Evan Ratliff
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And it was a lot of fun to play, too.
Yeah, I was so into the sports games, and I still play the PlayStation PGA 2K for their golf game.
And then once you make the molds, then yes, you have to make the molds, you have to operate them, and then you have to decide what kind of, what's the word I'm looking for, where you actually make the plastic figure.
It's still a lot of fun.
But I was addicted to the Atari beach volleyball game, wherein it was two players aside, and both players were connected to one another.
Molding, which I should have been able to come up with because we were talking about molds at the time.
They could not move independently.
So when you're moving your joystick around, they're both running in the exact same pattern.
That's right.
So there's different kinds.
I looked up one kind called rotational molding.
Yeah, that's hilarious.
That reminds me of another game that Dave dug up called Chase the Chuck Wagon, which was just about as bad as it got for Atari, where a dog chases the wagon from the Chuck Wagon commercials.
Yeah.
I guess that's what Star Wars was going to try at first, but they lost too much detail on the figure.
So they went to, I think, an injection molding process.
It's a branded game.
But with rotational molding, you've got a mold, and it's on this computerized arm, and this arm just kind of spins around inside an oven.
Yeah, who would have thought?
And then it would poop out food and the dog would eat the food.