Topic: Who here is old enough to remember...

[AcePylut]

PacMan for Atari... that was probably the first major disappointment I had in a video game.  I waited and waited for that thing, expecting to play the arcade game.

But nope, got some pos game.

I still remember how if PacMan approached the "nugget" from the right side, pacman barely had to touch the food nugget to "eat" it, but if he approached from teh left side, he had to cover the thing completely.

I still remember my high score from teh arcade version... 165550 points.  I knew the pattern

[Capt Rouche]

Still plays Donkey Kong on 8bit deck.

I guess this is my hello to the world post

[Fedman NCC-3758]

Who here is old enough to remember...


 ....  playing Pong.


And watching Sky King.

[Capt Rouche]

Who here is old enough to remember...


 ....  playing Pong.


And watching Sky King.

Remembers Pong, not so much Sky-King, Does Star-Blazers count as old school?

[Roychipoqua_Mace]

I have E.T. for the Atari, who the heck knows why my daddy bought that in the first place, but after all the falling in wells, it is very satisfying to beat.

Star Raiders, Galaxian, and Joust on the 800 were so much fun.

[Dash Jones]

I think my first disppointing game was I believe Vagrant Story for the PS1.  I believe it came to be a classic, but I just remember thinking it was really bad.

[knightstorm]

Ever play Shaq Fu.  That was a game that was so bad that it was good.  I mean, the game sucked, but the storyline about Shaq traveling to another dimension to battle monsters, and save a prince from an evil mummy named Seth Ra was worth playing just for the laugh value.

[Lieutenant_Q]

For the Colecovision:

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator.  An uber Enterprise up against hordes of Klingon Ships, most of them could be taken out with a couple of phasers.  And don't forget the Photon Torpedo, A weapon of Mass Destruction.  It destroyed anything in its path, best when used when the Klingons were grouped up tight.  As the blast radius would destroy all of them.  Most Klingon ships took 2 hits to kill, the Enterprise took 9.  Five Shield boxes.  Warp, Photons, Phasers, Boom.  While you could spam Phaser fire to your hearts content, you had only four photon torpedoes.  Klingons came in two varieties, the ones that fired one pathetic torpedo over and over again, and the one that kamikazes after about 30 seconds in mission.  Each Torpedo hit did one damage, as did one kamikaze hit.  Also in most missions, were Starbases that were available to repair your ship.  The Klingons would attack those bases so you had to move around to not only save them, but get there to recharge.  One dock at the starbase repairs all of your internals, gives you one shield box back, and reloads one Photon Torpedo.  Some missions had multiple bases.  Points were awarded based on if the base had survived, and if had used the base to repair.  If you didn't use the base, you got more points, if you get a multiple of points, Scotty performs a miracle and repairs part of your ship.

[Akira_Commander567]

I've never heard of that, but have ya'll ever heard of the Starship Creator a long time ago, I used to make custom ships for my games with that thing. I always thought my ships looked awesome, but sadley my computer sucumbed to the deep with death by lightning strike, a direct hit as well.

[Nemesis]

There are some on here who's first computer was made by Charles Babage.

Custom home builds are the best.

[marstone]

anyone remember a little game by the name of Warp Factor?  It was an illigal use of SFB to make a computer game, and it also used ships from Star Wars, BSG (old series of course) came out in the very early '80's or late '70's.  I had a copy for the Apple computer not sure if it was made for others.

[Nemesis]

anyone remember a little game by the name of Warp Factor?  It was an illigal use of SFB to make a computer game, and it also used ships from Star Wars, BSG (old series of course) came out in the very early '80's or late '70's.  I had a copy for the Apple computer not sure if it was made for others.

I do.  On DOS it used a BASIC mode for the program files that could easily be reset as copy protection.  At the time I was able to analyze the ships and most of them were direct copies from SFB.

[Bonk]

How about Castle Wolfenstein, or better yet Paradroid on the C64? I loved Paradroid, still do, there are a number of remakes and the original rom runs on some C64 emulators.

[marstone]

How about Castle Wolfenstein, or better yet Paradroid on the C64? I loved Paradroid, still do, there are a number of remakes and the original rom runs on some C64 emulators.

I wasted way to many hours on Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple II.

[Panzergranate]

Way back in the mid 1980's I was an arcade engineer for a large corporation (Leisure Projects) and was based at the largest arcade in the UK on a holiday camp local to me.  I also used to vist holiday camps, night clubs, etc. all over the South of England.  I was also an acting assistant manager.

It was the best shagtastic job I've ebr had.... I've lost count of how many "up for it" girls I had back then, but that was one of the perks of the job.

One night, 'cos the staff had been good, I declared a "lock in" after midnight, clocked up 99 credits per player on Gauntlet, and we spent until past 4 AM playing.

The best moment was when it came up "Your shots now kill other players" whilst we were in a tresure room 'cos everyone just instictively turned round and blasted Elf into oblivion in unison!!

We made it past 200 levels and there are a lot of maps that you have to pass a lot of levels to see.

The Gauntlet machines wew actually an APPLE Macintosh inside and never broke down ever...... so all you die hard PC fans who claim that they'd never dirty their hands on a MAC.... if you played Gaunltlet on an arcade machine, then I'm affraid that you already have!!

[Akira_Commander567]

Thanks for that, you've just ruined my pride. I outa kill you, but I'm not because I ain't going to get myself put into jail. Also because I don't want my girlfriend to think of me as a criminal.

[Panzergranate]

I run both Macintosh and PCs here.... and I'm afraid that the Macs are better.

Pole Postion ran 4 x Signetics 2650 processors.... one for the background graphics, one for the top half animation graphics, one for the lower screen anumation graphics and one to coordinate everything. The 2650 can only address 32 K.Bytes of RAM.

Space Invaders was run by the 8080 with 16 K.Bytes of RAM and 16 K.Bytes of ROM

Most fruit machines ran (and still run) the Texas Intruments 9988 pseudo 64 bit (8 bit external bus) millitary processor normally found in air to air missiles, etc. so pretty reliable and fool proof.

[Akira_Commander567]

That was a bunch of things I didn't undestand. Could you repeat that in redneck terms, please.

[Sirgod]

Back in my day I loaded games up by typing the following.

>LOAD "WOW.BAS"<ENTER>
** Strange cassette recorder noises **
WOW.BAS loaded.
>RUN 10

Welcome to World of Warcraft!
Please enter your user name? oldfart
Please enter your password? *************

Please wait...
** Strange cassette recorder noises **

Select your character!

A> Pwnzar The Barbarian
B> Gegleg The Forum Troll
C> Bill The Destroyer of OS Competition

? c <ENTER>

** Strange cassette recorder noises **
WoW version SQRT(-1234).
Host computer: TRS-80 Coco 2

Tip of the Day: Always line up your holes for the paper on the printer to avoid jams.

You are in a well furnished room. You see a Steve staring at you!
>/hello Steve

He throws a chair at you!
>/duck

Stephen

[marstone]

ah the days of MUD's.  And heck, they are still out there to play today.

OF course you are probably refering to what would be called today an UD, just a user dungeon as there is no multi involved.  Have done many of those text adventures (even played on a computer that had no monitor, just a printer to see the output of the game.