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TR Contest: Most Obscure Nerd Love



I really need to get back to playing Final Fantasy XIII and trying to find some kind of emotional balance after posting The Other Story, so let’s just get right to it: What’s the most obscure nerdy thing you love? Is it a character, a toyline, a comic book, a videogame, an anime, what? Think about it this way — what’s one thing that you just adore, but when you mention it your nerd friends, they have no idea what you’re talking about?

For me, it’s MegaMania, an Atari 2600 game. Maybe some folks my age remember it, but never as fondly as I do. It was a Galaga-type shooter, except there were 10-different waves of enemies, all with different shapes, colors and movements patterns. It was like fighting intergalactic Lucky Charms, and I loved it.

Now it’s your turn. One entry, contest ends at 12:01 am EST on Monday, March 15th. There’ll probably be two winners, one for most obscure entry, and one for most obscure entry that I also personally love. Obviously, if you say things like “Parappa the Rapper,” you’re not going to get very far, so take your time and think about it. Meanwhile, I’ll be playing FFXIII and trying to forget that my readers are almost uniformly horrible, soulless people.