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Killing Xanatron

Minhaj July 26, 2003

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#6 Posted by semipreciousme on July 28, 2003 3:34:10 pm
...rozaiba...same here...gimme good, ole mario and luigi over grand theft auto, quake, ps, xbox etc anyday...
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#5 Posted by rozaiba on July 28, 2003 7:39:47 am
Hey man. cool poem.

yeah, you shouldn`t have forgotten Mario Bros. It was the ONLY video game I liked.
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#4 Posted by Minhaj on July 27, 2003 12:16:12 pm
Yar I do remember these games, but they were not rhyming so I could not put it in. But they deserve mention. One thing we over look is that the simple sounds had a deep impact. Like In Space Invaders the way the alien ships moved down towards the ground making a rythimic sound, and the sad music when Pacman was consumed by monsters... It had meaning. The whole arcade culture was destroyed by nerds, who in their quest for better graphics and complicated stories forgot that FUN was the main idea.
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#3 Posted by harimau on July 27, 2003 7:50:08 am
Pong, Froggy, Subhunt, Brick Attack.....on TVs, PCs, PDAs and even cell phones!
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#2 Posted by Azure on July 27, 2003 2:19:52 am
You forgot Mario Brothers, how cruel! :-)

Your round yellow pacman isn`t that simple anymore... the poor guy has to move in 3D now!
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#1 Posted by veeresh on July 27, 2003 12:30:24 am
Yeah, also that boxing game we had on calculators? And then Space Invaders? Can we have Space Invaders back again please?

But hey, move back some, remember the ``tilt`` light that came up when you thumped the pinball machine too hard towards the end the ball going going going . . . Pachinko in Japan?

Or:- a dozen shippies, remnants of beer and keema chilly fry, on the 6-handle each side football machine, sataak sataak a-sataaaaaak was the sound the ball made as it went into your own goal sometimes?

(Never thought anybody would make a poem out of it, though)

Thanks for bringing it all back.
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