This is my idea of a handheld game player: [link]
I think I'm a bit behind the times....
edit to change link....
eta²: also, this Battlestar Galactica game: [link]
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2008 6:17:31 am PST #3240 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
lisah - Mar 06, 2008 6:21:55 am PST #3241 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
This is my idea of a handheld game player: [link]
Bwah! That's what I was going to say! It's the only time I ever loved (or even vaguely understood) football.
amych - Mar 06, 2008 6:24:48 am PST #3242 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm not sure I ever understood football, but I did understand the little bleep-bleep-bleeping red dots.
Dana - Mar 06, 2008 6:29:26 am PST #3243 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, man, I kicked ass at that football game.
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2008 6:32:24 am PST #3244 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My brother and I both got really good at it. When playing against each other, we developed the strategy of taking an entire half to score a touchdown, waiting until time had run out on the clock to do so. That way the other player could not score in the same half.
We ended up with a lot of tied games.
Anyone have that Battlestar Galactica game? The first Cylon always came straight up the middle, so you just kept the firing thing in the middle and fired as soon as the game started, and you were guaranteed a 6 (or whatever) for killing the first Cylon.
Susan W. - Mar 06, 2008 6:34:37 am PST #3245 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm never going to understand why anyone would adulterate perfectly good banana bread with chocolate chips.
Because it tastes better that way. And far better than it tastes when filled with nuts or t ack! ptui! ruined by raisins.
amych - Mar 06, 2008 6:38:18 am PST #3246 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I never really got good at the football game, because it was Something My Cousins Had and I only got to play it on vacation (other Things My Cousins Had: Atari. Cable TV. VCR. Commodore 64. Thank you, Uncle Bob, for being a total gadgethead!)
Instead, I got a Merlin ( [link] ), because it was fucking educational. And it was: it taught me that Tic Tac Toe gets really boring about 3 seconds after you figure out how to force a tie every time, ages before War Games came out.
tommyrot - Mar 06, 2008 6:40:39 am PST #3247 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Instead, I got a Merlin
We had that too. I remember liking it, but not for the Tic Tac Toe game. What were the other games it could play?
Sue - Mar 06, 2008 6:42:50 am PST #3248 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I still have my Merlin, and a few years ago I showed it to my nephew, as an example if the Electronic games I had growing up. He could not have thought it lamer.
shrift - Mar 06, 2008 6:42:59 am PST #3249 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I am starving. And I have totally failed at bringing my lunch this week, but that's mostly due to me barely having time to make dinner let alone cook extra food to bring to the office.
I'm not going to a concert for two whole days! Thank god. I need some naps.