Happy birthday to Yoo-oooh..... etc.

Sounds like you had a fun day. Enjoy your prezzies. :)

I think I've spent that Amazon gift card several times over in my head already.

Funny how we do that isn't it? Amazon cards of infinite spending ftw!

I told my gramma that half the joy of getting a gift card is how many times you can spend it in your head, lol.

I've played that Attack from Mars pinball game!  They had it in a place in Pittsburgh I hung out in for a bit. 

Wow, happy birthday!  Sounds like you had a good one.  IT's cool you have an interview set up for your blog.  That's a little out of my range I think but I wish I could do that. Let me think about it though, maybe there's someone low key enough that might answer my questions.....

Enjoy Enslaved. I almost won it but got distracted... like all of my games!  The story and characters are good though. It's a nice universe.  

About the interview: it's pretty low-key. I send him a question by Facebook message and he answers it when he has time. It's good to have friends who are willing to do things like this.

Happy birthday hope it was awesome and your life is action packed compared to mine lol!!!! 

I don't mind things being boring. That was actually a pretty bust week for me.

I used to play Goonies 1 on a Play Choice at Chucky Cheese's back in the day. For a while I couldn't remember where I played Goonies 1 and friends insisted it didn't exist. They almost convinced me until I saw another machine years later and the memory came flooding back. I knew it was Chucky Cheese's because I remember playing SMB on it and that you could pick other games. Happy Birthday  :)

Thanks, Chris! Yeah, Coast City Comics made abig deal about being able to play Goonies 1 on that cabinet.

Man I played the fool out of Goonies back in the day. I am glad you had a good Birthday.

Thanks, Larry! The best birthdays are spent with family, but you already know that.

I'd love a cabinet with X-man vs Street fighter, one of my favourite memories as a child. I wish there where more arcades in Britain  luckily though there's fewer they are bigger (sort of).

Happy birthday.

Arcades are dying out around here, too. Coast City Comics has a few cabinets and a bunch of pinball tables, but before they started up, there wasn't much around.

Enslaved is beautiful looking and really fun to boot. Lauren is a peach for sending it to you. It's very under-rated! They really handled the characters well too. I ended up caring a lot for all of them,even Pigsy who's a weird perverted hermit. Trip ranks as one of the most beautiful,resourceful,and likable gaming females of all time for me personally. (Minus the whole exploding collar blackmail control scheme she pulls on poor Monkey! That went a bit too far.)

Lauren is a peach. I think I'm going to get back to Enslaved when I finish typing this comment. Either that or go fishing in River King. Haven't made up my mind yet.

Happy Birthday Tami!!! If you do play that Play-Choice 10, I wouldn't recommend TMNT. It's horrible lol. You'd be much better off sticking to pinball.

I rarely play video games in arcades. I lose my money too quickly!

I wish I had that Goonies 1.  

Happy Birthday Tami! 

Come visit Maine. Then you can play it while I entertain your kids in the park.

Happy Birthday!  Have a power pellet!

I have a lot of good memories playing those PlayChoice 10's in arcades.  You could only play Goonies 1 on them, and I played Mario 3 on one months before it was released in stores.

Thanks, Cary! I'm going to hold on to that power pellet until next week when I start work again.

I want to play Stargate and Sinistar both of those I sunk alot of quarters into oh and of course the first streetfighter

I have no idea what games are in that Play Choice cabinet, as I haven't actually seen it in person yet.

That small, intimate concert sounds really cool - especially bringing your grandma to it.  

I dig the PlayChoice-10 machines, but especially the ones with dual screens.  Although those are best used as Punch-Out!! or Arm Wresting machines, PlayChoice-10 is acceptable especially with The Goonies available.

Happy Birthday!

Travis, I'm really lucky. Most of the concerts I go to are house concerts like that. And they're usually cheap, averaging around $15. And it's fun taking my gramma.

I'm gonna have to get that new Jed Marum music from iTunes. Sounds like you a great birthday. That game is definitely cool,one I want to get. That arcade machine looks like the one they have at Gardner's books. A place close to our office at work. I do miss arcades. But I guess it was something that outlived it's purpose,like Blockbuster.

You can download Jed's new CD through CD Baby, too, and I think he gets a bigger cut of the money from them than he does iTunes.

Okay,I will go that route. Gotta support the artists who give us great music.

Happy Birthday. I never seen an arcade machine like that before or heard of the goonies as an arcade game.

Your boring life? You kidding, all I did was go to my favorite pizza place for my birthday with family, no concerts or homemade maple syrup, nor new arcade finds. lol That's not to undermine my own birthday, I had a great time and great gifts were received, but yours certainly doesn't sound boring. lol

Happy belated birthday and I look forward to that Jed interview!

Oh! PIZZA!!! I would have loved to have gone out for pizza! But yeah, my birthday wasn't boring. It just didn't include much gaming.

Mine either. lol

That sounded like a pretty awesome birthday to me! And a Playchoice-10 encounter to top it all off!

Happy belated.

I didn't actually encounter said Playchoice-10 myself, the pic was in my Facebook feed.

Ah, sorry. I misread it! I've always wanted to try one of them out, myself, but I've never seen one. I remember when I was a kid I was so confused by the movie The Wizard, because they were clearly playing arcade machines, but the games were NES titles. It wasn't until I was an adult that I found out they were playing Playchoice-10s and what they were!

And your life does not sound boring at all. I envy you being out in nature with your work. At least I'm not trapped in the bowels of a hospital. I get to drive around to different towns all day. Some of the things you do at work sound like really hard work. From the tales you have shared with us,that is.

I love my job, can't wait to start work on Tuesday. To me, it doesn't seem hard. Maybe because I've been doing it since I was 18. Some things are more physically demanding than others, and then the challenge is to work smarter, not harder. The hardest thing I do is to keep my sarcasm to myself. It's a good thing people can't hear what I'm thinking...

Happy Birthday!!  Sounds like you had a great weekend with family.  I come from a small one, my brother lives up North so we don't see each other much.  Consider yourself lucky!

I loooved The Goonies game.  I also really liked TMNT.  It was kind of a love/hate thing at the time lol.

I have a large extended family, and I love it. The best part is living just faraway that I don't see everyone every day, but close enough that I can be there in a few hours.

As for those two games, I've never played either one. My first Nintendo platforms were my GBA SP and my Game Cube.

Happy birthday. That was really nice of Lauren to send you that.

Thanks. And yes, it was incredibly nice of Lauren to send me that game. She's an incredibly nice person.

I listened to some of Anna Coogan's songs on her site. She has a fantastic voice, I liked her rendition of "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" . My favorite song by Gordon Lightfoot. Will have to get some of her music as well.

CD Baby has 'em all!

Happy Birthday Tami! How does it feel to be 21?

LOL. Thanks, Adam. Try 44 . But I don't feel any different than I did at 21...

Happy belated birthday. The arcade machine looks really cool. I wonder how much one of those cost?

Thanks. I have no idea. I can ask the guys at Coast City Comics next time I go in, though.