Remember Atari 2600, NES, Intellivision, & Colecovision?

Discussion in 'Remember When?' started by profezzor_x, Aug 5, 2008.

  1. tumbling.dice

    tumbling.dice Visitor

    Missile Command?
     
  2. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Yes I think that's it. John Connor was playing it on T2 in the arcade. :p
     
  3. tumbling.dice

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    I liked the bar scene in the first terminator.

     
  4. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    I'm at a place called tech noir, I'm really scared, I think there may be a man that's following me.
     
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  5. StellarCoon

    StellarCoon Dr. Professor

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    To honor these, I have a small Nintendo collection, a Castlevania poster, and all of the SNES ROMS.
     
  6. I'minmyunderwear

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    i don't think i ever finished it legitimately. i got to world 8 plenty of times, but i don't think i ever made it all the way through.

    i've beaten every level now that emulators are a thing though. most of those old games are much funner now that "save state" is an option. you don't have to play for 2 hours just to get to the hard part, fail it 3 times, and start the whole game over.
     
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  7. Zelda 2 is impossible. I don't know how anybody ever beat that game without a Game Genie or an emulator.
     
  8. I'minmyunderwear

    I'minmyunderwear Newbie

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    this is very true. i actually forgot about game genie; i wonder if they paid game developers to make impossible games to encourage game genie sales.
     
  9. pensfan13

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    I played plenty of tough games and beat them without a game genie and never used an emulator...Nintendo power and a few hundred spare hours got me past a few tough levels though.
     
  10. soulcompromise

    soulcompromise Member HipForums Supporter

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    I thought Metroid was hard. I remember the code name "Justin Bailey". You would put that in as your handle or something and the game would gear you up with special weapons. It also turned you into a girl-version of Samus.



    Interesting. I forgot about game genie. I played with that awhile, but I got sick of my NES. It wasn't really a hot new system by the time I got one, so I wasn't really into it. All my friends had had it for awhile, then I got one. I remember playing Super Mario 2, 3, Metroid, and Contra, and numerous rentals that I could get at down the street at a movie rental place where I later worked.
     
  11. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    Lol, I said that in a thread I found looking for another thread.
     
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    I like that song.. Burning.
     
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  13. tumbling.dice

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  14. I'minmyunderwear

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    i thought samus was a girl anyway?
     
  15. soulcompromise

    soulcompromise Member HipForums Supporter

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    For the first Metroid, I'm not certain, though I know in subsequent iterations Samus' true form was revealed as female. :)

    My initial impression was that Samus was a badass space dude with an arm cannon. I didn't realize Samus was female at all. Then, after other Metroids were released, I found out.
     
  16. tumbling.dice

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    Epicene perhaps?
     
  17. I'minmyunderwear

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    that makes sense. i never played the original, just the gameboy version. i liked it until i got stuck. not because a fight was too hard or anything, i just couldn't find the next damn path so i was wandering endlessly through a barren wasteland of already cleared tunnels with nowhere to go that i could find. never did figure out what i was missing.
     
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  18. guerillabedlam

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    This is a pretty interesting video explaining why Mario 2 was different than all the other Mario games.

     
  19. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    i remember the atari 800, 400, the comodore vic 20, and 64, the mitz altair and the elf. the sinclairs and the cocos, the trs 80s and ti99s, osi c1p, and 400 series, basic in rom and saving to cassette.
    and 8 inch floppys that cost as much as a hell of a damd good high end computer, drives included does now. more even. and cp/m. and the s-100 bus. and the dec-bus. never could see the point of a machine you could only play games on and not be able to program or do anything creative yourself with though. i was impressed with the graphix when game machines first came out, but until vga migrated to general purpose personal computers, it didn't mean much to me that they had.
     
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    themnax Senior Member

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    i remember the atari 400, 800, and the commodore vic-20 (or as the documentation that came with mine called it, the vic-1001, in jengrish)
    actual 8-bit computers, with basic in rom, that you could write your own games, though they had an expansion bus that would also accept roms.
    and a little modulator that pluged into the video output so you could use an ordinary tv for a monitor. lol.
    for that matter, i remember the frikin 'elf', though i never had one, nor the s-100 bus nor the apple one, yes there was such a thing,
    and the oliver engineering paper tape reader, and the, pickles and trout, though i forget what they made. and the penny whistle accoustic modem.
    because the phone company wouldn't let you hard wire connect anything that wasn't theirs.
     

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