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Fame and world record four games and
arcades, you know what. I had
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heard that rumor. I am unfamiliar
with the location, but I did hear
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that, and I remember when I
heard that, I thought that is just
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ridiculous. And then on the other
side of my brain, I thought,
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hmm, that is one place I
would like to go and get back into
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some donkey call. I would like
to play some fenders, maybe some asteroids.
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Now, remember the video game was
the child of Pong. I'm sure
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some of our older listeners, including
listeners our age, remember Pong. Oh
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yeah, yeah, you remember?
Well, yeah, that's the seventies game,
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I believe seventy two, seventy three. Did you know? I ended
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up finding out that the oldest video
game ever. I originally thought it was
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Pong, but apparently there was a
guy who was a physicist by the name
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of William Higginbotham or Higginbotham nineteen fifty
eight. He created what is thought to
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be the first video game ever and
it was just a simple tennis game.
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Yeah, so similar to Pong.
Wow, what arcade did you fancy back
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in nineteen eighty. You give me
your answer, then I'll give you yours.
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And let's see if any of our
listeners recall either one of those places.
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Well, because I lived, I
lived very near to the city of
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Norwalk, and in Norwalk, Oh, they have the very famous golfing stuff.
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And so my favorite arcade throughout my
entire childhood was golf and stuff,
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and so I spent tons and tons
of money and and aggravating my parents and
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we had birthday parties and the whole
nine yards and it's still around. That's
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what's fascinating that those plays, some
of those places anyway, are still around.
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And golf and stuff is one of
those that, you know, it's
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a nice thing that you live so
close when you watch the Karate aid and
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you can just walk on over Dan
your son wax On, wax Off.
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So there is a museum, it's
called the National Museum of Play. It's
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called the Strong, Yeah, the
Strong National Museum of Play. And you
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can go visit them whenever you want. You have it's Museum of Play dot
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org. And they've got tons of
information regarding you know, the Hall of
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Fame inductees. And you were mentioning
that you wanted to play don Key Kong.
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Did you know that they were barely
inducted into the Hall of Fame in
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twenty seventeen. Really, yeah,
barely. That's insane because was that not
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the birth of the Mario brothers?
Mario, that is correct. You see
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how I did that? You see
the way that's set up, that set
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up itself. Hey, my god, and you know it's funny, comical,
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genius. Today there was a guy
from pest control that came over to
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the house and he asked me for
my name, So I gave him anyway,
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I said, my name is Mario. And the first thing that comes
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out of his mouth is, hey, Mario, where's Luigi? And I'm
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looking at him flap tie five with
that guy. Yeah, I'm looking at
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him, and I'm going, yeah, I've never heard that one before throughout
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my childhood. Now, I bet
you you thought that was a racist comment,
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you being a telling you who is
the all I've worked that into?
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I see, I see. But
let's go back to nineteen eighty all right,
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So nine I was at the Electric
Planet, Electric Planet? Where was
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that at? Yes, Now,
the Electric Planet was the home of the
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Electric Planet, was the beautiful city
of Montabello, California with your boulevard in
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the garmar? Was that the one
that was like a like a pirate ship.
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No, that one was in La
Puente, And I still have not
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got the name of that, so
damned me for not doing that. But
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I will have the name of that
particular arcade on our next show, because
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I'm going to do it now because
a funny story, that one that's like
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a pirate ship. When my friend
and I were about twelve or thirteen years
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old, my buddy took his mom's
sky blue Ford Fairmont station wagon. Remember
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those? Oh dude, yeah,
I believe my grandmother had a Yeah,
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well he was thirteen years old.
I was thirteen years old or something like
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that, and we went to this
place and we're thirteen year old kids driving
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on the freeway. M So you
were on the five correct or or closest,
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you know. I don't even remember
where we were on. I was
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just so afraid that we were going
to get into an accident. And here's
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my buddy going, oh, man, I've driven on the freeway tons of
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times. He was like thirteen.
But yeah, so I want to take
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you back to nineteen eighty and the
reason for that is because in nineteen eighty,
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the release of a very very famous, if not the most famous of
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all video games, or at least
the most successful video game of all time,
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sold three hundred and fifty thousand arcade
cabinets in nineteen eighty, wrecking up
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over two billion dollars in revenue,
which would be an equivalent today of about
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three point four billion dollars. Tell
me you want to hear what that game
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was? I want to hear that
game because I have an idea. But
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I'm thinking it's one of two to
go ahead and play it and let me
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see if I'm correct in my own
name, which it was so famous that
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they even made a song. I
got a hocket moll of quarters and I'm
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added to the game. Oh man, how does that? How does that
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strike you? You're nostalgia? That
is insane. I haven't heard this.
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And the greatest thing about it is
that the chorus says the name of the
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game. I mean, it's obvious
by the intro, but the name of
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the song. Do you remember what
the name of the song? Here?
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It is pac Man Beaver right crazy? Yeah? So were you pretty good
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at pac Man? Or or did
you suck? Like a lot of other
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ago. Well, here's here's the
honest truth. I loved pac Man the
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look, I loved the whole idea. Yea, I loved the music.
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I love the atmosphere that surrounded the
game. But I could never get past
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the second level, second or third
level. And yeah, the same thing
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goes with just because it bored me. You know, I said, Okay,
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it didn't change maps. It still
looks the same. It maybe changes
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a little bit. So I would
really, really, unless I was really
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bored and there was no other video
games available at that time, really,
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I wouldn't waste my money on pac
Man. Yeah, now that is insane,
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because I would play that thing and
I got up to level I think
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the highest was six, maybe seven, and I enjoyed it because it became
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more rapid the more levels you went. I mean, sometimes those little flying
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bastards would just come at you and
gobble you. But the biggest joy I
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used to have is eating the cherries
and then being able to dominate every little
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blue meanie on that screen. That's
what it was all about. Domination,
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eating the blue meanies, eating the
cherries, getting your cherry pie. Yeah.
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Yeah, and believe it or not, believe it or not, the
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the world's champion okay, the world
champion gamer for pac Man. I believe
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he crossed over the two hundredth level. And by that point, you know,
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the original designer of the game,
they never thought anybody was ever going
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to get there. So part of
the screen is garbled up. You see,
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like a bunch of gibberish on it, and so you only played like
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on half of the screen. So
it's very interesting. You know. It's
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funny that whenever I hear somebody talk
about games of today, and of course
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we can't compare him, because today's
games look like the real life, so
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we're not going to go and compare
them. That's it was just another time
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in the world. However, if
you want to drive a kid insane,
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a competitive kid insane, put him
in front of an eighties game and let
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him see if he can cross over. For example, Donkey Kong. Do
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you remember how hard it was just
to pass that first level? Oh?
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I hated Donkey Kong. Sometimes sometimes
I just like felt breaking the screen,
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you know. Sometimes I would just
get tripped up on those damn barrels and
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I just couldn't get past it.
I Donkey Kong used to just irritate me.
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You know, I would like to
go. I used to go to
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the zoo and throw bananas at the
monkeys just because I was defeated heavily in
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Donkey Kong. Another interesting fact,
if we jump over to nineteen eighty one,
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Donkey Kong was one of the first
platforms and the only second game ever
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to feature multiple levels. Yes,
and Donkey Kong was incredibly difficult to play.
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I think I got up to level
four or level five, but that's
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it. I couldn't go on.
It was like the first game that had
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a storyline and had a damsel in
distress. If you remember, yes,
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yes, you could be the hero, you can get the gorgeous girl.
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Yeah yeah. But back in the
eighties, I think everybody that was a
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teenager was trying to get that peak
of success where you are the arcade wizard
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and it comes with a hot chick
and a sporty new Levi jacket. You
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remember those days, Oh, I
remember those Levi jackets that if it was
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wintertime and you wore one of those, you were going to freeze to death
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because they weren't Yeah. Yeah,
And if you put a member's only jacket
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on then, I mean, you
can cruise any chick that you wanted at
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a dance party. Bro. That
was just one of the weak stages of
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the eighties. But that's another story. We're going to take a sharp break.
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back. You were on the hang
with Tascano and Chang. We are discussing
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video games here at Back to the
Eighties and Tascano, we're talking about video
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games. We were talking about Donkey
Kong and we were talking about of course
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pac Man. What was one of
your favorite Space Sage games, Mine had
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to be Galactica. I just thought
that was pretty cool that the way the
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ships you could just line them up
and fire away, and then they would
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spin off and come at you at
all kinds of directions. I thought it
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was a little bit more action packed
than Asteroids. How about you, Well,
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I like it. Now, are
you talking about Galagha or Galaxian,
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because because Galaxion was first, Yeah, Galaxion was first, and then after
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Galaxion it spawned Gallagher. That's anyway. That's according to some of the information
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that I'm that I've been reading.
If somebody out there knows something different or
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knows the official version, please let
us know. Here at back to the
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eighties, So your favorite game was
Galaxion, right, yes, Bro?
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That and Defenders. I used to
like the Space Age games were just like
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Killer Bro. I mean, you
put yourself right there. You know you
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think you're in a space war.
Yeah? I agree. So my favorite
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game President, my favorite game of
all time was a game that I don't
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know. You may have heard of, it may have not, but I'm
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gonna let you listen to it and
then you tell me away. So that
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was my favorite game of all time. It came out of nineteen eighty two
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by the company called Namco, and
it's a game called Excevious. It's spelled
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yeah, it spelled xEV io u
S and it features a little spacecraft that
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shoots both a double firing system and
also shoots bombs at different locations as these
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flying discs go in the air,
and also these little stations that are on
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the ground shoot at you as well. But the cool thing that made me
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just get so psyched about this game
was that there were little cheats in the
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game, and that was as you're
crossing this green valley with a kind of
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rivers running through it and things like
that, you can shoot bombs in areas
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that were blank or there's nothing there, and sometimes you would have like an
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extra life appear and then you'd shoot
it and you know, you'd get your
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extra life. So that was my
favorite game of all time up until we
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get to number one. But I'm
not gonna be talking about that just yet.
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Now. Was that the game that
used to shoot from the front and
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the rear? No, No,
no, I know, I think I
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know which one you're talking about,
but no, this is totally different.
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Now. Jumping over to nineteen eighty
five with the North America eighty five eighty
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six. With the North American release
of the Nintendo Entertainment System in nineteen eighty
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five and the Sega Master System,
the focus switched heavily to developing home gaming
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systems. So that's where everything changed. Although arcades were still the thing,
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people having fun at those arcades.
I mean, it was still huge,
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but it was something that was looming
in the horizon. And something else happened
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two years prior. And this is
what I think was interesting. In nineteen
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eighty three, And I don't know
if you remember this, bro, a
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lot of news segments featured the moral
fight against video games by concerned parents,
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and did you know that that nearly
killed the video game industry? Yeah,
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I remember that. I was a
senior in high school in eighty three.
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I remember that, and I was
already kind of growing out of video games
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by then. I discovered women and
finding that singing with bands gets you a
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lot of chicks. So I didn't
play too many video games, but I
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remember that happening, and I thought, you know, what kind of conservative
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crap are we going into? Where
you're going to jeopardize one of the greatest
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entertainment packages that we had in that
generation. And I believe that was the
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era when we started going into tokens. Now, check this out. Before
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nineteen eighty five, the industry had
made twelve billion dollars in video games a
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year. Twelve billion dollars. That's
a huge industry. A whole lot of
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quarters, a whole lot of quarters. Now, once parents started fighting against
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the video game companies and then the
console wars started, they went from twelve
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billion in nineteen eighty five, they
only made one hundred million dollars. Wow,
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now that's huge. That's a huge
loss for arcades. It was a
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pastime when you think about it,
playing video games was a pastime. You
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know. It was just something you
did and and something that everybody did,
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you know. But back then,
remember it really didn't matter what age.
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I remember going to arcade still even
after I had graduated, and there was
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people of all ages, you know, I would see people older than me,
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people in their twenties, and it
was like it was always fun,
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man, because different generations, the
zest that they had for some of these
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games was pretty intense. Yeah,
I used to enjoy watching older, older
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cats play some of the young cats
man. Oh, and the battles that
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they would have. That was great
to see. Do you remember it was
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a hockey table, was like it
was supposed to be glass over it like
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a home and it was kind of
like a foosball table, but it was
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hockey players with the sticks and everything. That was one of my favorite games
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of all time. Oh yeah,
dude, I remember that game where you
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your your hockey players are sliding with
those little flat Yes, that's the one.
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That's the one every every now and
then you had one guy that couldn't
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turn all the way around here.
We get pissed off and I got a
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week. Yeah, you know,
I remember that. Do you remember?
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Oh home man, I'm gonna go
out on a limb here. Back in
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the seventies, real quick. I
don't know if you remember the game Electric
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Football. I do remember Electric Football. The sports games where the she nuts
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back then roll Oh no, they
were. They were extremely popular. Around
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nineteen eighty two. There was a
game that I used to play across the
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street from my house. It was
at an Alpha Beta supermarket. They had
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three video games. They had pac
Man, they had my favorite game,
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Exsebious, and they had the game
called USA Olympics where you could play several
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different sporting events in that game.
It was just awesome. I remember my
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friends used to come up with a
method to press the buttons quicker so that
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the little man would run faster until
they would put a pencil between the pinkie
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and the index finger going over the
middle and ring finger and they would press
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on one side of the pencil whether
pencil eraser was pressing the other button.
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It was genius, but it never
worked for me. You know what,
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I bet you that that would have
worked when you were playing Remember that first
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boxing game that they put out,
punch Out, wasn't it? Yeah,
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punch Out? You remember that game. I think that probably would have worked.
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That trick on that game would have
worked. That was a crazy game
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too, It was, Yeah,
it was hard. I remember punching the
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crap auto machines. We're getting tossed
out of arcade. That game was insane.
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You know. After that, I
remember them coming out with like a
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sequel to punch Out, and it
was called Mike Tyson's punch Out. Do
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you remember, yes, dude,
of course, the game. The game
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after I'm gonna cook a while,
children, I'm gonna I'm gonna hit you
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so hard. Let me take a
quick moment, and mentioned that On our
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Facebook fan page, a lot of
people have given us comments on what their
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favorite games were. Gary Done said
that his favorite game was Air Combat from
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Atari. Robert Deetz says Donkey Kong
and Burger Time. Jason Atkinson says his
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favorite game of all time is gallagha. Let me take a couple more.
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Scott Chamberlain says Defender and Rampage,
and a young lady by the name of
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Sarah Kelly says Rampage, and Brent
cast says Pole Position. Oh, Pole
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Position. That's a game that Wow, that was a game I used to
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like to play. I'm giving air
fives to all those cats, man.
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That was That was some good games, bro. I mean, now what
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about days, Bro? What what
do we have nowadays? I'll try to
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play a video game with my grandkids
and don't wook my butt so quick.
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I looked stupid. I'd just rather
go out there and watched the grass groll
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Bro instead in front of a video
game against get My get my skinny flat
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butt handed to me by my nine
year old grandson. Bro, there's a
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gentleman by the name of James Jolly
who says pac Man, Matt Bryant says
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Rygar and wonder Boy. I don't
remember that one. I don't remember that.
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Dorothy McCumber says Gorf, and Jeremy
mcgoon says Tempest. Remember Tempest?
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I remember Tempest? Oh? Yes, I remember Tempest. Bro. So
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these were all classic games of that
era. Point it was more of a
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mind game, bro. Yeah,
it was very difficult. I mean,
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you know what game wasn't difficult.
Do you remember Tron? How many people
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out there listening you remember Tron?
I used to love playing Tron, but
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I hated it because I always used
to crash in those darn little motorcycles.
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Yes, I hated that part too, Bro. That was that was a
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trippy game. Man. I used
to try to play that game under the
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influence of a LSD, and I
did I think I was better under the
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end? Think I think I think
you were playing other video games. Let
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me quickly run down the world's record
or the inductees to the Video Game Hall
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of Fame. I'm just gonna run
down real quick and twentieth places, you
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know what. Actually, let me
do this before I run down the list.
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I'm gonna let you hear Number twenty
because Number twenty is probably the hardest
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game I had ever played up to
that point. And it was a game
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that came out in nineteen eighty three, and it was made by a company
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called Cinematronics, and it follows the
adventures of well, I'm not even gonna
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tell you, I'm gonna let you
hear it for yourself. Here we go,
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The dragons Layer. You will become
a valiant knight on a quest to
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rescue the fair Princess from the touches
of an email dragon. You control the
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actions of a daring adventurer finding his
way through the actual of a dot wizard
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who has enchanted it with traitorous monster
and obvious computing hinting the mysterious cabins middle
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over the castle. You're obviously you
couldn't be so this dragons Layer. Yes,
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And what made it so awesome is
that it was a cartoon. I
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mean, and I don't mean it
looked like a cartoon. It was a
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cartoon, and so people flocked to
this game. But it was just so
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so darn hard. I don't even
think I made it through the guy's first
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few steps after encountering a bad guy. Yeah, that's where I was at
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on that game. That's kind of
like the grandfather of modern day gaming.
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I would I would say, on
a hunch, would you agree? Definitely?
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I know that it was way way
way ahead of this time, and
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it was just a game that just
it was stunning, stunning to look at.
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Yeah, I would have much rather
watched it in a movie than get
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my butt handed to me on that
game as many times as I did.
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But that was that was a pretty
cool game. Yeah. And then Disney.
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Yeah it didn't Disney come up with
Gragon Sellers a movie or something like
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that, Yes, I believe.
Yeah, that's when Disney started getting greedy
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and capitalizing on just about everything.
And that is something we can touch on
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Toscano and Chain once again, if
you just joined us here with Toscano and
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Chain here back to the eighties.
We want to remind you that we have
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a Facebook fan page which you can
go ahead and pay a visit and leave
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us a little note there on what
topics you'd like to discuss. Every single
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Friday when we get together here with
all this madness, we'll discuss some of
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these topics. Back to back to
the video games, Number eighteen on the
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list is Tempest number seventeen. Here's
a game that I really liked because the
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visuals were just nice and I was
actually pretty pretty decent at it. And
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that's Centipede. Oh yeah, Centipede. I forgot about the dead game.
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That game it kind of easy,
kind of not, but the graphics on
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that thing were pretty cool. Yeah, that was a pretty cool game.
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Ye number sixteen, rating as all
hell, all of them, all of
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them. Man number sixteen on the
list that made it was my favorite game.
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Exivious number fifteen, Donkey Kong Junior. I'm going to skip a few
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down the road and going to go
to Frogger as number twelve. Okay,
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I needed that game. That was
a great game. They even had Star
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Wars the game. Did you ever
play this because I didn't really see much
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of this game and it was a
game that was released in nineteen eighty three
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based on the movie. Yeah,
so yeah, I don't remember seeing that
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game around. I really don't remember
seeing that game. So jumping up to
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number seven, we had Donkey Kong
made it number six Burger Time. Number
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five is the one that you just
mentioned, which is Tron. Number four
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was created in nineteen eighty two.
Number four was very famous. Believe it
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or not, I have never played
number four, and that's Cubert. I've
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never played that either. I've never
even heard of that game up until this
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segment. Well, Cubert, I'm
sure you've seen it. You probably just
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don't remember. But your goal is
to hop from one cube to another,
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change the color of every pyramid without
falling off or getting caught by the bad
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guys. Yeah. One of one
of its very popular antics was whenever Cubert
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was caught by the enemy, a
dialogue bubble shows up with little curse signs,
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you know, representing yeah, representing
swearing, and it was yeah.
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So it was very very successful.
Number three, of course, what are
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we gonna say? It's miss pac
Man. Number two, galagha, and
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we come to number one. Now, I went really really fast and I
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skipped over because we just don't have
that much time on the show. But
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number one, brother, I'm going
to play you the sound effect. This
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was to become my favorite game of
all time, and it was the very
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first time was nineteen eighty three when
it came out and it was called Now
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everybody and their grandmother knows what that
game is and that's Super Mario. This
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came out. This came out after
the original Mario Brothers game, which,
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by the way, I played the
original and I never understood it, never
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got it. I sucked at it. And then when Super Mario comes out,
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that's when everybody said, Oh my
gosh, what is this. It
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was great to play. It was
easy, and yet it was challenging and
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had different levels. It was just
a great, great game to play.
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I was way better at Super Mario
than Mario Brothers. Yeah, it was
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pretty easy to play, man.
You know. There was some games that
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were pretty easy, and then there
was some games that would just get you
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so pissed off. You go out
there and slap yourself a thousand ties for
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wasting quarters getting your ass kicked on
those things. But yeah, Super Mario,
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bro, that thing was so easy. I used to just like to
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cream my buddy, you know,
left and right on that game. Bro.
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I mean, that was like the
big thing back then, man,
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when you could just like beat your
buddies and you got bragging rights all the
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way home, whether you're driving or
walking. You know. Oh no,
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it was a fantastic time. It
was an era that brought so many kids
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together and We looked forward to the
weekends because it was a time where we
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can just ride our bikes. Maybe
we got invited to a birthday party.
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Maybe you know, your parents were
just that those cool parents that allowed you
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and went with you to some of
the arcades. You know, whatever it
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is, or was it after school, You know that you got together with
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your friends and you stopped by maybe
the local liquor store to play the arcade
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games. But whatever it was,
it was just a time that made us
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all smile. Man, that was
a time, bro when you could go
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to your local liquor store play video
game. I'll never forget so many times
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then I would hear the liquor store
clerk call hey, four at a time,
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four at a time. You other
guys, get your bikes off the
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glass and get the hell out of
here. I remember those days, you
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know, Yeah, because sometimes,
man, the liquor store, depending on
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how many games they had, Dude, they would get packed. Man,
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I remember putting people putting your quarters
on the game Dex and then going next.
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It was insane, man, I
remember those days, man and boy,
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I swiped a lot of baseball cards
roll during those years brow when people
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were like lining up to play video
games. Nobody was paying attention to anything
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else. So me and Top's got
along just great. On that note,
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we're gonna take a little break when
we come back. It's your favorite time
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in mind. It's the time that
we call the chain grease, don't go
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away. This is back to the
eighties. That's right, Welcome back to
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the eighties. This is the time, ladies and gentlemen, This is the
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time we've all been waiting for,
because it's the time when we allow the
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man of a million illusions, the
ever so wondrous Chang to delight us in
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those things that made us all angry
back in the eighties. Oh yes,
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and in his honor, Yeah,
and in his honor, we now call
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them changrys. So Chang take it
away. Well, everybody, I'm gonna
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00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:30.639
have to get a couple of things
off my chest right here. You know
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00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:36.320
what gets me changry about the eighties? Skinny jeans? You know what gets
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00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:39.440
me changries about the eighties? What's
that? Penny loafers without the pennies?
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Oh yes, you know what gets
me changry. Lover Boy's headband. You
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00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:52.599
know what got me changry back in
the eighties, what's that parachute pants that
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00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:57.480
were too tight to be called parachute
pants. You know what got me changry
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back in the eighties? Leg warmers. You know what got meat changry back
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in the eighties when men used to
wear leg warmers. Oh, you know
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what got me changry back in the
eighties, the name alone molly Ringwall.
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Guy couldn't go after that. You
know it got meat changry back in the
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00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:21.440
eighties Going to an arcade and none
of their games that you liked were there
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because the only games they had were
from the seventies before. Yes, I
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hated that. A lot of pinball
back that, a lot of pinball,
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Wizard. You know what got meat
changry back in the eighties when they discovered
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to cut my fishing wire off my
rigged quarter. You know what got meat
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00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:45.360
changery back in the eighties Going to
your favorite fast food restaurant and finding out
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that all you had was change in
your pocket and you couldn't even get a
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ninety nine cent menu. You know
what used to get me changry in the
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eighties when I would cup a field
because I smelled oplinite and it was a
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guy. You know what got me
angry back in the eighties going to the
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boys locker room and the locker room
smelled like aquanette. Oh yes, I
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remember that a lot when I played
football, but not too many guys like
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me that had long hair, and
that was kind of an omen Yeah.
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You know what got me changry back
in the eighties, really quick rockabillity music.
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There, I've said it. You
didn't like stray cats, I don't.
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I don't bother chasing mice around.
I slip in an alley all holding
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into the moonlight on a hot summer
night. No, I'm not a big
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fan of rockabilly music. Bro.
I was a dedicated metal head. So
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we're kind of arrogant and tough.
If you know what I'm saying, definitely
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do this has been back to the
eighties. I am Tuscano. I just
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want to remind you guys once again
to don't forget that our show comes on
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every single Friday. You can get
in touch with us by going to our
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Facebook fan page. You can even
write us an email if that's what you'd
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like to do. Right, it's
a nice letter. Back to back to
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the eighties. Now, that's back
the number two. The Eighties Radio at
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gmail dot com. Also coming up
in the very next episode of Back to
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the Eighties, we're going to have
a special segment that involves love hate letters
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from you the listener. So send
us your love hate letters of whatever it
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is and we'll read them here with
a special segment called love hate letters.
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That's right. Now, we're going
to have two special jocks that do that
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special little absolutely love hate letters.
Yep, absolutely, Me and Tisconna will
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be taking a break. Well.
These two guys around, we're gonna we
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hope you welcome them with open arms. These guys are a couple of professionals,
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couple of doctors. They know all
about love and hate, and we
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hope you welcome them with open arms. That's right, And on behalf of
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Back to the Eighties, we want
to wish you a very safe and happy
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er week. Be careful going out
there with the protest because sometimes you never
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know what you get, So be
good and stay safe and join us next
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Friday as we come back to the
eighties, and as Tiscanna was saying,
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you guys be safe out there.
Remember we still have a virus. We
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have a lot of anger in the
streets and if you're not going to be
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part of the solution to put a
hand in there and change things. Then
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you know what, my brothers and
sisters, you are the pollution. We're
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gonna take this one out. We
hope to hear from you again next Friday.
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Be safe, stay lifted and gifted. This is the chang Asta,
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La Vista and Ohriday.



















