I absolutely love my Atari 2600. I remember growing up as a kid playing this sweet machine while all of my friends were playing their top-of-the-line 8 bit Nintendos. It wasn't until a few years later that my brother and I finally got a Nintendo Entertainment System for christmas, thereby deleting any need for my trusty Atari 2600.

Over a decade later, I begin my hunt for an Atari 2600 to replace the one I neglected as a child after I got my NES. I scoured the web in search of retailers, but almost nobody carried such a dinosaur of a video game system. So I checked eBay and to my surprise, there were tons and tons of Atari 2600 video game systems for sale. I place my bid on a number of systems, but kept getting outbid. My hopes of ever getting an Atari 2600 were slowly deteriorating. Then, early one morning, I sat there staring at this auction that I had bid upon - waiting for someone to outbid me at the very last second - then BAM!... I won. I won the auction - I was then the proud owner of an Atari 2600 - my dream machine. I sent the money order away the next morning and received my Atari 2600 a couple of weeks later. I didn't have a TV that I could hook the Atari up to, so I ran down to Value Village and purchased a small black and white TV for $6. I then came home, plugged in the Atari, and played for hours on end.

10 months later, I'm still collecting games whenever I can find them. Surprisingly, my local Goodwill carries lots of games for a very good price. My dad also knows of a thrift shop a few miles out of town that carries games for $2 a piece, which is a fairly high price for such old games, but if I had the money, I'd buy them.

I just got 4 new games last night to add to my collection, and I feel it neccesary to share with you my collection of video games for the Atari 2600.

• Missle Command
• Berzerk
• Ms. Pac-Man
• Vanguard
• Tele-Games 8
• Breakout
• Race
• Kangaroo
• Star Voyager
• Championship Soccer
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
• Super Breakout
• Tele-Games 112
• Air-Sea Battle
• Target Fun
• Pole Position
• Street Racer
• Dragonfire
• Combat (2 copies)
• Tele-Games 64 (Hyperspace, Thrust Control)
• Haunted House
• Home Run
• Donkey Kong
• Asteroids (3 copies)
• Defender
• Video Pinball
• Pac-Man (2 copies)
• Space Invaders (2 copies)
• Volleyball
• Flag Capture

Team FUN! welcomes Nick from Chicago to its hallowed halls.

Oh, how excited am I?

Very excited. Never before did I think that this little brain child of mine would start to grow this quickly. In the week or so that the new FUN! has been unleashed to the public, we have recieved a number of applications, 2 of which were accepted. We welcome Peter, who was VERY prompt with his hazing assignment, and we anxiously await Douglas' review of "Air Bud: Golden Reciever" as his hazing assignment.

One thing that concerns me is the future of Team FUN! applicants. I fear that this will become a male-only group and that's the last thing that I want. I know for a fact that girls know how to have FUN!, so I want to see more girl applicants. I have one friend who filled out the form, but before she could finish it and hit the nice little "send" button, her computer froze on her. Oh well - she better fill it out again.

Well, it's Wednesday, so here are the notes from the latest Team FUN! Administrative Board meeting (as promised):

Team FUN! officialy welcomes thirtyfour.org's Peter Bourgon. Hopefully he'll be along soon with his Hazing assignment, "Indian in the Cupboard".

Team FUN! is still waiting to recieve another Hazing assignment before we can welcome yet another member aboard.

I deny nothing.

I'm open about my link-whoring. Why else would I shamelessly promote myself? You are a mean boy, Judah.

But you're still the man - and just to make up for my whoring, I've made my link at the end of this post go to Judah's page instead of my own.

Anyway, I've come to the realization that summer is going to destroy me. I was on the computer last night and my mom walked in the room. She was about 75% asleep and she said "What are you doing up?". I looked at her with confusion and said "Talking on the computer...?"... she said "Why are you up so late?" and upon that, my head whipped around 120 degrees and looked down at the bottom right hand corner of my screen only to find out that it was 4:30 in the morning.

Now the problem with this is that I had sworn to myself that I wouldn't stay up this late again. I've stayed up until 5 for the past 3 days in a row, and gotten up around 11 or 12 the next day. That is not enough sleep.

Time has no meaning to me any longer. I see the usn out and I say "it's day".. I see the darkness and I say "It's night". It doesn't matter what time it is!

For example, I'm looking outside right now and I see that the sun is shining bright and there's a bunch of colors bouncing off of the flowers my mom put in our backyard. What time do I think it is?.. I'd say about, 11 AM, or noon. What time is it actually? 3:30 in the afternoon. My day is almost completely gone.

Not that that matters really, I never really do anything during the day during summer. All of the fun comes during the night.

I have to go to bed early tonight before I get lost into an inreversable cycle that will entrap me into a tiring struggle to catch up on sleep.

You know what I like about Adam? (Fun Fact) He is shameless. Not content with the link that follows each and every article he writes for fun, he has to do this jackass thing (points down) where he links to every page he ever made.

You know something else? (Fun Fact 2) All of these pages do the same fucking thing. He's created a giant web loop de loop. Nothing but a colored splash, a different layout, and you're off to the next thing.

You Don't See Me Whoring Myself In That Fashion, Do You?

It is with great pride that I announce the newest member of Team FUN!. He was a member of the first wave of FUN!, but due to heightened security around here, we had to force people to reapply for their positions (with a few exceptions). Douglas has been accepted and will be joining the ranks of Team FUN! as soon as he finishes his hazing.

I would like to take this opportunity to ask people who fill out the application to take it a little more seriously. I know that forms are fun, and we're ok with you all having a little bit of fun... but we get all excited when people apply, and when we start to read the application and find out it was just a joke, we get really upset and cry...

and crying isn't fun.

So now that we're back on track..

Or a new track, in this case..

I'd like to take this opportunity to let everybody know that I only had 5 1/2 hours of sleep last night. Yes.. I went to bed at 4:30 in the morning, and I got up at 10.

"Why was I up at such a God forsaken hour?" you ask?.... Because I was working around the web to make this place better for all of you.

"Why did I get up at such a God forsaken hour?" you ask?.... Because I'm screwed up like that. All summer I've been getting up around 10 and it's driving me nuts...

However, I've found that when you get up early during the summer, the days seem longer, thereby making them more FUN! and you know me.. I'm all about having FUN!

So, having this in mind, I would like to give my prediction that I will pass out with sleepiness around... ohh.. 2 A.M.

Notice anything different?

Of course you do! FUN! has a completely different look now!.. well.. not completely.. but it's different. We've changed colors as well as add 2 new sections to the page to help it grow.. We've added a Meet Team FUN! section that has information on all of the members of Team FUN! and we've added an application so you can join team fun

Today, we start a new chapter in the world of FUN!..