Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1984. The location: the Flying Buffalo Game Store in Tempe, AZ.

[thewayne]

Frightening photographs lurk under this cut....
(and really only of interest if you're an Ex- (or current) Buffalo.










You can see how badly the prints have shifted color in 20 years. I'll try some corrections later, but I don't have the time right now.

Comments

[deborak]

I was pretty sure that was Bill sitting next to Prep, and he confirms it. He remembers this as being some kind of big crossover campaign that Jason and Tim were running

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

In the first photo, the guy opposite Bill is Dave Pettit, the owner of The Game Depot. Tim McCausland is standing in the Trolls shirt.

Second pic, the big guy is Clif Baird, now deceased.

I remember the guy in the red sweater, but no idea what his name is. And I'm pretty much blank on all the rest.

And I don't know what Bill is halucinating about these days, but that's a board game in play, not an RPG. :-)

[magic-rat.livejournal.com]

Hey, take it easy on Bill. Not all of us can be as old as he is. :-P

from Rick - "Mr Buffalo"

[(Anonymous)]

The guy in the red sweater is Rick Barr. He works at the Office Max two blocks from my house! And hitting the computer with the 2x2 was not to rerandomize the memory. It was because we thought the memory board wasn't seated properly. Later we figured out that the problem was that it was overheating, and when we opened the front to whack it with the 2x2, that allowed it to cool off enough to start working again. Don't forget that all our "mass storage" was black paper tape with holes punched in it! Those were the days, eh?
Rick Loomis

Re: from Rick - "Mr Buffalo"

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Ah! I didn't know that was the reason that Theo got banged upon! Live and learn, eh? I remember that paper tape quite well, I enjoyed working with it. And I remember the sheer hell of a game data tape getting wrinkled or a crease.

Richard (not Loomis)

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget that the most important piece of equipment was that old clothes pin! It was strong enough to keep the paper punch tape on, but loose enough that the spindle still turned...

[magic-rat.livejournal.com]

I think it's a general boardgaming night. Bill, Tim, Dave, Preppy, et al are playing what I think is Third Reich (it's not Diplomacy since this map has more of North Africa as well as some tracks on the side that IIRC were used for BRPs). And the game in the other picture is Rail Baron (the one that Cliff is playing).

FBI pix

[(Anonymous)]

Great pix, Wayne. Post all you can find, please. Great to see objective confirmation that those days happened. But where's my pinball machine--the one that Crompton owns now. All those pix and you didn't get a single shot of it?
--Ken St. Andre