That's almost exactly my situation my senior year at UMR. I got an apartment in an old house right across from the student union, and when I went back soon after graduating it had been turned into a parking lot.

It was cheap rent in a fantastic location, so I really liked it.

My setup.

I can only imagine the me as a kid back in those days would be drooling over this.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it also has Gauntlet.

Im coming over. I loved Gauntlet

Me and the boys used to spend so many ****ing quarters on Gauntlet. LOL.

I was always super pissed if I didn't get to pick the Barbarian character though.

Two high-capacity video game consoles AND a robotic vacuum cleaner? Your past self wants to see a picture of your flying car.

I think I vaguely remember Gauntlet, but never played it much. It must have not been in my local arcades.

It does remind me of a vaguely similar game, though, called Robotron.

I played it a bit because a friend of mine was into it, but I didn't think it was a good value for the money. You'd basically start in the middle of the screen and get swarmed by zombie-like robots while you held them off as long as possible.

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Gauntlet was one of the first video games to allow for more than 2 players to play at a time. And as a young kid in a big arcade with friends, that was awesome. You and three of your buddies all jacked up on candy and soda pounding this big arcade machine at the same time. You'd likely remember the arcade since it was so unique at the time...

Pretty simple game, all characters were in the same side scrolling scene. Fighting ghosts and monsters. Each character had different fighting advantages. When you could get all 4 characters playing at the same time, it was some epic coop fun.

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I always liked the wizard.

ROFL
I about choked on my beer reading your post just now.

The awesome OG Gauntlet 4 player arcade suffered a fatal flaw though, that wasn't really apparent at the time, but is really awkward now. The arcade controls were setup in a way that your right hand controlled movement and your left hand operated the buttons.

I now have the sounds it makes in my head. Fun.

The track ball was almost the size of a bowling ball and just as heavy. Anyone who has pinched their skin in that track ball probably still remembers the pain. I know I do.

This was my basement setup when I lived in KC. The arcade was an original Galaga cabinet with modified multi-game control panel and a 60-game chip, played so many awesome games.

I would make a tumbler of manhattans and play Time pilot and Dig Dug until 2am on a weeknight.

We still have the Mrs. Pacman cocktail table, original game and it works great. Have had it for 22 years. Got it repaired in KC at a arcade shop on the corner near Q39.

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Mrs. PACMAN was a whore.

If anybody lives near Silvis, IL, this looks like a good deal on a 60-game Multicade. 800 bucks currently.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/32542723617...cef4%7Ciid%3A1