Tell us what you're favorite gaming memories are, no matter how old or
recent!

I'll start off with a few:

Pools of Radiance for the C64
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D&D, what more can you say? ;-) Though I can't remember a thing about
it, I do remember that I was addicted and loved the game. Got a friend
of mine into it too, who wasn't into "computers".

Another World aka Out of This World
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Another C64 game and one of the best I ever played. The graphics and
story were simply amazing for their time. Still revisit it today.

Karateka for the C64
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Loved this game and still revisit it today.

For me the best memories are:
Apple ][:
Ultima II - my first intro to 'real games' with depth (unlike, for
example, Rungistan)
Wizardry I - III - OMGOMGOMG. For a D&D guy, this was incredible.
Ultima IV - V - two of the best games ever, to this day.
Pool of Radiance - *Real* D&D, need I say more?
Might & Magic II - the next gen Wizardry, really got me going

Since I still play my old PC games, they aren't memory lane for me ;)

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On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:08:54 -0700 (PDT), Morvak gmail.com> wrote:

Spectrum

Skool Daze
Ant Attack
Chucky Egg
Sabre Wulf
Underwurld

C64

Summer Games
Winter Games
Ghostbusters
Wizball
Commando
Rambo

Amiga

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:21:36 -0400, Warren
wrote:

Ooh! I forgot Ultima 4. A friend and I used to fire this up as soon as we got
home from school. We used to play on it all afternoon and evening, making
graph paper maps of everything, noting down recipes and locations of items.
Amazingly, I think I still have all those old notes in the original game box!

Memnoch wrote:

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure Morvak gmail.com> wrote:

Oooh! OK. Now where to begin...

-"Adventure! and Zork I" on the CBM Pet 2001. Dad brought the computer home
from his lab on weekends, and we spent ages playing those games, before
trying to write our own (without having a clue about programming).

- Endless hours of typing games into the Atari 400. One in particular that
I remember was "Hopper" (a Frogger clone) to which we added a free man
feature, and a "fly" bonus.

- Flight Sim II on the Atari 400. (By Sublogic, before they were bought
out by Microsoft)

- Breaking 25,000 points in Space Invaders on the 2600. I sent a picture
of the TV screen in, and got a T-shirt to wear proudly.

- Castle Wolfenstein and Hard Hat Mack on the Apple ][+, played during
lunch hours on the school computers, even though games weren't allowed.

- Years later, just after buying my first x86 PC, I downloaded something
called "Wolfenstein 3D" because of my fond memories of the original CW.
I was totally and completely blown away by the 3D-ness of it!

Morvak wrote:

Ahh, the memories:
- Epson QX-10 (my first computer)
Zork 1. My first 'fantasy' game

- PC:
Temple of Apshai. My first RPG (didn't know anything about D&D at the
time)
Wizardry 1. My first party based RPG (still didn't know anything about
D&D. First time a game would keep me awake until...

Bahhh ... young people :-D

How about "Meteors" on the ZX81. I fondly remember playing that on a
friends ZX81 at 1:00 in the morning (am) ... and his mother coming back from
the pub in a rather disturbing state of inebriation. Asteroids in the shape
of asterixes, drunk mothers ... ahh those were the days.

Oh ... and 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81, again. Scariest game ever??? No
sound ... never knew when the T-Rex was coming to get you ... urgghhh still
gives me the creeps.

And ... the hardest game ever: 3D Defender ... by the same people who made
3D Monster Maze. I seem to remember my highest score on that was .........
ZERO.

See here for more on 3D Monster Maze etc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Monster_Maze

schtick

Yep you can't get better than
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Sinclair ZX-81 with the extended ram ( 16 meg )and
the CRT interface: On board Basic ... I wrote my
own games. I even had a data acquisition board that
I wire wrapped. I wrote a program that would plot
the data points on the crt, and I could move the
pot and do the graph in real time at up to 5 data
points per second. I even interfaced it to a Rayman
Spectrometer, and used it to count photons in a
range of the spectrum that had never been seen
by anyone before ... at least never by a human
before. And once I had that working, the Feds
bought me my own Apple II ( $4000.00 ) and a spare
power supply. I used the Apple II to count protons
in my 2mev Vann d' Graffe until a jealous professor
poured about a gallon of water in it. You DON'T do
science with computers. They are not accurate.

johns

johns schreef:

Are you sure that wasn't 16K? 16 meg must have cost a fortune those days.