Perhaps the greatest video clip ever made!

The last starfighter is a fun movie, but it’s less of a controller than it is an Arcade game.

Great article marc!

@Gargantua:

It’s basically pay as you go…

$600 or so for ground school (About 40 to 60 hours)  then you pay to rent the plane ($100 to $150 per flying hour)  you’ll need an instructor for atleast 15 hours…  who is also $50 an hour in the air, and $50 an hour pre flight.

So each session in the beginning is about $300… but as you progress, it gets cheaper.

The cool thing about renting a plane is you only pay for the hours it’s actually running/flying. (To an extent) so say you want to do a day trip, a 1 hour flight there 1 hour back, it’s only $300 + gas, which is roughly equivelant to car gas, except you cover WAY more ground.

Then there are all the medical permits etc etc, $50 here, $100 there… but you get it all done as you can! :D

Commericial pilot is a different deal… and if you want to be an astronaut, you HAVE to atleast have your pilots license.

A pilot license is the drivers license of the next century IMO!

I see. Well, it is something I do want to do. Good thing is, I am young and do have some time to spend doing it.

Ironically it’s the alcohol tax that pays it lol case I beer is $42 in Ontario.

I used to own about 30 arcade machines in my home in the early 1990’s . I collected many of my favorites.

tailgunner ( cinamatronics- vector based)

Ripoff ( same)

Star castle

Gauntlet II

bosconian

omega race

colony 7

Starship 1

lunar lander

defender

rally x

indy 800

tank 8

robotron

spy hunter

atari football ( with the x’s and o’s and 4 players)

breakout

space fury ( sega)

Starwars
i forgotten many of their names but theirs like a 100 other full size arcade machines that i used to have.

firepower ( pinball)

1942

tron

A couple hours ago, I saw an Ash for President poster as http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2079&p=3.

Disclaimer: somethingawful has a lot of things that will likely offend somebody, and this is my warning. If you find something you don’t like, I told you so.

“uh… yeah thats me up there… sorry guys”

Oh, my gods! I feel the fat forming as I read this. I can’t even lose weight on a no fat diet. With family, home, vehicle and work, I’ve got no time for exercise. I think I’ll sell the wife and kids to a needy Saudi prince. - Xi
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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man
to fish and you get rid of him for the weekend!” - Anonymous

But no exercise, darn! - Xi

Yeah, the all tanks go on land and all ships go on water come especially handy when you’re too drunk to play. :smile: