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10/10. Nearly every line is quotable.

5. A real disappointment after the first one. No real interest in seeing it again.

I'll have to ponder this for a bit. Meanwhile, where are yours? Can't start a thread like this without showing your own faves.

Not a great movie on its own, but the midnite showing thing with audience participation is something everyone should experience. I saw it back in the 70s before it became a phenomenon so had no idea what I was getting into when a group of us went. Never really had an experience like that before. FWIW, the stage version is even more fun as the actors usually play along with the audience. We go every time a local troupe puts it on.

I shipped a package cross country to the "verified address" of a PayPal user, then got a panicked message that they had moved but neglected to update PayPal. Jumped through some hoops to verify he was telling the truth then began the odyssey of trying to get fedex to reroute to the new address. Called and got fedex to issue a change order, but the package still went to the old address. Luckily, they refused delivery and requested a return to sender. It arrived back in my local sorting depot where somebody noticed the address change paperwork, made out a new sticker and resent the box, but the tracking number was apparently still tied to old address so it got delivered there again, refused again, and sent back my way again, where the depot again saw a problem, issued a new tracking number, and sent it out again. But this time, they screwed up the address, putting the new street address together with the old city. That address didn't exist so, yes, it started back my way again. Finally got a fedex supervisor on the phone and we're both looking at the tracking info seeing this box go back and forth across the country 3 times, had a good laugh, and (hooray) he got it straightened out. Took 3 weeks to get that box where it belonged. This was back before I quit using eBay. Nowadays, I'm sure they'd say it was my fault and reimburse the buyer.

Hmmm.... There's a few systems I only need one more game to mark as complete, so I'd probably go for: TG16 Magical Chase Colecovision Wizmath Atari 5200 Bounty Bob Strikes Back Studio II Bingo Intellivision Spiker Some not-so-great games there, but it's always nice to finish a system.

78 for me, though for some it's been so long I couldn't tell you much about them. There's a couple on there I've never heard of.

9 for me. Not just a great movie, with one of the most iconic monster debut scenes of all time, but it made me a fan of H.R. Giger's artwork as well.

I'm with Tabonga on Pinball Wizard. The song only makes sense as part of Tommy. I heard it on the radio as a single first and couldn't understand why there was a song about some disabled kid playing pinball, then I heard the full rock opera and had one of those now-I-get-it moments. 7 as a single, 9 as part of Tommy. The other song I hadn't heard in so long I forgot it existed, but on rehearing, it's OK. 5.

I'm gonna owe a little this year for the first time in awhile. I did a pretty good job in the past of balancing withholding vs taxes so I'd get a small refund every year, but forgot to account for the extra income from higher interest rates in 2023. Rates were near zero for so long that I didn't even think of it when they went up. Wasn't much, but enough to upset my carefully balanced system.

SSI, Avalon Hill, and Epyx. I'm actually surprised how few of these games I have boxed. Maybe I haven't uncovered them all...

Electronic Arts, which was a favorite of mine back when they were publishing other people's games. Many many hours spent with Archon, Mule (oops, 2 copies in photo), 7 Cities of Gold, Bard's Tale, Pinball Construction Set, etc. The later stuff not so much. I also really appreciated the shelf-friendly album packaging of those early releases.

Very impressive. I look forward to future sets.

Infocom, with several packaging variants shown. Sadly, no pre-Infocom Zork ever came my way.

I did have a particular interest in certain companies or series, so I'll show a few of those as I uncover them. Ultima, and by extension Origin, was one, so here's a bunch of stuff for them. I was never lucky enough to find Mt Drash, but I got many of the others for various computer systems. With the exception of Ultima II, packaging was the same over the various systems so I only show 1 of each. I also got a few compilations and rereleases so they're in there too.