Computer game nostalgia & Mac OS/IOS

[Dioltach]

If you haven't used a cassette tape player as your data storage device, you haven't really lived, have you?

My first computer used the miniature cassettes, and had a memory cartridge with a whopping 16kb.

We have an old arcade in our living room, fitted with a modern processor and screen, which has 60 classic arcade games. Pacman, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Centipede, all the old favourites. And everyone absolutely loves it, from young kids to people in their 60s.

 

[Mannahnin]

If you haven't used a cassette tape player as your data storage device, you haven't really lived, have you?

My first computer used the miniature cassettes, and had a memory cartridge with a whopping 16kb.

Our family's first was a TRS-80 color computer 1, as I recall. My dad keyed in a little skiing game from the back of a personal computing magazine, where the skier was represented from the top-down view as a capital H. I don't think we ever had Adventure at home; I played that at the home of a friend of my parents.

The TRS-80 was followed by a Coleco Adam, complete with tape drive. I played quite a bit of Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., and an "educational" game called Fraction Fever on that.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Our family's first was a TRS-80 color computer 1, as I recall. My dad keyed in a little skiing game from the back of a personal computing magazine, where the skier was represented from the top-down view as a capital H. I don't think we ever had Adventure at home; I played that at the home of a friend of my parents.

C'mon. You know what you're supposed to call it.

You know.

TRASH 80.

The TRS-80 was followed by a Coleco Adam, complete with tape drive. I played quite a bit of Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., and an "educational" game called Fraction Fever on that.

The Coleco machines. That's a blast from the past! Those, the Intellivisions (Sea Battle!) and, of course, Amigas and Commodores. Good times!

(I was always more of the Apple fan ...)

 

[MarkB]

Our family's first was a TRS-80 color computer 1, as I recall. My dad keyed in a little skiing game from the back of a personal computing magazine, where the skier was represented from the top-down view as a capital H. I don't think we ever had Adventure at home; I played that at the home of a friend of my parents.

The TRS-80 was followed by a Coleco Adam, complete with tape drive. I played quite a bit of Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., and an "educational" game called Fraction Fever on that.

Ours was a Video Genie, and I still remember the manual typing-in of programs from the back of Computer & Video Games magazine.

 

[Mannahnin]

The Coleco machines. That's a blast from the past! Those, the Intellivisions (Sea Battle!) and, of course, Amigas and Commodores. Good times!

(I was always more of the Apple fan ...)

Yeah, we were never an Apple family. PCs all the way, after the Adam.

There was a family we were good friends with (oldest two kids about the same age as my brother and I), though, where both the parents were programmers at Unisys. I think they had at least four computers at home as of 1987, at least two of which were Macs. I remember being blown away by the (black and white) graphics on some side-scroller dungeon crawling game they'd play at home, but I can't remember the name of it.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yeah, we were never an Apple family. PCs all the way, after the Adam.

There was a family we were good friends with (oldest two kids about the same age as my brother and I), though, where both the parents were programmers at Unisys. I think they had at least four computers at home as of 1987, at least two of which were Macs. I remember being blown away by the (black and white) graphics on some side-scroller dungeon crawling game they'd play at home, but I can't remember the name of it.

....DARK CASTLE!!!!

 

[Mannahnin]

That's definitely it.

After a little digging, I think they had Dark Dungeon/The Dungeon Revealed, as well.

 

[practicalm]

Spaceward Ho! and NetTrek for mac LANS. That was fun

Edit: Forgot Mac Bolo - networked tank game. So much fun

 

[Dioltach]

@Dannyalcatraz is going to have to change the title of this thread to "I had a question but then everyone started reminiscing about old computer games."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Spaceward Ho! and NetTrek for mac LANS. That was fun

Edit: Forgot Mac Bolo - networked tank game. So much fun

I can- and do- still play Spaceward Ho! on occasion. Great game.