Videogame Review, Freeway for the Atari 2600 (w/ 7800 Joystick)

Videogame Review, Freeway for the Atari 2600 (w/ 7800 Joystick)

A problem I’ve seen in reviews quite often is that in which reviews may be understood only if you’ve read all of them and everything required for learning.  I’m not saying reviewers shouldn’t take risks, but come on, it’s just a chicken crossing the road.  You’ll have to learn enough about video games to be brave although I don’t want you to keep searching for options when you already have the right ones available, and a chicken crossing a road, in Chicago, or in California, or in Washington, whatever, keeps you company after the cartridge is inserted before the power comes on.  You know how CD players can have their disks ejected while their power is on?  Well, you can’t do that with the Atari 2600 console.  A benefit of a wired controller like the Atari 7800 joystick is that you won’t have to worry about “charging” it.  Maybe companies have just promoted wireless controllers very much out of environmentalism, not fun.  Once again you’ll find the Atari 2600 console to be very much a controller of sorts and the 7800 joystick won’t keep you down on firing buttons.  You see, you have to hold on to the grills on the joystick and controller base for smoothly enhanced reaction timing on movements given to highway construction purposes, a chicken in need of a player who can make some chicken noises before leaping into oncoming traffic.  San Francisco isn’t too busy after all.  Lots of cars must be looking for the bird as it likes ruffling its own feathers while clucking and wiggling between a temporary home base and a temporary home plate; and no, it’s not baseball.  Don’t look at me!  I didn’t put the chicken there!  A farmer probably had his heart set on the picture and needed a friend to go home.  Remember how there’s enough happening in front for which despicable means of clucking, by me, resemble opportunities taken for fooling on to arrive at the scene of a crime: chicken to wheel, wheel to chicken, and nobody gets hurt.  We can even let a chicken cross the road at midnight dark.  Visionary art is appealed to- the cars have a design, the chicken has a design, the road has a design, the traffic has a design, the roadsides have a design, the 2600 cartridge has a design, the 7800 controller has a design, so why do Atari fans occasionally pretend to have a negative cashflow position on value for the money and a good quality product?  Give me the chicken and don’t trim the fat.  It’s bad enough that Sonic the Hedgehog isn’t fat anymore!  Now the blue hedgehog is a skinny animal with momentous camera issues when the stories fit.  So let’s not deny our chicken!     

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