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taking a cue from the podcast(july 24), and to reminisce of systems and games gone by...
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My texas instrument never had color?

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I remember this being b/w?

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Atari, anyone?

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I know what your all thinking... Yeah. These graphics are too good to be considered "retro" right now.

doihaveto wrote:

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Atari, anyone? :)

130XE FTW baby!

Peering into the abyss, aged 4, this is what stared back at me:

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It's been a downward spiral ever since.

Here ya go.

[color=white]Oh wait, you said retro not retoe. My bad.[/color]

I have a strange urge to play Parsec now.

Some friend of ours had one of these bad boys:

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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.

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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My first home computer:

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I have a strange urge to play Parsec now.

Get out of my head.

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.

wordsmythe wrote:

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?

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.

Good thing I have my Atari emulator on my work machine....

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This is my avatar on RPG.net:
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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.
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My first console, Intellivision.
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Edit:
Aries, this is Lode Runner on the Atari 800:
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Brizahd wrote:

My texas instrument never had color?

<---- my user pic since I can't get an image to show.

I remember this being b/w?

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!

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.

dumb_kid wrote:
Brizahd wrote:

My texas instrument never had color?

<---- my user pic since I can't get an image to show.

I remember this being b/w?

maybe you were playing on B/W TV

That would be my guess as well.

I think I played more Load Runner on my Tandy 1000.

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.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

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...

Quintin_Stone wrote:

The only game from the Colecovision that I really remember is Smurfs.

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?

Aries wrote:

the third from the bottom, is that Bump n' Jump?

Dude, Spy Hunter. Unless you mean the one above that... Congo Bongo?

Aries wrote:

Is that last one Zaxon?
I remember that one, Dig Dug, and the third from the bottom, is that Bump n' Jump?

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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