Air Hockey - C/D?

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I can never decide.

― Richard K (Richard K), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago)

classic, what's wrong with you¿

― dysøn (dyson), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:56 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely classic, who asks that?

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:59 (twenty years ago)

honestly...

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Foosball PWNS air hockey. Air hockey is only for when you're too drunk to handle foosball.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 5 September 2004 06:31 (twenty years ago)

No way, air hockey is so much better. Foosball is too frustrating.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 September 2004 06:32 (twenty years ago)

But tha'st why it's better! A lot more room for skill and strategy. Air hockey is just two people whacking a lil disk as hard as they can. It's fun and all, but there's no future in it.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 5 September 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Knock-hockey is way better;

http://www.midlandschool.org/images/pages/knock%20hockey.jpg

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 5 September 2004 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Has he got a jet-pac?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Opportunity for air projectiles. Lacks third-dimension. Too much lateral movement with amateur players. I can understand the hesitation, but CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC ATW.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.compleatgamester.com/pages/gameroom/bubble-hockey/super-chexx.jpg

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 5 September 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago)

i used to have one like this. that and electric football (american) pwned.
http://www.snooker-pool-football-tables.com/searches/snooker_pool_table_football/5_foot_beech_air_hockey.jpg

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Sunday, 5 September 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

As much as I love foosball, and I do, in my day its hardcore enthusiasts usually defined frat weenie-dom. As a reformed frat weenie, I feel entitled, nay--OBLIGED, to note this.

I will allow that there is no sound so satisfying and authoritative as a foosball struck home strong and clean, hitting the back of the goal. *POP!*

But, as far as I know, air hockey lacks hardcore enthusiasts. AIR HOCKEY WINS! And it is classic. (But a clean goal sounds like *clack*--pathetic).

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 6 September 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Are ye mad?? An air hockey goal produces a symphony of of minor claggles, of clatter-stick clickings that ignominously tail off somewhere deep within the bowels of the game.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago)

Air hockey >>>>>>>>>>>> table football.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:55 (twenty years ago)

OMG, totally classic, how on earth can you not decide??!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:55 (twenty years ago)

air hockey is good when the table isn't fucked up. nothing more dud than putting in a quid and then finding the air wasn't coming through properly and the puck is stuck to the table. things like that make me cry.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Wait. Is 'foosball' the American for table football? What's with the 'foos'?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago)

'Foosball' is an incredibly silly name. Especially considering that American's don't even call the real game football.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I always assumed it was "fuâball". Am I way off?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago)

ah fuck. The beta letter used in German to mean "ss"

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago)

I doubt that much thought went into it mark!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago)

is it supposed to be like "fools ball"? like cos it's supposed to be foolish fun for everyone?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:26 (twenty years ago)

the mother in the film "waterboy" called (american) football "foolsball"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I think it's because they think Dave Grohl invented it.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago)

weird - we also called it 'foosball' in canada.

but my god - air hockey RULES. as does the 'bubble hockey' game pictured above. but i would say that, given my canadian-ness...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago)

I prefer air hockey to babyfoot, because I am completely crap at the latter and it annoys me when I get beaten. You can get by on luck alone with air hockey a lot of the time, and man I love the feel of the thwack.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago)

That's the best thing about air hockey, it requires little skill other than thrashing blindly.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago)

But it still looks and feels like it's a world cup final between two players with lightning reflexes and ferocious power.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago)

And the high likelihood of scoring on yourself increases the intensity of the whole thing...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Air Hockey == much greater chance of personal injury (than table football), ergo CLASSIC

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago)

my son just got an
air hockey table this month
OH MY GOD KLASSICK

I play him left hand,
let him win usually.
sometimes, though: KA-PAU!

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago)

This is pretty much what I was referring to in terms of not being able to decide. I just got a nice new table, and after 2 or 3 games, it starts to do the "puck is stuck to the table" thing. So frustrating!!

other than that, CLASSIC obv.

― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 6 September 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh, also, the puck flies uncontrollably off the table more and more often. That's also annoying.

― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 6 September 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Classic!! I nearly got my own air hockey table for FREE once, but it wouldn't fit in my dad's car. I was crushed.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 6 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Just how small was this car?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)

SO CLASSIC. There's strategy too, it's all about the angles. Also I found out some people don't allow stopping the puck by slamming your, um, air hockey tool down on it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I think most air hockey tables in service are getting pretty old too, they all have something wrong with them, usually dead spots or misguided scoring.

Begs2Differ, I had a fantastic afternoon playing air hockey at the Rocky Rococco's PARTY PIZZERIA a few weekends ago. Great way to pull out of a hangover (and they serve beer).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Was that the place that featured LEON REDBONE in their ads? I haven't thought about that place for one second in the last ten years. Wow.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Well it didn't have much of a boot or anything and I don't think I could fit it in the doors. It was probably likely that my dad didn't want me bringing an air hockey table home anyway.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Sorry - it was just a bad joke on your 'I was crushed'.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh I see! I would've gotten it if I wasn't at work.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Haha Nick said "babyfoot." He is a French ponce.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago)

The rules that were included with the home version of an air hockey table I acquired in my youth stated that the lifting of the "air hockey tool" off the playing surface resulted in a penalty shot for the opponent. The penalty shot was on an undefended goal and would only count if the puck was banked in off of either side of the table.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Fascinating.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)

The story of how I acquired the table is even more fascinating but I'll save that for another time.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago)

What do you call that "hockey tool"? The hockey paddle? No....

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_hockey says the tool is a striker, mallet, or paddle.

(Will that get turned into a link automatically?)

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago)

We call it foosball or fusball cause we don't have the time to say table football, or even table soccer.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Why not just call it fol?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Cause we just call it foos cause, like, that's what we call it. Why don't you just call lifts elevators dammit?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

they call it foosball in friends.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

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