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NIVO:
a cat.
garnerb350:
My avatar is a illustration from an artist by the name of Travis Pitts. The name of it is called "Mission of Madness 6"... But if you look closely...its justa representation of Pac-Man. Pac-Man and Adventure (Atari 2600) were the first "video games" I played growing up (back in 80-81) and what introduced me into Arcades, gaming etc. When i first started using this avatar, somebody here on the forum asked me if i knew the story of this illustration. He/She showed it to me & when i read it, I couldnt stop laughing. I was blown away by it's "awesome-ness". Since then I've alway kept it.
In 1976, Cosmonaut Nikolai Peckmann was sent alone to an orbiting space station for what would be called Mission Six- to study the radiation levels and strange circumstances that killed all four crewmen of the last research mission.
By the third day, Peckmann's broken transmissions were coming back to ground control filled with increasing paranoia and delusion. He claimed that the spirits of the dead cosmonauts were coming to claim him, and that he had to keep moving to evade them. He shouted that if he could capture consume these spirits himself while he still had strength, he could move to the next level of consciousness...Truly the rantings of an insane man.
Indeed, video recovered later would show Peckmann running around the confined but maze-like station, downing emergency sedatives like a madman....pausing in a corner momentarily, only to throw back vitamin pills and give chase to his invisible demons.
He had exhausted the entire cargo of vitamins, pills, and fresh fruit well ahead of schedule. There was no way another crew could be assembled to rescue him before he starved. After one rather violently garbled transmission, the static cleared and the last live image on record is that of Peckmann's empty, wilted spacesuit on the cabin floor.
It was determined that another mission to recover any remains or gather any more research would be a waste of the people's money, and the station was allowed to drift out of orbit and into space- a failure never to be mentioned again. It was ordered and assumed that all video and paper evidence had been destroyed.
..then, at the dawn of the eighties, a fledgling arcade game company called NAMCO would stumble across the transcripts of these events, and the rest -as they say- is history.
As for the name, its the usual last name , first inital...350 is the engine in my 72 Chevelle I drove back in highschool.
MaineEvent:
Mine represents how I feel about my monitor that I can't seem to fix completely..... Lately I have been hijacking my bedroom LCD, throwing on top of the useless cold black monitor and connecting it using the VGA on the PCB *sigh*
I feel like if I just pry out the old monitor and replace it with an LCD it will ruin the classic 80's feel (I honestly love my woodgrain tak-paper paneling)
jukingeo:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on November 17, 2009, 06:04:52 pm ---I didn't really know where mine came from until a kind person from our BYOAC ( I was going to say member - but it didn't sound right) midst asked.
Its from a short firm called smile.
So watch it with the lights on.
Fear is for the weak...... :D
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Way cool! Nice find! As I said in my other thread, this would be something great to add to a haunt for Halloween.
It's better with the lights OFF!
Geo
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