February 28, 2021
So it's come to this. Today, I don't have a rambling introductory section leading into the power rankings proper to get the writerly juices flowing. I brainstormed a few ideas and debated whether any of them had the ability to stand on their. I found each idea wanting... When I was a little kid, my family had a Commodore 64. The kids played games on it. I think occasionally my Dad used it for some kind of accounting software, but I didn't care about that. That stuff was for adults. To me it was a game machine. We had a bunch of games for it - most of them cracked or bootlegged, I'm sure. I could do at 30,000 words on the best and worst games for the Commodore 64 ( Legacy of the Ancients was the best. The worst is up for grabs - 95% video games in the 80's had a single gimmick that was a knockoff of another game - e.g. Jumpman is Donkey Kong.) Staying the course, the game that popped into my head as I sat down for this entry was Jeopardy: Jeopardy had a "Potpo