BEg2 ch27 video games

[rich]

man, such blasts from the past--hadnt thought of Zaxxon or Galaga in ages.
we never smoked in the arcades back in the day (mid-80s) fwiw.

 But sadly no mention of Dragon's Lair with its boulders, rapids, lizard
king, spiders and such

rich

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 8:08 AM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>
wrote:

> I really wasn’t a big fan….you needed two people to really play, but I
> know people loved it because (1) it had actual plastic guns, and (2) there
> was a pedal you stepped on to take cover, which was a novel idea. But I
> never liked rail shooters.
>
> HOWEVER, the title “Time Crisis” has nothing to do with time travel. It
> referred to the game mechanic where you had a limited amount of time to
> achieve your goals. You worked for the CIA or some fictional analogue, and
> fought waves of terrorists/SPECTRE type baddies. However, now that I think
> about it, there was some evil corporation named something like Yoyodyne?
>
> OK, just clicked the link you provided: NEODYNE! Ha ha ha! And yes, there
> were rockets!
>
> I think there were eventually more than two iterations. But like all
> Japanese games, each one got weirder and weirder.
>
> —Quail
>
> PS: Don’t get me started on “Dragon Age!” The *fucking* Electric Knight…
>
>
> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 7:59 AM
> To: Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>
> Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: BEg2 ch27 video games
> Can you tell us about Time Crisis 2, since time is a major thematic motif
> in Pynchon?
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:55 AM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com
> <mailto:quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>> wrote:
> This *is* my field of expertise, as I spend a large part of the 1980s in
> arcades! But really, only two brief comments:
>
> 1. There was definitely smoking in many arcades. I don’t know about 2001,
> as by then they were passing from the scene, transforming into hipster
> nostalgia bars. But back in the day, most machines were actually covered
> with cigarette burns, melted or scorched into the cabinet.
>
> 2. Zaxxon was my game, I was pretty good at it. I also loved Tempest. But
> fucking Robitron—again Pynchon shows some inside knowledge, as Robitron was
> a pretty difficult game that had a cult following.
>
> —Quail
>
>
>
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