So I was home on my lunch break the other day. If I'm lucky, after I eat, I have an hour and a half to kill. Sometimes, I take a little nap. But I have found that, more often than not, I'm more energize by doing something constructive. So I'll play guitar, I cook some thing up on The Gimp, or write. Well, I didn't have much time on my hands and so I just hopped online and had a look at a few of the sites I follow. One such site is Atariage.

When that came up on my monitor, I was shocked to see there was a contest to design your own 7800 game. That brought back some memories. Since the sixth grade, I've wanted to make a video game. I would draw up outlines for levels, design characters, invent rules and play mechanics. I think I continued doing this until my junior or senior year in high school. I especially enjoyed drawing backgrounds to playing fields. The funnest thing to do was design a building (I liked RPG's) and do a floorplan and then sketch out each room in detail. Character design was cool, too.

To this day, I still entertain the occasional fantasy of making some kind of video game. Lately, it's been an endeavor to stage a comeback of the two dimensional side-scroller.

Thing is, these flights began in the sixth grade, back when I was playing on the old 7800. So, yeah, this contest announcement struck a chord with me. There was actually a moment where I thought I might be able to enter it and actually submit something.

And then I took a look at the raw code for Desert Falcon someone had posted somewhere.

You'd have to be crazy to be able to read that shit.