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                  They may look crude, but they sure were fun
                                        
While perusing Slashdot [1] I noticed this article [2] about a new Quake 3
map [3] based upon the old Atari 2600 VCS [4] game Adventure [5], which
brought back a ton of memories, spending hours playing games—the most
hilarious being Football [6] (well, at least I found it hilarious to play;
the Intellivision [7] Football game [8] rocked though). 

Not wanting to wake The Boys up, I found an Atari 2600 VCS emulator [9] I
could use to play the games I remember from childhood. So I spent a few hours
(okay, way too many hours) playing a ton of games, including one made in
1990! [10] (who knew Atari [11] even made cartridges for the 2600 that late?)


I even found a game [12] that Rob [13] might like. 

[1] http://slashdot.org/
[2] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/11/0628220&mode=flat&tid=112
[3] http://www.ataritimes.com/classics/features/fea_q3_adventure.html
[4] http://www.atariage.com/software_search.html?SystemID=2600
[5] http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=1
[6] http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=186
[7] http://www.intellivisionlives.com/
[8] http://www.gamespy.com/halloffame/february02/nflfootball/
[9] http://stella.sourceforge.net/
[10] http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=602
[11] http://www.atari.com/
[12] http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareID=1290
[13] http://www.tragic-smurfs.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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