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[Deteacher]

During this past week's episode of "Big Bang Theory", Sheldon invited his new friends over for the evening. It was "Retro Games Thursday" and their choices were some ColecoVision game, Atari's "Cookie Monster Munch" and "Zork I." Why, of all games in the Atari library, would a grown man choose a Sesame Street game, is beyond me, but I thought the mention was still pretty cool!

[Philflound]

Kids games are cool. It makes you feel smart to play.

Phil

[Cebus Capucinis]

PSHAW! Cookie Monster Munch? What fools! Everyone knows Oscar's Trash Race is the superior CTW game.

Cool to see they picked an under-represented title, though. It wouldn't have been as cool to see Asteroids, Pac-Man, or Space Invaders be chosen. I wonder if it was intentionally written that way or if the prop guy could only find the CMM cart?

[Scrabbler15]

I didn't see the show, but somebody at work did. They felt compelled to tell me about it (for some reason )

[Cap5750]

Deteacher, on Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:47 AM, said:

During this past week's episode of "Big Bang Theory", Sheldon invited his new friends over for the evening. It was "Retro Games Thursday" and their choices were some ColecoVision game, Atari's "Cookie Monster Munch" and "Zork I." Why, of all games in the Atari library, would a grown man choose a Sesame Street game, is beyond me, but I thought the mention was still pretty cool!

Smurf Rescue In Gargamel's Castle was the ColecoVision game.

[Deteacher]

Cap5750, on Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:57 PM, said:

Deteacher, on Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:47 AM, said:

During this past week's episode of "Big Bang Theory", Sheldon invited his new friends over for the evening. It was "Retro Games Thursday" and their choices were some ColecoVision game, Atari's "Cookie Monster Munch" and "Zork I." Why, of all games in the Atari library, would a grown man choose a Sesame Street game, is beyond me, but I thought the mention was still pretty cool!

Smurf Rescue In Gargamel's Castle was the ColecoVision game.

That's what it was...I couldn't remember. +1 rep for you!

[user42]

Deteacher, on Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:47 AM, said:

Why, of all games in the Atari library, would a grown man choose a Sesame Street game, is beyond me,

I think the point was that he wanted to play Zork....

[homerwannabee]

user42, on Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:51 PM, said:

Deteacher, on Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:47 AM, said:

Why, of all games in the Atari library, would a grown man choose a Sesame Street game, is beyond me,

I think the point was that he wanted to play Zork....

Bingo, he got one of the lamest Atari 2600 games for adults to play, and a lame Colecovision kids game just to play his Zork game. Still it was awesome to see them give some representation to an old school game.

[Schizophretard]

Deteacher, on Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:47 AM, said:

During this past week's episode of "Big Bang Theory", Sheldon invited his new friends over for the evening. It was "Retro Games Thursday" and their choices were some ColecoVision game, Atari's "Cookie Monster Munch" and "Zork I." Why, of all games in the Atari library, would a grown man choose a Sesame Street game, is beyond me, but I thought the mention was still pretty cool!

Did I miss the episode where Sheldon became a grown man?

[Rex Dart]

Schizophretard, on Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:18 AM, said:

Did I miss the episode where Sheldon became a grown man?

Zinnnng!

[StanJr]

Schizophretard, on Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:18 AM, said:

Did I miss the episode where Sheldon became a grown man?

Ba-zinga!

[CincYnoTi]

Intellivision game choice was either Word Fun or Math Fun.

[misspent_youth]

the copy of Smurf was the 2600 version because it was in a red box, not the gray ColecoVision box.

[user42]

misspent_youth, on Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:59 PM, said:

the copy of Smurf was the 2600 version because it was in a red box, not the gray ColecoVision box.

LOL, I missed that. You would think with a show made for nerds, they should have known that someone would notice...

Edited by user42, Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:55 PM.

[Lord Helmet]

misspent_youth, on Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:59 PM, said:

the copy of Smurf was the 2600 version because it was in a red box, not the gray ColecoVision box.

Yup. I turned to my wife and told here that it was DEFINITELY NOT the Colecovision version. She just shook her head at me and called me a dork