Posted on 12/20/2004 8:22:38 AM PST by holymoly
Jumpman!
Archon (I, II, and III)! (is there a III?)
And the Best.Game.Ever,
M.U.L.E.!
I remember one of my C-64 games was John Elway football. The game could only render eight players per team. And as soon as you pressed the button to pass- it had to stop and load the play. About a five-ten second delay before you found out whether the pass was complete or not!
By the way, the computer always cheated to win! Or so it seemed.
Too bad they don't have load runner or Archon. I think EA made Archon and probably wouldn't release it.
Archon was kind of like chess. You had different pieces that moved across a board in special ways. But the catch was that if your move landed on an apposing piece you had to duke it out on the battle field. Each piece had unique fighting abilities. There was an Archon I and Archon II.
Questron, Impossible Mission and typing in code from Compute Gazette! Holy cow.. I miss my old 64.
It should have been the original Donkey Kong. The first Nintendo was a crippled 8bit C64 without a keyboard.
It's the big switch over. The goal for games is still the same: to provide roughly 50 hours worth of gaming fun. But now they want it to take 50 hours straight through, and back then they were targeting 1 hour to "complete" the game but fun enough to play 50 times (some exceptions of course, but the target for the math is consistently 50 hours).
I remember a friend and I decided we wanted to actually finish Lode Runner, do all the levels, that took a week with the computer on and the game loaded. We even hooked up a second "monitor" (TV, remember the old days) so one could watch while the other played. It was handy since we each had different tendancies so some levels were really hard for one of us but easy for the other, "ahhhh I see how to beat this level" was a frequent statement.
It's the great fun of those older games that causes me to be generally uninterested in graphics today. Some of the most fun gaming I've ever had was on a three shade green screen monitor (off, on and bright; really hard on the eyes) playability is much more important to me than graphics.
"typing in code from Compute Gazette" wasn't it great when they finally put checksums at the end of each line!!
Geos was a legacy system used on Brother's Geobooks and SuperPower Notes. Pre Windows XP days.
I remember that! I remember typing in what seemed like billions of lines of 5 or 6 digit numbers that would then be run through an assembler provided by the magazine. Luckily the program calculated checksums from the lines of numbers you entered so you could narrow down where you finger flubbed. I think that after some time they sold some kind of bar code reader allowing you to enter code that way.
speaking of old games... Does anyoen know where I can get a copy of a 386-era flight simulator game called F-29 Retaliator???
I loved that game
Another high school dropout does well. How much does it cost to get an indoctrination at a major Leftist university these days?
Oh my are you bringing back the memories. I actually forked out $800 as a young teen to buy a gigantic 40Meg Hard Drive and ran a BBS for the "elite" minded.
Those were the good old days.
Still have a VIC-20 in the closet with the tape drive. About 2 years ago, I pulled it out and hooked it up- still works!
Yawn. Emulators have been around for a while now.
Ah, the good old days......
Yea, those 5.25" floppies were a lot better than the 8" ones!!
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