They came in droves during the Fall of 1981, players of all ages, filing into convention rooms across the country to compete in The Atari International Asteroids Tournament. Not much information remains on this nationwide event save for a tee shirt here, a small headline there. In fact, a lot of particulars have been lost over the decades or, perhaps, were never written down. For instance, contestant’s and referee’s names, competition locations, any highlights whatsoever including video footage seems to be missing, appears to be lost. Hard to imagine that something this big and this organized vanished from memory without a trace. Surely it can’t be true? Read more >
Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet
Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet is an article from the September 22, 1975 issue of New York Magazine that is said to have been inspiration
