The Steampunk World

Being the continued explorations of a living steampunk.

The steampunk world is all around us, lying just out of sight, in a continuous thread of steampunk builders and culture that extends from the Victorian era to the present. You'll find no science fiction here: This is real life steampunk.

Monday, September 09, 2002

Here's my treasured Klax machine, which I bought at an auction for $60. It was a video game auction that KC and I went to, and lemme tell you, if you ever hear of one- GO! It was at a county fairgrounds, where several hundred video games were lined up and turned on for "testing" prior to their purchase. We played video games for free for eight hours! I bid $1000 on a pinball machine by scratching my nose (luckily no pinball machine goes for less than a grand) and $40 on a peanut vending machine because I had my head tilted up looking for KC. At the end of the day, the games go for super-cheap, and I picked this one up and took it to my dorm room in school. KC got a hologram fighting game, in a cabinet which you might remember as a cowboy time-travel game. The characters appear as holograms on a flat surface like a Star Wars chess board. The old Chinese master character says, "Your body must be all vein!"

If you get a game, be sure to get one that will be fun even after you've won it a gajillion times. Puzzle games, fighting games, and racing games are good this way. Platform adventure games are not. Also, make sure you have the room, because it takes up a helluva lot of space for something that, today, would fit in your palm. Since I lived in the dorm I've been pawning it off on other people a la Tom Sawyer- they think I'm loaning them this wonderful gift, when in fact, they're doing me a favor by keeping it. Sure enough, a few months after my brother brought it up for our bar room, we moved to a place where it just doesn't "fit"... so I'm pawning it off on Monkey Boy, who is converting his living room into a game room.

As you may be able to tell, this cabinet used to be a Dig Dug game. My other game, DESERT ASSAULT, used to be a WWF Wrestling game. Wish I had that one, I spent hundreds of quarters in allowance money on that as a kid.

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