flashback for old-timers!

[egp320i]

I had and still do the 2600, friend had the coleco vision and a D&D game we could play for ages

great times, those cartridges were like 40 bucks each then, equal to probably 300 bucks today!

probably made them for 5 bucks, just plastic with a PC board inside, few chips, a ROM with the programming

 

[Rawley]

 

[egp320i]

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Tandy.........those were kinda a pain the ass, I liked my C64 way better, played the crap out of it

 

[pknopp]

That's the later 4 switch 2600. First ones had 6 switches.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

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I had and still do the 2600, friend had the coleco vision and a D&D game we could play for ages

Atari!!!

 

[Rawley]

Tandy.........those were kinda a pain the ass, I liked my C64 way better, played the crap out of it

64 K of RAM. That was back when programmers had to know their shit.

I learned machine language on a Z80,

 

[egp320i]

64 K of RAM. That was back when programmers had to know their shit.

I learned machine language on a Z80,

they did, I played bards tale III for almost a year, by the time I got to the final boss I kinda killed him in less than a minute, it was anti-climatic.......lol
had a magician that was level 400 or something

I used a teleport spell and figured out the grid to go right to his place in a dungeon with 99 skeletons with just him, had a spell that would do high HP on the dead.......

cast, go get a snack and come back in 5 minutes and they were all dead........huge points
it took 5 minutes to kill them all.......haha

 

[Rawley]

they did, I played bards tale III for almost a year, by the time I got to the final boss I kinda killed him in less than a minute, it was anti-climatic.......lol
had a magician that was level 400 or something

I used a teleport spell and figured out the grid to go right to his place in a dungeon with 99 skeletons with just him, had a spell that would do high HP on the dead.......

cast, go get a snack and come back in 5 minutes and they were all dead........huge points
it took 5 minutes to kill them all.......haha

LOL I was never a gamer. Well, I was later with my kids. I got hooked on Zelda over a Christmas break.

 

[shockedcanadian]

64 K of RAM. That was back when programmers had to know their shit.

I learned machine language on a Z80,

I worked on Windows 3.1 when it came with massive manual the size of a bible.

A friend of mines older brother had C64 and he did some basic coding to make video games and we would just watch and try to break down what he was doing. I wish I would have had interest in it but it helped to build the problem solving pathways in the brain just to see him work through it.

You can always learn. There are people much older than I who post about learning to code. New languages too. It keeps the brain young!

 

[BULLDOG]

Fortran or Cobol anybody?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

I had an Atari 2600 and a RadioShack TV Scoreboard. You could use the gun to shoot the ball when people where playing pong.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Apple IIE

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

 

[egp320i]

Fortran or Cobol anybody?

python and ruby are likely very tricky and the classic C++

 

[OKTexas]

Tandy.........those were kinda a pain the ass, I liked my C64 way better, played the crap out of it

I had a C64, then went to PC, it had a huge 80MB hard drive.

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[gtopa1]

I recall playing "Pong" about 1976. then it got complicated; that was the last time I gamed.

I never did play against anyone.

Greg

 

[Orangecat]

 

[rosends]

 

[egp320i]

I had a C64, then went to PC, it had a huge 80MB hard drive.

my first bought PC was an IBM aptiva with a massive 1GB main drive! LOL, I had to spend $$$ on Iomega zip drives bought from staples.........oh the money I wasted

 

[egp320i]

I recall playing "Pong" about 1976. then it got complicated; that was the last time I gamed.

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I never did play against anyone.

Greg

it was all in the paddles, your reaction time, hand to eye.......early game were difficult, they did not have any level like beginner compared to today to adjust difficulty settings

I played the hell out of river raid and could only get so far where it just became impossible, same with pit fall.......damn that game was freaking HARD, you had to be perfect

no save function........you die you start over.......and over and over