NoahsMyBro
08-29-2004, 09:04 PM
About a week ago I picked up, for $9.99 at a KayBee Toys, a reasonably large (maybe about 12" long) ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009QOQG/qid=1093827043/sr=8-3/ref=pd_ka_3/002-8607020-2817618?v=glance&s=toys&n=507846 ), a radio-controlled Crazy Taxi car. The sucker is extremely cool looking, and now I'm torn:
On one hand, I want to open that sucker up and have a blast playing with it. On the other hand, I believe it will probably be one of those things that 15 years from now is much sought after and I'll then regret having opened it and removed it from the original packaging. I even thought of returning to KayBee and getting a second, but I'm certain it was the last one they had. Odds are though, I'll end up playing with it, rather than letting it waste away unused until I forget about it and my kids or grandkids find it 40 years from now.
Next on the list:
This afternoon I went with my wife and son to our cousin's home to go swimming. On the way home, my son (3-and-a-half and in the midst of potty-training) proclaims he has to go potty. This is the all-hands-on-deck battlestations alert signal, telling us to drop everything and get him to a toilet asap. He's been doing very well with this lately, and naturally we're very proud of him. BUT, this time, immediately after he says this I spy a thousand year old dust-encrusted dot-matrix printer in front of some house at the curb. Big deal, I think, and keep driving. As I pass it, I see lying in the pile with it a Commodore 64, the matching 5.25" disk drive, and a couple of 9-pin standard 3rd party joysticks - one was a Gemstick, the other a Suncom Tac-3. I hit the brakes and bound out of the car to collect the stuff, while some old lady walking her dog across the street gives me dirty looks.
Now, my wife and son are both asking why on earth I did that, but they just don't understand. And when we got home my son was still successfully waiting until he made it to the loo.
I still haven't tested it to even know if it works. Sadly there was no monitor with it. If I recall, and we're going back what, 20 years at this point?, C64 can use a standard RF switch, right?
For that matter, I have 100% zero C64 software. Another vague memory of mine says it had Basic in ROM. My brother had one a long, long time ago. I'm definitely gonna call him up about this.
On one hand, I want to open that sucker up and have a blast playing with it. On the other hand, I believe it will probably be one of those things that 15 years from now is much sought after and I'll then regret having opened it and removed it from the original packaging. I even thought of returning to KayBee and getting a second, but I'm certain it was the last one they had. Odds are though, I'll end up playing with it, rather than letting it waste away unused until I forget about it and my kids or grandkids find it 40 years from now.
Next on the list:
This afternoon I went with my wife and son to our cousin's home to go swimming. On the way home, my son (3-and-a-half and in the midst of potty-training) proclaims he has to go potty. This is the all-hands-on-deck battlestations alert signal, telling us to drop everything and get him to a toilet asap. He's been doing very well with this lately, and naturally we're very proud of him. BUT, this time, immediately after he says this I spy a thousand year old dust-encrusted dot-matrix printer in front of some house at the curb. Big deal, I think, and keep driving. As I pass it, I see lying in the pile with it a Commodore 64, the matching 5.25" disk drive, and a couple of 9-pin standard 3rd party joysticks - one was a Gemstick, the other a Suncom Tac-3. I hit the brakes and bound out of the car to collect the stuff, while some old lady walking her dog across the street gives me dirty looks.
Now, my wife and son are both asking why on earth I did that, but they just don't understand. And when we got home my son was still successfully waiting until he made it to the loo.
I still haven't tested it to even know if it works. Sadly there was no monitor with it. If I recall, and we're going back what, 20 years at this point?, C64 can use a standard RF switch, right?
For that matter, I have 100% zero C64 software. Another vague memory of mine says it had Basic in ROM. My brother had one a long, long time ago. I'm definitely gonna call him up about this.