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July 25, 2007
an accident-prone young lad
Mom just sent me this scan of a photo taken when I was a wee jimbo some time in the late 1970s. Here I am keepin' it real, again, in my rose-colored hoodie back inna day. The photo was taken after I wiped out on my bike, landing on my face. Check out that goose egg! Later on I would become nauseous and vomit - I clearly had a concussion.
It's really amazing I'm still so beautiful after all these injuries. I think my Constitution score exceeds 14 at least.
Moments before the accident I was on my Schwinn 10-speed racing madly to visit a friend who had just purchased the Magnavox Odyssey. While he was the first on the block to get a home video game system, I trumped it with a Commodore 64 unit, and trumped his shitty Atari 2600 with a Colecovision. Both systems were better. My favorite game on the '64 was of course The Bard's Tale, which I played for untold hours as I played 'Sign 'o the Times' on the boombox over and over again. On the Colecovision, Ladybug was remarkably playable and provided days and days of Ms. Pac-Man knockoff fun.
I eventually gave up on home systems somewhere between Sega and N64. Why buy a new home system when they only make less than a dozen games for each system? The disposable tech idea is stoopid. I'll stick with my PC MMORPG and strategy games these days, like City of Heroes (which just keeps getting BETTER) and Civilization IV, which has me like a crack addiction.
And what the fuck was up with the film Black Sheep appearing in the States for a few mere milliseconds? The movie coulda been huge! I wanted to see it in the theatres, but it came and went without my notice. Stoopid movie promoters.
Posted by jimbo at July 25, 2007 5:36 PM
Comments
The most clever story I ever heard for child abuse :P Seriously, a cute picture!
Posted by: diamondfistwerny (Steve) at July 25, 2007 6:11 PM
I was gonna mention that you just outed yourself as a D&D player but then I checked out your 'geek' archive and found that your geek status is well documented.
You might have borrowed a copy of Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons, but I had my own personal copy. I, too, blame it for my present godless lifestyle.
Posted by: Drew at July 25, 2007 6:48 PM
You were so blond back then! Crank up the synthetic sun machine and get some highlights. Woof!
Posted by: Boo Augustus at July 25, 2007 7:14 PM
You were so blond back then! Crank up the synthetic sun machine and get some highlights. Woof!
Posted by: Boo Augustus at July 25, 2007 7:16 PM
Damm boy you look likeyou got yourself in a bar fight ;-)
Summer of 79, I was 4 playing with giant robots watching Uchu Senkan Yamato* And playing with Daiclone Seibatronjins** with my brother (he was 3)
We also fought over who would play with remote controlled K-9 toy
* You may have seen the censored American version known as StarBlazers
** The Original Name of the Transformers before released here in the States in the Early 80s by Hasbro
Posted by: Dax at July 25, 2007 8:14 PM
Whoa! Even the young Jimbo has that "Don't mess with me, this isn't my first time at the rodeo" look.
Posted by: Bob at July 25, 2007 8:40 PM
How weird! Black Sheep is playing out here starting Aug. 10th.
Posted by: Lee at July 26, 2007 3:32 AM
vic 20, than a commodore, than an amiga! I knew not the PC till college.
There something wrong with the Rainbow dragons?
Posted by: Tim at July 26, 2007 8:50 AM
Is that Odyssey game the one they used to give away on Wonderama? I wanted one of those SO bad.
Posted by: dumbek at July 26, 2007 10:16 AM
Holy crap. Could you have ANY more of a tough little bad-ass look on your face?
Or is that catatonia due to the concussion?
Posted by: Stephen J. Xanthos at July 26, 2007 10:22 AM
Come on now Jimbo, "rose-colored"? It's PINK ... even then you should have known what you'd grow up to be a gay man.
Did you pick out that color hoodie?
Posted by: Rob at July 26, 2007 10:25 AM
The summer of 1979 I was a little tadpole in my mama's belly. Is there a word for a geek who has only played D&D online and never actutally used paper and die?
Posted by: Chad at July 26, 2007 12:44 PM
OMG, i love bard's tale. love the concept of mages advancing to become sorcerers and then wizards. there was this spell that i really liked, something mindblade or other, which injured all your opponents. that was really useful fighting the 396 barbarians at some dungeon. and the monk! and the bard! so cool!
*me sinking into nostalgia*
Posted by: stephen at July 27, 2007 4:38 AM
A child clearly destined to play rugby.
Posted by: DougT at July 27, 2007 9:14 AM
Wow. Looks like you may have used up nearly all your hit points in THAT wipeout...
Posted by: cb at July 27, 2007 10:15 AM
Hey! I have an "I busted my face on the pavement falling off my bicycle when I was a child" picture too! I have to got to find it and post it, so we can compare!
Posted by: Bubala at July 30, 2007 10:30 PM