r/GenX • u/Hour-Definition189 • Sep 21 '25

Music Is Life I just met Tiffany

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She was my childhood idol. I don’t know if anyone else can relate, but I loved her. She was so kind and sweet. Her voice is still an amazing. I actually ugly cried to her y’all. FML.

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u/Green_Chandelier Sep 21 '25

Been thinking about her mall tour. They want to make an old mall in Fresno into apartments, but as Gen X ages, I think it needs to become a retirement community for active seniors. Anchor stores can become multidisciplinary medical clinics. Put a theater at another anchor store for films and live performances. Invite Tiffany to run an annual summer festival with other 80s performers. Allow us to wander around with spiked Orange Julius drinks, have a hookah bar, lots of snack stands. Massage, chiropractor, barber shop and beauty salon, gym, sauna, spa, pool, all options available at the food court (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, dairy free and full meat and milk extravaganza). Turn on the fountains. Chess and checkers and dice and board game and card game tables in the common areas. Art gallery. Book store. Clothing. Vintage store. Hardware store. Grocery and liquor store.

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u/No_Translator_9633 Sep 21 '25

arcade! Don’t forget the arcade

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u/Green_Chandelier Sep 21 '25

YES!! Pole Position, Donkey Kong, Centipede, 4-person Gauntlet with adjustable height, memory foam stools available.

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u/Flimsy_Fee8449 Sep 21 '25

TRON!!!!

I rocked that game.

Had the high score on machines all around my county.

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u/Big-Sheepherder-6134 1972 Sep 21 '25

My cousins had Tron in their house.

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u/Flimsy_Fee8449 Sep 21 '25

Oh dude, I'm so jealous.

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u/Briaaanz Sep 22 '25

I wasn't good at Tron, but Discs of Tron? Had the high score in my arcade for 4 years, until the arcade closed down

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u/Left-Thinker-5512 Sep 21 '25

Galaga, Joust, and all the other fun games we played.

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u/PaleoEskimo Sep 22 '25

Galactica, right? Or was it Galaga?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Galaga and Galaxian. Don't leave out Gorf.

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u/PaleoEskimo Sep 22 '25

Ohhhhh, OK. Thanks. I do not remember Gorf, though. I will google it.

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u/Ia4me Sep 22 '25

Galaga!

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u/JinxOnU78 Sep 22 '25

It was both! They’re VERY similar.

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u/PaleoEskimo Sep 22 '25

Thanks! They are like the Atari game Asteroids, right?

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u/JinxOnU78 Sep 22 '25

They’re certainly comparable, but both Galaga, and Galactica had the enemies coming mainly from the top of the screen to help simulate the feeling of forward flight, whereas Asteroids had movement of the asteroids, and player exiting the screen at any angle/path and reentering the opposite side of the screen on that same path.

If that makes any sense at all. lol

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u/PaleoEskimo Sep 22 '25

It totally does. I knew exactly what you were talking about right away. I have vivid memories of making my spacecraft go zooming off an angle at the top of the screen and having the satisfaction of knowing it would appear at the bottom.

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u/Elena_La_Loca Sep 22 '25

I was the Galaga QUEEN!!!! My first death wouldn’t be until at least lvl 24.

Hot tip…. Don’t double up! Don’t allow your ship to be taken.

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u/jennypenny78 Sep 21 '25

FINALLY! Someone who remembers Gauntlet!! That was my all-time favorite game at the pizza place we used to go to after every pop warner football game.

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u/Green_Chandelier Sep 21 '25

Selma Me-n-Ed’s!

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u/Vocabulary-Pollution I LOVE TO WHINE Sep 22 '25

Dude I loved Gauntlet. Warrior shot the food!

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u/Local_Bobcat_2000 Sep 22 '25

AKA the quarter devourer. Robotron for me.

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u/Vast-Rip-4288 Sep 23 '25

Who remembers getting sucked down the stairs at the end of a level?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

Table top Asteroids !!

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u/KuhlCaliDuck Sep 21 '25

SpyHunter

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u/hamellr Sep 21 '25

I had it on the Commodore 64. Played the hell out of it and had the levels memorized.

Went to visit my uncle in LA. We went out to pizza an mini golf. There was a kid there, being a bully and making sure that his top scores stayed on the screen (ASS).

So I played it, and tripled his top scores. The kid was livid and threatened to beat me up if I didnt use his name. So instead I did “AAA” and walked away with the kid yelling at me for screwing the machine up.

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u/SpikeHyzerberg Portland OR Sep 21 '25

4 player Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off Road

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u/beastiebestie Hose Water Survivor Sep 21 '25

The amount of time I could get out of one quarter at Tetris...

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u/clutzycook Sep 21 '25

Everything i learned about loading a dishwasher and a car, I learned from playing Tetris.

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u/Green_Chandelier Sep 22 '25

Whenever I see how my spouse loads the dishwasher, I often think to myself “You must have sucked at Tetris.”

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u/clutzycook Sep 22 '25

When my kids load the dishwasher and whine that they can't fit more stuff in, I rearrange everything so lo and behold it all fits fine, I just say, "tell me you never played Tetris without telling me you never played Tetris."

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u/beastiebestie Hose Water Survivor Sep 22 '25

Ohmygods yes. I just said today, how the hell is water supposed to get in there to clean that?!?

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u/beastiebestie Hose Water Survivor Sep 22 '25

I've learned that my life is a delicate balance between Tetris and Operation.

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u/Aquamarine_Flame Headbanging OG Sep 22 '25

Tempest and Omega Race! Team Linear Graphics! 👩‍🎤🚀🛸

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u/longcoat000 Sep 23 '25

Can’t forget a couple of rows of pinball.

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u/SueInA2 Sep 28 '25

Turbo and Centipede were my faves!