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Atari 2600 Devs Talk About Pot Smoking, Whips and Flying Frogs

Howard Scott Warshaw, creator of Yars’ Revenge, has been tracking down the former game developers for the original Atari, the 70s company that gave us all of those great (and not so great) 2600 games. The resulting video interviews, Once Upon Atari, give us a glimpse into the chaotic, bizarre and drug-filled world of game development in the decade of sex, drugs and game development.


December 15, 2007
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Smoking Pot Gets Your Guitar Hero eBayed

Some of you may have already heard about the Canadian teen who was caught smoking pot. His dad, upset over his son doing drugs, put the copy of Guitar Hero III for Wii—that was being saved as a Christmas present for the boy—on eBay. The auction mentioned: While I doubt this will keep him from ever smoking pot again, I think it will make him think twice before doing illegal drugs on my property.

The game went for a whopping $US 9,100,01…which will inevitably lead to loads of problematic-youth-spawned gaming paraphernalia flooding the eBay markets. Lesson learned! Pot-smoking son punished with eBay auction [thestar]Thanks MrPants!