memry

I found Launchball the other day.  Try it out.

Does anybody else remember The Amazing Machine?  I remember it was a game that came installed on my family's first computer, when I was eight.

The premise was that you had to solve puzzles using simple mechanical components - lightbulb, hammer, toy rocket, electricity, trampoline, lever, conveyer belt, gear, candle etc etc.  You placed them in certain configurations to make (of course!) an amazing machine designed to maybe throw a cat into a bucket, or drop a bowling ball onto a goldfish bowl.  And then you let 'er rip.  Sometimes it worked, oftentimes it didn't.

I wonder sometimes why these are the parts of my childhood that I can remember in any detail. I've already forgotten my first kiss.  I can't remember what I got for my last birthday.  I'm good with faces, but I have to cheat for names.

Memory's such a fickle bitch.