Retro Gaming Thread

[Matisfaction]

I remember typing "run..." and "Poke..." quite a lot..

[Big Boss Man]

10 Print "Hello BG!!!"
20 Go to 10
Run

[Hawq]

surely one with the old recoloured Vic 20 case would have been a more appropiate image for them to have used

the C version in the pic came in 86

[ian]

I miss my commodore 64. All those times I had to type LOAD"*",8,1 and hit return
I've since learnt that I had basically everything for it before my mum got rid of it while I was at school one day. Had the tape drive, 2 models of floppy drives, mouse, official Joystick and paddle, printer, monitor, and a whole box of stuff that I didn't know what they were, or how to use them because they weren't games. years later I learnt that box was modems, cartridges, serial cables, and all sorts of busses and connectors that I never understood when I was given it.

I distinctly remember hating games on tape. And the only 2 games I'd even bother to play today are head over heels and wizball. Fucking love those games!

[Matisfaction]

[ian]

So Head Over Heels came out when I was 5 months old, I played it when I was about 9 or 10. It would have been late 96 or early 97. I remember we got our first Family computer in late 95, I took an interest in it so a little bit after that I was given the Commodore stuff because it was "too old" for my mums best friends relatives.
They gave me a 10 minute crash course to load disks and I was away with my boxes of commodore stuff.
Much enjoyment was had for years from it. The monitor packed it in early 2001, I didn't even know a normal TV would work at the time, and by that time I was already a bit into the Dreamcast and enjoying the last legs of my Nintendo 64 anyway, so I boxed the lot up carefully and put it all in the bottom of my cupboard. (except for the monitor which got dumped under the house)
2 years later, I came home from school one day and it was all gone, along with some of my other Retro Sega magazines.

I was fucking furiously livid. And a further incident with my copy of Perfect Dark shortly after Prompted me to put a lock on the door.(Mum took perfect dark and gave it to my little brother to play. In 2 hours he had crushed the box which I had taken care of and kept in mint condition) And the lock was not one of those privacy lock things, IE: break in with a paddle pop stick. It was a full blown front door entry lock and was locked every single time I was not in my room, even if I was going to the toilet or having a shower the door would be locked. After 3 years it was only locked when I left the house, after 4 years I told my dad where the spare was hidden, and moved it when he died. And to this day I have not told my Mum or brothers where the spare key is.

Moral of the story is, I loved my C64. And 14 years after it was stolen from me, I still don't trust my family with my stuff.

[pixel]

[Matisfaction]

The guy mentions GEMs in those Megadrive Profile vids I posted a while ago. Amazing that SoA actually gave it the nod.

Fortunately most Jap and EU Devs used their own software and drivers.

[Matisfaction]

Mega Man II is being ported to the Master System

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Holy shit, a new issue of Super Play!

The Retro Gamer cover looks great as well.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Matisfaction]

WARNING! Heavy "SNEzzz" usage.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Matisfaction]

Funny how he ended up working for EA, who massively sandbagged Sega back then.

[Hawq]

get from here that game over screen at 1:28 Falling what!?

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Hawq]

its a sad thing to realise the 2600 is younger than you

[Matisfaction]

OVERDRIVE 2

[Hawq]