Post by: Edge on January 05, 2007, 05:02:24 AM
Post by: ShyGuy on January 05, 2007, 05:39:17 AM
BTW, if you haven't tried Touch Detective, it's like the old Sierra adventure games.
Post by: UncleBob on January 05, 2007, 07:42:49 AM
Also, the upcoming Hotel Dusk (by those who bought us Trace Memory) looks wonderful.
Post by: couchmonkey on January 05, 2007, 08:07:51 AM
nyuk nyuk nyuk.
Post by: Kairon on January 05, 2007, 08:26:19 AM
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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
Sprung is also a good "text adventure" game for the DS (no really!)
yes. YES. YES! YES.!
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Post by: ryancoke on January 05, 2007, 10:05:46 AM
Post by: JonLeung on January 05, 2007, 10:19:22 AM
Sprung for the DS is more fun that you'd think, it's an "adventure" game, not so much a dating game. Sure, some young people and hormones are involved but it's not a true dating sim. I actually played it through five times (three times as Brett, twice as Becky) to unlock everything (except that the game might be glitched and there's a couple things no one knows how to get, at least last time I checked)!
I thought Touch Detective was annoying near the end, when it was no longer item-based but dependent on dialogue to progress. It got pretty bad. If it was longer with more exciting missions, and maybe a tad more colourful (I mean visually), it could easily be pretty hot.
I must've missed something because Trace Memory wasn't as great as I'd hoped. >_> But I do want to try that Hotel Dusk game or whatever it's called.
Point-And-Click (or rather, "tap") FTW.
Post by: Shecky on January 05, 2007, 11:21:18 AM
Post by: Artimus on January 05, 2007, 11:41:22 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on January 05, 2007, 12:00:26 PM
Now I'm dating myself because that doesn't seem odd to me at all. I think it was well into the 21st century by the time I had the hardware to burn my own CDs. When people say "CD burner" I still get the mental image of some expensive hardware that only well off people have, even though I have a DVD burner and they don't even make PCs that can't at least burn CDs. Hell I remember CD-ROM PERIOD being expensive futuristic technology.
Post by: UncleBob on January 05, 2007, 12:36:15 PM
Post by: Smoke39 on January 05, 2007, 12:43:02 PM
Post by: ryancoke on January 05, 2007, 01:07:06 PM
The first computer that I bought for myself was back in 1998 (right after windows 98 came out)
Pentium 2 400mhz
128mb RAM (64 was the norm then and the 128 cost me $250)
2 speed CD-RW ($400)
20 gig HD
I don't even remember the rest of the specs but I think it cost me something like $3000
I also bought a 1.2 megapixel Olympus digital camera with an 8mb memory card for $600.
Post by: UncleBob on January 05, 2007, 01:52:48 PM
My first real computer was a 486 AST. It came with 8 MB RAM, which we upgraded to 40. 8x CD-ROM, 1 GB hard drive. We had one of those fancy tape backup drives put in (internal) No USB ports or anything fancy like that. And it was about $1000, purchased right before Windows 95 came out. Like, one month before you were eligble for a free upgrade. My mother threw a piss fit and got the free upgrade.
Oh, can't forget. 14.4 bps modem. Like, when browsing the internet, we had images disabled just so pages would load in less than a day.
Post by: Smoke39 on January 05, 2007, 01:57:16 PM
Post by: Nick DiMola on January 05, 2007, 04:22:50 PM
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Originally posted by: Smoke39
My first real computer was before the internets. DOS and Windows 3.1. Those were the days, boys. Putt Putt Saves the Zoo!
Oh man that brings me back. My good old Pentium 386 and Windows 3.1. I'd love to get that sucker running again and just browse around for awhile. It's been too long.
Post by: ShyGuy on January 05, 2007, 04:52:09 PM
Post by: MarioAllStar on January 05, 2007, 05:30:38 PM
I am really into computers and so I actually would like to explore older systems. I have a few old ones hanging around, including an Apple IIe that sadly does not have a disk drive. I really need to get one.
Post by: Galford on January 06, 2007, 12:22:25 PM
Hint- This family of computers was popular in Europe but not so much in the US.
Post by: Kairon on January 06, 2007, 12:31:48 PM
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Post by: oohhboy on January 06, 2007, 01:23:35 PM
Post by: WalkingTheCow on January 06, 2007, 10:14:39 PM
That's really digging into the past there. We also had Lode Runner, Mario Bros., Bard's Tale III, Skyfox, Montezuma's Revenge and a ton of other oldies. Oh, what was that wierd vector shooter called?. . .
Post by: WalkingTheCow on January 06, 2007, 10:25:18 PM
Post by: Edge on January 08, 2007, 01:15:27 AM
Post by: ryancoke on January 08, 2007, 08:33:38 AM
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Plenty of scorched earth was played on that machine.
I played a ton of scorched earth back in the day. I still play a game that's very similar to SE called Pocket Tanks. Google it for a demo, you won't be disappointed.
Post by: Smash_Brother on January 08, 2007, 11:02:08 AM
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Originally posted by: Artimus If you date yourself is that incest?
I could say a few things about taking the self-relationship to the "next level", but I won't.
Post by: Galford on January 08, 2007, 03:01:03 PM
Which version?
My uncle had an old copy of that.
It was interesting for it's time.
Post by: Leck on January 08, 2007, 04:42:13 PM
Anyway, my first 'computer was a C64, but my first PC was a 386. I remember we could bring up this rotating picture of a clown, we thought it was amazing! It almost looked real!
Post by: Kairon on January 08, 2007, 05:10:34 PM
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Originally posted by: Galford
GeoWorks?
Which version?
[Homer Simpson imitating Mr. Burn's voice] I don't... knoooooooow[/end voice]
Seriously, I was like... 8 at the time!
~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: IceCold on January 08, 2007, 05:28:36 PM
Post by: decoyman on January 10, 2007, 07:50:24 AM
Hey, whatever happened to Commander Keen?
EDIT: The most amazing thing I ever did with that computer was upgrade my 2400 baud modem to a 14.4, and play Doom over the TELEPHONE LINES with fellow-forumer DrewMG. Those are some of my fondest gaming moments right there. To this day, all he has to do is mention the level 4 debacle, and it just all comes back.
Post by: Galford on January 10, 2007, 08:17:08 AM
Very few people remember that program today.
Post by: JonLeung on January 10, 2007, 08:25:27 AM
Boy, games were so simple back in the day when DOOM was so revolutionary. I was like, "whoa, a gory game? That involves Hell? And it's in 3D?" My teenage mind couldn't comprehend. And then I was in awe that my 386 could handle it! 0_0
In junior high I doodled in my notes about Wolfenstein 3-D so much that I'm surprised my teachers didn't think I was taking in some neo-Nazi propanda (even though I'm not white, obviously).
Post by: segagamer12 on January 10, 2007, 11:17:29 AM
We were poor we got it when Windows had already been out for a while.
we had a program called Geos somthing or other, it was kinda sorta like windows in a way but it didnt use a mouse it used a pad instead. Is that the same thing ya'all is talking about? We never had internet till we got our first real pc which was running windows 98 SE and was a total mind blow sicne we had little experience outside of school on real computers only having that old commadore forever.
