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09/29/2003 Entry: "New Article: Texas Chainsaw Atari Game!"

La la la, here's a quick look back at an Atari rarity, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Pretty awful little game that was kept off most store shelves for being "too violent," even though the pictures tell a different story. Also, the Halloween Countdown rages on with a haunted brainteaser, plus reviews of Kid Cuisine's "Haunted Halloween Meal" and brand new and totally gigantic "Marshmallow Peeps Bats."

Last week I talked about a little road trip to an allegedly haunted location -- well, we went, but made the mistake of going late at night. Since this place is stashed in the middle of the woods, it was just too dark to find entry or anything else of note. All we got was this picture of a cross-shaped old fountain...

Look closely and you'll see remnants of past keg parties and drug sessions. Yeah, real haunted. We're heading back soon during daytime hours, so hopefully, I'll have more to show you down the road. Meantime, check this out -- remember that contest UGO ran several months back for that transforming shoe? I know a few people who got there from X-E won prizes, so I've got no problems shooting a plug towards their latest giveaway...a remote-controlled sneaker?

No, really. A remote-controlled "Vapor TD" by Nike. Pretty odd, but definitely cool. I know firsthand that the contests they run are on the up and up -- there's no mandatory mailing list sign-up, or anything of the sort. If you want a shot at the shoe that moves, click here to enter.

REPLIES: 48 comments

I just saw the fresh no comments and had to post hey matt did you read what I wrote about chicken nuggets in the last blog?

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 09/29/2003 01:46 AM EST

I want the crazy remote control shoe? Alright then, good times had by all.

Chestnuts roasted by Elliott @ 09/29/2003 01:55 AM EST

Well, at least the place looks haunted....like the something outta Pet Cemetary, just with more junkies and crack heads.

"Sometimes, dead is better..."

HAHA love that line

Chestnuts roasted by eyeless @ 09/29/2003 02:10 AM EST

Matt: I love the site!! I'm a viewer from the province of Ontario. I wonder if they sell those "Marshmallow Peeps Bats" here in Canada?
They looked mighty huge and very yummy.

Chestnuts roasted by cliffbear38 @ 09/29/2003 02:42 AM EST

You should do a review of the Atari Goonies game. That one was pretty dang cool. It actually had most of the characters from the movie. And it attempted to follow the plot of the movie.

Looking at that sneaker wierds me out. I bounce between thinking of the japanese rollerskate-fu comic Air Gear, and those kickass skateboards they had in the novel Snow Crash. (Of course, I doubt the sneaker has a sonic glassbreaker built into the toe.)

Chestnuts roasted by Regault @ 09/29/2003 03:40 AM EST

Just had to get that 'batty' crack out there, didn't 'cha, Matt?

Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 09/29/2003 03:43 AM EST

In '83 the best way to emulate Leatherface was to pick up a chainsaw and go on a rampage. 'The Long Island Chainsaw Massacre' - heh...

Chestnuts roasted by msa @ 09/29/2003 09:48 AM EST

that game is fucking awesome!! i can't wait till i get the rom!

Chestnuts roasted by nelson @ 09/29/2003 10:06 AM EST

damn work sucks today. Matt, more than the road trip (which I always love your trip articles (DAMN MAINE) I want that really long movie review you promised a long time ago to keep me busy today.

Chestnuts roasted by random bob @ 09/29/2003 12:55 PM EST

I always wanted a game where I could play the roll of Freddy and set up nightmares to take out those meddling kids.
Sort of like Deathtrap Dungeon. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Aconite @ 09/29/2003 01:40 PM EST

I live about 20 minutes away from the town where they filmed the first 'Evil Dead' movie, and we took a road trip out one night to where the cabin from the movie is. (yeah, it's real; not just a movie set). Preeetty creepy; no sexual predator trees, though.

Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 09/29/2003 01:55 PM EST

I live kinda close to birketsville (of blair witch fame) we all went out there, but it's sorrounded by goth kids trying to perform sacred rituals... it sucks. Scariest place in Maryland is Glendale hospital, I have some pics... I'll post when i get home

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 09/29/2003 02:36 PM EST

That game creeps me out. It looks as though ol' Leatherface forgot his chainsaw, and is chasing those teenagesrs around with a huge, green dick! I think that is why stores refused to cary it. I mean c'mon, when he actually slashes/dicks one of those slutty bimbos it looks as though they were withering away from the effects of some strange STD.

Chestnuts roasted by hakukakotai @ 09/29/2003 02:44 PM EST

I guess you were trying to be funny when you used the word predecessor cause, um, duh.

Atari sure did suck. I remember playing ET. That game was hard, but it had a point. Many Atari games just went on forever, became ridicuously hard, and were repetitive by atari standards.

Chestnuts roasted by jyrtdccy @ 09/29/2003 03:06 PM EST

Hey Matt was that place you visited listed on this website?:

http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/abandoned/

I think I recognize that cross, and I remember reading about a fountain.

Chestnuts roasted by jyrtdccy @ 09/29/2003 03:10 PM EST

Maybe Junkies and Crack Heads are the 21st Century version of ghosts and goblins. Your average Heroine addict (or supermodel, I suppose) generally has that emaciated, sunken appearance normally reserved for the undead. And they'd even have a scary weapon--the next morning, the teenagers could wake up and find a hypodermic needle stuck in the keyhole of the car door.

I choose not to think about what type of Hallowe'en horror the inevitable used condoms in the area would refer to. Maybe Atari Leatherface being careful around the wandering teens?

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 09/29/2003 03:12 PM EST

You know Jyrt, I was worried not everyone would get that one. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/29/2003 03:15 PM EST

yeah; the famed 'Evil Dead' cabin is no more, actually, for the same reasons. They tore it down 'cause of all the weirdos that were constantly congregating there (mostly goth types). The foundation of it's still there, though. I've been told the door to the cellar is too, but I've not seen it.

Chestnuts roasted by sharkie @ 09/29/2003 05:35 PM EST

First of all, I'd like to say that the Atari game has got to be like all other Atari and NES games based on movies: They're total shit. I'm sure that the only thing that ever sold these games was the fact that they were official movie merchandise. You can put a popular character on anything and kids will flock to it. I mean seriously, have you ever seen that Yu-Gi-Oh cereal. It's nothing but sweetened, hardened, molded cornmeal. You know, the kind of shit that tears up the roof of your mouth. But you know that there are seven year olds nagging there moms to buy them the stuff because it has a picture of Yu-Gi-Oh on the front cover. It's as if they're trying to make you think that you will become Yu-Gi-Oh when you eat the shit.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/29/2003 08:11 PM EST

Matt, the girl in TCM was named Sally, not Susan. Ahh, I feel better now.

Chestnuts roasted by Zombie Clay @ 09/29/2003 08:24 PM EST

Didn't one of your old writers already do a review of this game about 3 years ago?

Chestnuts roasted by George @ 09/29/2003 08:36 PM EST

God, what an awful game. I can tell by the review and I have played the 2600 Halloween so it's probably not much different. On a personal note, I've never believed that violent video games turn children or teens violent. Saying a child will kill because they play a violent video game (such as TCM) is like saying someone shouldn't star in MacBeth for fear that they'll run out and kill someone.

Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 09/29/2003 09:08 PM EST

Crap, I always wanted to go to that abandoned monastary... Maybe I'll go today. Peace.

Chestnuts roasted by Joseph @ 09/30/2003 10:30 AM EST

Bert Raccoon: (You must be Canadian. "Run with us" ring a bell?)--it could be possible for a game to encourage violence, however, it is impossible for any Atari game like this to encourage violence. No one would even be able to figure out that there is violence going on.

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 09/30/2003 11:04 AM EST

It wasn't Deathtrap Dungeon up there you were thinking of, it's Dungeon Keeper. Deathtrap was a tomb-raider style 3rd person exploration/action game.

Dungeon Keeper. Evil is Good.

Chestnuts roasted by Tyrion Xavier @ 09/30/2003 11:31 AM EST

Yeah I never played this one but the Halloween game wasn't too bad. The graphics are just as crappy but at least proportionate no trucks the size of farmhouses. Oh and is that square leather faces ear or his other eye?

Chestnuts roasted by Byrd_man @ 09/30/2003 05:24 PM EST

Ever play Haunted House for Atari?

Chestnuts roasted by FireFly @ 09/30/2003 11:27 PM EST

Just as a side note if anyone is going to see the new TCM because its based on a true story don't bother because the real story is no where similar. It's actually based on "Ed Geins" a sick man but no chainsaw killer

Chestnuts roasted by Byrd_man @ 10/03/2003 05:01 AM EST

You have to at least give Bundy some credit, he wasnt a fag like Dahmer and Gaaaaaaaaycy.

Fag serial killers.

Leatherface is a fag too.

So is Byrd_man, he probably likes the Birdcage...hah fag. Geins fag.

Chestnuts roasted by Meepy @ 10/04/2003 06:57 PM EST

Derek is fag too, ha ha, my brother.

Chestnuts roasted by Meepy @ 10/04/2003 06:58 PM EST

Don't forget Meepy, he's the one who screws his fag brother in the ass. And what the hell is the Birdcage?

Chestnuts roasted by Byrd_man @ 10/09/2003 08:48 PM EST

And what kind of fag name is Meepy?

Chestnuts roasted by Byrd_straight_man @ 10/09/2003 08:52 PM EST

it is weird.

Chestnuts roasted by plebb @ 10/18/2003 01:46 PM EST

if you think dis game is crap, then try the game boy version of resident evil. All the zombies look like leatherface from this game... AAARGH IT'S CRAP

Chestnuts roasted by The_very_angry_man @ 12/01/2003 01:56 AM EST

did you know trevor bundy is gay

Chestnuts roasted by Greg @ 02/03/2004 11:40 AM EST

what the hell ive never heard of
tcm for atari and i dont think i want to after seeing that

Chestnuts roasted by louckster @ 02/19/2004 11:13 AM EST

looking at the cover is probably
better than playing that excuse of a game

Chestnuts roasted by louckster @ 02/19/2004 11:22 AM EST

i love extra large penis

Chestnuts roasted by penis ingulfer @ 02/19/2004 11:26 AM EST

matt i eat your mom for breakfast

Chestnuts roasted by stoner @ 02/19/2004 11:28 AM EST

lunch

Chestnuts roasted by stoner @ 02/19/2004 11:29 AM EST

and dinner

Chestnuts roasted by stoner @ 02/19/2004 11:30 AM EST

dude i have the munchies

Chestnuts roasted by stoner @ 02/19/2004 11:31 AM EST

for your mom matt

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