Back in the distant past (B3ta Newsletter 84) I asked our readers this:
Sometimes I fill this section of the newsletter with whimsey, sometimes bad jokes and sometimes nuggets of good ideas that I simply can’t be arsed to persue myself.
So imagine my (belated) surprise when B3ta boarder Account88888 got in touch to say he’d actually gone and made some and would I fancy giving away a few via the site?
Figuring this was a great opportunity to get some free scarfs for winter, how could I say no?
I thought long and hard about doing a fantastic photoshoot, and then thought, fuck it, I’ll just take a couple of snaps with them drapped around some old computers.
First off is a Scramble themed scarf, keeping a Cambridge Computers Z88 toasty and warm.
Secondly we’ve got a Space Invaders one making sure that the Spectrum +2 doesn’t get a cold interface this Christmas.
Anyway. I’ve got three to give away to B3ta readers. All you have to do is complete this exciting tie-breaker in 15 words or less and add it as a comment on this very blog post.
“I love 8-bit gaming because…”
And if you can’t be arsed with bollocks compos then maybe you’d like to buy one via B2D4.
WINNERS!
Yay, we’ve got three people that B2D4 reckon are the tops, and they’re getting a scarf each.
- I’ve never been called a n00b playing missile command… (soscynicalsohip)
- 10 REM SCARF COMPETITION HACK FOR INFINATE WARMTH
20 POKE 0121,666
30 SYS 2059
RUN (monkeon) - I love 8-bit gaming because thats where I learned that men love a girl who’s a computer nerd….but not one who can beat them every time. So a scarf would keep me warm on all those victorious yet lonely nights. (onlythegirl)
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I love 8-bit gaming because…
an 8-bit goatse wouldn’t make me want to gouge out my face!
I love 8-bit gaming because… my dad said: the bigger the pixels, the more i can use my imagination
I love 8-bit gaming because it’s 8 bit gaming!
Enough said.
I love 8-bit gamming because its the only type of games i can pwn noobs at!
I love 8-bit gaming because anything more and I break out in hives.
I love 8-bit gaming because it makes my penis that extra pixel longer
I love 8 bit gaming because…
…there are 8 of them… oh, wait… wrong joke.
I love 8-bit gaming because IT KILLED MY MONG DOG
I love 8 bit gaming because it was a time of simpler pleasreeee….skeeeshhhh…”R Tape loading error, 0:1″
“I love 8-bit gaming because…” who needs to count to more than 256?
I love 8-bit gaming because its really really really really nice :o)
bum tit tit, bum tit tit, play the willy banjo
10 REM SCARF COMPETITION HACK FOR INFINATE WARMTH
20 POKE 0121,666
30 SYS 2059
RUN
I love 8 bit gaming because after a full week gaming there is always a bit left
I love 8-bit gaming…
… because I am dork.
Actually, I just want a Space Invaders scarf to go with my Space Invader hat…
I love 8 bit gaming…
… because hey, it’s 16K, and what does that get you today? Bugger all.
because thier little hands make your cock look big
5 REM TO RUN AWAY AFTER TYPING RUN!
10 ? Give me the scarf!
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Also, because this competition got me all nostalgic like
because the controls were SO much easier.
Ive never been called a n00b playing missile command…
Just give me the scarf or the kitten gets it.
I could rape the queen in her pixellated 256-grey scale anus
Suggestion for next weeks “things I would like to see” for the newsletter:
8-bit “royal ass rape” where the player can insert a root vegetable of their choice into various crown-wearing bejewelled goatse characters. Radish HRH to sounds of “One likes that” and “Philip is that you”
Bonus points for stereo sound, code
“I love 8-b it gaming because…” pirate copies of strip poker made its way around our junior school class.
I love 8-b it gaming because you had to spend 15 minutes trying to guess the controls
Because, beeeeep bip…. beeeeeep biddledy beep…….beep bip….beeep..gnanger nanger woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
i love 8-bit gaming because i cant count past 9, and the other games wont let me play :(
i love 8-bit gaming because 7-bit just ain’t enough
too much pixels are overrated.
I love 8-bit gaming because it inspires my boyfriend to draw Space Invaders all over my unmentionables.
because im wank at anything more complex
i love 8-bit gaming because back then gameplay mattered.
“I love 8-bit gaming because… pixels were real pixels in those days, not like the tiny things you get now”.
Also…
“I love 8-bit gaming because… working for the Psi-5 Trading Company was the best job I ever had”.
i love 8-bit gaming because it never took much aiming
I love 8-bit gaming because I can’t use those cocking analogue sticks that now plague control pads
I love 8-bit gaming because it gives my sister epileptic fits that my dad says are love spasms
I love 8-bit gaming because it makes me an elitist compared to todays teenage idiots who’ve never even heard of Ultima, much less Scramble, Manic Miner, or Jet Set Willy.
I also love 8-bit gaming so much that I got a sweet ass tattoo. :)
http://myspace-900.vo.llnwd.net/00146/00/93/146423900_l.jpg
I love 8-bit gaming because it takes me back to a better day, a Whackaday!
because it’s twice as good as 4-bit
I love 8 bit gaming cos I only have havn’t enough fingers to count to 8 bit…
16 bit or more is beyond me.. if only I had friend so I could borrow some more fingers…
DOH………!
I love 8-bit gaming, because all that mattered was being imaginitive and fun. Anyone could become a legend.
i have epilepsy
i forgot my boyfriends christmas prezzie and im on the scrounge.
…i can’t count to 10. Not to mention 16.
I love 8-bit gaming because that scarf is cool and I want one!