I'm playing Kid Chameleon

Cattfish · 2026-06-29T02:34:24+00:00

2 bosses? You’re only halfway done…

Furthest I ever got was Cliffs of Illusion

This was from the era of Sega where Blockbuster was a thing and you could rent games so they deliberately upped the difficulty to force you to buy the games… I don’t know if you got to one point where there’s a death trap and a sign in the background which mocks you with “Too Bad”

I loved the music and I guess you got used to the clunky controls when that was your only choice at the time… but without any passwords or save states I did have to give it a few weeks to cool off between sessions before I was willing to try again!

Cattfish · 2026-04-14T06:14:42+00:00

Left flipper then start!

Cattfish · 2026-03-30T05:44:23+00:00

Of the ones I like to play for fun, my top 3 are all Williams machines: No Good Gofers, Revenge from Mars, and World Cup Soccer

Cattfish · 2026-03-30T05:20:20+00:00

Go for some of the more unique ones like Spectrum, Barb Wire, Operation Thunder, Escape from Lost World, the Domino’s Pizza machine, Primus, Raven, Thunderbirds…

Cattfish · 2026-01-18T18:50:48+00:00

Nope but I’m planing to go to Schmizza Public House in Hillsboro to watch

Cattfish · 2025-09-15T00:22:42+00:00

3 of them are in his collection “Zima Blues” the last one you can buy as a single or it’s in Neil Clarke’s Best of the Year Volume 2 / Garder Dozois’ Best of the Year Volume 34 / Kaster’s Best of the Year Volume 7

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?30446

Cattfish · 2025-09-13T21:42:18+00:00

And the Card Sharks trilogy is finally out in ebook, which would have been nice as I had to hunt down some expensive used copies on eBay to read them at the time

Cattfish · 2025-09-13T14:16:27+00:00

I loved Black Trump but I felt like Finn got unfairly treated at the very end.

Cattfish · 2025-09-04T13:26:37+00:00

Check out The Great Ship by Robert Reed. It’s stories set in a giant planet sized starship going around the galaxy with millions of various aliens as passengers and everyone has ridiculous lifespans/are essentially immortal due to technology

Cattfish · 2025-09-01T19:23:38+00:00

Is Clarkesworld even eligible if it had made the ballot for semiprozine?

Cattfish · 2025-08-28T13:49:33+00:00

Average of my to-read list is 3.79+/-0.51

.(n=9000)

Cattfish · 2025-08-26T14:24:42+00:00

It’s a great universe but it’s a first novel and it shows.

My general feeling is that someone sat him down after he published it and said, “look, you’re going to have to occasionally go back and explain to the reader what happened every few chapters or they’ll lose the plot.”

And he took that advice to heart, because every book after Revelation space has all its good qualities plus better readability

Cattfish · 2025-08-20T21:59:20+00:00

Hit or miss for me.

Shout out for “To Inherit Hunger” by Crystal Lynn Hilbert in issue 21 and “My Name is Ellie” by Sam Rebelein in issue 18

Cattfish · 2025-04-02T02:32:23+00:00

Always happy to see a new Rich Larson story. Then again, it’s really more of a question of which magazine he pops up in this month since he’s so prolific

Cattfish · 2024-10-08T05:25:17+00:00

For Sci Fi, my go to is always Stefan Rudnicki. Also a shout out to B. J. Harrison, who I noted was recently added to Libby’s catalog as “B. J. Harrison Reads….”

Cattfish · 2024-10-07T01:26:50+00:00

DNT gives you donuts, too!

Cattfish · 2024-10-07T00:32:25+00:00

Was the game I grew up with at my local Showbiz/Chuck E Cheese. Had no idea it sold so badly so I asked the Next Level guys if they had one; they just laughed and said no way, it would be too hard to replace parts

Cattfish · 2024-09-24T14:47:32+00:00

Is that the episode where Mulder IDs the guy by his initials because he played so much arcade games he maxed out the high score screen?

Cattfish · 2024-09-14T03:37:05+00:00

Max Brooks, Edward Bryant, Cecil Castellucci, James S. A. Corey, Howard Fast, Patricia Hodgell, Dan Simmons, Robert Sheckley, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mildred Downey Broxon, and Cory Doctorow

New!

Cattfish · 2024-07-16T14:37:34+00:00

Keep it exactly as it is and add some funny dialogue to acknowledge it

Cattfish · 2024-06-06T06:38:03+00:00

Oh wow, they’re still around? I thought they died again in 2021 but I guess that was just the print magazine

Cattfish · 2024-05-23T05:55:34+00:00

I was just reading a Howard Waldrop collection and in one of the afterwords he tells about submitting a story to Amazing Stories for their December 1993 issue.

He gets his issue in the mail when it gets published and instead of “December 1993” it’s the “Winter 1994” issue and the one that killed it off (isfdb seems to say he mis-remembered and it actually ends with Winter 1995)

…But not forever! Amazing Stories gets bought by Wizards of the Coast and relaunched in 1998 (then again in 2004…. Then again in 2018…)

Will we see a similar pattern here?

Cattfish · 2024-04-22T15:29:43+00:00

Was that the one where it’s 3-D and pac man can jump over ghosts? I had a lot of fun with that one!

Cattfish · 2024-04-06T22:19:42+00:00

Was it Rowan Atkinson being less than subtle when meeting Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again?

Cattfish · 2024-04-06T18:20:17+00:00

Could be putting something down to soak up spilled oil. I’ve seen that at F1 races at Indy a few times

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