Todd Pitt

Yet another affirmation of my decision to move to PDX.

“It’s unclear who did this or why?”

There is no why. Asking that question is like asking what is the nature of man or why the sun rises. Because they could. Because it was a good idea. Because a generation of latch key kids were raised by their NES’s.

This is completely badass! Space Invaders is alive an well and coming to an office near you soon. Why do people do things like this? Because they can. Because somebody is willing to risk it all to make something beautiful happen.

I have been extremely busy for the last month whole bunch of social media stuff at work.  As we have been getting the house under control again, finished building Immi’s new room, I managed to hook up my Nintendo again, find my bin of classic plastic (NES Games). There have been many games that I sill want to find, but eBay is totally sketchy and the shipping rates often exceeds the value of the game cartridge itself (sux).

So for my wife’s 30th birthday last week we drove around and discovered new specialty stores that carry stuff we love (her yarn, me games).  We discovered a new store in Fairfax that carries hundreds of old games for many different consoles including NES.

I decided to start tracking the games I own and ones I want to pick up (my Hit List) by creating a classic plastic page on my site again.  This way I won’t forget what I have and what I am looking for.

Classic Plastic

http://toddpitt.com/classic-plastic/

Gheesh Pac Man was just trying to eat some ghosts people!

Would you like to be tackled by security while trying to eat dinner?

Can’t even leave an 8-bit character alone these days.

This is a cool 8 bit music video called “Starlight” by a Japanese 8 bit band called YMCK that you should check out.

I saw YMCK perform live with my friends Alexis and John at the Japan! Culture + Hyper Culture 2008 festival in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center.  It would be great to see them at a smaller venue where I could get up closer to the stage.