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09/18/2006: Frankenstein’s Monster Atari Game!

First, my apologies if the site has looked all screwy and misaligned today…it wasn’t coded correctly for certain browsers, like say, the browsers everyone uses. It may look like that for another day, but it’ll be fixed tomorrow. Second, my head hurts. Third, there’s a new article on the Halloween Countdown, taking us back to the days when the Atari 2600 was president of the world and could get away with giving us games like Frankenstein’s Monster. As Player 1, your objective was to erect walls around the titular creature, using big rocks. Uh huh.

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Zombie is directing the new halloween – but its a rehash of the original. He said he will be using a mask as close to the one in part 1 as possible because its his favorite

Ghosted by Frederick Charles @ 09/19/2006 12:14 PM EDT

Yeah, I’d heard he was gonna do it, but then I thought I heard it wasn’t for sure…you know how it goes. Hopefully he does, that will be pretty sweet. So much of my favoriteness all at once will be pretty overwhelming. Wonder if he’ll sneak some of his actors into it…

He did look kinda funny in the costume though, he’s just a little guy.

Ghosted by MaryJane @ 09/19/2006 12:38 PM EDT

tool just cancelled in madison tonight. they are refunding tickets. glad i didnt score any off ebay, we usually buy em at the last minute… that sucks.

Ghosted by MaryJane @ 09/19/2006 12:40 PM EDT

I think I realized why I heart Halloween so much — it coincides with the start of hockey season. Yea Halloween! Yea hockey!

Ghosted by LemurCat @ 09/19/2006 1:20 PM EDT

Can I talk like a Straw Hat Pirate? Or an Ice Pirate?

Ghosted by kingklash @ 09/19/2006 1:20 PM EDT

Last night in sign language class we were learning the signs for holidays and the teacher was asking us our favorites. I couldn’t resist saying Halloween AND Christmas, and I was thinking of X-E the entire time.

God I love holidays.

Ghosted by jazzy @ 09/19/2006 2:07 PM EDT

Whoops, I meant to say: Arrr, I be lovin’ the holidays, yarrr. Especially the booty.

Ghosted by jazzy @ 09/19/2006 2:08 PM EDT

Arrrrr…… We’ll be keelhaulin’ ya now lad!

Ghosted by Captain Deuce @ 09/19/2006 2:22 PM EDT

Matt, I don’t know if this is old news, but I just read that the Nightmare on Elm Street house is for sale! Take a look for yourself!

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?frm=byxmls&xlid=1067227604&p&poe=realtor

Ghosted by J-Dog @ 09/19/2006 3:05 PM EDT

WOW! Check out this TMX Elmo auction. Granted, this Elmo is autographed compared to the other Elmo auctions, but still, this is expensive.

http://tinyurl.com/kwhg2

Also, I also have no clue what a Kessel Run is either.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 09/19/2006 3:55 PM EDT

Yarr…What be a pirate’s favorite fast food joint?

ARRRRby’s!

…That joke was stupid, says I.

And…yarr, I don’t think Han Solo ever explaineds what the Kessel Run was, but he did it in under 4 parsecs.

Ghosted by Invadarrr Norbert @ 09/19/2006 5:41 PM EDT

The new Elmo… I have to admit, it IS really cute, and much better than the first one, but Jesus, 40 bucks? I dunno… I could see 30. But, I’m just glad we didn’t have a pack of wolves waiting outside our doors today at 10am.

Ghosted by Ryane @ 09/19/2006 5:47 PM EDT

I saw one for 500.00 on ebay.

Ghosted by Old E @ 09/19/2006 5:50 PM EDT

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

just in case anyone needs to translate English to Pirate for todays festivities.

Ghosted by Old E @ 09/19/2006 6:02 PM EDT

Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Ghosted by The Manimal @ 09/19/2006 6:10 PM EDT

Arrrr! All these people saying they were born after Atari (before people started referring to it as the 2600, to distinguish it from the 5200 (anyone remember that??)) are making me feel like an old curmudgeon. Almost like the people who are too young to remember the *first* time Star Wars (episode IV to you youngun’s) was in the theater.

You really wanna go old-school, anyone remember TV-Pong?

Ghosted by Jeff @ 09/19/2006 7:16 PM EDT

The Kessel Run was explained in officially-recognized Star Wars fiction – it was a route that smugglers took to deliver spice (a drug) from the Kessel Spice mines to avoid Imperial interdiction.

Ghosted by Jeff @ 09/19/2006 7:18 PM EDT

Not a body has spoke to me today in the parlance of us that lives on the account . It’s got me so gutted I can’t even be fussed to make a joke about the Kessel Run and tha rum routes ‘tween Saint Barts and Jamestown. Ah well. May all your night skys be red, me hearties.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 09/19/2006 7:32 PM EDT

This has nothing to do with anything, but, have you ever had a song stuck in your head you couldn’t remember the name of, or even who sings it? Click my name, and go to a site where you can simply tap the beat with your space bar, and get a list of song choices. It works miracles, nearly 6 months of a song haunting me are now over because of this site! It’s also fun to do as a game, trying to get the thing to correctly guess the song you tap in.

Ghosted by Rob @ 09/19/2006 7:53 PM EDT

Jeff:
“You really wanna go old-school, anyone remember TV-Pong?”

No, but I’ve played it over the Internet.

Ghosted by Retro_Playback @ 09/19/2006 8:07 PM EDT

I so remember Pong. Loved it. We had the Intellivision (from Sears, I think?) too, and man I lived for Super Breakout and umm… god I can’t remember the name. You were in a space ship and sucked up these little creatures in your beam, and tried to get them before you got attacked, then there was a 2nd part where you had to shoot the asteroids flying at you from each side of the screen. Me and Mom used to take turns playing that one.

I was Queen of Pitfall – I used to go for hours, and amazed everyone. River Raid and Enduro were total favorites, too.

Ghosted by Ryane @ 09/19/2006 9:27 PM EDT

I truly think the scariest game ever created for the Atari 2600 was E.T. The flashing “you are dead” ending was used in a few games if I recall, such as the not-well-known-or-played Star Raider.

I had a Nintendo back in the day but as I got older I skipped the entire Genisis/Super Nitendo 64 generation. When I bought my next system it was a Playstation and my first game was Resident Evil. I didn’t know that the controlers had a rumble feature and the first time a zombie took a hunk out of my neck I almost pissed myself.

Ghosted by medevac @ 09/20/2006 11:58 AM EDT

Sounds like Space Ark from Imagic, Ryane. Very entertaining sequel to the very entertaining Atlantis.

Ghosted by kingklash and his all-joystick orchestra @ 09/20/2006 12:19 PM EDT

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