(US) Major League Baseball has the "National" and "American" leagues, and the "World's Championship Games" between the two leagues which began in 1903 evolved into the "World Series".
Canada also has a team, the Toronto Blue Jays, so pedantically, yes, there are more countries.
The World Series is the championship of US baseball, between the best teams in the two leagues, but there's unfortunately no championship crossover with other countries professional baseball leagues like Japan, Mexico, Caribbean leagues, etc.
The Atari cheated too; Pitfall II used a David Crane-designed DPC chip [0], Atari's SARA Superchip on a number of the later carts like Crystal Castles and Jr. Pac-Man, and the Starpath Supercharger's [1] games were undeniably bigger and better looking.
The VCS released in 1978, Pitfall II in 1984 which shows the idea of offloading processing and memory came a looong way in just 4 years between Pitfall II, Nintendo's MMC1 in stuff like Legend of Zelda (1986) and the MMC3 in SMB3 (1988). Crane's DPC wasn't officially patented until 1987, the video game gap between 1984-88 is still mind-boggling.
Donate copies to sfmuni (no matter what!), or front them as "distribution partner", ie: they sell those posters for $999.99 or whatever and cut checks to Mr. Lu for $99 each (or something).
I figured out where the bad street name came from; it's apparently a Google AI Search hallucination. It's apparently what I get for not clicking through to read the relevant page on Burning Man's site.
Relatable path here. Fairchild Channel F, the cat chased the pixels around the Bell and Howell console screen. Hid the 2600 box in the garage rafters from my mom to cover up the purchase. My dad made an 2600 controller using big industrial panel pushbuttons for the directions and a sturdy red clicky button, trying for a good Defender controller but panel buttons were just not meant for fast gameplay.
I read the Paranoia, Send in the Clones and numerous other supplements back-to-back as a kid and Warren Spector became a notable name for me. Writing and humor felt a lot like Douglas Adams lite, and made the prospects of living in a underground apocalyptic dystopia really hilarious. As someone mentioned, his CV is stellar; you could almost compare him to Kubrick or maybe Guillermo del Toro at the least.
People were still replacing their 14.4k modems with 28.8s in 1996. I remember seeing the Quake 15 x 1.44 zips on local BBSes, which would've taken at least 3.5 hours over a perfect 14.4 connection so definitely a daunting phone line tie-up for the average kid (I had the CD.)
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Lemmings_for_3DS
https://github.com/esoteric-programmer/lemmings_3ds
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