Showing posts with label atari 2600. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atari 2600. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

atari baby


i'm not really sure why i'm posting this. well, first of all, i think its pretty. like i dig the illustration, like, the style of it. hey, i can still remember how it felt to handle those cartridges. i remember feeling the thin card of circuts inside those things. i had a 2600, but i don't think i ever owned 'night rider.' first of all, you had to have those weirdo 'paddles' in order to play the damn thing. and jean-lucien and i got our 2600 from a yard sale or something, and it only came with joysticks, so it more or less ended right there; we only bought and used joystick games. but i do remember playing that game somewhere... maybe our dear cousin eric had it. and looking back on it now, as a potentially thrilling 'driving game,' it kind of sucked. like, the 'poll position' at the arcade was always much cooler. in the small town we grew up in, in the early 80's, about the only places you could find video games in public was at the local 'putt-putt golf and games;' at the 'roll-a-rink' skating rink, and at the 'godfather's pizza.' i seem to remember at the pizza place there was a 'centipede,' a 'ms. pac man,' a 'donkey kong,' and maybe one or two others, i don't remember. (... 'galaga?' ) i think they had a jukebox, too. hey, i kind of miss those 'pizza nights.' i wonder if lucynell and jean-lucien and i were ever at those places at the same time, and never even knew it? and hey, my darling 'atarieyes!' i wonder if you were ever there, too.

Friday, March 28, 2008

the silver ball


...ever since i was a young boy... etc. i only tricked this one minimally. i don't think i airbrushed anything. in other words, i kept as much detail as i could. and wow... pinball has come a long way. private pinball, that is. like, i wonder what it says about human american psychology that pinball comes 'included' on most personal computers. is it really that universal a diversion? i suppose it is. i mean, it seems like its like... sugar. they might as well give us a whole lot of it, because we'll find a way to get as much as we can anyway. or maybe it just means that 'pinball' is, luckily, very cheap to mass-produce in the 'cyber world,' and therefore, they can staple in onto anything to lure us into the buying the bigger package. its like, the air conditioning of computer games. solitaire is more like, the heating.