Flyer Friday.

I never had the pleasure of playing Galaxy Ranger but I can tell you I sure love that cabinet design for it. I've actually seen a Circus Charlie game and it was at an gas station in Little Rock in my youth, though I never had the chance to play it. Booby Kids...

Click of course to make 1984 size!

It must be Thursday.

What more can you say?

Except for this game was never released for the Atari 2600...perhaps the tests group didn't like the fact you could hook Mr. Bill's dog for fishing?

Box Art Wednesday.

More NES box art that were constant shelf warmers back in the days when a video store would employee me. I will say though that I played many an hour on Archon.

Dolly Parton!

Boy howdy! If there are two things that go better than Dolly Parton and Bally pinball I sure as shoot can't tell you what they are.

In 1978 Bally released the Dolly Parton pinball game because at that time Dolly Parton was just the top of the charts with her Heartbreaker album. So I guess while I was playing with my Luke Skywalker and Micronauts there were people in bars and bowling alleys playing this game. I never even knew this game existed so I have to give a big thanks to K.L.O.V for the tip.

I was a little surprised to find that there is a video on Youtube of a guy playing the game...dig those sounds from the machine!

Nothing to do with games.

It's getting closer to my favorite time of the year and I cannot think of a better place to celebrate than at Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights. This year the Icon of the event is the Usher, a character that I can relate to. Below you will find the television commercial for this year, the 19th year and it introduces the three main attractions...Saw, Child's Play, and the Wolf Man.

So it's like Q*Bert but with blocks of ice.

Okay, in actuality Frostbite from Activision for the Atari 2600 isn't exactly a Q*Bert clone, but on a first play through one can't help but make the comparison. You take on the role of Frostbite Bailey who is merely trying to survive in the Arctic by hoping on the floating blocks of ice...all the while trying to avoid snow geese, clams, Alaskan king crabs, a polar bear, and the dropping temperature.

Steve Cartwright designed the game along with some other Activision's classics like Barnstorming, Megamania, Seaquest and Plaque Attack.

By changing the color of the ice blocks a single block is added to Bailey's igloo. The point of the game is changing the color of the white blocks to blue, assuming you are not knocked into the freezing water by snow geese while you are hopping around. The Alaskan king crab will change an ice block's color back to white when he climbs up on it and even if you get your igloo completed you still have to hop back to the top of the screen and get inside it before the wandering polar bear takes a bite out of you. Also, if the temperature hits zero degrees you freeze to death.

Luckily to help avoid a harmful critter you can reverse the flow of the ice blocks by hitting the button on the joystick but unfortunately when you do it removes one block from your igloo. Assuming you could score 40,000 points you were rewarded the Arctic Architects badge...I wasn't able to obtain this score until the game was released in a PS2 collection.

Still Saturday Supercade!

A big thanks to Trsrockin.com for these awesome Nintendo scratch cards, I don't even remember these cards to be honest. Price I have to pay for being so withered and ancient I reckon.