Speaking of the good old days...
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
A friend growing up had a C64 and a weird game called Realm of Impossibility which was basically a 2d maze game with weird optical illusion graphics. That was my earliest favorite if you don't count pong or asteroids at the arcade. :)
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Dragon Warrior, on the classic Nintendo. I bought a "new" old system a few years ago on ebay, just so I could play the series again.
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Dragon Warrior, on the classic Nintendo. I bought a "new" old system a few years ago on ebay, just so I could play the series again.
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Never had a console, folks couldn't afford it, but at the arcade I did like centipede, Tempest[^], Tron, and Dragons Lair[^]. Edit: On a whim, I looked up whether there was a PC version of Tempest around, and voila! http://typhoon.kuto.de/[^] Looks very cool, I'll be trying this tonight!
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Never even heard of Atari. Seems we have a generation gap. Anyways I still enjoy playing Pacman.
The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
I was never much good at anything more complicated than Pong (or Whaff as Boris Johnson would call it) but just after Space Invaders there was a game in my local pub where you flew a WWI bi-plane around the screen shooting stuff. Crude graphics, but the first game I can remember where you had some freedom to move around. Anyway I loved it but I cannot remember what it was called.
Honi soit qui mal y pongs - Evil to he who thinks it stinks
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
I remember my Vic20, our first computer. Blitz and Frogger, what awesome games. Although, playing track and field, Konami Hyper Soccer and Top Gun on the NES are some fond memories. Watching AVGN rip Top Gun apart the other month made me a little sad
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Original NES. We only had about 5 games we paid for but traded a working lawnmower for about 200 hundred. I played the Atari as well but it did not hold a candle to Nintendo.
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Never even heard of Atari. Seems we have a generation gap. Anyways I still enjoy playing Pacman.
The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."
d@nish wrote:
Never even heard of Atari
They have been resurrected several times and still Publish games. In fact I think they were involved in the release of D3iver a couple of years, or however long, ago.
Honi soit qui mal y pongs - Evil to he who thinks it stinks
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
arcade: Q-Bert - last time I played it, I popped in 25 cents, played for 4.5 hours, hit exactly 2,000,000, killed off all of the additional Q-Berts, put my name in to the high score and left the building - the arcade owner did come up to me a few times and asked "Is that the same game?" and "We are closing at 12:30 am" :-D
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Computers for the masses, not the classes - Commodore 64 And favorite game? Oh there was so many - it was time when playability was main goal of the game developers, after all you had to make job of moving rough sprites around screen to be fun somehow. Today it's enough to throw better 3D graphic and hordes will run to shops to buy new game just to look at textures and shadow, reflection and fog effects.
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
ZX Spectrum 48K and the games were: Match Day, Highway Encounter, Chequered Flag, ... :)
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
There used to be a DOS game called Digger that I loved. And one of my first game addictions was Prince of Persia (the first version).
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d@nish wrote:
Never even heard of Atari
wtf? I didn't think they were *that* far off the cultural radar. :)
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John C wrote:
I didn't think they were *that* far off the cultural radar.
It's not a culture issue here, Danish is probably younger than 25.
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Robotatron and Stuntrap, oh and Necromancer...hmmm Joust...oh yah... really like Battlezone (I was legend on that game)... hmm... Sinastar... loved that game, my sister would yell screaming when Sinistar [^]would say in his deep voice RUN,RUN,RUN. Oh by the way I have an Atari 800xl, with about 60 or so cames and the world famous "Atari" word processor PaperClip. Break it out every now and then and play. Good to know about LCD. There has to be a scan converter out there to fix that.
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modified on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 3:38 PM
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Last weekend Hubby found an Atari system in really nice condition. It was made in 1981 specifically for Sears and had a cover so major scratches or dings. Came with Donkey Kong, Pac Man, etc. I know they remake these games for every new gaming console, but it was kind of fun and nostalgic to play the games on an old Atari. Oh, and it doesn't work on an LCD screen before anyone tries that. So for those who grew up gaming, what was your favorite game(s) and on what systems?
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
Now I'm feeling old - really old. My favourite game was Battleships on an old table top.
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It varied over time, but some of the most memorable were Archon, Castle Wolfenstein, Jumpman and Summer Games on C64.
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