Everyone in the post below is entered...good luck to you all :)
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Omg, that sounds like so much fun. :)
(I loved that show a bit, and used to watch it sometimes with my one parent[along with other old shows] while growing up, and then again later on in life)

Maybe it is....maybe you should have it checked some day....just don't take it to guys like in pic related or they might try to take it off yer hands for 25 bucks and a used copy of Battletoads. ;)



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Lego vidya games and family games? Sounds like fun. :D

I remember an old family trip where I played arcade cabinets in the motel office while the rest of the family did their thing....those were some fun times. :)

Not really a memory per se as it was very recent (a month back) but I managed to snag a strix 1070ti for $120.00. Still pretty chuffed about the find and the fact that I can game again after my 1060 gave out.

Throwing my hat in for the store credit draw.

Thanks for the chance GamezRanker.

@GamezRanker

The name of the book is The Giant Book of Dinosaurs. :P It's an old one but brings back a lot of memories.

Great topic, great giveaway. I'm down for the GOG bucks.

Honestly any time i chill with my friends it's a pretty good time. That's why they're my friends.
My brother and I live super far, like other side of the world, but we still catch some coop games from time to time. And just shoot the shit.

I'm lucky to have both friends and a brother I enjoy hanging out with.

I'm gonna save this and read people;s answers.

Memory from when I was young:
Take a trip down Memory Lane here. So, this had to be late 80's and early 90's, but I certainly all the times when my mom & dad went to the local roller skating rink and we went all go skating for sessions and stuff. Lots of fun, skating and all. And playing whatever awesome arcade games they had at this rink. For a few years, before hitting 10, I was doing this for fun; and it certainly was tons of that. Learning how to skate, move around, and even...jump at some point. So, yeah; someone would take notice. So, yeah; I eventually got good at this and it led to me be approached by a coach to do this seriously - around 10 years old or so. So, it got serious; and I began practicing seriously. Pretty much, practicing 5-7 days a week. Not too long later, I began competing in competitions.

So, this went on for lots & lots of years; up until my mid-to-late 20's (around 26, I threw in the towel competitively). Skating, competitively at a high level, and travelling around the USA with my mom & dad - going around the country, competing on a Nat'l level, and seeing some of the country was just awesome - a lot of interesting places: California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and even good old Nebraska. Probably been to Nebraska more times than I can recall (since the Nat'l Championships were often held there, since their HQ and Hall of Fame is over there). Yeah, for a lot of this: a lot of good times. And met a lot of great people along the way from all over the country and World. Oh, and had lots of great food along the way, too!

Memory in the last 1-2 years or so:
COVID's been kind of "meh". While my lifestyle hasn't changed that much from stopping roller skating & all, other than dropping skating. I've always pretty much watched TV, played video games, and went out to eat places. So, sure, buying my new awesome PC with a RTX 3070 was great and all - but seems like this always come back to food. So, probably thanks to the old skating days, we often ate out at restaurants a lot; often one day a week or weekends.

That never changed, over the years; and now I'm typing this some tons of years or so later; and I'm like 40 or so. So, yeah - we still do this & get food; nothing's changed on that. We're definitely foodies, more or less. And most of the time - we still go out to some good places, but don't eat the food there. Instead, we just use these places as take-out and eat the food at home. But, yeah - it's still great to spend time w/ my family and still have them here on Earth; eat food; watch TV and/or movies, and all of that good stuff - family bonding and all.

Thx for the generosity! :) Not in for the giveaway, but I am in for sharing a good childhood memory... ;)

I can't recall what age I was exactly, but I remember my mom sitting next to me to help me with my homework and that homework consisted of me learning how to write the alphabet. I remember using a pencil to painstakingly trace every single letter of the alphabet (small caps and large caps). I remember how difficult it was, but my mom would hold the pencil with me and help me trace those letters I was struggling with the most. I remember being very happy of her help and smiles. I did not know this at that time, but later in life I learned that both my parents grew up with illiteracy well up to their early teenage years (poor village, schooling for those who could afford it). So when I replay this memory of my mom holding that pencil with me to trace those letters, it's just all the more special to me. :)

Thx to all those who shared their memories. I enjoy reading those. And good luck to all participants!

First, thank you for your generosity!

Second, I would like to be in for the store credit. And I would also like to answer the second question, the one about my childhood memory.

Far back in my elementary school years, my friends and I used to play different games together, one of them being the hide and seek. So there was one time when the person who would usually pick me up after I'm done from school actually arrived in the middle of the game. Thankfully, I was not the it. (My memory's kinda blurry at this point) So what happened was, I managed to tell the other hiders that I'd be going home now, and also requested for them to keep the whole thing a secret, at least until the it had finally shown hints of desperation trying to look for me (Again, as I said, I don't exactly remember what I told my friends who were playing as the hiders, but I remember conversing with them about something related to the game before I bid them farewell. And that request of mine seems to be the only piece that fits the void in the puzzle best).

I hope that story entertained you haha. :)

All entrants below this line have been entered...I wish the best of luck to all of ya. :)
(and of course, do make sure to check that you've been entered in the correct draws in the OP post)
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Nice to hear when a gamer can game again. :)
(also yah, it be a memory, albeit a recent one)

Yup yup

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Looks nice. :)

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Sounds like you are...here's to hoping you enjoy many more memories with them, eh?

Yeah, I try to make the contests a bit more involved than "enter for draw x by just stating such"...it usually seems to make for some fun times for all.

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1st bolded bit above: Well I would hope you were doing it for fun. ;D

But anyhoo, wow.....sounds like you had quite a bit of fun with it your passion(skating) and made a real go of it....good to hear.

2nd bolded bit: I also enjoy meals out with family and friends when able...such nice times, and often nice food as well.

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All entries up till post 50 processed and noted....will do the rest and any future ones in several hours. :)

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Nice giveaway! Best of luck to all who've entered! As for my answers...

- Back before this COVID thing utterly ruined society, when we still had free life, the summer of 2019 was one of my favorite summers ever because we could actually do stuff. My family did a load of things together but my favorite part was probably when we all went to a small town festival in my home town. Despite being a small town, this festival is a pretty big deal and it's just an awesome time to hang out and celebrate the rich history/heritage of my home. That year was the first year since I was a kid that we actually did more than just grab a bit of festival food: we actually stuck around for a few hours, enjoyed the parade and just savored the fun and the atmosphere of a celebration of the town's history. I hear they're planning to do it this year, after all, I just hope it's free from mask policies because I don't wear them, but I'd very much like to enjoy going again! Nonetheless, I'm grateful that the year before all this garbage happened, we did some really fun stuff.

- I have a lot of good childhood memories, to be honest, and I'm thankful for that. I'd say one of my favorites would have to be family gatherings. Sadly, my extended family has become rather distant from us since my great grandparents passed away but when I was a kid, we'd always have these big gatherings, particularly on Christmas, where we'd visit my grandparents' house and have lunch, then go to my great grandparents' house (they lived nearby) and have dinner with the extended family. It was always really nice. I loved it when I would talk to my grandmother and say "Grandma", and my great grandmother overheard me and thought I was calling for her. In hindsight, loved hearing the stupid toilet jokes and chats about military history and guns that my uncles would have. I loved it when my great grandmother let me watch a few episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender on her TV after most of the family had gone home. Like I said, when my great grandparents passed away, we lost a lot of that and most of the family lost touch but I really think back on those memories fondly and hope to recreate that someday down the road with the future generations.

*What is one good memory/moment you can recall involving yourself and/or family/friends over the last 1-2 years?*

Two summers ago, I finally brought my longtime girlfriend home to the US from Japan, for the first time. She got to meet my entire family, two of my best friends and their families, and we spent two weeks visiting museums and gorging on US foods and taking the younger family members to various parks, a zoo, and a science center. She later told me she hadn't been so happy in years... I'm so glad I didn't wait another year to go... for obvious reasons...

*What is one good memory/moment you can recall from your childhood?*

My grandmother lived on a 70-80 year old farm out in Iowa, that her father ordered from a Sears catalogue and built himself. Pretty much every summer we'd go on a 6 hour drive up to her house, where we'd help her snap green beans for dinner, or bake apple or pumpkin pies, explore the attic or just go out and moo at all her cows... If we had timed our visit for it, she would drive us into town for the local July 4th parade, which was a high-point for us, because the farmers and the local social clubs, the firefighters, the police, the doctors and nurses, the veterans, every one of them would throw treats to the kids as their groups passed by driving their shiny cars and trucks... it was like a mini-Halloween in reverse, where the people in costumes came to us to give out candy. I still think back fondly to those July 4th parades, and my grandmother's farm.

Yep, I did say jumping. And there was spinning too. Most people probably don't even know it exists on roller skates = especially competitively - but it does: it's basically figure skating on roller skates, to make it simple and understandable.

Think like the stuff Paul Wylie, Scott Hamilton, Tara Lipinski (former roller skater, when she was little...before transferring to ice skating) and other legends do....but transfer that style over onto roller skates. Quad-roller skates, not the roller-blade.

Side note - though there were events w/ roller-blades for doing this stuff, but it was nowhere near as popular competitively. It never took off, for artistic skating (i.e. figure skating).

To everyone below who entered: yer all set....GL to you all, as always :)
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I have a similar memory, but with a family member teaching me cursive writing: I could only print at the time, so they offered to teach me.....I would then sometimes go to their house and they would teach me how to write each letter, and then as a reward for a job well done we'd often watch movies and eat & i'd also sometimes get an extra snack as well. :)

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Sounds like you had fun and managed to outwit the seeker in a creative way....good on ya. :)

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Sounds like fun(I used to go to lawn fetes/carnivals/etc several times a year long ago, when I has less mental issues to deal with).

Btw I also hope tptb "allow us" to get back to normalcy soon enough, so you and others(among other things) can enjoy such things once more. :)

Some of my favorite memories of family were large family dinners on holidays, and trips to their houses as well, so I know what ya mean.

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Update: done to post 54.....will do some more later on. Thanks again to all who've entered and/or shared their cherished memories with the rest of us.


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Yeah, I try not to be a cynical pessimist but with the way the world went absolutely bonkers this past year, I just feel like we lived through some special times that we may never get back, at least not entirely. I hope I'm wrong, though! Thanks for adding my entry!

Showing someone another culture and all the fun things that come with it.....sounds like a very special memory, indeed. :)

All of this also sounds nice as well.

Btw: did you mean they bought a FARM out of a catalog??? If so, then wow.


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Interesting info...thanks for sharing.