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knightsfan
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pulled out the old atari last night too show my daughter what we used too play in the old days cant believe it still works and just how far games have come along sad i know .
15/01/2007
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ligermagic
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remember the Commodore 64. We had a tape drive that used to take like 20 minutes to load a game. We'd stick it on to load, go across to the park and muck around, come home and it still wouldn't be finished.

Now I get peeved when a game takes more than a few seconds to load.
15/01/2007
Melbourne, Victoria
knightsfan
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yep this pc is 64s cousin
15/01/2007
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simond75
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I got an Atari for Xmas back in 1984. With Frogger & Pooyan. My first ever console.

The commodore was my first computer. Would put a game in the tape drive, go and have a game of cricket in the backyard so the game could load. I remember a lot of games would have you waiting for minutes in between levels as well lol (Turrican & Wonder Boy in Mosterland)
15/01/2007
Brisbane
Brownstone
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I had an Atari and an Amiga 500 for games growing up.

Those were the days.
15/01/2007
Warrnambool, Victoria.
Lane_Meyer
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I had an Intellivision, my mates who had Atari's were jealous as it had better graphics. I had the computer keyboard and music keyboard attachments for it.

Then moved up to a C64, then C128D, Amiga 500 then PC. I still play c64 and Amiga games on the pc with an emulator.

The Amiga would have to be my all time favorite.

Some of my favorite games were on the Amiga, I loved the Magnetc Scrolls text based adventure games - Jinxter, Corruption, The Pawn, Guild of Thieves etc. Although I loved the Epyx titles on the C64

Brings back many memories playing these games again. This is why I'm looking forward to the releases of the re-makes of the old Epyx games.

Geez, its tricky to type with a sleeping baby in one arm!

Cheers


15/01/2007
Boronia, Vic
simond75
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I remember getting my first PC in year 11, back in 1990. Was a 386 with a whopping 25Mhz bus speed and 2MB RAM. Even had a turbo button, as some applications couldn't cope with the high speed processor so you could turn it off to slow the PC down.
15/01/2007
Brisbane
Lane_Meyer
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simond75 said: I remember getting my first PC in year 11, back in 1990. Was a 386 with a whopping 25Mhz bus speed and 2MB RAM. Even had a turbo button, as some applications couldn't cope with the high speed processor so you could turn it off to slow the PC down.



Dude, I finished school in the same year (only went to yr11)

Seems very scary that it was 17 years ago. Damn, now I do feel old.
15/01/2007
Boronia, Vic
MrMorden
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simond75 said: I remember getting my first PC in year 11, back in 1990. Was a 386 with a whopping 25Mhz bus speed and 2MB RAM. Even had a turbo button, as some applications couldn't cope with the high speed processor so you could turn it off to slow the PC down.



elevator was clock sensitive, so was test drive - aswesome games!!!
15/01/2007
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pezza
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Lane_Meyer said: I had an Intellivision, my mates who had Atari's were jealous as it had better graphics. I had the computer keyboard and music keyboard attachments for it.

Then moved up to a C64, then C128D, Amiga 500 then PC. I still play c64 and Amiga games on the pc with an emulator.

The Amiga would have to be my all time favorite.

Some of my favorite games were on the Amiga, I loved the Magnetc Scrolls text based adventure games - Jinxter, Corruption, The Pawn, Guild of Thieves etc. Although I loved the Epyx titles on the C64

Brings back many memories playing these games again. This is why I'm looking forward to the releases of the re-makes of the old Epyx games.

Geez, its tricky to type with a sleeping baby in one arm!

Cheers




I'm a huge Amiga zealot. The Amiga was the biggest shift in computing in my opinion. If you compare the specs of the a2000 to any pc at the time, it ran rings around it. same with the 500 and 1000. It invented the term multimedia thats for sure. I only finally parted with my A4k with PPC late last year...luckily emulators let me still run all my old Amos Pro games i used to write. At my high school, if you didn't have an Amiga, you weren't worth talking to. good times. Amiga was the betamax of the computer industry.
15/01/2007
Melbourne
deltron_0
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i started with an Atari then moved to the Tandy TRS-80 (which i used to create a strobe light in my bedroom), then an amstrad, then C64 (which i still own). My dad then bought us an Amiga 500 and I bought an Amiga 600 cos it had a hard drive. Those were the days.
15/01/2007
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Adelaide
christo
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Anyone here experience the Dick Smith VZ200? This was my first computer. 8k ram expandable to 24k
15/01/2007
Brisbane, Queensland
RTC
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christo said: Anyone here experience the Dick Smith VZ200? This was my first computer. 8k ram expandable to 24k



no but i did have the model after, the mighty VZ300 expandable to a whole 32k, a tape drive and possibly the worst joysticks ever made
15/01/2007
hobart, tasmania
hayso
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i had a Tandy 128K
with the tape drive + a massive shoebox sized 5&1/4 inch disk drive

then moved upto a secondhand tandy 1000 with 640k memory which was lol upgradable to lol 768k

those were the days - i got that in grade 5 which was 1988
15/01/2007
melbourne, victoria
hcrel
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indeed, the turbo button was cool...
15/01/2007
brisbane
kurac2
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i had the dick smith machine
i remember i had 2 games that were exact exept one was in space the other wasd under the sea
15/01/2007
pezza
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kurac2 said: i had the dick smith machine
i remember i had 2 games that were exact exept one was in space the other wasd under the sea



ahaha so what did that mean? one had a blue background and one had a black background?
15/01/2007
Melbourne
yippy
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ummm I have no idea what the heck you're talking about about, is it computers or gaming consoles, because I thought the Atari was a console.
15/01/2007
melbourne, victoria
Omi
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I had an Atari when I was like 5. I remember I used to love a game called Crystal chronicles, and this space invaders type game where you had to shoot pink and blue birds aswell as other things.

Then we got our Amiga 500! Oh how techy that was!!! Does anyone remember a game that was exactly like mario bros 1 except that they were girls, it was called The 'something' sisters?

Hasn't it been great to grow up along side the game industry!
15/01/2007
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In the vegie patch
christo
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I had a Vectrex Video Game machine . It was a game console that had it's own black and white display.
15/01/2007
Brisbane, Queensland
djwill07
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I got a vic 20 i was so unempressed cause my mates had C64's
It sucked bigtime!
then i got an Atari 2600 awesome
15/01/2007
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Melbourne, West Side!
pezza
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Omi said: I had an Atari when I was like 5. I remember I used to love a game called Crystal chronicles, and this space invaders type game where you had to shoot pink and blue birds aswell as other things.

Then we got our Amiga 500! Oh how techy that was!!! Does anyone remember a game that was exactly like mario bros 1 except that they were girls, it was called The 'something' sisters?

Hasn't it been great to grow up along side the game industry!



Yes! The great giana sisters. I believe nintendo took them to court and won...

en.wikipedia.org/
15/01/2007
Melbourne
Omi
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The Giana sisters!!! That was it! Thanks pezza!

Those cheeky buggers - "The brothers are history" Yeah right!
15/01/2007
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In the vegie patch
1wiierdguy
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My first system i played games on was an Aquarius home computer.It was a little keyboard that had rubber keys and plugged into a tv.It let you write programs in basic and had cartrige slot for games.No controllers tho you had to use keyboard overlays.
15/01/2007
Brisbane Australia
MrMorden
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I am not saying that if you go here that you can play The Great Giana Sisters online c64s.com/

I am not saying this at all
15/01/2007
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