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| eds1275:
OK, here's the long-awaited review of the c64 game night. If you'd like the short, short version, I can sum it up in one word: Success. The long. We fired up some Airborne Ranger to begin, and played half a dozen missions being victorious each time including the dreaded Destroy an Enemy Aircraft - the one where you must be quiet or else the aircraft will leave before you can get it. I plan on going back and running through each mission. SO MUCH FUN. Even though the controller only runs one button, having the keyboard there to select different weapons was a nice feature. There's like 15 buttons for that game. AR was my favourite game back in the day - when I got to play it. See, there was no internet... and the label on my copy was written in felt. That left choosing the medals a guessing game. Test Drive was next, and it drove my brother insane that he couldn't reach the first gas station after several attempts, yet I made it to the third. He's a car nut and his passion is driving. But I'm the older one so that makes me a champ by default, right? Maniac Mansion. I read online about an ending I hadn't seen before, where you launch the edsel into space and then grab the meteor, run upstairs, and feed it to the man-eating-plant. After about an hour it asked to switch discs, and I accidentally used the key-combo to reset the computer instead of opening the disc drive! FAILURE!!! We decided to come back another time. California Games - not as good as the memories. I should have left it well alone. Winter Games. Getting a little tipsy by this point, and my wife came home from her ladies night. We got her in on the action. It got so competitive. And then there was the free-style ice skating/dancing competition. I won by far with an insane 1.4/10. None of us could figure out the controls. Western Games - another one we couldn't figure out 3/4 of the time Paradroid. I cleared all the decks and lost on the final one. Another great game that would be amazing if it were re-made to todays standards... perhaps a top-down with a first person option for searching? Impossible Mission II - we were both really tired by this point, at about 2am. I had worked a night shift the night before, and slept for 3 hours. Him, a 330-1130 am shift with no sleep. We packed it in. My wife went to bed calling us inbred hillbillies halfway through Western Games. I told her she was my long-lost sister. We're gonna have another one! I will post some pics tomorrow. Here is the part that blows my mind - my brother and I were well-prepared in the liquor department, but neither of us touched more than 1/4 of what we had. Too busy playing and enjoying the games! |
| Kier:
Dude, sounds great. Absolute blast. Yeah I remember that mission on Airborne. It was a ---smurfette---. Still laughing at you trying to figure the figure skating controls out, thats the best part of those games years later, how do you stick the landing, etc. Awesome. So many memories. --- Quote from: eds1275 on May 16, 2014, 07:26:09 pm ---OK, here's the long-awaited review of the c64 game night. If you'd like the short, short version, I can sum it up in one word: Success. The long. We fired up some Airborne Ranger to begin, and played half a dozen missions being victorious each time including the dreaded Destroy an Enemy Aircraft - the one where you must be quiet or else the aircraft will leave before you can get it. I plan on going back and running through each mission. SO MUCH FUN. Even though the controller only runs one button, having the keyboard there to select different weapons was a nice feature. There's like 15 buttons for that game. AR was my favourite game back in the day - when I got to play it. See, there was no internet... and the label on my copy was written in felt. That left choosing the medals a guessing game. Test Drive was next, and it drove my brother insane that he couldn't reach the first gas station after several attempts, yet I made it to the third. He's a car nut and his passion is driving. But I'm the older one so that makes me a champ by default, right? Maniac Mansion. I read online about an ending I hadn't seen before, where you launch the edsel into space and then grab the meteor, run upstairs, and feed it to the man-eating-plant. After about an hour it asked to switch discs, and I accidentally used the key-combo to reset the computer instead of opening the disc drive! FAILURE!!! We decided to come back another time. California Games - not as good as the memories. I should have left it well alone. Winter Games. Getting a little tipsy by this point, and my wife came home from her ladies night. We got her in on the action. It got so competitive. And then there was the free-style ice skating/dancing competition. I won by far with an insane 1.4/10. None of us could figure out the controls. Western Games - another one we couldn't figure out 3/4 of the time Paradroid. I cleared all the decks and lost on the final one. Another great game that would be amazing if it were re-made to todays standards... perhaps a top-down with a first person option for searching? Impossible Mission II - we were both really tired by this point, at about 2am. I had worked a night shift the night before, and slept for 3 hours. Him, a 330-1130 am shift with no sleep. We packed it in. My wife went to bed calling us inbred hillbillies halfway through Western Games. I told her she was my long-lost sister. We're gonna have another one! I will post some pics tomorrow. Here is the part that blows my mind - my brother and I were well-prepared in the liquor department, but neither of us touched more than 1/4 of what we had. Too busy playing and enjoying the games! --- End quote --- |
| Benzinbruder:
Absolutely awesome! :applaud: Where are the pictures!? |
| RoyalScam:
Sorry for the hijack, this pertains to RandyT and DaveMMR's sidebar. I still use real hardware as well as emulators for my Commodore fix. I've got too many 64's an SX-64 a 128D a couple of Vic20's and Plus4's. I'm currently transferring files between PC and 1541/71 via XU1541, which is a USB transfer cable I believe to be running the same firmware as Zoomfloppy. Yes it's slow by PC Standards, but it's not that bad, anyway, those that have the ZoomFloppy are thrilled with it. Also the http://store.go4retro.com/uiec-sd/ uIEC get raves. It's not true 1541 emulation, but can handle most cracks and one filers. I'm very impressed with the 1541Ultimate, you get true drive emulation, 32Meg SD, ram expansion to 16 meg and usb file trasfer. It's a deal at 150.00, just not for me as I use the expansion port for other things and I don't want to tie it up. My ideal item would be a true emulation SD card solution using the IEC bus. I know it's slow, but it'd work better for me. I should also note that I also have 1581 drives. Omniflop running on an XP box writes directly to a 3.5 floppy that can be read by the 1581. Regards, Scam |
| Vigo:
Good choices for a game night. :cheers: --- Quote from: eds1275 on May 16, 2014, 07:26:09 pm ---Maniac Mansion. I read online about an ending I hadn't seen before, where you launch the edsel into space and then grab the meteor, run upstairs, and feed it to the man-eating-plant. After about an hour it asked to switch discs, and I accidentally used the key-combo to reset the computer instead of opening the disc drive! FAILURE!!! We decided to come back another time. --- End quote --- Too bad it didn't work out. I never heard of that ending. The ending that I know of that I didn't do was give the contract to the meteor then call the meteor police. I might have to start up another game to test both of those endings. Although, I play the deluxe PC version these days, Looks good and has no loading time. |
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