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richardhutnik on 22 August 2012
oldschoolfool said:
wait a second,you mean you have a thread that's not political. I'm confused.

I have a number of threads on a number of things.  Not a big need for me to start much on videogames, because about every subject I want to cover has it.  My last attempt to do a non-political thread, ended up with excess duplicates though.



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kain_kusanagi on 22 August 2012
richardhutnik said:
kain_kusanagi said:
As a matter of fact I did play Atari today, and yesterday too. I didn't play my Yars cart, but I did play several versions of Donkey Kong. I love my Atari consoles/computers. I have every version of Donkey Kong and all the consoles and computers it was ported to. Yesterday I played the 7800 version and today I played the Atari 8Bit version on my Atari 800 as well as the 2600 version which has a special nostalgia for me even though it is the worst port, even worse than the Intellivision version.

My understanding is that around this time in 1979, the Atari 8bit computers hit the market.  It is a shame the Atari 8bits lost the home computer war.   That was fanboy days for me, where I defending the Atari 8bit against the forces of evil, the Commodore 64.  I did eventually jump ship. out of choice.  Still remember trying to run Pacman with 8K memory on the Atari 400 and it be a disaster (cart didn't break but still).  I remember using the membrane keyboard and typing in code.  Spend hours enterting in data from ANALOG Magazine so I could play ripoffs of arcade games.  Ahh, those were the days.

Anyone remember the Atari Program Exchange (APEX) catalog?  It was like the XBox Live Arcade Indie channel offline.  The dreams and wishes I had.  CAVERNS OF MARS!


Those were the days. I never had the patients to type code back then. I barely had the patients to wait for a program to load off a data tape.



richardhutnik on 22 August 2012
kain_kusanagi said:
richardhutnik said:
kain_kusanagi said:
As a matter of fact I did play Atari today, and yesterday too. I didn't play my Yars cart, but I did play several versions of Donkey Kong. I love my Atari consoles/computers. I have every version of Donkey Kong and all the consoles and computers it was ported to. Yesterday I played the 7800 version and today I played the Atari 8Bit version on my Atari 800 as well as the 2600 version which has a special nostalgia for me even though it is the worst port, even worse than the Intellivision version.

My understanding is that around this time in 1979, the Atari 8bit computers hit the market.  It is a shame the Atari 8bits lost the home computer war.   That was fanboy days for me, where I defending the Atari 8bit against the forces of evil, the Commodore 64.  I did eventually jump ship. out of choice.  Still remember trying to run Pacman with 8K memory on the Atari 400 and it be a disaster (cart didn't break but still).  I remember using the membrane keyboard and typing in code.  Spend hours enterting in data from ANALOG Magazine so I could play ripoffs of arcade games.  Ahh, those were the days.

Anyone remember the Atari Program Exchange (APEX) catalog?  It was like the XBox Live Arcade Indie channel offline.  The dreams and wishes I had.  CAVERNS OF MARS!


Those were the days. I never had the patients to type code back then. I barely had the patients to wait for a program to load off a data tape.

I ended up with the patience, because I so badly wanted to play the likes of Livewire (their Tempest rip off) and stuff like Bacterian (their Ripoff ripoff) or whatever it was called, and I was disappointed their Quantum rip off, Tachyon, never made it out.  I still remember the old Synapse software days and whatnot.  And yes, those data tapes.  Such fun.  Take forever and hope the tape didn't degrade.  

Getting a floppy disk was SO awesome back inthe day.  I can sometimes still fire up some emulated stuff on the PC.  



NintendoPie on 22 August 2012

I have actually never played Atari, but that's because I'm a youngin'.



jayson1 on 22 August 2012

Im all set with Atari I played it enough in the early 80s and thats where it will stay for me. My PS3 is #1 until PS4 comes along.



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amp316 on 22 August 2012
TWRoO said:
amp316 said:
What a marvelous commercial. Is it wrong that I was checking out the mom? She's probably 107 years old now.

Oh... and Yar's Revenge was a lot of fun.

The two kids are probably the same age as you.

Sadly, this probably on the money.



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