House cleaning and comics
I found a number of comics while cleaning my house, Excalibur (which I mentioned yesterday) being one of them. Well I just found a few Atari comics that either Atari put out, or they worked with DC Comics to put out for some of their cartridge games back in the early 1980s (set your way back machine… I would have been around 10 at that time.) Despite the fact that Atari never completed the cartridge series that I was most interested in, it’s nice to finally have quality scans of these aging comics. I remember vividly (with the help of some house cleaning and comic discovery) reading these comics in my early years and wishing for the completion of the story. That may be where I get my propensity for liking longer stories, since it was terminated abruptly when the Swordquest game series failed to generate enough interest to carry it to it’s fourth game.
Another gaming memory: Yars Revenge. Atari did this comic in house, and it’s brevity speaks to how difficult they found it to do in house, and shows why they turned to DC Comics to help them fully realize their comic-game cross over.
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