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old song called “Dead Man’s Party.”
Atari 2600 game console
the guy who created Adventure, a man named Warren Robinett, decided to hide his name inside the game itself.
episode of my Family Ties
OASIS. The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.
You’d be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of surreal image you’d expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine.
the reality of my situation finally began to hit home. I was now a fugitive, living under an assumed name.
why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.
Capitalism would inch forward, without my actually having to interact face-to-face with another human being. Which was exactly how I preferred it, thank you.
Greetings, Parzival. Please speak your pass phrase. I cleared my throat and recited my pass phrase. Each word appeared on my display as I said it. “No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.”
Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton
the very first videogame, Tennis for Two, invented by William Higinbotham in 1958. The game ran on an ancient analog computer and was played on a tiny oscilloscope screen about five inches in diameter. Next to it was a replica of an ancient PDP-1 computer running a copy of Spacewar!, the second videogame ever made, created by a bunch of students at MIT in 1962.
It was a high-resolution scan of the instruction manual cover for the text adventure game Zork—the version released in 1980 by Personal Software for the TRS-80 Model III.
Continue your quest by taking the test
Black Tiger. Capcom, 1987.
The first was ringed in red metal The second, in green stone The third is clearest crystal and cannot be unlocked alone
From the very start, Marie had used a white male avatar to conduct all of her online business, because of the marked difference it made in how she was treated and the opportunities she was given.
my new pass phrase: “Reindeer Flotilla Setec Astronomy.”
I recognized its distinctive, angular cabinet immediately. Tempest. Atari. 1980.
You look just like I always thought you would too,” she said. “Butt ugly.”
