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Geekiest Board Game Ever? Computer Rage from 1977

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I went to my local thrift store today to see what I could find. Every now and then I can find something really good. Today was a good day. I found this UNOPENED, still shrink-wrapped, board game called Computer Rage that is copyright 1977 by Creative Computing Magazine. Click on the image below to see all the pics I took:


Computer Rage box

It has classic, retro art on the front and the gameplay itself is so incredibly geeky! How many games do you know that have a space labelled “Output Queue”? It even uses three binary dice (so you can roll 0-7)! Here is the description of the binary dice (click for a larger image):

Description of the binary dice in the Computer Rage board game

Binary! How many non-computer geeks do you know that can handle binary? Maybe the math geeks can handle it too, but not many other people.

So how much did I pay for this near-pristine piece of classic 70’s retro computer goodness? $2. What a great find. I love thrift stores.

Oh yeah – I also picked up Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Platinum Edition for $1 and it included the box and everything was in it. Also a good deal. I played the demo when it came out a long time ago (I think). I probably won’t get to it anytime soon (or ever) but I couldn’t pass it up for a buck.

Don’t steal my bandwidth!

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I was combing through my server logs and noticed a bunch of referrers from a couple places so I investigated and found out that there is a podcaster (who shall remain nameless) that is using one of my generic podcast images (that I got from somewhere else) on his sites and he is using them DIRECTLY from my site! i.e. – everytime a person views his sites, those images are pulled from MY server!

I just sent him a nice email explaining the situation to him and asked him nicely to correct this situation. I almost hope he replies rudely cause I can really mess with him. I looked at his HTML and he doesn’t have a size on the image tag so I could replace that image on my server with ANY image I want and it will show up all over his sites. Oh, the possibilities! Mwahahaha! Hopefully this podcaster will change his links and that will be the end of it.

This happened before with a Spanish store online. I found it by looking at my logs. They linked directly to one of my images on my site so I replaced the image with this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/myvogonpoetry/23179255/

The image showed up right in the middle of his page where he was selling an item and the image was at full size (640×480). It was pretty funny. They didn’t catch it for a few months. The store does that on a BUNCH of their pages. Punks!

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