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That's interesting that they named companies so they'd be ahead in the phone book.  That's like how a lot of companies will name themselves A-1 so they can be at the front of the phone book.  When I was a little kid, I thought all those companies were the same as A-1 Steak Sauce.  I was like, "How can a steak sauce company have so many other businesses!"  Yeah I was a dumb kid.  But does anyone use phone books anymore?  Does this kind of thing even matter now?

We don't have that particular Atari computer on display at the musuem, but we do have an Atari 800 computer.  I imagine they're similar?

River Raid was one of my favorite games on the 5200.  I thought it was much better than the other versions.  We have River Raid running on the playable Colecovision at the museum.

Poor David Crane.  Nobody liked his Ghostbusters game.  i could see what he was thinking with it.  Trying to make it feel like you were running your own Ghostbusters business.  But it didn't turn out too well in the gameplay department.  Did you know that David Crane and Garry Kitchen were there on opening day at the museum?

I had the Microsoft Pinball Arcade on my computer back in the day.  If you want a really fun pinball simulator game, try one of the Pro Pinball series (Big Race USA is my favorite of those).  I didn't know there was a version of Microsoft Pinball Arcade for Game Boy Color!

Digital games should be cheaper than physical copies anyway.  But a lot of times, they're not.  I can'f figure that out.

I rented this once.  It was all right and the water effects were really cool for back then.  But it wasn't fun enough for me to want to buy it.  Did you know there was a Wave Race game on the Game Boy?

Well, they have this big ol' speaker, and it has a slot to put an iPod or other music player on it.  So they have a playlist of a bunch of 80's songs on shuffle.  I guess last time, the Mickey song played a lot out of randomness, because this weekend I've only heard it once.  This is only the second weekend the museum's been open, so I'm still learning things every time I go.

Thanks for reading.  I'll post links to the articles on my next review blog as well.

You know, there's only ONE thing I don't like about the museum (so far).  Right near the 80's bedroom display, they have a huge speaker playing 80s music nonstop.  Normally that would be a good thing, as I like 80s music (guilty pleasure).  But they play the "Mickey" song WAY too much on it (You know, "Oh Mickey, You're so Fine, blah, blah, blah).  Man I hate that song.  Even as a little kid I hated it.  And I get to hear it all weekend!  Yay for me! :)

Ya gotta come!  I'll be there most of the time it's open this weekend.

I liked Birth By Sleep pretty well.  Characters like Aqua were fun to play as.

Real life Road Runners don't look anything like the cartoon ones. :)