Jump (loads of old games)

[MackemX]

http://www.powerstrike.net/Tehkan/mamejump.html

, for the oldie game players amongst us, see how many games you can spot

p.s. might take some time to load for those on 56k

[yoda313]

Hello,

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's see here:

Donkey Kong
Pac man
Qbert
Araknoid
Several Atari type games I'm not familiar with (though some looked like spaced invaders clones)
Track and Field (I think - or was it an Olympic game title???)

Plus some others I couldn't identify.

VERY NICE!

Kevin

[MackemX]

yeah Track and Field the arm killer!

[yoda313]

yeah Track and Field the arm killer!

Hello,

Remember the track pad for the NINTENDO????

Never really worked.

Or how about the fist controller???? You know the one you wore on your wrist like you were boxing??? (never worked either.... ).

Kevin

[thecoalman]

Very cool MackemX..... try this link www.mame.net

[MackemX]

cheers coalman . I try not to play games these days as they are far too addictive and time just flies also. That link was a bit nostalgic for me as it brought back memories of spending endless hours playing games .

these days I spend enough time on the PC and don't want to lose my social life completely by playing games also. I've tried a few emulators before and it was great to play games of yesteryear. Playing them again made it so unbelievable how much enjoyment you got out of them at the time

I was reading this earlier tonight which I found interesting in parts
http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/index.html

[thecoalman]

Namco releases Pac-Man, the most popular arcade game of all time. Over 300,000 units are sold worldwide (counterfeit machines are not included in this figure, but their number nearly matches the number of legitimate Pac-Man machines). More than 100,000 units are sold in the United States alone. Originally named Puck Man, the game is renamed after executives see the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the letter P on the game's marquee, which might discourage parents from letting their children play. Pac-Man becomes the first video game to be popular with both males and females.

[MackemX]

yeah, I saw that , wise move. Did you see the part about the cartridges being put into landfills?

[thecoalman]

yeah, I saw that , wise move. Did you see the part about the cartridges being put into landfills?

I had heard of this when I was a kid actually. That link you posted definitley brought back some memories too. Lot of consoles in there I had.

[offline]

I saw Dig Dug! I saw Dig Dug!

Memories

[Hardcoreruss]

Quality!!!

[MackemX]

ah, I can see the 'real' gamers amongst us. The ones who have been there since the beginning

[offline]

http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/index.html

Thanks for that link. I had no idea about the origins of some of those
companies. There was a great deal missing. They completely forgot
the text games area. There were a whole load of teletype games and
several years of animated ascii games on crt. I remember playing
on a DEC PDP11 via teletype such games as Fodder (feed the kingdom),
Car Race (a silly random road generator) and, of course, the famous
Text Adventure. My parents took me to a shopping center and I had
a ascii T-Shirt printed of my face.

Anyone recall the ZX Spectrum? One of the 1st real mass produced home PC's.
You turned it on (it had basic on rom) and typed in 100 lines of code.
Then, after fixing many errors, you had a rudimentary game of sorts.

[MackemX]

Anyone recall the ZX Spectrum? One of the 1st real mass produced home PC's.
You turned it on (it had basic on rom) and typed in 100 lines of code.
Then, after fixing many errors, you had a rudimentary game of sorts.

I know them well, waiting 15 minutes for a game to load at times, hovering over the cassette recorder to adjust the colume/slow the tape etc to get the dam thing to load . I loved the Basic it had but that's as far as I got to learning how to code but I was quite advanced

The Hobbit, Manic Miner, Horace goes Skiiing, Chequered Flag, Jet Pac, Atic Atac and many many more. I have 2 bin bags full of ZX spectrum games in my garage along with a few speccies of various types

I had a Spectrum but they had a habit of breaking down regularly . I remember Christmas '84 when my mother bought me a BBC Computer Model B for £400 (which is a helluva lot in 1984 money). I snook down as soon as everyone went to bed and set it up and played until morning before getting caught. It was huge compared to the spectrum in size . I just remember being mr popular in computer Studies at school as we used BBC computers 8). In the end I actually swapped it for a Spectrum as everyone had Speccies, so I was missing out on the talk as very few had a BBC . I remember most who had the BBC's were very geeky and formed little groups, that wasn't me :P


I've just been looking at the BBC specs, I remember the modes very well

2 MHz 6502 processor (quite impressive for a micro at the time)
32 KB ROM (16 KB OS, 16 KB language)
32 KB RAM (16 KB in model A, 64 KB in model B+)
Screen modes (text resolution in parentheses):
mode 0: 640x256 (80x32), 2 colors
mode 1: 320x256 (40x32), 4 colors
mode 2: 160x256 (20x32), 8 colors + 8 "blinking colors"
mode 3: 640x200 (80x25), 2 colors
mode 4: 320x256 (40x32), 2 colors
mode 5: 160x256 (20x32), 4 colors
mode 6: 320x200 (40x25), 2 colors
mode 7: 80x32 teletext, 8 colors and teletext graphics

the Commodore 64 was also brilliant and kicked the Speccies ass when it came to graphics and sound. There's a few home computers I've had over the years and most are either still in the garage or up in the loft

:reminiscing mode off:

[offline]

Actually, I meant the Sinclair ZX81 but for some reason
typed Spectrum.

[MackemX]

I never had a ZX81, it was beyond me at the time. The ZX80 was before that also wasn't it? I read the computer development history ages ago and it's amazing to see how many computers there actually were

can anyone remember ' the oracle' computer with the blue keys and white case? I can't find a thing in google yet I remember playing on it all the time. I think the game was 'Aztec' or something

I've just been looking through some of the stuff here and remember so many games

http://website.lineone.net/~lineup/st-pages/DB-games.html

[yoda313]

Hello,

Or how about the fist controller???? You know the one you wore on your wrist like you were boxing??? (never worked either.... ).

I remember now - wasn't it called the "POWER GLOVE" for the original NINTENDO???????

Kevin

[Guest]

Donkey Kong.My favorite.

[thecoalman]

the Commodore 64

coughcoughhackemcough