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Mostly Atari-related projects, and other ramblings. Home of the Artie the Atari comic strip.

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Disney gets something right

Just to provide a balanced counterpoint to yesterday's post, there is proof Disney isn't entirely evil. (And of course, there's always Wreck-It Ralph. Now on Blu-ray!)   They're producing new Mickey Mouse shorts, and by the look of the first one... they've actually got it right.   A funny Mickey Mouse short... who'da thunk?
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Bringing the funny

A few weeks back, "Weird Al" Yankovic released a couple of Blu-ray discs: Alpocalypse HD and "Weird Al" Yankovic Live! The Alpocalypse Tour.   "Weird Al's" last live DVD was released in 2000. Doesn't seem all that long ago...   Anyway... Alpocalypse HD is basically just the videos from his recent album, in HD. The only bonus material are three videos from his previous album (Straight Outta Lynwood) which were made too late to be included on that CD/DVD combo disc: White & Nerdy, Do I Cr
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Good riddance to bad rubbish... Flash in the pan

Adobe finally concedes that Flash is rubbish. At least on mobile devices. And that HTML5 is the way to go.   Funny. Where have we heard that before?   I've long been using ClickToFlash (and now ClickToPlugIn) on my Mac. I can't wait for the day when Flash dies its death on the desktop, too.
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Good riddance to bad rubbish... Platinum Edition

I've ranted about Sallie Mae before.   I'd even mentioned how I had come to personify the company as some crotchety, cantankerous, vindictive old geezer, sitting on a rocking chair (next to her sister Fannie and her inbred idiot cousin Freddie) on the porch of an old house packed to the rafters with cash stolen from bankrupt college students, taking pot-shots at passersby with a shotgun, screaming, "Git away from mah MONEY!" BLAM!!   Something pretty-much like this:     That's Freddie i
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Not exactly insomnia

So, it's 5:00 AM, and I'm wide awake. This is a side-effect of this time of year at my job.   As with last year and the year before, and for that matter, the previous sixteen or so years, I've been burning the midnight oil at both ends (how's that for a mixed-metaphor?) getting our end-of-the-year showing of student films put together. The first show was on Saturday afternoon (May 1st), and from Friday through Sunday morning I was awake about 40 hours straight, minus a short cat-nap in my offi
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Roughin' it

Well, I wasn't originally planning to enter the Q*bert b*nQ label contest, for a couple of reasons. First, because I felt that Q*bert had been done to death. Not the original game (see also here) - which I've always liked - but the property. Q*bert was everywhere in the early 80's, even having his own TV show. So he's been drawn on various advertisements, products, game re-makes, and quilts for 25 years, and I didn't really think I could come up with anything particularly different. Second, I'd
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Homebreviews - part 29

I've been looking forward to this one...     Juno First 5/5   Welcome to the best shooter on the 2600. Every once in awhile, a homebrew game will come along that makes you rethink what the venerable 2600 is capable of doing, and Juno First is one of those games. A port of the classic (if not well-known) Konami arcade game, Juno First is sort of Defender flipped on its side. A vertical shooter, your view is above and behind your ship, flying above a moving grid, blasting everything in sig
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Homebreviews - part 27

Many months ago, I teased: Up next: It takes two to tango This was my intention to finish off the last of the games that I had yet to review for the AtariAge store: Two-Player-Only Games. The trick was, finding that second player. Most of the people I know who are inclined to play videogames don't live in the area. So that meant going out of town, and hauling an Atari, controllers and carts with me. This past weekend, I finally got around to doing just that. I went down to my friend Jeff's pl
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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8-18-82

Twenty-six years, two months, and five days.   That's how long I've been waiting to post this blog entry!   Actually, back then, I didn't even know I'd have a blog now. Or what a blog was. Or would be.   The point is, I've been waiting for this particular day for that long.   "Why," you ask?   Y'see... back in 1982, Intellivision released the game Star Strike, along with a now-infamous commercial...   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPB3H_a234s   Also back in 1982, the comic strip B
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Homebreviews - part 22

Twelve games. Twelve reviews. Two cartridges. It may take me awhile to recover from this one. Stella's Stocking 5/5 Stella's Stocking is a collection of five holiday-themed mini-games, originally sold during the AtariAge 2007 Holiday Sale. The menu for selecting the games squeezes amazing music out of the 2600, along with colorful graphics and titles that slickly scroll into place. Be sure to listen to the extra songs at the fireplace screen, too. This is one of the nicest presentations you'll
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Number 2 with a bullet (a space bullet...)

Just got a PM from John Champeau - Lady Bug is now the #2 best-selling 2600 homebrew in the AtariAge store, recently passing Star Fire and Thrust+ Platinum. (Sorry Manuel and Thomas. )   To date, Lady Bug has 15 perfect reviews. All well-deserved. Congratulations, John!   And thanks for letting me be a part of working on it (label and manual design, and game graphics).
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Homebreviews index - part 1

Here's an index of all 61 Homebreviews to this point, arranged alphabetically, by score.   And based on the number of games slated for release this December, this isn't the end of it.   Not even close.   5/5 2005 Holiday Cart: Reindeer Rescue 2005 MiniGame MultiCart Conquest of Mars Fall Down Four-Play Hunchy II Krokodile Cartridge Lady Bug Medieval Mayhem Oystron Pac-Man Collection (Atari 7800) Power Off! Qb Seawolf Star Fire Strat-O-Gems De
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Quart is in session

Well, it's almost the end of October.   And it's taken all month, but finally, it's here.   Baskin-Robbins Pumpkin Pie ice cream. My annual addiction, as I've mentioned a couple of times before in this blog.   So I've stocked up. I've got a quart of it in the freezer.   Which should last me about one, maybe two... scoops.   Well, they're open again tomorrow.     Speaking of food... I haven't really posted anything from the finished Gingerbread Man manual. I'm kind of holding off o
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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