Classic gaming pictures of me found! it's soooo 80's..

[Raedon]

While working on other family projects today I came across some classic gaming pictures of me! I'm so cute :D

Ok.. this is probably the earliest gaming picture, my sister and I playing something on a TRS80.

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/trs80.jpg

now we move ahead a few years to a Christmas some time around 81-82 and I'm playing some sort of video/mechanical missile game. I still have the game but the motor inside died years and years ago.

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/christmas.jpg







Now when in 5th grade my parents threw a birthday party for me at the arcade! I think each kid got a cup full of tokens.

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade1.jpg
Here I am rock'n some Spy Hunter. My gameplay is so amazing it blinded one of my friends.

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade2.jpg
Cobra Command.. I was never good at the game but it fasinated me. To my side looking all doofy is David Hill, my best friend until I went Metallica and he went Key Club. :)

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade3.jpg
David mixing it up with one of my classmates. Demolition Derby the way it should be played.. no emulation can recreate this.

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade4.jpg
I'm over on the Green side.. Nice picture mom. :) Notice the sign in the back. Every Friday Alladins Castle had a free play (this was from 83-88 or so.) If you needed to find me on a Friday night there was a good chance I was there (or playing a C64 with friends spending the night.)

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade5.jpg
Some more classmates, The guy on the Tut was named Kevin, Most of the kids in these pictures were friends only up to 5th grade. When "Cliche's" hit in Jr. High most I lost touch with. That and there were 4 Jr high's in the area and most went to Foster or Judson, not Forrest Park.

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade6.jpg
Rob Eager playing some Karate Champ, we were in Cub Scouts together. He died just out of high school in a 4 wheeler accident.

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade7.jpg
Ok, this is the first girl I ever had a sexual fantasy about.. Her last name was Bingham, usually I can only remember the girls first name. ;) She was the first girl I noticed getting "mature."

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade8.jpg
Danial Tutt playing punch out, This guy was also a good friend up until 6th grade when he and his 5 brothers moved to Austin.

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade9.jpg
Wonder what ever happened to him..

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/arcade10.jpg
Anthony, This guy went on to play football. Funny how sometime in Jr. High all my black friends stopped talking to the white kids (or vise-versa..probably both.) I remember I played a prank on a black girl named April in 7th grade and her mom tried to say I was being racist to her girl. I didn't even know what racist was until then. I was just picking on her because she had the thickest glasses I'd ever seen.

[autobotracing]

cool man thats back when they had stools at the arcade .now they wont even have them because people would hang out too much.

and yes that ring t shirt is very 80's :D

[digitalpress]

I love seeing pictures from this era; REAL arcades, kids in shirts with stripes around the arm, hair just a little too long. How I DO miss the 80's.

Thanks for sharing these, Wes!

[liquidmetal]

whoa. look at those short shorts :P

[sniperCCJVQ]

Awesome ! O_O

[Videogamerdaryll]

Cool picks.

That's a Tabletop Stargate Mini Arcade game your playing in the second pic...awesome!!!....I have that same game..I play it all the time...You probably can see it on a shelf in my links..

They catch a decent price on Ebay...Do you still have it..?

I wonder what they cost back then...Did you get it as a gift or..?

[NE146]

I wonder what they cost back then...Did you get it as a gift or..?

If I remember correctly they went for around $45-$60

[IGotTheDot]

Sweet sweet nostalgia!

[Videogamerdaryll]

I wonder what they cost back then...Did you get it as a gift or..?

If I remember correctly they went for around $45-$60

Thanks..

[dreamcaster]

Damn, I wished I grew up in the eighties!

Even though I was born in 1985, by the time I started on games - it was 1989 and a glorious decaded and been and gone.

Oh, well - I can console myself with growing up with the great era that was early 90's arcades (Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Final Lap, Metal Slug, Afterburner etc...) and 16-bit home consoles (SNES, Mega Drive).

[den68]

oh man did those pics prompt some flashbacks!!! I need to did through the photos at my parents. I was a teen in the 80's. I'm sure I could dig out some doozies!


cool pictures man

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Cool pics man!

[RetroYoungen]

Wow, you're old! (I have to say that; I wasn't even BORN until 1984!)

Sorry, had to get that out of the way. Cool pics, I wish I was around back in the heyday of real arcades, like Joe pointed out. The only pics I have from the 80s included me as a newborn, me sitting in front of my NES (don't know what happened to that pic), and me with a school picture with my kindergarten mullet... that one I think I may have burned...

But again dude, great pics!

[boatofcar]

Those pictures sure bring back good times I spent at the bowling alley back around 85-87....I think the 80s has to be the decade that is the most loved or the most hated, depending on who you talk to :)

[Raedon]

http://home.cablelynx.com/~tsouthern/bump

after reading a post tonight about the death of old arcades, I thought I'd bring this back up to the front to help with the "withdrawl."

[§ Gideon §]

Thanks! I missed these the first time around... err, the second time around, I guess. Anyways, I'm glad you shared them here; the captions also add a nice touch.

I was born in '85, though. So, for me history begins with the NES.

[Jasoco]

1979 here. My life was started on the old 2600 with Fast Food, Asteroids and Video Pinball.

[dmhawkmoon]

Very cool pictures. I was born in 1981, so I only experienced the end of arcades like that, but these still remind me of good times I had. I'd much rather be in one of those arcades than the ones now. The only ones I know of are at the beach around here and they barely interest me anymore. Not enough actual video games. On one of my birthdays we went to the local billiard hall/arcade and played Super Offroad for hours. Then the place closed and it's not been the same since.

[mezrabad]

Great pictures, makes me wonder why I never had a b-day party at an arcade. Damn, it's not too late! Wait, I'm 36. Okay, it's too late, I hate birthday parties now.

My flashbacks mostly come when I'm randomly surfing around MAME and suddenly something I haven't seen in 20 years jumps out and devours my brain.

My first arcade game experience was "PONG", really. I played it in a bowling alley near/in New Paltz, New York around 1974. I was six.

First home video game experience was the Odyssey 300 in 1976. (Talk about bad 80s pictures, you should see the bad 70s pictures of the TV Hockey tournament we had that Xmas.)

First time I got lai . . . wait, I'm getting off the subject. Next!

[gamergary]

Cool pictures I wish I had grown up in the 80's.

[Kejoriv]

Nice pics! I like that kid that is wearing those daisy dukes LOL

[Lady Jaye]

Great pics! Although I did grow up in the 80s (I was born in 75), I don't have one tiny picture of me playing videogames as a kid (I guess our parents tended to leave us alone when we were playing, whether it'd be the Atari, the NES or the SMS), not even one of me tinkering with the TI 99/4a (my dad taught me TI Basic in the mid 80s).

However, I do have a b-day pic of me with my electronic kit from Radio Shack from 1985; the kit is still in my parents' basement.

[MarioAllStar2600]

Awsome man. I see you used to be big into games also.

This post reminds me of how bad the 90's have sucked.
*Crys in teh corner, and chalks ID so he was an 80'd kid*
Am I cool now?!

[Retsudo]

Damn, I really miss the 80's. I was a teen during those days. Hanging with my Posse back in nyc. Going to the Playland Arcade on Broadway and 42th st. in Manhattan. Back then I use to play Defender Stargate against people for money. Nobody could beat me back then.

Like someone mentioned earlier, you either hated the 80's, or loved it. I for one loved the 80's. Best times of my life :D :D

[tholly]

Nice pics. I wish i had some pics of times when i opened up a video game for christmas or something like that. I would love to have a picture of when i played my first video game ever...SMB on my NES Action Set.

[Raedon]

Awsome man. I see you used to be big into games also.


used to be? lol.. I'm more addicted now then ever.. If it wasn't for a friend I would have been at the screen playing KOTOR all weekend. I started packing but that lasted until the NES stuff was done lol.

[kainemaxwell]

Reminds me of me as a kid!

[Cmosfm]

WOW! Look at dem legs! Stick city. LOL LOL LOL

Ahhhh, I kid I kid

Classic gaming pics are always killer to look at, I enjoyed em! Thanks for posting them

[Raedon]

This Aladdin's Castle Closed March 1st, 2004.

Opened August, 1979

[Atar1G1rl]

I can't believe I never noticed these when you first posted them! Or when it popped up again in January... Those bring back warm fuzzies from being a kid, even though those are from your childhood and not mine. Thanks for sharing them! (even if I am over half a year late in noticing them)

Sorry to hear about the Alladin's closing down. Although I'm surprised it stayed around as long as it did! I think I still have an Alladin's Castle felt token bag laying around somewhere at the apartment. Dad used to take me there all of the time in Brookwood Mall. Some of my favorite memories ever. :)

[Balloon Fight]

Awesome pics! Some of those could easily make it into a Caption This! thread. ;)

[Raedon]

I'm surprised it stayed around as long as it did!


Yea, I wasn't upset about it closing as much as just the thought of the times I had there, an era, coming to an end.

For the last 4 years there were only fighters and ticket machines, Driving games and gun games. I hadn't been in there sense the Galaga broke and was removed.

[lendelin]

Great pics, brought back memories. BTW, your comments to the pics were as interesting as the pics themselves; strange how simple memories and short anecdotes can tell good stories.

[charitycasegreg]

Sweeet dude. I wish I was that old in the 80s. BEST DECADE EVER and i only lived 2 years in it

[vision89]

Okay I gotta ask it; What exactly was your' fantasy with Ms. Bingham! :eek 2:

[Raedon]

Okay I gotta ask it; What exactly was your' fantasy with Ms. Bingham! :eek 2:

Ahm.. she was my first wet dream.. lol

[Neo-Jorge]

Those pics rock, The 80's was the greatest era ever,





Thanks

[vision89]

Ahm.. she was my first wet dream.. lol


And you never forget your' first :D Great Pics!

[Aswald]

Amazing you were able to get those photos.

In the arcade I went to, it would've been-

"HEY! Get that $#@&ing camera outta my face, you $#@*^%$!!. O.K., FINE!..."

All the while, the owner, in grungy change apron and smoking cigarette under "No Smoking" sign, would be laughing.

Paramedic wonders how someone managed to stuff a camera up someone's nose...

[DigitalSpace]

I have a picture of me opening up Super Mario 3 for NES on one of my birthdays. Once I get my scanner hooked back up I'll have to post it on my website. It was from the early 90's, but whatever.

[punkoffgirl]

Amazing you were able to get those photos.

In the arcade I went to, it would've been-

"HEY! Get that $#@&ing camera outta my face, you $#@*^%$!!. O.K., FINE!..."

All the while, the owner, in grungy change apron and smoking cigarette under "No Smoking" sign, would be laughing.

Paramedic wonders how someone managed to stuff a camera up someone's nose...

Because they were his friends there for his birthday party and of course they wouldn't mind someone taking their pictures?