Quote of the Week (for Father's Day): "This is an important archive, and it's a lot of fun as well. It has a lot of cultural resonance, not only nostalgia, but things that carry over to the current day. My children and I might not have music or authors we both enjoy, but we always have Mario and Pac-Man in common." -- attributed to Selby Kiffer, senior vice-president and apparent tapehead in Sotheby's books and manuscripts department, speaking on an upcoming auction of roughly 2,200 drawings, schematics, diagrams and other documents generated in the early 1980s by video game pioneer Atari. (source: NY Times)
Lovely. My son and I may never bond over Dostoevsky or Bach, but we'll always have Tekken 2...
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