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If there is such a thing as karma then Moycon will soon be staring at a $400 brick attached to his television.

You are aware that there are still games from the last generation that can be played. Some weirdos still play games from the 20th century, if you can believe that! I haven't even played all of the NES games, I can wait a little while for the newest crap. And if I die tomorrow, my regrets will NOT include the fact that I don't own a 360 yet.

The moral of the story is that it's foolish to buy a 360 right now. I personally know only two people who own one and both had to send it back. Wait for the revision. Early adopters always seem to get screwed.

Lame, lame, lame. That was a five-second joke stretched to 1:44. It would have been funnier to replace the hooker in Beat Em And Eat Em with Pitfall Harry.

Were the rest of you aware of this page? I just saw it today on Kotaku. Great stuff. Once you get past the groovy chicks in their bellbottoms, you'll see some wild ideas from the 70s. An arcade made out of wood? WTF?

Can he make an Atari mezuzah?

Okay, it wasn't Shania. But I did pay a lovely young lady named "Cinnamon" two hundred bucks to sing "I Feel Like A Woman" while I donkey-punched her. And I think that should count!

You don't know me. I had Shania Twain in my bed last Saturday.

You're not supposed to encourage me!

I find her body and her bank account to be very appealing.

Ahem. I believe that you mean "akin to."

I was commenting on the complaint rather than the extreme grammatical violations. Complaining about poor spelling/grammar on the Interweb is like complaining about body odor at a D&D convention.

This is an example of why it's called "AtariAge" and not "GrammarAge."

All three of those posts were asinine. Those of us with a negative opinion of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD should ignore this shit. Nothing to see here except flamebait.

Damn, you can't get a more definite answer than that!

I was far more familiar with Atari than anything else, since I owned an 800. When I used Apples in school, I found it to be a downgrade but the Apple heads always insisted I was wrong. Eh. No one ever respected the Atari line as anything other than a game computer. No one except those who actually owned one, of course.

Really? I coulda swore that SMB came last. At least I was right about it taking place in 91, because that was really screwing me up.

I think someone needs to rethink their definition of "portable."

I took part in the Campus Challenges when I was at Ohio State. In the first year, the games were Dr.Mario, Pinbot and SMB3. You had to complete so many racks of Dr.Mario, then score 100000 on Pinbot, then rack up points with Mario until the time ran out. The trick was hitting the 100000 point target in Pinbot immediately. I made it to the campus finals. The next year it was PilotWings, Super Mario World and some third-party crapfest. I couldn't play Pilotwings for shit. I keep reading that the Dr.Mario edition was for 1992, but this baffles me. I graduated in 92, so the NES contest had to be held in 1991. I need to figure this out.

It was also revealed by Atari itself in the first issue of AtariAge (June 82).

I would assume the everyone knows about all the BASIC variants, especially since we started with a specific request for the C64. But come on, once you know one edition you're ready to take on the others. Which do you kids think was better to work with? Apple or Atari BASIC?

The first basic program I ever wrote was on a Trash 80 III. I ended up at a high school in rural Ohio who still used them for instructional purposes. In 1988.

The adventure egg was revealed in the second issue of EG.

In other words, people did not abandon gaming at all after the crash. A few of the sad "wanna be trendy types" may have pretended that they stopped but in fact those 2600s and Colecovisions were still getting a lot of use after 1983.