Pong!
I may have done, like, no work this weekend, but I feel I have accomplished something: I made Pong work. In color.
See, Jen acquired her family's Atari 2600 (black, 4 switches) yesterday, but when we first plugged it in, it would only output black and white. (It has a switch for whether it outputs color or B&W. Also there is a switch on the back that controls difficulty. Bwah. I think all video game systems need to have such a switch.)
My family never had an Atari, but I always wanted one (I used to collect 80s video/computer game books and drool over them. No really.), so I find this very exciting, and I think this makes Jen totally the coolest person ever.
Getting it to output in color required three trips to Radio Shack. The first store sent us to the Electronics Boutique, who *laughed* at us. The second store had much more knowledgeable (and cuter) employees, who had us come back with the Atari, I suspect because they wanted to ogle it, and suggested cleaning the contacts. Anyway. One can of electronics cleaner later, the output now shows up in color. We r0x0r.
And we can play Pong. Video games don't get better than this. You probably think I'm kidding, but it is awesome. There's really nothing else one needs out of a video game.
And now we can buy more games from Ebay, for, like, 50 cents each. I personally want Breakout, Space Invaders, and Missile Command.
Yay pong!
See, Jen acquired her family's Atari 2600 (black, 4 switches) yesterday, but when we first plugged it in, it would only output black and white. (It has a switch for whether it outputs color or B&W. Also there is a switch on the back that controls difficulty. Bwah. I think all video game systems need to have such a switch.)
My family never had an Atari, but I always wanted one (I used to collect 80s video/computer game books and drool over them. No really.), so I find this very exciting, and I think this makes Jen totally the coolest person ever.
Getting it to output in color required three trips to Radio Shack. The first store sent us to the Electronics Boutique, who *laughed* at us. The second store had much more knowledgeable (and cuter) employees, who had us come back with the Atari, I suspect because they wanted to ogle it, and suggested cleaning the contacts. Anyway. One can of electronics cleaner later, the output now shows up in color. We r0x0r.
And we can play Pong. Video games don't get better than this. You probably think I'm kidding, but it is awesome. There's really nothing else one needs out of a video game.
And now we can buy more games from Ebay, for, like, 50 cents each. I personally want Breakout, Space Invaders, and Missile Command.
Yay pong!
