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Could this have been the cause?

We’ll never know.

Everything at work has pretty much been a success. I’ve been working extensively the past few days on a project for a local law firm; taking a crack at it with my trusty HTML whip.

In all honesty, I’ve learned more in the past few months from just trial and error. Yet, that’s how it usually is for our species, we learn and succeed by failing. At the same time, we sometimes need to take a step back and ultimately see how things will shape up on their own instead of trying to please everyone.

As Bill Cosby once (or twice, or three times) said:

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

If you think about it, Bill couldn’t be more truthful. There are many times in life where we feel we’ll only succeed if we please the masses. If you ask any student of Psychology, he or she will explain that we attain personal achievement by allowing ourselves to only achieve at the expense of someone else’s opinion.

Rather, we should look to success as a seed. One that needs a bit of comfort and care to eventually grow into a tree and in time branch off into other great avenues.

Are you having trouble sleeping?

Might you be suffering from UFO Abduction Syndrome?

Me? I’d never suffer from UAS. Rather, I suffer from RMAS.

Ronald. McDonald. Abduction. Sydrome.

Warn your neighbors!

“In February 1978, a programmer called Toshihiro Nishikado finalized a primitive spaceship shoot’em up video game. Originally, the player had to shoot down soldiers who tried to cross the screen but, at the time, it was politically unwise to encourage killing humans, the soldiers were then replaced with an alien invasion.

Four month later, Taito, a company that sold video games since 1971, launched the first Space Invaders coin operated cabinet. The game became immediately a national passion. It was so popular in Japan that it caused a severe shortage of the 100-Yen coins needed to play the game, until the coins production was quadrupled. Beside arcades shops which featured nothing but Space Invader machines, one found Space Invaders cabinets everywhere in Japan: restaurants, ice cream and pizza shops, laundries…

In 1980, the game was licensed from Taito by Midway for production and use in the United States. The mania wasn’t quite as intense - no quarter shortage - but Space Invaders was still a phenomenal success.

The same year, it was released on the Atari 2600, making it the first ever home conversion of an arcade game. Several dozen thousands 2600 consoles were then sold only for playing Space Invaders.”

(www.old-computers.com)

Play the original and an updated version of Space Invaders (2003)
URL: http://www.robotubegames.com/inv_play.html