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Posted by Bewbies on Fri Feb 25th at 4:00pm 2005

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

haha! i remember i had a game like that on our mac. (sadly enough, my first computer was a mac)

"You find yourself face to face with a rebel soldier. What do you do?"

"dig"

"you lack a shovel, your fingernails crack and fingertrips begin to bleed"

CRAP!

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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 25th at 4:06pm 2005

Welcome back Tim.. missed'ya ol'man [addsig]



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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Fri Feb 25th at 4:07pm 2005

Pretty sure Doom 1 & 2 used mouse but it wasn't exactly intuitive. If I remember correctly, pushing the mouse forward made you move forward etc. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Feb 25th at 4:14pm 2005

? quoting Adam Hawkins
Pretty sure Doom 1 & 2 used mouse but it wasn't exactly intuitive. If I remember correctly, pushing the mouse forward made you move forward etc.

for true? my versions were DOS, and i strictly used the keyboard. in fact i distinctly remembering being in awe when i played my first mouse look game.

doesn't matter i suppose, may have been one of those "can use mouse" if you want games.

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Posted by Rof on Fri Feb 25th at 4:14pm 2005

First computer I owned was a ZX Spectrum. And I love that Hey Hey 16K song, also.

First computer I ever touched was an Acorn Atom, in Junior School. Whopping 4K of memory. Overheated and crashed if you left it on too long.
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Posted by greensinge on Fri Feb 25th at 5:06pm 2005

? quoting $loth
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.

james pond!!! that game rocked, one of my all time fav oldies i think!! the title alex the kidd is familiar, but i cant remember what it is exactly! what is it again?? did anyone ever play chuck-rock or cool spot, they were a lot newer, but they were classics in themselves.

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Posted by gimpinthesink on Fri Feb 25th at 5:09pm 2005

Ah chuck-rock brilliant that came with my acorn when I got it got Zool with that aswell [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Fri Feb 25th at 5:15pm 2005

Alex The Kidd (he was a kid with the surname Kidd, hilarious!) was a little dude with a red boxing glove he used to fight off various beasties across "Miracle World" (and other titles such as "Ninja World")

The best part was getting hold of the motorbike or helicopter on the appropriate levels and tazzing around at high speed. Hours of fun.

Basically it was an early side scrolling platformer Uber hard last 3 or 4 levels, too. [addsig]



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Posted by Dred_furst on Fri Feb 25th at 5:15pm 2005

My nostalgia consists of BBC micros and 5 1/2 inch floppys and *cat and shift break - shift with games with names i cant remember, with proper rampacks (they were ribbon cabled :S). and the bbc micro manual and other such things...

... I was past tape loading, but those damn 5 1/2 inch floppies were cool....

*goes and digs some games out of ye olde cupboard*

hmm,missile racer... XOR... I love that game! mazes r fun spent hours playing that... ELITE yay! my original elite disk! woot!... "Codename droid" ... didnt play much of that... manic miner yay! ...Chuckie egg... citadel...

goodness this brings back memories... ive got an overflowing box of 5 and a 1/2 inch floppies... so many memories, those were the days...

oh, and the nes, with duckhunt, the nes note, not the snes, the nes with original working light gun
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Posted by Bewbies on Fri Feb 25th at 7:01pm 2005

YEAA the NES gun.. that was awsome. i so owned at duck hunt. when SuperScope came out for SNES, i was all over that as well. anyway, my dad still has his commodore 64 in storage.. its almost got antique value now.

heh thanks orph. i've been lurking around the last few weeks.. because im stuck in this office with no work much of the time.

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Posted by satchmo on Fri Feb 25th at 7:10pm 2005

Both Doom and Doom II used mouse control, but there was no vertical "free look" with the mouse. It only allowed left and right movement. I remember distinctly that I was quite good at using both the mouse and the keyboard to navigate around and aiming my weapon.

But as far as weapon goes, does anyone miss the BFG1000 in Doom? With a white flash of the trigger, the entire room gets cleared. All your trouble literally melt away.

That was awesome. And does anyone know what BFG stands for? "Big f**king Gun"
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Posted by Gwil on Fri Feb 25th at 7:18pm 2005

Here's something I posted on IRC to do with all these nostalgia moments me and the Mephs m0n were having:

Clicky clicky quiz fun!

I can only get about half, I imagine our older residents will fare better [addsig]



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Posted by omegaslayer on Fri Feb 25th at 7:53pm 2005

This is bad, but it swept my school for the longest time long ago....Slime VolleyBall
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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Fri Feb 25th at 8:09pm 2005

Number 38 of that quiz is blatantly Bomberman but it won't let me have it. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sat Feb 26th at 3:21am 2005

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Number 38 of that quiz is blatantly Bomberman but it won't let me have it.


You mean Dyna Blaster? [addsig]



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Posted by Foxpup on Sat Feb 26th at 3:38am 2005

I still play Tyrian 2 on a 486DX2/66 with IBM DOS 6.22. It's fun. [addsig]



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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Sat Feb 26th at 9:11am 2005

I tried Dyna Blaster but as one word rather than two so it didn't work. It IS Bomberman though - so I guess it must be called Dyna Blaster in some countries. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sat Feb 26th at 9:20am 2005

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I tried Dyna Blaster but as one word rather than two so it didn't work. It IS Bomberman though - so I guess it must be called Dyna Blaster in some countries.


http://www.arcade-history.com/history_database.php?page=detail&id=724 [addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Sat Feb 26th at 9:39am 2005

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing a King's Quest in that quiz. What kind of a respectable computer game quiz lacks King's Quest?

And if you want to talk about lame mouse control, King's Quest 4 allowed you to use a mouse, but all it would do was the menu up top and let you click to where you wanted to move. All actions still needed typing and the pathfinding was horrible.





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Posted by Bl0wn2B1ts on Sat Feb 26th at 3:11pm 2005

Everyones a Wally on the spectrum? - came with its own theme tune on cassette!

head over heels? - those were the days!

and the first ever 3d game Driller!

B2B






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