Another one of my topics got me thinking... Who had an Atari ST? Ohhh I loved my atari. It was 1/2 meg but it was upgraded to 1 meg so I could play garfield! I loved it. So many amazing games!! 'R-Type', 'Rockford', 'Spy vs Spy', 'Rampage', 'Bart vs. The Space Mutants' . Ahh the days of proper Consoles :D Amazing...

only had a Commodore-64 to use myself, still had spy vs spy and rampage and this scrolling fighter jet game from a side on perspective that was most fun :D

had a comodore 64 too :D but I did have an atari, for a little while, had gotten my hands on one again, but it did not work, the power box was burnt up
:( oh well that is life, I was not rich, only reason I had them was my uncle worked on computers all the time, and when he came across them for free, he gave us a couple

I always had a place in my heart for Pitfall and Moon Patrol. Can't even count the number of hours I spent in front of the TV playing those.

Hehehe. I never had a Commadore 64, but I had a sinclair spectrum knocking about!! Hehehe. Ohh I loved moon patrol! Who remembers JOUST!? :D

I had a c64 but it died and all the good games I played on it have since been unplayed.

you can get this game for free somewhere for your computer, but can not remember where I had seen it :/

Yeh I know - theres a website which has a few games on it in .swf format. IIRC, Joust, Rampage, root beer tapper, and spy hunter (which I swear used to be actually called major motion)

When i was little, an Atari fell on my head once, when i was sleeping on the floor. But it wasn't mine. :D

I had another oldie, an Amiga 500.

My first computer was C-64, oh I loved it and still do. all the great games I had, like Turrican (1 and 2(both amazing!) and C.R.E.A.T.U.R.E.S (Clyde Radclyde... something... [img]smile.gif[/img] probably the first "Cartoon violence" game ever.

Then I had a Atari STe. 1 megabyte ram... wow. My fave game for it was Chaos Strike Back, first RPG I ever played, oh the sleepless nights I had playing that game. I also remember Midwinter, Railroad Tycoon (So much better than the PC version), F-29 Interceptor (best flight sim ever?), and so many other great games

A friend of mine has a site called www.consoleclassix.com that has alot of the old games. Personally, I prefer newer games these days but I've owned most of the gaming consoles from the original Pong system on up.

Pong, Space Invaders and Pitfall Harry! ... if I recalled correctly.

Never had an Atari myself, but a friend of mine used to have one. I remember us playing Tarzan (which was incredibly dull, but the only fun game he had). We had a Commodore 64 up to one point, and all we would play was either "Cliff Diver" or "Wonder Boy". I did demolish a couple of joysticks in my premature excitement playing Wonder Boy. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Oh Wonderboy... :D
All the quarters I spent on that infernal game in the arcades here... could probably buy a house for that now... [img]smile.gif[/img]

That explains a lot Johnboy [img]graemlins/troutslap.gif[/img] :D

Sinclair spectrum .....who else remembers trying to write programmes in BASIC :rolleyes:

I still have a working Atari as well as a pile of games jammed into a cupboard somewhere... damn I have to get it out again sometime [img]smile.gif[/img] I am feeling all nostelgic

I had the old Atari, the first NES, and the old Commodore 64. Was addicted to:
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• Atari: Space Invaders and Adventure</font>
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And yes, I programmed all the time in BASIC. Actually whipped up a few text adventure games (my first computer was the TI99 4A... :D ).

I grew up playing a 2600 :D

Me too. I had (used to anyway) games like Superman, Defender, Pac Man, Combat, Space Invaders and Kaboom.

I loved my 2600. I especially remember CircusAtari (the balloons), Pac-Man, and Pitfall (like Maelakin). I also remember my parents' comment that these things were for kids, and that adults could simply not compete. ;)

Anywho, no C64 or Amiga for me, no Coleco either, though I played on a friend's regularly.

Atari of course gave way to the NES, which was truly amazing at the time. I still remember long hours whiling away at Metroid, Zelda, and many other games. *sigh*

I had an Atari games console, that ages me! :D Space invaders, Pitfall, that sort of thing - it was great!

BTW Beaumanoir - do you like The Slackers? I saw em last night at the Underworld and they bloody rocked! Did 2 sets and were really tight, also got to chat to them backstage afterwards which was cool [img]graemlins/cool.gif[/img] Just thought I'd tell you in case you were a fan, or if you've never seen them do go along to a gig if you get the chance!

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I had a Texas Instruments that played the Star Trek Video game. The game had a flaw in that when the ships turned white & tried to ram you, they'd be going so fast that they exceeded their turn radius. I used to be able to completely stop the Enterprise and have the Klingons achieve orbit around me (lol).

I also had the Atari 800 with the Inimitable 'Jumpman!', one of the silliest & sickest games ever made...

My first games machine was a C64. I later got an Amiga 500. Alas.... poor Amiga. I used them Horatio. Computers of infinite genius. The graphics were vastly superior to any other machine of similar price or power.

However, a few years after Amiga went, I started using an Atari... for MUSIC. Good old Cubase on an Ataria began my sequencing and programming life. Years after gamers had thrown them away, musicans were buying up cheap second hand Ataris and making music!! The college I taught at ended up buying any they could get their hands on. A number of early albums I did were only possible through Ataris.

Anyhow, then I went P.C. and ultimately to hard disk recording. I'm now on a Powerbook Mac G4 and couldn't be happier. I just bought OSX PANTHER, and it runs like a dream. All my music is now recorded on this little powerbeast. For music, Macs wipe the floor with any other system. No comparison.

But I have such fond memories of the Atari.... NOT!!! The number of times it went through the window!!! I seriously threw it across the room when it crashed as I went to save a song. Gone. Into the ether.

Needless to say, apple s is an automated action of mine. ;)

I had a TANDY something might have been 4000ish really can't remember
well although it had lemmings, Space invaders, and command HQ
i had this one older game
it was a 2d platform game where you were this man who shot out blue " > " shaped thinggys. and you started off and you jumped around and found this old man and this thought bubble would appear above his head and he would want an apple or something and if you got it for him you could finish the level
anyone know what it was called?
i think it was something like "a....(something) man" but not shure. first game i ever finished.

I went to the computer shop this afternoon and saw this computer game " Atari Games 500 in 1 " was sold. I browse over and saw lots of atari games inside it. didn't bought it though because the games inside seems too outdated for me.

Damn right I had an Atari. My first cartridge game (that came with it) was Combat. Who could forget this?

http://www.atariage.com/2600/screenshots/s_Combat_2.png

:D

Beware ...

The mother of all games:
http://www.classicgaming.com/scorch/

:D [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

It hasn't been mentioned here, perhaps with good reason, but the single most addictive game that I ever played in the early 90s was "Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation".

It can be downloaded as sharewhere here:

http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/...imulation.html

<font color = lightgreen>I had (well, had access to) a TRS-80 Model III; I first learned BASIC on that one. Then came the Atari 2600 and a Commodore 64. For the Atari: Night Driver, Indiana Jones, Berzerk, and others I have most likely forgotten. For the Commodore 64: Bard's Tale series, Temple of Apshai, Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Moebius, Windwalker, Wasteland, Zork I - III, and a sector editor [img]graemlins/beigesmilewinkgrin.gif[/img] whose name escapes me at the moment...Renegade. At least I could do my trigonometry homework in only 10 minutes with the Apple emulator set to graphics mode....

A sign of the times from back in 1983: stores where you could rent the cartridges for Atari and Intellivision.</font>

Too bad those old computers are not on the market anymore, I've love to try them.

<font color=lime>Oh ya! Atari 2600. My favorite game was Defender! [img]graemlins/awesomework.gif[/img] :D :D :D :D Jees, that was like 1982 or so... man. </font>

We had our first programming class in school on those Timex Sinclairs (wow, I really am dating myself).

Kakero, where did you see a 500-in-1? All I've seen is 80-in-1 (only runs about $20 American).

Try Ebay, they always have auctions there for those old computers...

Does anyone who had a C-64 also have a cassetteplayer for it to load in the games...? Oh my, the wait meant you could read a book or do your homework, then play.
Actually my tapeplayer broke down and in the end it was about 90% chance that the game I was waiting to load would crash... and I had to rewind to start again... [img]smile.gif[/img]
What a great wonderful invention the Floppy disk was to me when I got the Atari... [img]smile.gif[/img]

LOL...I had that thing, and man was it a pain! Used to always have problems with it. I was so glad when I updated to that big old 5.4" floppy drive (big old heavy clunky thing, but was so much more reliable).

Try Ebay, they always have auctions there for those old computers...

Does anyone who had a C-64 also have a cassetteplayer for it to load in the games...? Oh my, the wait meant you could read a book or do your homework, then play.
Actually my tapeplayer broke down and in the end it was about 90% chance that the game I was waiting to load would crash... and I had to rewind to start again... [img]smile.gif[/img]
What a great wonderful invention the Floppy disk was to me when I got the Atari... [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>[/QUOTE]The cassettes were SOOOO bad. I remember the joy and wonderment of getting a floppy drive too. [img]smile.gif[/img]