TS: Air Hockey vs. Foosball

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Air hockey. Foosball doesn't hum.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Agreed.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Agreed. (xpost!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Air Hockey, no doubt. Crushed fingers -vs- jabbed gut, crushed fingers every time.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Agreed. That CLACK -- awesome.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Foosball is too hard.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

ILX in being agreeable shockah!

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Also, with foosball, I rarely feel like there's much skill to it. I feel like I'm just randomly rapidly rotating my dudes. There's a certain grace to air hockey, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

There IS a skill to foosball, that's the problem! You have to, like, work and shit to be good at it. Air hockey is intuitive and pure. AND IT'S FAST!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Fuck air hockey.

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

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

i totally go with foosball, sorry.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i think you're right, nick!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Foosball is ok. But I always end up getting confused. Air hocky rules. I usually win when I play, but I go crazy when I play.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Foosball sucks, especially when people blow a gasket just because you've flipped some of your dudes 360.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Foosball. Especially with cute French girls in little bars in the south of France.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh now that would change things.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Air hockey, except in the example provided by M. White of coursw!

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

course^

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Mattel Talking Football!

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what it would be like to make love on an air hockey table.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

like floating on air

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Foosball is only really classic when you're playing doubles. Air hockey is great because it's so free form and malicious.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I remember this one time my buddy Mike McCormick in high school (one of the most passionate, vicious air hockeyers) smacked that puck so hard it launched, not just off the table like so many shots gone wrong, but amazingly through the air like 60 feet to somehow end up sliding right through the tiny window in the money changing booth and hitting the poor 70+ year old man square in the chest. He just looked at us, like, I think he wanted to scold us or kick us out, but was so blown away by the amazingocity of that puck's flight, he was completely dumbfounded to try it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Agreed, pretty much everyone OTM. Air hockey rules.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

It's all about the bubble hockey Canada Vs USSR and the boo button.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Also, a lot of people don't like foosball (me included), but every girl I've ever dated likes to play air hockey.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

After this one ridiculously long undefeated streak playing air hockey, I started "holding" the paddle by putting the tip of my middle finger on the tip of the paddle's dome, so I was simultaneously whooping ass with one finger and flipping off the asshole who couldn't beat me, even with the handicap. That lasted four long, glorious days.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Also, my favorite video game ever was this game for our old, old Mac laptop (which weighed like 50 lbs) where you were in this Star Wars-esque cantina and challenged various aliens to (future) air hockey.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

nickalicious's story of the old man = classic.

Foosball in Jr High = foosball parlor & pinball & air hockey (prior to video games being common) ... => getting kicked out by high school kids. Dazed & Confused is real, kids.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

You people are mondo retardo. Air hockey is for people with little to no hand-eye coordination to feel like they do in fact have some. Foosball is fun as fuck, and there's a myriad of styles, techniques, and strategies. The only difference between air hockey players is how many times they like to bank that shit.
It's kind hard at first, but so is anything worth doing ever.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

"Air hockey is for people with little to no hand-eye coordination"

Duhjh.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I basically said as much above. Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are games you are supposed to play when you are drunk. Who has hand-eye coordination when they are drunk?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Legolas!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

no darts and air hockey are drunk games.
two of my friends have foos tables, so i'm around the game apart from a bar situation. i'll at most have a drink or two before/during play.
so yeah, if you're judging them as games to play while drunk, air hockey wins. any other criteria, foos wins. it's way too intense (if you're playing w/people who know what they're doing) to play drunk.
so much fun though. it's literally made me giddy at times.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I've always wondered why DARTS seemed like a good idea for a game to put in the pub.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I took a dart to the shoulder once, it stuck in. We weren't drunk though. Maybe that was the problem.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

It's like "okay my drunken braintrust, we've got beer, bourbon, tables, ashtrays, what is this place missing?"..."sir, I know! WE NEED FLYING RAZOR SHARP NEEDLES WE CAN TOSS THROUGH THE AIR!"..."BRILLIANT!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

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