Darkbridger

Hope your wife is ok with that.

Yes

Yes/No/Probably not, but I don't regret buying it.

If you have lots of gamer friends that will visit frequently, you'll get more out of it probably. I bought it mostly to have a Galaga machine, which I spent way more time on than Pac-Man or Ms Pac-Man. Even if I had a PC-driven cabinet with 100s of games instead of the 25 or so I have now, I don't think I'd spend more time playing it. It's also big and heavy and a royal pain to move around, particularly if you have narrow doorways or odd turning hallways, despite having wheels on it. The no on area is because my game room is small. :|

I have a Class of '81 machine. The company that I got it from later sold me a replacement board that included a bunch of other games. I assumed it was a legal Namco board, but I'm not entirely sure.

Wait, he's part of Armless Dan's crew?

Well, except Pum got neg rep'd.... that's meaningful.... right? right?

I still have the 5.25" disk with a BASIC text adventure game I tried to write during my high school senior computer class. Dunno why I keep it since the darn thing never worked right anyhow, and I'll probably never own a drive to read the file again anyhow. I remember the teacher glancing over my shoulder when I was working on lines in the 10000 range and asking if it was really that big. Since BASIC encouraged you to number by 5s, 10s or even 100s until things got detailed, it was smaller than it sounds. She still wanted me to print it out to see what sorts of things I was doing, none of which were covered by the class. The rest of the kids hated me that day for getting to listen to the pleasant plodding drone of a dot matrix printer for most of the class while they were trying to write programs that took input and performed simple math.

*looks over at Visual Studio and the multi-million-line MMO project sitting there and sighs wistfully*

*then looks at all the youngsters around and yells 'get off my digital lawn!'*

EDIT: I knew I would find it eventually...my first programming book

Anywhere from an hour (if we're really quick) to two hours (if there are lots of problems or the team just chooses to go slower). Most times it seems to be somewhere between an hour and an hour and a half. Looks like there will be two teams as well, which might delay the start time a little depending on how quickly I can get alts sorted out.

fixed that for you

Err, this was last week's Kryph. Look for this weeks post tomorrow. I'll put you on that list if you want, but I'm not certain what I am running yet.