The controls are almost as famous as the Konami Code or idkfa. Space bar = fire, arrows are direction, one is thrust. Game after link.
Smithsonian Announces 80 Finalists For Art Of The Video Game (Don’t Tell Ebert)
The Art of Video Games choices announced. The exhibition of 80 finalists will be on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from March 16, 2012 through September 30, 2012. Our list would have been different, but then whose wouldn’t?
Record Industry On Limewire Infringement: $75 Trillion
Oh, we know there’s dithering amongst the detail weeds about NATO-this, Article I-this, but it’s all petty squabbling. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, ‘Half assed is as half assed does.” So far it’s been tawdry caviling.
Instead, as another tableau of the absurd, we present to you the Music Industry (Atlantic, Sony, Warners, Virgin, etc.). Before a judge overseeing the Limeware filesharing lawsuit, plantiff music companies were asked to proffer their estimate of damages incurred by people trading Hanson, Hannah Montana and Fatboy Slim mp3s, etc.
The music industry’s claim? $75 trillion dollars. Yes, Dear Reader, more than the entire world’s economic output.
Friendship And Tragedy Remembered
The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel; its parachutes — though no one knows this — won’t work and the cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his doom, U.S. listening posts in Turkey hear him crying in rage, cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship. . . .
In 1967, both men [Komarov and Gagarin] were assigned to the same Earth-orbiting mission, and both knew the space capsule was not safe to fly. Komarov told friends he knew he would probably die. But he wouldn’t back out because he didn’t want Gagarin to die. Gagarin would have been his replacement.