Comments on: The Past Ain’t What It Used to Be http://voodootime.com/archives/195 Just another weblog Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:06:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Troy http://voodootime.com/archives/195/comment-page-1#comment-456 Troy Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:56:17 +0000 http://voodootime.com/?p=195#comment-456 The problem with your Atari experience is that you weren't playing it on an Atari. You didn't have the frustration of trying to find which joystick worked properly and didn't screw up your game. You didn't have the frustration of putting the cartridge in the machine just to get weird colours and feedback on the screen - so much so that you had to take the cartridge out and blow along the business end to get any dust and foreign particulate out from the "microelectronic circuitry". You didn't have paddles which were either too sensitive or not sensitive enough. I have a couple of Ataris and around 50 or so games. I bring it out every so often. Yes it's not as much fun as it use to be but it does bring back memories. The main one being how I played Laser Attack for almost three hours straight and how a robot could have beat it because every level you did the same thing. Just faster and faster :) The problem with your Atari experience is that you weren’t playing it on an Atari. You didn’t have the frustration of trying to find which joystick worked properly and didn’t screw up your game. You didn’t have the frustration of putting the cartridge in the machine just to get weird colours and feedback on the screen – so much so that you had to take the cartridge out and blow along the business end to get any dust and foreign particulate out from the “microelectronic circuitry”. You didn’t have paddles which were either too sensitive or not sensitive enough.

I have a couple of Ataris and around 50 or so games. I bring it out every so often. Yes it’s not as much fun as it use to be but it does bring back memories. The main one being how I played Laser Attack for almost three hours straight and how a robot could have beat it because every level you did the same thing. Just faster and faster :)

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