Legends of the Joystick: video game characters remember their youth

Legends of the Joystick is a short original comic about video game characters remembering the days of their youth written by Gene Yang and drawn by Thien Pham, the duo who produced Level Up, the fantastic graphic novel about filial piety, video game obsession, and the American immigrant experience that also came out this week.

Legends of the Joystick

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Layne

Took a second to understand the Centipede one, but that, Frogger, Tapper and Dig Dug were great.
Bilsko

I love the “Boing! Boing!” on page 4 of the excerpt.
Bilsko

Clarification: page 4 of the “Level Up” excerpt, not the Legends of the Joystick comic:
http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/06/level-up-graphic-novel-excerpt
Anonymous

That is clearly the arcade version of space invaders, not the atari 2600 version. it should be four barriers.
pahool

Four of them, to be exact. That ain’t no Atari 2600 Space invaders.