Samuel Pace-Tuomi, our correspondent for Generation X and owner of Archive Iowa in Urbandale, remembers his day of gaming in Des Moines. The games were loud, the people playing the games were loud, and this was where techno music escaped the rave scene and into the mainstream. That was true until a wild fighting game that featured blood and decapitations called Mortal Kombat showed up. But we are going to jump ahead 10 years to the era of when Street Fighter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and X-Men had lines of people waiting. Games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong ruled. It became the national scoreboard for the video game world. Iowa has a rich history in the video game world based around Ottumwa’s Twin Galaxies arcade that was started by Walter Day in 1982. This was the first arcade I went to that had a token machine, which meant that quarters wouldn’t work. It had a dim-lit storefront with neon colors that illuminated a path to the different game areas. When I was living in the Quad Cities, there was a place called Aladdin’s Castle at South Park Mall, a small chain of shopping mall arcades. These were arcades that didn’t sell food or have a bar where folks would get tanked on Fireball before they played a messy game of giant Jenga. One thing that we all had in common is that we were the last generation to fully enjoy the original arcade experience. They will never know the struggle of playing “Oregon Trail” the way we did. By the time they got into school, their computer labs had color screens (versus the green command line of our day).
They never knew the stress we had going to school while they stayed home or attended daycare with the other school-free brats. They were the ones who drove us nuts because they never had to work a day in their lives. The 1980s-born kids still had a chance to enjoy life before the Internet, which included climbing trees, renting videos from a store, and trying to steal our old man’s Playboy. You can expect to pay $230 for the Little Tipsy Jello Shot Towers on Etsy.Millennials can be split into two groups: those of us born in the 1980s and those born in the 1990s. It also has the option to customize for additional Jell-O shots. When fully assembled, the tower is 27 inches high. It also has the added benefit of coming with the recipe, just in case you’ve never made a Jell-O shot in your life. You will get 50 cups in the larger version. The smaller version has 25, 1 ounce Jell-O shot cups. Each piece to the tower is handmade with 54 wooden blocks. You might also like knowing that there are two different sizes available, one with blocks that measure 10.5 inches and a smaller 7.5-inch version. You can choose from two different versions, one of which has double Jell-O shots in certain blocks and another that has a single shot of Jell-O between random wooden slabs.
StonePointWoodwork is the creator of this game and they sell it on Etsy. Jello shot cups with lids and laminated rules and recipe card.
The Amazon product description says it best: “The set includes: 54 natural, sanded 10.5″ blocks – with 15 spots to hide away Jello shots, 50 2 oz. The game is called the ‘ Little Tipsy Jello Shot Towers,’ and it is everything you would hope it would be. This is a drinking game that can go with you anywhere, regardless of whether it is to a barbecue in your own backyard or a get together at a friend’s house. When you pull a random piece out that has a Jell-O shot, it’s yours to drink. It is similar to Tipsy Tower, but instead of hiding rules, it hides Jell-O shots. If that isn’t enough for you, then you might want to try taking it to the next level with a different game. Drinking rules are written on each of the pieces, and you will have access to the rules once you pull the piece from the tower. That includes this Jenga-like game known as the ‘ Tipsy Tower‘. Drinking games are a lot of fun to play at parties, but there are some that are heads and shoulders above the rest.
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