bearister said:
concordtom said:
Good garage artwork, but shame on you nonetheless for tossing!
We used to cut class in Montclair, take AC Transit to Durant and buy baseball and football cards at "Kings", the go across the street and play "Oops" at Silver Ball upstairs.
Anyone recall?
Circa 1980
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Ball_Gardens
Well, that explains the Daltrey mural from Tommy. It was in connection with the Silver Ball that was above the record store at 2518 Durant. I would love to see a photo of that mural.
Thx
The ooops game was kinda like asteroids but instead of a shi in the middle (which could fly around) you operated a doctor's syringe that spun left-right in a circle, and instead of asteroid rocks you had to shoot, you shot at a bunch of sperm that was trying to get a female egg in the middle. When youcould no longer keep up with the syringe effort to annihilate the sperm and one got thru to the egg, a big word OOOOPS appeared on screen and your game was over. Unfortunately, there were no naked pictures of the girl who had just been impregnated.
Impressionable for a 12 year old.
Silver Ball Gardens was a rustic amusement arcade founded in Berkeley, California in 1968. It started out with strictly pinball machines, hence the name silver ball. As it matured, and as gaming technology progressed, Silver Ball Gardens added Foosball, Pong, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, air hockey, and many other arcade games of the era. It was two floors up from La Val's Pizza at 2518 Durant Avenue. Silver Ball Gardens closed its doors in the late 1980s.
