TWO HUNDRED EPISODES!
Yep, two hundred weeks in a row (well, except for that one week I missed in 2017) this dumb show has been burrowing into your brain via your listening holes.
To celebrate, this week we're taking a break from writing stories and playing video games. Sort of. We're playing a BOARD game!
What?!?!
I know!
We're playing the 2018 IDW adaption of one of my favorite games: MISSILE COMMAND, now in board game form. Anarchy, I tell you!
Thanks to Mike Mann for the "Mad Mike Hughes" update theme.
Thanks to Sean Courtney for the "Storytime" theme.
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"Blueprint" is a process developed in the 1800s to reproduce techical documents, turning them blue in the process.
Coincidentally, the CBS Electronics game "Blueprint" also makes people blue. What about you?
This week's short story: WITNESS TESTIMONY, THE PEOPLE vs. BARNABY BUILDER
Thanks to Mike Mann for the "Mad Mike Hughes" theme.
Thanks to Sean Courtney for the "Storytime" theme.
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Episode 198 is PELE'S SOCCER, Atari's tribute to one of the greatest athletes of all time: Brazilian soccer star PELE. That's right, this week's game about an amazing sports star is brought to you by one of the least sports-y people ever. Enjoy!
This week's short story: LEAVE IT ALL ON THE FIELD
Thanks to Mike Mann for the "Mad Mike Hughes" theme.
Thanks to Sean Courtney for the "Storytime" theme.
Remember how great Sears was?
When I was a kid, Sears Roebuck was THE place to shop. And along with your Toughskins and washer/dryer sets, you could get Atari games cleverly renamed and packaged in boring, generic text labels so that...well, I don't know why exactly.
BUT, thanks to this bit of video shell-gaming, in episode 197 we get to revisit one of the "original nine" from 1977, COMBAT, only now it's called TANK PLUS. "Plus what?" you ask. Plus FUN, my friend!
This week's short story: Who Will Be Tank's Plus One?
Thanks to Mike Mann for the "Mad Mike Hughes" update theme.
Thanks to Sean Courtney for "Storytime" theme.
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