Your Fondest Video Game Memories
John Furlong
I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
Let's hear those memories...
I'll start the ball rolling...
When Zelda II was released, it was a pretty hot title. Everywhere was sold
out, much to my dismay. Being the Zelda freak that I was, I was elated to
hear that my father had found me a copy at the local Toys R Us. My fondest
video game memory was the excitement of opening that game (after an almost
unbearable wait for my dad to get off work and bring it to me).
I'm grown now, and I still love gaming. But I doubt I'll ever be that
excited about a game again.
Close second: Playing Tekken on the Playstation for the first time.
John
Elizabeth Br Puckle
John Furlong (mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net) wrote:
:
: I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
: John
One of my biggest waits for a game was when I bought Wrecking Crew and
had to wait 3 days before I could get home to play it...that was murder!
Picking out Phantasy Star 1 for a xmas present in November and having to
wait a month was hell too. Finally beating Legend of Zelda was a high
point right next to beating Phantasy Star..
PS--Phantasy Star was released in November of 88 not Dec of 87 like Nick
said, but that's an honest mistake.
Elizabeth Br Puckle
John Furlong (mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net) wrote:
:
: I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
: finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
: Let's hear those memories...
: I'll start the ball rolling...
: When Zelda II was released, it was a pretty hot title. Everywhere was sold
: out, much to my dismay. Being the Zelda freak that I was, I was elated to
: hear that my father had found me a copy at the local Toys R Us. My fondest
: video game memory was the excitement of opening that game (after an almost
: unbearable wait for my dad to get off work and bring it to me).
: I'm grown now, and I still love gaming. But I doubt I'll ever be that
: excited about a game again.
: Close second: Playing Tekken on the Playstation for the first time.
: John
I remember seeing a Link's Adventure (zelda 2) a month before it came
out in america...it came out in canada first (strange)...one of the vid
rental places had it and wouldn't sell it (doh!) the instructions were
in english and french...this was around sept. of 1988 (i think)
DREW WEBBER
Elizabeth Br Puckle (e...@dana.ucc.nau.edu) wrote:
: I remember seeing a Link's Adventure (zelda 2) a month before it came
: out in america...it came out in canada first (strange)...one of the vid
: rental places had it and wouldn't sell it (doh!) the instructions were
: in english and french...this was around sept. of 1988 (i think)
I remember playing Link before it came out in stores.. but the weird
thing, though, is that I live in southern NY, and I found it at a rental
place.
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Jeremy Haines
mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net (John Furlong) wrote:
> I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
>finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
>Let's hear those memories...
In no particular order:
-----------------------
o Every moment I ever spent playing sit-down "Sinistar".
o Every moment I ever spent playing "The Dreadnaught Factor" on
my Intellivision.
o Every moment I ever spent playing "Pitfall II" on the 2600.
o Winning "Last Battle" on the Genesis without cheating.
o Getting past level 64 on Tempest 2000 without cheating.
o Winning "Double Dragon" in the arcade on one quarter, using only
head butts.
o Winning "Aztec" for the first time on the Apple II.
o Mowing down people with the Porsche and the rocket launcher in
"N.A.R.C." at the arcade.
o Playing "Super Sprint" or "Off-Road" at the arcade for so long
that I'd get bored and walk away.
o Bringing in the sledgehammer that one day, thinking I'd KO the
bad guys in the original Street Fighter (pressure pad version)
with just a few hits. Whoops.
I probably have a lot more lying around, but I think that these
are pretty representative of the whole.
- Jer
"You're your own worst enemy. If you can't conquer your own fears, how
can you conquer anyone else?!" -- Tequila, "Hard Boiled"
pasamba mario c
On Tue, 7 May 1996, stfx.ca-sysadmin wrote:
> > > I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
> > >finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
> > >Let's hear those memories...
>
5)Beating the crap out of my dad in Combat for Atari 2600. I was only
about 5 at the time, and I think I turned my dad away from video games
from then on.
4)First day I got Ninja SPirit for TG-16. Man was I blown away!
3)My cousins coming over on CHristmas and they brought their new Nintendo
8-bit system. We played Super Mario till 4 in the morning until my uncle
made us go to bed
2)Playing yie-ar kung fu in the arcade and finally beating blues (My
favorite fighting game ever!! (remember the opening tune?)
1)Getting yie-ar kung fu to work on my Commodore 64! I always had boot-up
problems.
Man, I wish they'd put an arcade-perfect translation on a Saturn or
Playstation. Who made that game anyway?
stfx.ca-sysadmin
> > I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
> >finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
> >Let's hear those memories...
Playing (and beating) "Raid Over Moscow" and "Impossible Mission" for the
Commodore 64. Great games. I loved the animation of the player in IM
and IM2.
Pitfall II for the Atari 2600. I loved the adventure-style in Pitfall,
but the sequel blew me away (balloon rides, swimming, etc.).
MAL
Theron Ross
mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net (John Furlong) wrote:
> I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
>finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
>Let's hear those memories...
Well, my very fondest was probably when my mother and father both won a
pong game system from a radio call-in. This is pre-1981. Me and my
sisters had a ball with our paddle controllers.
Other fond memories include, but are not limited to:
* The day I got my Atari 2600
* The day I scored a 99+ (scoreboard max) to 0 win over a friend in Atari
Football on my Atari 800XL Computer. He bragged all week how he was going
to beat me.
* The first time I played John Madden Football on a Sega Genesis. I made
sure I got one that Christmas with John Madden '92.
* The first time I played NHL Hockey on my Sega Genesis.
* The first time (and many times after) I played SportsTime Hockey by
MindScape on my Atari 1040ST.
* When I played and won a Best of Five series in GBA Basketball. My roommate
and still good friend won the coin toss and the first two games were on his
Commodore 128. I lost Game One because I took an ill advised 3-pointer
late in the game and he got the rebound and scored the winning basket. In
game two, we battled with me holding a 1 point lead with less than a minute
in the game. He went towards the basket, I stole the ball, ran down court
with time running down and dunked at the buzzer to win by three. To this
day, the expression on his face still makes me laugh hysterically. He
just sat there for 5 minutes, mouth wide open, joystick dangling in his
hand, completely silent and in disbelief he lost on his system for the
first time. We eventually played games three and four on my Atari 1040ST
where I blew him out and won the series 3-1.
My most fun video game days were probably on my Atari 2600 and Atari
600XL/800XL computers. There was some great stuff out then like Archon,
Seven Cities of Gold, Lode Runner, Pole Position, etc.
Theron
Janos Horvath
Jeremy Haines (haines...@cs.yale.edu) wrote:
: o Every moment I ever spent playing sit-down "Sinistar".
You must be some kind of masochist. This game is #$%&*@ HARD! I think
Willaims AGH for PSX has a video clip of the author, who explains how top
brass forced him to make the game unbearably difficult.
: o Mowing down people with the Porsche and the rocket launcher in
: "N.A.R.C." at the arcade.
That IS fun! Too bad I can't A) afford a real Porsche 930 slant-nose; and
B) mow down real-life people. :-)
: o Playing "Super Sprint" or "Off-Road" at the arcade for so long
: that I'd get bored and walk away.
My experience with Super Sprint and Badlands is such that I would walk
away from excessively sore arms.
: "You're your own worst enemy. If you can't conquer your own fears, how
: can you conquer anyone else?!" -- Tequila, "Hard Boiled"
A John Woo/Chow Yun Fat fan? :-)
=== Flogger, the Videogame Nut! ===
C=128/2600 Jr/TVBoy/NES-001/NES-101/TG-16/TE/Duo/SNES/PSX/Saturn
Janos Horvath
stfx.ca-sysadmin (x95...@juliet.stfx.ca) wrote:
: Playing (and beating) "Raid Over Moscow" and "Impossible Mission" for the
: Commodore 64. Great games. I loved the animation of the player in IM
: and IM2.
I never succeeded in beating IM. Perhaps it would do me some good to
watch another player one of these days.
Actually, does anybody want to do a video of themselves playing
Impossible Mission, start to finish? By this, I mean hooking the C=64/128
up to a VCR and recording the whole game on tape.
: Pitfall II for the Atari 2600. I loved the adventure-style in Pitfall,
: but the sequel blew me away (balloon rides, swimming, etc.).
There was probably only a marginal improvement in the C=64 version. :-)
Bryan Lambert
>mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net (John Furlong) wrote:
>> I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
>>finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
>>Let's hear those memories...
Let's see, there's my first OTH shot in Ballblazer (er, my first
-intentional- OTH), but definitely, I'd have to say dying in Project
Firestart for the C-64.
This was no ordinary game, and this was no ordinary death. I'd done
everything right (or so I thought). I escaped, barely, on the second
escape shuttle (or so I thought). I even fought the big bad guy at the
end, won, and saved the girl (so I thought). And I drifted out into
space. And kept drifting. And drifting. Because I'd never told anyone
to look for me and pick me up.
In a game that's chock-full of exciting events and amazing, logical,
realistic plot twists, that one took the cake. To this day, I will
proclaim loudly to all who will listen that Project Firestart, by
Dynamix, distributed by Electronic Arts, for the Commodore 64, is the
greatest game of all time.
Bryan Lambert <bryan....@co.hennepin.mn.us>
. . . who can't actually defend that, but believes it just the same.
ag3...@cnsvax.albany.edu
In article <4mnuif$6...@buffnet2.buffnet.net>, ter...@buffnet.net (Theron Ross) writes:
>mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net (John Furlong) wrote:
>
>> I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
>>finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
>>Let's hear those memories...
>
Oh, boy... memories. Most of my favorite vidgame memories took place in
arcades. I remember when we discovered Legend of Kage many years ago. We
were so blown away! My friends and I used to play a lot of games back then.
I remember many exciting moments playing two-player Bubble Bobble, or Golden
Axe, or Altered Beast. I know it seems funny now, but Altered Beast was
another game that really wowed us at the time. Silkworm, Xybots, Double
Dragon... the list goes on.
You hear that, video game companies? Almost all of
my favorite video game memories involve two-player COOPERATIVE games!!! Why
aren't there any more cool two-player beat-'em-ups anymore? (Apologies - I'm
not really sure what Guardian Heroes is) I love fighting games, but they've
been done to death! In the Hunt is the only shooter I've seen in ages.
Driving games are OK, but none of them seem as much fun as Roadblasters did.
On the home front, I too recall Yie Are Kung Fu on my old C64. That
was a frustrating game. The Bard's Tale was fantastic. Oh, my God! How
could I forget? Dragonstomper on the 2600! Pretty good role-playing on
an ancient machine like that. All the Starpath tapes were really cool. If
more people knew about them at the time I'm sure they'd be legendary now.
A little more recently, Madden '92 and NHLPA '93 on the genny sucked everybody
in the fraternity into little house-leagues. We'd have playoffs and
everything!
I think that arcades today feel a lot like they did in '91, just
before SFII came out. Back then there were a lot of not-so-cool beat-'em-ups
(the CombaTribes comes to mind) that were just rehashes of a proven formula.
Street Fighter II (especially championship edition!) totally destroyed the
prominence of the old, blah games when it came out. It also totally dominated
my leisure time for over a year, but I digress. I'm waiting for something new
to shake things up like SFII did, and I think multiplayer action is the key,
especially if it involves some cooperative activity. Why not make a monolithic
arcade cabinet that let's 6 people play a super-duper Golden Axe/X-men/Magic
Sword kind of game, with parties splitting and joining up at different parts
of the story? Get the whole gang involved!
It's time to go. I mean, Atari 2600 references! I'm rambling on like
an old man!
PsychoKick
In article <4mo8k9$a...@news.co.hennepin.mn.us>,
bryan....@co.hennepin.mn.us (Bryan Lambert) wrote:
>Let's see, there's my first OTH shot in Ballblazer (er, my first
>-intentional- OTH), but definitely, I'd have to say dying in Project
>Firestart for the C-64.
Is Project Firestart still available anywhere? I was never able to get a
hold of this game, and I wanted it so much when it came out... but none of the
stores I knew carried it. Was there ever a PC version?
-PsychoKick
http://crescent.resnet.cornell.edu
School of Hard Nox and other chaos...
Philips Dilworth Patton
Killing a dragon in Eidoleon :-)
Making it off the spacestation in the epic Universe ;)
Landing on a planet in StarFlight (PC)
Triple (what was it? Pretzel level) in Ms. Pac-Man, and beyond
Winning Bruce Lee the 1st time, 2nd time, 3rd time (and making Yamo yawn :)
Destroying all yer friends 5 times in a row in Warbirds (2600)
Becoming an Avatar! Ultimata IV
When that skeleton comes alive in Prince of Persia
The green alien fake-spaceman in Koronis Rift (scary!)
no it was Rescue on Fractalus - or something - pirate version Behind Jaggie
Lines, of course ;)
Any moment during Star Raiders
(these are Atari 8-bit computer games - Ze best)
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Mighty Bomb Jack. That game was great on NES!
Too bad I cant find it anymore...
John Furlong (mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net) wrote:
:
: I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
: finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
: Let's hear those memories...
Janos Horvath
pasamba mario c (pas...@students.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: 5)Beating the crap out of my dad in Combat for Atari 2600. I was only
: about 5 at the time, and I think I turned my dad away from video games
: from then on.
D'OH! I think that if I were to raise a family and expose my children to
videogames, I'd be pretty pissed off too if I were trounced by a
five-year-old!
: 4)First day I got Ninja SPirit for TG-16. Man was I blown away!
Ninja Spirit is still an all-time platform classic for me. Nothing is
quite like it.
Merric Blackman
Theron Ross wrote:
>
> mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net (John Furlong) wrote:
>
> > I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
> >finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
> >Let's hear those memories...
>
Definitely the time when I and three friends monopolized
a Gauntlet machine for several hours one afternoon and spent rather
a large amount of time & money delving deeper into the dungeon...
We weren't all that good at it, but we had a great deal of fun.
I used the top score ID of "ELF" for the first time then... (despite
having played the Wizard ;) which I've used ever since. It's even
developed into my 'net pseudonym. ;-)
Yours,
Merric Blackman
"The ELF"
LIM SE-DUK
my fondest video game memories can be endless but I got couple of them in
my mind.
1. when I actually got hold of NES system and had bunch of tough games
that I destroy them like little cookie! for example, BatMan from sunsoft
and the Joker was TOUGH as hell(if you know what I mean and I ended up
looping the game about 3 times and I just turned it off,it was getting late)
and Ninja Gaiden2(another tough last boss) and ahhh.. TMNT 1 from ultra.
I beat this game(took me long time and also tough end and overall)
2. when I got my Sega Genesis with Strider and Phantasy Star III(it
wasn't greatest rpg of all time but I saw all the multi-ending to this
game and took me little more than month!) Also getting Sega-CD when it
first came out(such excitement!)
3. when I saw Street Fighter II for SNES came out and saw giant sign that
advertise on NY's Toys R Us. it was the time that I bought SNES(only
reason to buy to play SF2)
4. got my pentium-pc and play Doom 2 with my friend(modem) and blow hell
away in sight.(best shoot'em up of all time)
5. out to buy Virtua Fighter 2 last dec. when I still don't have Saturn
to play on(I go to my friend's Saturn to play though) not to mention when
Saturn first came out in nov. of '94 with VF 1(I love VF) all the VF
series thrilled me(such love of this game :) ) since first Street
Fighter 2 came out for SNES.
6. playing Toshinden 2 on my PSX and coming real soon Tekken 2(although
it's not the same feeling that of SF2 and VF series)
7. still able to play my old MSX 2+ computer games(especailly Ys 2 and
Exile 2(XZR II)) all the great memory lays in this old japanese system!!!!!
well that's about all I can think of.......ahhhhh memory......
Bye!
PS Yie-Ar Kung Fu is the product of Konami(awesome game back then...I got
kicked out of arcade for play this game too long(I think it was about 3
hours with one coin)
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aka Se Lim
Janos Horvath
Bryan Lambert (bryan....@co.hennepin.mn.us) wrote:
: To this day, I will proclaim loudly to all who will listen that
: Project Firestart, by Dynamix, distributed by Electronic Arts, for the
: Commodore 64, is the greatest game of all time.
Didn't Dynamix also develop "F-14 Tomcat" for C=64, released by Activision?
(Perhaps I'm mistaken). That game gave me an excellent impression of
living out the movie Top Gun.
The trouble with Project Firestart, and many other titles released by
Electronic Arts, is that EA almost deliberately engineered long loading
times into their titles. (Or so it seemed!) People seemed not to have a
the slightest idea about efficient copy-protection, and so many 1541
drives either knocked or melted themselves into oblivion as a result.
Many a game by EA, Accolade, Microprose etc. etc. I would have enjoyed
more, had the games been RAM-drive or hard-drive compatible.
Janos Horvath
Merric Blackman (cbla...@fs3.ballarat.edu.au) wrote:
: Definitely the time when I and three friends monopolized
: a Gauntlet machine for several hours one afternoon and spent rather
: a large amount of time & money delving deeper into the dungeon...
: We weren't all that good at it, but we had a great deal of fun.
It's not often that I can find an arcade game, spend a whole shitload of
money on it out of pleasure, and leave with a feeling of great
satisfaction. More frequently, if I spend much money on a single game,
it's out of frustration or a misguided desire to finish that last #$%&*@
stage. Now, I just buy games to play at home, where I can play any time
of day or night, hurl expletives in privacy, and pause the game when
nature calls. :)
I can remember buying whole $10 rolls of quarters trying to beat human
opponents on Mortal Kombat 1. Pure dejection... On the other hand, I
still enjoy pumping $6.00 into Terminator 2: Judgment Day to finish the
game, or $4.00 each for two players. (That's assuming the guns are
working well!)
Onaje umeme Everett
LIM SE-DUK (li...@ucsub.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
: my fondest video game memories can be endless but I got couple of them in
: my mind.
: 1. when I actually got hold of NES system and had bunch of tough games
: that I destroy them like little cookie! for example, BatMan from sunsoft
: and the Joker was TOUGH as hell(if you know what I mean and I ended up
: looping the game about 3 times and I just turned it off,it was getting late)
: and Ninja Gaiden2(another tough last boss) and ahhh.. TMNT 1 from ultra.
: I beat this game(took me long time and also tough end and overall)
Trust me when I say that Ninja Gaiden 2 is NOT hard. Art of Fire with
two shadows behind you destroys everything. But, then again, I STILL
can't beat it on one man, yet. :)
But Batman was so hard I ALMOST gave up on it. Thank God for Nintendo Power!
:)
: 2. when I got my Sega Genesis with Strider and Phantasy Star III(it
: wasn't greatest rpg of all time but I saw all the multi-ending to this
: game and took me little more than month!) Also getting Sega-CD when it
: first came out(such excitement!)
Strider is the ultimate bomb!!! One of the greatest games of all time!
Too bad the Genesis version was a little bit on the ok side, as opposed
to the arcade version.
: 4. got my pentium-pc and play Doom 2 with my friend(modem) and blow hell
: away in sight.(best shoot'em up of all time)
I'll definitely agree with that.
Anybody remember Zillion for the Sega Master system? The music...the
action...the game!!!!!
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Jeremy Haines (haines...@cs.yale.edu) wrote:
::>mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net (John Furlong) wrote:
::>
::>> I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
::>>finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
::>>Let's hear those memories...
Hmmm, lets see.....
Finally getting a disk drive for my C=64 (No more waiting 1/2 hour to
play Forbidden Forest) Many games on the C=64 were greats, Raid over
Moscow, Project Firestart (Everyone loved this) Beach-head, Bard's tale
I,II & III, and many more......oh yeah wasteland :)
Next would be seening the intro to Y's book I&II on the TurboGrafxCD, man
my jaw dropped...To me the TG-16 & P.C. Engine (Japanese version) will
go down in my mind as the greatest gaming machines ever.
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My memory:
ACtually beating a level in Gyromite, and using Rob.
Kicking the crap out of Mister X in Kung Fu
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Mikolaj...we all know pain."
"Yes, but I wanted less of it." - White
William Dilgard
Has anyone out there ever played a pair of games called `Below the Root',
and 'Alice in Wonderland' for the Apple IIsomethingor another... I think the
company that made them was Windham Classics or something like that...
Any how, these were just amazing games, (I can no longer play now because
of the limited lifetime of 5.25 inch diskettes <sniff>...) I am just curious if
I am alone in having experianced these games...
-Bill D.
James Tomson
In article <4mohpc$r...@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>, hor...@acs6.acs.ucalgary.ca
(Janos Horvath) wrote:
@> stfx.ca-sysadmin (x95...@juliet.stfx.ca) wrote:
@>
@> : Playing (and beating) "Raid Over Moscow" and "Impossible Mission" for the
@> : Commodore 64. Great games. I loved the animation of the player in IM
@> : and IM2.
@>
@> I never succeeded in beating IM. Perhaps it would do me some good to
@> watch another player one of these days.
Get him Myron Bots!
-James
--
the philotes twine forever on....
Rick Florey
pasamba mario c <pas...@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>On Tue, 7 May 1996, stfx.ca-sysadmin wrote:
>> > > I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
>> > >finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
>> > >Let's hear those memories...
>>
>5)Beating the crap out of my dad in Combat for Atari 2600. I was only
>about 5 at the time, and I think I turned my dad away from video games
>from then on.
>4)First day I got Ninja SPirit for TG-16. Man was I blown away!
>3)My cousins coming over on CHristmas and they brought their new Nintendo
>8-bit system. We played Super Mario till 4 in the morning until my uncle
>made us go to bed
>2)Playing yie-ar kung fu in the arcade and finally beating blues (My
>favorite fighting game ever!! (remember the opening tune?)
>1)Getting yie-ar kung fu to work on my Commodore 64! I always had boot-up
>problems.
>Man, I wish they'd put an arcade-perfect translation on a Saturn or
>Playstation. Who made that game anyway?
I loved Yie-ar too, and I shared your C64 boot-up problems. I think
Taito or Data East did it. I remember playing it in the arcade. I
would always move around while playing it, (I was just a kid, of
course. :))
>Rabbit
>http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~pasamba
Arklier
"stfx.ca-sysadmin" <x95...@juliet.stfx.ca> wrote:
> I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
>finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
>Let's hear those memories...
1.) Beating Metriod and Kid Icarus (when's the sequal?) for the first
time on the NES.
2.) Dragon Warrior, which gave me my love of RPGs.
3.) Beating Final Fantasy 2, and thhen buying it later for $15.
4.) Playing Aliens and Earthshaker (a pinball machine) for 6 hours
straight on graduation night. They were free too :)
5.) The employee parties we used to have at the amusement park where I
worked. They opened the arcade and set all the games to 'free play'.
Me and my friends played T2, Daytona, SF2, Turtles In Time, and
pinball until 3 in the morning :)
6.) Being the first one I knew to own a Super NES.
7.) Finally making it past Bowser in Super Mario Bros. What was with
the golden axes anyway?
*sigh*
The memories. :)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Arklier
Firsty is the best!
Hanson
mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net (John Furlong) wrote:
> I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
>finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
>Let's hear those memories...
The big five were:
5) Playing DKC in two player mode with my cousin. I got it for her as
an early Christmas present, and then I ran out to get it for myself
because it was the most fun game I had ever played on the SNES. I had
only bought RPG's for my SNES before that because I felt that I lacked
the eye-hand coordination necessary for non-RPG games. Up until then,
my criteria for buying a game required that it involve no reflexes.
However, I found myself adept at playing DKC (although in retrospect
that was probably due to the fact that it's a really easy game --
witness my current inability to finish DKC2), which opened up entire
genres (fighting, sports, shooters, etc).
4) Setting 3 records in Summer Olympics in one sitting (diving,
sprint, and long jump).
3) The time I defeated most of the black pieces in Archon with my
knights (the sorceress, for one, was impossible).
2) The time I finished Exodus: Ultima III(?), the first RPG I ever
played. It's also the game that burnt out my C64.
1) Turning over the score on Chopper Command for the 2600. The screen
glowed and the sound effects blared. I was left with 999,999 points
and a feeling of incredible euphoria. I even took a picture of the
screen. In fact, I did it twice because the picture didn't come out
the first time. Never wrote in for the shirt though.
Hanson
Janos Horvath
<Unknown> (inf...@tiac.net) wrote:
: Finally getting a disk drive for my C=64 (No more waiting 1/2 hour to
: play Forbidden Forest) Many games on the C=64 were greats, Raid over
: Moscow, Project Firestart (Everyone loved this) Beach-head, Bard's tale
: I,II & III, and many more......oh yeah wasteland :)
Ahhh, now we're digging up memories from my earlier youth!...
- Getting an Epyx FastLoad cartridge for my C=64. Also, all the subsequent
speed-loading accessories.
- I used to be able to play Commando for C=64, wrapping the million
counter three times! I could have gone on and on accumulating lives
and grenades - I had so many that the life and grenade counters had
started to display garbage! :) I used a Wico Red Ball joystick
(still do) and launched grenades with my toes on the space bar. ;)
Oh yeah, and the music on that game was terrific.
- Playing Montezuma's Revenge by Parker Bros. for C=64. The ninth level
and onwards were to be played completely in the dark - you had to play
them by memory!
- Playing Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade for C=64. IMHO, this was the
BEST driving sim/game ever done on that computer. I grew to hate Test
Drive I and II because you'd lose a life from a mere scratch.
I'd play it more, if it weren't for all those NeGCon-compatible race
games on Playstation!
- Playing Stunt Track Racer by MicroProse for C=64. Talk about vertigo!
- Playing Wasteland by Electronic Arts for C=64. Damn, it took 45 mins.
to create the four stupid data disks, and playing it usually caused the
drive to overheat. But it was my first RPG-type game.
- Playing Wings of Fury by Broderbund for C=64.
E.W. Swan
Finding the magic dot and hidden "Created by Warren Robinett" Easter Egg
in 2600 Adventure...
Defeating Werdna and leaving the dungeon with the amulet in "Wizardry:
Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord"...
Slaying the dragon, using (fell hand swoop a la Princess Daphne) "The
Magic Sword!" in Dragon's Lair...
Hearing the growl of Sinistar hot on my heels -- what a trip!...
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E.W. Swan, 3D Artist/Web Page designer
WHIRL Digital Art Gallery: http://www.cris.com/~eswan
Dub's trueSpace F/X Page: http://www.cris.com/~eswan/tsfx.html
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"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck." -- Obi-Wan Kenobi
Brian Kennedy
E.W. Swan wrote:
> Finding the magic dot and hidden "Created by Warren Robinett" Easter Egg
> in 2600 Adventure...
YES!! I'm not crazy -- someone else remembers this! Certainly one of my
fondest memories.
Others (but certainly not all):
** Playing Impossible Mission on C=64. Incredibly fluid motion for its
time, and a synthesized voice to boot!
** (The original) Choplifter on an Apple ][. The first time I dropped
off the guys and noticed that a few stopped on their way into the building
to wave goodbye. :)))
** Crushing anyone who dared to put in a quarter against me at Tetris
(arcade). A good Tetris battle is still *way* more fun for me than a good
Tekken battle (pretty sad, aren't I?). Still searching for a good arcade
Tetris conversion, though <sigh>.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> E.W. Swan, 3D Artist/Web Page designer
> WHIRL Digital Art Gallery: http://www.cris.com/~eswan
> Dub's trueSpace F/X Page: http://www.cris.com/~eswan/tsfx.html
> --------------------------------------E-Mail: es...@cris.com ----------------
> "In my experience, there's no such thing as luck." -- Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Brian Kennedy
b...@acpub.duke.edu
Jeffrey Nevins
Fondest memories: getting that Pong home system for Christmas...
...and that Atari 2600...
...and the Nintendo...
...and the SNES.
Dig Dug. What a game! Keep that friggin' Fygar from escaping!!
Track 'n' Field. Did the events in high school & played the game.
Legend of Zelda. Puch-Out (arcade). Shadowforce & GROWL (arcade).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4 players!) 6-player X-Men! 2 screens!
Capcom's X-Men: Spiral! Omega Red! Street Fighter Alpha 2! Fun!
(Earthworm Jim 1 & 2: a FUNNY game!) Jeff Nevins
jeff...@sfsu.edu
HARTBREAKS
Mine would have to be with the C=128 / 64.......
It had an R.P.G. named the Bard's Tale......My god, that was one of the
best R.P.G.s I have ever played.......I can remember the countless hours
exploring and building up characters, Pulling hair out by the roots......I
loved that game
Anyone remember a game called Impossible Mission also for the C=128/64
.("another vistor, stay awhile......STAY
FOREVER")
Thomas Owen
> > I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
> >finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first time?
> >Let's hear those memories...
Hmmmm. A really far back one: Playing Telengard on my dads
Heath/Zenith H89. Written in basic, with really simplistic character
(character meaning text, not your player) graphics. I spent hours
on this game, but always seemed to die around the third or fourth
level. Then I figured out to press ^c, set the variable for my
experience to a huge number, then continue the program. It turned
out that even with my god-like character, level 50 of the dungeon was
still insanely difficult.
This is a great thread. So many of your memories are so similar to
some of mine. In this day and age of eye-candy, where FUN has been
too often forgotten, this reminds what video games are really all about,
and why I love them as much as I do.
Tom "Wallowing in nostalgia" owen.
glennb
* Playing Superman on the Atari 2600- wow, if all games based on super
heros where as good as that
* Yes, finding the 'dot' in Adventure
* Getting a disk drive for Atari 800 and loading up Jawbreaker. Watching
the toothbrush after clearing (eating) a bord
* M.U.L.E.!! The load sequence, figuring out how to play the damn thing
(w/o instructions) and playing with 3 other friends. An absolute genius
take on Stocks & Bonds
* Jeez, a cajillion more...
-GlennB
"We're through being Cool"
DREW WEBBER
LIM SE-DUK (li...@ucsub.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
: 2. when I got my Sega Genesis with Strider and Phantasy Star III(it
: wasn't greatest rpg of all time but I saw all the multi-ending to this
: game and took me little more than month!)
One time, I nearly stayed up 24 hours straight trying to beat PSIII
before I had to return it to the rental place. I nearly beat it, too...
: PS Yie-Ar Kung Fu is the product of Konami(awesome game back then...I got
: kicked out of arcade for play this game too long(I think it was about 3
: hours with one coin)
I'd say that YAKF is probably the closest descendent to the SF games out
there...
--
*---Rev. Drew Webber--aka Ataru Morobosh...@bambam.magiccarpet.com--*
| "I'm just a warring faction when I walk around.. like Waterloo is |
| happening in my kidneys." - Tori Amos |
|______________________*a SuPeRdEfOrMeD Production*______________________|
DREW WEBBER
Onaje umeme Everett (oeve...@mail.sdsu.edu) wrote:
: : 2. when I got my Sega Genesis with Strider and Phantasy Star III(it
: : wasn't greatest rpg of all time but I saw all the multi-ending to this
: : first came out(such excitement!)
: Strider is the ultimate bomb!!! One of the greatest games of all time!
: Too bad the Genesis version was a little bit on the ok side, as opposed
: to the arcade version.
And the Euro-trash sequel by US Gold SUCKED! Oh man.. was a disgrace that
was. I wish Capcom would make a REAL sequel to it, instead of making
another friggn' fighting game.. or, better yet, make a sequel to the NES
game. I guess the only way to get more Strider right now would be to get
the Supergrafx version...
Kevin Haley
ter...@buffnet.net (Theron Ross) writes:
>My most fun video game days were probably on my Atari 2600 and Atari
>600XL/800XL computers. There was some great stuff out then like Archon,
>Seven Cities of Gold, Lode Runner, Pole Position, etc.
Agreed! I remember when I first became an RPG nut playing games like
Phantasie and the Ultima series on my Atari 8bit. I sure spent a lot of
time playing those games!
The first time a video game ever freaked me out was when an alien
in Rescue on Fractalus jumped in front of my ship. Since then, the
only other game to ever freak me out like that was Alien v. Predator
(Jaguar version, of course).
/Kevin
Andrew S. Wheat
Some people's fond memories clipped...
I'd have to say that my fondest computer gaming memories are from
Alternate Reality: The City. Like when I went into the Flaming Dragon
and the barkeep called me by name. Wow. What a sense of
accomplishment. Or the first time I found a gem on a dead mugger..
suddenly I was poor no longer. And who could forget that lovely red
sweet potion? Definately one of the greatest games of all time.
--
-Silverblade the Grey Wanderer (44 Jaguar games and counting,
MST3K # 65531, Founding member: Gonzo for Mouse Pad Movement)
"This is your dishwashing liquid; YOU soak in it!"
Mark Magdamit
One of my earliest memories of gaming was getting The Faery Tale for my
Amiga 500. I know, it was kinda quirky and all, but I just loved the fact
that the little brothers could go and find all sorts of stuff, and walk
into buildings, etc. Great fun.
Another memory was playing Bionic Commando for the NES. Still my all-time
favorite game next to Mega Man 3 for the NES and River City Ransom for the
NES as well.
I still remember my atari 2600. I had such a great time with that
machine. I can still remember playing The Empire Stikes Back on the 2600,
and having to "land" and "repair" my snow speeder. Back then, it was just
too cool!
A final memory was Activision during the heyday of the Atari consoles. I
loved their packaging and games, and the little sidebars in the manuals
giving credit from the author of the game. That's what really made them
cool, the personal touch and zany games.
========================
-Mark Magdamit
ri...@u.washington.edu
========================
Sean Legge
stfx.ca-sysadmin (x95...@juliet.stfx.ca) wrote:
: > >I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are. Maybe
: > >Let's hear those memories...
: Playing (and beating) "Raid Over Moscow" and "Impossible Mission" for the
: Commodore 64. Great games. I loved the animation of the player in IM
: and IM2.
: Pitfall II for the Atari 2600. I loved the adventure-style in Pitfall,
: but the sequel blew me away (balloon rides, swimming, etc.).
: MAL
Yeah... and that damn catchy music that I've only recently gotten over,
until I read this letter. Arggh! There it goes again! Don't you hear it,
playing loudly in the background? Someone turn it down! I beg you!
MAKE IT STOP! OH GOD! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
Definitely one of the most addicting tunes I have ever heard in a video
game.
There it is again! The horror...
Sean Legge
tuffy
Who can possibly resist this thread? :)
The Adventure dot is certainly a fond one, but I think finally trapping the
black bat in an empty white castle was even more impressive to me.
Or how about finally getting to the end of River City Ransom? Gawd, I
wanted that game to go on forever :)
Remember MUSHA? My jaw dropped when I first saw those awesome background
scrolling effects. That fight in the clouds over the city just blew me away!
And what about the first game of Earthworm Jim? I couldn't believe the
ol' Genesis could do anything that smooth if I hadn't seen it for myself.
But the hours playing EOS on the Apple //e and economically driving
pals into the dirt with stations full of shuttle ports :) Or maybe even the
hours spent hacking my way through those cool dungeons in Wizardry V.
And Aqua-Tron, who could ever forget Aqua-Tron. Sure, it was sort of a
Defender type game, but it had more replay value than I'd ever seen.
Or maybe even hitting the tank for the first time in Star Blazer.
I couldn't believe I could get my bombs to do it :)
Geez, I could go on about finding the second contintent in Questron,
or finally escaping the original Castle Wolfenstein, or getting to the yellow
levels in Atari 2600 Missile Command, or finally trashing the 20 enemy level
of Star Raiders (on the 2600, too)...but there's just too many great
memories to list in one post :)
Magus
con...@titan.oit.umass.edu (Mason Wood) wrote:
>I'm really surprised no one has yet said anying about good 'ol Legend of
>Zelda. Man, I bought that game long before any of the hype, and then
>only because I thought the gold box was cool. :) I must have played that
>game for a month straigth with every iota of my spare time. I finally go
>through and beat it, and to my amazement I found there was a second
>quest. I must have danced around the house in joy when I realized it.
>Such fun in those days...
>Mason
Zelda, possibly my favorite adventure game of all time....That game
was a complete magic to play. I sat down for hours on end trying to
beat it, and it took me about 2 weeks of playing to beat it. I was
also overjoyed when I found out about a 2nd quest. Too bad not many
games are made like this anymore....Sad indeed.
The supreme and almighty,
MAGUS
***************************************************************
Current Favorite Games:
.......................
Guardian Heroes (Saturn)
Night Warriors (Saturn)
Panzer Dragoon 2 (Saturn)
"I would rather die standing than to live on my knees!"
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Captain Calzone
OK, since I was one of the first respondees to this post I left out some
stuff, so I'll finish my list.
Mainly one of my fondest video game memories came when I first
downloaded a "Nobody" message. I had always thought that my PSX was a
good system, but thank god that there was Mr. Nobody to show me the
error of my ways. Now, like him, I walk around with a blindfold on,
since he tought me that imagination can be so much more fun than
reality:) Also, in my efforts to be like him, I haven't left the house
in four months and spend all my time calling anybody who disagrees with
me an idiot. THANK YOU, NOBODY!!
No on to non-sarcastic stuff. Fond memories of mine would have
to include the endless houres I played my old Atari Lynx. To this day I
haven't seen a better Ninja Gaiden. Steel Talons was one of the most
addicting helecopter games I ever played, and the day I beat it will go
down in my memory of one of the best days of my life. "Destroy the
airplanes BEFORE they get airborn!" Oh, rest well, dear cat.
Another memory, also Atari related, was the first time I played
AVP for the Jag. Still in my view the best 3d action game(even better
than my beloved DUKE3D), the first time I ever played it was on a 45
inch rear projection TV with the lights off at 2AM in my friend's
basement. When I heard that Predator say "Anytime..." I nearly pissed
myself! Still, the only game that ever scared me.
Playing Sim City 2000 for 7 houres straight simply because I
didn't want to stop.
Kicking the crap out of the local arcade owner's son at Street
Fighter Alpha the week it came out.
Fighting my way through the crowds to play the original Street
Fighter 2.
Playing Frogger at a friend's house for the first time.
Downloading Duke3D on a whim and becoming addicted to it.
Playing FF3 on the SNES. Even though I never beat it, having
only rented it, that game was an experience like no other.
Playing Daytona USA at Old Orchard Beach every day last summer.
Oh, there are just too many...
---------------
CAPTAIN CALZONE "Are you sure you weren't attacked
The One and Only! by Shabba Ranks instead?"
(THANK GOD!!!) From alt.fan.space-ghost
----------------
daniel l richards
> Geez, I could go on about finding the second contintent in Questron,
Holy cow! That *was* incredible! Remember the sound you made when fighting..
.. Whoopah(miss), Whoopah(miss), Wha-barr(hit). I used to absolutely love
ransacking the cities and gambling until you broke the bank. That game was
as much fun as Ultima II when you pillaged the local fast food joints :))
Dan
Eddie
Yes, I remember the first days of Double Dragon and the exercise version
of Street Fighter where you had to punch the buttons in order to play.
Man, I used to get really swollen fists from that game because of the
stupid lack of padding. Now those were the days of fighting games.
DrChuck16
My fondest game memories came a few years ago, when I reentered the
video game scene (I dropped out near the end of the 2600 era). I bought a
used NES, and got Lifeforce, the original Sunsoft Batman, and Batman:
Return of the Joker. I don't think I've played a platformer as engrossing
as Batman since then. Maybe it was the sheer novelty of it. That, and
the time I first switched on my first Genesis and played Sonic 1 and
Revenge of Shinobi are my fondest video game moments.
Charles Adams
DREW WEBBER
William Dilgard (wdil...@sunlab.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone out there ever played a pair of games called `Below the Root',
: and 'Alice in Wonderland' for the Apple IIsomethingor another... I think the
Played both.. loved both. I don't think it's possible to finish the C64
version of AiW, though...
Kain Bahamut
>
> Zelda, possibly my favorite adventure game of all time....That game
> was a complete magic to play. I sat down for hours on end trying to
> beat it, and it took me about 2 weeks of playing to beat it. I was
> also overjoyed when I found out about a 2nd quest. Too bad not many
> games are made like this anymore....Sad indeed.
>
> The supreme and almighty,
> MAGUS
*sighing with nostalgia* Yeah, those were the good old days. But,
somehow, only three games really, _really_ stick in my mind from the NES era:
Bionic Commando, Strider, and Metroid. Those have to be the coolest games
ever made. Metroid was far bigger than many of today's adventure games (took
me six months to beat it...stop laughing, only because my passwords never
worked!), and, for its time, it had great artwork and atmosphere. It was
also hard as hell!
Bionic Commando had to have the coolest concept of the time. The
character was ultra-cool: flaming red hair, awesome shades, and one big
effin' bazooka. It took me a while to get used to that damned arm (Jump!
Why can't I just _jump_ over the damned crate!), but, once I did, it was
second nature all the way. And it was the first American NES game to feature
swearing...you have to give it credit for that! (Master D says "damn" near
the very end, nothing major, but it had me rolling at the time! Imagine if
Resident Evil was around then...)
And then there's Strider. Man, Capcom was on a roll back then.
Commando...Bionic Commando...Section Z...Strider...Ghosts N' Goblins (the
hardest game ever made, bar none--you gotta beat it twice just to see the
real ending!)...1942-44...Mega Man series...they had 'em all. Strider had to
be one of the best. I still play it on my junked-up old NES to this very
day. I like it better than the Genesis-Arcade version for the simple fact
that it was more of an adventure than a straight action game--you had to use
your head. (Strider III mad me bow my head in shame...) I even liked the
music better...I still can't get that beginning theme out of my head. It was
just incredible. If Hiryu's not in Street Fighter 3, I'm going to stage a
worldwide protest.
*wiping the tears from his eyes*...Well, enough of this old gamer's
rambling. Time to go back to some Virtua Fighter 2! The past was nice, but
times change!
Kain Bahamut, Cyberdragon
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"Life is like a bowl of stewed peaches, with a lot of syrup."
-- Ukyo Tachibana, Samurai Showdown
kri...@interserv.com
I must say that my fondest memory was with Final Fantasy III on SNES....
It is hard to pinpoint an exact place, but I would say when I beat the floating continent, I
spent a long, long time on that, and those 4 characters were super high levels, but that is the best
game i ever have played
I also like a lot of NES games, Zelda, Kid Icarus..sadly my NES is broken and I am trying to
buy a new one.
MARCEL GONZALEZ
In <4mql9i$a...@atlantis.utmb.edu> tth...@marlin.utmb.edu (Tom Thayil)
writes:
>
>Jeremy Haines (haines...@cs.yale.edu) wrote:
>: mrni...@popalex1.linknet.net (John Furlong) wrote:
>
>: > I'm curious to know what everyone's fondest gaming memories are.
Maybe
>: >finally beating a tough RPG or rescuing the princess for the first
time?
>: >Let's hear those memories...
>
My 2600 certainly gave me plenty of memories:
Remembering the BEST GAME ANYWHERE: Yar's Revenge and how I lasted
hours and hours everytime I'd play.
Remembering the only DOOM-like game on the 2600 called "Tunnel Runner",
which kinda blew me away.
Remembering "Turmoil" which kept me on the edge of my seat.
Ruiner
In article
<Pine.SOL.3.91.96050...@godzilla4.acpub.duke.edu>, Brian
Kennedy <b...@acpub.duke.edu> wrote:
> E.W. Swan wrote:
>
> > Finding the magic dot and hidden "Created by Warren Robinett" Easter Egg
> > in 2600 Adventure...
>
> YES!! I'm not crazy -- someone else remembers this! Certainly one of my
> fondest memories.
Adventure was great!!! too bad if I saw it now, I would probably be
embarrased, but that purple ladder thing was the coolest!
> Others (but certainly not all):
>
> ** Playing Impossible Mission on C=64. Incredibly fluid motion for its
> time, and a synthesized voice to boot!
GREAT game!!! took me forever to beat it....
Here's an arcade that no one has mentioned yet... Xenophobe! Anyone
else out there love this game???
Ruiner
Ho Yoon
A local arcade had tournaments on Cyberball 2072. At the first one, we
were playing against some guys for the first time. They drove a
distance, not so much for some nominal prize money, but for bragging
rights. We were each champions at the arcades we went to. We both had
contacts with Atari Games. So there was a lot of anticipation on both
sides.
We swept thru the first couple of rounds. Competition from the local
players was weak (we were both from other arcades). They got a 12 point
lead. I took over at quarterback and got us into the end zone (BTW, it
was a 2 on 2 game) to make it 12-6. They were able to answer to make it
18-6. On the ensuing kickoff, I evaded the left safety who had turboed
in. I went right into the hole he left. His partner, playing the other
safety, turboed to cut me off from getting to the left sideline. I was
able to loop back to the right and heading for the right sideline. The
first guy, who had missed, was now in pursuit. Although his turbo was
gone, he was gaining because my RB wasn't titanium. I mananged to zig
zag enough, while avoiding the drones which were turboing in pursuit and
lost him. When it became apparent that I was going to score, there were
"ahs" in the audience of some 10 other players. Some of the guys from
our arcade chanted my name, half in mock appreciation.
Anyway, we came back to win the game and the tournament. The kickoff
return seemed to have shaken their confidence. They didn't come back
for subsequent tournaments.
Mia and/or M.C.
Well, my fondest memory has got to be when I finished Kings Quest 4 by
Sierra-On-Line...At the time this game was 'state of the art' I remember
playing it on a Tandy 1000 tx 8mHz computer, and was so extremely
impressed with the graphics, and the music...It was quite a experience...
Mia(ba01832)
Robert A. Jung
Playing STAR RAIDERS on an Atari 800. There's still nothing like zipping
through a sector, with a Zylon before and behind you, and you're trying to
swat them both while your auto-tracker keeps flipping views...
--R.J.
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Brian Kennedy (b...@acpub.duke.edu) wrote:
: ** Crushing anyone who dared to put in a quarter against me at Tetris
: (arcade).
Not to stray too far off-topic :), but I prefer Sega's Bloxeed to the
original Tetris. More varied gameplay elements, faster sideways movement...
=== Flogger, the Videogame Nut! ===
C=128/2600 Jr/TVBoy/NES-001/NES-101/TG-16/TE/Duo/SNES/PSX/Saturn
Eric Heisserer
It's great to see so many 2600 memories out there... I was worried about
being some elderly arcade addict. Looks like I'm not as old as I
thought. (You wouldn't know by the fifty-dollar-carrying high schoolers
at the local arcade here, though.)
My fondest memory was when I bought a second-hand Genesis with a bunch
of games that had no boxes or books to them. A friend and I put in
'Starflight' to check it out, and spent the next three hours equipping
our ship, training our crew, mining the planets in our system, and
raking in the dough.
After these hours of play and wonderment, my friend was steering our
ship to a distant planet in the solar system and said "Hey, maybe this
thing Atari-screens around. I'll try to take a shortcut by moving off
the edge here..."
The screen went black for a moment when our ship touched the edge and a
digitized female voice said: "Leaving solar system."
Suddenly our ship was next to a bright, pulsating star. All around us,
there were dozens of them. On our StarMap, there were HUNDREDS of
systems, light years away. A red nebula glowed nearby.
I'll never forget that moment, when my friend and I gaped at the screen
and said (at the same time):
"Holy mother of God..."
B Morphin
Screwin my then girlfreind, tripin, playing tempest 2000, with strobe
lights on, listening to Overkill!
I'll remember that one for a while.
Dave Kirsch
In article <4mvn4f$o...@wopper2.cyserve.net>,
Eric Heisserer <er...@apqc.org> wrote:
>
>My fondest memory was when I bought a second-hand Genesis with a bunch
>of games that had no boxes or books to them. A friend and I put in
>'Starflight' to check it out, and spent the next three hours equipping
>our ship, training our crew, mining the planets in our system, and
>raking in the dough.
>After these hours of play and wonderment, my friend was steering our
>ship to a distant planet in the solar system and said "Hey, maybe this
>thing Atari-screens around. I'll try to take a shortcut by moving off
>the edge here..."
>The screen went black for a moment when our ship touched the edge and a
>digitized female voice said: "Leaving solar system."
I remember this. I played Starflight on the PC. I was wondering what the
point was to the game. Leaving the solar system and seeing the HUNDREDS
of stars--all ready for exploration with their own solar systems.
Took me months to wander around that HUGE galaxy. :)
Other fond video game memories? They day the first video arcade opened
in my home town. Asteriods, Donkey Kong, Make Traxx, etc. I remember when
Tempest arrived and we were all in awe. Got my Defender addiction at that
same arcade. :)
As for home machines, I remember my parent's surprising the hell out of me
when I was 12 by buying an Intellivision. Got Blackjack and Triple Action.
Ah, I remember finding the bugs in the tank game in Triple Action and
memorizing the pattern of the cars you have to dodge in the Racing game.
I still get the urge to play Biplanes again now and then. :)
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For me, there were a few things...
1. Alternating levels with my sister on Atari 2600 Defender, until we
reached level 00. :)
2. ANYTHING having to do with the NES Bionic Commando (anyone remember the
strange arcade version?)
3. Metroid and Kid Icarus. God, I had so much fun with those games...
They really just don't make 'em like that anymore. Super Metroid was
a great game, but much, much too easy.
4. One of my favorite action/RPGs of all time... Ys (and no, it's not
pronounced "wise" or "yiss") Book I & II for the TurboGrafx-CD! I rented
the system one weekend and stayed up from 10:00 AM Friday to 3:00 AM
Monday playing that game through from beginning to end... Very, very
few games ever approach that level of fascination. :) If you haven't
played it, find it! It's well worth it, plus you can find old Turbo
stuff for next to nothing. And the music was (and still is) some of
the best ever to grace a CD-ROM game.
5. And of course, my all-time favorite NES games... Ninja Gaiden I and II.
(III bit the big blue one.) Those games blew me away... a game with a
REAL plot? *gasp* :) Plus II had some of the best graphics (IMHO) to
ever touch the NES. Also, my friend and I were the ones who discovered
NG2's three sound/music tests and sent them in to Nintendo Power (oh, if
only we'd known about the free games obtainable from other mags).
There's a lot more, but I'll wrap this up for now... :)
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Here's something that many of us have forgotten (but not me!=):
*How about all those GREAT games by Cinemaware? They were the ones who
made Defender of the Crown, Rocket Ranger, The Three Stooges, and one of
my all time faves, It Came From The Desert!
And I'm talking about the Commodore Amiga versions, too! THE BEST back in
the day... But I digress...
In the days before FMV and flashy Hollywood intervention, Cinemaware was
leagues ahead of everyone by many years by creating games that were almost
like movies. The early box art even had red and white lining to look like
a popcorn box.
And I'd lie if I said that It Came From The Desert didn't scare the crap
outta me the first time I had to kill the giant ant! I screamed my head
off and ran out of the room. (Sad thing was I was already seventeen when
I saw the giant ant - man, I hate bugs!)
Ahhh, I wish I coulda worked for those guys back when the Amiga was still
the king of computer gaming...
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Oh, geez. :)
1) Winning Bubble Bobble for the first time. Scribbling down the
writing in the secret tombs, and decoding it all. ;) The teamwork,
the jargon invented to describe everything in the game... what
a game, what a time. I still remember that damn music. ;)
2) Winning Dragon's Lair for the first time, one summer in middle
school... finishing the entire last room having never seen it before,
and only dying once. :)
3) The music from 'Mappy.' Loved that twangy synth banjo. ;)
4) Getting 300k points on 'Spy Hunter' (not the sucky sequel! :P
Bleh,bleh, bleh!!!) on a sitdown model, and listening to the
Peter Gunn theme blaring behind your head. :)
5) Crossbow!!
Gary Dietz
1) Pong at a bowling alley, 1972. Never looked back
2) Winning the Kellog "Stick up for Breakfast Contest" in 1978, and
being one of 2001 Winners to win a Sears Telegame Cart system (Atari
2600). It was the blizzard of '78, and the winners names were lost,
so I had to wait *4* months to get my prize (that taught me patience).
For tyhose who are interested, I was 13 and drew Toucan Sam on a
surfboard saying "Hang Ten to a Good Breakfast" to win.
3) Using the Intellivision Cable TV game downloader thingy experiment
in Upstate NY. I guess it was 1980/81 or so. WAY WAY ahead of its
time. you could download this months selection of Intellivision
games.
4) Buying an RCA Studio II on clearance at Montgomery Wards
5) Taking apart a Fairchild Channel F video game, while it was still
running and on our TV set, one chip at a time to see when it would go.
We started a smoking mess (but no fire, and no electrocutions,
luckily).
Peace,
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Mark Magdamit (ri...@u.washington.edu) wrote:
: Here's something that many of us have forgotten (but not me!=):
: *How about all those GREAT games by Cinemaware? They were the ones who
: made Defender of the Crown, Rocket Ranger, The Three Stooges, and one of
: my all time faves, It Came From The Desert!
: And I'm talking about the Commodore Amiga versions, too!
Oh, who can forget the C-64 version of The Three Stooges that came on 3
disks and took forever to LOAD! It took at least five minutes before you
could even get to the game, then you had to pick a sequence which took
more load time, you played the short sequence and then it had to reload
the option screen again, all the while swapping disks and cursing.
I just played this a few months ago but it was more fun than when I was a
kid because I had beer in the frig.
Think I'll boot this up tonight, write the time it takes to load, and
report back.
And people today complain because they have a to wait a few seconds for
their PSX to load. Doesn't bother me a bit. ;-)
Joey
David Regal
My favorite moments? Finally beating Raiders of the Lost Ark for the atari 2600
with my little 9 year hands so very long ago. Then, playing my first nintendo game...
Mario (whatever it was called) Then without a doubt, what I call the My Fav Three,
Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Legend of Zelda. That was a great year or two. Then, finally,
years later, seeing the mother brain reborn and more wicked than before in Super
Metroid. Not to mention Seeing Gannon through 16 bit eyes. This is bringing a tear to my
eyes, have to go now. But I thought I'd share.
Wolfman.
Ian Kelley
Hmm...my favorite memories?
Playing Drol for the Apple IIe for the first time. That was my first video
game, and IMHO, is one of the best arcade-style games ever made. I
remember getting really excited about finally getting a joystick so I
didn't have to mess with the keyboard.
And does anybody remember The Seven Cities of Gold? I remember making the
King and Queen really angry by butchering every city I ever came across.
:) A classmate of mine told me he found one of the Seven Cities in one of
the computer-generated maps, but I never managed to find one despite
mapping virtually all of the New World.
Playing Skyfox on the computer labs in grade school. Has anybody else
played this game? One of the earliest flying combat games I can remember,
but it was really good!
Playing Wasteland for hours and hours after school in 9th grade. Me and a
friend used to play simultaneously over the phone on our separate
computers. I remember making 50 copies of Disk 3 so I could cheat and kill
all the cyborgs in the sewer again and again and again. I usually had one
guy beat them all to death with a proton axe and eventually got him up to
General. :) This is a great example that good RPGs don't have to be the
standard fantasy setting to be good!
Does anyone remember Knights of Legend? It was an RPG that Origin brought
out but it never did too well. This was an awesome game, and is quite
easily the most realistic RPG ever made. It was complicated, but
addicting. There was one quest I never managed to find though...too bad, I
was so close to beating it too.
Finally getting through Blaster Master on the NES in only one life. This
is IMO one of the best games ever made! The music was really good and
being able to upgrade your car was really cool.
Playing Final Fantasy 5 at a friend's house. One of the best RPGs ever
made, it's a shame that it probably won't come out in America. Certainly
made all those Japanese lessons seem more worthwhile. :)
Ah, nostalgia...
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Captain Calzone
Ruiner wrote:
> Here's an arcade that no one has mentioned yet... Xenophobe! Anyone
> else out there love this game???
>
> Ruiner
I had Xenophobe!!! For the 7800. I still remember playing that game
while my mom watched "Murders Among Us: The Simon Weizenhol Story" it
the other room. Man, did THAT combo give me some strange dreams...
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In <Pine.OSF.3.92a.96051...@saul4.u.washington.edu>
Mark Magdamit <ri...@u.washington.edu> writes:
>*How about all those GREAT games by Cinemaware? They were the ones
who
>made Defender of the Crown, Rocket Ranger, The Three Stooges, <snip>
...Defender Of The Crown on C-64/128.........DAMN! I miss that
game.....
Dave
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>Strider is the ultimate bomb!!! One of the greatest games of all time!
>Too bad the Genesis version was a little bit on the ok side, as opposed
>to the arcade version.
Well, the Genesis version was the largest game ever released at that
time (8 Megs). Figuring when it came out and how much they crammed
into it, I say it still was pretty damn cool.
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Theres plenty of fond game memories but the one that foremost comes to
mine has to be be when I first saw Mortal Kombat:) ie: Johnny Cage's
nutcracker (doh!), kano's heart fatality (jeez...poor guy...), and
scorpion's "GET OVER HERE!" shout (Im bad, Im mean, and Im gonna fuck
you up!:)
Andy
dor...@ccnet.com
The creator of this thread nailed it: this is a new hobby and we're the
first generation. Unlike more traditional hobbies, we don't have a long
lineage of socially accepted reference points ("my dad gave me this rod
and reel when I was 10 years old" etc.). So I enjoy sharing these
highlights of 14 years of gaming:
- the white dot easter egg to find Warren Robinett's name in
Adventure for the 2600
- my wife playing Kaboom from Activision for the 2600 and becoming an
ethusiast like me
- on seeing Rob Fullup's Demon Attack from Imagic realizing that this
video game thing might actually have a future
- buying a Starpath (aka Arcadia) Supercharger and getting a first
taste of VR with the mazes in Escape from the Mindmaster
- finding (for Colecovision) Venture, LadyBug, Space Fury, and Omega
Race in a Sears bargain bin for $12.99
..and the moments of bliss:
Turning on the NES for the first time and letting our 2 year old play
Super Mario Brothers.
Turning on the Genesis for the first time and jaws dropping at Altered
Beast.
Turning on the Playstation for the first time and seeing Toshinden.
Sean Connery
In article <Pine.OSF.3.92a.96051...@saul4.u.washington.edu>,
Mark Magdamit <ri...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>Here's something that many of us have forgotten (but not me!=):
>
>my all time faves, It Came From The Desert!
Yes sir! They are half of the reason I got into the Amiga. Years ago I
was poking along with my 256k monochrome dual-floppy PC clone and my
Coleco ADAM. Well not poking....I had a leg up on most people back then
getting to learn DOS, etc...and I had a 1200 baud modem when most still
had 300. But I was looking for something flashier...CGA didn't do it..EGA
didn't....I had friends with every 8bit under the sun. Then a friend got
an Amiga 1000 cause he knew someone who had had one. Wow. Defender of
the Crown and Marble Madness staright out sold that system to me. I
picked up an A2000 with BridgeBoard a bit later and was on top of things
for a lonnnngg while. Too bad the momentum couldn't maintain. Why I
remember the day when ever new game out (including IBM versions) all had
the Amiga screenshots on the box.....
Anyway...
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: 2. ANYTHING having to do with the NES Bionic Commando (anyone remember the
: strange arcade version?)
Actually, it's more like strange HOME version.. the arcade version came
out first. If only Capcom went ahead and made that three player sequel to
the arcade BC.. <Sigh> Hmmm.. I wonder if that WAS made, and was never
brought over to the states...
Dan Wells
The best vidgame experiences for me were on the TG-16. The old Turbo
still has some of the best games ever made. I just shelled out big bucks
for an YS4, which has one of the greatest soundtracks you will ever have
the joy of playing to.
YS1&2 was ground-breaking for it's day, and it still is a gem.
Drac X was incredible, the best Castlevania ever, and one of my favorites
to this day. I wonder what would have happened to the Turbo if this game
got translated to the US market.
Also, the R-Type series in the arcade is my favorite all-time shooter.
I've only been able to solve it once...I still can't get past Level 7 on
by Turbo to this day.
Latr,
Dan Wells
Rick Florey
g...@robinsoft.com (Gary Dietz) wrote:
>1) Pong at a bowling alley, 1972. Never looked back
>2) Winning the Kellog "Stick up for Breakfast Contest" in 1978, and
>being one of 2001 Winners to win a Sears Telegame Cart system (Atari
>2600). It was the blizzard of '78, and the winners names were lost,
>so I had to wait *4* months to get my prize (that taught me patience).
>For tyhose who are interested, I was 13 and drew Toucan Sam on a
>surfboard saying "Hang Ten to a Good Breakfast" to win.
>3) Using the Intellivision Cable TV game downloader thingy experiment
>in Upstate NY. I guess it was 1980/81 or so. WAY WAY ahead of its
>time. you could download this months selection of Intellivision
>games.
>4) Buying an RCA Studio II on clearance at Montgomery Wards
>5) Taking apart a Fairchild Channel F video game, while it was still
>running and on our TV set, one chip at a time to see when it would go.
>We started a smoking mess (but no fire, and no electrocutions,
>luckily).
Too bad you took it apart. I'd like to get my hands on another
Fairchild.:(
Mitch 97
Drew:
I have very fond memories of Bionic Commando for the NES. I thought it
was much cooler than the arcade one, and it actually produced a
long-running joke. Capcom NES games always had cool music, and there was
one time I was playing BC with a friend and my brother when my friend
said:
"This music sounds like desperation" -- in reference to all the pitfalls
this game character was facing and the ominous music at the time.
When we thought about it I guess the music could have been called that,
but even now when I am playing a game with my friend I'll tell him that
the music is like desperation...and we always laugh. It's funny how video
games can make so many fond memories.
Mitch 97
Dan:
Boy...these game memories bring back a lot of mine. I was the only person
I knew who had the Turbo/CD Player, and when Y's came out I nearly wet my
pants. The entire game was incredible, and would still stand up to a lot
of games today. However, the most incredible music I believe was the
intro, when the lightning was flashing and the drums were going full
force. It was then I believe I saw the future of CD-based games. Now I
am no longer interested in playing long RPG's (too much other work to do),
but that was one RPG I was proud to beat...and had a blast doing so.
Umair Yousufi
I can hold out no longer. Here's my list o' cool memories (in rough
chronological order), abbreviated somewhat in the interests of time...
-Wolfenstein (C64) -- Nope, not the 3d one, the black and white,
overhead, stick figure one. I must have played that game forever to get
to get to the final guy: Hitler, of course. There he was marching around
a table of his comrades, 'heil'ing the whole time. I planted my bomb
and...don't remember if I finished the game. This game generated what is
quite possibly the best atmosphere I've experienced. I was scared the
whole damn time.
-Contra (NES) -- Four friends, two controllers, and a lot of bad guys.
Fun for the whole family.
-CastleVania 4(?) (SNES) -- Don't remember the exact version number, but
it's the one with the chandaliers. Anyway, a friend of mine bought the
game cheap from KayBee and had it laying there, pretty much unused. I was
bored and started playing it intermittently for about a week. When the
weekend rolled around, I grabbed the controller and started playing from
the beginning. I started around 8pm and beat the game around 2:30 am. I
celebrated in my friends room with only the dim phosphor glow of the tv
and the excellent soundtrack to keep me company.
-Doom (PC) -- Had to be on the list somewhere. Boring alone, but great
networked with four friends. The first time I played a network game, I
played for ~5 hours straight. The next day I swore I had carpal-tunnel
syndrome.
-SF2 (Arcade) -- 2 or 3 of my friends would head down to the local arcade
and play on the large screen. The game was always busy, with quarters
lined up 2 or 3 deep, at a minimum. For quick competitive gaming, SF2
unmatched.
-Herzog Zwei (Genesis) -- Got a weekend to waste? If so, grab a friend
and play Herzog Zwei. My friend and I are so good, we usually declare the
game a stalemate 5 hours in. The constant struggle over bases, the
tracking and gunning down of enemy units yourself, the kamikaze home-base
attacks at the beginning, and the enjoyment of watching your anti-aircraft
missles reduce your friends 'mech' to it's component shrapnel are all
joys yet to replicated elsewhere.
Honarable Mention:
-DS2 (Arcade)
-Playing the Genesis (with Altered Beast, of course) for the first time.
-MarioKart (Snes)
-Ghouls and Ghosts (Genesis)
-Many, many C64, Genesis, and Snes games I can't think of.
There are so many more excellent games and memories, and I'm sure I'll
think of some later....
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Michael Arguello
Sorry to be nosy but what are you fondest video game memories Vic? Your
games gave me some good memories. Expecially Lunar. :)
Jay Swartzfeger
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you...@ucsub.Colorado.EDU (Umair Yousufi) wrote:
Zelda, Rygar-- first games I ever bought with my *own* money (the Atari
2600 didn't count since my mum funded my video addiction back then).
Herzog Zwei, Populous, PSII (Genesis)-- The 'god' concepts games inflated
my already overblown ego ;)
Toshinden (PSX)-- I know, eye candy... but this game got a 26 year old guy
back into an old habit he thought he'd never get into again.
Current Faves-- Resident Evil, Magic Carpet, Panzer General, X-Com.
And when the Saturn hit's $199, I'm there! (just have to convince the wife,
that's all.)
Jay
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My fondest memories go back to the mid 80's.
Epyx released some killer games for the old Commodore 64.
Summer Games - Platform diving and Pole Vault!
Winter Games - Luge and Ski Jump were the best!
Summer Games II - Triple Jump and Cycling!
World Games - Barrel Jumping and Rodeo, Plus Weight lifting!
California Games - Hang Ten! The surfing was great! Loved BMX!
Anyone who had a Commodore spent hours, days, and weeks on these games.
I wonder if the Olympic game for PSX will match the fun these games created?
Brian
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Matt White
#1 fondest memory-- Legend Of Zelda on NES. GREAT game. Getting Mario 3 on
NES was also exciting, as was FINALLY getting that new SNES after it came
out. I was so excited when I was driving home with it!
Also comes to mind: NES Metroid, SNES Mario Kart. Getting these things
where great! One time on Christmas morning I opened up Pilotwings. What a
rush!
Some of my fondest memories are video game involved, come to think of it.
That exciment's gonna start all over again once I'm driving home with my
new N64-- I'll probably wet my pants out of anticipation. The N64's
arrival will undoubtedly become my best memory.
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Ian Kelley (ike...@mail.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
: Hmm...my favorite memories?
: Playing Drol for the Apple IIe for the first time. [snip]
That really was a cool game. Of course, my experience with Broderbund's
Drol was on the C=64. I couldn't get past Level 3 or 4, because I failed
to anticipate enemy moves and could not compensate for your character's
inertia...
: Playing Skyfox on the computer labs in grade school. Has anybody else
: played this game? One of the earliest flying combat games I can remember,
: but it was really good!
Ummm. I remember not being able to fly loops or barrel rolls. :)
: Playing Wasteland for hours and hours after school in 9th grade. Me and a
: friend used to play simultaneously over the phone on our separate
: computers. I remember making 50 copies of Disk 3 so I could cheat and kill
: all the cyborgs in the sewer again and again and again. I usually had one
: guy beat them all to death with a proton axe and eventually got him up to
: General. :) This is a great example that good RPGs don't have to be the
: standard fantasy setting to be good!
I remember getting my hands on a public-domain cheat editor for C=64
Wasteland characters. I maxxed out everybody's stats, and when my team
got into the Citadel, I was rolling on the floor laughing each time I'd
hit an enemy robot or cyborg with my bare fists. "Daredevil beats Enemy
Cyborg to a pulp for 999 points of damage!" :D :D :D
=== Flogger, the Videogame Nut! ===
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Janos Horvath
Master NetHacker (se...@cie-2.uoregon.edu) wrote:
: 4) Getting 300k points on 'Spy Hunter' (not the sucky sequel! :P
: Bleh,bleh, bleh!!!) on a sitdown model, and listening to the
: Peter Gunn theme blaring behind your head. :)
You know, somebody really oughtta make a Spy Hunter sequel (home or
arcade), with a MAJOR music remix. I caught the fully orchestrated
version of that Peter Gunn theme on the radio a few weeks ago, and boy,
does that ever raise the hairs on my arms!! Blaring brass, rocking drums
- _that's_ the way to do it.
Robert A. Jung
Speaking of nostalgic memories and old-but-lots-of-fun-games, does anyone
else remember CRUSH, CRUMBLE, AND CHOMP! by Epyx? I *LOVED* that game,
even if you ultimately got destroyed in the end. The ability to build your
own monster was the coolest touch, and I remember a few multiple-hour sessions
where I managed to level almost everything in the game. And the instruction
manual was an absolute laugh riot -- I think I still have a copy around here
somewhere...
THAT was a cool game. It's a d*mn shame nobody has ever tried to do an
enhanced update for the '90s...
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Janos Horvath (hor...@acs6.acs.ucalgary.ca) wrote:
[re: California Games]
: But of course, I felt the cover art was misleading because there was no
: navle-gazing anywhere within the game itself! ;)
^^^^^
Good grief. Typos on a Sunday afternoon tend to be the worst kind. Sorry!
Janos Horvath
audi...@multiverse.com wrote:
: My fondest memories go back to the mid 80's.
: Epyx released some killer games for the old Commodore 64.
: Summer Games - Platform diving and Pole Vault!
Let's not forget 100m Dash, 400m Relay, two swimming events and skeet
shooting!
: Winter Games - Luge and Ski Jump were the best!
: Summer Games II - Triple Jump and Cycling!
Plus the infuriating kayak races!
: World Games - Barrel Jumping and Rodeo, Plus Weight lifting!
: California Games - Hang Ten! The surfing was great! Loved BMX!
But of course, I felt the cover art was misleading because there was no
navle-gazing anywhere within the game itself! ;)
And of course, there were "The Games: Summer Edition" as well as "The
Games: Winter Edition". Both very nice collections, with still
challenging gameplay and spiffier graphics. Unfortunately they used the
infamous V-MAX copy protection, which made it hard to back them up. (Yes,
I own mint originals)
: Anyone who had a Commodore spent hours, days, and weeks on these games.
: I wonder if the Olympic game for PSX will match the fun these games
created?
Heh heh. Good point...
Woodchuck Takeuchi
This is not a bit original, but my fondest video game memory is
playing Pacman for the first time. The "feel" of the game
was terrific, and the "feel" of the restaurant that I played
it in was also great. I think it was some cheap family diner
in Michigan. We had stopped by for dinner on our trip from Chicago,
and ended up catching Pac-Man Fever. (yeeeeeaahhh!)
Actually, I have another fond video game memory: This was actualy
the first video game I ever played in my life. I musta been
in kindergarten or first grade when I played Choplifter and some
sword fighting game on the Apple IIe. It was one of those green
monitors with a black background. The graphics were crude but
I was totally absorbed by the game. The Apple IIe was in my
neighbor's house. I remember repeatedly entering the family room
from the back door and going to the back room where the Apple was.
I must have gone MANY MANY times because of how vividly I still
remember the smell and the furnishings of the rooms. I was truely
behaving like one of those lab rats that are on a pellet reward
schedule. I kept on coming back for more! <------(this is
what is at the center of this multi-billion dollar industry. Video
games are just too addictive for us to keep our wallets closed. They
in effect turn us into lab rats. Happy lab rats, that is).
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speed
Dan Wells (lapl...@starnetinc.com) wrote:
: The best vidgame experiences for me were on the TG-16. The old Turbo
Ant Chapman
In article <4mr1mq$7...@news-central.tiac.net>, "<Unknown>"
<inf...@tiac.net> spews forth :
>
>Finally getting a disk drive for my C=64 (No more waiting 1/2 hour to
>play Forbidden Forest)
Remember the music on Forbidden Forest - :) Also - Aztec Challenge,
that had way funky music also!
Ant Chapman
aka AntMan on #RGVC
===========================================================
2600, 7800, COLECO, VECTREX, G7000, TI99/4A, GAMEBOY, SMS,
MEGADRIVE, TVBOY, C64, SPECTRUM - It's all good, my man!
===========================================================
Ant Chapman
In article <4n07me$d...@smalltown.uoregon.edu>, Master NetHacker
<se...@cie-2.uoregon.edu> spews forth :
>
>3) The music from 'Mappy.' Loved that twangy synth banjo. ;)
>
Oh man, I used to go to the loacal swimming pool in my lunch break from
school just to play this, 1942, Ten Yard Fight and (one of my all time
favourites) Karate Champ. Incidentally, beating the loacal K.Champ
master is one of my fondest gaming memories
>4) Getting 300k points on 'Spy Hunter' (not the sucky sequel! :P
>Bleh,bleh, bleh!!!) on a sitdown model, and listening to the
>Peter Gunn theme blaring behind your head. :)
>
The music on Spy Hunter was SOOOO effective. Super-Bass!
Ant Chapman
My fondest memory? Simple....
The first time I played SINISTAR!
My next fondest memory?
About 6 months ago, when i got Williams Arcade Classics on the PC, and
played SINISTAR for the first time in at least 10 years - Tears in my
eyes, I kid you not.
August Yang
so much we named the two aligators need to get to the next level "Artie".
I also remember in a fit a perversion burying Drol's head in the mother's
chest. Pretty twisted for a third grader. Br) Unfortunately, my copy was
corrupted and we couldn't get past the sixth level. BrP
I also remember being so proud of the fact that I got 11368 points on Pac-man
on my 2600. So much so I made a little poster proclaiming my high
score. My arms were sore for a few days after that, but I've never been
happier.
I also remember Lunar for my Sega CD. I had gotten it out of interest at
all the great reviews the internet was giving it. I played the game for
two days straight trying to finish it. And I mean I had to remind myself
I needed to eat and forgot about sleep. Each time I tried to put it
down, I had to pick it up again to see what happened next.
August Paul Yang's next fond memory will be finally beating Castlevania
(don't laugh)
--
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Public Relations and Official Test Audience for the FDC | Still ahead,
"Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? | Pity me. -Queen
Don't know the answer? Hm. Successful. Isn't it?" -Max Headroom
Woodchuck Takeuchi
In article <yAI$gqATfg...@achap.demon.co.uk>,
Ant Chapman <a...@achap.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>My fondest memory? Simple....
>
>The first time I played SINISTAR!
>
>My next fondest memory?
>
>About 6 months ago, when i got Williams Arcade Classics on the PC, and
>played SINISTAR for the first time in at least 10 years - Tears in my
>eyes, I kid you not.
Yeah, those were truely the good old days, when a mere video game
could get us excited. (don't get me wrong. I totally know what you
mean. It's just that I yearn for those days again, when something
so simple and innocent could get me excited).
>
>Ant Chapman
>
>aka AntMan on #RGVC
>
>===========================================================
>2600, 7800, COLECO, VECTREX, G7000, TI99/4A, GAMEBOY, SMS,
>MEGADRIVE, TVBOY, C64, SPECTRUM - It's all good, my man!
>===========================================================
JamesVanLaningham
Janos Horvath wrote:
>
> Master NetHacker (se...@cie-2.uoregon.edu) wrote:
>
> : 4) Getting 300k points on 'Spy Hunter' (not the sucky sequel! :P
> : Bleh,bleh, bleh!!!) on a sitdown model, and listening to the
> : Peter Gunn theme blaring behind your head. :)
>
> arcade), with a MAJOR music remix. I caught the fully orchestrated
> version of that Peter Gunn theme on the radio a few weeks ago, and boy,
> does that ever raise the hairs on my arms!! Blaring brass, rocking drums
> - _that's_ the way to do it.
>
dragster w/ the shotgun nailed me just as I was turning into a boat. The
resulting glitch sent my boat flying over the screen w/ no control. The
timer racked up all my points until I finally jerked the plug out of the
socket & crashed the machine. Still, I really miss that game. I used to
stand on my right leg all day so I'd be able to play the stand-up machine
at the student union. And remember Elevator Action, Moon Buggy (STILL a
working version of that here in Pittsburgh) and Tutenkahmen? Those were
the days, at least till Doom II and Civilization got here...
Basilisk
"...and from him I received the idea of a state in which there is the
same law for all, a state administered with regard to equal rights and
equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which
respects most of all the freedom of the governed." Marcus Aurelius,
"Meditations", 2nd Century A.D.
Andrew Seyoon Park
William Dilgard (wdil...@sunlab.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone out there ever played a pair of games called `Below the Root',
: and 'Alice in Wonderland' for the Apple IIsomethingor another... I think the
: company that made them was Windham Classics or something like that...
: Any how, these were just amazing games, (I can no longer play now because
: of the limited lifetime of 5.25 inch diskettes <sniff>...) I am just curious if
: I am alone in having experianced these games...
: -Bill D.
--
Yep, I played these games too on my Apple II (though
I believe they were available for C64 and IBM as well).
Boy were those games fun. Absolutely perfect for
wasting a rainy Sunday afternoon--fun to play,
great items/abilities, wonderful music (the Below
the Root music really let you know when you
did something right!). One thing about
Alice in Wonderland was yankin' out the parasol too
late in the "deep pit" and missing the Dormouse'
tea party (i.e. Song #2)! Maximum Suckage. Anyway, the
games had a good deal of depth, and involved commands
like "tease," "coax," "cajole" (as well as "grunspreke,"
"kiniport," "pense") that just weren't normally seen in
games at the time (i.e. "shoot," "run, "shoot," "shoot
some more," etc.). Make the Mad Hatter angry and he'd
disappear..."I'll be back at Two O'clock." So you'd
have to wait around until two! And then there was the
Looking Glass, which could only be entered at 12:00...
The Windham classics weren't just limited to the two
"jumping-running-and-interacting-with-others" games,
though. For example, I believe the company put out "text
adventure" (similar to a watered-down Zork) versions
of Treasure Island and The Hobbit (the latter I played,
and was fairly disappointed...make one wrong move and
you lose Thorin and Gandalf forever and you're dead--
suckage). Funny, I'd think that sort of game (at least
BTR and AIW) would sell *great* as kids' software *NOW*...
fun to play, full of depth, very goal-oriented...
(One of the few good things about going to a private
middle school is celebrity appearances...I remember
--I think it was shortly after I finished "Until the Celebration"
that Zilpha Keatley Snider herself(!) showed up at a
school assembly to talk about her books/games!).
*the Spirit Bell rings*
Andrew Seyoon Park
u9r5$k...@bambam.magiccarpet.com:>
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Some really, really long memories (so don't say I didn't
warn ya =)
Aside from the aforementioned Apple II Windham Classics...
-Sega Genesis Golden Axe I (II was pure suckage). Had
enough of the walk-through part? Play the arena.
Had enough of the arena? Play the walk-through...;)
-Sega Genesis Gain Ground: I've been having a continuing
conversation with Galen [Komatsu] on this one (he actually
still has this game, the lucky bastard). Even though your
characters and your enemies were *tiny*, the game featured
extremely good art and animation and a terrific variety
of characters. Ey, gimme that Viking! =)
-NES Dragon Warrior:
Me: "Boy, I really had to *work* to beat the Dragonlord..."
Dragonlord: "You are indeed powerful. Join me."
Me: "Ok..."
Dragonlord: "You fool!!! Now you die!!! HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!"
Me: "DOH!"
(never got to see II, though III looked sort of neat;
actually a decent amount of depth in that game too:
I believe there was one abandoned town where you would
actually leave your "Merchant" character behind to
help rebuild the town; he of course, lost all his
levels and became an NPC...my only complaint in the game was the
silly-looking enemies: "You see....A BAG OF TRICKS!!!!!")
-Final Fantasy I for NES. It and Dragon Warrior I represent
the true beginnings of a fantasy-based context for
video games in Japan. Everybody remember how surprised
they were when they actually *unequipped* their
Black-Belt's weapons and fought barehanded?
-Somebody mentioned DigDug earlier. Somebody was damn RIGHT. =)
-TG-16 Super CD: With the exception of the Neo, the
best home system of all time. Yes, "Bonk," was fun,
but what about "Fighting Street" (SF1) on CD? I used
to love to sit there and just try to figure out what
the hell that garbled English was. ("Yeeve git
lot tuh luhn, befer ye beete me try ghen kee YEH HEH
HEH HEH!") Also:
-Valis III: the fully animated intermissions were
incredible. Gameplay the same (THREE characters with
THREE kind of magic each!). And damned if that
music didn't kick ass! Maximum rockage! =)
-Macross 2036. Do I need to explain? BGM's cut
from the actual movie soundtrack, fully animated
and well-drawn intermission (especially the
"nap" one ;), and good gameplay, even though
some of the weapons were rather strange ("Z-Laser"??
"What's that?? KABOOM! Oh, COOL!" =). And the
best part...go from "Jet" to "Guardian" to
"Full humanoid transform"!! YES!
-Going to J-town and paying $1 to play the SNES versions
of the two crappy Ranma games (which my other friends
just loved) and pretending to enjoy myself.
Gawd, did those games blow. Suckage. >=P:.
-Paying God knows how much to finally solve King of
Dragons with the same friends. Boy, that ending sure wasn't
worth that much money. =P
-Apple II: Choplifter, Moebius/Windwalker, The Eternal
Dagger (sequel to Wizard's Crown...yes, indeedy!!!!),
Apple Panic (the whistle! the whistle! everyone is
now deaf and all dogs are now rabid! =), Spy Hunter
(of course), Buck Rogers!!!, Joust (ROCKAGE!), Conan
(who could forget Conan??), + much more...
C64: Archon I (II was OK, but nothing compared to I).
SCREW graphics. SCREW animation. SCREW music. SCREW special
effects. GIMME ARCHON! =), also Sword of Kadash (you
have Scroll, Sword +4, Symbol of Life--you just picked up
Cursed Scroll and can't shoot worth shit now! Doh!).
Then there was Karate Champ, YIE-AR KUNG FU (which kicked
ass in the arcades...guess it sorta explains the "weightless
jumps" in the Virtua games...kidding;), Star Control,
and 1,000,000 others. C64/128 was *the* game machine. =)
-Arcade Gauntlet ("Elf is about to die." "Hey..who's
Elf?? What the...! I'm Elf!!") which kicked serious ass.
X-Men on two-screen with 5 other friends (YES!) and
getting stuck with Dazzler (NO!). Midway's "Kickman,"
which featured a giant, stupid-looking clown who
would kick balloons onto his head until they popped
(also probably THE first video game cameo/crossover,
as Pac-Man would sometimes apeear and, as a bonus,
"eat" all of the balloons for you). Mr. Do! (Rockage),
Donkey Kong...+ more...
-Intellivision: Space Armada (get the UFO! get the UFO!
**SMASH!!!!** I got it!), Poker & Blackjack (curse you,
you smug dealer!!!), Popeye (hehehehe), Checkers
(win music: "Flight of the Valkyries" lose music:
"Ppphhhbbbtt!!"), Space Hawk (YES!), Space battle
("Where is that last guy? Where is he? Where is he...
where--WHAT? I DIED???")....
-First playing Samurai Shodown I by SNK (which
got me started on fighters). First game, IMHO, to
successfully rip off so many "conventionalities"
from animes. =) First and only game where Hanzo was
a respectable ninja. =(
-First playing FFS. My first brush with the Bogard Brothers(!).
No, really! Found out about Geese Howard and Duck King
and realized life was worth living. =) (BTW in my freshman year
at Cal, my dorm got a MVS with SS1, AoF2 [just came out],
FFS and WH@ [3 of 4 ain't bad =]. Wasn't I the lucky bastard? =)
And believe it or not...there is/was plenty more!
This thread has made me feel all warm and tingly.
Time for me to go the the arcade! =)
-Andrew
David Lanier
In <DrB9G...@midway.uchicago.edu> tt...@ellis.uchicago.edu (Woodchuck
Takeuchi) writes:
<memory snip>
We had stopped by for dinner on our trip from Chicago,
>and ended up catching Pac-Man Fever. (yeeeeeaahhh!)
>
>Kenji Takeuchi
Pac-Man Fever......you had to remind me of that @#$%!&*^%$ song(it was
cute....for about two seconds)The game was OK, but I was much better at
Ms. Pac. :)
Dave
MAL
This is a great subject for nostalgia. I'm getting tired of moot
advocacy (VF vs. TK, PC vs. MAC, etc, etc). On to my post ...
Although the Atari 2600 was one of my first systems, I LOVED my C=64.
I really enjoyed programming in Basic and getting the "COMPUTE'S GAZETTE"
magazine. I spent alot of time entering in the data for the programs in
that mag. Those were the days ...
One of my favorite games of all time had to be "Way(?) of the Exploding
Fist". A 2-D fighter (ala SF) with no fireballs, super moves, or magic.
Just punching and kicking. This game was the first time I had seen
Martial Arts and the Orient in general. Yes, Kung Fu with David
Carradine was JUST before my time so this was all new to me.
I loved this game for many reasons:
- It had great background graphics with beautiful mountains,
Oriental houses and a strange gate that I couldn't figure out what it was
for, and a little bald guy (referee, sensei(?)). I had never seen some
of these things before and I liked it.
- The music was Oriental so I never heard it before, but I liked it
alot. It fit the mood of the game really well.
- Last but not least. The fighters. I didn't know those uniforms
were traditional karate apparel, I thought they were pajamas! :)
More new things to me were the yin-yang symbol, and the "Dan" grading.
Of course, what really sticks in my mind were the moves. Identical for
each fighter but cool none the less. My favorite moves were all the
kicking moves (jump kick, spinning kick, lo-hi kick, etc). Naturally I
took TaeKwonDo classes when I got a bit older (but that's another story).
I tried out some other games like this but didn't like them very much. I
didn't like Karate Champ because of its poor graphics (but it introduced
me to the dojo with students kneeling on the mat). Epyx released a game
with identical fighters to WotEX but the moves were a bit different and I
didn't care for the backgrounds since they did not contribute to the feel
of the game (but I liked the reverse punch better here as well as the board
breaking). Yie Ar Kung Fu. Can't say anything about this since I couldn't
get it to boot up (I tried and tried and tried).
It wasn't until SF2 came out that my taste for fighting games was
rekindled, but I grew tired of the "magic" stuff and the unrealistic
moves. When MK came out I was excited by the realistic moves (by real
people!) like the punches, roundhouse kicks, spinning and sweep kicks.
The gore was a neat novelty as well. But this game grew tiresome with
little strategy and gameplay. I found myself going back to SF2. Since
WotEX I was looking for a game that had realistic moves, no magic, and
great graphics. With the release of VF and VF2 I got my wish.
Whew, sorry for the long post. I was pondering this for a little while
and I wanted to let it out.
Dewa nochihodo,
MAL
Eric Pobirs
Joe Berner wrote:
>
> Mark Magdamit (ri...@u.washington.edu) wrote:
> : Here's something that many of us have forgotten (but not me!=):
>
> : *How about all those GREAT games by Cinemaware? They were the ones who
> : made Defender of the Crown, Rocket Ranger, The Three Stooges, and one of
> : my all time faves, It Came From The Desert!
>
> : And I'm talking about the Commodore Amiga versions, too!
>
> Oh, who can forget the C-64 version of The Three Stooges that came on 3
> disks and took forever to LOAD! It took at least five minutes before you
> could even get to the game, then you had to pick a sequence which took
> more load time, you played the short sequence and then it had to reload
> the option screen again, all the while swapping disks and cursing.
>
> I just played this a few months ago but it was more fun than when I was a
> kid because I had beer in the frig.
>
> Think I'll boot this up tonight, write the time it takes to load, and
> report back.
>
> And people today complain because they have a to wait a few seconds for
> their PSX to load. Doesn't bother me a bit. ;-)
>
As the primary playtester of that game I have very distinct memory
of how it ran. If your Stooges game was spread out on both sides of three
floppies and took more than 20 seconds to load, then you have a pirated copy
and deserve whatever you get.
The custom format that made our games load extremely fast (without
any hardware mods or carts) also made them very compact and difficult to
pirate. Honest folks got the best load times found on the C64. Others got
to bide their time and consider the phrase "You get what you pay for."
--
Eric Pobirs
nbr...@ix.netcom.com or @earthlink.net
I don't need any more 3.5 inch floppies.
When will AOL start sending ZIP discs?