11 Oct 10
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Originally posted by Crowleyno manic miner? no jet pac? no defender? no phoenix? whats really worrying is having misspent ones youth and then to be repeating it all again helping ones children to complete their xbox, wii, playstation games!
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/08/its-retro-video-dos-game-day-take-a-stroll-down-memory-lane/
So many hours (wasted) on these...
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12 Oct 10
Originally posted by robbie carrobieThe lady does indeed have a very limited view of "Retro". Even if we, for some curious reason presumably to do with her callow age, fail to get anything at all from the home computer era, surely one should ask, if this is retro DOS games, where oh where are the CGA-only ones? Where, for example, is Alley Cat? Ok, that one actually was not very good at all, oh deary no, but I did misspend hours and hours playing it.
no manic miner? no jet pac? no defender? no phoenix? whats really worrying is having misspent ones youth and then to be repeating it all again helping ones children to complete their xbox, wii, playstation games!
And then, where are the text-mode games? I bet she's never even seen Textris, let alone Rogue. An "adventure game", to her, is Doom XIV, not Zork. It's pathetic, the things children these days have never heard of!
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12 Oct 10
Originally posted by Shallow Bluedo you remember any games for the 'specky', ZX spectrum, like the Hobbit, or Valhalla, text based adventure games, My two favourites were a game called dictator which was text based, you were like the dictator of a new formed banana republic, and you had to bribe the secret police, or create private militia, or appease the landowners by allowing guns or create universal rights for the peasants, there were assassination attempts on your life if things got too bad but mainly you had to survive and syphon off all your money into a swiss bank account and the other was a game where you were a wizard and could cast spells on the other players, then came the Atari and the BBc B, my goodness, i had to type in LOAD "" and the games were played on tapes through a tape recorder, still, they were classics!
The lady does indeed have a very limited view of "Retro". Even if we, for some curious reason presumably to do with her callow age, fail to get anything at all from the home computer era, surely one should ask, if this is retro DOS games, where oh where are the CGA-only ones? Where, for example, is Alley Cat? Ok, that one actually was not very good at a ...[text shortened]... V, not Zork. It's pathetic, the things children these days have never heard of!
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13 Oct 10
Originally posted by robbie carrobieHell, yeah. Valhalla I don't really like - revolutionary idea, but lousy game play - but The Hobbit was what ultimately got me hooked onto English F&SF. And then there was Mordon's Quest... not that good, looking back at it, but fun.
do you remember any games for the 'specky', ZX spectrum, like the Hobbit, or Valhalla, text based adventure games, My two favourites were a game called dictator which was text based, you were like the dictator of a new formed banana republic
I never had a Dictator-style game, but I did have Lords of Midnight, as mentioned by alavanche, and I loved it. Mapped the entire thing, and almost solved it before I *gulp* plugged in my printer while the thing was turned on. Ditto for Shadowfire.
One I did map entirely and solved was Knight Lore. And 3D Ant Attack. And Atic Atac. Now those are proper retro computer games memories...
And they need not be memories, either. If you want to relive them all on your modern PC, just visit < http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ >, download the emulator of your choice and your favourite Speccy games, and off you go...
Richard
13 Oct 10
Originally posted by Shallow Bluecool, i will check that site out, attic attack i remember vividly, you would run into a room and all the monsters would try to get you. i gave up on the hobbit, as for Valhalla, a little stick guy with a few crows walking over a landscape that went on for aeons of time! wow you solved knight lore and attic attack, its just too much!
Hell, yeah. Valhalla I don't really like - revolutionary idea, but lousy game play - but The Hobbit was what ultimately got me hooked onto English F&SF. And then there was Mordon's Quest... not that good, looking back at it, but fun.
I never had a Dictator-style game, but I did have Lords of Midnight, as mentioned by alavanche, and I loved it. M ...[text shortened]... load the emulator of your choice and your favourite Speccy games, and off you go...
Richard
i remember spending about three weeks typing in a horse racing game in 'basic', only for it to fail, and for the life of me i could not trace that bug, ahhh them were the days of goto, for and ifs!
thanks again, if i find my two favourite games ill send the link - kind regards robbie 🙂
13 Oct 10
I still have a copy of "Exploring Adventures on the Commodore 64". Of course it refers to text adventures and I (mis)spent many hours working through the Scott Adam's classics (Adventureland, Pirate Cove, Mission Impossible), although it was The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy on the school Commodore PET that got me hooked.
But I have to quote this from the introduction:
"Whether people want animated adventures or not is another question. They say that a picture paints a thousand words, but fifty words can paint a much more graphical image on the mind than an 8K screen display. That is why Lord Of The Rings, and other books of that genre, will never make a successful transition to the cinema screen or the home computer. The mind is always capable of imagining far more from a few simple words than can ever be depicted on a screen."
13 Oct 10
The day when the upright Space Invader machine went into an empty corner of the local Asian grocers was the day I knew I wanted to be an electronics engineer.
In my little world apart from the AM radio, TV and followed shortly after by the Ferguson Videostar top loader VHS machine, Space Invaders was the doorway to a new era.
When the Sinclair ZX81 was announced it was like winning the lottery (if the lottery had existed back then) and I do believe I soiled myself in excitement.
Happy days.
14 Oct 10
Originally posted by WoodgieLol, the ZX81, had like 2K memory i think! It was undoubtedly a breakthrough of enormous proportions. There was this geeky dude at my school who was not very popular, he built his own pc from parts from maplins, i was amazed! i remember entering the shop, a glittering Aladdins cave of components and light emitting diodes!
The day when the upright Space Invader machine went into an empty corner of the local Asian grocers was the day I knew I wanted to be an electronics engineer.
In my little world apart from the AM radio, TV and followed shortly after by the Ferguson Videostar top loader VHS machine, Space Invaders was the doorway to a new era.
When the Sinclair ZX81 was ...[text shortened]... he lottery had existed back then) and I do believe I soiled myself in excitement.
Happy days.
14 Oct 10
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Originally posted by GixxerLol, classic stuff! i remember it had these huge chunky graphics and characters that were like mister men!
Nope, it was 1K! A full screen took up 768 bytes of that, which is why all the 1K games only used the top-left quarter of the display. 😀