Funspot / Zoo Keeper article in AirTran magazine

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If you're like me, you'd sooner eat a gun than read a complimentary in-flight magazine. Ha ha ha no I'm not kidding, the only thing I would ever buy out of them is a stepstool and length of rope.

One of the air girls on my last flight was fetching enough where I looked forward after being seated, and I noticed some guy a row ahead with a magazine open. The article he was reading was filled to bursting with arcade cabinets. This was good, but bad: I was gonna have to ask the guy what magazine that was, and nobody wants to be the person initiating conversations on airplanes.

But a couple seconds later it occurred to me that he was probably just reading the magazine they give you, and I probably had my own copy in front of me. SCORE! The Funspot article is by Adam K. Raymond, and he initially describes getting a Zoo Keeper lesson from Jason Cram.

(By the way, it seems like the Twin Galaxies site makes you log in before showing you high score records. I assume that is an oversight, and I hope someone who read this fixes it. Nobody is going to sign up for a website in order to see who ran over the most meat in Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory. Twin Galaxies KILLING GAMING. Ok, not really, but let's not require a login there.)

I was going to take the magazine with me and scan it, but once we landed I forgot. So we're not here all night, here's a link to the article itself:

http://www.airtranmagazine.com/features/2011/03/3-lives-to-live
 
Great to see Jason getting some ink there. My man is one of the best classic gamers walking the earth right now.
 
(By the way, it seems like the Twin Galaxies site makes you log in before showing you high score records. I assume that is an oversight, and I hope someone who read this fixes it. Nobody is going to sign up for a website in order to see who ran over the most meat in Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory. Twin Galaxies KILLING GAMING. Ok, not really, but let's not require a login there.)

From the discussion on their forums, it's not an oversight and will probably be that way from now on :(

Anyway, neat article, thanks for posting the link. I was at Funspot when Jason broke the Zoo Keeper record last November, but I didn't see him actually break it (I was over on the next row playing Indiana Jones IIRC). I did see some of the game though, and got pics afterwards (of him, and the high score screen with the new record). It's awesome watching him play that game.
 
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