age of arcades

Ah, when I was young, an arcade was a neat place to go, because the games there couldn't be put onto a PC or the TV. I had spent lots of money there -- to the many that I saw. One day I remember buying a $10 spot of tokkens and dumping them into a typical tokken eating machine.
By tokken eating machine, I mean a game where there was no practical way of playing for 20 minutes on one tokken. A neat multiplayer game was Xenophobe TM. The multiplayer function was neat, as it didn't require anyone to be on the same page at the same time. This meant that you could be in a (Spy vs Spy TM ) like room, shooting, killing and getting new weapons, while your fellows are being killed in anther room. It also meant that you could either help each other get the mission done fast, or ambush others. Throwing grenades endlessly was great fun.

While MR, TS, and ocassionally Monkeyjack were there, someone dropped some tokkens under the game. I reached down and tilted up the game. Under it I found around 10-12 tokkens, not all ours.

I thought about this for a few reasons.
1. It was an authentic multiplayer game (more so than Rampage TM)
2. It was a fun game with various switchable weapons, though you could posess only one weapon at a time
3. It was reasonable graphics with James Cameron Alien(R) like aliens
4. Nostalgia of my youth and of friends who are still around
5. The sad release of it as classic game makes me old, and the home version isn't the same

Examples of non-tokken munching games: Arkanoid (TM), as verified by ISJ; Mappy (TM) as verified by TS; Discs of Tron, as verified by many; etc.

Biggest offender of the tokken eating -- Gauntlet (TM)

Art festival follies

Mastodons
Moscow cows
Chicago Cows
Cow parade


I like art and those are Art,

more so than: this crap, or Chris Ofili, or Andres Serrano.

It may be said that I don't know Art, but that would be wrong. Take a good hard look at modern art and tell or write to me that it makes sense or is worth any tax dollars. I wouldn't donate to a Museum that happily hosted those things!