PixlBit

Thanks. It's not really true that things haven't changed except for the means of delivery. Computers have clearly enabled games to be much more engaging and created so many more gameplay elements that never existed before. I just wanted to show the similarities in order to make it fun to think about gaming's roots.

Man, I can't get over the fact that I instantly thought of  Barnstorm for Atari 2600 when I watched that Blue Max trailer.

When I saw that Mission Impossible episode, I thought, wow, aracdes then really weren't so different from the ones I went to in the eighties.

Just think, before there were even TVs at home, you would go to an arcade to watch Mutoscope and Kinetoscope shows like the one Dan watches in the back room. Now everything is available at home on PC and consoles and on the go in portable devices. No need for arcades these days.

I noticed that, and later I thought I should've mentioned you in the blog, just for fun. I was born in '67 so I will make myself feel old on the next blog that I do.

I've been waiting months for Netflix to send me the movie, but it's still listed as "very long wait". After seeing the trailer I realized that other games were inspired by it like Activision's Barnstorm for Atari 2600 and Snoopy Flying Ace on XBLA. Hey, those WWI biplanes are just cool as all heck. Of course they inspired games.

Doctor Who really is a cosmic hobo, isn't he.

On a wooden ship no doubt to found the most beautiful hippie commune ever created.

Yea, I had to look hard to find the right word for that thing Dan looks into. The way the images flicker when he's getting his mission suggested Mutoscope was right as well as the hand crank. Isn't the internet amazing that I can find such obscure stuff like that?

I remember waiting for Size Matters to be released on PS2 because I only played turn-based games on PSP. Then I got frustrated with the controls and quit. I wonder if the PSP version wasn't actually the one to get.

Yea, my sister watches Friends and I loathe that show. She identifies with it though, so that's fine.

I guess it's just that I spend very little time with my family and I've lost that comfort zone of just being who I am with them. I'm in a very different place than I was when I was going to school and so everything feels strange now.

That E3 tie-in stuff looks cool. Maybe I should get PS Plus sometime.