When I Was A Kid...

[Lickity]

I have to laugh when I hear people talking about the new Final Fantasy games. Anyone remember playing the first one way back. That game ruled, you had little to no movement, the game was harder than most in the day, and still ahs replay value today! Ah, the NES...<3

[Draggar]

Just for giggles I went onto ebay to see if anyone was selling the old Atari system.. yeppers. starting at about $10 and up.
ahh... the memories...

And I can play Adventure 'till my heart is content. Stella rules!

River Raid, PitFall, Cosmic Arc, Donkey Kong, Burgertime..

[Draggar]

I have to laugh when I hear people talking about the new Final Fantasy games. Anyone remember playing the first one way back. That game ruled, you had little to no movement, the game was harder than most in the day, and still ahs replay value today! Ah, the NES...<3

It had the same engine as the original Ultima game.

Loved it!

I saw a flash file of the new FF characters against the old ones.

The old ones won (kicked 64-bit rear, too!)

[Draggar]

A few years ago, PC Gamer did a comparison with Atari 2600's "Combat" vs. Quake ]I[ Team Arena.

Quake's advantages:
Many weapons
3-D movement
high graphics

Combat's advantages:
Everything else.

[Ngreth Thergn]

Yar's Revenge was a favorite of mine

[Lickity]

River Raid, PitFall, Cosmic Arc, Donkey Kong, Burgertime..

OMG! Burgertime ruled! I wasted so many hours on that game!

[Melinia]

Thirsty?

lets see.. we had the pitfall, donkey kong, some racing game, breakout, burgertime, adventure, Indiana jones, Swordquest (somthing like that - we could never figure that one out) frogger (i think thats what it was called), space invaders, hmmm.. cant think of the others.

Here's one... how many people actually sent in the Kool-aid points for the Kool-aid Man Atari game????

[Draggar]

lets see.. we had the pitfall, donkey kong, some racing game, breakout, burgertime, adventure, Indiana jones, Swordquest (somthing like that - we could never figure that one out) frogger (i think thats what it was called), space invaders, hmmm.. cant think of the others.

Here's one... how many people actually sent in the Kool-aid points for the Kool-aid Man Atari game????

What about the game based on a very popular band?

Journey: Escape ? (does the music sound familiar now?)

Spent countless hours playing combat with my sister and my friends. Enduro, Dodge'em, Pac-Man, Pitfall!, reactor (that was just fun to lose!), Battlezone, Bezerk, Haunted house, defender (KILL THE PEOPLE!) etc..

And yes, Ngreth, I think I spent many days playing Burger time trying to get to that last level...

And my mom yelling..

"Why don't you go outside and play?"
"Keep the door open"
"Come and eat dinner NOW!"

And my replies:

"Just one more level!"
"I'm about to beat my all-time high score!"

[Lickity]

Blatant advertising games were the best. I never played the Kool Aid one, but on the NES there was a game called "Yo, Noid!" based on the Domino's Pizza Noid character, (the most annoying piece of advertising drivel this side of the Taco Bell dog!) I laugh now when they package CD-ROM games with boxes of cereal, I noticed it recently on Cap'n Crunch.

Hehe, a bit more modern, but did anyone ever play that little dinky adventure game that came on the driver disk for the original Gravis Gamepad. (i'll bet 90% of you own one of these gamepads, go back and see if you still have the driver 3.5" disk and install it, the game is so buggy its funny!)

[Dunthor Warsmith]

Blatant advertising games were the best.

I never played one, but the 7-Up "Spot" games looked really neat Seemed like nicely done graphics and decent platform action, from the Nintendo Power reviews (the SNES and Gameboy versions, at least).

[Carmaris]

Television inside a car? a TV was the size of a car! and had a black and white picture!

Remote Control? if you wanted to change the channel you had to get up off the couch and walk across the room and spin the dial.

Munwin

My parents had the first remote controls in the neighborhood--they were the Jocelyn and Kenny models.