Your post is music to my ears. I used to log on to Ward & Randy's BBS back in the day. Qmodem! Now that was a fine piece of software. Ever call Ripco? Ripco was, like, my home for a long time.

I didn't say that. You're full of it when you say it's all a scam, as though these things didn't exist or don't become a problem for users who avoid problem sites.

I can't believe people still think "Jar Jar Abrams" is witty.

Sorry, no star for you. How dare you leave out the BBC TV series?

Well I was fixing computers before there WAS an A+ cert, and I'm here to tell you, you're full of it. Glad you've (theoretically; how can you know for sure?) never been hit by a drive-by from a perfectly normal website, but many people have.

In the US the Videopac G7000 was known as the Magnavox Odyssey2, and yeah, I had one before I got my Apple clone. It was a total blast.

Bad joss!

Awesome! I had one of those for a while too — in fact, I was factory authorized to service those. They were fun so long as you didn't want them to do too much.

Leather Goddesses of Phobos was a criminally underrated game. It was almost as funny as Hitchhiker's Guide. (T remover! Un-angling cream!)

Jesus. That's horrifying.

Christ on a cracker, I just can't.

I don't see how anything but this story can possibly win.

"slowly reneging on their promise to allow Pixar it's [sic] creative freedom."

I, too, had an Odyssey2. Man I loved that console. The whole educational/programming thing was how I sold my parents on it, but mostly I was playing KC Munchkin, UFO, Pick-Axe Pete, Quest for the Rings, and so on.

I wanted one of those SO BADLY!

Franklin ACE 1000. Apple II+ clone. It had lower case and 64K, so it kind of fell between the II+ and the //e. Also had an 80 column card, a floppy drive, a green screen monitor, a joystick and an Okidata 92 9-pin dot matrix printer.

TAIPAN! Good Christ, that game ate up a lot of my time.

Many years ago, I worked for a Leading Edge dealer. I repaired so, so many model Ds.

I didn't own one of those, but it was the first computer with a CRT (as opposed to a teletype) that I used. Heck, I was going through old crap in the basement the other day and it turns out I still have a copy of Newdos/80 (the TRSDOS replacement).

Officially my opinion is that Mike Grell can do no wrong.