Old video games

[TantricTrev]

Elite

For me it was Elite in 1985

 

[silver gurl]

Pitfall!

I forgot about that.

Also: Frogger.

Oh yes! I forgot about those.

 

[Emerson40]

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The corn is spot on point.

Awesome stuff!

 

[Tiph96]

Anyone play Sonic the hedgehog?

My cousins had Game Gears with this and Mortal Kombat that we'd play all the time on road trips.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I remember in the 70s when my cousin got a Coleco Telstar for Christmas. We ended up playing Pong for 13 hours straight that first day.

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Eventually, I got my first console (the Intellivision.) My games of choice...B-17 Bomber and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons.

Then I moved on to the Super Nintendo (managed to get it 3 days before it was sold in stores). I was a superstar on my block for those 3 days. Super Mario World, F-Zero, Pilotwings, and Contra 3: The Alien Wars, Street Fighter II, & Star Fox were faves.

 

[nowisthetime]

The corn is spot on point.

Awesome stuff!

Not those type and action ones!

I like the simple point and click interfaces!

King's Quest VI was my game!

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[PaxNurgle]

My favorite old arcade classics were that vector graphics Star Wars game, where you zoom around, shoot the towers and then fly into the trench and blow up the Death Star. That game was classic- and all vector graphics, too. And I dug Xevious, Wizard of Wor, and Centipede too.

As far as home entertainment- I had an Atari 2600 and spent hours playing Maze Craze, Pitfall, Adventure, the Wizard of Wor adaptation, and Yars Revenge- those were probably my top five. Some of the old early PC games, dungeon crawlers like Wizardry and Bards Tale, and Load Runner, occupied a ton of my time on the computer back then, too.

 

[BrokenBarbie]

You might get a kick out of Armada by Earnest Cline. Lots of old video games referenced and other fun Easter eggs. The premise is that video games are used by the government as a means to train millions to use drones to fight an alien invasion. Cline wrote Ready Player One.

So it’s “Ender’s Game”?

 

[Jada59]

I loved Legend of Zelda, and Toejam and Earl.

 

[Elmo_Lincoln]

I like revisiting these old games. I played lots of them on the Commodore 64, and I still do through the VICE emulator. I'm currently playing Druid, a decent Gauntlet clone that I never ran across back in the 80s.

 

[brightsmile]

I liked spyhunter, hogan's alley, bust a groove and street fighter games

 

[Conager]

I have a hand-held Space Invaders game. I have also got a reproduction Atari 2600 although I haven't gotten around to trying it out yet. Defender was my game. Once I could play that endlessly, I quit.

 

[FitGuyUS]

You might get a kick out of Armada by Earnest Cline. Lots of old video games referenced and other fun Easter eggs. The premise is that video games are used by the government as a means to train millions to use drones to fight an alien invasion. Cline wrote Ready Player One.

His previous book, Ready Player One, was wonderful also. The movie version of that book not so much. Lots of 80s pop culture and video game references in the novel as well. I loved Armada also.

 

[Harrypalm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_Zvg9KlII&ab_channel=RedSevenNine

I was hooked on Defender. I loved the sound effects.

 

[RoryN]

The seven-time world record holder for Tetris died last week at age 38. Not much info on cause yet.

 

[Bashful_Flower218]

I love old video games, especially the 80's arcade games.