toxicspiderman: A photo of three beer caps, with lines drawn on paper under them to suggest a nitrous oxide molecule. (nitrous and beer)
Sangamon Taylor ([personal profile] toxicspiderman) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute 2010-10-06 01:33 am (UTC)

More video games from the future. S.T. didn't feel like saying no to that. Scott had Mario out and running, and from the look of it, Player 2 was never getting a turn. About as cooperative as watching the Marathon. Someone could stand over him and wipe his brow when he got to the fire levels. Someone else. S.T. gave it a moment of hushed appreciation before calling dibs on one of the other machines.

He let the nurse explain how to put a cartridge in a slot, and booted up Donkey Kong in full 16-bit color. It was surprising the manufacturers had even gotten Joe Schmoe to know the word 'bit', let alone have any idea that 16 meant much more than 8. Exponential curves meant jack shit to the layman. It was usually pH that Sangamon was explaining, but the scaling factor for CPUs beat powers of ten hands-down. There were twice as many buttons, and he ran Diddly Squat off of several cliffs while waiting for someone to take the other controller.

[Mello, you're surrounded by gamers]

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