Ten Thousand Dollars!

[Stubblefield]

That's how much you might have won had you played the Gillette $10,000 Instant Cash Game. I never played, since I was using Atra cartridges by then (being young and impressionable, I had to have the latest and greatest).

And yeah, the going rate for these blades was $2.00, tho you could pick them up on sale for $1.49 or $1.69 every now and then if I remember correctly.

If I find a winning game piece I'm sending it in.

 

[Craig de Tering]

Two bucks was a lot of moola back in 1983.
According to this here inflation calculator that's the equivalent of $4.27 in modern US Dollars.

An the prize money today would be $21344.69

 

[Stubblefield]

Two bucks was a lot of moola back in 1983.
According to this here inflation calculator that's the equivalent of $4.27 in modern US Dollars.

An the prize money today would be $21344.69

I'll take the prize money, for sure.

I don't have the heart to tell the seller of the blades that he could have gotten more for them . . . .

 

[Topgumby]

I am very depressed to find that something with a barcode on it can be considered vintage.

 

[Craig de Tering]

I am very depressed to find that something with a barcode on it can be considered vintage.

LOL! I think I'm gonna feel that way when I can say the same for the pack having the company URL on it and being called vintage.

 

[Bertilak]

I am very depressed to find that something with a barcode on it can be considered vintage.

Or a ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) code. Even without the +4. I still remember addresses like

123 45th Street
New York 49, NY​

I don't consider anything old (aka vintage) unless it was made before I was born. Harder to find every day! BTW those zone numbers (e.g. the 49 above) are older than me.

 

[Stubblefield]

I am very depressed to find that something with a barcode on it can be considered vintage.

I remember life before barcodes. It was a quieter, less hectic, more personal time. Heck, nothing ever happened, that's why.

Or a ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) code. Even without the +4. I still remember addresses like

123 45th Street
New York 49, NY​

I don't consider anything old (aka vintage) unless it was made before I was born. Harder to find every day! BTW those zone numbers (e.g. the 49 above) are older than me.

Here's one for you: Remember the old telephone numbering system? My phone number was Yellowstone-5-5559. To this day, I still remember it.

 

[Bertilak]

I remember life before barcodes. It was a quieter, less hectic, more personal time. Heck, nothing ever happened, that's why.



Here's one for you: Remember the old telephone numbering system? My phone number was Yellowstone-5-5559. To this day, I still remember it.

DEerfield-4-4095 (1953-1958 -- I remember difficulty I had as a little kid trying to call home because it was pronounced as four-oh-nine-five and I couldn't get through!)

Then we moved and our new number was

GRover-1-4895 (1958 until sometime in the '60s they started calling it 471-4895)

(Yes, they were that close-- 4095 and 4895.)

 

[theperfectstorm]

They stopped using exchange codes when I was about 4.

Federal-9-9156. Still my grandfather's number to this day.

But I intrude. Come on old timers, more stories of years gone by. Tell us what it was like when IPODS were powered by steam and when Abraham Lincoln wrestled the Kaiser to win the War of 1812.

 

[Sharpj74]

Dunno guys, the world is a DRASTICALLY different place in 2009 than is was in 1983.

For instance:

1983

2009

 

[Bertilak]

Come on old timers, more stories of years gone by. Tell us what it was like when IPODS were powered by steam and when Abraham Lincoln wrestled the Kaiser to win the War of 1812.

And they wonder why we complain about government run schools!

 

[Sharpj74]

Abraham Lincoln wrestled the Kaiser to win the War of 1812.

Sublimely funny.

 

[Bertilak]

Dunno guys, the world is a DRASTICALLY different place in 2009 than is was in 1983.

For instance:

1983

2009

1967

 

[82R100]

I grew up at ELmwood 8-7469.

My grandmother had DAvis 6-7167. Most notably, her next door neighbor's number was sequential to her's!

- Chris

 

[Topgumby]

I have the same phone number I grew up with, and back then it was LIncoln-6-XXXX.

BTW, there are some differences between now and 1983...

1983

Now, or at least a couple years ago...

 

[theperfectstorm]

Sublimely funny.

Abe had game, kids.

 

[Stubblefield]

But I intrude. Come on old timers, more stories of years gone by. Tell us what it was like when IPODS were powered by steam and when Abraham Lincoln wrestled the Kaiser to win the War of 1812.

iPod? HAH! I had to carry a reel to reel around If I wanted to listen to some music.

Ahh, those were the days, when a Pet Rock could be had for a dollar, Coke in a glass bottle was a dime, and gas was 30 cents.