My Atari 7800 arrived! Actually, it arrived on the weekend, but I wasn't home to receive it, so it got returned to the post office. Crawl picked it up for me today. (Sweet Smooshy that he is! I love him! XOXOXO!) Anyway, it came with four games, Dig Dug, Pole Position 2, Centipede, and Ms. Pac-Man. They all seem like pretty decent versions of those games, except that Centipede's play control and graphics are a little "off". I seem to remember my Commodore VIC20 version looking a lot bigger and brighter...Well, either way, I think Millipede (the NES version at least) is more fun than Centipede, anyway.

I also tried out some of my other 7800 games that I already had. I played One-on-One Basketball...Man, if those are the best people sprites the 7800 could generate, then how could they ever think it would be a worthy competitor for the NES? They looked like South Park characters, animated very minimally and very randomly. When you're moving around the court, there's no rhyme nor reason to how the characters move or what way they're facing. Half the times, the characters run backwards, or start pivoting and doing 180's for no real reason! The game itself seemed pretty crappy...although its debatable if it may have been marginally more fun than NBA Hangtime.

But the best thing...the one thing that made it all worth it: Occasionally, you can break the backboard and the glass falls on the floor. Then, this little dude (who I suspect is a janitor) walks out to clean up the glass, but before he does, he stops and faces forward and does this freaked-out thing with his mustache whilst making the same exact "grawlck!" noise that the Salamander in Magic of Scheherazade makes when you wake him up. Please tell me that there is at least one person on the face of the planet who can do that. Forget Dr. J and Larry Bird - that's REAL talent, folks!

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