I just found this very addicting flash cat game. It looks something like this:

When you start, there are a lot less dark dots than what you see in that pic. Every time you click a dot, it changes color and the cat moves one spot. You basically have to trap the cat before he can run away, and it’s pretty hard. I thought it was impossible but finally managed to do it . The pic above is proof. If you get him trapped like that, keep clicking around him until he can’t move and the game will reset.

I spotted this on BoingBoing.net…they spotted it somewhere else, etc, etc….

HO HO HO!* It’s getting closer and closer to Christmas so I figured it would be a good time to post about these. I picked up 2 Christmas Presto Magix transfers, still sealed in their original plastic bags:

One is Hana Barbera themed, and the other is a generic “Santa’s Workshop” theme. I believe these may be rare because I have never seen them before and have been looking for awhile now on eBay. Here are the backs:

They have  something on the back saying they were made exclusively for “Fun-World” in NY. I’m not sure what “Fun-World” is, but I found there website:

http://www.fun-world.net.

There isn’t much info on their site to indicate what they do. I emailed them out of curiosity but haven’t gotten a reply yet. If anyone knows anything about them please fill me in. Here are closeups of the transfers including inside:

I won these on  an auction site called OLA.com that I hadn’t heard of before finding these. I also spotted 2 more just like these on eBay that should be on their way to me. One is a Looney Tunes theme, and I’m not sure of the other one.

*[DISCLAIMER] - If you are a “Ho” and I’ve offended your delicate Ho sensibilities, please substitute HO for SKANK in this holiday greeting.

AddLetters.com has a new Disneyland sign generator. Here’s my sign…can you imagine pulling up to Disney after a long drive with the kids to see this?

We just saw The Mist yesterday. Here’s the trailer for it:

I was a big Stephen King fan when I was younger. I read this story originally in the short story collection The Skeleton Crew. I don’t remember the story very well, but I do remember that it was good. I also remember having a text adventure game “The Mist” based on this movie for my Apple IIc, similar to Zork. Most of the Stephen King books I’ve read more recently have been disappointing. I read “The Cell”, which was good throughout the entire book, and then the end just sucked big time. He didn’t tie anything together like most good writers do. He just ended it, and I felt cheated.

Some of his film adaptations have been great. Some just OK. I saw 1408 and that was just average for me. I’m saying all this so you know I don’t just go nuts over everything associated with Stephen King.

Now, about The Mist movie. It was incredible. It keeps you pretty scared through the whole thing, and most movies don’t do that to me. At one point, the audience actually clapped. It had some disturbing parts, and the end was unexpected. I would highly recommend this movie. I would also highly recommend you don’t bring any really young kids to it. It’s got a more disturbing feel to it then a typical scary monster movie. I can’t say much more than that without giving away the plot.

Hey! Happy Black Friday. My wife is out shopping because she is completely insane. I’m home working because I am only partially insane.

This post has lots of pictures. As always, click them to make them bigger. I know you want to, so just do it.

Moon Patrol has been in the garage since I got it. I decided it was about time I bring it inside and finish working on it, which I did a few days ago. I finished putting the t-molding on, which was a lot of fun…especially the part where I put my finger right into the hot glue I was using and melted my flesh. It’s called “HOT” glue for a reason people.

I bought this “Williams Control Panel Molding Trim” from Arcadeshop.com:

Here is the control panel without this beautiful piece of plastic-y goodness:

You have to trim the molding to size. I used this stuff to glue it to the control panel, which worked great:

Here it is after the trim was applied:

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Yo! Happy Thanksgiving. It’s 12:03AM my time, so it’s official “Eat as Much as you can Keep Down” day. I hope that you make it through the day without any intestinal unpleasantries.

I have much to be thankful for this year. Here are a few things:

1. My wife has not kicked me out of the house yet, despite the fact that I’ve brought about an average of 2 arcade games a month home since October.

2. I’ve managed to (just barely) pay my mortgage, bills, etc…despite #1. I should be saving for retirement, but I’m not geriatric yet so I still have some time for that.

3. New episodes of 24 and Lost are getting closer to a reality.

Now, enough with the Thanksgiving babble….turkey this…pilgrim that……

behold dear reader…I BRING YOU XEVIOUS!

I picked up this bad boy for a measly $75 smackeroos about 1hr and 45 mins away - thanks to Craigslist. If you are obsessive, you can get some amazing deals there. Most of my games of late have come from Craigslist.

Xevious was made by Atari in ‘82. Here’s some info about this game from KLOV.com, for all you Xevious virgins in the audience:

Xevious takes place on Earth. An invading alien race has set up shop, and it’s up to the player to send ‘em home. The game has a large number of different ground and air-based targets of either belligerent or non-belliegerent nature. In addition to the jumper-based difficulty levels, the game also adapts its difficulty to the player. If the player is successful against a type of attacker, an even deadlier type of attacker shows up to challenge the player.

The game plays fine and the image on the monitor looks very good. Cosmetically, I’d say it’s about average. The sideart is decent but with typical scuffs. The art above the bezel is flawless as is the bezel. The control panel has a bit of a bend in the middle of it that I can probably bend back out. The art on the marquee area is a bit melted.

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Check this out. This cat in England - “Sgt. Podge”, heads out each and every night for a 1.5 mile stroll. He then waits to be picked up by car by his owner the next morning, at the same time every day - 8am.

Click the picture above to go the full story on BBC. They have a video there as well.

Hey…just a quick note. I installed the Subscribe to Comments plugin.

Now when you comment, you will receive replies via email unless you uncheck the subscribe checkbox.

I’ve been watching a ton of movies lately. I am single handedly keeping my local Ballbuster Blockbuster Video in business. What’s even sadder is that I have a subscription to Netflix and have been too lazy to return my movies.

I saw 2 rather dated movies recently:

This was by Wes Craven, of Nightmare on Elm Street fame. It was his first movie. I recognized the title as being a famous movie, and figured I’d better watch it in case someone quizzes me at the next cocktail party. It came out when I was negative one years old (1972). This movie was actually decent…it was difficult to put up with the horrible 70s music though. It was incredibly disturbing. It starts with some text on the screen saying that it was based on a true story, which was a complete lie. See that house on the front? I don’t remember ever seeing it. This movie has nothing to do with that house, which I find very strange. Noiseland Arcade rating: 1 and 1/2 thumbs up.

The next suckfest was called eXistenZ:

This movie was 97 minutes of pure crap-a-tude. It’s proof that good actors can make horrible movies. It has Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Willem Dafoe in it, so I figured it couldn’t be that bad. Boy, was I wrong. It’s a pre-Matrix sci fi movie about an alternate reality that takes place inside a computer game - a computer game that completely blows. If I had a choice of watching this movie or shaving with a rusty potato peeler, I’d choose the latter all day long. If you want to see a pre-Matrix movie that is of the same veign but without all the suckiness, I’d recommend The Thirteenth Floor. Noiseland arcade rating: No thumbs up.

Yesterday, I saw a movie that was actually released this century -

This movie was decent. Nothing to write home about, but it had some funny moments. Being an arcade game dork now, I had to notice that there was an arcade game in Adam Sandler’s apartment. At first I thought it was Galaga, but it’s clearly not:

It looks like it reads “Balica”, which is a game that doesn’t exist. Current theory is that this is a fake game prop made just for this movie. If you know more about it, please comment and let me know so I can sleep tonight.

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