By 2009, when this Sunday A&J first appeared, video games had advanced well beyond what Ludwig is playing, but yours truly still was stuck in Atariland. But after all, he is a cat, and I’m an old man, so cut us some slack. I actually owned an early Atari game console and enjoyed it very much. My glory days, though, coincided with the dawn of computerized arcade games, such as “Space Invaders.” I remember a buddy and I were playing Space Invaders at a two-man, sit-down game console in an establishment called “The Cherokee Inn” in Jackson, Mississippi, one evening in the early ’80s. The Cherokee Inn was, well… they would call in a “pub” in England. Someone who had gotten a head start elsewhere pulled into the parking lot and failed to stop quite in time. There was a loud “wham,” and the plywood wall next to our gaming table buckled inward. If the driver had been going much faster, you might not be reading this, but, unperturbed, we kept playing.
Playful as a Kitten
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273 responses to “Playful as a Kitten”
I spent many days playing this game. The only thing that’s left is the pistol.
I guess it’s been a long time since my last post. Didn’t notice my name was blanked out.
Whoops! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11582733/Strange-outer-space-signal-that-baffled-Australian-scientists-turns-out-to-be-microwave-oven.html
My favorite was Asteroids. First played that at an arcade at Knotts Berry Farm during a visit to California in 1975. Boy, that dates me!
My cats all seem to know how to log on. Find some interesting stuff on computer in mornings.
That or my resident ghost is still trying to communicate. Nah, probably Ashes, the Wonder Cat.
My cats all seem to know how to log on. Find some interesting stuff on computer in mornings.
That or my resident ghost is still trying to communicate. Nah, probably Ashes, the Wonder Cat.
Mindy from Indy, happiest of birthdays! I hope each year ahead is even better than the one before!
Jimmy, that’s quite a story! I imagine that when the driver finally staggered into “The Cherokee Inn”, the only beverage choices he was offered were pop, juice, or water.
It slightly amazes me how many things “unperturb” me these days, compared to “back then”. Due to maturation? Or to just having developed more of a don’t-give-a-spit attitude over time regarding the small stuff?
Happy Birthday, Lady Mindy. I hope you find a way to have some fun today. Maybe have some rum or something. 😀
Ghost, go back to the end of last retro and my comments about my Legally Blonde lawyer Erin from Harvard and my James Brown and Pavarotti duet on It’s a Mans World. I have gotten better on linking it seems. Love, Jackie
The only video game that I played was Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo. We still have the console and my son wants to keep it to play with his kids. I remember being out of work the summer that we bought it and I played on it too long. I remember feeling “jumpy” at a job interview, so I quit plaing the game. My son tried to get me to play Madden, but when I saw Barry Sander spiking the football after a touchdown, I quit. No way Barry would have done that in real life.
Someone is making consoles with the classic games built into them now. There are sets for Atari, Colecovision and Intellivision. All have multiple games already installed.
I peaked at Pong, which should give you the idea. The only other game I remember is Tetris and I was never very good at it. Now the computer version of pinball, that’s a different story. We’re happy to hear from you Debbe and I understand your situation with loaning a vehicle and I’ll be happy to give you the telephone number for Hertz. Yesterday we received a kind of apology from my step-daughter and I was amazed because that’s never happened before. We’ll just have to see what the future brings.
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Happy birthday Mindy/Indy and to anyone else I may have missed!
I tried posting once this afternoon; it didn’t appear. But I wrote that I found last year’s appearance of Luddie playing CatArari. It was on September 2. I also wrote that I used the other A&J search engine, which was—on the homepage here—pushing “Next” 95 times. Maybe my URL threw the message in the message dungeon.
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Happy Birthday Mindy of Indy. My favorite “outside” game was Galaga. We never got a console, but played lot’s of stuff on a Commodore 128D. My better half still wishes we could nail a copy of Dolphin Speller somewhere, it was on a cartridge that plugged into the back of the 128D.
Yes, Jackie, there have been some wonderfully weird singing duos over the years, but Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown would have to rank right up there.
Re Legally Blonde Erin, smart and beautiful is a killer combination for a woman. But of course, you’d know that. 😉
I never really played this particular game, but I watched many fine players run up some impressive scores. With that in mind, I present
“Centipede”
(To the tune of “Yesterday”)
Centipede
It’s a game at which I can succeed
I could play until my fingers bleed
You know I’m good at Centipede.
Suddenly,
There’s a spider right in front of me
Can’t stop now to have a cup of tea
The centipede came rapidly…
Where’d my quarters go?
Guess you know
I played all day.
I did something wrong
Now I long for a replay-ay-ay-ay…
Speaking of opera…could Elvis have sung it? I suspect he could have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZ66l8aRlY
Indy Mindy…
Happy birthday ! ! !
from Indiana SAM (Steve Moore) about 75 miles north of you.
Whoops, the last verse dropped off for some reason:
Saturday
Only got my paycheck yesterday
What’s my starving family gonna say?
They’ve packed their things, and moved away…
Yes, I have always thought Elvis could have sung opera. He did sing in German, learned phonetically in GI Blues. No one often speaks the language they sing in. Especially opera.
But that jacket! Covet that glitz! Bling! I am wearing a silky top with a 64 point compass rose across front, all directions of wind and water and Astral signs (leggings reat geometric patterns and colors bur no bling. Elvis washing of Bling. Looks like a Mayan calendar?
Yeah, I think Brown and the tenor were an odd couple.
Love Jackie
Pong Deluxe or Super Pong, whatever it was, and it carried the Sears nameplate. It had four games on it and was a marvel.
Although I didn’t have the very first home video game console (Odyssey), I did have Odyssey II shortly after the Super Pong. Later, I added the voice attachment – one of the first available.
Debbe 😉 Glad you made it though the weekend OK, hon. Some here were worried about you, but not I…if something had been wrong I’m sure I’d have felt a great disturbance in the Force. 🙂
Who says pop music can’t be great music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM
Of course, having a string section never hurt a tune.
Reposted from early this morning:
TIP is delightful. emb
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
The painting’s title = “The inopportune.”