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07.27.03

Fun with Small Joysticks

CrossWalk made its world premiere yesterday at a friend's annual film-festival party. Through the twin miracles of a video projector and a big white wall, films and videos made by hosts, guests, and friends of hosts and guests were shown, including newly made things such as CrossWalk (coming to the Web soon, we swear).

But probably the biggest hit of all was more than twenty years old ...

Atari 2600 game projected on a wall

... the original Atari 2600 still owned by one of the party hosts, along with all the key games: Pitfall, Pac-Man, Frogger, Donkey Kong, even the infamous E.T. And just when anyone was about to observe how quaint it was that this antique device (with a button for TV TYPE – COLOR or B-W) entertained us all back then, he'd get sucked deep into a game of River Raid and be lost forever.

With the Atari and the films and the food and the booze, it was a great party for man, woman, or beast. And in nature as in the human kingdom, inevitable connections were made:

turtles get it on with a Pabst

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Pictured: Rubble from the destruction of the Central Freeway, San Francisco, April 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Views from San Francisco Bay, July 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Videogames projected onto a wall from an Atari 2600, July 2003. Photos by the author.
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