Atari Game that Could Have Been
One of the party favors (in a manner of speaking) that the host of this year's New Year's Eve fete had available was his ancient (and functional) Atari 2600...plugged in and with a slew of old games on-hand for a old-school-gaming Walk Down Memory Lane.
I spent a nice chunk of time watching others take part in the joys of Combat, Pitfall, River Raid, Yar's Revenge, and so on as the evening skipped along at a merry pace. At some point my eyes passed over the selection of second tier game titles lurking nearby (aside from the more popular ones that were actually being played) and I was momentarily taken aback when I misread the title of one particular game:
FatHome.
What the hell?
What's this video game all about?
My mind raced; perhaps it had something to do with rescuing morbidly obese shut-ins from their home sanctuaries via chainsawing through doorframes or walls and backing forklifts in to get them out and over to one of Dick Gregory's weight loss fat farms?
Could that be it?
If so, Why had I never heard of this game? If this were the actual nature of the game it would have been one that I took great pleasure in joy-sticking to victory (it could even vie with Burger Time for all-time greatest video game).
After each successful level the difficulty would increase. Whereas the early portions of the game would involve extricating corpulent folk from their resplendent stately mansions, latter ones would involve the challenging task of doing the same thing only from increasingly smaller and smaller abodes...and larger and larger characters. The final level would essentially be on big mutha with a thatched roof resting on his/her head; his body basically taking the place of proper load-bearing walls. How to enact a rescue in this scenario without injuring your target tubby?
How indeed.
Unfortunately, after all of these thoughts passing through my mind and pondering how much fun this game would be I double-checked the title and was sad to note that it was not FatHome but:
Fathom
Oh...some stupid underwater adventure.
I'll leave computerized bathysphering to my more aquatically inclined electronic gamers.
T
(rats)
One of the party favors (in a manner of speaking) that the host of this year's New Year's Eve fete had available was his ancient (and functional) Atari 2600...plugged in and with a slew of old games on-hand for a old-school-gaming Walk Down Memory Lane.
I spent a nice chunk of time watching others take part in the joys of Combat, Pitfall, River Raid, Yar's Revenge, and so on as the evening skipped along at a merry pace. At some point my eyes passed over the selection of second tier game titles lurking nearby (aside from the more popular ones that were actually being played) and I was momentarily taken aback when I misread the title of one particular game:
FatHome.
What the hell?
What's this video game all about?
My mind raced; perhaps it had something to do with rescuing morbidly obese shut-ins from their home sanctuaries via chainsawing through doorframes or walls and backing forklifts in to get them out and over to one of Dick Gregory's weight loss fat farms?
Could that be it?
If so, Why had I never heard of this game? If this were the actual nature of the game it would have been one that I took great pleasure in joy-sticking to victory (it could even vie with Burger Time for all-time greatest video game).
After each successful level the difficulty would increase. Whereas the early portions of the game would involve extricating corpulent folk from their resplendent stately mansions, latter ones would involve the challenging task of doing the same thing only from increasingly smaller and smaller abodes...and larger and larger characters. The final level would essentially be on big mutha with a thatched roof resting on his/her head; his body basically taking the place of proper load-bearing walls. How to enact a rescue in this scenario without injuring your target tubby?
How indeed.
Unfortunately, after all of these thoughts passing through my mind and pondering how much fun this game would be I double-checked the title and was sad to note that it was not FatHome but:
Fathom
Oh...some stupid underwater adventure.
I'll leave computerized bathysphering to my more aquatically inclined electronic gamers.
T
(rats)
posted by Tony at 2:48 PM
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