It wasn't a Commandore 64, it was a COMMODORE 64!

[Bereta_Eder]

"As for Pool of Radiance:
Yep, it was a great game, despite always having to change Discs if you came to another Part of the City.
For some strange Reason I still remember the Codes, you got on the Isle with these many Sceletons movin around.
Lux, Samosud Shestni"




Yeah You know I was lucky to find them so fast since the skeletons would not recognize them if you hadn't found the piece of parchment before hand

For the time, I was amazied as to how huge it was... I thought that Civilized Phlan and the Slums were all there was to it. Then I loaded up the next area (Cadorna's square or The Market area I don't remember) and I was in disbelief to see there was so much more game left. Not to mention when I actually got outside the city...

[Bereta_Eder]

Oh yea, the first copy I got was pirated. Then I got theoriginal one (and saw the maps )

[Dinner]

The game was HUGE! I mean 8x300kb who would ever use that much code. I remember having such a hard time killing the nest of trolls in the slums. Your characters were to low in level to go on to the library or Cadorna Square and also to weak to beat the trolls. I finally just hired two mercenaries and let them do most of the fighting for me. After the battle I killed them and gained two +1 swords.

[Bereta_Eder]

Yeah the trolls were difficult!

I also got two mercenaries and used them as "troll fodder(!)" while my team kept firing whatever they had at them. Spells, Oil bombs, arrows, darts etc etc etc


Oil bombs were important! I remember I couldnt believe when I had beaten them for the 1st time (having 3 team members with 3 or 4 hit points), when one of them rose back up!!!! (and killed two of my pcs)

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
I remember the dynamic Linepattern (red and black Lines) that appeared while Loading via Turbotape, with the pattern being chaotic if you were in the midsts of Loading and consisting of horizontal lines moving downwards, if Turbotape had found the Beginning of a new File.

Wasn't it all possible colors, and not just red and black? I remember more different colors when loading...


By the way, what was the point of those "load lines"? Where they just there to show the user, a game was loading, or did it have any purpose actually?

[Japher]

coma-bore... like this thread

I liked Frogger too, and Pitfall

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Japher
I liked Frogger too

Who didn't?

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Yeah the trolls were difficult!

I also got two mercenaries and used them as "troll fodder(!)" while my team kept firing whatever they had at them. Spells, Oil bombs, arrows, darts etc etc etc

I Liked Mercenaries,
they were good Supplies of good Armor and Weapons,
you just had to attack them after they were weakened after Battle and themn take the Weapons and Armor from their Corpses

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by ADG


Wasn't it all possible colors, and not just red and black? I remember more different colors when loading...

By the way, what was the point of those "load lines"? Where they just there to show the user, a game was loading, or did it have any purpose actually?

My memory tells me from Red and Black.

As for the Purpose:
I had the Imagination that those lines where somehow a function of the Data the Program read at the moment, so unorderly Patterns of Bytes would create chaotic Patterns of Lines, No Data would just generate a Black screen while ordered Patterns of Bytes would create more ordered Lines.
So I suppose, that these Loading Lines could have something to do with each File having a orderly Pattern of Bytes as a Header.

[Odin]

I was too young for the C-64. My first gammining machine was a NES in 1990, when I was 4, then a SNES when I was 6. My sister was addicted to Super Mario Bros. and Final Fantasy.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST


I Liked Mercenaries,
they were good Supplies of good Armor and Weapons,
you just had to attack them after they were weakened after Battle and themn take the Weapons and Armor from their Corpses

I never did it. I didnt consider it "ethical" I tried to keep them alive and even bothered to return them to the training hall before dismissing them

[Arrian]

Holy ****! You guys remember an awful lot about PoR! I just vaguely remember having the game. I'm not sure I finished it. I definitely beat Dragons of Krynn, though.

Winter Games! Remember that too. I liked the skiing (jumping/racing), but the figure skating part sucked.

-Arrian

[Bereta_Eder]

Yeah I can honestly say that PoR has left a very lasting impression on me, and others as I see It was I think the first full immersion to a real and very big for its time CRPG.

[Stefu]

I had Winter Games. Summer Games, too. And California Games, though all the events didn't work in California Games. Don't remember much anything about the games, but I played them quite a bit.

What else did I have for C64 except for the Games series and Rick Dangerous? Mmm... Mission: Impossible, I believe. Also some space game that kicked veritable arse but the name of which I sadly don't remember.

There's this one game I had either on C64 or Amiga, but I don't remember the name, or much about it. It happened in some kind of a fantasy/fairytale world, the main playable character had a flute, and at least one enemy type was some kind of a blue bird. Also, I have a feeling the game was developed by Ubisoft or some French company (Or wait, is Ubisoft a French company?) Anyway, for nostalgy's sake, I'd at least like to remember the title.

[Hueij]

Also some space game that kicked veritable arse but the name of which I sadly don't remember.

Elite?

I lost quite a few hours playing that game.