Tag: space invaders

Futurama was Wrong

I was just playing a game of Space Invaders on an Atari 2600 emulator I found online. I had a pretty good game.

Then I thought of that one episode of Futurama where the aliens from planet Omicron Persei 8 invade and Fry defends the Earth armed with his bottle of Shasta and his all Rush mix tape.

So I put on the Moving Pictures album to see if listening to Rush would improve my game. While it did improve my mood and my general sense of mental well being (that album RULES), it did not improve my game. Not even a little bit.

I guess the bottle of Shasta is the missing link. Either that or Futurama was wrong, and we all now Futurama is never wrong.

Emulation

While our kitchen is under construction and our entire house is being used by the work crew, there aren’t many places to go now that the work day is over. What am I doing to pass the time?

Sitting at my work desk, playing Pitfall on a video game emulator I found on the web.

I really suck at Pitfall, but I suck worse at both Space Invaders and Defender. My tween self is just in shock at how badly I suck at these games that, while I always sucked at them, I used to be almost competent at.