“You’re under arrest for eating chicken!”
-Vegetarian Police Officer
Videogame Review, Freeway for the Atari 2600
Why did a chicken cross the road? I’ll tell you why in this review and hopefully give you some numbers to work with. A chicken was probably dropped off near the freeway somewhere; perhaps it can be your freeway where everything goes according to a random plan or another place in time full of unfamiliar people. Cars check in and out of the lanes as if they’re on cue to the oncoming chickens who have invaded their territory, laid on the pavement while each feathery bird gives off enough oppression from interrupting flow of traffic to bring about a cause for new freedoms. Darkness has fallen onto the drivers for which a great, revealing light appears to pull fast appearances before their gaze at chicken numbers. What’s ironic is that a driver may be heading to McDonald’s for chicken nuggets in the 1980’s, just when a chicken is pardoning the windshield with complete, utter shock, as she can cry out a yelp or gasp of surprise due to immediate satisfaction given to a player, Player 1 or Player 2. You see, the chicken has a destiny here. More than we can ever say about chickens leaves us at an urban mark across from the farms and forbidden fields invisible to Activision’s program although we’re really clear and ensured on what’s lingering around the bend next to painted lines, worn asphalt, possibly after dozens of chickens got left behind by a farmer with a poor sense of humor. I don’t think that farmer ever wanted to eat and enjoy chicken. He could’ve just wanted to leave some birds at a freeway playground where the oncoming numbers of trucks and cars of various kinds demand exclusive patience geared for a chicken’s crossing the road- heading against the feathers, left behind on a mark to get set and go, a galaxy far, far away upon the very borders of Earthly humans in metallic disguise right behind the rubber. No one has to die in the game unless the world of progress is imagined. Vision as it is is tampered with by my 2600 joystick (tug or pull at gold contacts) and my 7800 joypad (tug or pull at normal contacts). Freeway for the Atari 2600 also acts as a game for the Atari 5200 through the VCS Adapter. Photos of this game in my photography collection show mostly colorized images, under which some are blogged for on the VCS Adapter, as it’s apparent from the straight dark lines you see going up and down on the TV screen for my VCS Adapter. My 2600 Jr. console takes a form of command for the program without the visually rough edges but garners randomized, rainbow sparks all over the general TV screen. And the chickens have to cross! But don’t count your chickens before they hatch; vegetarians ought to see this whole struggle between chickens and cars on a freeway as a Shakespeare play, like what’s to be expected from health fanatics who come to importance of differential attention observed from surrounding individuals being either hypnotized by fashion magazine tabloids or simply dismissing the whole vegetarian and chickens-crossing-the-road stuff as total, unintellectual art. So why did the chicken cross the road? It’s whatever your guess is. The guess is part of the joke.
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