In 1980 Atari yanked this game From it's catalog Amazing box art Bait and switch for this bizarre Unplayable mess E.T. and Pac-Man Don't even chart next to Star Ship The worst game ever
Prototype lifestyle Sitting on a shelf somewhere Waiting to have life They programmed me to Launch the 5200 Into hearts and minds My graphics are great As if you were in the arcade But with no vectors I am unwieldly I cannot be controlled I'm a maverick I am still just code A burned eprom demo A shadow, a ghost I sit in the dark Longing for a shipping date Not my destiny
Blow up the bridges Dodge the edges, shoot to thrill Slow down to fuel up Compelled to play it Must get a little further Will I see the end? River Forever Always etched in my mind As the best ever
Hypnotic death notes Each block wails an 8-bit tone Blinks out then silence Burrow A Hole Through Your color-banded shield Watch ball go ape-crap Difficulty B Paddle too tiny. Back to Difficulty A One last little block Yes! I cleared level two What? No Level Three?
Ships battling planes As anti-aircraft guns fire In head to head fights No way to stop them Everything just keeps on moving Fire, never forget Air Sea Battle game? Judge this book by it's cover Because both ruled
A squad of three men Are attached together forever They have but one goal Moving as a team Kicking out towards the ball Just like chorus girls Totally in-tune In-sync, attached forever Complete unison Their goalie watches Mesmerized by our footwork The shot comes quickly Into the corner The crowd erupts, the sky lights With a fireworks show!
Gave me 4 more K Gave me a tape interface Thanks, you gave me hope Mind master mazes Find the shapes, solve the puzzles Was I a lab rat? Frogger on cassette Pummeled frogger on cartridge Back to the stone age A real RPG? Dragonstomper came very close But I could not save
Catalog daydream Gaming one page at a time Hope is powerful Found you at Fedmart Next to the heavy sixer With Combat! loaded Vicariously I played through your drawings Imagined your words I fell asleep Mind visions of Atari Another world A trance of pixels A beautiful concoction 8-bit dimension An Air-Sea Battle Surrounds Video Olympic Outlaws Street Racing Code Breaking Home Runs Star Ships Hunt And Score Basic Math As Space War Breaks Out Adults yelling thrusts me Back to my sm
Lovely Galaga Woke up early to play you Every morning Be damned high school For my passion awaits me On a ROM cartridge An "A" in "twin ships" A "D" in "Geometry" I'm summer school bound
Four crazy-ass chefs Throwing food from little piles Dodge and throw it back No limit melons Eat the melting ice cream cone For Instant Replay Coin-Op perfection Charley Chuck would be so proud Of this translation
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