@TheVegetarianBurgerKing: One of Chuck Palahniuk's early novels--Invisible Monsters, IIRC--claimed that it was always women in those theme park suits for that exact reason, but who knows if it's true.
Oh for a sec I thought it was Mayor Mccheese standing there. As we all know Mayor Mccheese met his tragic end 15 years ago. When he accidentally walked into a weight watchers meeting.
@Orionsaint: No,no,no, Mayor McCheese was arrested a few years ago for child molestation. I guess he had 30 year old meat between 12 year old buns. It was quite a pickle.
I'm assuming Pac-Man Land had these key components: climbable rope nets, plastic tubes/slides filled with vomit, ball pits with unspeakable objects inside, and a bizarre square consisting of 100 punching bags.
If so, the park that's now Marine World used to have one of these before Six Flags bought it, though I can't remember what the area was called, as did many other amusement parks in the 80s and 90s.
I don't know who decided kids need foam covered mini-waterparks with cartoon characters instead of punching bags, but they were totally wrong.
I hate shit like that, in terms of needing to be old enough to have a memory capable of handling the situation.
My parents used to say "But you've been to Disneyworld 3 times!" growing up, and I was like "Yeah, mom, I was 3 the first time, 6 the second time and it wasn't until I was 9 that I can actually remember most of what I did".
I can kinda remember it at age 6 too, but 3 is a wash. Word of advice to the parents out there, if you're spending ludicrous amounts of money to take your toddler exciting places, chances are they'll have a good time, but remember absolutely none of it. SO if you're looking for a free guilt card (but I took you to disney!), wait until they're a bit older.
@(Zombie) Komrade Kayce: Yep, that's why it always bothers me when people try to act as though they remember a period of time despite them being fetuses or toddlers during it. Too many people forge memories from their desires, to suit their beliefs, or reassembled from old photographs.
"ever-expanding Texas game development community" WOW!
This is news to me! i can understand Montreal (in Canada) being a growing game development community but TEXAS?
Montreal has one of the largest game development communities in the world and these guys are talking about TEXAS? We have EA Montreal and Ubisoft! TEXAS has.............oh ya Hi-Rez Studios...ok! lol!
As most everyone else here has already pointed, Texas has always had a strong development community. I'm mostly just responding to remind you that Hi-Rez is based in Georgia, not Texas.
I am currently 4 floors above pistudios in Housto, TX.
Pi Studios (I have a friend that works there as a tester) is known for PS2 and Wii ports of RockBand 1 and 2, Rock Band track packs, work on most of the Call of Duty titles, Wolfenstein titles, Quake titles, and more.
How quickly people forget. When Governer Perry went to speak at the VGA I beleive...one of those game awards, people were all saying how he's such a conniving sob. But I didn't think so back then and don't think now. He's just trying to do his job to bring money to the Texas economy, nothing wrong with that. Creating incentives and recognizing games as something that impact the economy will attract developers to reconsider where they want to work. Austin is like the Silicon Valley of Texas...and that aint too bad.
@Thai Tea: dont forget dallas. id software, gearbox, formerly ensemble, 3d realms. in fact... some have already realized the tech boom hit austin and dallas and call the area "silicon prarie."
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Oh for a sec I thought it was Mayor Mccheese standing there. As we all know Mayor Mccheese met his tragic end 15 years ago. When he accidentally walked into a weight watchers meeting.
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If so, the park that's now Marine World used to have one of these before Six Flags bought it, though I can't remember what the area was called, as did many other amusement parks in the 80s and 90s.
I don't know who decided kids need foam covered mini-waterparks with cartoon characters instead of punching bags, but they were totally wrong.
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My parents used to say "But you've been to Disneyworld 3 times!" growing up, and I was like "Yeah, mom, I was 3 the first time, 6 the second time and it wasn't until I was 9 that I can actually remember most of what I did".
I can kinda remember it at age 6 too, but 3 is a wash. Word of advice to the parents out there, if you're spending ludicrous amounts of money to take your toddler exciting places, chances are they'll have a good time, but remember absolutely none of it. SO if you're looking for a free guilt card (but I took you to disney!), wait until they're a bit older.
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Still, I wish I could go there...
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This is news to me! i can understand Montreal (in Canada) being a growing game development community but TEXAS?
Montreal has one of the largest game development communities in the world and these guys are talking about TEXAS? We have EA Montreal and Ubisoft! TEXAS has.............oh ya Hi-Rez Studios...ok! lol!
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As most everyone else here has already pointed, Texas has always had a strong development community. I'm mostly just responding to remind you that Hi-Rez is based in Georgia, not Texas.
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Pi Studios (I have a friend that works there as a tester) is known for PS2 and Wii ports of RockBand 1 and 2, Rock Band track packs, work on most of the Call of Duty titles, Wolfenstein titles, Quake titles, and more.
Check out [pistudios.com]
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