Back in 1983, when Penny Arcade referred to something old man Crecente used to play at the Jersey shore, a book of game cartoons was published by schoolyard favorite Scholastic Books. Titled Blips!, the work was penned by "Jovial" Bob Stine (today known as kiddy horror writer RL Stine) and illustrated by Bryan Hendrix (today known as illustrator Bryan Hendrix). Kotaku reader realyst proudly owns a copy of this yuk-yuk masterworks, saying:

While it was mostly aimed towards tweens and younger teens, there are a quite a few jokes that'll get a chuckle even from adults, and the art style is great (the people are very reminiscent of MAD Magazine, and the cartoonization of Pac-Man is awesome).

All the humor predates the NES and deals strictly with Atari era when arcade boxes were still the big thing.

Realyst even scanned every page, which we've included in a gallery after the jump. We're sure Jovial Bob won't mind. Brian Ashcraft