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A Future We'd Like To See 1.23 - Spatulas of Fury
By Twoflower (Copyright 1993)

I don't have time for introductions, because at this
particular point in my tale I was about to kick someone's ass.
Hi, I'm W'dell, Yttian arcade game expert. Pleased to meet you.

"DIZZY? Crap! No! This can't be happening!"

"Geez, walk faster, gotta go for the throw--SHIT!"

I guess I hadn't timed the combo quick enough. Just as I
was about to move in for the kill with a handy Burger Flip, the
dude on the second joystick had me in the Revolving Slam-Dunk of
Death, as his character neatly grabbed me and flipped through the
air, slamming my head repeatedly into the plexiglass backboard.

"YOU, WIN!" the game echoed in the fake announcer's voice.
The mammoth basketball player on screen laughed and beat his
chest as my fast food worker lie bleeding on the cracked
sidewalk, while various urbanites cheered from windows in the
background.

"Awww, man! And that was my last credit!" I whined,
whapping at the joystick in frustration.

"Too bad, dude," the little punk laughed. "You suck, you
die."

"I don't suck. You were ticking me more than a Swiss watch.
If you were any cheaper you'd be on sale."

"Go play in some wimpy no-throw arcade if you can't take
expert playing," he shrugged. "Now scoot, someone behind you
wants to take me on."

I harumphed, which was normal, and stomped angrily out of
the arcade. I hate weenies that pull dirty tricks like that.
Every character in the game has at least one combination that can
send your character into dizzy, and some wimps decide that it's
fun to do that combination over and over and over again, so that
you don't stand a chance. I thought I had him when he slipped a
move and I snagged him in a Wind Spatula, but he recovered before
I could slide in for the kill.

'Course, you can't expect much from a Ziggy player. I knew
all the characters in Spatula Fighter two by heart, and Ziggy is
one of the slowest, most useless guys in the game, if it weren't
for his Revolving Slam-Dunk of Death. Who ever heard of a
basketball player streetfighting, anyway?