Reply With QuoteIf I was her parent I'd sell her into slavery.. you brat!For us it isn't really amazing ... but for them it must have been pretty incredible
Yeah, apart from a few EPIC modern games, many, if not most, of the older games can't be beat. And to think, hours upon hours could be spent on one game, without even ever clocking it, and it came on just a 5.25" floppy or on a cassette tape which would take one hour to load. Ah, those were the daysOriginally Posted by Nyusu
If I was her parent I'd sell her into slavery.. you brat!For us it isn't really amazing ... but for them it must have been pretty incredible
Ah, a fellow spectrumate. I remember that proud day when I bought extra two kilos of memory. The games I could play!
I traded some toys for a Spectrum. Got really excited to make it work the fist time. By the second time, the cassette tape loading boredom was killing me.
Did anybody calculated how long it would take to load one of todays video games (assuming sufficient memory) using a cassette player?
I really wanted the ADAM (made by Atari I think) but it was around $700+ so I was given the VIC 20 for Xmas. It had no ability to store data unless you purchased the floppy drive separately, which I never got. So I had to spend an hour or so typing out the code for simplistic Atari 2600-like games, play for a few hours, then lose it all when I shut the machine down. That was computer gaming I'll tell ya! It took dedication. Kids today are too spoiled.
A kid down my street got one back in '83, I was blown away thinking 64K wow. I had a TRS80 with 32K.
Yeah, apart from a few EPIC modern games, many, if not most, of the older games can't be beat. And to think, hours upon hours could be spent on one game, without even ever clocking it, and it came on just a 5.25" floppy or on a cassette tape which would take one hour to load. Ah, those were the days
Come on. Most were crap, just like today. Of all the hundreds I had on my 70+ 5,25" double-side discs I never played. Like today, a couple got all my attention, the rest I got bored of quick or never played at all.
Gunship. Flying the Apache... 8 dots = infantry
Red storm rising. Transit from Russia to the Atlantic could luckily be skipped...
Raid on bungelin bay. How on earth could I really find that interesting!?
Gianna sisters. Nice graphics though.
Platoon. The tunnels were scary.
*** games. yeah......
International karate + I never learned the moves.
and a couple more.
Good times!!
My parents bought an Apple II-E in 1985. I think my sister and I played Summer Games, and I had a game called something like Achilles and the Golden Fleece. Old skool!Hell yeah Winter Games! Those were the days! Today's kids wouldn't even know what they are to make of that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpIty...eature=related
This is what epic looks like.
Here you just just randomly drop the "Spectrum" word around bearded sweater-clad crowd and you'll recieve quite a few approving nods and nostalgic sighs.
And the graphics - they were the miracle because of immense stimulation of imagination they gave.. Maybe even stronger than books did.
Damn! I haven't seen that screen in 25+ years! My buddy had a Ranger (Apple clone) and we used to play Ultima and Castle Wolfenstein for hours on a green screen. Hallpass! Heil!
Don't forget the music kids. Its still influential today in chiptune genres.
Im behind the great firewall of the PRC and can't fiddle with the computer, but id love to post some stuff up.
PRC = Peoples Republic of Canberra?
Future overlords, not current.
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