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Maztr_0n/Meryl's Blog of Glob and mess, random thoughts and mindnesssssss madless.

I'm an "Adult"* who played an AtGames flashback at 11 so somehow has nostalgia for Atari enough to actually buy a 2600+ and start collecting games, hence why she's here, on atariage. She's kinda absent minded and wont shut up, so for everyone's sake. She made a blog for those interested in Blogs... Which are the closest demographic to tolerating this, Dont Expect Much... Dont have much to say and aren't willing to spill any HOT GOSS, so ya know, mainly daily annoyances about how "school is boring" and "how hard it is to get a retro game these days" or how "i really need to find newer musical artists that i like, i know todays music is so different from the past that there are hundreds of bands for literally every niche ever, but i'm too lazy to find them" or "the sun sucks" and MORE! Doesn't that just excite you? As long as her birth year of [See Spoiler] doesn't fill you with existential dread or perhaps if it is your thing then, welcome to the Young Folks messhall...

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2006


*Old Teenager

all in public to see

Entries in this blog

ACTUALLY ATARI

The Custom 2600/7800 Label Template Quest. Up to 2024/18/08.

Okay so ever since the 2600+ came out and my desire to want to be a part of the 2600/7800 community started, i came to the realization that obviously these days its extremely hard to get some of the more obscure or sought after 2600/7800 titles i wanted to play on my system without getting a custom cartridge, which honestly is really fun sounding! I can have my own copy of a game like "Red Sea Crossing" or prototypes like "Sinistar" and even hacks like "Wolfenstein 2600" with the exact kind of l
Games I Randomly Remembered (GIRR)

GIRR: #1 (Franko: The Crazy Revenge)

this kind of thing has only happened to me about twice, so far, and thats mainly because i dont remember their names til i go on r/tipofmyjoystick and somebody immediately finds it, and yeah you can probably find my reddit posts, but i feel like writing about it instead. One time i was watching Vinesause (Vinny) on youtube years ago, and i just remembered this weird beat-em-up on MS-DOS, the big joke about it was that it looked like a Buff Tommy Wiseau out of The Room beating the shit out o
Slogg-Hop

Slogg-Hop: "The Boring Summer" and the boring months of "July/August"

Welcome to "Slogg-Hop" where i do a big vent/rant in a specially tucked away category like most others do! as if this blog wasn't enough about complaining or mindless shitpostings so you read the title, and you might know that i complain about heat, summer and what not so, why did you even click on this? Well its not the same thing i'll avoid weather talk here... It's just i'm in a particular space where i legit dont have anything to do but wait, no cash, no job, no working car,
Maztr_0n

Maztr_0n in Slogg-Hop

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Enternal Sloggs

Disclaimer

by the way yesterdays post was a satire on like, a very specific trend of "fake podcast" that you see on like tiktok... I enjoyed the reactions they were very much expectd, but i did want to give you my welfare check, i am not a 20 something with a black blanket stapled to my wall pretending to have a conversation, and i will not sell you courses on how to be the strong boy. Because if you'd played atari today you'd be strong i think...
The Standard

WHAT THEY DONT WANT THEY WANT YOU TO WANT THEY WANT YOU TO WANT THE WANT THEY WANT YOU TO YOU YOU UOY...

for years the "bad people" controlled media has suppressed truth seekers from seeking the truth... from asking questions about why you can't smoke a cigarette when there is a "gas leak" or why cant we put water in our gas tank to stop "clie-matt change" or why can't i have ice cream for dinner instead of yucky broccoli? the "bad people" have been behind everything that is bad in your life, and also they are the anti-christ. In fact the "bad people" control EVERYTHING! From: The Banks, The
ACTUALLY ATARI

Dear AtariAge - my open resume

dear atariage i hear (or read on my shipping label) that you are in the austin area, i am also in the austin area, so being 100% serious and not joking i would like to work at your warehouses or your mystical magic machines that turn plastic and PCBs into dreams and homebrew game cartridges. experience my experience is... uhhhh.... i play cartridges all the time, but i promise not to steal any games, i will do my job properly and not steal I PROMISE NOT TO STEAL, yes... no stealin
ACTUALLY ATARI

Ikari Addiciton

Winners dont use drugs - US Government in the 80's You could say many jokes about THAT but i wont because this is hosted on a god damn atari video game forum. But remember how i mentioned Ikari and how i missed out on an auction for the 2600 version? Well once i graduated high school/equivalent, i got it as a graduation gift, and... I'm hooked, i bought the "Where did their hair go" song which you can get from AVGN's Couch Guy here, its different from the ikari review, but in many
ACTUALLY ATARI

The (Temporary) Atari 2600 Red Label template.

on the forums i made a little page asking about possible templates for the 2600 Red Label, sadly i dont think many were interested in that idea. Or just didnt see it or respond, but i shouldn't be so judgemental. Essentially what i did is take some red labels (from the AtariAge label guide) and put them in GIMP on a 1080P + 360 PPI project, downloaded the fonts stated by ChristopherD on the forums in 2001 to be from the Red Label games and just overlayed the letters over the original cart,
The Standard

The Exams...

i will likely be free from schooling and then proceed to be tied to office work by the next few weeks in June, hopefully i find a tolerable job to fund my gaming addiction, i'd better be able to settle my ikari cravings...
Hot and you're Cold Takes

The Young Person On AI

people keep hyping up AI like its game changing and its like... no... You're telling a computer to do something basically, no different from, like.... Atari games (but nobody in... idk 1988 was making a whole deal over the fact commando has AI on Atari) just you can like, give them hands and a camera to see... Again it will only do what you tell it to do and as far as i can tell from programmers, its a constant battle just to even get it to do that, even if you make an AI to deliberate
The Standard

(Life as a) Programmers Worst Nightmare

I just realized i epitomize that programmers worst nightmare type without even knowing it, basically i had interest in homebrew so sometimes in homebrew servers i'd just talk about what i think "would be cool to play" or games without source code that i thought would make cool port ideas for each system i was into.... BUT THEN IT DAWNED ON ME, I'M THAT PERSON!!!! ya know the one who goes oh hey you a programmer? well i have a GREAT APP IDEA FOR YOU.... but for consoles that i oddl
Enternal Sloggs

I'm Sorry, Rambo Commando...

I was watching an unbelievable 2600 auction, SEALED IKARI WARRIORS FOR ATARI 2600! Aka IKARI-ATARI, now i do have Commando 2600 and basically both are essentially the exact same except in ikari you can ride the tank and it looks slightly better but Angry Video Game Nerd's old Couch Guy has serenaded me into wanting any version, and dont forget that first link from earlier! btw quick fun fact you can actually STREAM an official version of that song, but its less about Ikari Warriors here... ANYWA
The Standard

I figured i'd get to this - Blogging

Pffft, i always knew i was gonna do a blog. Theres enough writing skill in me to warrant spewing random stuff in public, but not enough to actually get a publisher to rightfully care enough about it, so welcome. Fellow Atariage lurkers, to that random chick's bitchin' mess hall!
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