Farewell into the night
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I have played some role playing games on Commodore 64, is that making me a seriously oldfaq?
I'll burn him now for that. Sacrilege!A few decades ago you would have been burned for this.
Isn't that Stellar 7?
Isn't that Stellar 7?
It's Battlezone, newfag. An establishment near me had the version with the periscope and military style joysticks. It was fun.
I have played some role playing games on Commodore 64, is that making me a seriously oldfaq?
Almost or did purchase an Intellivision when they saw the commercials for Dungeons and Dragons
At the time, since Intellivision had "Dungeons and Dragons" right on the cart, I had assumed it would be some rpg. Little did I know. I stand behind your Colecovision comments, but Colecovision folks were rich graphics whores - I was an Atari peasant.Almost or did purchase an Intellivision when they saw the commercials for Dungeons and Dragons
Nobody who ever saw a Colecovision in the flesh could possibly look at an intellivision again, no matter how sexy the D&D commercials. An older boy challenged me to a game of Zaxxon on the Coleco in a computer store and I was totally blown away. However, even then I was far too monocled to ever consider a console. Anyway, by those definitions I seem to slot into the no-mans-land between old and seriously old. There's a lot of time between the 2600 and a PC that could actually play games, and that time was full of mature C64 games and Amigas.
Hey, Dr Doo was a good Atari game :DAt the time, since Intellivision had "Dungeons and Dragons" right on the cart, I had assumed it would be some rpg. Little did I know. I stand behind your Colecovision comments, but Colecovision folks were rich graphics whores - I was an Atari peasant.Almost or did purchase an Intellivision when they saw the commercials for Dungeons and Dragons
Nobody who ever saw a Colecovision in the flesh could possibly look at an intellivision again, no matter how sexy the D&D commercials. An older boy challenged me to a game of Zaxxon on the Coleco in a computer store and I was totally blown away. However, even then I was far too monocled to ever consider a console. Anyway, by those definitions I seem to slot into the no-mans-land between old and seriously old. There's a lot of time between the 2600 and a PC that could actually play games, and that time was full of mature C64 games and Amigas.
Hey, I'm as big a fan as anyone but... here goes...Hey, Dr Doo was a good Atari game :D
Hey, I'm as big a fan as anyone but... here goes...Hey, Dr Doo was a good Atari game :D
Not even the best Colecovision could do, but the sound is fantastic.
Technically, this is probably a 10 out of 10 on the Atari graphics scale, and it still looks and sounds like shit. You can't go home again, my friend!
Mr. Do really was a lost gem.The version I played looked the Colecovision one (in that it was green, but I recall the graphics looked a lot better than that...), but it was definitely an Atari console. Spent far too much time holding up rocks to fall on the bad guys when I was younger :D
I had an Intellivision and AD&D 'dungeon run' on it. Colecovision came to the stores at the same time as C64, so that is probably why I never really considered getting one.At the time, since Intellivision had "Dungeons and Dragons" right on the cart, I had assumed it would be some rpg. Little did I know. I stand behind your Colecovision comments, but Colecovision folks were rich graphics whores - I was an Atari peasant.Almost or did purchase an Intellivision when they saw the commercials for Dungeons and Dragons
Nobody who ever saw a Colecovision in the flesh could possibly look at an intellivision again, no matter how sexy the D&D commercials. An older boy challenged me to a game of Zaxxon on the Coleco in a computer store and I was totally blown away. However, even then I was far too monocled to ever consider a console. Anyway, by those definitions I seem to slot into the no-mans-land between old and seriously old. There's a lot of time between the 2600 and a PC that could actually play games, and that time was full of mature C64 games and Amigas.
I always thought that Newfag is kind of a state of mind.
There's the oldfags (like me, I have recently ascended to this prestigious rank), and there's the Really Oldfags, or should I say, Elderfags.
All oldfags are vastly greater power-levels; in short, you are not dealing with the average codexer anymore.
But the Elderfags. They scare me.
Mighty is their knowledge and power. They know everything. Especially what you don't know, and what you don't even know you don't know.
Fear them.
The Codexer known as Tom Baker's Arse claims to have played The Dungeon (a.k.a. PEDIT5) on the PLATO network at the University of Illinois.Were there any codexers who could have actually played the PLATO RPGs back in the day?
Thats right mate. Back in my down-to-my-ass hippie student days at U of I-UC (Urbana-Champaign). I was a novelty with the women on campus back in those days - an Irish grad student with long flowing red hair. Ah the memories of youth.