SOT - Any retro video gamers here?

[Klaus]

...still have the Colecovision ( remember that one?)l

The Colecovision was great. I allways wanted to have one in those days. They had Donkey Kong, and it looked like the original arcade!

Klaus.

[timdrage]

did any of u C64'ers play Bruce Lee... Now that was my all time favorite platform game.... it was cool how a mate could either be ur crappy sidekick or one of the bad dudes...

I used to play that on the ZX Spectrum!!! We used to mess about with the 2-player mode: you could set the keys for both players to be the same, and then the green fat guy could be controlled remotely while bruce stayed safely out of harms way!

[BK]

The Colecovision was great. I allways wanted to have one in those days. They had Donkey Kong, and it looked like the original arcade!

Yeah... Donkey Kong was cool, but too bad it only had two levels.

Remember Zaxxon, that was amazing then.

Too bad the Colecovision came out at the wrong time, when video game consoles sales were low and it never made it big.

Bill

[DriveIn]

I've just been carbon dated by video game ownership. The last gaming console we ever had was for the original Pong. Burned a rectangle into the center of the screen on the old black and white TV, and that was the only TV in the house at the time. Got a new color TV soon after that happened, and no pong allowed. After that, it was pretty much quarters at the local arcades, things sure have changed over the years. Now the nephews have the most modern boxes with the latest games that they tote along to play at christmas time, etc.. Bought Snowboarding games last year for my nephews that was real fun, but then they left to go home, and the games left with them.

[Klaus]

Remember Zaxxon, that was amazing then.

Yes, Zaxxon was a killer. The graphics were amazing. I played this a lot on a C=64. Some years ago I played it again on an emulator and it was so easy to go through it. I think it was much more difficult when I was young.

Klaus.

[Skylab001]

did any of u C64'ers play Bruce Lee... Now that was my all time favorite platform game.... it was cool how a mate could either be ur crappy sidekick or one of the bad dudes...

YES!!! Great game....spent hours upon hours one summer playing it on my Atari 800 till I finished it. I actually found a place to play it online about a year ago. Now if only I could figure out where.......

[Patrick]

In the early 80s, I had a TRS80 colour computer via Radio Shack with heaps of games. With that particular computer system, you didnt have circles or anything round within the graphics. With one game, you had to travel to a planet, and this planet was square shaped. Then we got some sort of extension added on to our computer sytem that allowed circles in the graphics. Though they were very crude circles anyway (no curve)...more like a stair case type formation.

Many years later when I got a PC, Monkey Island was one of my favourite games. Possibly one of the best designed games I have ever played. It also reminds me of another great game from the TRS80 with similar themes of searching for treasure and interracting with pirates etc. May have been called Sea Quest or some similar title. I noticed that according to a website, Monkey Island was in 7th position in a list of the top 100 computer games of all time.