Happy Birthday Retro Junkie!

[BLUEVOODU]

@retro junkie - a wonderful happy birthday to you!  I apologize for the late message!


And for you.. and especially you... if you get the gift of gaming, please post up your spoils.  Your spoils never disappoint!

[Grindspine]

Happy belated birthday, Retro!!

[retro junkie]

I am having a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around the fact that I am 70 years old. One thing that has helped, I think, is exercise. I do 100 pushups, some 100 jumping jacks, a step up on a step exercise, and some stomach crunching before breakfast. I do an hour on a stationary bike in the afternoon. I worked up to doing this before retirement. My diet has gone toward healthier choices. I am in better shape now than when I worked sitting behind a desk all day. And my Doctor doesn't fuss at me anymore. With that being said, my birthday seemed to flow like a telephone pole passes a moving car. I still occasionally ask myself, I am 70? How did this happen? How did I get here?
My family helped me celebrate in style by spoiling me as usual. They gave me retro games plus. I received the Capcom edition of the Hyper Mega Tech Super Pocket for Christmas. And here for my birthday I got the Taito edition from my Wife. I have spent more time on this than anything else I got for my birthday. I was blown away by the Sega Arcade Classics game. It is clean and in mint collector condition. I don't think it was ever played that much at all. But it is missing the manual. It is like this was taken off the shelf from a store condition. The only thing I haven't played yet is the DC Villains. Spending my time on the Super Pocket. The Tensei game made me forget I was playing on a Switch.
Thank you for the Birthday wishes. I wish forums like this were a part of the present gaming culture. I sure miss that generation.


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[Grindspine]

I think that we all miss forum communities at times. I spend quite a bit of time on sevenstring.org mostly because guitar is my other main hobby.

It is good to hear that you are attending to your health as you reach that age milestone! I think that Bluevoodu and I are both hitting more health problems at our ages too!

[BLUEVOODU]

@retro junkie Yeah... that is definitely a good routine to keep up for health.  Keep moving.  @Grindspine is right... we have both hit more health issues.  I know it's been a bit harder for me over the last 2-3 years with a few things I encountered as well.

I also get the feeling... "where the heck did it go" and "how did I get here?"  We have been talking about it recently between Grinspine, @SpartanEvolved and also @targetrasp ... where the heck did it go?!   Starcraft 2 came out 15-ish years ago. Starcraft 1 was 27.  We were all gaming not that long ago during LAN sessions... and doing the EGA podcast.  That was almost 20 years ago! What in the world!?!

I miss older formats like this... it seems the world does not.  I wish there was more activity, but again... it seems the world has moved on a bit.  CDG will continue to be here and move forward though!   

AND your birthday gaming stash is awesome lol.        At this point... how do they pick something out for your birthday??