Trying like crazy to remember the name of another thing I got probably the same year, like a giant hockey puck that you kicked around with your feet. I think I made my mom make a special trip to Toys R' Us so I could buy one. I kicked it around in the street for maybe ten minutes before I booted it directly into a storm drain.
― I'm Calling My Loyer! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 14:17 (six years ago) link
stitch that, pennywise
― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
ERINLUNCHPIZZA BE THERE
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 10 August 2017 04:40 (six years ago) link
that atari coffee table book is the shiznit; loads of fun to page thru
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 10 August 2017 04:41 (six years ago) link
old lunch, are you talking about a skipit?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3MbbQhZfq4
funny how you can feel nostalgic for something that even as a kid you recognised as totally ridiculous
― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 August 2017 08:23 (six years ago) link
Nah, there was no stick involved. It was literally just a big, puck-shaped chunk of garbage plastic. Even more ridiculous than a Skip-It, somehow.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 August 2017 10:24 (six years ago) link
Just picked up The Art of Atari by Tim Lapetino mentioned above from my local library - an amazing smorgasbord of art from the era, highly recommended!
― Nhex, Monday, 14 May 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
Nah, there was no stick involved. It was literally just a big, puck-shaped chunk of (-garbage-) plastic. Even more ridiculous than a Skip-It, somehow.
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 14 May 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
I dunno, man, its apparent disappearance from the world is crazy. Looks like there was a thing called Hot Pucks that came out several years later and is similar but not quite the thing I had (for fifteen minutes).
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Monday, 14 May 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
hot... pucks?
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 May 2018 07:54 (five years ago) link
lmao wtf
https://i.imgur.com/1BXCVN3.png
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
i hate to say it, but atari is fucked. again.
― ciderpress, Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
Man that brand name has been attached to do many terrible ideas
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
congratulations atari, you're the one brandname that's possibly managed to sink _lower_ after being owned by jack tramiel
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 4 April 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link