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Topic: Nostalgia made me do this. (Read 3069 times)
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schild
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Hanzii
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I'm the wrong kind of Eurotrash. I owned an Atari 2600 when all my friends had Philips G7000 and a Commodore 64 when everybody else was going on about their crappy looking 8 color 16K Speccy games.
The nostalgia is the same, though... but the song needs more voices.
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Alrindel
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Well, he certainly captured the spirit of prepubescent computing in that era the way I remember it.  That stuff was a little new school for me, though, I started on a neighbour's TRS-80 model 1 and the school's two Commodore PETs. Viva la monochroma! |
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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raydeen
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Man. My early computing days were even more prehistoric than most. I had an Atari 400 (the model without the real keyboard) and a tape drive that only worked on days that didn't end in 'y' Yes, 16k of memory, but only 13k was available with the Atari Basic cartridge loaded (which was furnished by Microsoft, god bless Billy's soul). I had two great games though. Star Raiders, which was pretty much the original Wing Commander, and a pretty good conversion of Wizard of Wor. Oh, and the original version of Miner 2049er. Better than Gol-Darned Donkey Kong. That machine kicked much ass for it's day. Yes, I lusted after the Apple ][ and C64, but the Atari 400 had a magic all it's own.
At least it wasn't a TI99-4a. The Basic on that machine was totally fubar'd.
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Yo, Best moment in gaming history...  |
"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit." John Steinbeck
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Pococurante
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Best moment in gaming history... Seconded and passed. And original Elite rocked every later release. And of course, Mind Walker... my avatar here on f13 is homage to one of the first Amiga games. My first games I spent hours typing in two-digit byte codes out of gaming magazines. Then saving it via the 50 baud tape drive. Which would fail and I'd then spend another ten hours typing in byte codes.  And you tell that to the younger generation and they rightly don't give a flip... :mrgreen: |
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schild
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And you tell that to the younger generation and they rightly don't give a flip...
It's not that we don't care, it's that it obviously wasn't funny. I think the gaming generation before Nintendo/Atari was really a community of sadomasochists. |
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stray
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And you tell that to the younger generation and they rightly don't give a flip...
It's not that we don't care, it's that it obviously wasn't funny. I think the gaming generation before Nintendo/Atari was really a community of sadomasochists. They fit right in with the "current" Linux gaming community though. |
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schild
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They fit right in with the "current" Linux gaming community though. Ya know, you're absolutely right. I'm still waiting for someone to make an installation of Linux for my end table. |
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Pococurante
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They fit right in with the "current" Linux gaming community though. Same mindset...  Back then I was more concerned with hacking the code, popping the protections, and exploring the disk/ROM media than actually playing the games. Since the games then were remarkably expensive and absurdly crappy except for the same thirty titles that get rehashed over the years. That was the angle from the flash that particularly cracked me up. |
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SurfD
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Since the games then were remarkably expensive and absurdly crappy except for the same thirty titles that get rehashed over the years. The more things change...... |
Darwinism is the Gateway Science.
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