Quote of the day

[ealgylden]

Article of the day, really. Just some amusing-but-painful spam to kill time while I try to figure out how I want to phrase the bit of my JoA post that I'm stuck on (eta- which it seems I'll do tomorrow. Stupid writer's block. Babbler's block. Whatever). "Child's Play"- Electronic Gaming Monthly rounded up some kids (10-13-year-olds) and forced them... er, let them play some classic videogames, like Pong and Tetris. Games they had never seen before. You know, old games.

Old like me. Really funny article, but ouch. "I'm sure everyone who made this game is dead by now." Evil little twerp.

Comments

Bosconian!

[(Anonymous)]

Best article ever, by far.

My new game of the century is Bosconian - I suggest that you go out and hunt down the 25 dollar Namco arcade game controller w / 5 games. (Pac Man, Galaxian, some racing game, Bosconian and Dig Dug).

Bosconian makes life worthwhile. A spaeship that can only fly at right angles and can fire butt-lasers, fight spy ships, and blowing up a thousand death stars. Beautiful.

I miss that comments about me in your blog. :)

ANR Collin

Re: Bosconian!

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Hey Collin! Long time, no see (and happy belated birthday). I hadn't heard of Bosconian, but it sounds awesomely cheesy. I'll have to go hunting. Kids today don't know what they're missing, I swear.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

This both amused me and irritated me, really. I mean, I loved some of those games as a kid; that makes me ancient?

Plus, good lord, those kids have foul mouths for their ages. I'd also like to smack the parent who let their pre-teen son play Grand Theft Auto III.

"I'm sure everyone who made this game is dead by now." Evil little twerp.

Evil little twerp, indeed. What a brat! It's not like these games are even that old.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

I mean, I loved some of those games as a kid; that makes me ancient?

I guess it does. We have one foot in the grave, my friend. And ITA about the foul mouths. That's probably a symptom of my fogey-ness, but there's no way I would have said some of that stuff at that age (or now, but I'm just not much for profanity usually).

Ohhh, the arthritis is acting up again. I'd better take my creaky old bones away and go see if Lawrence Welk is on (actually, my PBS station does show Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights. Funniest show ever, I swear.)

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

I suppose in a few years, we'll be dinosaurs. And I never would have said such things at their age. I don't even do it in front of my mother *now*.

Ohhh, the arthritis is acting up again. I'd better take my creaky old bones away and go see if Lawrence Welk is on (actually, my PBS station does show Lawrence Welk on Saturday nights. Funniest show ever, I swear.)

Lol! My PBS station shows that, too. It looks scary.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

The Lawrence Welk show is the biggest ball of cheese that ever cheesed. I can't imagine how anyone ever watched it non-ironically, because wow, is it campy (and they periodically pan over the audience where the entire retirement community of Palm Springs '72, subsection "originally from Fargo, ND", is having the time of their lives. Awesome). I can't usually watch it for more than twenty minutes at a time, but those twenty minutes are gold. I'd love to have this one number on tape, the one where the blonde soprano wore a vast silver lamé dress with a huge stand-up ruff collar and silver star deelieboppers (!) to sing "Fly Me to the Moon." Now that is art. The only thing it lacked was the accordian guy playing along.