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In 1981, two young men on the outskirts of Chicago came to one undeniable realization: There were few things that a pocket full of quarters, a hot dog from the venerable "The Hot Dog Place" and an ice cold can of Coca Cola couldn't cure.

My best friend friend Jeff Allen and I were TRUE video game fanatics - living, breathing extensions of push buttons, joysticks and spinning controls of all kinds. If it wasn't piggy-backed on-top-of-each-other marathon sets of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong JR., Popeye, all flavors of Pac Man or >GASP< Centipede, it was our love of landmark sessions of Star Castle.

We always wondered where video games would "go." How we would spend next week, our days after school through the summer at "Electronic Gameworld" which literally became "our world". When we weren't either in front of Jeff's Atari 2600 (complete with a wall of games that we could have built a house from) or sitting forever in front of my Intellivision (with me kicking his ass at 'Baseball') , we were asking each other "Gameworld?" and responding "Dude..." - the universal sign of the times back then that it was time to jump on our magged dirt bikes and roll.

One day after completing our snake-skin-tired jaunt to Gameworld, we saw a poster stuck on the Wall with a man - reaching toward the sky, a bolt of blue energy seemingly "entering his body" and a shapely hot chick with "light comin' out of her boobs" (Jeff always had the best way with words).

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