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1985
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April 13
Breakout
I use to play this on my dad's old atari growing up. Too bad we sold it and all the games at a auction. I was playing with the atari at the time nintendo broke out big, i didn't get an nintendo till 1989 i believe.
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Breakout
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1987
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September 11
DuckTales
I really liked Launchpad McQuack and his great motto's,"If it's got wings, I can crash it!" And of course he was also on Darkwing Duck.
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DuckTales
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1987
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October 10
Bubblegum
In the beginning, when you where finally able to begin to chew bubble gum, it felt like a big accomplisment to see those bright red coin operated machines after a stop at the local market, mostly you would run at break neck speed to the front while your parents where at the check out line, and yell out loud "PLEASE!!"
Your mother always replied, i don't have change, or then the person at the register over heard and handed the amount back in small bills and two break for a dollar of quarters. Then when she got over to you with the cart, she would say then, Put out your Hands under the door of the machine, and she then cranked the dial, oh was it loud on cold days.
Then when you see the candy move, you would hope for the most pieces. Fun times.
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Bubblegum
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1988
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January 20
Contra
I played this both at the arcade, nintendo, super nintendo, and now on Xbox 360 Arcade. The Box art resembles Stallone & Schwarzenegger doesn't it?
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Contra
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1988
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April 10
Family Matters
Huge fan of the show, watched it from the beginning.
Here is a great video on youtube of the Urkel Dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncw70Hw1ffs
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Family Matters
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1988
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September 1
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
This is one of my earliest favorites, the earliest VHS i ever got, and i got it during the end of summer i believe before school. I watched this movie so many times after school when the parents where reading the newspaper instead of watching primetime show or the news. Great times, I still have the VHS and the packaging is all distressed from me taking it with me everywhere. The handcuff scene is one of my favorite between eddie and roger rabbit.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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1989
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April 19
Hit Stix on my birthday
Totally Tubular Eighties!
Hit Stix are a pair of rubber tipped drum sticks that are cabled to a battery powered amp. Clip the amp to your belt and simply shake the sticks in the air to get a white noise snare-ish sound. You don't actually have to pound the sticks against anything.
I do have a photo in my photo album of me recieving my gift of Hit Stix. I'll look for it and put it up soon.
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1990
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March 10
Big Wheel
During the spring at my babysitter I use to go down this big grass knoll with my friend Josh's Big Wheel, the grass was still short from the winter so then at the bottom of the hill you could do this huge power slide in the water puddle on the grass. it was so much fun. At the end of the day we are usually covered in grass stains and our clothes are soaked.
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Big Wheel
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1990
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August 3
Butterfinger
I only ate those sticky bars on hot summer days, i can believe i remember that. They would be frozen in the bottom of my lunch box. I was a HUGE fan of Bart Simpson of course.
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Butterfinger
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1991
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November 1
Classroom Chores
Over the years especially in third grade, I did have my fair share of being polite and helpful in my class, you where asked as a group or as an individual on "special days", usually around the time of testing or after testing.
We would have assigned choirs in the class, either get the brown cardboard divider walls with special flap locks you would place around each student to ward off looking at someone else for the test answers, sharpen no.2 pencils for the class tests, move tables in a special arrangement, etc.
I do remember the funnest part of each school year, the changing of seasons on our huge wall bulletin boards that surrounded the inside class wall. That seemed like the funnest thing, and of course at the end of each year you would push your tables and stack chairs in the corners of each room, and clear out each of your cubbyholes.
My class is very small, mostly for being raised in a small town.
Class of 30 at the most.
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Classroom Chores
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