Welcome to Roll 3d6

Hi. I'm Marshall and you may or may not know me. This is my gaming blog. In this you'll find a few various themes for posts... board games, card games, computer and video games, role-playing games... you may be seeing a theme.

The inspiration for this blog is an email that I sent to someone. The email was about the Atari 2600 game, E.T.

Most people who know anything about the game E.T. only know that it was the worst game ever, that it helped crash the Atari 2600 market, and that mass quantities of the game are buried in a landfill. That's what I knew about it, as well.

However, Wil Wheaton posted a story about the game on his blog, and it inspired me to not only play the game, but to give a stream-of-consciousness ramble about my experience playing the game. My first entertaining post will be a slightly edited version of my experiences.

Other posts in this blog will be about current games I'm playing, but I plan to make a project of playing Atari 2600 games from my youth, but analyzing them as a gamer today. I might also make my kids or wife play them, and get their commentary too.

I hope you enjoy my blog. Please forgive the Spartan look and feel, I'll exert effort to make the site look more interesting later.