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David Perlmutter's avatar

One must not also forget the vocal group The Tokens, who brought "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the attention of North America and operated a record label named B.T. Puppy. I'll spare you "Lion" by providing a link to their first big hit instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRe753rvhpc

Andrew Smith's avatar

Good hit, and thank you for sparing everyone from the Lion! Oh-weee-ohhh-wummm-awayyyyyyy

David Perlmutter's avatar

You are so welcome. A musical group should never be defined by any of their more over-exposed products...

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

That last line makes me want to toke on something else.

80s arcades were awesome but the one closest to us was in Westwood which was too far away during the week so we went to 7-Eleven. The one on the walk home to my best friend’s house had Star Castle and we were addictted.

It was a vector graphics game and you had a little spaceship trying to destroy a cannon inside 3 rotating circles and different speeds. You had to shoot through the circles or shields and then get the cannon once there was a path.

But once the cannon had a path it would shoot you. Oh and then the shields regenerated. In the 7-Eleven versus the arcade we had Star Castle all to ourselves.

Andrew Smith's avatar

Damn, what a great find! It was easy to lose yourself in those vector graphics games if you just surrendered to the flow state. Bad ass.

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

We’d line up quarters on the edge of the arcade monitor to ‘claim’ the game

Andrew Smith's avatar

This was common for pool during the late 90s, AKA my peak pool days.

Bill C. White's avatar

Every line makes me want to toke on something else. ;-)

Andrew Smith's avatar

The tokes write themselves by now.

Bill C. White's avatar

I did the same with a little market close enough to my house to bicycle there. They added a pool table, pinball machine and an arcade game, like Pac-Man. I was friends with the owners of the store and bought my baseball cards there. $0.02 Jolly Ranchers all day long and one quarter!!!

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Watermelon Jolly Rancher is the best flavor. Remember when they came in those sticks? I used to by the bags of candy and pick out the watermelon. Cherry, just ok.

Bill C. White's avatar

Uh, sour apple is obviously the best flavor! ;-)

Andrew Smith's avatar

No fans of grape? Am I that pedestrian?

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Stop, you basic bitch

Bill C. White's avatar

Here I go again with computer science: Parsers take input text and parse it into TOKENS which get combined by rules of syntax and semantics. This is what a compiler does first, the semantic and syntactically correct code text gets generated into executable format for the machine it is compiled on. This was my favorite part of computer science: compiler analysis and design. I wrote a language called SOL. Can you guess how the name came about?

Rudy Fischmann's avatar

This is a token reply to the post.

Andrew Smith's avatar

This reply buys you one quarter’s worth of entertainment. Enjoy! But: no longer, stop enjoying now please.