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Wally GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
6/12/13 1:23 p.m.

slantvaliant SuperDork
6/12/13 1:24 p.m.

Senhor Testiculo

Wally GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
6/12/13 1:25 p.m.

Rusted_Busted_Spit GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
6/12/13 1:26 p.m.

wbjones wrote: which ship this ?
Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote:
this is the one I served on ( USS Newport News CA 148)

The Bismarck sunk may 27th 1941.

Appleseed UltimaDork
6/12/13 1:27 p.m.

You are all wrong. Icon personified.

Rusted_Busted_Spit GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
6/12/13 1:29 p.m.

ransom wrote: In reply to Rusted_Busted_Spit: Awesome or no, that must not be the most iconic; I had to Google for it... Just about anybody recognizes a Mustang or a Corsair... An unrelated Mustang:

It was said in jest, but my Grandfather told me that the P-47 was his favorite plane of the war because when ever they needed some help, those would show up and the Germans would go away.

Rusted_Busted_Spit GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
6/12/13 1:31 p.m.

Duke wrote:

I have that game, my dad and I used to play.

The_Jed SuperDork
6/12/13 1:50 p.m.

Terrible quality, picture of a picture but myself and the family in front of the U505 at the museum of science and industry.

bludroptop SuperDork
6/12/13 1:55 p.m.

Adrian_Thompson UberDork
6/12/13 2:21 p.m.

You were all saying?

Brett_Murphy GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
6/12/13 2:26 p.m.

Those are iconic U.S. planes, yes.

There are others that are also iconic.

lastsnare Reader
6/12/13 2:27 p.m.

ransom wrote:

I played this game on an Apple IIe (with green monochrome monitor as pictured) when I was growing up in the mid 80's :D Haven't seen Stellar 7 in years

ransom GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
6/12/13 2:33 p.m.

In reply to lastsnare:

I only know that game from the arcade as Battlezone.

lastsnare Reader
6/12/13 2:39 p.m.

In reply to ransom:

kind of an obscure game I guess (along with the other Apple II games of the era, Floppy, Zaxxon, Loderunner, Burgertime..)

here's another pic:

update: apparently Battlezone was the original and Stellar 7 was one of the clones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)#Clones

Adrian_Thompson UberDork
6/12/13 2:44 p.m.

I played it on my Sinclair ZX Spectrum

I knew it as 3D Tank Duel

RossD PowerDork
6/12/13 2:50 p.m.

Conquest351 wrote:
RossD wrote:
What's that going in? Very cool stuff! Needs moar info!!

I literally searched for m5od and got that picture in the second row of google image.

The resulting page: http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233295

The required hot link:

ditchdigger SuperDork
6/12/13 3:05 p.m.

lastsnare wrote: In reply to ransom: kind of an obscure game I guess (along with the other Apple II games of the era, Floppy, Zaxxon, Loderunner, Burgertime..) here's another pic: update: apparently Battlezone was the original and Stellar 7 was one of the clones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)#Clones

I grew up with the full sized arcade version of Battlezone in my house. The proper one with the viewport you had to press your face into to play