Suck it, 2D aliens!
If your childhood was anything like mine, the Atari 2600 game system featured prominently in it. It’s impossible to say how many hours of my life (and my brother’s life, and even my father’s life) were spent in front of the television, joystick in hand (um yeah, shut up), thumb pounding feverishly on that single red button.
Sigh.
Early on, one of my favorite games was definitely Space Invaders. So how cool is it that, tonight, I have the chance to actually jump in and play this game for real, in person, on the side of a building? Seriously. I’ll be running back and forth, shooting lines of aliens as they descend down the wall, getting more and more frenzied as their descent becomes faster and faster and faster…
The game is part of the Come Out and Play Festival that’s taking place all weekend, and it’s just one of many high-tech and high-concept free activities going on all around town. Can’t wait to check it out.
And just when a friend and I were lamenting the fact that with the end of summer comes the end of all things free and fun in the city!
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Now that is defintely cool. I also spent an unholy amount of time with the 2600 joystick in hand, but this definitely beats those days.
One way or another I’m going to see New York before I die…
Rod
MB Vancouver
Wow that’s awesome. I grew up a little later around the time of Nintendo and Mario so if there were a Mario interactive game I would go crazy.
omg omg omg so fun. wish i’d been there.
That sounds AWESOME!!! Now if they can just figure out a way to do VR Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. I know its not Atari, but still, that would kick ass.