OOTS 354 is up... and I feel old now...

[Andor]

Wow, I actually laughed out loud at that. Classic. Also...


You have Q-bert! I'm jealous. I miss q-bert. I would buy a Q-bert standie if I could find one.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

"Help, I'm out of quarters. I mean spells." ROFL

 

[shilsen]

Rich has been on a serious roll with the last few strips. Me likey.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I remember Centipede...good game.

 

[Kid Socrates]

Hah! Now my Atari is callng me...

 

[Shemeska]

Hah! Now my Atari is callng me...

I really, -really- wish I hadn't sold my Atari 2600 at a garage sale shortly after getting my NES (along with the 40+ atari games I had...).

Ebay time.

 

[Stormtower]

Ahh, the trackball... wasn't Centipede one of the first (if not THE first) arcade game to utilize the analog trackball for control?

Back in the day (like '81) my dad used to take me to the arcade and we'd play for hours. Centipede, Defender, Galaxians (different game from Galaga), oh yeah.

Now I'm jonesing for a good 5-hour marathon of Gauntlet... mmmm, Gauntlet.

"Valkyrie is about to die."

And yes, what Shilsen said - Rich has been on quite a roll lately with the strip. I'm checking for updates waaaay too often.

 

[MarkB]

In case anyone's wondering what all the fuss is about, or wants a little nostalgia trip, there seem to be plenty of online versions of Centipede.

Like this one.

Oh, and Q-bert, too.

 

[Quasqueton]

And notice that the foundation for this joke was laid out 4 comics back (#350) -- any other look for the fiendish centipedes would not have worked for the #354 gag. For those folks who think Rich comes up with gags/explanations on the fly to cover his "rules gaffs", I offer this comic as evidence that he plans ahead of time for such things.

Quasqueton

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Heh ... luckily I can relive the Nostalgia with Microsoft Arcade, which has Centipede for the PC.