It’s 1984 and Spy Hunter is calling

Remembering my favorite arcade game.

As a young teenager I lived in the French Quarter in New Orleans. It shared quite a bit with Mos Isley at that time; the quote “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious” was an apt description of the Quarter at that time. But nonetheless, my parents let me roam freely through the mean streets of NOLA as I assume they were under the impression there was likely little trouble their 14 year old could get into seeing as he was such an insufferable nerd.

Down the street from our apartment above the Washing Well LaunDRYteria was a Circle K; a common enough convenience store for the US at the time. And within this Circle K, shoved right up next to the glass entrance door was the holy grail of arcade cabinets, Spy Hunter. The moment I pulled open the door and was smashed in the ears by the Peter Gunn theme blasting from the cabinet’s speakers, I knew I was in heaven. And I would commence to shove every available quarter I could beg, borrow and steal into the thing.

Spy Hunter Arcade Cabinet Title Graphics
Spy Hunter Arcade Cabinet Title Graphics

Near the end of my freshman year in high school we moved to a slightly less seedy part of the French Quarter and the four of five more block walk was just too much for me; that, and we were now within spitting distance of Imagine, the most glorious game shop ever created. And as my interest shifted from Spy Hunter to D&D I found myself letting go of that glorious game and the Circle K experience and spending all my time immersed in thick fantasy tomes at the game shop.

But I still have such a happy place in my heart for that glorious cabinet,  though I’ve not seen one since the summer after my freshman year in High School.

(written on my Amiga 1000)

(N)ano (F)act (T)ime – A quick foray into NFT-land

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Claude, the Bus and NFT.

This episode of (N)(F)(T) finds us creating an account on NFT creation site OpenSea and subsequently creating and releasing into the wild a lovely picture of… A bus. Yes, a bus. My bus, in fact. Sometimes called Claude. But we’re not really here to discuss Claude. We are here to discuss NFTs. Continue reading “(N)ano (F)act (T)ime – A quick foray into NFT-land”