Pulaski Academy - Bruin Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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- tingle ffh6Ye ls'- Blip! Pow! Zap! Andrew Saunders plays Joust at Showbiz Pizza which opened in the K-Mart shoppipng center, Showbiz featured pizza, video games and rides for younger students. Activities at home also kept students busy. A lot of studentsjust sat around the boob tube to catch the latest flicks on cable TV, or they rented a movie that they were just dying to see, and plugged it into their video tape machine. l like renting movies because you can stop the tape whenever you need to, and go back to the good parts that you want to see again. said junior Mark Cornell. Another popular home activity was using home computers. Some students played games on them, while others found that they were handy in helping with homework. Right now l'm trying to learn how to use my computer, said junior Briar Terrebonne, who got a home computer for Christmas. Since I'm taking computer programming. that should help me. Students whojust wanted to have a good time invested in Atari Video Game Systems. They enjoyed plugging in a favorite game cartridge and spending the afternoon boning up on their playing skills so they would be ready to challenge their inexperienced friends a beat the pants off them. Almost every friend l have has a home video game system and when l go to their houses they always make me feel like a fool because l don't know how to play video games. Tracy Cage. junior. said. l rarely touch them. Others liked to try their video game luck at a nearby arcade like Showbiz Pizza, Star Systems or their local corner 7-I l . Some of the most popular and familiar video games were Joust. Galaga. Donkey Kong, Frogger. Jungle Hunt. and of course Pac- Man and his relatives. Tallyho. Amy Bishop clears the jump on Windsor Canadian as she competes in a show. 26fStudent Life

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1116! d iff 6 15 li aural? . - t .,.W.hJ,.::fa r iv ' ., sf 'bf ' ' ' X ii 'Nix .6 ..tvv9tjf',,ff ie afte Y School Q of your choice not fudge lt's fun to play video games. lt's exciting to try and beat the machine. said .lohn Vratsinas, who plugged tokens into the video games at Showbiz Pizza. After a long. tough week at school. students were able to do a lot more oftheir favorite activities on weekends. ln fact, some students lived to party. From lower school students having birthday parties to upper school students having fun at the barracades. there was usually something going on on the weekends, Some parties were planned while others were just spur-of-the-moment events. A few students. like Mark Cornell and the Gingrich brothers, had parties to show movies. We needed some place to have a party because there was nothing going on that 28!Student Life Chong of Smoothie Mmm mmm good. John Lester. Grant Fortson and Freddy Perkins spend their Wednesday lunch enjoying frozen yogurt at This Can't Be Yogurt! Seniors were allowed to leave campus on Wednesdays for lunch. weekend, commented Gary Gingrich about a weekend get-together that he got together. Sometimes students couldn't find anything to do. That is when anxiety set in which caused them to do some pretty crazy things. Anxiety like this affected senior Shawn Camp once and caused him to climb the flagpole in the courtyard one night. Whether they were partying or otherwise goofing off. Academy students knew that weekends were for having fun. X49 'N' 'ifiiuthp W., ,MA 1.4 gg, . Boys will be boys. Lane Blaylock, Graham Smith and Carter Brown. enjoy thc pool at Kara Seay's house. The seniors hosted the juniors fora back-to-school swimming party.