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Oh man. I was wondering if any game this year would unseat Ni No Kuni as my favorite, but this might just be it.

We all live in the virtual arcade of online play these days. It's a little different doing it in meat space.

I still have all my maps on graph paper, now faded, but when I played the NES version I had to redraw them all. There are resources online to get all the maps, but it was fun to draw them again. My friend has the Mac version in the same cardboard box the Apple IIc version had. All I need now though is the NES version, which is perfect.

That game still holds up. I keep thinking that it led to Peggle but Peggle is more like Pachinko. Still, the 2D design and the fact that you are launching a ball at targets seems to indicate a connection. Turn Breakout up-side-down and it resembles Peggle more.

I just discovered the flyers archive. I want posters of them pronto!

The Commodore 64 and TRS-80 were both around $600 then. The Apple IIc I had was $1200 and the IBM PC 5150 my Aunt had was a whopping $3000. That's 7K today! I only played Zork on that IBM computer and Wiz on the Apple. The C64 or TRS-80 seemed to have more games made for them and were probably better for that. So my snobbery led me to miss out on some cool stuff. Let that be a lesson to me.

Tanx! I have Wizardry on NES now and it's a good version exactly like the PC version. I tried to play the next two games in the series but they didn't hit the mark like the first one. The first one is perfectly ballanced; challenging, but not unfair. I replayed it a few years ago with a friend. We raced to see who would beat it first. My friend won, but I was close behind. It took about 25 hours.

There's still Funspot in New Hampshire. http://www.funspotnh.com/ One day I want to go to Pax East in Boston and then take the couple hour trip over to Funspot afterwards.

It's a striking ad. I like the font for the title and tag line and the way they are not straight but curved a little bit. That and the foreshortened game box make me think of a close up photograph with a wide angle lens and the way it distorts around the edges. I love that kind of thing.

I started my second childhood in the 21 century reading game mags and comics, so I never saw any of these before now.

It had brighter colors than anything in the comic I scanned it from.