NationStates Jolt Archive


Oldschool

Legless Pirates
25-05-2005, 14:24
http://www.emulators.cz/hc/msx/goonies.gif

http://www.msxgamesbox.com/Sections/topgames/pictures/zanac-2.jpg

http://www.retro-games.co.uk/msx/msx_GunFright.gif
Pure Metal
25-05-2005, 14:29
http://affimg.tfaw.com/coverst/sm/t/tmntraphaelfig.jpg


rad.
Legless Pirates
25-05-2005, 14:31
http://screenmania.retrogames.com/msx/01/msx_0004_12.png

http://www.geocities.com/opcfg3/yiearkungfu.gif
Pure Metal
25-05-2005, 14:47
retro cool (http://www.pokia.com/2004/media/newphones/holbornlodge1.jpg)
Niccolo Medici
25-05-2005, 15:13
That old school actually predates my gaming years. Scary.

Heck, I started right with the NES. I've played older systems, but I got involved in gaming right as the NES came out.
Demented Hamsters
25-05-2005, 15:16
You gotta hunt down and try a ZX Spectrum for pure retro gaming!
Tekania
25-05-2005, 15:21
To throw in my older PC days...

http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/jill.jpg
Jill of The Jungle, early Epic game

http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/camelot.jpg
Conquest of Camelot, SCI1.0 game from Sierra On-Line... Came out about the time Graham Chapman from Monty Python died. In the castle treasury, if you type in "ham and jam and spam a lot" knights go dancing across the bottom of the screen, singing... Ending with "In memory of Graham Chapman".

http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/iceman.jpg
Codename: Iceman. Likely the first Spy-type adventure game ever made. SCI1.0 version Sierra On-Line.

http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/kq1agi.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/kq1sci.jpg
King's Quest 1, Sierra On-Line. AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) and SCI1.0 (Sierra Creative Interpreter) versions.

http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/sq1agi.jpg
Space Quest : The Sarien Encounter.... I have this original (AGI) version, as well as the SCI2 VGA remake. Sierra On-Line... Funny spinoff with lots of illusions to Star Wars, including the Cantina.... The Cantina features bands such as The Blues Brothers and ZZ Top.

http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/lsl1agi.jpg
And what Sierra Collection is complete without the original Liesure Suit Larry : In the Land of the Lounge Lizards...
Moleland
25-05-2005, 15:39
http://www.saverpit.com/cartoons/transformers-movie.jpg
One shall stand. One shall fall
Why throw away your life so recklessly.
That's a question you should ask yourself... megatron!

My favourite Quote of all time that is. Superb!

:D
SSGX
25-05-2005, 15:52
[Image removed... It wasn't from the right version, plus, it went Red X on me]

Bad Street Brawler... I think this shot is from the NES version, but I was looking for one from the Commodore 64 version...

Good times...

[Edit] Here's an in-game shot from the C64 version:

http://www.c64.com/files/pics/small/b/badstreetbrawlG.gif
Pure Metal
25-05-2005, 16:02
http://www.classicacorn.freeuk.com/8bit_oem_comp/bbc_oem/bplusbox.jpg

such power
Eynonistan
25-05-2005, 16:06
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

*sings along*

Hey, hey, 16K!
What does that get you today?
...

:D
Moleland
25-05-2005, 16:08
LOL.

You could download something equal to it's entire memory in a few seconds!
Moleland
25-05-2005, 16:10
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

*sings along*

Hey, hey, 16K!
What does that get you today?
...

:D

I hear no song :S
Legless Pirates
25-05-2005, 16:11
LOL.

You could download something equal to it's entire memory in a few seconds!
The memory on the MSX floppy was bigger than the ROM memory in the MSX :D
Tekania
25-05-2005, 16:12
http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/ti994a.jpg

My first computer.

The Texas Instruments, TI-99/4A

16k RAM.
32K Cartridge System
90K Diskdrive peripheral unit.
Tape-Driver peripheral.
16 Color (32x24)

Released in June of 1979.

It was later that I graduated to my C64, then C128, and finally my first PC.

Tandy/Radio Shack 1000SL... With it's whopping 384k of RAM, 8Mhz i8086 CPU, and single 5-1/4" DD (360K) diskdrive (no HDD).
The Imperial Navy
25-05-2005, 16:13
Tetris. Such a great game, even today. I used to sit on my original Game boy for hours, racking up high scores...
Moleland
25-05-2005, 16:14
Amazingly, that game has stood the test of time... Everybody has played tetris...
Pure Metal
25-05-2005, 16:15
*loves it up to his 3.2ghz 64-bit behemoth next to him... even though one of the HDs suffered some kind of major failure just 2 days ago and caused him serious mental trauma*

computers are better and cooler nowadays, but games are far less imaginative



*waits for flamewar to erupt*
Moleland
25-05-2005, 16:16
Agreed. Games are too easy nowadays...
Markreich
25-05-2005, 16:18
This, my C-64, and a 300 baud modem = many crashed BBS's in 1986...

http://www.mergetel.com/~blitz/C64/Pics/Per/mytape.jpg

X-modem & 50 baud uploads of AC/DC. :D
Sableonia
25-05-2005, 16:24
So very true, Moleland. :D
Anyone remember, Space Envaders (http://www.digitpress.com/dpsightz/atari2600/spaceinvadershack.gif) on the old Atari?
Moleland
25-05-2005, 16:25
This, my C-64, and a 300 baud modem = many crashed BBS's in 1986...

http://www.mergetel.com/~blitz/C64/Pics/Per/mytape.jpg

X-modem & 50 baud uploads of AC/DC. :D

err... Triple post?

The best games console... EVER!!!!!!!111 (http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/images/screenshots/sega-megadrive-modified-console.jpg)
Markreich
25-05-2005, 16:30
err... Triple post?

The best games console... EVER!!!!!!!111 (http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/images/screenshots/sega-megadrive-modified-console.jpg)

Gotta give me a little time to delete... :(
Moleland
25-05-2005, 16:31
Gotta give me a little time to delete... :(

Dosne't some messege come about this sort of thing?
Sabbatis
25-05-2005, 17:02
My first was a Kaypro II which cost around $1500 in 1982. Aliens and Star Trek were bundled with it. I still have it and it still runs! A lovely machine.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:rcA0vWpiME0J:oldcomputers.net/kayproii.html+kaypro+II&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Pure Metal
25-05-2005, 17:09
Dosne't some messege come about this sort of thing?
jolt messed up for a bit. did here anyway
Bodies Without Organs
25-05-2005, 18:00
http://www.geocities.com/tekcomputers/iceman.jpg
Codename: Iceman. Likely the first Spy-type adventure game ever made. SCI1.0 version Sierra On-Line.

http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/images/Adventure_International/mission_secret.jpg

Impossible Mission AKA Mission Impossible AKA Mission Secret by the mighty Scott Adams has got that one beat by a good 13 years...
Bodies Without Organs
25-05-2005, 18:10
http://www.tonh.net/museum/videogenie.jpg

My start into the computing world:

16k RAM
12k ROM (actually quite large for its time)
Monochrome graphics.

Lovely.

Click here (http://www.atariarchives.org/cap/pages/page292.jpg) for an example of some of the graphic capabilities. Getting a demon to dance along to music you programmed in yourself was quite a wow back in them days...
Iztatepopotla
25-05-2005, 18:16
The memory on the MSX floppy was bigger than the ROM memory in the MSX :D
And the Commodore 1541 disk drive was as powerful as the C-64 itself!

GEOS used virtual memory from a 5.25" disk!
Kanabia
25-05-2005, 18:21
http://www.nostalgica.nu/e/elite.gif

:D
Bodies Without Organs
25-05-2005, 18:35
And the Commodore 1541 disk drive was as powerful as the C-64 itself!

The infamous disc drive which was only 66% faster that a cassette recorder?

http://www.nostalgica.nu/e/elite.gif


Right on commander.
Iztatepopotla
25-05-2005, 18:37
The infamous disc drive which was only 66% faster that a cassette recorder?
Yup. That's the one. Although some nifty programming tricks could make it go faster. 3 to 5 times, if I remember correctly. Still wasn't much, though.
ProMonkians
25-05-2005, 18:45
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/lurking.html
Bodies Without Organs
25-05-2005, 18:53
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/lurking.html

GIVE CARTON TO HACKER.

If I remember correctly...
Kanabia
25-05-2005, 19:04
GIVE CARTON TO HACKER.

If I remember correctly...

No, it's

PICK UP CHAIR
BREAK PC WITH CHAIR
THROW CHAIR AT HACKER
KICK HACKER
KISS HACKER
GIVE HACKER ASSIGNMENT
SOUTH
UP
UP
JUMP OFF ROOF