Benford Does Stuff

Please join me as I once again delve deeply into the history of televised gaming. Back in the day, before Nintendo was a household word and Mario or Link was a mere twinkle in Miyamoto-san’s eye, the video game world was quite a diffferent landscape. Atari was king, though numerous other manufacturers were in the fray. The biggest looming threat to any game console at the time was the consistently falling cost of home computers. After all, if you could buy a full fledged computer for only $100 more than a dedicated game playing device, would you not be tempted to take the plunge? With so many platforms, hardware configurations, and market fragmentation, any newcomers must do something significant to distinguish themselves or be lost in the noise.

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I adventured out on a photo-journalistic adventure to give everyone else a bit of an idea of the depth of this particular winter, and why  shut everything down. Photos begin after the break. This is a bit of a historic moment for Benford Does Stuff, as it is the first post with a photo gallery.

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Just updated to wordpress 2.7, and the new quickpress seems like a nifty idea, on par with twitter! Kindah.

So there’s tons of snow here in the hometown. So much so that the greater metro area is almost completely shut down. Right now theres about 12″ of powder snow, covered by a 1/2″ sheet of ice, which in turn is buried beneath a similar amount of snow.

The most difficult part about walking in all this is that each and every footstep is going to break through ice, but just barely; there’s no margin to move your feelt, all the way up to your shins. Each time I lost my balance I felt that I might lose my legs with it.

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I heard back from Mario, who works with Second Cine, the organization that had an in-second-life film festeval. This included “Super Maniro Kart”.

He sent me a slideshow of screenshots from his film festeval for all to enjoy. Get them here!

Be sure to note the Super Manrio Kart T shirt. I’d wear one in real life!