Spaced Invaders -or- Painted Ground Contest Now With RULES!
Happy Friday beloved fans of the Painted Ground. We're having a little bit of link-wearyness, so we'll get right to it. The last contest saw co-winners sty and JM knock it out of the park amid intense competition. Who will take home the improvised booty this time?
RULES:
In 50 words or less, please tell the Painted Ground your favorite video game story. Good luck! Remember, we love detached and pithy. Have a good weekend!
xo,
the Painted Ground
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One Not Quite Video Game Story
Pong was in black and white. I had Pong when I was young. When I was young, I thought that before 1950 or so the world was in black and white, too. (I also thought ants crawled around our bones.) pw/sf/pa
Once upon a snow day, my brother and I were absorbed in Super Mario Brothers 2. A thick air of tension surrounded us -- we'd never gotten this far playing as Princess Peach.
Princess Peach had a "float" ability. She could jump into the air and softly glide past danger, using her pink skirt as a parachute of sorts.
And so, my brother was floating across a cavern but misjudged the distance. The princess fell to her death -- she couldn't float forever, after all. So we lost a life. Aw.
Then a message flashed -- No more lives. Concern was mounting.
And then the kicker -- No more continues. GAME OVER.
Ancient heartbreak.
Our dreams were shattered.
1983 at the Bunny Hutch Mini Golf & Video Arcade. Word got out that actor Jeff Bridges, star of underrated sci-fi flic, Tron, was on the premises and actually playing the video game, Tron! We finished our thirsty-two ouncers and went inside to investigate. Jeff was nowhere to be seen. But there was a kid in a mexican pancho playing Zaxxon who could've passed for a stoner Beau Bridges. I waited til the DigDug machine was open.
My video game story involves a certain job I had at a certain videogame company. When the PS2 came out, a gentleman from Kentucky called asking for help installing it to his television. Somehow during the course of the conversation I found out that he had just been released from the state pen. This wasn't the first time, nor was it the last time, when someone divulged information like this so freely. Yes, the fun of a tech support job!
However I digress...
I somehow surmised that he had parts missing from his PS2. I believe that he was missing some necessary cords. I recommended that he look in the box for said cords. He said that it did not come in a box. Then, he asked, "Is it supposed to come in a big bag?"
Apparantly he bought it off of some guy on the street. I informed him that it was supposed to come in a box. Upon hearing that he commented about how he was "fin to mess somebody up." That's were the conversation ended.
For a few days after I scoured the Kentucky news websites for a headline reading "MAN KILLS OVER BROKEN PS2." Thankfully it never happened.
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