Video Games

[steve B]

I've owned and played most of the home systems up till NES. Plus a few hundred different arcade versions.

I was never much of a fan of the platformer games. And a lot of the computer stuff doesn't do much for me. I just don't type well enough for the seemingly mandatory keyboard controls.

Stuff I like

Defender - Both arcade and 5200
Football on the odyessy II
Asteroids
Computer space- The first commercial coin-op, horrible game but the sense of playing the first game...
Pong- Second coin op, and the one that made all the others possible.
Deathrace
Space invaders
Gorf - Combined the best of several games.

Quantum - really creative for its time

Plus a bunch of others.

Sadly most of what's done today is a handful of the same games with diferent pictures. And they do so little with the memory and processors avaialble. Consider that the classics were less than 16K and often less than 4K with nearly no processor speed to speak of.

There's a bunch of interesting but simple games on this site


Steve B

[teetwoohsix]

Right now I only have the first X-Box,,and don't play very often- but when I do play, I mostly play "Black".....

[Doug]

I still have a NES and play Mike Tyson's Punch Out nearly on a daily basis. That game never seems to get old (along with many of the other classics for the system).

[Griffins]

Xbox- Frontlines, Fuels of War. Halo (the latest 3 versions) and Odd World- Munch's Odyssey and Stranger.
Also just got the Kinect, it's unbelievable. Certainly gets you off the couch.

iPhone- Words with Friends (scrabble), Angry Birds, and Sporcle all help kill time while waiting for stuff.

[Jason Carota]

Originally Posted by Doug

I still have a NES and play Mike Tyson's Punch Out nearly on a daily basis.

I don't know why, but this code has stuck with me since I was a kid:

0073735963.


I'm not much of a gamer, but of all the platforms I have used, Baldur's Gate II is an amazing game.

[FUBAR]

I have a ps3, use it very seldom to play Tiger Woods golf. I was an NES champ back in 1988 for Super Mario Bros. Now i suck at video games.of my 6 PS3 games i own, i have never played 3 of them.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Jason Carota

I don't know why, but this code has stuck with me since I was a kid:

0073735963.


I'm not much of a gamer, but of all the platforms I have used, Baldur's Gate II is an amazing game.

That's right up there with the famous "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start" Konami code. That one is so popular it has its own Wikipedia page! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

[ChiefBenderForever]

If I had all the quarters I dropped into Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong,Centipede,ect and what about all the Arcades and how shady they were.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by JohnnyHarmonica

If I had all the quarters I dropped into Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong,Centipede,ect and what about all the Arcades and how shady they were.

Arcades did look pretty shady back when I was a kid, but I guess as long as they had games you didn't notice. The way some of those places looked I'd probably be afraid to go into them now!

[sox1903wschamp]

Originally Posted by JohnnyHarmonica

If I had all the quarters I dropped into Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong,Centipede,ect and what about all the Arcades and how shady they were.

I have not played a video game since the mid 80's but while in school in the early 80's I could play for hours on 1 quarter of Asteroids. I would have about 60 ships lined up in reserve. Probably put in a few hundred hours on it. I guess there are worse additions