yyz Posted November 29, 2004 Share Posted November 29, 2004 QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Nov 28 2004, 11:01 PM) Best video games, best PC ever! http://www.bruceandtheresa.com/cp/c64_desktop.jpg http://www.bruceandtheresa.com/hardfunnypics/C64/Hardball1.jpg http://www.bruceandtheresa.com/hardfunnypics/C64/archon1.jpg http://www.bruceandtheresa.com/hardfunnypics/C64/archon2.jpg http://www.bruceandtheresa.com/hardfunnypics/C64/qbert1.jpg http://www.bruceandtheresa.com/hardfunnypics/C64/qbert2.jpg http://www.bruceandtheresa.com/hardfunnypics/C64/spyh1.jpg http://www.bruceandtheresa.com/hardfunnypics/C64/spyh2.jpg Anyone who is familiar with a hacking group, EagleSoft Inc - the founder, Mitch was a huge huge Rush fan. He had one member named "By-tor" Reminds me of Pink Floyd. The one with the prism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Qbert Kicked Ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 This game called Paradroid was the best on the C64. And of course, Archon - best game ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Nov 29 2004, 09:01 PM) This game called Paradroid was the best on the C64. And of course, Archon - best game ever made. Do you remember the very very start of adventure games? By Infocom - the first one was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, basedo n the book - was 100% text based game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 Yah that was a pretty cool game, but my earliest text based adventure game were those Commodore brand ones for the KIC-20.. Adventureland... some pirate one.... man those were addictive. Then came those hybrids like Farenheit 451 and Zork.. you do a text and then you got graphics to go with it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Nov 29 2004, 09:12 PM) Yah that was a pretty cool game, but my earliest text based adventure game were those Commodore brand ones for the KIC-20.. Adventureland... some pirate one.... man those were addictive. Then came those hybrids like Farenheit 451 and Zork.. you do a text and then you got graphics to go with it... Amazing when you play Myst IV and have seen the evolution of these games... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 How about Ultima I? The company that made that also had a cool game called Mobius and Autoduel (Something like that). The first turn-based strategy game I remember was this game on the KIC called "Galactic Conquest" (now that game required 8K RAM expansion... that's how good it was). No hi-res graphics or anything, all ASCII. You had to raid a solar system by building up your fleet. You could play up to 4 players, or 2 vs 2PC, 3 vs 1 PC etc... It was awesome. MULE was a cool turn-based game on the C64... taught you a lot about business and commodities. How about Trek ASCII characters, fight the klingons. Cool turn-based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 QUOTE (barney_rebel @ Nov 29 2004, 09:20 PM) How about Ultima I? The company that made that also had a cool game called Mobius and Autoduel (Something like that). The first turn-based strategy game I remember was this game on the KIC called "Galactic Conquest" (now that game required 8K RAM expansion... that's how good it was). No hi-res graphics or anything, all ASCII. You had to raid a solar system by building up your fleet. You could play up to 4 players, or 2 vs 2PC, 3 vs 1 PC etc... It was awesome. MULE was a cool turn-based game on the C64... taught you a lot about business and commodities. How about Trek ASCII characters, fight the klingons. Cool turn-based. OMG! Glactic Conquest - there was ALSO a version for TBBS systems and you coudl play ONLINE by around 1986!!!! (Granted, online meant one at a time over a period of months playing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Cinemaware made some great games. These were two of my favorites. http://www.oldsoftware.com/softimg4/Cinemaw.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 (edited) Remember 'Hacker'? You just got the game disk, no instructions or anything. Once you figured it out, it was a blast! http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/7/hacker/Hacker_1.gif http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/7/hacker/Hacker.gif Edited November 30, 2004 by Jack Aubrey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 Defender of the Crown! Best sound and graphics ever... too bad the game kind of sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 (edited) Oh, and 'Pirates' ruled! http://kofler.dot.at/c64/download/pirates.gif http://web.externet.hu/sk/c64/games/p/pics/pirates.gif Edited November 30, 2004 by Jack Aubrey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Nov 29 2004, 10:21 PM) Remember 'Hacker'? You just got the game disk, no instructions or anything. Once you figured it out, it was a blast! http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/7/hacker/Hacker_1.gif http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/gameofweek/7/hacker/Hacker.gif There was a flaw in that game - We solved it easily because of it. There was a "hidden city" somewhere around Norway. If you found it, it was a city *forget which one*, but let's say LA... It saved you sooo much time just going to that 'fake city' than the real one. So solving the game was much easier. Activision.... made awesome stuff: Fireworks Construction Kit...The Last Ninja... Remember "The Way of the Exploading Fist"?? Kick ass kung fu... then you had Bruce Lee which was a joke (solved it first time playing)... and Karateka (wicked graphics and cut scenes, but game was lame). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ES-335 Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 I had an trs-80 and later thought I was the man with an IBM xt. LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Thisi s emulation software that will make your current PC a TRS-80 http://www.discover-net.net/~dmkeil/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 WinVICE is the C64 emulation... works like a charm MAME arcade games are cool too. I got several gigs of those. So I can use the elbow move in Double Dragon again... You remember those Commodore 16s and +4s? Wow what ricepieces... there was that one that competed with the PC too and it totally flopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midway Hawker Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 I had an Atari then the original Nintendo 8bit. I suck. My first "computer" was in 1991.. A 386SX IBM compatible. 40 mb hard drive and 1mb of memory... It ran DOS shell... boy was that fun... I had no clue how to use it.. I just loaded my 5 1/4 games into the machine and played.... My favorite game was this one called "out of this world"... took me 6 months or so, but I finally beat that game....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted January 30, 2011 Author Share Posted January 30, 2011 The group really stood out, having their own style, using witty scroll-text in their intros inspired by the Canadian rock group known as Rush. Some of the lyrics used made real good sense in conjunction with ESI as a cracking group, such as "Beneath the noble bird, between the proudest words, behind the beauty, cracks appear!" http://www.atlantis-prophecy.org/recollect...ub=article&id=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullSkull Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 We still have one stashed away... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apetersvt Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 I had a VIC-20 but no 64. I too fondly remember Adventureland and the Pirate game. I never did solve the Adventureland game and it is near the top of the 'things I need to do before I die" list. It still bothers me. I did find (a few months back) recently a version of the game that I could play now. One of these days I'll get around to trying to solve it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Solved Adventureland and Pirates Cove. Being 8 years old, I thought those text-based adventures were the coolest things. "say yo ho" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rummut71 Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Jumpman owned all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 (edited) I had one! And I had the floppy disk drive that was bigger than the computer! Edited March 6, 2011 by -Ender- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowdogged Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I had a 64 and I use to buy these magazines with programming that you could copy from the magazine to make these crappy little games. Sometimes I'd spend a couple of hours typing and half the time there were mistakes that I'm pretty sure that they made purposely and they would print the corrections in the next issue. I use to get so pissed off when they would not work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney_rebel Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 QUOTE (snowdogged @ Mar 11 2011, 03:19 PM) I had a 64 and I use to buy these magazines with programming that you could copy from the magazine to make these crappy little games. Sometimes I'd spend a couple of hours typing and half the time there were mistakes that I'm pretty sure that they made purposely and they would print the corrections in the next issue. I use to get so pissed off when they would not work! Oh yah Compute's Gazette. Those were great. Certainly helped me become fast at typing being 8 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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