Chronogamer

Dear Japan,

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:32:00 +0000

Dear Japan,

Please get well soon.

Love,

Mezrabad

No CGE for me

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:16:00 +0000

Nope, no CGE, but at least I'm working on this again.

I've been cleaning up the old entries and making sure they've got formatting (like... paragraphs!) and links that work, and pictures that load and movies that actually play.

If I feel like I don't have a big trailing mess behind me it may be easier to move forward....

I have forgotten to feed my fish...

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:14:00 +0000

...I left my dog in the car with the windows up and all of the plants are dead. The stretching sound you hear is a metaphor being abused.

I've come to realize that it's taken me three years to get even halfway through 1980. Play-lag has reared it's ugly cliched head in this blog before, but now it has become actually detrimental to...

Night Driver (Atari VCS, 1980)

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:51:00 +0000

Night Driver (Atari VCS, 1980)

First, a look at the arcade game that inspired the home version.

I believe that video is captured from the MAME version. The yellow car on the screen would have been an overlay in the arcade. The lights represent the glowing reflectors on the sides...

Dodge 'Em aka Dodger Cars (Atari VCS, 1980)

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:42:00 +0000

Dodge 'Em aka Dodger Cars (Atari VCS, 1980)

This game is about an insane sonuvabitch who has no regard for your life, your passenger's life nor even his own life.

The playing field is a four-lane circular track. The player races around it collecting dots. The player may...

3D-Tic-Tac-Toe (Atari VCS, 1980)

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:55:00 +0000

Off topic, but my Xbox Live name is Chronogamer. If you play 1 vs 100 Live on the Xbox 360, then you'll know what I'm talking about. Last night, I (with the help of my lovely and brilliant wife) came in third out of a crowd of 42,000 in a Live game and won myself a copy of RezHD! Yay! By the way, if you're an Xbox Live person,...

Circus Atari (Atari VCS, 1980)

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:56:00 +0000

Circus Atari (Atari VCS, 1980)

One of the inspirations for doing what I'm doing here (even though it's been progressively less frequent) is the fact that "back in the day" I didn't actually get to play most of these games. Intellivision? I know one person that had it, and I only ever saw AD&D in action-but never...

Steeplechase (Atari VCS, 1980)

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:27:00 +0000

Steeplechase (Atari VCS, 1980)

Before I get into the game, I want to get into the term "Steeplechase".

For me "Steeplechase" has always stood for the name of an amusement pier in Atlantic City (though there was one in Coney Island, too, I never saw it). I can't say my family and I went "down the shore" a...

Stellar Track (Atari VCS, 1980)

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:03:00 +0000

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Stellar Track (Atari VCS, 1980)

The genetic precursor to Stellar Track is a main frame computer game called Star Trek, based on the franchise of the same name. You can read all about the history of the...

Adventure (Atari VCS, 1980)

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:17:00 +0000

Adventure (Atari VCS, 1980)

Okay, I"ve started this entry about six times! I'm trying to keep myself from babbling but what I keep writing is a long and pretty uninteresting description of the different elements of Adventure. I'm failing to capture the essence of the whole which is so much greater than just a...