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Anybody over 30 should immediately purchase the Humble Indie Bundle 3 if only for VVVVVV classic #retro !gaming very addictive stuff :D
- Marie Axelsson repeated this.
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@nybill I think this is aimed at spectrum and commadore gamers, people who started on 16bit gaming systems will probably not appreciate it
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@nybill my first was the Atari 2600 then the Spectrum, ah the good old days :) rose tinted glasses on hehehe
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@kevie Oh yea, we had a 2600 as well. And before that some type of home Pong game. But the Vic20 was my first 'real' computer.
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@brainspoil A friend had a Coleco Vision. A gaming system. But, he had a basic cartridge and we could program a bit via the controller.
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@thistleweb the first alien movie was the only good alien movie
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@laurelrusswurm and they got there on tech that made the Vic 20 seem like a soopah computah lol
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@laurelrusswurm the 2nd was decent too, albeit it had the whole US Marines theme machismo theme going on
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@thistleweb nope. i loved the first one. The second one changed the rules. ie: point & shoot = dead alien #impossibletosuspenddisbelief
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@thistleweb Alien tech worked nicely in the day
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@brainspoil It wasn't very useful. But, it gave us a taste. I impressed him with the 1 print "hello"; 2 goto 1 (he he)
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@thistleweb NASA put a call out for 8080 chips some time back.I think it was for some shuttle systems! (or so my uncle told me. GE guy).
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@samsnotunix No from what I was told, they needed 8080's and put out a call for them (recyclers or people with old boards in their basements
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@nybill Ultima III: Exodus on the C64/128 started a computing habit that has culminated in a career in aeronautical software engineering. :)
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@kevingranade Oh man!I missed those at the time.I played all the D&D games on the c64 though.With the crazy dual wheel copy protection thing
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@nybill I had a handfull of those, never got into them much except to play the arena, horseriding, and lockpicking minigames in Hillsfar.
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@kevingranade Well, I was a paper D&D'er since before computers. So, I probably put up with some disk swapping grief just to play again.
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@nybill aah, yea I didn't get into P&P until much later, and yes, I have played bad DnD computer games just to get my fix.
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@nybill I'm pretty sure those chips are older than me... #spaceagetechnology
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@kevingranade Here you go pal. (nostalgia) I went to the basement and took a pic of the old D&D box. :D http://ur1.ca/4tdpt
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@nybill aaah yea, the MM, my favorite rulebook (I'm often the DM). Nice D100
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@nybill on the other hand, disk swapping was just how things were done, in fact I prefered multi-disk games, since they had more content :)
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@kevingranade Well, thats just the top of the box. Everything this there right from the B1 basic set. ;)
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@kevingranade That is true! I remember when I would walk in a room in a C64 D&D game & the drive would start spinning I was in for a fight.
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@nybill thats the same rule book that my brother borrowed from me... (still uses) but still hasn't returned it in 15 -20 years
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@kevan Ask for them back, then we'll get together for an old school Basic campaign! ;) (I don't even know the rule since it went past AD&D)
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@nybill Damn, that's a far earlier version of the MM than I had!
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@johnnynull Yea, those are the originals. (ok, I'm old!) You should see whats in that box. But, I didn't take it all out.
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