I played Ms Pac-Man a year ago at a bar. I really sucked at it. I don't think I was ever good at it, as I rarely had quarters and access to an arcade. I don't think we had it on the Atari.
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Jul 22, 2005 9:43:40 am PDT #2183 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jesse - Jul 22, 2005 9:44:52 am PDT #2184 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Silly Jilli -- parents can't be expected to know what their kids are doing! That's why it's Corporate America's job to protect the little darlings.
amych - Jul 22, 2005 9:47:16 am PDT #2185 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I was always a bigger fan of Mr than Ms Pac-Man (although props to her for the still relatively early use of "Ms" in popular culture!). Somehow, the Growing LARGE (which phrase now makes me giggle helplessly, thanks to Harvey Birdman) always struck me as a dumb gimmick. But my favorite-ever arcade game, the one that sucked more quarters than I want to think of, was and still is Tempest.
Dana - Jul 22, 2005 9:47:50 am PDT #2186 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ms. Pac-Man rocked. She had a bow on her head and lipstick.
Atropa - Jul 22, 2005 9:48:10 am PDT #2187 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Silly Jilli -- parents can't be expected to know what their kids are doing! That's why it's Corporate America's job to protect the little darlings.
ConcernedMother informed me that she was going to have me fired. I laughed at her, then went and put "Beers, Steers, and Queers" by the Revolting Cocks into the store stereo.
When her son came back in (by himself) a week or so later, I told him he needed to work on his hiding-things-from-mom skills. Then I sold him a Ministry CD.
Calli - Jul 22, 2005 9:48:33 am PDT #2188 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I remember playing Tetris and SimCity on my roommate's computer in college. It was fun enough, but I'd rather spend my time on the computer reading fanfic.
I played the non-porny version of GTA with my nephew when he was about 16, in a room with his mom and dad. The violence seemed so over the top--it was like a Tarantino movie. The nephew had a good grasp on reality vs. what you can get away with in a video game, so I didn't particularly worry about him playing it, although his concurrent dislike of Harry Potter on religious grounds made me go, "Bwhuh?" He's since changed on the latter. He also claims that one of the GTA soundtracks got him into 80s metal, so we now can talk bands.
Which is probably a long-winded way of saying that my GTA experience has been largely tangental, and neutral-to-positive.
sarameg - Jul 22, 2005 9:49:13 am PDT #2189 of 10002
I am apparently missing the "Oooh, this is fun!" gene for them.
Me too. The extent to which I played video games was the text Hitchhiker's and I got bored with that fairly quickly.
-t - Jul 22, 2005 9:49:44 am PDT #2190 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Heh. It was one of the great joys of selling movie tickets to turn away under 17 kids from R rated movies. You gotta take your fun where you find it.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2005 9:53:00 am PDT #2191 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. It was one of the great joys of selling movie tickets to turn away under 17 kids from R rated movies. You gotta take your fun where you find it.
I remember being 13 or 14, I guess, and trying to decide if we should try to get kiddie prices or into an R movie. Why it never occured to us to sneak in is beyond me.
shrift - Jul 22, 2005 9:53:28 am PDT #2192 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Yesterday the Bane of My Existence came up with a new crackpot thing she wanted me to do, and after much forwarding of emails I finally got hold of somebody at corporate to tell them about the new crackpot thing. One of our account execs paused mid-conversation to say, "You know, I don't think that's legal." To which I responded joyfully, "I know! This is what I'm telling you!"
La la la. Out of my hands. La la la.