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nemesis “Mr. Friendly.” proached the bookshelf which held their limits.” If the Legend of BIRA
Robert has also entered into the games I didn’t notice anything. BIRA is correct, then I was being
plaster BIRA BIRA market and he Feeling frustrated I was about to punished for my greed. Like I said;
knows of a good place to get BIRA turn away and end the experiment a long dry spell hit.
BIRA bumper stick- when I noticed After about a month of punish-
ers if you need such a stack of ment I was once again blessed at a
a thing. ColecoVision flea market with the reward of rare
While this statue cartridges with Intellivision cartridges. It was such
(Saint BIRA?) has its their labels a good haul that I swore off antago-
Believers, some feel turned to the nizing BIRA BIRA for the latest lot-
he may be satanic or back. “Probably tery numbers. For now anyway.
of Voodoo origins, commons,” I So, is the Legend of BIRA BIRA
and perhaps peo- thought. I fact or fiction? Are the followers of
ple may be selling picked them this idol being led astray? Will
their souls for the up and found these Believers one day congre-
sake of finding the Looping, Vic- gate at a commune in Sunnyvale,
rare cartridge and/ tory, Popeye, California with their leader Robert
or system. For the Q* Bert, Frog- Batina (with BIRA BIRA in hand)
sake of fairness in ger II: encouraging them to ingest tainted
reporting, I decided ThreeDeep, Kool-AID Man cartridges? Is it
to try out the pow- SubRoc, Mr. possible that they could perish in
ers of BIRA BIRA Do. and bizarre surfing accidents while va-
myself. Being some- Frenzy. cationing in Waikiki?
what of a skeptic I Pretty good for a It’s hard to say, really. What I do
have to admit that I BIRA BIRA Icon drought! know is that I’ve found some pretty
didn’t go so far as to actually pur- When I arrived at the neighbor- good cartridges of late. If that
chase a plaster statue. I decided hood Goodwill Store, I didn’t find means I have to chant to a fictional
instead to wing it, as many others any cartridges but did find a hard to Tiki god in my car then so be it.
have, by chanting his name inside find Sears Tele-Games storage Just please don’t call the police if
my car before entering thrift stores unit. Again, not bad. Perhaps you see me burning Combat car-
and flea markets. Yes, I felt a bit there was something to this BIRA tridges on a pyre and dancing na-
foolish. BIRA thing after all. ked to appease the mighty BIRA
My first stop was a thrift store Then I hit another long period of BIRA!
that has been dry of cartridges and not finding anything. However, I
systems for about as long as I can would be remiss in not pointing out
remember. I asked BIRA BIRA to that the dry spell didn’t occur until
bless me with a good cartridge find. after I had called upon BIRA BIRA
I figured this would be a true test to grant me the next lottery num-
due to the history of cartridge scar- bers. I figured, “What the hell?
city in this store. When I ap- Let’s really push these powers to To visit the official BIRA BIRA website
by Robert Battina, point your web
browser to:

http://www.infinet.com/~rbatina/
other/birabira.html

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