Sat 15 May 2010
Growing Up 2600: Slapstick in the face
Posted by bitterandrew under Videogames, autobiography
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Keystone Kapers came to Microsoft’s Game Room last Wednesday, resulting in some mixed feelings on my end.
On one hand, Activision’s Mack Sennet-themed action/chase game was one of the finest titles in the Atari 2600′s library of titles.
On the other hand, I can remember all too well the circumstances surrounding my purchase of the original cartridge — in a record store clearance bin at the Burlington Mall while shopping for school clothes with my mom a couple of days before I began the utter hell that was 8th grade.
Every time I make Keystone Kelly leap over a rogue shopping cart or duck a runaway toy airplane, I experience lucid flashbacks involving pleather Jacko-inspired windbreakers, nappy sweatshirts with velcro collars and quilted nylon inserts, and the Big Pop funeral march of Howard Jones’s “Things Can Only Get Better.”
(They didn’t, by the way.)
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