Late at night, I often lay in bed pondering the deep, unanswerable questions of life: Why are we here? What does it all mean? And why would someone decide to make a video game based off Purina’s Chuck Wagon line of dog food? First, a little background is necessary. In...
Kids these days don’t know how good they’ve got it. Why, back in the olden days, our programming was so rudimentary it was literally called BASIC. We didn’t have any of these fancy MMORPGs. No sir. When we wanted to play a video game we played things like Paper Boy,...
One of my most distinctive childhood memories: I woke up before sunrise on a Saturday morning. It was raining. To be more specific, there was freezing rain pelting the windows. I turned on the television. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was playing. Not the crappy...
We were somewhere in the Louisiana backwoods. I had been driving for hours, powered by a mixture of Five Hour Energy, coffee, and the Trainspotting soundtrack. A light fog hovered above the asphalt. At least, I think it was a fog. There was a non-zero chance that it...
In and of itself, the game Buzz Bombers was not that unusual. The title was Intellivision’s answer to the mega-popular game Centipede. In fact, the concept behind Buzz Bomber might be slightly less ridiculous. In Centipede, you play the part of a garden gnome with a...