April 13, 2004

• That game is harder than it looks.
• |___ |___| |___| Square bananas. Onna stem.
• Man...as a kid I had Tetris on Gameboy and I went into some pretty ridiculous fits of rage because of it. When you're 13, you've been playing for two hours, your eyes are bloodshot from looking at that crappy black and white lcd display, the quasi-Russian music has been looping for 626 consecutive plays and you lose two blocks shy of a new high record, you tend to go ballistic. On a side note, my nine-year-old cousin got Game Boy Advanced or whatever the hell it's called for Christmas. I relished the opportunity to pull him aside and say, "You kids today, with your color screens and your fancy Pokemon...in my day the screens were black and white and we had to blow into the cartridges to make 'em work."
• I feel your pain de Carabas...though I don't get that same satisfaction when, out of concern for her wrists, I pull my granddaughter off her Mac and tell her that I remember when I had to mow lawns for 3 months to buy my first transistor pocket radio (with a whopping 2 transistors) and with an earpiece, so I could sneak it into school in my jacket pocket to listen to the first Mercury launches. :-)
• thanks korou. uhh, i think.
• This is very silly. )
• This game is not nearly as addictive as I remember.
• Technically, it's still two dimensions :) Odd. But is it art?