I'm going to share with you two of mine and Stephen's greatest gift moments.
I remember the day when Dad bought a $2000 computer. It had a hard disk drive and 640KB of RAM. Its operating system was a DOS tree program. Anyways, one year I got a present that caused me to raise it over my head triumphantly and yell "COMPUTER DISKS!" This makes me smile because some of that excitement stays with me. I love playing old arcade games (especially PacMan) and I still love doodling around on computers. But anyways, the computer discs in my hand were actually a trifector of the biggest games shows in the 80s: Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Family Feud. Do these pictures bring back any memories for anyone else?


Now for Stephen. Probably some of the coolest after-pictures of Christmas day were Stephen's incredible poses with his Hot Keyz key-tar. Does anyone else remember Hot Keyz? I was going to get a picture from Stephen's Facebook... BUT Stephen deleted his profile recently. So close. So if you're there Stephen, try to wrangle up some of your Hot Keyz pictures.
But anyways, the Hot Keyz (the 'z' is important) was awesome. In particular I remember that if you held one particular key down it would play the melody for "Born in the U.S.A."... except it wouldn't play the whole song. It would actually just play the melody for the singular line of "Born in the U.S.A."... just "dow dow dada dow dow dow... dow dow dada dow dow dow... dow dow dada dow dow dow". Then you could change the tempo and key. Totally awesome!

3 comments:
EG discovered Pac-Man at a birthday party a couple weeks ago. He spent all his tokens playing it. The dream never dies, Rich, it just moves to the next generation.
HAHA! I will look for that picture. I love that video of you holding the discs above your head and yelling "COMPUTER DISCS!" I cannot stop laughing just thinking about it. I really thought I was going to impress people on my hot keyz and would probably play it into my later years. I am going to find it one day and reclaim it in all its glory. COMPUTER DISCS!!
FAMILY FEUD. Loved that game. Despite all the obscure answer choices.
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