how sad am I..?

[Richie]

On a scale of 1-10....

I've just downloaded a ZX81 emulator and found an old game that was in it's day fabtasticul....

3D Monster Maze.... The mist of time close over you while we transport you to the lair of the T-Rex, Please wait 30 seconds while loading...

he's hunting you, he sees you.. then big teeth and press C to continue...


bring back a few memorys...

Then I thought, why am I putting this hyper fast computer system with far superior everything compared to a ZX81 through this,
So I endded the game to post this...;)

[Wideboy]

you are indeed sad my good man:D, i've got a few nintendo 1 emulators and games oh the memories

[DarrenSV650S]

You should never sell your old games systems. I sold my N64 and all the games then a few years later bought another and started building my games collection again. I've got a NES, SNES, N64, PS1 and PS2
Although I never play them anymore :lol: but its good to know they're there lol

[the_lone_wolf]

how about a bit of...

HOVER!!!!

http://www.duke.edu/~mfc5/HOVER/

[Pedro68]

One word ... playability ;-)

You just don't get that in so many games these days. All you get is "eye-candy". Otherwise how else would you explain the "phenomenal success" (?) of DOA? It is, when all said n done, just another "fighter" ... only with a super-dooper-ultra-realistic-physics-engine, which is just another way of saying "Look, her b00bs bounce when she jumps!". LMAO

Games producers have just got their priorities all wrong ... nobody cared about colour-clash back then (unless of course you were trying to write a game!) ... gamers just played them because they could ... and they could play for them hours upon hours!

:) Ahhh, nostalgia ... its not what it used to be ... oh wait a minute, that's exactly what it is! ;-) LOL

[Baph]

I've just bought some Gameboy games from ebay (no, not Gameboy Advance).

HTH

[northwind]

I played Lords of Midnight last week. It's still ace.

[Pedro68]

Lords of Midnight?! That Mike Singleton classic?! ... and the very same Mike Singleton who used to drink in the pub I worked in ;-)

[kwak zzr]

On a scale of 1-10....

I've just downloaded a ZX81 emulator and found an old game that was in it's day fabtasticul....

3D Monster Maze.... The mist of time close over you while we transport you to the lair of the T-Rex, Please wait 30 seconds while loading...

he's hunting you, he sees you.. then big teeth and press C to continue...


bring back a few memorys...

Then I thought, why am I putting this hyper fast computer system with far superior everything compared to a ZX81 through this,
So I endded the game to post this...;)

i can understand spectum games (cus ive done it:)) but zx81! no colour or sound?:rolleyes:

[Pedro68]

i can understand spectum games (cus ive done it:)) but zx81! no colour or sound?:rolleyes:
yeah but then ... no colour clash, and no beep-beep-beepity-beep ;-)

Actually, think of it as comparable to the reasons why some people prefer to watch a good Charlie Chaplin movie as opposed to the latest "Hollywood blockbuster" ;-)

[anna]

.... GEEKS!!!!!....

carry on ;)

[Wideboy]

how about a bit of...

HOVER!!!!

http://www.duke.edu/~mfc5/HOVER/ (http://www.duke.edu/%7Emfc5/HOVER/)

i have actually got this on original CD-ROM:D

[Pedro68]

original CD-ROM?? ppfffftttt ... what happened to the C15 tapes where you loaded them on some dodgy old cassette player and if you didn't adjust the volume level to the correct level (which only dogs could differentiate between) then the game wouldn't load?!

Those were the days, oh yeah! LOL

[phil24_7]

Also had to adjust the tape speed screw tiny amounts to get games to load!!

[grh1904]

This is why kids are so fat & lazy nowadays.

I had a ZX81, with the whopping 16K (or was it 32K), plug in bit at the back.

You set up your tapes to play to load up the game, and while it was taking its usual 20-30 mins to load, you went outside and played 5-a-side footie with your mates, or got your bikes out and raced each other around the block.

Loads of fresh air and exersize.

Maybe we should make the current games consoles take 20-30 mins to load up, might stop the latest obese kids scene.

[sinbad]

Haha I remember the Spectrum loading trauma. It made you really value the game once you started playing it :)

I've got an Amiga emulator called Lemonade on my pc so I can play some of my old favourites like Stunt Car Racer, F/A 18 Interceptor, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Robocod, Wizball, Skidmarks and others. Great fun, but I was definitely remembering them being better than they actually are.

[Pedro68]

Maybe we should make the current games consoles take 20-30 mins to load up, might stop the latest obese kids scene.

Well the kids of today would only spend that time downloading and printing off cheats, hints, tips, and "walkthru's" off t'internet ;-)

Haha I remember the Spectrum loading trauma.
Which is why ... sad as this may seem ... I disassembled the loading routine, then changed the "baud rate", and re-assembled it, and saved it (along with the rest of the actual game) to a new tape :) Game now loaded in anything from 2 mins to about 5 mins. Didn't work with all games mind you, but it worked with a good few :) I was WELL CHUFFED :D

Now how SAD is that?!? PMSL

[Pedro68]

Just a thought ... but I think that a lot of these old games and emulators would make an IDEAL add-on for all these fancy phones nowadays ... cos most of the games you can get for phones nowadays have the life-span of a house-fly (which is around 24 hours in case you didn't know). Can you imagine a phone with MAME on it?! or a speccy emulator and "chucky egg" :D LMAO

[the_lone_wolf]

load up the game, and while it was taking its usual 20-30 mins to load, you went outside and played 5-a-side footie with your mates, or got your bikes out and raced each other around the block....

...

Maybe we should make the current games consoles take 20-30 mins to load up, might stop the latest obese kids scene.
you haven't tried to play any of the valve games through steam then? they've replicated the experience completely:rolleyes:

[Alpinestarhero]

I got road rash on my laptop, fantastic game. Beats Tourist Trophy hands down for difficulty and action

Matt

[dizzyblonde]

you got road rash fer yer pc.....does it come in the 'jailbreak' version tooo
now that would be soooo coooll

[dizzyblonde]

or even better superskidmarks from off the Amiga

[northwind]

Haha I remember the Spectrum loading trauma.

I saw a band once that used a spectrum game's loading sound as their intro music. I swear it was Chase HQ.