Episode 129: The El Reno Arcade Collection

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Episode 129: The El Reno Arcade Collection

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Episode 129 is Online.

In Episode 129 of You Don’t Know Flack, I talk about the collection of arcade games (six, in all) that I owned back when I lived in El Reno, Oklahoma. These were the first six arcade games I owned, all of which I sold when I moved out of state. The six machines were: Elevator Action, Mat Mania, Shinobi, Street Fighter II – Championship Edition, Power Instinct 2, and Star Wars.

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Calling the opening segment 'Load Time' is brilliant!

genius has been described as broad, simple strokes and this simple renaming certainly fits the criteria. Are you going to add in the 1541 head knock noise?


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Haha that's a great idea! Maybe that will be the sound that denotes that the podcast is "finished loading".
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Re: Episode 129: The El Reno Arcade Collection

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Yes, the Load Time is a great idea! And a great episode this week as usual, my favorite part was the convenience store guy. I hope he hears it! And thanks again for talking/writing up my podcast! :)
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I'm just now getting caught up with the El Reno episode (it's been kind of a crappy week).

The trailer-home-to-17-room-giant-house reminds of the culture shock of moving from my first apartment to my second. My first was, barring one partition wall, almost a single-room apartment; the kitchen, bathroom, etc. were really more like alcoves than their own rooms.

My second apartment was retrofitted out of part of the second story of a 100-year-old brick grain storage building in the downtown district, just a stone's throw from the river. And it was cavernous, and the brick walls made it look like an ancient dungeon. Multiple levels, staircases, railings, huge arch doorways... if I had put torches on the walls, it would've looked totally in character. And there were enough rooms for me to have a book/old computer/old game room, a recording studio area, a bedroom, a table where I could supposedly have a meal with someone (not that anyone ever came by because they knew the place by reputation as a creepy bachelor pad - something which I only learned about later)... there was one whole floor-to-ceiling window with a beaten-up old ottoman and a bunch of throw pillows around it. That window was just for the cats.

Anyway, I got a chuckle out of the dirty clothes room, because that's what it reminded me of.

The best thing about the book/old computer room was that it had a giant walk-in closet with its own power outlets. I put a metal storage shelf with all of my old Apple IIs and Franklin Aces in that closet, ran the video cables out at the corner of the door to behind the bookshelves, and hooked them up to old green screen monitors on top of each bookshelf:

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...yes, this was a real thing. I had all this gear because a friend of mine and I had gathered or been given all of it, and we used it to generate background computer displays in a sci-fi-movie-spoof-fan-film kinda thing we'd done in high school/early college, and at some point, we both swore we'd get back to it. So our massive display of 64k computer power remained hooked up. We never did get back to it, by the way. But there it remained, all hooked up.

Good times. No, actually, not so much. This was the place that got the shit kicked out of it by the 1996 tornado, which made me realize how old and ramshackle and borderline-scary the whole setup was. And yet I kinda miss the layout.
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