I played five or six really fast games as a sub in the last playoffs, but this game I emergency-subbed in on Sunday was even speedier! I was getting my camera off the glass from my just-completed game, and this guy coming out of a locker room asked if I could sub, their goalie forgot about the game and was playing golf! So, of course I’ll play… second game in a row, no big deal! I had a third game four hours later, all three games of the day were wins! (That’s rare!) So, this was a fun one, glad I stuck around for it! I didn’t know until after the game that our opponent was #2 in the division. Great fun!
Eyewitness Pacific Theater • I have the companion book “Eyewitness D-Day”, so this was a nice find, and will compliment my other volume.
Victory at Sea • Wow, the cover of this one reminds me of another book I have. I hope I didn’t already have it!
Stalingrad to Berlin • Same with this one. When you have a lot of books on the same topic, sometimes they start looking alike.
Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945 • This is the second of two books, but published four years ago so the info inside is going to be different from the 1967 book I read on the same subject. I have others like this but the more views I read on this, the better.
It is so interesting to read old books. This one is from 1902, which is more than a decade before World War I, and a decade before the loss of the Titanic. Yet, there is still a lot that is correct in it which can still be learned from. I have to wonder exactly when all of these notes were taken, I think it would have to be soon after the book was originally purchased, so more than a hundred years ago.
A FEW DAYS LATER: I found the American History version of this book at a yard sale for two bucks! It was published ten years after the Western Europe one! What are the odds? I think these history books were for students and many were made. But still, a neat, and timely find!
I tried to find the intro to Buck Rogers, but amazingly enough, an intact version of it isn’t on YouTube. That is so far back in time, it is easy to forget how great that intro was.
This video covers the first season intro without, and then with narration, the second season intro, and both excellent credits themes. My favorite series of all time.
This is a list of games that I played back in the day, and want to own/play again. A low-priority project, I prepared this list in case I come across the right garage sale. Luckily, all of these games are dirt-cheap, as are most of the systems.
ODYSSEY 2 K.C. Munchkin K.C.’s Krazy Chase! Quest for the Rings Gunfighter/Showdown Alien Invaders Plus! UFO! Amok Attack of the Timelord Demon Attack
COLECOVISION + ATARI ADD-ON Centipede Defender Donkey Kong Galaxian Gorf River Raid Pitfall Pitfall 2 Q-Bert Q-Bert 2 Smurfs: Rescue from Gargamel’s Castle
ATARI Asteroids Space Invaders Defender Defender II Galaxian Missle Command River Raid River Raid II Robot Tank Jr. Pac Man Ms Pac Man Pac Man Frogger Q-Bert Donkey Kong Pitfall Pitfall II Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Atlantis Fathom Riddle of the Sphinx No Escape! Chopper Command Starmaster Demon Attack Spider-Man Journey Escape Spider Fighter Sea Quest Laser Blast Cosmic Arc Demon Attack Star Voyager Megamania Solar Storm
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