If I spent the amount of time I spent playing the Dizzy games doing something productive like home work I'd either be Bill Gates or Steven Hawkins by now.
Nice times nice games... I wasted time too much with them... recently I found Empire Deluxe for PC... orginal orginating from 1978 Sometimes very simple games can be the most addictive ones.
Originally posted by brutus Nice times nice games... I wasted time too much with them... recently I found Empire Deluxe for PC... orginal orginating from 1978 Sometimes very simple games can be the most addictive ones.
Yes, those are the ones you remember even after many years...
I never had a Commodore 64, or even a VIC20. I was stuck with a ColecoVision ADAM. What a piece of shit that was.
I used to go to my friend's house and see all his free pirated software for his Commodore and be so pissed off because I had a stupid ADAM which had almost no software available for it.
The Commodore was so incredibly superior to it's competitors that it isn't even funny. 16 colors when IBM had 2 (black and green or amber.) Pc squeeker versus really nice multi-voice music and sound. Digitized speech! (remember Impossible Mission?)
S.A.M. (SoftwareAutomatedMouth) gave you text to speech with a 1Mhz cpu and 32K of usable ram.
If Jack Tramiel hadn't unknowingly borrowed money from an Israeli banking criminal. (Later went on to defraud others.) we would all be using Amigas right now.
If you compare IBMs to Amigas in 1986, it is laughable.
I am surprised nobody brought up all the cool C=64 porn that was made in this era! Here you go:
That brings back a lot of memories if only todays programers would take advantage of what they got. The guys back then had very tight programming today they are sloppy...
My personal favorites:
Mission: Impossible
Hacker I & II
Raid over Moscow
Pitstop II
Commando
Green Beret / Rush'n Attack
Summer / Winter / World Games
Football Manager
Elite
Uridium
And so many more...
Best way to play: hook up your pc to a tv, get a nice playstation arcade stick and playstation -> usb adapter, it's like being in heaven
I was about to get a Spectrum back in the day (which I greatly respect, the Ultimate games where awesome) but thanks god I discovered the C64... I learned 6510 assembler and even did some cracking and training in the day
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