I had a lovely lunch with Erica Hanna at Pizza Luce in downtown Minneapolis today, and then she let me have a few rounds on the Galaga machine at her nearby office.
That prompted her to pose the question above.
I am referring to the original 1980s Asteroids arcade game, into which I fed a fortune in quarters in the Mary Hall cafeteria at St. John’s University.
I was stunned to recently stumble on one of these machines at the Woodbury 10 cinema.
An arcade sequel to Asteroids was a dud … but a Macintosh-based variant called Maelstrom remains my all-time-favorite video game to this day.
It is still available, too, in free versions for Mac OS X, Windows and other platforms. Download it. You’ll love it.
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