Ice Hockey was the greatest of all games. Best way to score was to head straight for the net with the puck and keep going until the puck crossed the line. The goaltender never stopped it.
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Dude when it comes to the Canucks, it could be a team of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, Josef Stalin and Kim Jong Il and if one of them scores against the Canucks you take it.
Summer Games
Winter Games
Hardball
Bop N Wrestle...only way to win against everyone was get the head lock, turn to body slam. Then off top rope..for the first guy, one top rope jump was enough. Every other guy, you had to do two in a row and you won no matter what...take too much time and he gets up and starts the unavoidable beat down on you.
Pole Position (cartridge...first year we had the computer, bought at Javco in Bellvue WA, we didn't have the 1541c floppy drive...we were using a TV from the mid 70's when we got the C64 and the magnetic field it gave off prevented many discs from loading on the drive, so we had to turn off TV when booting up...eventually got a monitor)
Some music education cartridge, play piano etc to make use of the hq sound effects
Spy Hunter
Superstar Ice Hockey
Superstar Soccer
One on One (Bird vs Magic Johnson)
etc
Followed up with another Commodore, an Amiga 500, 5-6 years later. A mouse and GUI OS?! Gasp!
Street Sports Baskbetball
Street Sports Football - both games you had were playing in school yards, junk yards.
Earl Weaver Baseball
TV Sports Football
TV Sports Basketball
Kickoff 2 (ordered from Europe)
Crazy Cars (came with it bundled)
John Barnes European Soccer
Three Stooges
Maniac Mansion
Sensible Soccer
Wayne Gretzky Hockey
Falcon
Where did you buy games? Trips to Spokane were always gold mines, otherwise Kmart and Zellers had decent selections for C64. Amiga too actually.
Outside of that...there used to be a video game store in the old Chinook. Also, we bought the Amiga at a computer place on the 3rd floor of Scotia Centre, way back when, but prices were extreme.
My dad would pick up magazines for me too...they'd all be UK magazines so pretty much useless, although when the Amiga came out there was a US mag.
Ice Hockey was the greatest of all games. Best way to score was to head straight for the net with the puck and keep going until the puck crossed the line. The goaltender never stopped it.
so was Luongo the cover athlete?
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I cut my teeth programming on my C64, first in the kernal basic. then I picked up assembler, then one day I was in a software store and found a honest to go C compiler so I learned C.
I remember that even though the C64 had 65k in ram it would only recognize 16k at a time so you had to bank switch and allocate segments of memory.
I also remember using sprites and that you could only have 8 sprites on the screen at one time.
When I got my C128 there was so much more that you could do including super bit mapping.
Then I got an Amiga 1000 and it was so far ahead of any other computer at the time with a dedicated graphics and sound processor built in, rich colors.
I remember that the first game that I ever wrote on the C64 was a Rambo type game, he could use multiple weapons including explosive bows and arrows.
I remember that there was a war game creation set where you would build a map, place units and what they would do and go to war.
It was always a shame that Commodore sold out and built their own line of clones instead of sticking with the Amiga line, they would have been so far ahead if they'd kept to it.
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I had the Vic 20, anyone remember Money Wars or Radar Rat Race? Those were classics!
I loved my Vic 20! It was all about the paddle games. The Sky is Falling! ftw. I also still remember having to load my Lode Runner save games off a cassette tape.
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I spent hours on my C64 playing a game where it was just two Conan the Barbarian type guys swordfighting. You could do a move where you spun around in a 360 and came up with your sword and decapitated the other guy, watching his head bounce and roll on the ground.
Spent about a week and a half typing in "Night Driver" (you know, that sophisticated game that consisted of sets of lines coming at you that you had to stay between) on my 64 from one of those magazines, only to have it not work.
Good times!
ETA: It looks like it might have been a bustardized version of Barbarian (aka Death Sword), although my game only had fights in the forest, and no story mode, but the screenshots look really close
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M.U.L.E.
Summer Games
Impossible Mission
Pitstop II
Leaderboard Golf
Racing Destruction Set
Beachhead
Bard's Tale
Many, many hours lost to those.
I lost an entire summer to Summer Games! That and Radar Rat Race. And they say WOW is the crack-cocaine of video games? Pffft. That's only because pioneers like us paved the way by getting all pale and stoopy from video games 20+ years ago.
Must admit though... the temptation is still there.... *ties rubber band around upper arm and starts heating up a spoon*
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I can't believe you guys forgot about Raid Over Moscow!
I didn't forget it, I just didn't want my post to turn into a massive list.
I could have gone on with lots of others (Archon, Summer Games 2, Hardball, etc).
And there wre a lot of magazines that I spent hours typing programs from. Lots of "Type Mismatch Error" and "Syntax Error"
Compute and Byte were 2 big magazines.
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