OT Businesses that you grew up with that no longer exist

[auroraave]

Ha! Day and Nite right by Beverly Elementary where I went for two years in 4th and 5th grade for some reason.....btw did you know my HS GF Cindy Kendrick? She went there as well. Here she is in 1985.

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Ah, yes. Cindy. Bartles & Jaymes and Virginia Slims girl if I remember correctly.

I actually invented Power Coolers back in the day. Vodka cocktails with Coolers as the mixer. The girls seemed to get so much friendlier after a few of those. ha

Ahhh, yes, the DT roofie - the OG roofie!

[XpertDBA]

I know some of these are repeats from your previous posts, but here is my top 5:

Farrells Ice Cream - They had an item on the menu called the Super Purist - 6 scoops of vanilla ice cream in a frozen chalice, and then an entire pitcher of hot fudge. It was to DIE for.

Shakey's Pizza - The atmosphere, the black and white Charlie Chaplin movies, watching them make pizza along the counter, MoJo potatoes, the buffet, the balloons of the mustached man with his cardboard feet, the old-style player piano and the one in Bellingham was a combo Shakey's and Racquetball club my family was a member of.

Godfather's Pizza - Taco pizza, Hot Stuff Pizza, there's actually still a Godfather's here in Thornton, Colorado and one in Reno Nevada that I've gone to recently. Love their pizza.

Skipper's Fish and Chips - While going to UW, my dorm-mates and I would starve ourselves for days, and then go to Skipper's All-You-Can-Eat days and eat about a gazillion servings of fish and chips for a couple of hours. Probably cost them money to feed us.

Arnold's on the Ave. - An amazing 1980's arcade that was just outside of the University of Washington campus on 15th Ave. It caught the 1980s craze by being the largest arcade I've still seen to this day, with every arcade and pinball game known to man at the time. They also had amazing FOOD, topped by their M&M chocolate chip cookies and double meat hamburgers. I can still remember the smell of the place. You'd buy food and sit down at the cocktail style Pacman or Galaga games and eat while playing. I can honestly say, that I dropped out of the UW after 2 years because I had spent a large majority of my time in this place instead of studying for my classes.

[D-train]

I know some of these are repeats from your previous posts, but here is my top 5:

Farrells Ice Cream - They had an item on the menu called the Super Purist - 6 scoops of vanilla ice cream in a frozen chalice, and then an entire pitcher of hot fudge. It was to DIE for.

Shakey's Pizza - The atmosphere, the black and white Charlie Chaplin movies, watching them make pizza along the counter, MoJo potatoes, the buffet, the balloons of the mustached man with his cardboard feet, and the one in Bellingham was a combo Shakey's and Racquetball club my family was a member of.

Godfather's Pizza - Taco pizza, Hot Stuff Pizza, there's actually still a Godfather's here in Thornton, Colorado and one in Reno Nevada that I've gone to recently. Love their pizza.

Skipper's Fish and Chips - While going to UW, my dorm-mates and I would starve ourselves for days, and then go to Skipper's All-You-Can-Eat days and eat about a gazillion servings of fish and chips for a couple of hours. Probably cost them money to feed us.

Arnold's on the Ave. - An amazing 1980's arcade that was just outside of the University of Washington district on 15th Ave. It caught the 1980s craze by being the largest arcade I've still seen to this day, with every arcade and pinball game known to man at the time. They also had amazing FOOD, topped by their M&M chocolate chip cookies and double meat hamburgers. I can still remember the smell of the place. You'd buy food and sit down at the cocktail style Pacman or Galaga games and eat while playing. I can honestly say, that I dropped out of the UW after 2 years because I had spent a large majority of my time in this place instead of studying for my classes.

There is a God Fathers Pizza here in Wenatchee. We have had it twice since we have been here. I was the king of Pacman at the village Space station in Lynnwood. It was on 176th St just East of St. Thomas Moore Catholic Church where I begrudingly went to Church almost every Sunday until I was 13 yo. I convinced my Mom that we shouldn't have to go anymore because I didn't want to be alone in a dark room with a Priest. I was wise beyond my years. lol

There was also a Bonnie and Clydes Pizza in Lynnwood near Shakey's and Alfy's.

[XpertDBA]

I know some of these are repeats from your previous posts, but here is my top 5:

Farrells Ice Cream - They had an item on the menu called the Super Purist - 6 scoops of vanilla ice cream in a frozen chalice, and then an entire pitcher of hot fudge. It was to DIE for.

Shakey's Pizza - The atmosphere, the black and white Charlie Chaplin movies, watching them make pizza along the counter, MoJo potatoes, the buffet, the balloons of the mustached man with his cardboard feet, and the one in Bellingham was a combo Shakey's and Racquetball club my family was a member of.

Godfather's Pizza - Taco pizza, Hot Stuff Pizza, there's actually still a Godfather's here in Thornton, Colorado and one in Reno Nevada that I've gone to recently. Love their pizza.

Skipper's Fish and Chips - While going to UW, my dorm-mates and I would starve ourselves for days, and then go to Skipper's All-You-Can-Eat days and eat about a gazillion servings of fish and chips for a couple of hours. Probably cost them money to feed us.

Arnold's on the Ave. - An amazing 1980's arcade that was just outside of the University of Washington district on 15th Ave. It caught the 1980s craze by being the largest arcade I've still seen to this day, with every arcade and pinball game known to man at the time. They also had amazing FOOD, topped by their M&M chocolate chip cookies and double meat hamburgers. I can still remember the smell of the place. You'd buy food and sit down at the cocktail style Pacman or Galaga games and eat while playing. I can honestly say, that I dropped out of the UW after 2 years because I had spent a large majority of my time in this place instead of studying for my classes.

There is a God Fathers Pizza here in Wenatchee. We have had it twice since we have been here. I was the king of Pacman at the village Space station in Lynnwood. It was on 176th St just East of St. Thomas Moore Catholic Church where I begrudingly went to Church almost every Sunday until I was 13 yo. I convinced my Mom that we shouldn't have to go anymore because I didn't want to be alone in a dark room with a Priest. I was wise beyond my years. lol

There was also a Bonnie and Clydes Pizza in Lynnwood near Shakey's and Alfy's.

I also went to the Space Station in Lynnwood back in the day. I believe I saw the game Crazy Climber for the first time in that place.

[D-train]

I played Pacman, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Galaga and Tetrus. I never got he allure of Space Invaders or Astroids....

[XpertDBA]

I played Pacman, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Galaga and Tetrus. I never got he allure of Space Invaders or Astroids....

Pacman was just memorizing boards, so that never appealed to me. Donkey Kong was revolutionary and a really fun game. Frogger was fun but I was never really good at it. Tetrus I found really boring.

Now an interesting thing about Galaga. If, on the first wave, you leave one of the two left-hand bees as the last thing on the wave, and let that bee fly and recycle through the screen top to bottom for 15-20 minutes, NOTHING will ever shoot at you for the rest of the game. It's a bug, and we used to use it to play that game forever and turn it over. We'd have dozens of spectators watching us thinking we were good at the game, when really we just exploited the bug to make everything stop shooting at us. The bug is still in the arcade machines today, and can still be exploited.

My personal favorite was Defender, and I got really good at it. When you get to 990,000 points, everything you hit from there until 1,000,000 would give you an extra life, and then stop giving you extra lives for permanently. I believe it was the game requiring the most skill to perfect. Was the first side-scroller arcade game and required you to fly with precision while also handling quite a few buttons.

I also didn't like Space Invaders as it was slow and kind of boring, but Asteroids was a completely different story. For when it originally came out (late 1979), nothing could touch it for how challenging it was. The strategy for that game was to blow up everything but a small little asteroid piece, and then you would fly as fast as you could bottom to top, waiting for the little ship worth 1,000 points every kill. Hopefully, the little ship wouldn't blow up your last asteroid piece or you'd get a new wave of asteroids that was more challenging. You could repeatedly kill the small ship to get to 99,900 and turn that game over.

[D-train]

I played Pacman, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Galaga and Tetrus. I never got he allure of Space Invaders or Astroids....

Pacman was just memorizing boards, so that never appealed to me. Donkey Kong was revolutionary and a really fun game. Frogger was fun but I was never really good at it. Tetrus I found really boring.

Now an interesting thing about Galaga. If, on the first wave, you leave one of the two left-hand bees as the last thing on the wave, and let that bee fly and recycle through the screen top to bottom for 15-20 minutes, NOTHING will ever shoot at you for the rest of the game. It's a bug, and we used to use it to play that game forever and turn it over. We'd have dozens of spectators watching us thinking we were good at the game, when really we just exploited the bug to make everything stop shooting at us. The bug is still in the arcade machines today, and can still be exploited.

My personal favorite was Defender, and I got really good at it. When you get to 990,000 points, everything you hit from there until 1,000,000 would give you an extra life, and then stop giving you extra lives for permanently. I believe it was the game requiring the most skill to perfect. Was the first side-scroller arcade game and required you to fly with precision while also handling quite a few buttons.

I also didn't like Space Invaders as it was slow and kind of boring, but Asteroids was a completely different story. For when it originally came out (late 1979), nothing could touch it for how challenging it was. The strategy for that game was to blow up everything but a small little asteroid piece, and then you would fly as fast as you could bottom to top, waiting for the little ship worth 1,000 points every kill. Hopefully, the little ship wouldn't blow up your last asteroid piece or you'd get a new wave of asteroids that was more challenging. You could repeatedly kill the small ship to get to 99,900 and turn that game over.

My God I had know idea you were a video game Scientist! So glad that I started this thread.

[XpertDBA]

I played Pacman, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Galaga and Tetrus. I never got he allure of Space Invaders or Astroids....

Pacman was just memorizing boards, so that never appealed to me. Donkey Kong was revolutionary and a really fun game. Frogger was fun but I was never really good at it. Tetrus I found really boring.

Now an interesting thing about Galaga. If, on the first wave, you leave one of the two left-hand bees as the last thing on the wave, and let that bee fly and recycle through the screen top to bottom for 15-20 minutes, NOTHING will ever shoot at you for the rest of the game. It's a bug, and we used to use it to play that game forever and turn it over. We'd have dozens of spectators watching us thinking we were good at the game, when really we just exploited the bug to make everything stop shooting at us. The bug is still in the arcade machines today, and can still be exploited.

My personal favorite was Defender, and I got really good at it. When you get to 990,000 points, everything you hit from there until 1,000,000 would give you an extra life, and then stop giving you extra lives for permanently. I believe it was the game requiring the most skill to perfect. Was the first side-scroller arcade game and required you to fly with precision while also handling quite a few buttons.

I also didn't like Space Invaders as it was slow and kind of boring, but Asteroids was a completely different story. For when it originally came out (late 1979), nothing could touch it for how challenging it was. The strategy for that game was to blow up everything but a small little asteroid piece, and then you would fly as fast as you could bottom to top, waiting for the little ship worth 1,000 points every kill. Hopefully, the little ship wouldn't blow up your last asteroid piece or you'd get a new wave of asteroids that was more challenging. You could repeatedly kill the small ship to get to 99,900 and turn that game over.

My God I had know idea you were a video game Scientist! So glad that I started this thread.

Like I said, I spent thousands of hours when I was at the UW 1981-1982 playing in the arcades. It made me drop out after two years, and I had to go down to Phoenix to finish my C.I.S. degree. So video games almost derailed by career early on. Lol........But talk about the golden age of gaming. Between arcade games and MTV being brand new, I'm not really sure how I made it through honestly.

[D-train]

Crazy thing to me is the dude in there 20s and 30s stay up all night long playing these days. I haven't played a video game since I was 13 yo when I discovered girls. lol Actually I first kissed a girl in 1st grade.