10-05-2005 00:32									#1
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Now here's something you don't see every day. I was walking home, someone is renovating a house and what do I see lying on the street, on top of a big pile of junk? An original atari VCS 2600 "woody" , complete with the original box, joystick, paddles + games and all!

If i can get the thing to work (fingers crossed )I'm going to have some retro fun!


Anyone else experienced this sort of 'luck'?

	10-05-2005 00:48									#2
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sniff, sniff...I still remember the day that I tossed all my C64 and amiga stuff into the dumpster....it were time to move on.

Seems like the memories are stronger than doing it again. You really can't go back.

	10-05-2005 01:01									#3
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No, we can never go back. But sometimes you do have the rare opportunity to relive those moments, if only for a short while.

Of course, you don't find an old gameconsole lying on the street every day. I always enjoy the challenge of getting something like this in working order again.

You threw your old compo's in the dumpster!? Trying to sell it is usually more profitable. Or else by bringing it to a thrift store. That way someone else may get some use out of it.

	10-05-2005 01:14									#4
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If you are a hoarder like me you have 2 spectrums, an Amiga, a NES and an old PC in your cupboard under a pile of stuff.

	10-05-2005 01:26									#5
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I always had to sell my old compo's (c64, Amiga) to get enough money to buy a new one.

	10-05-2005 02:06									#6
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You lucky guy. I never played the Atari, I was too young then(born in 1986 and all), but I had lots of fun with the NES, SNES and early computers(at a friend, nearly noone had a computer in my neighbourhood at the time). I had a NES I inherited from some older relatives, but when it broke down, my father threw it and all the games instead of trying to get it fixed. Allright, it happened at the time of Nintendo 64, but it was a NES for crying out loud!

	10-05-2005 02:11									#7
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Another one here that regrets having thrown away an old Commodore 64/128... Well, I don't remember what happened to it... Hm, I think we sold it... Would be great fun to have it and test the old games...

I mostly remember Pitstop II, Track and Field (we wasted at least 10 joysticks with that one), a Western game where you walked around and tried to figure out something (a bank robbery?) and some cool ninja game...

You could call the doc a drunkard in the Western game, but if you got hurt later on he wouldn't help you and you'd bleed to death...

We also had a very famous karate game... Don't remember the name, but you could fight each other and one guy was wearing a read outfit, the other a white (or was it yellow?)...

I'm not trowing this one away... Need it for Civ 2, Caesar 3 and a bunch of other games that I'll continue to play...

I'm way too nostalgic in life... Not good!

Carolus

	10-05-2005 02:26									#8
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I should have mentioned that these machines were not working. Both probably needed new power supplies (in fact it was 2 C64s and an amiga 500 with the 1.5 MD upgrade for mem.) We were moving and they had been in the closet for a while.

There gets to be a point when you are moving that you need to quit moving the boxes and get on. Especially since we are talking about 20+ boxes with all the software/magazines/hardware. I had at least 15 joysticks, but at least I finally figured out how to fix/tune those.

The worst part is that I could now probably easily build a power supply from scratch that would work better than the ones than came with. I test power supplies for a living, so I've become pretty familiar with them.

Those were the first LAN parties, playing MULE with my buddies to all hours of the night. (Back before Nikolai was even born)

	10-05-2005 02:36									#9
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*pffff*
Old man, thinking he's cooooool and all... Get back to your pension oldie.

	10-05-2005 03:05									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy sniff, sniff...I still remember the day that I tossed all my C64 and amiga stuff into the dumpster....it were time to move on. Seems like the memories are stronger than doing it again. You really can't go back.

my mother did that for me.

and she sold all my hot wheels.

	10-05-2005 03:06									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Carolus Rex Another one here that regrets having thrown away an old Commodore 64/128... Well, I don't remember what happened to it... Hm, I think we sold it... Would be great fun to have it and test the old games... I mostly remember Pitstop II, Track and Field (we wasted at least 10 joysticks with that one), a Western game where you walked around and tried to figure out something (a bank robbery?) and some cool ninja game... You could call the doc a drunkard in the Western game, but if you got hurt later on he wouldn't help you and you'd bleed to death... We also had a very famous karate game... Don't remember the name, but you could fight each other and one guy was wearing a read outfit, the other a white (or was it yellow?)... I'm not trowing this one away... Need it for Civ 2, Caesar 3 and a bunch of other games that I'll continue to play... I'm way too nostalgic in life... Not good! Carolus

Pitstop II. Yeah I used to pull those joysticks so hard to the right and left around turns. Yet I never destroyed any joysticks. those things were fairly sturdy. I think we've only had to replace one.

	10-05-2005 13:18									#13
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My Amiga was knackered beyond repair so it really had to go.
Overuse?

I also had a Binatone that was pretty awful, as only Pong worked. That disappeared to charity, so there are probably some students in a 3rd World country somewhere all reminiscing about the great times they had with all-night Pong duels.
That, or the shop just chucked it when it hadn't sold for several months.

	10-05-2005 14:28									#14
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I've been considering getting one of those emulator joystick things, with a load of old school games on.
I read a review for a C64 one in the latest Games magazine, and it got a good review. It comes in the shape of the great old competition pro type joystick, with about 30 classic C64 games. I doubt they will be as good as a real C64(these emulation things rarely are), but for £15 i feel i might give it a go?

like Dr.Spike i tend to keep a sample from each generation of home computer, and they get the odd run out when i can be bothered to dig them out of storage.

And to counter one arguement made here, i find that a great game from any era is still a great game today. Games

	10-05-2005 23:00									#15
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Emulators do rule if you can find a good one that doesn't suffer from speed issues.

	11-05-2005 00:45									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Carolus Rex I mostly remember Pitstop II, Track and Field (we wasted at least 10 joysticks with that one), a Western game where you walked around and tried to figure out something (a bank robbery?) and some cool ninja game... You could call the doc a drunkard in the Western game, but if you got hurt later on he wouldn't help you and you'd bleed to death...

I remember that western game* where you walked around town and talked to various people while standing in a position to be ready to shoot
Though for me it wasn't that much about talking, it was mostly just about shooting the people walking in the background, and from time I would also pick some random saying to see if I could get the other guy angry so we could see who was quickest
I never found out what the game was actually about since at that time I understood just as much english as I understand chinese today so I always ended up picking random lines


* or at least I believe we're talking about the same game

	11-05-2005 00:58									#17
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On a sidenote:

Today I decided that I wanted to play Lemmings 1. I did a little search and found a dos version of the game... to no suprise it didn't run in WinXP. After a bit more search I found a Windows version of the game. It runs "great", meaning the game runs at normal speed and such, there's just a few problems with the game:
I can't maximize the window, so I can only see a little bit of the gamefield, and with the resolution the game uses that makes it about 10% of the desktop
And because of the small gamefield I have to use scrolling, but there's no edge-scrolling only some right-click scrolling which is hell

But I can live with those two problems, at least the gameplay still rules so no big deal... the big problem with the game is the ESC-key: Whenever I press it it pauses and minimizes the game, and when I maximize again "tries" to go fullscreen so it ends up "hiding" the menu (hiding as in "the menu keeps blinking but you can't use it") and puts the game in the top-left corner (playing the game in that corner is just annoying)
This can be avoided if I stop using the ESC-key... but I can't... all games have the ESC-key as a pause/menu key so whenever I need a break I press ESC before I start to think about what it actually does (I do this in all games)


Oh, and one more thing: DO NOT use fast-forward... I believe it's a tiny bit broken (when clicking on it it takes less than a second before time is out)


Does anyone else have this game and have these problems?

	11-05-2005 14:41									#18
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with older games just lower your desktop resolution to increase the gamescreen size - you'll get a more pixelated view, but it will be larger than 10% of your screen monitor.
I play Lemmings on my Amiga every now and then, usualy when a friend comes over - lots of fun

	11-05-2005 15:08									#19
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I wish I still have the Amiga, but it died

And lowering the desktop resolution makes other things worse

	11-05-2005 16:21									#20
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You only have to do it temporarily though. Just put everything back once you've had your fill of slaughtering rescuing lunatic Scandinavians with a suicide wish.

	11-05-2005 17:44									#21
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But then I can't surf 'Poly while playing it

	11-05-2005 17:55									#22
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stuck between a rock and a hard place ADG?

well i'd vote you leave of poly for an hour or so and change your screen resolution to allow you to play lemmings as it should be played.

We will all still be here when you get back to tell us how old it feels now

	11-05-2005 18:31									#23
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I actually don't mind how tiny it is, so I wont bother changing screen resolution (even though it only takes like two clicks )
I've played a good part of the game already (still a long way to go though) and love it
It's the ESC-key that annoys me, but so far I've only pressed it once or twice today

	11-05-2005 22:47									#24
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I played a few mayhem levels from Oh no More Lemmings a while back. Such a simple concept; such a great game.

	11-05-2005 22:49									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident my mother did that for me. and she sold all my hot wheels.

one of the few things ive kept from childhood was my collection of hot wheels, and matchbox cars. POTM got to play with them, and now shes outgrown them. A bit of history.

	12-05-2005 00:53									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Adagio I remember that western game* where you walked around town and talked to various people while standing in a position to be ready to shoot

It has to be the same one!

You saw the character a little bit from behind, his right side somewhat towards you. Not the whole body, maybe from knees to shoulder?

You don't remember the name by any chance?

There was a mexican character right in the beginning of the game, very abusive... That one was difficult not to duel with...

I don't remember all the things the game was about, but the gathering of information to prevent (?) the bank robbery was one...

Carolus

	12-05-2005 01:49									#27
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Sorry no, I don't remember the name... it does sound like the same game though

	12-05-2005 02:02									#28
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Law of the West, we've had that game over at the "name the game" thread.

	12-05-2005 02:45									#29
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I remember that one - hopefully it was me who got it.

	12-05-2005 02:54									#30
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK Law of the West, we've had that game over at the "name the game" thread.

Over to Google and see if I can find something about it...

Carolus