from the 7” single, Stones Throw Records, 1999Atari was a big deal when it came out, affording potheads everywhere the priceless luxuries of a couch & circulating pipe while playing their favorite game, as opposed to standing on your feet in a stuffy arcade while chain-smoking cigarettes---major upgrade! This peculiar track, by the little-known Captain Funkaho, manages to give a shout-out to almost every single one of my favorite old-school, pre-Nintendo games: Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Asteroids, Frogger, Combat, Joust, Space Invaders, Centipede--- for fucks sake, he even reminds us of what happened when you were running around too much in Pitfall (“do the monkey”)!! Leave it to Peanut Butter Wolf & the crew at Stones Throw to find something this unique and, well, funky; no lie, el Capitan brings the funk so hard here that it may leave you bobbing your head & prone to making the “stinky poo poo” face, as if some awful odor had just entered your personal space…but it’s all good, it’s just the funk. He only forgot one major classic that needs mention, because of its eternal dankness: Galaga motherfucker, which I suppose was still being called ‘Galaxian’ when the 2600 came out…the greatest fixed-shooter game ever.
