I redesigned the game so it's not a cube at all, but a spaceship. It's actually a triangle. I redid the sprites so it was an actual shape. At first I couldn't get the program to decipher the shapes, it kept wanting to draw a square. But after about 10 minutes of trying various things it is actually a shape now. I think it's more detailed now than just simple blocks. I just got up about an hour ago after sleeping all day. I missed the Super Bowl. Anyway, the ship can move up and down. This me
Well, I finally bought the complete 3rd season of SpongeBob SquarePants. I wanted this for my birthday last year, but other things took higher priority, plus it was probably more expensive back then. I found this at Wal*Mart for $26. It has some of my favorite episodes like Krab Borg, Idiot Box, and One Krab's Trash. Who can forget Smitty, who was #1 "I just want the hat back.", the old man who thought SpongeBob was a box of bran flakes, or Squidward going insane during a snowball fight? This is
On July 2, 2006, something happened to my local paper's TV listings. They got bigger. A lot bigger. And the cover changed. And, they got a lot better. So impressed with the new design, I decided to keep every single one since.
pescoman_v99.zip
Now it's week #37 of the new TV Week, and on the cover this week is "Andy Barker, P.I." on NBC. What's even more interesting is the one program that didn't get to be on the cover: Super Bowl XLI. Well, anyway, if you care (and you probably don't), you ca
This poem is something i wish i had the guts to say to my shrink. of course if i did, he'd tell me he'd want to see me more often.
"Tell me, why do you feel this way?"
Because you're being a f---ing a--hole to me
Telling me that what i feel,
my heart's desire
it's all wrong
Telling me to supress it, ignore it, control it
You da-- normals are all alike
carrying on the charade, the facade
that life's OK, well, it's a fraud
Spewing stuff professors told you to say
when you come
I once belonged to the 47 Society http://www.47.net/47society/ which thinks 47 is the quintessential random number. Since I decided to opt out of the mailing list, the number 47 is still my favorite number, and am pleased whenever I find the number on the news, in public, or any other place. So I am proud to start a new category in my blog called "47 sightings." Here's the first entry. It has to do with the TSA scanners at airports:
"'Specifically, to reach annual radiation dose limits, a passe
Well, this is interesting. Seems like either my VB or my FlashBoy is faulty or something. When I play it on Mednafen, all the characters of text flash when they're supposed to, but on a real Virtual Boy, one of the characters of text does very little flashing or none at all. And it only happens sometimes. Other than that, I've made excellent progress on my game. I've implemented some new stuff so it will now be easier to work on it. So I don't know what to do. Probably keep it as is. Kinda funny
I would like to see a Casino game on the Jaguar. Something like Golden Nugget that has all the basic casino games: Roulette, Video Poker, Blackjack, etc. And even though I don't play them, I wouldn't mind an RPG on the Jaguar. I don't think there is one, is there? Other than that, I love my Jaguar. The reason I'm writing this is because Troy Aikman came to my house today. Not the man himself, but a video game representation of him. I now need just 10 more games for a complete collection. At firs
Once I get High Seize in the mail, I'll only have two N-Gage games I don't have: "Civilization" and "Warhammer 40,000." Do any of you have either of these? I've given up on ever being able to afford Sega Rally. If I ever feel the need to play a racing game on the N-Gage, I'll play Crash Nitro Kart. Right now it's 22 degrees F out here. But the sun decided to come out and hopefully that will melt the snow. We still have all that snow on the ground that came Wednesday. I feel sorry for the Chicago
I'm making a new platform game called Super Maria Sisters for the 2600. I know that name has probably been used for a lot of things, but oddly, a search for a video game named that turned up nothing. Living in the Northwest, I've been spoiled by all the below 90 degree weather I've been having while the rest of the United States has been burning. Well, it's our turn to fry tomorrow when the temperature gets near 100. And Friday & Saturday are both going to be in the triple digits. So there.
I wrote a poem I don't know how long ago (probably a year or so) and had the tune to go along with it somewhat in my head, but I now just put it together. I made a MIDI out of it. At first, I was going to put some other instruments with it (like drums and strings), but decided the piano was enough. That, and I thought the poem was too stupid to go with the melody I made, but here are the words and the midi is here. (1:20)
"Slack-Jawed Jackdaws"
slackjawed jackdaws up in the tree
laughing a
I'm making a secret game. It's so secret, there will only be one copy in existance. I might make the binary file available if the 2008 Minigame Compo ever gets under way. The name of the game is "A Game." I couldn't think of a better title for it, well, anything that would make sense. I could have called it "Fred the Psychotic Pair of Yellow-stained Underpants That is Foaming At the Mouth," but I didn't. And it ain't about underpants, although the guy in the game might be wearing some, or he mig
The year was 1995 A.D. (which seems kind of strange given the title of this entry.) I was in 6th grade, the last year where 6th grade meant being in elementary school (the next year, the school district moved 6th grade to middle, or jr. high, school.) My teacher was Mrs. Lennon. I think it was near the end of the school year because this project didn't make any real sense. She gave us a whole bunch of construction paper and put in this ambient CD and told us to make our "visual" of the music pla
Hi all. I've started a 3DS review site which you can find here: http://www.atari2600land.com/3ds/ (Links don't work for some reason, so I can't put the word "here" as the thing to click on any more.) Every Monday, I'll post a review here if I can. I already bought next week's game as well as some yummy Boo Berry cereal. So now I have two 3DS games. I also got 3 game.com games in the mail today, so now I have 15 of them. So anyway, that's what I'm up to game wise.
Hey gang, the high temperature here (in Fahrenheit) gets to be 47 around this time of year, but in the next week, at least according to the Weather Channel, this won't happen once, not twice, not thrice, but FOUR, count 'em FOUR times! After tonight's brief snow flurries of course. I posted a picture of this (rare?) occurrence of four 47 high temps four-casted (pun intended) this next week. I thought it was pretty cool. Especially Friday when I have to go to the doctor. Hopefully 47 will be my l
Well, I finally am back to working on 2600 games again. I decided to work on the minefield game again. I even thought of a name for it: TNT Teddy. I changed it so the only time the pattern changes is when you defeat the level. There's a try counter down at the bottom. I'm trying to limit myself to 2k here, though it's even harder because I'm using bB. I might have to take out some stuff I'm not using, like the code for playfield scrolling. Anyway, here's what the game now looks like. Try, discus
This all started coincidentally. I had bought a compilation CD off the internet called "Two A.D." since I had "One A.D." (collections of ambient songs. I blame my sixth grade teacher for this. She made us listen to One A.D. and I admit I liked it. So I asked where she got it and I went and got it myself. Back then sixth grade was in elementary school. I was the last class to have sixth grade in elementary school so I got to begin seventh grade and not be the youngest class in it. Years later, I
So I thought I'd work some more on my Virtual Boy game I'm making called "Pineapple 64". I went to look at the code, and realized that I needed to make a better collision detection section. Well, I tried and failed a few times before, but I really set my mind to it. And once I had it, the music sped up faster. I was wondering why, so I put a line of code in that stopped it from moving faster. Then I loaded it on my FlashBoy. The banana didn't show up. Argh! This problem plagued me and by the tim
No, not the Nintendo Switch (sadly), I'm talking about the switches on the Atari 2600. My first two games I made in assembly lacked a feature: The ability to reset the game at any point during game play. Well, I guess I could program it into FIC8, but we'll see. I would like to call that one done. So anyway, I decided to see if I could start the game using the fire button. After weird code usage, I finally got it working. Next was the reset switch. So I looked on Minidig to see if I could unders
Well, last night, I put in collision detection for the cat and goal. I'll probably break the game many times between now and when it's finished because of stupid page limitations. What I am going to do is put all the data information for level setup in the first bank. But since there's other stuff in the first bank, like collision detection routines, I'll probably push some stuff out of their places and into places that the game doesn't work. So then I'll have to do more code adjusting to make i
I wanted a new project to work on for the Intellivision since the Waffles game is almost done. Also, I wanted to try to make a Doodle-Jump-like game for anything except the Odyssey 2 one which I failed miserably at. So I put those things together and decided to work on a Doodle-Jump game for the Intellivision. It took a few hours to finally see how and what would work about the platforms scrolling works, or at least what makes it work in this game. I am going to name the game "Upmonster," sinc
Delivering good on my promise, here's a Space Invaders review.Space Invaders+ Release: October 1997+ Company: Nintendo+ Size: 2 Megabits+ ESRB Rating: K-AThere's four choices: Upright cabinet, black & white, black & white with cellophane, and color. Upright Cabinet has a picture of land with a space background, while the others don't. At the options screen, you can change the number of lives to up to 6. Other than that and a two-player mode (where apparently two players can play at the s
I've added a special little thing if you get 100 or more lines in 2600tris. It took &*^&*ing FIVE tries to get over 100 to see if it works. It does. If you want to try it, here's a link to the latest version (as of 11/18/09.) I'm getting a little sick of Tetris, though, after playing the NES and Game Boy versions for research/inspiration. But nevertheless, I will press on working on my 2600tris. A couple of people are downloading each version, and I want them to tell me what they think o
Well, after saying I wanted to go to the library to do research on my Keizer site, I finally got the first of what I assume will be many trips out of the way. As a result, three articles have been added. I hope to have this site done by November 2, 2012. It's a 30-year retrospective on the city. I was born on the day they voted to make it a city. As a result, my birth announcement was in the same day's paper as the first article posted on the site. After the library, I went to Straight From New
Well, it happened again: my eye began hurting. Undeterred, I decided to tackle Insecticide once again, adding a sample background fighting arena. I got it so it scrolls back and forth like my 50-foot-tall celery game. I also fixed the "PAUSED" text not showing up when the game is paused. It also dawned on me that I need to double the amount of fighter characters to 16 sprite patterns, 8 for you and the same 8 for opponents' because they're in different "worlds" (only a VB programmer would unders
As much as I like the number 47, there is another number that is bugging me. It's 33. That's how cold it has been all day long. If it only got to 32, then it might snow or something, but right now it's just rain. And 33 degrees. I woke up a few times last night and opened the window to see what it was doing, but I didn't see any snow. Maybe tonight...
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