Episode 0
Before we get to the strip, a couple of bits of trivia: First, I didn't actually write it. Second, It makes absolutely no sense out of context.
So, here's what happened...
Back in the late 90's, there was a website I frequented called ClassicGaming.com. Long-since slurped up into the morass that is now IGN, it used to be a cool website. There was a semi-regular column titled "Game of the Week" (long before blogs, mind you), generally written by someone going by the name of "Fragmaster". He also handled the mailbag chores there (again - long before blog comments), answering reader e-mails, and bringing a welcomed dose of humor into the whole classic gaming scene.
On April 16, 1999, the following letter showed up in the Mailbag:
(You can read the original exchange, thanks to the Wayback Machine near the bottom of this page.)
Anyway, that struck me as being very funny, so I drew it up. I never actually did anything with it for whatever reason (probably the aforementioned fact that it makes no sense out of context), and so the finished artwork has sat on various hard drives for the last 10+ years, gathering dust, and waiting for its extremely dated humor to finally see the light of day.
So with that, we present the only known prototype to exist of "Artie the Atari":
I wonder what I could get for it on eBay...
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