Are you really a hardcore gamer? :)
Thursday, July 24th, 2003 - 4:09pm
I'm trying this on another forum .. but for some reason I think this would work out great in this forum ... if you allow. 
This whole thing rattled in my head when Bill over @ Gone Gold did that whole best gaming moment challenge (even tho I think my Wing commander 3 should've placed 
) and I started thinking of ALL the games I've played over the years. So here goes ... and if you think it's stupid .. please be gentle .. I'm new here
I haven't really thought this one out, and it's prolly already been done a zillion times ... but hey! Look at my profile I've only posted 3 times!
I keep seeing and hearing about people who thing they're hardcore this and hardcore that ... MY definition of hardcore also includes a knowledge of the OG old school games that started this whole hobby/lifestyle/obsession/addiction that brings us together.
So anybody wanna join me in a kind of "I spy" kind of game here where each of us tries to name an old school game and the next tries to name another and let's see who runs out of names first. Now ... of course this is gonna work on some kind of honor system so you don't cheat and surf the net for games. Once again .. I haven't really thought this out BUT mebbe some of you's can help me make this work. I'm kinda curious to see if'n I know as much as I think i know.
If you think a game is a fake and want to challenge the poster ... the challengee has to at least try to explain the premise of the game ... or if you can't remember the exact title give a good description of the system and the gameplay. Mebbe the rest of us can try to remember it for you. Any system work even arcade coin-ops.
So without further ado I'll start with ...
APPLE PANIC (Apple II)
Miner 2049
...and welcome to the forums!
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
Hey Lrets, welcome aboard. This sounds kind of interesting even if I can''t remember the names of half the games I''ve played. Here''s one ,
Silent Service (C64) 1985 I think?
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
Oooohhh! This is gonna be FUN!!!
miner 2049''er .. i totalyy remember that! An'' thanks fer the welcome!
Escape from Rungistan (I believe .. the first ""real-time"" action adventure game)
Wasteland.
The man wears a bucket of KFC on his head. I wouldn't expect anything less. - Pred
Goonies (NES)
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
Out of this World
"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem." - Malcolm Forbes
Crush Crumble Chomp
Zork
Welcome to the forum, Lrets!
Oldies ah... dang, I''m in the hot water... I don''t remember what I played last year. However, from the top of my head... I''ll say PAC-MAN...
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Bilestoad
Escape from Rungistan sounds realy familiar. Can you refresh my memory a bit?
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
Meat Puppet!
Pengo,
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
Evolution
Now I know someone is going to question me on this so here goes:
Its a shooter like berzerk. You start off as an amoeba and run around gobbling up proteins? I believe. That part is like pac man without walls as you are chased around until you can gobble the pellets. I forget what the next stage is but the stage after that is like space invader type shooter where you try and shoot coconut throwing monkeys that are clinging to trees. The next part is the Berzerk part as you are a human running around with a laser shooting robots. When that stage is over you are rewarded with a mushroom cloud screen and the amoeba stage starts over.
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
I only played this arcade in one place. It was a Showbiz Pizza when I was but a child. The only place I''ve played it since may or may not have been with MAME.
Zookeeper. It was sort of like Mario but you ran around and did bricklaying rather than brick demolishing. It was also terribly addicting.
"If you're not a stinky-stink, you're not addicted to anything!" - Reaper
Karateka
Galaga
Adventure.
Money can't buy you happiness...but it can buy you a boat big enough to sell right up next to it!-David Lee Roth
Buck Rogers for Coleco Vision
Astrosmash
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Berzerker
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
Lode Runner
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
All these names are giving me flashbacks. Crush Crumble Chomp! That was fantastic.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Lock and Chase.
Such a pac man rip off.
Here''s two for you on the Apple 2
Bilestoad
Below the Root
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
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Almost forgot - Conan the Barbarian for Apple II
Evets.
It was a shareware distributed nethack style game, probably around 89-90.
The man wears a bucket of KFC on his head. I wouldn't expect anything less. - Pred
Oooh, for PC. Scorched Earth.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
PC? Wolfenstein 3D.
"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." - Unknown
Megalomania
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
Guru looses a point since I already mentioned Bilestoad.
So I will now name:
Tron Maze-a-tron (Intellivision)
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.