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  • Sep 29, 2026, 3:38 AM

    Then four games from the arcade era, which I played in actual game arcades, and then on a friend's Atari 2600 console.

    I played several of the Infocom text adventures, including "Leather Goddesses" and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

    And then I went through a phase with graphic adventure games, especially King's Quest and Gabriel Knight.

    In the 2000s, I had gone over to Linux, and there weren't a lot of games. Our compromise was to have a Nintendo Game Cube. I liked the "Enter the Matrix" tie-in game, and I used to re-play the car chase mini-game a LOT -- at one point, I managed to jump the car through a hole in the game model, and it just free-falled endlessly!

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  • Sep 29, 2026, 4:04 AM

    What made the Centipede arcade machine so cool was the big trackball interface. It had a lot of inertia, and you could really get that thing spinning!

    But I think I liked "Frogger" the most on the arcade machines. Maybe it was the story aspect -- poor little frog trying to get across the highway!

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