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[Magpiespowaz]

California Games <3

Fun fact: only recently found out you're supposed to stop on that target on the ramp. Been jumping off the campaigner since 1987. Always wondering why I could never finish the bike run, ffs.

The past 37 years have been frustrating af.

And I was today years old when I realised that Wu-Tang sampled Barbra Streisand (technically, Gladys Knight, but eh.) The song title should've been a dead giveaway farken. I mean, they called it "Can It Be All So Simple" from the lyrics with Babs & Glads literally singing those words from the song they used on the old Telecom ad that left me a blubbering mess every time it aired on TV.

Didn't I feel like a dumb bitch.

Between typically random shit like this and glasses, achilles tendonitis, busted ankle joint and impending hip replacement, my 50th year has been a goddamn whirlwind.

8 BIT RULEZ 4EVA

 

[240volt]

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Fun fact: only recently found out you're supposed to stop on that target on the ramp. Been jumping off the campaigner since 1987. Always wondering why I could never finish the bike run, ffs.

The past 37 years have been frustrating af.

And I was today years old when I realised that Wu-Tang sampled Barbra Streisand (technically, Gladys Knight, but eh.) The song title should've been a dead giveaway farken. I mean, they called it "Can It Be All So Simple" from the lyrics with Babs & Glads literally singing those words from the song they used on the old Telecom ad that left me a blubbering mess every time it aired on TV.

Didn't I feel like a dumb bitch.

Between typically random shit like this and glasses, achilles tendonitis, busted ankle joint and impending hip replacement, my 50th year has been a goddamn whirlwind.

8 BIT RULEZ 4EVA

Just done the hip replacement, once the Oxycodone kicks in your laughing

 

[tribey]

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Fun fact: only recently found out you're supposed to stop on that target on the ramp. Been jumping off the campaigner since 1987. Always wondering why I could never finish the bike run, ffs.

The past 37 years have been frustrating af.

And I was today years old when I realised that Wu-Tang sampled Barbra Streisand (technically, Gladys Knight, but eh.) The song title should've been a dead giveaway farken. I mean, they called it "Can It Be All So Simple" from the lyrics with Babs & Glads literally singing those words from the song they used on the old Telecom ad that left me a blubbering mess every time it aired on TV.

Didn't I feel like a dumb bitch.

Between typically random shit like this and glasses, achilles tendonitis, busted ankle joint and impending hip replacement, my 50th year has been a goddamn whirlwind.

8 BIT RULEZ 4EVA

Speaking of Cali Games and old ads…

It was my friend down the road’s copy that I borrowed (I was 12 or 13, he was 10 or 11), so I absolutely hammered it after school for a solid week.

Around that same time was an aggressively repetitive anti-drug/alcohol PSA on TV that featured a grungey song to accompany the hectic footage of a barely conscious young chap trying his best to OD in a grimey toilet, with the main lyric being: “TEAR OUT MY HEART, IN SLOW MOTION”.

So I had a bright idea for what to put in as my name while gunning for each successive high score I got, so the leaderboard ultimately looked like this, with one notable remix — see if you can spot it on this poorly-shooped reenactment:



With the last event being Flying Disc, I put the cherry on top by nailing the catch diving to the left of screen for big points with which to lock in ‘MOTION’.

I felt like I’d just conquered Everest, so of course had to show mum the completed masterpiece, who promptly had a conniption at the prospect of that being permanently seared into the cartridge for my little mate to discover upon returning it.

When I explained that everything wiped as soon as you turn off the console (as there was obviously no save feature in those days), she thought I was concocting a lazy cover and didn’t want to slog through to beat my own high watermarks to clean up the screen — I had to reset it to prove it to her.