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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/7/2011 9:30:43 PM   
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For the Atari computer (that's Atari 400/800 for you old schoolers....), I loved Crossfire.  I could play it for hours on end.  That was when you had to load games on a cassette player into the computer, and it took about 15 minutes to load one game.
Favorite upright arcade game was Tempest.

I also loved Berzerk and Moon Buggy.

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/7/2011 9:46:09 PM   
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (text version) cuz you had to use  YOUR imagination
Leather Goddesses of Phobos - similar to HGttG



HGttG was most awesome and then there was also Popeye for the Commodore 64 and some adult one where you had to kiss nipples that I wasn't supposed to play, but did anyway

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 4:33:42 AM   
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I am trying to sniff out Chip's Challenge and thought I'd ask what are your favorite old computer games? Mine, obviously, is Chip's Challenge (Tetris is also up there).

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 4:43:46 AM   
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Off the top of my head though (and most of these haven't been mentioned already...)

Paradroid, Parallax, Elite, Pastfinder, Hacker, HERO, Hovver Bovver, Attack Of The Mutant camels, Batalyx, Scarabeus, The Rats, The Hobbit, Token Of Ghal and quite a few more for the commodore 64.

All those RPGs for the SNES, particularly Final Fantasy III &IV.

A couple of the really early adventure games for the ZX81.

Sabre Wulf, Atic Attac, and pretty much everything else Ultimate did for the Spectrum.

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 5:43:27 AM   
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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 6:43:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		There was a game for the Atari 800/XL called Alternate Reality that I played for many weeks when I was smaller. Kinda FPS/RPG thing..which was pretty amazing for the mid-eighties. Got a little obsessed with it and worried parental types as I hibernated. I think I discovered girls after that, but they weren't interested in my monologue about what a great game it was.

Doubt that anyone has even heard of it.

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 7:36:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		There was a game I used to play on an old (state of the art at the time) 64K Apple at the marine lab called "Wizardry". It was a D&D style game that was text based and you had to use graph paper to draw your own maps.

Never seen it before or since.

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 2:09:14 PM   
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Rogue.  First game to ever use graphics, based on ascii chracters.

Was that the first graphics game? I'm pretty sure space invaders was out first, and even if it wasn't, there's that legendary (and shite) computer space thing the haxor d00ds won't shut up about from the early '60s.

Rogue was brilliant fun, though. Have you had a look online for that? There's freeware ports (possibly dodgy) of the thing for mobiles and palmtops all over the internet...

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 2:21:05 PM   
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Commodore 64 - Oregon Trail (text-only). Learned BASIC on this - you could press BREAK and "shell out" into the prompt, then edit the code and re-run the game.
Original Nintendo - Mario Bros. (of course!)
PC - oh boy... Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, Arkanoid, Gods (by Bitmap Brothers), Betrayal At Krondor (amazing scope, took 120 hours to play if you knew all the puzzle solutions, immense world and tons of side quests), Ultima Underworld, Leisure Suit Larry, and over 9000 more...

What I miss the most about the old games is the gameplay. Not having advanced graphics or 3D, game developers focused on making the game interesting. But on the other hand, there's something to be said for Assassin's Creed and Bioshock...

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 2:27:15 PM   
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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 5:59:06 PM   
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Maniac Mansion

I see I could keep going here.

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/8/2011 6:08:54 PM   
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There was a game I used to play on an old (state of the art at the time) 64K Apple at the marine lab called "Wizardry". It was a D&D style game that was text based and you had to use graph paper to draw your own maps.

Never seen it before or since.


Wizardry I

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/9/2011 4:35:45 AM   
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Very fun game. Bloody difficult, though...

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RE: Favorite Old School Computer Game - 8/9/2011 7:27:39 AM   
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