FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 29, 2013
Transcript:
Steve: Where'd your little brother go? Peter: He's admiring your restaurant's antique collection. Steve: Antique collection? I didn't know we had one. Peter: Duh. What's all that stuff in the back room? Dingus, let's go. Pizza's ready. Jason: Whoa! These space invaders don't even bleed!
The Life I Draw Upon almost 12 years ago
I now feel so old.
kaintsr almost 12 years ago
@The Life I Draw Upon, uh-huh, me too.
frumdebang almost 12 years ago
Let’s not forget Pong, one of the first arcade games to generate a home edition.
skeeterhawk almost 12 years ago
Yes, I clearly remember pong game in the fast food restaurant, back in 1971 or 1972. It was the table top style, and the opponents sat on each end to turn the knobs. Those ‘Booop’ sounds got annoying. I remember years later all the kids lined up to play ‘Space Invaders,’ later ‘Galaxian,’ then ‘Pac Man.’ And those electronic pinball machines were an impressive change from the bells and numbered wheels that turned. Okay enough rambling from another ‘old’ person …
linsonl almost 12 years ago
It all started with “Pong”, Imagine a kid today paying to play that!
ewalnut almost 12 years ago
Back when video games were innocent…
Brisbanekid almost 12 years ago
You want to feel old, . . . More than half the country has never seen a rotary dial telephone!
mrsdonaldson almost 12 years ago
Ah, the good old days, when video games were fun and not nauseatingly violent!
ossiningaling almost 12 years ago
Play this while reading this strip:http://www.amazon.com/Space-Invader-Album-Version/dp/B001BG0U2K
Corey Karvonen-Lee Premium Member almost 12 years ago
I would play a pinball machine with mechanical counters in a minute. Those were real arcade games!
Kroykali almost 12 years ago
One of my first visits to an arcade, had the usual Centipede, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, etc….then I found Battlezone, where the action was 360 degrees AROUND you, not just on a 2-dimensional screen. I think it was the first game to put you in the MIDDLE of the playing field. You couldn’t tear me away from it.
dflak almost 12 years ago
Space Invaders: the human has limited resources which he must use wisely. The computer has infinite resources which it uses stupidly.
Sort of reminds me of dealing with a government agency.
Waddling Eagle almost 12 years ago
The very first video game was designed by Willy Higginbotham at the Brookhaven National Laboratory while he was designing atomic bombs. The game was an early version of Pong called “Tennis for Two.” It was played on an oscilloscope. How old do you all feel now?
water_moon almost 12 years ago
p.s. the REALLY old factor is that the chart is already 2 years old……
Toxicdave almost 12 years ago
My childhood friend and I would ride BART (SF Subway) to the Powel Street Station and play Pong on a console in the middle of the train platform. In those days, you could ride the system all day for a dollar if you entered and exited through at the same station.
Rickapolis almost 12 years ago
Think they have Pong?
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 12 years ago
musicnut1986 almost 12 years ago
The Moon Landing game was my first experience with a “computer” and a video game. My sister’s boyfriend worked with computers and brought one to our house to see it. It was comprised of a 5 or 6 inch monochrome monitor, a black box, a tiny keyboard and a cassette tape player. The software for the game was on a audio cassette which took about 30 minutes to load into the black box. I seem to recall playing that game all afternoon and usually ended up each game with a crater being named after me. What a hoot.
Kroykali almost 12 years ago
Lunar Lander. Another one of my favorites.
Doctor11 almost 12 years ago
Ah, the classics.
doctorwho29 over 5 years ago
I love arcades!