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

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Ahhrrr... matey!

I just wrapped up working on the manual for Phantom II / Pirate (coming soon to the AtariAge store).   Dave Dries (who did the Wolfenstein VCS artwork) created the excellent artwork for Phantom II, while I worked on the art for Pirate, and laid out the manual (which covers both games).   Pirate is basically being included as a bonus game, so the focus of the cover and label is Phantom II. The Pirate stuff is inside the manual.   Since you probably won't get to see the Pirate art until you
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Adaptability

Live - RIGHT NOW. The Virtual 2020 CalArts Character Animation Open Show: https://youtu.be/zjXrDox2a08   We didn't have a show in the Spring, and can't meet in person yet. So we're kicking off the fall semester remotely by screening the films online that our students were able to complete over the summer despite the craziness of the Coronavirus pandemic and resulting campus shutdown. Enjoy!
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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A year and a week

On December 17, 2010, Disney will release Tron: Legacy.   Yes... I'm looking forward to this.   I'm posting about it now, because Disney just released a teaser poster, and a couple of publicity stills.   And so you don't have to dig them up elsewhere, and because I like to laugh in the face of "cease and desist" orders, and because I need an excuse to pull my blog back off of "Page 2"... here are the pics:   "The Game Has Changed"   Olivia Wilde and Garrett Hedlund   Garrett Hedlund
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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A small diversion

I picked these up the other day: There are quite a few of these mini-arcade cabinets on the market. Different manufacturers make their own versions with various games being available. Some are available at Target and other stores, but I decided to pick up these particular ones from Amazon after seeing Ben Heck hack one of them into a multi-game keychain: There have been a number of reviews of them online, most of them being pretty favorable. To me they just looked... cool. I liked that
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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A quick digression

Jumping back to the animation industry for a second... the rumor of the day is that Apple will buy Disney. Umm... no. Not gonna happen. Why? Apple has no reason to, or more to the point, Steve Jobs has no reason to. With the Disney buyout of Pixar (or more accurately - the Pixar takeover of Disney), Steve is already in the position he needs to be in, to get whatever he needs from Disney for Apple, and what he's after is content for the iTunes video store, or more to the point - content for t
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A Jedi craves not these things

You know, adventure... excitement...     ...16 more Homebreviews.   I hated to cover up Dave Dries' nifty Dungeon poster like that, but when I put it on top, I could no longer see the games.   I've already reviewed Juno First, but since I had some extra store credit, I figured I'd get the spiffy box Marc Oberhäuser made for it (available in the AtariAge store).   I've also already reviewed Conquest of Mars, but that was before John tweaked the game to make it easier to see where the
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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Comic Strips

A Handy thing to have

(Incidentally, I'm still really irritated by the forum software's inexplicable need to resize images that don't need to be resized. Also the fact that it doesn't indicate that the image has been resized, nor give the viewer any clue that you can enlarge it to full size by clicking on it.)   135 < PreviousIndexNext >
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum in Comic Strips

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A Brief History of the History of Computer History

As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently rented Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview from iTunes. Here's the trailer:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmguwF7ruoM   I'll admit to having a fascination with the history of computers, for a couple of reasons. First of all, my dad worked as a computer programmer, so even from the earliest days I was at least peripherally aware of things like punch cards and ASCII printouts on continuous feed paper (someone at his work would print out Peanuts calen
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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A big, flickery mess?

So... back to one of the things on my "To-do" list - namely, "Stupid Game Ideas". (Pretend that was said in a loud, booming voice with lots of echo.)   ...ideas... ...ideas... ...ideas...   These are the games I would make for the Atari 2600, if I had any clue about programming.   And trust me... I don't. I've read through a bunch of the 2600 "how-to" stuff, and even though I kind-of get some of the limitations of the 2600, and have a vague sense of what the hardware is doing, I have no
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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8, 500, and other meaningless numbers

Well, it's the eighth anniversary of my blog, and my 500th blog entry.   I've posted 162 episodes of Artie the Atari (with an updated index), 109 homebrew reviews (spread over 38 entries), about 40 movie reviews (I need to go in and fix some tags, apparently), blogged about 4 seasons of the WRC and 5 seasons of The Clone Wars. Plus I've posted a few To-Do lists, a handful of Photoshop tutorials, and the occasional rant about videogames. So I guess the rest was all filler. I'm not really sure h
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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5-minute movie review - Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is a decent popcorn flick. The stunts and gadgets are completely ridiculous, unbelievable and well... impossible, but they're still pretty fun. Animation director Brad Bird (Iron Giant, Ratatouille, The Incredibles) makes his live-action debut here, and although he doesn't have any writing credits on the film, his distinctive fingerprints (especially his sense of humor) are still present throughout the film.   Don't expect a plot that makes any sense, since t
Nathan Strum

Nathan Strum

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