1. EPISODE 11: CENTIPEDE William Pepper 29:08

PASS THE ‘SHROOMS, MAN!

Atari goes down on the farm in this episode. Atari’s CENTIPEDE from 1982 is our topic.  While other elves are out fighting wars and hanging with Hobbits on epic quests, your poor little elf Oliver is stuck tending a mushroom farm. If that isn’t bad enough, you’re being pummeled by giant centipedes, scorpions, spiders and FLEAS.

No one would blame you if you used that magic wand to teleport yourself out of here. But no! That’s not the Atari way. On this farm, we beat our swords into plowshares…then use those plowshares to beat the holy crap out of anyone who messes with our ‘shrooms. Nobody messes with our ‘shrooms. NOBODY.

Does the story hold up? Are the steaks, er stakes, er mushrooms clearly defined? Pull up a toadstool and we’ll figure it out.

My thanks to Kevin McLeod at Incompetech.com for the creative commons use of his songs “Pinball Spring”, “Reformat” and “Take a Chance”.

Here’s a link to Bill Kendrick’s Atari Party info.

 

EPISODE 11: CENTIPEDE
William Pepper is a local playwright (New Ground Theatre, Augustana Playwrights Festival), very occasional actor (Playcrafters), blogger (http://www.williamallenpepper.wordpress.com/), author (In the St. Nick of Time) and now, he's a podcaster too.
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