the Lightnin' Loops had opened at Great Adventure. Those were just ram-'em-through forward-and-back single loops. Then we moved to Dallas and rode the Shock Wave over and over and over and over and over. It's the same kind of fun, smooth ride as the sooperdooperLooper, though without the knots, but HUGE (by pre-Superman standards, of course).
Before I ever got to the sooperdooperLooper