This is a strange book.
It's strange because it's really a videogame, or at least, a curious box made to house a videogame. And the videogame it houses is not an ordinary one about elves or soldiers or footballers created to run on the latest and most powerful computer, but a new title for a videogame console more than three decades old, the Atari Video Computer System. And that Atari game is not a nostalgic re-make of a popular shoot-em-up or a new take on an iconic action-adventure, but a set of playable poetry that owes as much to William Carlos Williams as it does to Will Wright.
jolifanto bambla o falli bambla
großiga m'pfa habla horem
egiga goramen
higo bloiko russula huju
hollaka hollala
anlogo bung
blago bung blago bung
bosso fataka
ü üü ü
schampa wulla wussa olobo
hej tatta gorem
eschige zunbada
wulubu ssubudu uluwu ssubudu
–umf
kusa gauma
ba–umf
Imagine snow is falling
Imagine it's falling everywhere forever
just let it keep on falling and falling
and it just keeps going
hoo boy
it's gunna be a cold'un
Comments
did you make those fractals
did you make those fractals from scratch?
i ran out of cats
nah, I stole everything from
nah, I stole everything from various sources.
edit: "appropriated"
I like having the animated
I like having the animated GIF screenshot.
I gotta admit it didn't scream Atari VCS to me. Maybe I'm thinking too literally.
But it did scream psychadelic ferns, kittens, pugs, anaroxic women, whats his name, skeleton and nursing boobies.
Oh god why did I play this
Oh god why did I play this before going to bed? 0_0
Wow. I think I should try
Wow.
I think I should try to throw random bullshit together next time I'm out of ideas.
I did hear that Space Jam remix! The rest of the audio was unrecognizable/incoherent.
This is terrifying! Is it
This is terrifying! Is it possible to complete the game in any way?
you can kill the
you can kill the cat-launching fractal, or let it soak up all the leaves and devour the world. those are kind of like endings.
Oh, wow, I didn't even
Oh, wow, I didn't even realize there was a goal to this game.