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Old 21-09-2012, 22:42   #76
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Re: the good old days THE BLOCKADE

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Long after my day, What the hells a Yahtzee machine?
Mine too, was full of Cream, Hendrix and Led Zeppelin when I used to go in.
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Old 22-09-2012, 09:30   #77
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Mine too, was full of Cream, Hendrix and Led Zeppelin when I used to go in.
Never heard of one either
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Old 23-09-2012, 00:37   #78
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Long after my day, What the hells a Yahtzee machine?
My partner tells me that the Yahtzee machine used to be on the wall in the middle room - it was an electronic version of Poker Dice - a free pint was awarded for a full card. Only a few people mastered it, the clever clogs insists that he won 4 or 5 pints in total over the time it was installed.
He wonders if anyone remember the Asteroids arcade game and the Space Invaders table also at the Block?
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Old 23-09-2012, 07:47   #79
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I used to take my dog Gyp in the blockade after Joyce and Eddie had left and he used to watch the Bandit .He thought it was the telly.
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Old 23-09-2012, 09:10   #80
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My partner tells me that the Yahtzee machine used to be on the wall in the middle room - it was an electronic version of Poker Dice - a free pint was awarded for a full card. Only a few people mastered it, the clever clogs insists that he won 4 or 5 pints in total over the time it was installed.
He wonders if anyone remember the Asteroids arcade game and the Space Invaders table also at the Block?
Think both those vid games were in lots of pubs around that time
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Old 23-09-2012, 09:40   #81
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Think both those vid games were in lots of pubs around that time
The Block was apparently the first with the Space Invaders table (two people sitting opposite each other) and the Asteroids game: in Accy, at least.
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Old 24-09-2012, 07:19   #82
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I remember the Blockade making the News Of The World around the mid sixties when someone did a strip in the Jukebox room.
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Old 24-09-2012, 08:24   #83
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The Block was apparently the first with the Space Invaders table (two people sitting opposite each other) and the Asteroids game: in Accy, at least.
I know they had one in the Great Tree Hassy in the late 70s early 80s
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Old 24-09-2012, 08:30   #84
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Mine too, was full of Cream, Hendrix and Led Zeppelin when I used to go in.
The big 3 used to be The Queens, Broadway and the Blockade - sugar I feel like i've gone back in time.

All ways remember hearing "Riders on the Storm" and "All along the Watchtower" in all their glory in the Queens.
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Old 24-09-2012, 18:55   #85
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Used to play darts fer Queens in 60s.was me late brothers local in 70s.
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Old 24-10-2012, 16:05   #86
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I remember being in the Blockade a few years ago (at least 30), we were stood at the bar putting the world to rights when a well-known Accyweb member raised his clenched fist towards the sky and declared " I sleep under the hammer and sickle, my allegiance is with the Kremlin." Anyone like to guess who it was?
Are you going to give us the answer to this one, Yerself?
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Old 24-10-2012, 22:56   #87
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Are you going to give us the answer to this one, Yerself?
Cashy, maybe
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Old 24-10-2012, 23:02   #88
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Cashy, maybe
No, Cashy's already been puzzling over it with the rest of us earlier in the thread.
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Old 25-10-2012, 07:39   #89
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No, Cashy's already been puzzling over it with the rest of us earlier in the thread.
Possibly G.J.?
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Old 25-10-2012, 10:53   #90
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Now why am I thinking of our very own Mancie ?
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