This is my first web site creation. It's contents are filled with information of my designing for possible future arcade machine games. Names like Explorers, John Doe, P.I., or Street Mortality. For it is my hope that an arcade creation team reads this, and would like to bring to life one (or possibly all) of these games.
When I started creating this site, I was working night and day on making this site as functional as possible. (It seems like years ago. As a matter of fact, I think it was) I still remember laying in the bed of my camper, typing like a madman on an old 286 that a friend gave me. (Now, that 286 is in storage. It's monitor, dead.) At first, problems just keep popping up everywhere. A spelling error here. A grammar problem there. And HTML overhaul everywhere. But now, I just wonder where all that "fun" time went. Nowadays, I'm finding myself too busy working on my video project for my former high school. (Been there. Done that.) Not to mention that my current browser at home is Internet Explorer, which just happens not to be supported by Geocities download process. (I now have Netscape Communicator.) So, until I can figure out just how to fit Netscape onto an already over filled hard drive with only 9.some Megs available, this site will just have to stand as is. (Ah, gee. Now, just where did I put that antique, anyways?) Oh, well.
(Here's a classic note.)Also remember, most of the construction on this site is occurring only on my home computer, due to the way that I am creating the documentation for this site. Be patient. It takes a lot of time to think up and type all this information. Although, for the moment, every page that I've typed up is posted in the below links.
If there are any arcade makers out there who are interested in more details on any of these games, please drop me an e-mail note at jup@tfb.com
All I ask in return is to collect royalties on each arcade machine sold.

And, to anybody else out there on the web who submits an idea for a board level or character on one or more of the mentioned games on this site that makes it into the actual arcade programming should also receive royalties for the use of their idea(s). Their E-Mail addresses should accompany their work(s).

As for any incoming mail or works that you might be interested in seeing on this site, just tap here to read the guestbook.

This web site is about as ASCII as I can make it to help save on down load time. Most of the pictures are momentarily in ASCII and located only in places where their presence is of more help than just plain words. (I do plan on changing that.) And, as far as the text goes, I am trying my best to keep the text as accurate as possible. But, at the moment, I'm swamped. (Still true.) And, keep in mind that my grammar usage is probably obtrusive to any literary major who may be reading this site. To what errors may reside within these written walls, please let me know by relaying a message about how the error goes and how it is suppose to be properly written via the ol' e-mail system at jup@tfb.com For I can surly use the help.
Another reason for the ASCII files are due to the way that I put this site together. (Transfered, too.) I used an old 286 that a friend gave to me many months ago, I started typing out each story board using the EDIT command, found in DOS. (Oh, what fun I had doing that. Waking up at 1 in the morning and typing until dawn.) After a couple of weeks, I came to the conclusion that the document was in desperate need of a spelling checker. So I dove deep into my closet (all 15 inches of it. After all, it was a camper) and dug out an ancient piece of DOS software called Word Perfect 5.0. After all, a mouseless 286 with a mere 40 Meg hard drive and monochrome monitor (CheckIt tells me that it's a Hercules screen) probably couldn't handle Windows 3.1 at all. And with that, all (or more likely a good portion, due to the hour or two it took to complete the process) of the document had been checked. Next, came the process of updating the ASCII with HTML tags. Because of my tight budget problems and past experience with Basic, (using a Commodore 64) I chose to take a harder path by typing out all the HTML tags by hand. So I went down to my local Library and checked out as many books on HTML as they had. (Four, to be exact.) For information and examples on the tags themselves, I found a book called "HTML Visual Quick Reference" written by "Dean Scharf" and published by "QUE" to be an excellent source of material. (To order this book, Write via snail mail to: Que Corporation, 201 W. 103rd St., Indianapolis, IN 46209. Or, you may reach Que's direct sales line by calling 1-800-428-5331.) And Elizabeth Castro's HTML for the World Wide Web also came in handy for my short attention span for reading. As for the other two, they read like tech. novels, requiring more time then I was willing to devote to reading much more than a couple of select chapters in each.
But, an amazing find was located on the back page of one of them. A CD was resting inside a pouch with some internet tools. (Sadly, the Library doesn't bother to give any protection to such material. Which is unfortunate for the CD, but opportune for the borrower.) I, personally, would like to see this policy changed.
Now, I know there are programs available as free and shareware available out there on the net. But, at the moment, (at that moment) all my internet access is occurring through public access terminals (School, Library, etc.), since my limited budget can not afford internet access for my home. (That has since changed.) (Even though another friend of mine had given me a 14.4 modem for use to do stuff just like this.) Then again, I have a few other things to buy first. (Bought.) Anyway, the document's HTML tags were cranked out, one by one, without the assistance of a browser. And with that in mind, I expected there to be problems with the site. (And, there were.) So, if any problems do appear on one of the many kinds of browser's out there, (Especially now, since there are many upgrades happening to this site.) just drop me an e-mail message describing the problem at jup@tfb.com Next step was to link up all the term words with their correct locations in each file. Thanks to the document search and text search tools that Word Perfect 5.0 had, that step was more of a cinch then I first anticipated it would be.
Then, came the logical steps of posting, maintaining, and adding on to the site. But, before I logged on with GeoCities, I went to a little zone called Roboweb. Where the access name is long (over 85 keystrokes), the data storage was short (roughly 90-100k), and major search engines preferred to not post for. But, with so little time to search for a free site, I gratefully took what I could get. But now, I found my way to GeoCities, and only looked back long enough to copy my old site out of that back alley home and into an actual home. Oh, (and I feel that I have to say this) thanks, GeoCities, for offering such a great service! (I just put bold and link commands here, cause this needs to stand out.)
As one of my hobbies used to pass the time away, I occupy my time with being an avid retro gamer. To see my collection of games, (Nintendo, (Both Super and Orig.) Game Boy, Atari 2600, etc.) tap here. (Momentallily outdated.) Also, I have compiled a few saving codes for various games (mostly Nintendo).
I am also involved in a yearly project with my former high school of taping their annual graduation ceremonies and selling the proceeding tapes to the students and/or their parents/guardians as volunteer work so that I can keep up my practice with camera work and editing expertise. Being that time of year, (Can you believe this file stated this in December?) I find myself quite occupied with this project. Someday, I may start webcasting these works, but that is a ways off into the future. Since this project is coming up on me fast, I may slow down work on this page for a while. (Outdated. Extremely outdated.)>/TT>
Do you think that an all text page is boring? I tend to think that it is. So as soon as I can find the time to do it, I intend on inserting screen shots of some of these games into these documents. I already have a cockpit shot for PSI 5-2 and I am working on some mini-motion shots for Street Mortality. So far, there is a half completed scene of a Jackie Chan like workout set against a city scape and a shot of an unseen boxer "knocking" his opponent's "block off" (you see a head and spinal cord come flying through the air in a shower of blood (Yech!!!)) with a dingy boxing ring for a back drop. I hope to have more scenes ready by the end of April. (of 1997, that is.)