There’s something fascinating about watching the games on a console evolve from the initial launch titles as developers figure out how to make the most of a console.
And then, during the system’s dying days, you often see some remarkable technical achievements borne out of competition with whatever glitzier progeny has taken its place.
While the effect has paled with each generation of hardware, you can see some great evolution in 20th century stuff. Check out these examples:
The Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 popularized home video gaming, creating an industry that is now rivaling Hollywood in terms of entertainment dollars. The machine’s heyday was from 1978 to 1984, and later games started to ..read more
I was at the movies the other day. I’ll admit, I was watching Valentine’s Day. I anticipated a Love Actually rip off, which it was in a lot of ways. Anyways, that’s beside the point. The previews start and all of a sudden there’s screaming and gleeful sounds, sighing, and cheering as the Sex and the City 2 trailer rolled. I started laughing. I don’t really get the whole Sex and the City phenomenon. I’ve seen a few episodes here and there, but that’s about it. It just illustrates the point of people geek out over just about everything. And that makes me ..read more
My Gramma taught me how to knit, though I’m not very good at it. These patterns are enough to make me pick up my needles again. Cylon Centurion and Starbuck’s Mandala. Pattern direction on the other side of the link.
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Josh
Thursday
5:10 pm 
Editor’s note: This is a really long post. It’s my coming-of-age true tale of one of my most formative geek memories, and it’s something I’ve wanted to write for more than a year.
We couldn’t play games on Mike’s TI-99 computer that day in 1986. I can’t remember exactly why, but as a result, we wound up in his room, listless and looking for a less technological way to pass the afternoon.
Two hours later, I raced my dirt bike home over suburban asphalt, breathless with excitement. “Mom… mom…” I panted when I got inside. “I played the coolest thing! You could be an elf, or a warrior, and you got ..read more
You know, I don’t really sit around and think about funny things in the world of comic books. But one day there was a thought that really tickled my brain:
What supes should never propagate?
In truth I am going to blame Conan O’Brien on this one, because I really think it came after his always funny celebrity mash-up photos which gave a humorous view on what their child might look like.
So instead of mixing pictures, what would happen if you mixed powers in a kid. Here is what I came up ..read more
I went down to the cellar of the Geek6 headquarters over the weekend — I needed to find some tax records that claimed we were, in fact, an offshore business impervious to federal tax laws. Never you mind why.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered not only the falsified incorporation papers, but an entire art department!
“Holy crap!” I exclaimed, tiptoeing around a giant stack of empty Hot Pockets boxes.
“Don’t move those, boss,” piped up a meek and pale artist. “We save them to burn as fuel during the long, cold winter months.”
“Yes, yes,” I muttered, tipping the boxes in the vague direction of what I assumed to be a trash can. ..read more
Over the weekend we got into semi-cleaning mode around the house. You know, fold the clothes, washes some dishes, never get anything all the way done. That kind of weekend.
And every once in a while, part of that cleaning is actually migrating my stack of just read comics to my tracking inventory and then into my long boxes. This time around it had been close to a year since I last put them where they should. The rest of the time they sit in piles around the closet or a short box.
For the past couple of years I had been using a desktop app called Comic Collector Live. Before ..read more
Josh
Friday
10:17 pm
I’ve never quite had the guts to costume up in public — short of last Halloween’s “Alien” costume — but I have a lot of respect for people who do. It takes guts to go to a convention with spandex, spiky hair, painful accessories and/or any combination of facial appendage.
As a Browncoat, I followed AbbyShot’s loving recreating of Mal’s Browncoat from Firefly, but I never looked to see the other things they’ve got.
AbbyShot has been tinkering with movie-grade clothing replicas for nearly a decade. During that time, they’ve come up with some really cool and shockingly accurate renditions of stuff from a number of science fiction and anime series.
I love ..read more
Joe
Friday
2:23 pm 
With the immeasurable wealth I’ve acquired from penning for this site, I recently built a 6-square mile mansion in the hills of Transylvania. But I ran into a problem when trying to fill the wall-to-wall bookshelves in the Death Star-sized (and shaped) TV room. You gotta really get creative to plug all that space. So the only logical choice was to find the most ridiculous, over-packaged DVD boxed sets I could ..read more
So it’s no secret that I happen to watch a lot of tv and movies. I have a love for them, but you know how you have this really great friend and then all of a sudden you’re spending way to much time with that really great friend and you begin to suspect they’re a giant tool? It’s beginning to happen to me. There are cheats on screens both silver and plasma to make things go faster, to move the story along, or plain just bug me. So, for therapy’s sake, I’m going to tell you about them so you’ll notice them too. You’re welcome.
1. The Classroom
Teacher starts the lecture, ..read more
Amber
Jason
Nick Burns
Christy
Charlotte
Bill
Blain
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