Posted on 04/06/2005 7:13:26 AM PDT by grundle
Scott Adams... I loved that one as well. THGTTG is a great book and was a great game.
My sister likes Burgertime. Come to think of it, I love it to!
My friends dad worked for IBM and he had a pretty cool PC (For back then anyway, 1980 or something like that.) and I distinctly remember one cool game called "Sun Tsu's The Art Of War" That was really cool!
Looking at the games in front of me right now, it is hard to believe that they have come so far. Those old ones bring back some fond memories though...
Arioch7 out.
"A stroll down memory lane is great, but the new adventure games are awesome. I expect AI and VR games to be just around the corner...."
Yep. At that rate, someone will release VR versions of "classic" video games. Imagine a VR version of Pole Position...
I still use Plugh, Plover and xyzzy as passwords on quizzes. My students are too young to remember.
Well, that was a nice little waste of time. (But I did get the Chalice)
I played Zork on a TRS-80 Model III.
I used to loathe hearing the disk spin, because you knew the chip was hitting the fan then...
I know nobody else will agree with me, but I always loved the Combat game which came with the original game console. Especially Invisible Tank Pong. That ROCKED!
And 5 million of those hideous cartages ended up being buried in the New Mexico Desert
Adventure was the best, Haunted House probably second. The worst game of all time was the X-rated Custer's Revenge. Pac Man for the 2600 was almost as bad.
One of the greatest days of my young life is when I beat my brother in combat game #20 playing the big slow plane while he had the 3 quick little planes. The game overwhelming favors the 3 little planes but I still pulled it out and won. Occasionally if we go out together and if he beats me at pool or darts or whatever, If he gloats too much - I like to bring that up.
If you want to have a real "adventure" have your next birthday party at Neverland, I hear there's an awesome secret room you can play in. Make sure you're wearing your tight fitting scooby doo underpants, it enhances the experience or so I'm told...
Getting that slippery little bugger defined the word 'persistent'....didn't it? Check out reply # 80 on this thread.
This is a true story.When that game first came out back in 83 for the 2600 my mom who spent a large portion of every day bitching at me about how i am wasting my life on these mind numbing stupid computer games played one game of 2600 pac man and then got so friggin addicted to it she actually called in sick from work for 2 days in a row and played it almost non stop.She went 20 hours the first day then 18 the second day and on day two the blister she got on her thumb from day one burst open and started pouring blood all over the controller and the floor!So like any normal human being she KEPT ON PLAYING WITH BLOOD RUNNiNG DOWN HER HAND.She would grab some paper towels and wipe the blood off of the controller and then in bwetween boards would run in to the bathroom and get a bandaid for her theumb and keep playing.Then when the blood would go through the bandaid she would get a new one and wipe the blood off the controller that went on for a n hour until my dad came home and freaked out and locked the atari in a closet for a full month until she could control herself. That christmas we got imagics demon attack and I honestly thought that my mom was going to die in front of the television playing that game no matterwhat time you went in the tv room it seemed she was in there playing it for weeks before she regained controll and her sences.Those are the only two games she lost all grasps on reality playing though.Those are practically the only games she ever did play forsome reason wich is probably a good thing considering the way she was with them.
My father and I wore out the controllers playing Intellivision baseball...those were the days.
Superman was one of my favorites.
I agree with you. Combat was a very fun game.
Yeah, the 2600 Pac-Man sucked. The guy who programmed it only had 6 weeks to do it, and he allegedly didn't like the arcade version anyway. But the 2600 Ms. Pac-Man was much better.
Aw, man...when I saw the pictures I remembered that I used to play that thing for hours. Atari had some great games for those of us in the infancy of video games. It was like a new magical door opening that challenged our minds as well as motor skills. I still have an original Nintendo and an original Sega system. Don't know what happened to my Atari 2600 over the years.
Yeah, the baseball game was addictive. I liked Space Armada quite a bit, too. Remember the aftermarket "joysticks" that could be added to the controllers?
Speaking of controllers, that was a perennial weak spot with many console games. The 2600 joysticks were simple and stout, but the Atari 5600 and 7800 controllers were always in demand as replacement parts. The Intellivision controllers were a bit fragile, too - more so than those of the ColecoVision/ADAM.
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