Why Atari 2600 Adventure is such a fun game

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[BJClinton]

I'll take:

[Howlin]

CENTIPEDE, ASTEROIDS, MISSILE COMMAND, CIRCUS ATARI, YAR'S REVENGE, BREAKOUT, GRAVITAR, REALSPORTS VOLLEYBALL, PONG, and ADVENTURE

Buy it here

[SlowBoat407]

Okay, who remembers this line:

"Congratulations: you have just killed a dragon with your bare hands."

[Sybeck1]

Breakout is my fave.

[Howlin]

I showed my nephew and his friends Pong.

I bet they are still laughing.

My personal faovrite:

[Rodney King]

There was also a Naval game for Intellivision that was very cool.

The one where you put together fleets of subs, battlehsips, etc? and had to capture the other guys base? I think it was called Sea Battle. Great game.

[Duke809]

I played Qix on VAX 8600

[Richard Kimball]

"Put the string in the brick" was the silliest command in all three Zorks. I ended up sliding down the aquaducts about 300 times.

[GraniteStateConservative]

What dorks we all were back then.

[Richard Kimball]

I played Qix on an Atari 800. That game used to drive me crazy. It made me madder than any other computer enterprise I've ever undertaken, except for getting Word to autonumber correctly.

[Richard Kimball]

I loved Star Raiders.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I would never tell my wife about my misspent youth.

[kevkrom]

So who here also played an even earlier game, Rogue (on a VAX 11/780, no less), and loved it? ;)

I've played Rogue, UMoria, and NetHack. NetHack is my favorite, and is still fun to play (also still under active development, I believe).

[GraniteStateConservative]

It seems like a hundred years ago that I played Infocom games. I can't believe I even remember so much about them.

[GraniteStateConservative]

And Wishbringer came with a plastic glow in the dark wishing "stone." I think it's still on my desk back in my parent's home.

[ctdonath2]

How about "Dungeon" on a DEC-10 (later known as "Zork" in later versions)? A very detailed environment (for the time). I went thru a LOT of paper as a kid with that one (printing terminal; what, you had a nifty new CRT?), thoroughly abusing my brother's university computer account. Wish I still had some of those print rolls.

[Bob Buchholz]

I don't know how many computer science majors flunked out because of 'HACK' on the unix box, but I know that you could log on (using the super speed 300 baud modem) at 3:00am and there would always be a few (usually the same) playing. I did love that game, and my son with his xbox still talks fondly of the experience.

[Arioch7]

Yeah, I loved that one.

I had the 2600 and Intellivision and I have to say that Intellivision was better.

Arioch7 out.

[reagan_fanatic]

What dorks we all were back then.

Yes, but we were cutting-edge dorks.

Boy, this thread sure brings back some great memories!

[jpl]

The Hitchhiker's movie is finally coming out in a few weeks!

It's just a crying shame that Douglas Adams didn't live to see his Magnum Opus finally make it to the big screen. I'm going to make myself a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in honor of his memory.