Archive for October, 2006

Posted by //
Sean

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Oct 9, 06 - 2:09 pm

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Memories
Movies
Videos

Comments Off on Alphaville “Forever Young”

Growing up over the past 30+ years, I’ve seen, heard and experienced so many amazing things in my lifetime. Not that I’m old but damn, a lot of things have transpired in my life looking back and I’m only in my early 30’s.

I’ve done a lot of good and I’ve done my share of bad… yes folks, I am human and have made my share of mistakes and bad choices… as Albert Einstein once said “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

The title of my post is Alphaville “Forever Young” and that’s what you’re about to experience… a grand piece of music from my youth and days gone by… I’ve even included the lyrics after the video if you care to sing along. Enjoy.

Let’s dance in style, lets dance for a while. Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies. Hoping for the best but expecting the worst – are you going to drop the bomb or not?

Let us die young or let us live forever. We don’t have the power but we never say never. Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip. The music’s for the sad men.

Can you imagine when this race is won. Turn our golden faces into the sun. Praising our leaders we’re getting in tune. The music’s played by the madmen.

Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever.

Some are like water, some are like the heat. Some are a melody and some are the beat. Sooner or later they all will be gone. Why don’t they stay young?

It’s so hard to get old without a cause. I don’t want to perish like a fading horse. Youth is like diamonds in the sun and diamonds are forever.

So many adventures couldn’t happen today. So many songs we forgot to play. So many dreams are swinging out of the blue. We let them come true.

Forever young, I want to be forever young. Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever.

Lyrics and Music Copyright © 1982/83
Alphaville: Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd and Frank Mertens


Posted by //
Sean

Date //
Oct 6, 06 - 11:27 am

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Geekery
Trivia

Comments Off on Unusual Trivia Update

For those of you who come to read my Unusual Trivia page, I just did another round of updates.

As a teaser, one of the updates I find very interesting:

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

I actually find them all interesting, so what are you waiting for? Go check them out now! :)

If you know of any unusual trivia that should be on my page, let me know and I’ll add it to my ever growing page giving you full credit if you’d like.

Also, if you’ve provided some unusual trivia to me in the past and I didn’t include a credit link and you want one, let me know that too and I’ll get you fixed up.


Posted by //
Sean

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Oct 4, 06 - 11:46 am

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Gaming
Geekery
MAME
Memories

Comments Off on Top 20 Favorite Classic Video Games

As most of my friends and readers know, I’m a huge fan of classic video games; you know the ones that took a single quarter to play from the early 1980’s to early 1990’s.

Most of the video arcade games from back then actually had some entertainment value and didn’t involve being a gangster or a car thief. Amazing.

The sad thing is almost all of my favorites are virtually impossible to find in a modern arcade but thanks to projects like MAME and my personal video game collection, I can play them any time I want.

Ok, moving on to the reason for this post… last night I was talking with a few of my classic video game collecting friends about what we felt were our personal top 20 games that we actually own either the full upright or cocktail table version in our collections, so without any further delay, here is my personal top 20 list:

  1. Ms. Pac-Man
  2. Tempest
  3. Pac-Man
  4. Centipede
  5. Galaga
  6. Asteroids
  7. Star Wars
  8. Donkey Kong
  9. Tron
  10. Joust
  11. Donkey Kong Junior
  12. Robotron: 2084
  13. Defender
  14. Space Invaders
  15. Frogger
  16. Battlezone
  17. Galaxian
  18. Space Duel
  19. Q*bert
  20. Dig Dug

It’s great having my own personal arcade. Everything is set to free play. No quarters required. I’ve spent many years and 1,000’s of dollars to restore and revive my childhood memories of the local arcade.

I’m a hero to the kids in my neighborhood when the garage door is open but sometimes I have to be a bully and kick them out. I’m not a baby sitter… but it is nice to let the youth of today see what real arcade fun and entertainment is all about.

It does take up a lot of room having full size games in my garage but it’s so cool when I have friends over for a BBQ or just to hang out and remember the days of playing Galaga as a kid.