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There are several game genres that are mostly exclusive to arcades, and of them, the light-gun shooter is one of the most entertaining. While the experience has been transferred to home consoles multiple times in the past, there’s nothing quite like standing in front of a cabinet with a gun controller in your hand, blasting through enemies with reckless abandon. Light gun games became more prevalent with the rise of 3D graphics in the 1990s and 2000s, but there were still plenty of stellar shooters in the glory days of the 1980s. Of those classics, Turkey Shoot stands out as not only one of the rarest games of its kind, but also an exceptionally weird experience that you can only get in its original form. Blast Full of Feathers Turkey Shoot was developed by Williams Electronics, a true titan during the glory days of the arcade. Starting out as a pinball company in the 1950s, Williams saw great success for decades, and eventually took on the video game side of the arcade business starting in 1981. Between ’81 and ’83, Williams put out a killer lineup of games, including all-time classics like Defender, Joust, and Robotron: 2084, just to name a few. While 1984 brought several other arcade titles, like Devastator and Mystic Marathon, Williams was starting to ease up on internal video game development, with their focus shifting back to pinball and gambling games. Turkey Shoot arrived at the tail end of 1984, and while its mounted gun controller was notably unique to arcade shooters of the era, that wasn’t the only eye-catching novelty that the game offered. Turkey Shoot is set in the futuristic year of 1989, where mutant turkeys have taken over the streets, ransacking the city and causing mayhem with every disastrous trot. Armed with your machine gun and a handful of grenades, you arrive on the scene as a turkey terminator, and your only goal is to eradicate every feathery foe that steps into your line of sight. The actual gameplay is equally simplistic, but fun all the same. Hunkering down and getting close to the glass that separates you from the crisp CRT, with all of its beautiful neon-colored pixel graphics, you unleash bullets onto unsuspecting enemies across multiple missions. Once you’ve completed a mission, Turkey Shoot reveals its ultimate gimmick: a burst of real turkey feathers erupts inside the machine, evoking a goofy moment of turkey-fueled triumph. In truth, there’s not much else to the game, apart from more difficult missions, but it’s a one-of-a-kind celebration you won’t find in any other cabinet. Due to the small initial run of machines in 1984, many of which have disappeared in the decades since, Turkey Shoot has since become one of the rarest arcade shooters in existence. It’s hard to get an exact number, but there are only 10 – 30 physical machines left, and collectors will often jump on any decent unit that pops up. However, with a hefty price tag that often exceeds $10,000, it’s a machine that only the most dedicated collectors will buy. As such, if you want to play it for yourself, there are only a few locations left in the world where it’s on public display. So, if you take a trip to Galloping Ghost in Brookfield, IL, or Past Times Arcade in Girard, OH, you’ll be able to give it a whirl, but you might have a hard time finding it elsewhere. That said, if you ever have the opportunity, Turkey Shoot is worth a shot just for its main gimmick alone, and it stands as a notably weird entry in Williams’ storied arcade catalog. The post Turkey Shoot: The Weirdest Arcade Shooter of the 80s appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.

This had to be pretty cool for Ovechkin

'Republicans on Capitol Hill, particularly those in the House of Representatives, don't have a lot of time'

'Have a tragic tone'

ABC’s The View hosted Senator Cory Booker (D- NJ) Monday morning, following his record-breaking 25-hour yap-fest on the Senate floor the previous week. The panel had very little specific to ask Booker, though, and spent most of their time praising him to the sky, and applauding as he trotted out a few stock Democratic talking points. Whoopi Goldberg welcomed Booker with this hard hitting question, “It’s so nice to see you sitting. Did you get any rest?” Rather than going into anything Booker had actually said in those 25 hours, Goldberg then turned to the mass protest of the previous weekend, asking him “How happy were you to see all the folks that came out around the country?” as if he played a role.   She then smiled and nodded along as he rambled: Um, its- It was- for me, food for the soul. And- it- you didn't see partisan band-waving, you saw Americans standing up for Americans- Because we really are at a moral moment- as we’ve been- generations past- in the suffrage movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, the LGBTQ movement, so many movements- we’ve seen Americans join arms- a rainbow coalition- standing up for what’s right.  “Yeah,” Goldberg gushed, “And this ain’t a one-time thing, this is going to stay- this is going to stay with Americans, every day until this stuff is fixed.” Ana Navarro then got in on the vacuous fawning, and while she too made no attempt to nail Booker down on anything substantial, she gloated: “the question we all want to know is, how did it feel for you to break the record of Strom Thurmond, that racist who set the record filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957? I hope he's turning over in his grave.”     Booker was again allowed to continue laying it on ever thicker, saying: [W]hat I loved about the civil rights movement- leaders that I love- is they never let Bull Connor pull them so low as to hate Bull Connor. They never let Strom Thurmond pull them so low as to hate him, and so- And sometimes God uses people in ways that they don’t even know. He planted a seed that, a generation later, somebody would get a chance to show that the hateful words that he was espousing won’t win the day, and so, I’m grateful for that.  The panel completely ignored such realities as that Thurmond and Bull Connor were long since dead and gone, their opposition to the civil rights movement back in 1957 was in no way relevant to anything Cory Booker had said or done in 2025. Booker’s suggestion that God had used Thurmond for his own glory decades later, was more grandiose than his “I am Spartacus” moment. On top of that, Navarro completely overlooked the inconvenient fact that, like most opponents of desegregation, Thurmond was a Democrat at the time of his filibuster. Booker continued to monologue for his obsequious audience of “interviewers”: I’m grateful for the love and attention towards me, but we need to center those people who are working full-time jobs, catching that extra shift, and still, in America, they’re not making ends meet because we have a nation that has tremendous wealth, what [sic.] we have not found a way to be there for folks (...) After smiling and nodding along with this generic regurgitation of the Democratic Party line, as though Booker were making a profound point, Sunny Hostin fawningly asked, “there have been mounting calls for fresh Senate leadership, myself among them. So why not you?” Booker was then allowed to continue spouting liberal cliches, to which the panel reacted: GOLDBERG: Yes. NAVARRO: Right HAINES: I love that. [APPLAUSE] GOLDBERG: Wow. That’s right. That’s right. The panel barely even pretended the “interview” was anything but an excuse to shower him with compliments. To view the full transcript, click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View 04/07/2025 11:16 AM WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So- SEN. CORY BOOKER (D- NJ): Y’all have some Jersey up in here. [LAUGHTER] GOLDBERG: Oh, yes. So, it's nice to see you sitting. BOOKER: Yes. [LAUGHTER] GOLDBERG: Did you get any rest? BOOKER: I- I have, but as you know, it’s been go, go, go, and- GOLDBERG: Yeah. BOOKER: -And I wanted to be one in the number of millions of people that were standing in rain, standing across the country coast-to-coast, and speaking up, so I’ve- I’ve been pushing it still. GOLDBERG: How happy were you to see all the folks that came out around the country? BOOKER: Um, its- It was for me, food for the soul. GOLDBERG: Yeah. BOOKER: And- it- you didn't see partisan band-waving, you saw Americans standing up for Americans-  GOLDBERG: Yeah. BOOKER: -Because we really are at a moral moment- as we’ve been- generations past- in the suffrage movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, the LGBTQ movement, so many movements, we’ve seen Americans join arms, a rainbow coalition- standing up for what’s right. GOLDBERG: Yeah. And this ain’t a one-time thing, this is going to stay- this is going to stay with Americans, every day until this stuff is fixed.  [APPLAUSE] BOOKER: Yeah. Yeah. ANA NAVARRO: And- America, as you said- America was watching, but your mom was also watching. She's no stranger to good trouble, and she was watching when you did this.  When did you realize, you actually had enough in- left in the tank, to be able to go the distance? And the question we all want to know is how did it feel for you to break the record of Strom Thurmond, that racist who set the record filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957?  I hope he's turning over in his grave. [APPLAUSE] BOOKER: Well- so first of all- I- about that- what I loved about the civil rights movement- leaders that I love- is they never let Bull Connor pull them so low as to hate Bull Connor.  GOLDBERG: Yeah. BOOKER: They never let Strom Thurmond pull them so low as to hate him, and so-  -And sometimes God uses people in ways that they don’t even know. He planted a seed that, a generation later, somebody would get a chance to show that the hateful words that he was espousing won’t win the day, and so, I’m grateful for that.  But, you know, you ask me physically, we all know that the body has limits but the spirit has none- NAVARRO: Uh-huh. BOOKER: -if you have a big enough “why.”  And, what I know- from my work in Newark as I was coming up as mayor, and now in New Jersey, is that there are a lot of people who’ve worked two eight-hour shifts, and then pick up the third. GOLDBERG: Yep. BOOKER: You know- There's a woman I name - we- they called her “Mama Tasha”- at- the- an IHOP in Bergen Street that pick up another shift and keep going past her physical restraints- NAVARRO: Yeah. BOOKER: -Because she had a big enough “why.” For her it was her three kids. There are medical professionals and- nurse’s assistants, that, you know, pick up that third shift- GOLDBERG: That’s right. BOOKER: -work a full around the clock, so-  I’m grateful for the love and attention towards me, but we need to center those people who are working full-time jobs, catching that extra shift, and still, in America, they’re not making ends meet because we have a nation that has tremendous wealth, what [sic.] we have not found a way to be there for folks, and put stresses on folks, in this country, that- are not on other countries. Our competitors have paid family leave. GOLDBERG: Yeah. NAVARRO: They do. BOOKER: Our competitors have the ability to stay out more than two weeks after you’ve had a baby.  There are so many things that aren’t right in this country and we all need to let that motivate us not to sit complacently and just accept this as the way it is. GOLDBERG: Yes. BOOKER: We need to stand up, and start showing that we can form an America- we can redeem the dream of America for more people, through our activism. NAVARRO: Uh-huh. SARA HAINES: That’s right. That’s right. [APPLAUSE] SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, Senator, people have been looking to the Democratic Party for a fighter, for a resistance leader, for an opposition party, and you gave them that. So thank you.  [APPLAUSE] HOSTIN: You call this a moral moment- and on the floor you invoke John Lewis, saying “If it is to be, it is up to me.” So, there have been mounting calls for fresh Senate leadership, myself among them. So why not you? BOOKER: Well, you know, Ella Baker said it so famously, “We are the leaders that we have been looking for.” And, Americans, we don't need a title to lead, you don’t need a position to lead. We all have the capacity to lead. And, you know, during the Affordable Care Act fight in 2017, when- in that case, it was 20 million Americans that could have lost health care- now with Medicaid, it could be 80-90 million Americans who’ll lose health care. But in those days, I would like to say, it was Senate Democratic leadership, through our devastatingly articulate eloquence, that persuaded John McCain, but that's just not true.  HOSTIN: Yeah. Yeah. BOOKER: It’s just not true. He famously put his thumb down because Americans- I saw kids dis- with disabilities, in wheelchairs, rolling up to senators and speaking truth to power.  GOLDBERG: Yeah. BOOKER: And so if there's anything that real leaders do- real leaders- and this is what I aspire to be held to this measure or those that don't say “follow me.” They’re the ones that inspire other people to realize that they are leaders and their voice is needed. HOSTIN: Yeah. So important. HAINES: Senator, it seems like there's a natural- kind of- groundswell of energy. Democrats clocked a big win in- last week in Wisconsin, over the weekend protesters in over a thousand cities, in all 50 states, rallied against the president's policies.  So, what happens now? And what should Democrats do to capitalize on this momentum? BOOKER: Well, again, I know we are living in a really tribal moment, where we talk about terms in that binary way, but, what I’m hearing from is Republicans that are afraid that if they lose their Medicaid-funded transportation program, for their disabled child, their whole economy falls apart. I’m hearing from these bold and noble Republican veterans, that are saying, ‘you are cutting 80,000 jobs. And now I, as a female veteran, will have to wait for some- basic ontological care for months and months and months.’  And so I keep saying this, if- If we center this as a (sic.) right versus left, then we’re wrong.  HAINES: That’s right. BOOKER: It’s- it’s really not. It’s not about right or left, it's about right or wrong and we need to stand up and call this a moral moment.  And so, for my hope for my party is, that we’re less concerned about our party than we are about the people that we want to serve. GOLDBERG: Yes. NAVARRO: Right HAINES: I love that. [APPLAUSE] GOLDBERG: Wow. That’s right. That’s right. We have more with Senator Cory Booker when we come back.