This was our first home computer. I barely had any good games for it though. That looks like Impossible Mission.. Was it on ti too? I know it was on c64. Played that a lot! On my ti994a, my dad and I usually bought some computer magazine (I forget the name now). It had code in it, and you'd type it in. Of course it would take a long fucking time to type in a games code. One time we stayed at my grandma's.. I spent hours typing in code, then we hit record on our tape player (how you saved your shit back then, for the youngins) and went to bed. It would probably take a couple hours plus to save it all. Anyways I get up, and everything is off and nothing save properly. Im like 12 years old and that felt like my life's work, lost haha. My grandma says "oh I saw that on so I turned it off to save power". I lost my mind on her haha well as much as a 12 year old can lose their mind.
There is a japanese (of course) anime called "Golden Boy", it has a distinct 80's vibe. Its like 6 episodes, in the very first the protangonist, one "Golden Boy" a bicycle riding idiot/savant, goes to work for a computer company and does the exact same thing. unplugs the server to "save electricity" and get a raise... its worth watching all 6, the storys come together in the end, though each is a distinct and separate adventure.. I recommend downloading them if you know how...
btw there are higher resolution version on the internet store... best I found so far is 768x640, which for anime is often good enough especially with a little sharpening and saturation in VLC...
Haha! I somehow got my parents to get me a subscription to A+ magazine in the early-mid 80s, they did the same thing for Apple IIs. There was a column in each issue that had code for a game, you just had to frustratingly type it all in, hope you made no mistakes, then save it to a floppy. Learned a bit about Apple Basic doing that but man it sucked taking days to type in this whole thing and god forbid you left out a [ or ; or $ somewhere or numbered a line wrong so you couldn't find it later. It's not like we had the internet, and good luck finding someone in your neighborhood or in elementary school that could tell you about Apple II programming back then. I think in high school I finally learned how you could edit and replace lines of code without having to start completely over again, but by then we had a 386SX machine I was too busy with Ultima VI and Kings Quest VI to care.
@Slavestate Haha, that brings back a lot of memories. That is exactly how I remember it too. Generally for me, if it didn't work, i'd re-read/compare every single line. I think they might have even had a bug in a magazine once or twice. Oh yah, I remember the name of the magazine I used to get now.. it was "COMPUTE!". I think someone else mentioned it here recently too.
haha damn, I know your world was crushed That's like them long ass Gamegenie codes lol. why couldn't they just keep it simpe lol up, up, down, down, left, right, A, B, A
Ya'll know what's crazy, I shit you not, I'm almost positive our TV etc. listens to us because just last night I was watching tv and it come up a program from Discovery or the History channel and it talked about all of this. How SpaceWar! was the first video game ever on the PDP-1 super computer. It talked about the how Atari came about, the Amiga, the commodore64 and even the Magnavox Oddyssey. Then if that's not weird enough I mentioned the movie The Wizard and how Lucas had the power glove, well it talked about all that on there too. I didn't know that the movie The Wizard was the first time America was actually introduced to Super Mario 3 either. The movie was basically the most expensive advertising commercial a company ever had. It's just weird, I haven't seen that movie in decades, and now we talk about it and a day or 2 later its on my TV.. It's happened with songs too, I'll be singing random song I haven't heard in years and I'll turn on the radio and it's on, it's craziness. Has that ever happen to anyone else? It's like you speak it into the universe and it happens. Did anyone have one of these? that's 1972 I'm ready to declare you THE OG of all TRIPLE OG Home Skillets Last edited: Dec 21, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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All I hear in my head when seeing this picture is "Thank you come again" after making a purchase. I´m pretty sure that memory is from this game, or some version of it.
There were definitly a lot ripoffs of it so I'm sure one of them did. Usually its the loanshark "Don't make me come back" lol
I think then you're too young to remember the following. it was intended as chr. gift for a cousin of mine, but his father gave it to me to test it, fortunately enough after few days I got bored with it so it was no pain to give him back. Game purpose is to intercept enemy missiles. But this was mine, and I lost so much time with it (btw was just electromech). The trick was to scale down gear to create space to overtake cars.
Oooh alright becuase I see I can't compete with your journey I just mention a few games I started with In 1994 (I was 11 years old) I played I believe it was a "C16 plus 4" I'm not sure it's like a C64 or a cheaper version of C64...I dunno So the very first game was Prince of Persia After this I went down the rabbit hole I found an arcade machine at my local trainstation which had Altered Beast (it was dirty cheap to play/insert coins) Ofcourse my all time fav game which I paly until today is the Mortal Kombat III/Ultimate thed old 2d version pixelated 256 colors Ok I found Dope Wars it's on github the latest version is v1.6.2 I was surprised it's even available on Google Play Store for Android smartphone users https://dopewars.sourceforge.io/
