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Hey dude. Can you name some of your favorite Atari 800 games?

Uh… hmm. Off the top of my head I’d say

Miner 2049er

Bounty Bob Strikes Back

Ollie’s Follies

Hard Hat Willy

Pinball Construction Set

Donkey Kong

Castle Hassle and its sequels or whatever they are

K-Razy Shootout

Zeppelin

Pitfall II

Pastfinder

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My Google voice number is getting wild.

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Congrats on being the only person ever that played through most of Haze on their 50th birthday.

Surely someone turned 50 on Haze's launch date and played through the entire campaign in one day. That must have happened.

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Korn To Release Original Song For Ubisoft's Haze(TM) Video Game

LONDON, UK - 22nd October, 2007 - Today, Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers, announced that the multi-platinum selling, ground-breaking hard rock band Korn has written and recorded an original song inspired by Ubisoft's upcoming Haze video game. The song will be launched to radio and video in November 2007, to coincide with the launch of the Haze video game. The single, entitled "Haze", will be available for purchase via online music download sites.

Korn, who released their debut in 1994, has sold more than 30 million records worldwide, releasing seven consecutive multi-platinum selling albums. Their latest untitled album was released in July of this year, debuting at #2 on the US album charts and #3 on the European album charts. Lead singer Jonathan Davis has often mentioned a love for video games, including games from Ubisoft like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter® 2.

"Gaming for me is a religion and Haze is the shit!" said Jonathan Davis. "I had to come up with a track that can hit up that kind of rush I get from the game and I think we really rocked it!!"

The deal with Korn is a first for Ubisoft and marks a new strategy of creative partnership with different figures in the music industry. "This partnership with Korn is original in the video game industry in that the song will be released and promoted as a full-fledged single, and not just as a download with the video game," stated Christian Salomon, vice president of worldwide licensing at Ubisoft. "It is a testament to the synergy possibilities between music and video games, which often share the same audience."

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what about a hat that can turn into a visor and also has those flaps in the back, like a legionnaires visor

if i ever owned and operated a bowling alley, i'd change my name to Bud Heavy. i guess that could also be a GameFan editor pseudonym, but i'd rather run the bowling alley.

We should sell t-shirts that say "Why Ask Why? Try Budd Dwyer"

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if i ever owned and operated a bowling alley, i'd change my name to Bud Heavy. i guess that could also be a GameFan editor pseudonym, but i'd rather run the bowling alley.

We should sell t-shirts that say "Why Ask Why? Try Budd Dwyer"

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COOL!

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Did you ever see or hear of the game "Tricks 'n Thrill" about freestyle footbag around 2002? I can't find anything about it or the company (3D-AT ?) other than this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJ-pjh6OEk

After watching the video and digging around a little bit, I'm not convinced this is a real thing. Seems like a video put together by a team that would've probably liked to have made a game, but were not really focused on game development. Mostly 3D art for hire, that sort of thing.

If it was really at E3 in some capacity, it was probably a french guy walking around with a laptop showing it off and saying "give us money to make a hacky sack game in 2002, it is, how do you say, le hot right now."

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thinking about the dazz band again

do you think Wico sued them for putting their controller on the cover of Joystick?

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Meet The Bros. ‘Floigan Bros’ SEGA Dreamcast

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Call Me Psycho (Binary Dynamics/Pirate Software - C64 - 1988)

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My lights are dim but I still work :)

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