Re: VECTOR: Almost 3 years ago...

Speaking of the attraction of Star Wars on todays young ones...............

One of the few games I've kept in the upstairs gameroom is a Star Wars
upright and kids seem to flock to it.

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From: "mccullar" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Almost 3 years ago...


>
>
> > Almost three years ago, my son was about 6 months old, and I told the
> vector
> > list how I had gotten him interested in watching and interacting with
some
> > of my games.  Star Wars was his favorite.
>
> A few months ago I was working on an upright _Star Wars_ in a local arcade
> when an eight-year-old boy walked up and gazed at the screen.  Hard to
> believe that the game was older than he was, but I cranked some credits
onto
> it and asked him if he'd like to play it.  He was just barely tall enough
to
> see the screen without standing on a box, but had to reach his arms up to
> the flight controller.  But he got the hang of the game pretty quickly and
> started blasting TIE fighters to kingdom come in no time at all.  What was
> most memorable was this little kid hurling trash at the enemy fighters:
"You
> wanna piece of me!?"  I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing!  :)
>
> Matt J. McCullar
> Arlington, TX
>
>
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