I like how the whole end of the world thing was used so much for games back in the day, sure scaring kids half to death would do NOTHING wrong with their imagination.

"Save Ginny" t-shirt...nice.

they need to make a missile command game where the roles are reversed. same simple game except you have to launch missiles and try to break the enemy defense,

Maybe the most addictive game of all time right there. I remember when I was a kid, playing the game in whatever pizza parlor we decided to play in that day, that we would name all the cities in the game. New York would always be the last one to fall, because we'd keep a jealous watch over it, and we'd just let Boston go up in flames right away ;)

LOL. I laughed pretty hard when I saw the blue moon! :D

great review

Your review reminds me of cartoons today from cartoons when I was a kid. Shows were not scared to put guns in a show, and kill off some characters in the past. Now if you turn on cartoonnetwork all the action shows are dumbed down. Missile command has that effect because the game itself felt cold. And in a dark room and you hear that bomb you will always feel a little disturbed. Great job and keep them coming.

love the review! I wish I had a Atari when I was little...

One game that scare me to death when I was little was Ghost Lion, the music was so creepy everytime a enemy attack. (oh you need to review that game!!)

Your voice sounds like you should be on one of the early Nick kids shows or Reading Rainbow or something. It's so nice and soothing.

One of the Atari classics.

I love your t-shirt. Harry and the Potters, my sister goes "ga-ga" over them. Keep up the good work!

This was the very first episode of LMG, and a great one! If LMG had never been made, I highly doubt Still Gaming would still be in production today.

Y'see.. I always remembered Missile Command as a simple point and shoot on the Atari.. and actually enjoyed the remakes and remixes, never really considering the implications of the story behind it, or what was lost in translation. Interesting how one can find meaning in the near meaningless.

Games about nuclear warfare are always a bit scary, when I was a kid there was a game called "nuclear war" for the amiga 500. It was like a "proto civilization" where you had to survive against five other countries; and in the end you always loose.Whatever you do. It was great.

ps: You also have a fan in france ! (that's me) keep the good work "petite mademoiselle joueuse" (and the rest of the pbc team).

Your cooless quotient would have went up exponetially if I still liked Spider-Man. [Thanks again, Quesada!] Anyway, I empathize with you about MC and other such games that you were destined to lose no matter how good you played. Guess that's one advantage of modern games that you can actually 'beat' like Resident Evil or Halo. In addition, I liked Food Fight a lot and I'm all for females gaming or doing anything else geeky for that matter. Play on, LMG! B)

Well, back in the 80s, the topic of nuclear death was rather big and games like MC showed you that a Nuclear War was a futile and useless war, because you can not win, no matter what you do, you get wiped out.

"DEFCON Everybody dies" is actually a very nice modern remake of MC, including the idea of not only defending yourself, but also starting the nuke war. Still, in the end, you can not win, because you get always wiped out. The only way to "win" is to have killed more people in the end and we are talking about millions of deaths inflicted by you.

Its really scary and I never felt like a "winner" because I just wiped out whole nations with a press of a button.

That would be cool. In fact, they've already done something similar with Space Invaders Get Even.

Did she say "ATARI 7800"? This must be an Atari 2600 Game, I have it here too!

And another thing is: Do I need a special camera for widescreen videos?

Greets from Germany

Atreyu

why are you reposting all your vids on this site, instead of making new ones?

I personally prefer Berzerk myself.

"Get the humanoid! Get the intruder!"

That chick (at the end in viewer mail) should use voice masking on Halo 2. LOL

Yes, Atreyu, that's a VCS game--but remember that the 7800 was the first backwards-compatible console.
I remember playing Missile Command for long hours too. I remember reading later that it was designed to be a statement against nuclear war by its programmer. Pretty savvy--and subtle.
By the way, awesome that you have Lain Iwakura plushie! I have one too! You're way past cool, LMG!

How come the video just cuts off mid-sentence...?

Hmm..Pretty obvious things told in sloowww mmooottiiiooon..