Gaming nostalgia

[monos]

anyone else remember when entire games fit on a single 5 1/4 inch disk?

[Prowler130]

anyone else remember when entire games fit on a single 5 1/4 inch disk?

ahhh with that said, does anyone else remember the original doom

[CHAOS]

screw doom.. anyone here remember playing PONG and enjoying the hell out that state of the art game???? raise your hand if you do....


:mgwave:

[FiLTHY_SNiPER]

Commander Keen, baby!

[atomicbob]

I think we're a bit older than most here Mono, but I've been a vid fanatic since pong as well.

It ruled. I was the kind generation fortunate enough to have gone through the "I spend $100 a week" on arcade games.

Defender was awesome. Asteroids? I could turn it over. Youngins may not know what that means. :dunno:

Pacman? I thought it sucked. Still do.

All the really cool arcade stuff was great. There was battle tank (or something) where you were captain of this 2D 12 pixel tank. I spent hundreds playing that. And some goofy racecar game that were the same thing. It was the first to incorporate phyics into the movement. You could "slide" the 12 pixels around a corner by spinning the steering wheel. Made a cool tire screech when you did it. Afew more hundreds down the drain.

Ah, yes.

Them was the king days of video games.

Sometimes when you was lucky, you could build up some static on the carpet and then tough a coin to the coin box of the game, and it would rack up credits. LOL

They figured that out pretty quick but it was a great few months.

Ahd I taken that cash and invested in Microsoft or Apple, I'd be a very rich man. But what is a regular person ever going to need a computer for?

:yaya:

[Prowler130]

I think we're a bit older than most here Mono, but I've been a vid fanatic since pong as well.

It ruled. I was the kind generation fortunate enough to have gone through the "I spend $100 a week" on arcade games.

Defender was awesome. Asteroids? I could turn it over. Youngins may not know what that means. :dunno:

Pacman? I thought it sucked. Still do.

All the really cool arcade stuff was great. There was battle tank (or something) where you were captain of this 2D 12 pixel tank. I spent hundreds playing that. And some goofy racecar game that were the same thing. It was the first to incorporate phyics into the movement. You could "slide" the 12 pixels around a corner by spinning the steering wheel. Made a cool tire screech when you did it. Afew more hundreds down the drain.

Ah, yes.

Them was the king days of video games.

Sometimes when you was lucky, you could build up some static on the carpet and then tough a coin to the coin box of the game, and it would rack up credits. LOL

They figured that out pretty quick but it was a great few months.

Ahd I taken that cash and invested in Microsoft or Apple, I'd be a very rich man. But what is a regular person ever going to need a computer for?

:yaya:

Bob, if you think I havent played that stuff since I was little you are wrong....you are speaking to the person that has played games since birth. I beat the original super mario bros at about 2.5years old and was ranked at 7 years old as the 8th best video game player in the state of Florida in the annual Blockbuster vid game tourney....ive played just about everything from the atari game wizards and warriors (ahhh still a classic) to Joust, and even stuff previous. Im the real deal :thumbsup:

[atomicbob]

Ain't thinking like nothin like that bro. Us oldies are all on the same page.

I donkey konged my way nearly to fame and fortune.

:hump:

Joust!!!??

I had almost forgot that one!

Kicked butt at that one too.

Fcat is, I'm tryin to remember one that I seriously was the best on the plant at....It had a year in the name. But I'm having hell. Grey mustachesget mne down from time to time. It was a duel joystick game, one to shot, one to drive, and I am the onluy person ever to take that bad boy to the bank. You always had to get the "kids" and kill the bots. It's on the tip of my tongue. Robotron 2084!! That's it!!? I think.

Something. Anyway, I literally thought I would die trying to beat that game. That was in the days, dude. I remember standing there sweating like a pig, for 8 and 10 hours at a time, people lined up behind me just watching, cuz they had never seen anything like it. Wound up crushin it, and could own the "boss" which in those days was totally new. It was like the first boss ever but totally hard to pwn. I beat his arse, and got to shere I could pwn the game for hours. Honet to god, I think the stress permanently hurt my back. My arms used to go numb playing that POS, and my neck still hurts very day.

Myself, I thought I was fixin to have a heart attack.

Oh yeah, babe. Them was the days.

:yaya:

[Prowler130]

Ain't thinking like nothin like that bro. Us oldies are all on the same page.

I donkey konged my way nearly to fame and fortune.

:hump:

yeah i said that al before, but im 18....yeas 18 years old and about to turn 19.....sad but true, gaming is my life and will continue to be unitl i die :D

[atomicbob]

18!???

Oh man.....I am disallusioned

You know, you come across as someone like 30.

A way old dude.

Not old compared to me, but that was my impression.

Just a heads up.

:rockon:

[Xine]

No way. It's all about O'dell's Lake on a floppy! I'm a bigger fish, and I eat you! :yaya:

[*eric#3304*]

awww nice to see u all reuniting with ur childhood gaming minds

[monos]

SPY HUNTER

[monos]

I think we're a bit older than most here Mono, but I've been a vid fanatic since pong as well.

It ruled. I was the kind generation fortunate enough to have gone through the "I spend $100 a week" on arcade games.

Defender was awesome. Asteroids? I could turn it over. Youngins may not know what that means. :dunno:

Pacman? I thought it sucked. Still do.

All the really cool arcade stuff was great. There was battle tank (or something) where you were captain of this 2D 12 pixel tank. I spent hundreds playing that. And some goofy racecar game that were the same thing. It was the first to incorporate phyics into the movement. You could "slide" the 12 pixels around a corner by spinning the steering wheel. Made a cool tire screech when you did it. Afew more hundreds down the drain.

Ah, yes.

Them was the king days of video games.

Sometimes when you was lucky, you could build up some static on the carpet and then tough a coin to the coin box of the game, and it would rack up credits. LOL

They figured that out pretty quick but it was a great few months.

Ahd I taken that cash and invested in Microsoft or Apple, I'd be a very rich man. But what is a regular person ever going to need a computer for?

:yaya:it was something like robotron 2042 wasn't it?

[CombatWombat]

MOON PATROL!! for the Atari. Plus Rocky's Boots owned. And anybody remember Firepower? crazy tank game for dos. Or playing Castle on the old BBS's.. those were the days.

[dbodenheim]

Whenver I think Of Computer Game nostolgia I can only think of the top ten moments that were just absoutley great for me. Some of the moments may not be that old. Some of them pretty much are. Here they are in no particular order, dates may be a little wrong.

1985-- ARCHON. Any game of Archon with my friend Matt. I remember fondly that we would load the disk up on his Commodore 64. Go outside and play about an hour of basketball. Come in, eat dinner with the family. Watch some 7 oclock TV, and then maybe some A-team, check the computer...almost loaded! Finish watching A-team, do our homework, Hey its DonE!! Let the chess match begin.

1994-- FULL THROTTLE. After busting my brain to figure out this puzzlebreaker of a LucasArts game ( dammit??? why cant I get that junkyard door to stay open???) for HOURS, the satisfaction at the end when you let the guy fall off the cliff holding the liscence plate ( Nothing beats a Corley!) was pure gold. As a bonus, all the windup rabbits headed off into the sunset to "Ride of the Valkeries." Genius.

1994-- WING COMMANDER 3. I went into that last mission with only 3 wingmen left alive. It was 4 stages long including the raid on Kilrah's planet surface itself. At every single stage I lost a wingman and the last to die was Biff from back to the future. Did he ever go out in a blaze too, it was spectacular. Anyhow, when I finally dropped the bomb on Kilrah's fissure and blew the planet to shit I jumped out of my chair with both hands raised in 3 weeks of hard earned glory! Plus, I got Mark Hamill to screw that ex-porn queen.

2004-- CALL OF DUTY. Nothing stands out more recently as a Computer Game moment then this bad Boy. You want to live Saving Private Ryan? Play the very last British mission where you have to defend the bridge. My knuckles were bone white, 10 million Germans lay dead at your feet after a 20 minute all out attack, and maybe 1 or 2 of your guys are left alive after you personally destroyed about 20 panzers. As the Heroic music slowly filters in during the last 90 seconds and you are throwing your shoes at the Germans you know you've truly accomplished something great. This mission, like no other in the game, truly stands out.

2002-- THE SIMS. The first time I got two girls to make out repeatedly. Nough said.

1998-- BALDUR'S GATE. It is very very tough late in the game to let party members go after you've played 40+ hours with them. When I ran across Coran and his 20 Dexterity it was pretty much a no-brainer. Bye bye Minsc, and take your ratty space hampster with you. The moment Coran fired 3 dead aim arrows in 1 round, was at least for me, a top ten computer gaming moment. He was Orlando Bloom before Orlando Bloom.

1996-- STARCRAFT. Multiplayer wise, there was a map that was set up in space for 4 people. I cant remember the name of it today, but everyone would build up massive defenses and the game could be a stalemate for a long time because the resources were limited. That was the first time Id ever used a "ghost" unit, and I still remember the other 3 players typing " what the fu........." as their bases were oblirated by a one-man nuclear fallout. The kicker was, it was all friends from work. I was truly, the King of the Watercooler.

2000?--SERIOUS SAM. I have never seen a boss as big as the one at the end of that game. Taking him out was truly a top ten gaming moment. Undeniable bigger then huge.


2003--KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC. There was a serious drought of good games that really caught my interest before this came along. The end was a top ten gaming moment. Was there really? I mean REALLY any doubt that Darth Jeff was going to take over the universe? I think not.
Call me dumb too, but I never saw the twist in the story coming, and it was almost as good to me as "Luke, I am your father." As far as Im concerned LucasArts, you made the naive very happy that day.

1998-- COMMANDOS: BEHIND ENEMY LINES-- This WW2 strategy game is the only game that has remained on my hard drive for like 7 years. There were 3 games in this series, but it was the first that was truly incredible. It is hard to describe the puzzle solving in this game and the very very well laid out levels. There was nothing like it when it was released and not really anything like it now. The thrill of crawling up behind some guard and knifing him as he smokes a cigarette never gets old. Or the chaotic knuckle biting timing of trying to get a commando to crawl between two guards line of sight. All 20 levels of this game were dynamite which made for some 40 plus hours of a "top ten moment." It is a complete mystery to me why this game isnt on more peoples top ten list.

Anyways, I limited this to computers only and I really should throw an Honarable mention to:

a) Counterstrike WIH crowd, easily a top-tenner.

b) That time in Everquest when I bought a Jade Reaver for 5 platinum cause the guy selling it had no clue it was worth 20000. Also, finishing my epic quest ( ranger).

[Freakazoid]

I am also one of those who can remember the days of pong. My first gaming system was an odessy! Then I went to a comodor 64 (forgot how to spell it). Tweak Freak had a comodor 64 that was potable and had a color screen! ("portable" meaning 50 lbs and the size of a suitcase) Back in the day I used to go over to his house and play blue max all day! (interupted only by the occasional trip to Burger King for a couple of 99 cent whoppers!)
From there I went to the Atari and played all the regular favorites that everyone else played except my favorite was wheel of fortune because I played that with my mom (all together AWWWW!!!!!!)

By the way noone has mentioned TRON never played it.... just thought I would mention it pretty good movie though.

I didnt game much in high school (too busy w football and wrestling).

I got reintroduced to gaming when I lived in Poland. I started going to the internet cafe pretty regular and met some guys who took me to a pay by the hour lan party business. In Poland not very many people had high speed conections but for roughly a quarter an hour in us money you could play in one of these "arcades". I couldnt watch tv because I couldnt speak much Polish so I started hanging out there in the evenings. I couldnt talk to anyone but we communicated through gestures until I learned how to play cs. I actually got pretty good. After that, every time I visited a different city in europe I always had to spend a couple of hours playing with the locals in the "arcades". Made alot of good friends and represented the U.S. pretty well.

I played cs with Caleb (tweak Freak) during college. When I moved out to Florida we contimued to play together and formed our "clan" FreakFarm!!!
CS was the way we got to hang out even though we were hundreds of miles apart (beats paying for long distance) In fact I learned in Poland how to set up a cs game and talk to someone here in the US for free long before VOIP became popular!

Now CS is just a way to wind down after a long day. :sniper:

[dbodenheim]

Do yuo live in Florida Now, where? All of Florida/Central has to get together for at least 1 day to drink beer and talk about how much we own each other. And besides Im hilarious, worth the hour trip in any direction.

[monos]

Dave, I suggested the same thing for the california members of WiH said we should meet at a bar somewhere central for us all......... then reality set in most of the people i was suggesting this to are not 21 yet.... DAMN I FEEL OLD

[Freakazoid]

i am sure u are hilarious. me and tweak freak live in atlantic beach, just outside of jacksonville. yeah, that would be fun. I am sur there would be more beer involved though (we are both cs alchoholics. contact me to set something up

[CombatWombat]

I'm 21. :flipoff: And I live near you Monos. :hump:

[monos]

yes you do wombat but since you are working 100 hours a week when would you have time to go anywhere?

[The Needle]

Man, you guys make me feel old. I remember ALL those games. I remember the mechanical games before Pong too. Ever see the submarine one with the periscope? Little ship models, physical models, not graphics, run on a track across blue plastic. When you fire a series of lights under the plastic lights up showing your torpedo heading toward the target.

Remember the home gaming systems before the Colecovision or the Atari? There were a few, each with a couple of games on them. Usually a driving game, a shooting game and a pong game.

How about the orginal F-15 or the original Gunship for the C-64? Anyone else love Pirates? Of course later on there was Shadow of the Beast and Perfect General. Elite? The Bard's Tale? What about the Olympic cames summer and winter editions?

Hehe, so many good memories.

[wihadmin]

Just out of curiosity... How old are you Needle?

[The Needle]

Hehe, I am not THAT old, only 39, but I have been playing games since I was old enough to have my dad hold me up to push a button. I keep remember more and more games. Death Race, Missile Command, Defender, Space Invaders, Tron, Dragon's Lair. There was one where you were a knight, it was one of the first attempts at 3-d and it was just lines of course, but you had two joysticks, one moved you and one your sword and you had to duel another knight. Battle Zone, Centipede, Galaga. Wolfenstien 3-d, Doom, Duke Nukem, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, Quake, Quake II! Wow, CTF in Quake and Quake II was incredible. Half-life, TFC and then CS. Man I've had a lot of good gaming years!!!! :thumbsup:

Ah, and we can't forget Pinball machines. Black Knight. Ahhhhh :)

[Lord ALF]

one of the best RPG's i ever played was on my Atari800xl... "Alternate Reality"... had one of the coolest intros evar. was way a head of its time... then there's the Tale of Beta Lyra. both were done by Chris Roberts (i think... can't recall). hell i still have my 800xl and about 40-50 5 1/4 floppies filled with games... gonna have to pull it out and hook it up to the old HDTV. (ugly!!!)

:jester:

[Freakazoid]

My favorite was those mini arcade machines that you could carry around. I remember I was very popular at school for awhile because I had one and took it to recess! If only it was that easy today!?!?