List of games you regret buying

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Nikolai


Bah! Such statements are merely propaganda!

It's actually true, the default controls were often so bad that redefining keys (as it was known) was a key option.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by DrSpike
There are older farts around - quite a few actually.

Did you call me?

Btw my first computer was an ATARI 800 XL. That was back in the days, when this name still had a good sound, and when most of them youngsters here still did in their diapers, or stood in the shop regal as yogurt.

[DrSpike]

/me points and laughs at the old fart.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


Did you call me?

Btw my first computer was an ATARI 800 XL. That was back in the days, when this name still had a good sound, and when most of them youngsters here still did in their diapers, or stood in the shop regal as yogurt.

/me points and laughs too.

What year would this be? Born in 1986, was I yoghurt or baby?

[Harovan]

I'm not sure whether I bought it 1986 or 1987 (definitely not earlier), so I give you the benefit of the doubt and say baby.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by DrSpike
My first computer was a Spectrum 48k (yes, 48 whole k). Check out the local museum and they may have one for you to view.

Luxury. When I were a lad I 'ad a ZX81 with 1k of memory and dodgy cassette tape storage. Then, when I was really lucky I got a 16K RAM pack that would wobble and crash the thing after you spent 10 attempts (at 5 minutes each) trying to load a game.

Those were the days. Oh, and you'd spend a week typing programs in from magazines and then spend the next three weeks fixing all the bugs.

[DarkCloud]

Nikolai- if you ever played the johnny-come-lately game of Vikings, I think it recreated the original Pirates! somewhat... though of course it was probably but a mere shadow of the game. (of the two games, I only ever played Vikings, but I have heard of Pirates...)

[CerberusIV]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Luxury. When I were a lad I 'ad a ZX81 with 1k of memory and dodgy cassette tape storage. Then, when I was really lucky I got a 16K RAM pack that would wobble and crash the thing after you spent 10 attempts (at 5 minutes each) trying to load a game.

Those were the days. Oh, and you'd spend a week typing programs in from magazines and then spend the next three weeks fixing all the bugs.

I remember those days well.

[El_Cid]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Luxury. When I were a lad I 'ad a ZX81 with 1k of memory and dodgy cassette tape storage. Then, when I was really lucky I got a 16K RAM pack that would wobble and crash the thing after you spent 10 attempts (at 5 minutes each) trying to load a game.

Those were the days. Oh, and you'd spend a week typing programs in from magazines and then spend the next three weeks fixing all the bugs.

Luxury?That twer nothin - in my day after a hard day down mine, coming home to my dinner of broken glass in my detatched brown paper bag; i had to solder my computer together with a box of matches!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80

Computer gaming has lost so much in these few years. It should be a job requirement of all game devs/publishers to have to use all computers from the past before making new games

Nomination: Pirates of the Carribean.

The game is ok, but because it was snapped up to coincide with the movie, it never became the game it was meant to be and sadly Troika are no more. It was going to be a very good 'Pirate sim' type game with real time 3D ship to ship/ship to shore combat, a decent Morrowindesqe character engine and with lashings of pirate goodness.

But then Bethesda needed a game for the movie, so it was 'adapted' to fit the bill and when you play it you mostly get a sense of what a great game this could have been without the film tie-in and some more development time

[Cort Haus]

ZX80 - an awesome piece of kit. If it tried to do anything the screen would black out until it was paused, and I gather a cold yogurt pot sitting on the machine was the standard cooling system.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
I'm not sure whether I bought it 1986 or 1987 (definitely not earlier), so I give you the benefit of the doubt and say baby.

Crap, my Spectrum was actually a 7th birthday present, in 1985.

[Harovan]

I've been programming some bigger machines before (and played silly FORTRAN console games on them when nobody was looking), but my Atari was my first home computer. And it was not a 7th BD present, I was in the army and my rank at this time was captain.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Luxury. When I were a lad I 'ad a ZX81 with 1k of memory and dodgy cassette tape storage. Then, when I was really lucky I got a 16K RAM pack that would wobble and crash the thing after you spent 10 attempts (at 5 minutes each) trying to load a game.

Those were the days. Oh, and you'd spend a week typing programs in from magazines and then spend the next three weeks fixing all the bugs.

The ram pack on the Spectrum was dodgy too. If you moved slightly the machine tended to crash. Gamers today whine about hardware conflicts but they don't know they're born. We only had 1 piece of hardware to conflict, and that didn't work!

[Harovan]

The Atari 800 XL had the full 64 KB RAM, but the highest 16 KB were hidden beneath the OS ROM. They seemed useless on the first view, but we did tricky things using this mechanism: We played a new (or a modified) OS under the ROM (that was possible due to tricky IRQ programming), then disabled the ROM and were running our own OS'es. That was pretty darn cool.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
And it was not a 7th BD present, I was in the army and my rank at this time was captain.

So how old were you then? Early 20s I'd guess?