day by day
If you're not reading Chris Muir's Day by Day, you're missing out on the opportunity to say "I was reading him back in the day," when he becomes world famous.
Today's strip resembles many conversations I've been involved in regarding video games.
Yes, I was around back in the age of Oddysey and Atari and Vic20, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Strom Thurmond was just a little tike.
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Commoredore 64, Colecovision, Intellivision, Coleco ADAM, Atari 2600, Commodore 128, and pong recovered from the dump. Were there any other ones?
Posted by: Steve of Norway | June 13, 2003 10:50 AM
I still have my old Atari - packed away somewhere in an unremembered location.
All this talk about comic strips and nostalgia made me think about Bloom County. Bill the Cat, where have ye gone?
Posted by: MikeR | June 13, 2003 11:03 AM
BLOOM COUNTY!!!!
Opus, whither art thou? And Binkley's Closet of Anxieties?
I loved that strip.
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Posted by: David Strain | June 13, 2003 11:07 AM
Being a 40-plus programmer (and the resident 'old man' in my department), I totally related to that strip.
It also brought to mind that, a few days back, we decided a good way to identify the younguns 'round here was to see if they could complete the following, all the way to the chorus, from memory:
"Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce..."
Posted by: Ferro Lad | June 13, 2003 11:18 AM
I still want to buy a Galaga machine...
Posted by: btezra | June 13, 2003 11:23 AM
Good lord, I remember when Pong came out. Fifty cents, it cost to play, it did. That's twice what pinball cost back then. Ran on this newfangled thing called eee-leck-tricity.
Still have an original Intellivision in the garage, too.
Posted by: Ken Summers | June 13, 2003 11:25 AM
HAH! Then I scroll down to see Kevin's catfight.
Hey, FerroLad...See if the kids at work can recognize the bodies Kevin used for the Moxies in the catfight. I haven seen those in probably 30 years.
Posted by: Ken Summers | June 13, 2003 11:36 AM
I was going to put Pong in there(or asteroids-my fave),but I didn't think anyone would have recognized them!
And now, I must go rest my aged frame, as I used the tv remote too much last night and tired myself out....
Posted by: Chris Muir | June 13, 2003 11:46 AM
They can, Ken, because they still make them...
Posted by: Jon | June 13, 2003 11:59 AM
Another Bloom Co. reference: Remember the Basselope?
And more on-topic, there was the little kid who had the obsolete PC that looked suspiciously like a TRS-80...
Posted by: MikeR | June 13, 2003 02:12 PM
Wow, In an odd coincidence, today at lunch I just picked up one of those Atari-style joysticks that has 10 old Atari games built into it. You just put 4 batteries in it and plug it directly into the TV input. Blast from the past for 20 bucks.
http://www.jakkstvgames.com/
Posted by: Thanatos | June 13, 2003 03:00 PM
Thanatos,
That is SO frikkin' cool! Gotta get one of each!
Posted by: Evil Otto | June 13, 2003 03:13 PM
Man, I remember my old Vic20. I was so pissed off that my parents got it for me for Christmas, as I saw it as a ploy to keep me off my Dad's IBM PC.
Crappy cassette drive. I kept tripping over the cord, and having to type my programs in again. It would take forever to save and load.
Posted by: meep | June 13, 2003 03:47 PM
Meep, it's true the cassette drive on the VIC20 was woeful, but you had an operating system that was at least 10 years ahead of Microsoft. Totally graphical user interface, drag and drop functionality, etc. - all on the tiniest of system resources. GEOS was so far beyond Microsoft back in those days, it's enough to make you cry...
Posted by: MikeR | June 13, 2003 05:03 PM
So I had the joystick thing sitting on my desk, and my boss saw it, and demanded that we test it out on the projector screen. So I even got a free set of batteries out of it courtesey of work!
Posted by: Thanatos | June 13, 2003 05:03 PM
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
xyzzy!
Nothing happens.
Posted by: Angie Schultz | June 14, 2003 12:06 AM
Jon, they still make 'em? Damn, if I had only known that my girls woulda had one!
As it is, I guess I'll have to wait for grandkids...but not too soon.
Posted by: Ken Summers | June 14, 2003 12:08 PM