Okay, so the original plan was to go through the years in interview form with Kevin. We tried this for 1983 and the end-result was (not surprisingly) the kind of thing that would only be enjoyed by me and Kevin. So here is the best bit:

me: There’s this great thing with early video games that use (legitimately or otherwise) popular music in the background that often feels totally out of place.Going through 1983’s selection of Arcade games, I found a few completely mindblowing examples.Noah’s Ark, which is a shit game that has you fetching pairs of animals and dragging them slowly to the Ark (which is a big brown rectangle) plays “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” during the title sequence.Kevin: You’re kidding.Did you actually play Noah’s Ark?me: Yeah. Every few seconds a unicorn briefly flashes on the screen. I wasn’t able to catch it though, I assume that you can’t. This would seem to indicate that Noah’s failure at retrieving them is the reason that there are no unicorns anymore.Kevin: Really? Because what that tells me is that it’s YOUR fault there aren’t any more unicorns. You slow-fingered bastard.me: Dude, that unicorn was always on the opposite side of the screen. I don’t think I was supposed to catch it.

(I drew the big red arrow to point out the unicorn. Also: it’s more like Noah’s Shack)

The most important lesson that I learned last week was this: Blaster is fucking awesome. It’s pointless to try and describe it, I’ll just show you.