Gameworks with Al and Ken
Monday evening Al Pearcy was in town, and my brother Ken and I went out with him. Al grew up in our neighborhood, but he’s been an air traffic controller in Anchorage for the last 20 years and I’ve only seen him once briefly in all that time.
In the early 80s we had spent countless hours playing at the bars around Seattle on evenings and weekends, so it was a fun chance to discuss glory days. Al and I took the top two prizes ($1000 and $500) in the Defender contest that Arnold’s in the U district put on in the summer of 1981, and then a year later Al and Ken were in the army and I was in Chicago. This was the first time we’ve played games since then.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a Defender at Gameworks these days, and the Robotron was broken. But we found a few working remnants of the stone age, including a Ms. Pac-Man …
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