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Posted by Mephs on Fri Feb 25th at 4:27am 2005

While clearing out my stuff today (I'm a terrible hoarder) I started coming across old games like Myst, and Destruction Derby and it's put me in a nostalgic mood about the good ol' days of computers.

Remember ZX Spectrums, loading games from tape, and garish blocky graphics?

And then there was the internet, back on my 14k modem and my cutting edge win 95 computer (ok, im 56k on win 98 machine now, so i've not advanced much). Remember the internet, back then (less than 10 years ago) before napster etc. when computers were only just beginning to get mainstream, and the internet subscriptions and phone calls cost an arm and a leg. Its amazing the advances that have been made in such a relatively short space of time.

Post your memories here....
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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 25th at 4:32am 2005

? quoting Mephs
Post your mammories here....

boobs?

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Posted by RabidMonkey777 on Fri Feb 25th at 4:44am 2005

Descent on meh mac.



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Posted by Hugh on Fri Feb 25th at 4:50am 2005

I remember playing Doom 1 for the first time around 12 years ago, 'twas the coolest game ever even though I wasn't used to the controls at all. [addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Feb 25th at 5:07am 2005

Anyone else remember SEAMUS, or JUMPJOE? Lode runner? these are the games i grew up with! I also remember Rise of the Triad. Commander keen, duke nukem, King's quest and Space quest. Lots of good memories with those.

Leisuresuit larry: lots of good mammaries with those.

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Posted by Mephs on Fri Feb 25th at 5:19am 2005

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Post your mammories here....


I reckon at the current rate of technological advancement, I'll only have to wait 6-8 months till you can punch people in the face over the internet. I'm preordering mine, Orpheus...

I love this song, and thought it relevant.
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Posted by ReNo on Fri Feb 25th at 6:05am 2005

I f**king love that song

As for old memories of gaming, I've many. I've played computer games most of my life, from the Commodore 64, through the Amiga, past the PS1 and various other consoles up to the Xbox and of course PC. I wanted a PC long before I got one however (my first proper PC was only a few weeks before HL came out), so on the occasions I went around to a mate who had a PC's house I took full advantage of the odd Doom burst. In fact my very first level design days could be traced back to that guy's PC, when we would build our own race tracks in 4D driving.

As fond as the memories are though, I'm pleased I now have PGR2 or Burnout 3 to mess around in
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Posted by Cash Car Star on Fri Feb 25th at 6:09am 2005

The First and Only Internet Mammogram





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Posted by Agent Smith on Fri Feb 25th at 6:21am 2005

Besides "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" B+W and Colour for the old Commodor 64 which I've still got in the garage, and Duke Nukem 2. Doom 1+2 are perpetual classic's and Quake 2 was great fun at school over the network during computing classes. I loved and still love to play X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter and X-Wing Alliance; still possibly two of the best Star Wars games Lucasarts has ever produced, which is pretty f**king sad if you think about it. Oh, and Decent and Terminal Velocity, as well as Rise of the Triads, pretty funny game.

Heaps more but these were definately cream of the crop I think.
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Posted by fraggard on Fri Feb 25th at 7:26am 2005

Playing "Alley Cat" on a 286 without a harddisk, just a 5-1/4" floppy drive. Booting from a DOS disk, pulling it out and putting in the Cat floppy. Running the game, getting 0wned by the dogs, trying to quit and realizing that you can't exit from Cat, because it didn't have any function to quit. Even if you do exit, where would it go? DOS? There was no more DOS after you pulled out the disk. You're only option was to reset/power down the machine.




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Posted by $loth on Fri Feb 25th at 7:41am 2005

The only game I played on tape was something called james pond or something like that. That was round my cousins, then I got my master system 2 with built in alex the kidd I've still got that now.
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Posted by Crono on Fri Feb 25th at 7:46am 2005

I actually never had anything other then a Mac Plus until I was in junior-high school. Then we got a 286. Eventually a 486 and blah blah blah (Never had much money really). I remember, I bought Duke Nukem 2 and I couldn't play it because my FDD was a low definition.

Then I started learning about the stuff and built my own. Way more badass then the other computers we had simply because, I was building it. My dad would always say crap like, "Pfft. Sound? You want sound now?" oh well.

Anyway, on the Mac Plus there was this game, I can't remember the name, but it was awesome. You controlled a helicopter with the mouse and there was a stick figure hanging off of it. At the bottom of the screen there was a horse dragging along a trailer full of hay. The horse would go at varying speeds across the screen and if there were clouds they'd slow the guy down. You click to let him drop and try to land him in the hay. [addsig]



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Posted by Joe-Bob on Fri Feb 25th at 8:11am 2005

When my video card decided to give out a few weeks ago, I got out some text adventures. I ended up playing through The Lurking Horror and Zork Zero. No computer should be without them!




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Posted by Andrei on Fri Feb 25th at 8:48am 2005

Me remembers Supaplex, Duke Nukem (1) and Cosmo. And then, I found my first true love : Wolfenstein 3D! The only Doom I managed to play was Doom II, which, strangely, I didn't like as much as I liked Wolf3D.
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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Fri Feb 25th at 9:46am 2005

First game I remember playing was a clone of Donkey Kong called Killer Gorilla on a BBC that my mum used to bring home from school during the holidays. There were also a couple of text adventures too. I think it was called Sphinx and there was definitely a pirate that would steal your carrot... [addsig]



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Fri Feb 25th at 10:24am 2005

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Remember ZX Spectrums, loading games from tape, and garish blocky graphics?


I still had one of those untill acoupple of years ago when my mum threw it out I still have a load of games for it one of my favorite games was atf (All terain fighter) and all you did was fly over repetative lanskapes that would ocasionaly change colour and you would have to shoot down the odd enemy fighter ahh the good old games.

Another favorite was the James Bond Live and let Die game that came out never completed it I allways got stuck on a boat level [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 25th at 10:51am 2005

Nostalgia? My first computer was a commodore 16. the games were made up of text.

"You crash land on an alien planetoid. You look around you and you see... What do you do?"

You had to tell it in 2 words or less. Do you have any idea how hard it is to describe an action with only 2 words. You cannot even tell the computer to "go f**k yourself" because its to complex.

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Posted by gimpinthesink on Fri Feb 25th at 12:09pm 2005

I can remember playing a game like that on one of the acorns at school it did have very basic graphics though it had stick men walking round.

I also played a mmorpg last year like that that had no graphics you had to use telnet i think to play it. [addsig]



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Posted by satchmo on Fri Feb 25th at 12:11pm 2005

Yeah, I remember walking around for the first time in Wolfenstein 3D, just mesmerized with the amazing lighting and the detailed texture. What architecture!

Sometimes I just found myself staring around in W3D because the graphics was just so beautiful. I had no idea what was to come, and that I was experiencing a piece of history in the gaming revolution.

I remember seeing my friends playing the original Doom for the first time. They're hunched over the desk, playing with a set of headphones on. Saliva drools slowly from the corner of their mouth, but with their fingers tapping the mouse so quickly, they have no choice but to allow the drool to flow freely onto their shirt.

It was truly a Kodak moment.
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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 25th at 2:17pm 2005

*whispers*

neither doom 1 or 2 used a mouse till doom95 was released i think

was a cool visual image though satch

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