Our second guest strip this week is from Esbé, another good friend of mine who is releasing his own Graphic Novel soon. I really wanted to have him draw a Frivolesque strip before he becomes too famous and busy to help me.
Gaia never had a normal childhood. Video games were never really part of her life. :)
See you again next Monday!
Thanks Esbé, and good luck with your projects!
Ever played? It must be the first video game she has ever seen.
Probably. Gaia is a bit weird like that.
The way I pictured it was: Gaia never really gave a thought about video games. Not as much as a rejection but because she just didn’t know about it.
And, just like me, it is often ignorance showing off as a result ^_^
First, I asked for Dez’s blessings. If the strip I had in mind didn’t make him at least giggle a bit, I wouldn’t use it, and this is one time I seemed to have struck a nice chord :)
Makes me want to write another one ^_^
Ah, the old Atari 2600. So many bad, bad memories. Oddly enough, the E.T. game was a good Atari memory for me. People who say the Atari E.T. game was terrible haven’t played enough terrible Atari games.
E.T. suffers from what I like to call the Internet Hive Mind problem. Nobody has ever played the damn thing, but since online media called it the worst video game ever (uttering such nonsense as “the game that caused the crash of ’83”), people will call it that without ever doing any research on it.
Zelda II suffers from this as well. The internet hates it, but I really consider it one of my favorite NES games ever. It really doesn’t deserve any of the hate it gets.
Thank god, the AVGN wasn’t actually all that mean toward the E.T. game when he finally got to review it at the end of his movie. I was happy about that.
I actually loved the E.T. game back when I played it as a kid (yeah I’m an 80’s weirdo kid at that), it was at times challenging, but at times it was relax and fun. I never quite got why it had such a bad rep.
I loved the E.T. game, but I actually had the instruction manual, which told you all that you needed to know to do well in the game. Heck, it even had difficulty settings! If you switched some of the buttons on the console, it would turn off certain bad guys, or the bad guys altogether.
If the games weren’t straight, simple shooters on Atari, if they had any complexity to them, you needed the manual, because the games (for some mysterious reason) never included any text to explain things.
Great job on the comic, by the way, Esbé. Hats off!
Thanks for the compliment, and rest assured the next one will be even better (someday I’ll make anotber one, I have a few ideas)
Actually, Pong first came out as a game on a standalone system before being re-released on the Atari 2600.
It was an arcade machine first.
Gaia has a whole world to discover. She seems to be doing fine without them, though)
A lot of Frivolesque characters seem to be living in little worlds of their own.
I still have my Atari 2600! FYI: Pong is played with the paddle controller not the joysticks.
Maybe Chloe didn’t bother telling her or maybe the artist was too lazy to do his research right XD
Coincidentally, that was the first video game I ever played, too.
First game I played was probably Joust. Not too far off then, still Atari2600