Favorite old game - Page 4

paulunderwood · 2020-07-04, 08:57

Abuse is good in that you can alter the Lisp source code to do things like make the monsters jump higher.

paulunderwood · 2020-07-04, 09:06

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Originally Posted by xilman

Kill Bill was an underground favourite at MSFT ...

Ah yes, xbill, play until you have index finger damage.

moebius · 2020-07-04, 11:22

I liked Sensitive a game of skill for the C64, I spent hours typing the source code from the German 64er magazin.
https://youtu.be/9lyvC6yf9V8

xilman · 2020-07-04, 12:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulunderwood

Ah yes, xbill, play until you have index finger damage.

That's the one. I'd forgotten its real name.

petrw1 · 2020-07-04, 15:42

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Originally Posted by retina

For me: Lemmings

Loved it.
I solved all levels in Lemmings; Oh No, More Lemmings, A few Christmas Editions and the Compute Magazine Edition. All except the specialized version with a new set of skills (Lemmings 2?); I never had that one.

And in my mind I had to solve all levels 3 times; the first might be dumb luck and twice only showed progress... 3 times is mastery.

I've looked for remakes recently but I can't find versions with the same attention to detail.

VBCurtis · 2020-07-04, 17:48

Jumpman from C64 days.

Spaceward Ho! From Mac-in-a-box days.

retina · 2020-07-04, 22:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by petrw1

I've looked for remakes recently but I can't find versions with the same attention to detail.

Pingus, for Linux, is very similar.

masser · 2021-01-23, 23:28

Assembly! Atari 2600! Code Archaeology! Intellectual Property!

It's all here - listen to the story of Entombed.

I love stories like this.

a1call · 2021-01-24, 00:44

I got started on Pong (what else). Ours would be hooked up to the antenna input of the TV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong

My all-time favorite was Q*bert. It was a difficult game at 1st. But after thousands of dollars in quarters I got so good playing it that one day I played from 10 AM till closing at 11 PM with one quarter. I still had multitudes of lives left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q*bert

storm5510 · 2021-01-24, 00:51

I played a lot of the id games back in the late 80's and early 90's. They were all one-person shooters. For me, the best part was finding the exits. Those were all DOS based. Someone tried to adapt them to a GUI front-end when Windows 95 came out. It was a bust. The series rode off into the sunset after that.

A local watering-hole I frequented back in the early 80's had a table-top Ms. Pac-Man. One of the bartenders could play it for 30 minutes, or more, at a time on one quarter-dollar coin. Sometimes, I would watch her play. I never had the reflexes for it. She did.

slandrum · 2021-02-25, 02:41

My favorite arcade game was Tempest.

The arcade game I got the best at was Frogger (I did a port of it many lifetimes ago and had a machine in my office for study). I was able to wrap the score on it and play indefinitely.

I wrote video games for a living in the 80's - assembler coding for the Atari 2600, Atari 400/800, Commodore C64, Apple ][, IBM PC, Atari Lynx and some others.

The most memorable name of a commercial game that I wrote was Communist Mutants from Space - early 80's Atari 2600 game on cassette tape that required our SuperCharger module.

2020-07-04, 08:57	#34
paulunderwood Sep 2002 Database er0rr 3,617 Posts	Abuse is good in that you can alter the Lisp source code to do things like make the monsters jump higher. Last fiddled with by paulunderwood on 2020-07-04 at 08:58

2021-01-23, 23:28	#41
masser Jul 2003 wear a mask 2·5·157 Posts	Entombed Assembly! Atari 2600! Code Archaeology! Intellectual Property! It's all here - listen to the story of Entombed. I love stories like this.

2021-01-24, 00:44	#42
a1call "Rashid Naimi" Oct 2015 Remote to Here/There 2·17·59 Posts	I got started on Pong (what else). Ours would be hooked up to the antenna input of the TV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong My all-time favorite was Qbert. It was a difficult game at 1st. But after thousands of dollars in quarters I got so good playing it that one day I played from 10 AM till closing at 11 PM with one quarter. I still had multitudes of lives left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qbert Last fiddled with by a1call on 2021-01-24 at 00:45

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2020-07-04, 11:22	#36
moebius Jul 2009 Germany 547 Posts	I liked Sensitive a game of skill for the C64, I spent hours typing the source code from the German 64er magazin. https://youtu.be/9lyvC6yf9V8

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VBCurtis "Curtis" Feb 2005 Riverside, CA 11174₈ Posts	Jumpman from C64 days. Spaceward Ho! From Mac-in-a-box days.

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storm5510 Random Account Aug 2009 19·101 Posts	I played a lot of the id games back in the late 80's and early 90's. They were all one-person shooters. For me, the best part was finding the exits. Those were all DOS based. Someone tried to adapt them to a GUI front-end when Windows 95 came out. It was a bust. The series rode off into the sunset after that. A local watering-hole I frequented back in the early 80's had a table-top Ms. Pac-Man. One of the bartenders could play it for 30 minutes, or more, at a time on one quarter-dollar coin. Sometimes, I would watch her play. I never had the reflexes for it. She did.

2021-02-25, 02:41	#44
slandrum Jan 2021 California 41 Posts	My favorite arcade game was Tempest. The arcade game I got the best at was Frogger (I did a port of it many lifetimes ago and had a machine in my office for study). I was able to wrap the score on it and play indefinitely. I wrote video games for a living in the 80's - assembler coding for the Atari 2600, Atari 400/800, Commodore C64, Apple ][, IBM PC, Atari Lynx and some others. The most memorable name of a commercial game that I wrote was Communist Mutants from Space - early 80's Atari 2600 game on cassette tape that required our SuperCharger module.