I hope this is successful and popular and it pisses people off because those are the ones who need to get a life.
I'm not a fan of Kenshin so I won't be watching and everyone is sick of the vitriol which gets dredged up. You don't like what he did? Go away, don't comment, go on some other forum and spew there. Lots of web space everywhere else. It's like parking too close to the driver's side door of the only a car in a parking lot just to annoy the owner.
40 years ago, my mom crossed a labor picket line to work the presses at Merit Plastics in East Canton along with her friend Frances R. She did this for several months until she had saved up quite a bit of money, then went to Service Merchandise in Canton, Ohio to buy our first Atari 2600 and 2 games, Combat and Space Invaders. I know these details because I recently came across the sales receipt for that 2600.
It would be awhile before we would get more games. I got Kaboom! for my birthday. Pac-man was bought at Electronic Service with funds kindly provided by some guy she was seeing though he didn't know he was paying. Hehehe!
Finally, the great North American Video Game market Crash happened and the local Fisher's Big Wheel had a container display full of marked down cartridges. $9.99 each! What does a kid do? I went out and collected aluminum cans to recycle. One summer, Hershey had this rebate program where you send in candy bar wrappers and they send you a check for $5. Only thing to it was there was no limit to how many times you could do it. I collected those wrappers out of garbage barrels at the parks, took them home to iron flat, then stuffed envelopes. I read the directions very carefully. I don't remember how much money I earned this way, but judging from the cartridges in my collection, it was quite a lot! I can still tell you which games I got at Fisher's.
We were hard on that 1st 2600. The power supply needed replaced at least once. I remember rebuilding the old one. Then we had to get another 2600 because of the stress of use but by then they were much cheaper. The Atari Club sent their Atari Age magazine and they sold the popular Joystick Repair Kit. We also ordered a few games direct from the club. The Saturday spent playing and solving Raiders of the Lost Ark was a good one!
Mom would later say she regretted buying that 1st Atari 2600 because I stopped going outside to play for the most part. I had enough of the neighborhood bullies and brats. I'm fricking glad I found something I could be good at. Video games made my clumsy child age a lot better.
