Thanks to Dave for pointing this out:
Atari 2600 Game Festival
Sat May 14Sure, you can have your X-Box super-advanced 3-D action video games, but nothing matches the sheer joy and innocent fun of Asteroids, Berzerk, Combat, Defender, Missile Command, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Yars Revenge. Yes, we’re talking about the home video game system that started it all - the Atari 2600. To celebrate the long lost art of these classic video games, the Coolidge is turning the ENTIRE theatre into a massive Atari 2600 video arcade for one night only! Join us for Atari on the big screen as we kick off the night with three auditoriums, each featuring a different classic Atari game. We’ll play in 5 minute rounds (first come, first play, just like at the arcade), with judges passing out raffle tickets to the best players.
Then at 1:00, join us for a final Championship Round between the best players (drawn from our lucky raffle participants) on the GIANT SCREEN. Yeah, it’s just like that Fred Savage movie THE WIZARD, which, what do you know, we’ll be screening immediately afterwards!
Heh, they do not mention the classic Atari Blister, the famed bloody hole in the center of your palm that came with the countless hours spent in front of the television, controller in hand.
This phenomenon is only slightly less well-known than the infamous ‘Nintendo Thumb’.
Dude, what the fuck were you doing with that joystick to end up with a blister in the center of your hand?
Heh, yea, I think for most people it was somewhere between the thumb and index finger… which is still suspect!