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Had a tape drive and everything. One summer, they went away for two weeks and lent it to me (this was before I got my Atari 130XE.) Man, that was a blast.
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007 - 10:40am
I used to really like this game. (I don't know why I liked it more than the first one. Zanier pictures?)
I can't find any pictures of Thexdar.
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I used to really like this game. (I don't know why I liked it more than the first one. Zanier pictures?)
They were both awesome games. I like Sea better as well, though. The boarding option was pure fun.
As for myself, I started with the TRS-80 Model III. Crush, Crumble and Chomp FTW! I remember sitting there for 5-10 minutes praying that the computer would read the tape correctly.
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These days, I'm amazed by the simplicity of the games we were raised on. Well, some pretty early computer games were fairly complex, but games like Q-Bert and Pac-Man...how did we spend hours at those?
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Damn, Quentin, we must have the same taste. I recognize all your screenies there: Ultima, M.U.L.E., Roadwar 2000, and Wizard's Crown! But I played them on C-64.
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007 - 12:11pm
I think I played more Load Runner on my Tandy 1000.
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My first console was an Intellivision as well. I had friends with a Colecovision and Atari 2600. The only game from the Colecovision that I really remember is Smurfs.
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Good lord, I wouldn't have expected brilliance like that from that nemeslut Quintin Stone!
My first console was an Intellivision as well. I had friends with a Colecovision and Atari 2600. The only game from the Colecovision that I really remember is Smurfs.
Ha! I can only think of Smurfs too... I think I played a He-Man game too, and Q-Bert, but I can still see in my minds eye the first level of Smurfs.
My cousin had the Atari 2600, and now that I think about it, I had a Coleco, but I can't remember if it was before the Intellivision or not.
I played alot of Missile Command, and Asteroids.
Does anyone remember the name of a game from the early 80's that was alot like Dig-Dug, but with a front end loader as the main character, and when you died a little tombstone popped up? I played it on the IBM 286. Maybe it was on the 386, I think it was in colour...
My texas instrument never had color?
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I remember this being b/w?
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Some friend of ours had one of these bad boys:
Had a tape drive and everything. One summer, they went away for two weeks and lent it to me (this was before I got my Atari 130XE.) Man, that was a blast.
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Radio Shack TRS-80! Whoo-hoo!! The "Trash 80" was the first computer I got my hands on. Gotta love cassette tape storage.
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I used to really like this game. (I don't know why I liked it more than the first one. Zanier pictures?)
I can't find any pictures of Thexdar.
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They were both awesome games. I like Sea better as well, though. The boarding option was pure fun.
As for myself, I started with the TRS-80 Model III. Crush, Crumble and Chomp FTW! I remember sitting there for 5-10 minutes praying that the computer would read the tape correctly.
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"Lupus with a crowbar is the meaning of life itself." - Certis
These days, I'm amazed by the simplicity of the games we were raised on. Well, some pretty early computer games were fairly complex, but games like Q-Bert and Pac-Man...how did we spend hours at those?
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- Legion, taking "keeping it in the family" to a whole new level.
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Did you ever get to the point in Q bert when landing on tiles would turn them back to a different color? That sh*t was hard.
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Good thing I have my Atari emulator on my work machine....
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Not Atari, but still retro:
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One of my favorite games, back in the 286 days, Lode Runner.
My first console, Intellivision.
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Aries, this is Lode Runner on the Atari 800:
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wordsmythe wrote:
maybe you were playing on B/W TV... I remember the vivid red blood!
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Damn, Quentin, we must have the same taste. I recognize all your screenies there: Ultima, M.U.L.E., Roadwar 2000, and Wizard's Crown! But I played them on C-64.
Loved the Intellivision, but was not our first console. We had the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey with Light gun attachment. 10 different ways to play Pong!
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Quintin, I had it on the IBM 286, and Apple II. I think I had the green screen on both. Man was that an awesome game.
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That would be my guess as well.
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I think I played more Load Runner on my Tandy 1000.
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My first console was an Intellivision as well. I had friends with a Colecovision and Atari 2600. The only game from the Colecovision that I really remember is Smurfs.
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wordsmythe wrote:
Ha! I can only think of Smurfs too... I think I played a He-Man game too, and Q-Bert, but I can still see in my minds eye the first level of Smurfs.
My cousin had the Atari 2600, and now that I think about it, I had a Coleco, but I can't remember if it was before the Intellivision or not.
I played alot of Missile Command, and Asteroids.
Does anyone remember the name of a game from the early 80's that was alot like Dig-Dug, but with a front end loader as the main character, and when you died a little tombstone popped up? I played it on the IBM 286. Maybe it was on the 386, I think it was in colour...
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AKA "Lawn of Death" for the clumps of grass that if you couldn't jump over, you'd fall over dead.
There were lots of good Coleco games.
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Is that last one Zaxon?
I remember that one, Dig Dug, and the third from the bottom, is that Bump n' Jump?
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Dude, Spy Hunter. Unless you mean the one above that... Congo Bongo?
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Eesh. 1 for 3 on those guesses. You got Zaxxon, and Bagga got Spy Hunter (although Bump n' Jump was a good game).
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