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Kangaroo, I Don’t Know What to Do

I rode a ride called the Kangaroo at Kennywood last weekend. This was installed in 1962, closed in 2021, and restored in 2022. It’s called a flying coaster, although it’s not a ROLLER coaster, but a circular ride with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Gender, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, Video Games, Winnie-the-Pooh, Zelda | Tagged amusement parks, apes, apple panic, atari, bayeux tapestry, bionic commando, birds, cereal, condors, crazy climber, crazy kong, demon lords, demons, dragon quest iv, ernest shepard, forest of gugu, fuddlecumjig, harold lloyd, henry mancini, joey kangaroo, kanga, kangaroo, kangaroos, katy kangaroo, kenny kangaroo, kennywood, king kong, lode runner, monkeys, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, piglet, psaro, rabbit, ricky the kangaroo, roo, safety last, saturday supercade, scott joplin, shoes, space panic, sunsoft, the emerald city of oz, the magic of oz, tony the tiger |

Going on a Bear Hunt

There’s a game Beth had for the Atari 2600 called Crystal Castles, and I looked it up recently. Like many such games, it was originally an arcade cabinet, with the isometric graphics being a major part of its appeal. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Music, Television, Video Games | Tagged atari, bears, bees, bentley bear, berthilda the witch, crystal castles, crystal quest, devil world, franz liszt, gem eaters, ghosts, nutcracker suite, piotr ilyich tchaikovsky, she-ra, skeletons, witches, wreck-it ralph |

The Lady’s in Hades

I’ve written a bit about Battle of Olympus before. My family rented it a few times in my childhood but could never get too far in it, maybe as far as the first Cyclops. In terms of gameplay, it was … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Castlevania, Comics, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Kid Icarus, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged achilles, angel land, anubis, atari, battle of olympus, bears, broderbund, castlevania ii: simon's quest, cerberus, chocobos, clash of the titans, cyclopes, dragon quest vi, dragons, eurydice, hades, helen of troy, hydra, isis, kid icarus uprising, lamia, medusa, minotaur, monkeys, mount olympus, ocarina, orpheus, pegasus, persephone, ray harryhausen, riddle of the sphinx, satyrs, snakes, talos, underworld |

Myriapod Mania

I played a little bit of Centipede at the Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park this past weekend, and I remembered seeing something online about the manual for the Atari 2600 version having a crazy back story. The game, introduced in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Biology, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Science, Video Games | Tagged atari, bees, beetles, centipede, dragonflies, earwigs, elves, fleas, hypnosis, inchworms, insects, kamek, lord motley bugnut, millipede, mosquitoes, mushrooms, myriapoda, paper mario: sticker star, scorpions, shigeru miyamoto, space invaders, spiders, super mario land, super mario land 2, wigglers, wizards |

The Most Horrific Time of the Year

Here are some thoughts on the horror and horror-adjacent movies that Beth and I watched this month. Halloween in a Box – This documentary is about the cheap costumes that came in what looked like pie boxes, made by Ben … Continue reading →

Posted in Aztec, Cartoons, Halloween, Holidays, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Snobbery, Star Wars, Television, The Simpsons, Urban Legends, Video Games | Tagged aliens, american mary, atari, ben cooper, bob's burgers, body modification, collegeville, cosplay, costumes, dead hooker in a trunk, e.t., halco, halloween in a box, homer simpson, jack kirby, jen soska, kang and kodos, maggie simpson, q the winged serpent, quetzalcoatl, selma bouvier, spider-man, steve ditko, stranger things, sylvia soska, the omen, the shape of water, treehouse of horror, when a stranger calls, zorro |

I Pity the Fool Who Doesn’t Phone Home

Atari: Game Over – This documentary from last year discusses the rise and fall of Atari, centered around the excavation of the 1983 dump of video games in the New Mexico desert. It focuses on the 1982 game E.T the … Continue reading →

I’ve Finally Found a Jungle I Like

My family was pretty late in getting a Nintendo, but we DID have a Texas Instruments 99/4A computer. TI is now better known for its graphing calculators, and those probably have more advanced games than the 99/4A did back then, … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Board Games, Games, Video Games | Tagged atari, jungle boy, jungle hunt, jungle king, lady penelope dashly, milton bradley, pirate pete, sir dudley dashly, taito, texas instruments |

Simonized

There are so many games that we all know where I’ve only recently thought to wonder about their origins. We all know Simon Says, a game that’s presumably supposed to teach kids to listen carefully. I checked the Internet to … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Games, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Technology, Video Games | Tagged atari, bible, cicero, genesis, henry iii of england, israel, jacob, jesus, judah, leah, levi, rachel, schechem, simeon, simon de montfort, simon edy, simon says, simple simon, st. peter, touch me |

Chasing the Dragon

When thinking up ideas for video game related posts, there were two games involving dragons, or at least eight-bit versions of dragons, that came to mind. The first was Adventure, sometimes known as Atari Adventure because its official name is … Continue reading →

Posted in Video Games | Tagged adventure, atari, atari adventure, bob, bub, bubble bobble, bubble dragons, dragons, grundle, rhindle, yorgle |

The Annals of Electronic Entertainment

The Ultimate History of Video Games, by Steven L. Kent – This book provides a good overview of the video game industry from its beginnings (well, actually BEFORE its beginnings, as it says a bit about pinball and other precursors … Continue reading →