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Hi! It's been 17 years since I started this blog! 17 years since June 12th, 2005. Can you believe it? I mean, the year 1989 was only 16 in 2005! I'm going to try to switch to video but still type, because I love typing. Actually I might do a subtitle file for the hell of it. Also make subtitles in Japanese (because my Japanese is absolutely horrible) and Spanish (because my Spanish is absolutely horrible and even worse than my Japanese.) Something I do forget to mention in the video is how you "spike" the ball. I wasn't able to demonstrate it, but my computer opponent sure did. Repeatedly. When you're above the net, you move that top player closest to the net and hit the Action Button to make the ball move faster when you hit it over the net. I couldn't do that. Also, in the video, I repeatedly mistakenly say "Magnavox Odyssey" when I should be saying "Magnavox Odyssey2" ("Magnavox Odyssey Squared" or, if superscript is unavailable, "Magnavox Odyssey Shift-6 two")

At least in theory! xD Nice to meet you and I hope that I get started on these again. Yes, I keep saying that. In fact, I probably say that I'll be coming back more than I've ever actually been here. I just finished going through all of my posts (trying to fix rotted links) and trying to remember them enough so I don't repeat the same cheesy jokes (no one should have to read them twice). Honestly, it wasn't until I read in the entry above that I'm going to be playing the Odyssey^2 1980 games that I remembered "oh yeah, I'd meant to get that console out to test it" -- which was over a year ago now. xD This is why I'm mostly immune to Nostalgia. Seems like I can barely remember things. Anyway, welcome to this textbook case study of obsessive compulsive procrastination and thanks for the comment!

Wow! I wonder if this is the earliest example of a "patch" being released for a game. 1. UBERSAURUS!!! Hiiii! Good to see you!!! and 2. I will check out atariarchive.org! I'm gearing up to stream and capture the game play. I toyed a little while with the idea of "starting all over" but Nelio said some wise words about it (which I can't remember exactly, but I'll paraphrase) "Nah, don't bother starting over, just keep going!" (again, he didn't say that, but that was the takeaway.) Ooooh, I used to watch Columbo as a kid! (Though, because of that show, I swear I was about 50 years old before I finally learned how to spell "Colombia".)

Oh wow, this is great to see! Thank you for the information and for responding! I swear I'm on the verge of almost nearing doing this semi-regularly inconsistently. (Actually, I'm trying to figure out a way to hook up about a dozen RF based systems, modulate them into a composite signal and run them into an Amiga 1080 monitor AND figure out how to split them into a FrameMeister to input into my computer via HDMI to capture or stream it... yes I overthink and over complicate things in a very Rube Goldbergian way but sometimes it works!)

Sadly, my Portuguese is terrible (though I do really like some tunes by the Brazilian group Melim) but I am grateful to know about Duke Nukem pun.

Oooh, thanks for the link and for leading me to this YouTuber. I get the feeling that YouTube is on its way out (due to the Algorithm) which means it's time for me to start posting on YouTube. xD

Oh wow, you've been here! I came back thinking "well, it's only been a few weeks since I finished Atari 1980, let's get started on something else... what... a YEAR!? Also, I need to setup mail notification again. I had no idea you'd commented. >_<

I'd wanted to do some sort of Lava-Lamp sort of display going up from one monitor to the one above it but I didn't know how to accomplish this and I lacked the motivation to find out how. The conversation in my brain is as follows: My Brain: "Hey, you have some of these things that you can either throw out, sell or do something cool with." Me: "oh, yeah, I have an idea for doing something cool with them!" My Brain: "Okay, good enough reason to keep them for years while they get dusty and you only retain a vague memory about what you'd wanted to do with them!" Five years after deciding not to throw things out, my (ex-to-be) wife asks: "Hey, why do you still have these?" Me: "Oh, hmm, I don't know. I think I wanted to do something cool with them." My Brain: "Yessssssss.... yesssssssssss..." (I've since discovered that this is an ADHD thing... kinda...)

Hahah, yes another perfectly embiggening word. xD

Hahahah, no no, I don't recall there being any booth babes. xD I think this is because there were actually no booth babes, and not because my memory is so bad.

That's rough. I hope you get a break soon.

Hey, you okay? If it's any consolation, I think it's awesome that you explored the possibility of it. Anytime I've tried to learn to program I've folded in the first two or three weeks. LOL I like that you took the chair's endurance stats into account. xD

But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! I don't know what that exactly says, but it's from the poem: "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns. I think it's saying that we get nothing but grief and pain when trying to make plans when we're so unsure of the future. No book ever happened, which is probably just as well. I still look forward to playing all the games I can before death, whenever that is.

Yeah, I seem to remember starting that last screen and just BAM. They've invaded. I must've really had to scramble for my camera to get that screenshot, too.

I don't know if it was ever scanned! Obviously, I was using a copy of the Schach game for this entry. I think Schach has some extra electronics in it, not to mention a little red light, that might have made its emulation less straight-forward than the other games for the Fairchild. Maybe it was never dumped?

hahahah nooo, no, nope! I think I found one towards the end of the following month, April.

It really was kind of impressive (though again, I wasn't a very good Chess player). It was those sorts of memory tricks that frustrated the hell out of my parents because I was a mediocre student at best in high school. Decades later, it's clear now that I've always had ADHD and what I was doing then was "hyperfocus". Meaning, if I thought it would impress someone I cared about impressing, I could hyperfocus in the moment, or even over several moments. The less I cared about impressing anyone, the less I found myself able to concentrate on anything.

Yeah... this was not the entry of a mentally healthy person. I'm doing much better now, thank you.

xD I love the discussion above. I hope everyone is still around. Looking back, I'm flattered that there were such informed and creative minds who would take the time to read and comment on my entries. ^ ^

I only vaguely remember enjoying Poker Solitaire! It's frustrating to read some of these entries sometimes as it feels like they were written by someone else. Life and memory is weird. There's something in us that makes us think we've been the same person our whole lives. A continuity of sorts, but what if that's just a particular combination of neurotransmitters that gives us this "feeling" that we've always been the same person? People have head injuries or disorders that can cause complete breaks in who they remember being. Anyway, I'll probably forget, but now I want to try playing that Poker Solitaire game again.

I think that MobyGames (like I've often done) is getting their information from copyright dates. I think RandomTerrain did it by going through ads and articles being published at the time. For me it's primarily a way of "deciding" what games to play. There are just so many available, and I could play them all just by picking a system and slogging through them alphabetically, but I think it's more interesting to see the progression of design. The biggest out of order play so far has been playing Super Breakout waaaaay before its time. I guess it's copyright was based on the first Breakout game.

I know it's Latin, but "ad eternum" for some reason makes me think of cryptocurrency now.

HAHAHAH that's awesomely bad! "If you encounter this bug, um, just restart, we couldn't fix it." xD

I bet I would love the music for those DOS games. I used to really like hearing midi-generated music and enjoy chip-tunes now.

LOL I have to give it credit for being a fun running gag. xD