An extraordinary accomplishment: the resurrection and distribution of an archaic form of art. And it was art. Not DaVinci, but it was a ubiquitous part of the American landscape for a decade, and it's been replaced by hyperrealistic wonders that make these games look like inscrutible dabs of pixel paint.
Kangaroo, for example: you can detect the long shadow of Donkey Kong in the instructions.
The monkey has a long reach, though. A long pink reach.
HISTORYThe world's oldest secret code, says Siberian Times. Sorry: the world's oldest secret code? That's a way of saying "sort of, probably" without having to prove it. But it's old.
It's huge. And it's a human figure. A spooky one. Ten thousand years is a blink of an eye in cosmic terms; makes you realize how far and fast we came.
You wonder if it's really code, though. Whether they might dig up a Paul Bunyan statue in 25,000 years and think the checked pattern on his shirt represented a binary concept of reality that could be smashed and recombined using the totemic axe also found on the site. Presuming the statue survives. Quick! Dump it in a peat bog!
