jdq

writer and composer

I have come back to you as I left: a fool.


ldx
@ldx

10 - shadow of the colossus (2005)

9 - snake (1998)

8 - sokoban clone on a friend’s graphing calculator during math class

7 - iphone swipe-to-unlock screen (2007)

6 - gyruss (1983) cabinet in the inexplicable arcade room at the now-defunct atlanta science museum scitrek (1988 - 2004)

5 - competing to see who can press start and stop fastest on a digital stopwatch

4 - kentucky route zero (2013 - 2020)

3 - pretending to control the windows 95 screensaver “3D maze” (1995) with your mind

2 - wii sports (2006)

1 - sitting on the porch on a humid summer evening watching for lightning and counting the seconds until you hear thunder to guess how close by it is (rocking chair or porch swing optional)


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in reply to @ldx's post:

yeah I still like playing gyruss! for a long time though I’d forgotten what it was called so I couldn’t find it haha

I guess I just say “arcade shooter” for the genre?

also the game’s author, yoshiki okamoto, sounds like he was a real character. I saw an article online (not sure of original source so take it with a grain of salt) saying while he was working on time pilot his boss told him to make a racing game but he wanted to make a flying game instead so he just did it behind his back - all the while creating fake racing game demos so no one would suspect!

yeah same :(

i could never get past the level “iPhone is disabled / try again in 1 hour” before some stranger would run over, snatch it away, and say “hey what are you doing with my phone!!” smdh

okay but "trying to stop a digital stopwatch on exactly one second and zero milliseconds" is clearly superior to the shallow "competing to see who can press start and stop fastest on a digital stopwatch"