The Place to Be!

The Little Engine That...well, almost could.

Take a look at the Mattel Aquarius, my first computer.  I had a ton of fun on this underpowered, limited little guy and learned quite a bit about BASIC from it.  It had an awesome rubber chiclet style keyboard that today could cause carpal tunnel (or Karl Tunnel, as my friend would say) just by looking at it.  The only other computer I’ve used with a worse keyboard is the Timex Sinclair (another link)…oh yeah, and the Odyssey 2.  Still, even with its shortcomings the Aquarius did a good job of bringing me in to the digital age and letting me pretend to be Mathew Broderick.

Peep out this video of a guy unboxing the complete Aquarius suite of goodness.

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Props to ~L3obrmn via DeviantArt

I’m a retro computing and gaming junkie, so when I saw that my homeboy, @TeLeKiNeSiS mentioned on twitter the other day that he was getting back in to Willy Beamish I got all hyped up Cornholio-style…that was hard to explain at work. Anyway, here’s a pic of Flashback and The Adventures of Willy Beamish, two of the games I’ve been spending a lot of time with lately…complete with my original boxes. I bought the PC versions of these on floppy way back in the early 90′s, but I’m actually running the SegaCD version of Flashback via Kega Fusion and the CD version of Willy Beamish via DosBox on the hackintosh.
As you can see in the pic below I’m on level 8 of Flashback. I’m actually on Day 4 of Willy, even though the pic shows the beginning of the game. I didn’t finish either of these games originally, so it’s a real treat to make my way through and finally see the endings. You just gotta love the emu scene for making this stuff possible!

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Flashback and Willy Beamish (click for full size)