Somebody get this freakin’ duck away from me!

ByWil

Man, I love this game.
I have so many Atari-related memories . . . I could go on for pages and pages . . . another day. 🙂

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  1. This has nothing to do with anything really, but I thought you should know:
    The man who runs this fine page saw your delightfully popular blog, and in particular a post with 234 comments on it, and came up with an idea.
    If he can get 234 comments and equal yourself by Friday, he’ll give

  2. wow. talk about dredging up memories from my youngest days… dayum… turning 19 in august and I BARELY remember having some of these systems… heck I had a sega master drive for the logest time and an old atari even when all me mates were playing SNES…. heehee… gonna go out find an emulator and play a game of zork now! lol

  3. heh I know what you mean, actually I am eager to find a few parts I need to get my olde atari fixed, so I can keep on playing… no matter how many new games and interfaces are created, my favorite one will always be the atari

  4. heh I know what you mean, actually I am eager to find a few parts I need to get my olde atari fixed, so I can keep on playing… no matter how many new games and interfaces are created, my favorite one will always be the atari

  5. heh I know what you mean, actually I am eager to find a few parts I need to get my olde atari fixed, so I can keep on playing… no matter how many new games and interfaces are created, my favorite one will always be the atari

  6. Wil,
    I have to agree with the kid on this one. Its like saying I would rather watch black and white TV instead of cable and colors. Change sometimes is great!!!!!!!
    FG

  7. Hell Yeah Uncle Willie! Atari kicks ass – I swear I spent half my childhood watching with admiration as my older brothers conquered each game. When it was finally my turn, I would last for a whole 20 seconds or so, and then I’d be watching them again for the next 40 minutes. I just loved being the younger sister with no eye-hand coordination 😉

  8. My mom wouldn’t buy me one when I was a kid ! Oh,the humanity !!
    Seriouly though,my friends did have one and I stayed over their house playing that thing all the time.I still love playing those games !

  9. To all the people saying Atari and all the old-school games aren’t as good as the newer stuff:Atari systems had poor graphics compared to what we have now, but they tended to have incredibly addictive gameplay. Of course, there were quite a few duds, but who can forget games like Asteroids? Pac-Man? Combat? The classics have a lot of fun gameplay left in them. Plus, with all the electronics advances in the past 20-odd years, you can pack the entire system plus ten games into a joystick and sell it for $25. Sometimes the latest and greatest games have nothing going for them but flashy graphics; graphics are great, but nothing beats out gameplay.

  11. Had an atari st fx myself. Man how many nostalga moments does that one bring up. Was such a move from the old BBC Model B! still frogger and dizzy kicked proverbial arse!

  13. Wil,
    Seriously now, stop writing such a damn good website, and stop introducing me to things like these. I procrastinate far too much as it is, and really, you’re not helping. I’ve got 5000 words to write for a dissertation by the end of the day, and I need to crack on with it.
    Oh, and one more thing, what GPS for Geocaching do you recommend?

  14. Speaking of old Atari games… we got a set of arcade games for our pc it has all of the old titles. Astroids, SpaceInvaders, Centipede, etc…
    Since we have gotten this my kids have been addicted, yes they have all those new games console and pc but they love the old ones too. Why? I don’t know but somehow they think they are really cool.
    Me I played more of those cute games like pac-man, donkey kong and Qbert. I think I still have one of those miniture arcade games around somewhere…. Pacman I think.
    Nolan….probably didn’t really think it was lame, but just wanted to say that, because thats the age he is right now. 😉

  15. We had the Atari system that had the keyboard attached, so you could use it like . . . well, at that time, a ‘real computer’, to program games. It was kind of like playing DOS games or something. We thought it was so freaking advanced. 😉

  16. I didn’t have Atari as a kid. I had Intellivision. Just as good, if not better, really. I must have had about 75 or so cartridges, thanks to the VG industry crash of ’83. They got SOOOOO cheap after that! I just recently found a small stash of game carts in my basement, all of them were the games I played to no end. I think we can blame systems like that for helping us become the Geeks we are today. Long live classic gaming! And tell Nolan that the systems he has today are spoiling him. Give him the “When I was your age” speech. That works… Sometimes… LOL

  17. Long-time reader, first-time poster: My sister and I were just reminiscing the other day about our love for Adventure and Circus Atari! Thank you so much for the link to the 10in1 product. Of course, my husband will not thank you for the loss of interactive time together. 😉

  18. Zork!!
    “It is pitch black. You are about to be eaten by a grue.”
    I wish they still made the text-only versions for the PC. That would be cool… and SO much better than the graphical crap they turned it into.

  19. There is an annual interactive fiction contest where people write zork-like games, people play and judge them, and someone wins. The result is more text adventures than you can shake a stick at.
    I can’t seem to find the link to the contest, but here is a address for an archive of adventures:
    http://www.ifarchive.org/

  20. Damn you Wheaton! Here I was, all set to work, when I decide “I’ll just pop over, real quick like, and see what Uncle Willie’s up too.” Then all of a sudden I was playing Adventure of the next half hour…..I still have an Atari and a bunch of game cartridges. Got the whole lot at a garage sale for $5 a few years ago…..grew up with it – I was the first kid onteh block to have one, and was I ever cool…..man…..

  22. I have over 300 games in my Atari 2600 collection. I also programmed two cartridges for the Atari 2600.
    I am a huge Atari geek.

  23. Hell, I still had my Atari 800XL hooked up and played with it until I got an emulator for my PC. I loved it.

  25. Oh man, not only do you like Atari but you like Strong Bad too??
    *sigh*
    My childhood suspiscions were right – you ARE the man for me!!

  26. Homestar Runner got me going on Atari and Adventure again too.
    I just got the Jaaks 10-in-1 controller that has Adventure on it, but they flarged the easter egg. Instead of the message it just says “text?” in blinky letters.
    Also/also, I found out (while researching the easter egg) that Warren Robinett addtly made the games Rocky’s Boots and Robot Odyssey. Yes, it is no mistake that the catacomb mazes in Adventure and Robot Odyssey look the same: made by the same m4d c0d3r 🙂
    Now if the lot of you will excuse, I’ve some Godel Escher Bach to read.
    – – Heckler, kook of Ellington..

  27. I loved Adventure. The dot was great. I used the bridge to climb the castles and take shortcuts by picking it up and dropping it little by little.
    Zork ruled. We drew our own maps before we finally got one out of a magazine.
    I don’t remember how many times the thief killed me or I got eaten by a grue. And how about the platinum bar? Bar…Bar…
    Also, remember the tanks in Combat? You could fold into the corners and come out the other side of the screen for a sneak attack.
    Zork and Hitchhiker’s Guide inspired me enought to write 3 different Zork type text adventures in Basic for the Apple IIe.
    I also loved the Spy vs. Spy and Pool of Radiance games for the Commodore 128, and still have a Timex Sinclair.
    I wish I knew how many hours I wasted playing Jupiter lander on the C-64, Karateka and Dragon’s Eye on the Apple, or just programming Joust and such out of those big books for the TRS machines. I think I’ve even got an old Wico joystick and trackball in my dad’s attic, along with a busted Ti-44. I’ve still got a magazine ad for the IIgs that showed the retail price at over $4k.
    Real old school… I’ve even got my wife playing Super-Breakout and Pong on the PC.

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