Old school video game commericals

12 of them. Fun.

Wired Multimedia fun

I always enjoy the material Wired puts out in their multimedia section. Two recent fun ones...

Cheesy Star Trek creatures

Spore - looks like Maxis is gonna have a winner here!

7 most annoying video game enemies

Hard to argue with this list of the most annoying enemies to run across in video games. Kinda surprised a room full of imps from the original Doom did not make the cut though.

On this day in 1979... Pac-Man arrives

The grand-daddy of video games, Pac-Man made it's way to America's shores on Oct. 10, 1979.

A few years later, we counted the days until we could shell out around $60 (1980s dollars!!) for the Atari 2600 version. Without a doubt the WORST translation on the game possible. The "Pac-Man" looked more like a lumbering, mutated, pixelated stop sign. This remains my ultimate moment of buyer's remorse.

It would have been moved to second place in my big mistakes list if I had not bailed at the last moment in purchasing the red LED 3-D Nintendo thingie - that looked just a bit too much like the result of an unholy union between a sniper rifle and a Viewmaster.