Ah scrambled porn....yet another joy of my childhood that today's generation will never experience...
N64 help
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Ah scrambled porn....yet another joy of my childhood that today's generation will never experience...
Test Drive!
Spent a lot of time playing that as well. Although I was never a console gamer...I spent countless hours playing C64 games.
You drive like my grandmother.
I totally forgot about that! Lmfao ?
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Psycho_Biker
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It's a fun little toy. Mine is missing the gun for duckhunt but I've got that game and a zapper for the NES anyways. The guy who imported these for sale ****** off Nintendo and got raided by the FBI. Some people have used the guts to make a portable NES hand held like the gameboy but using full size NES carts. Off the top of my head it has games like Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, Arkanoid, Bomberman, Excitebike, Galaga, Paperboy and lots more.
http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Player_Super_Joy_III
http://www.benheck.com/nes-on-a-chip-portable/
Psycho_Biker
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I'll agree - it was hands down AWESOME on the 3D0. I probably spent more time playing that game than any console game ever....and I was never a big console gamer.
River Raid on the Atari2600 was pretty addictive in it's day as well.
Never played the original Need for Speed or the 3DO at all but Need for Speed II on Playstation is still one of my favourites. The video intro and having in-car driving views for the McLaren F1 and Ford GT90 blew my mind as a kid.
You guys have caused me to go deep into the storage bin, i will now release the kraken.
Behold !!! The Atari plug n play, 10 games all stuffed into the joystick, no console needed.
Followed by, The Namco, same idea, different games.
Let me plug these in to the old workshop tv and i'll get some video.
Behold !!! The Atari plug n play, 10 games all stuffed into the joystick, no console needed.
Followed by, The Namco, same idea, different games.
Let me plug these in to the old workshop tv and i'll get some video.
Oh man, Yar's Revenge, loved that one.
Them old Atari 2600 games are infinitely replayable. 4-player Warlords might be the ultimate videogame for those drunken winter nights.
[video=youtube;E5bXQdg3DDg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5bXQdg3DDg[/video]
Them old Atari 2600 games are infinitely replayable. 4-player Warlords might be the ultimate videogame for those drunken winter nights.
[video=youtube;E5bXQdg3DDg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5bXQdg3DDg[/video]
Yep. I was heavily into Commodore hardware - I owned virtually everything they sold. C16, C64, C128, C128D, a ton of their drives including 1541's, 1571's, and the more rare 1581's..even had a CMD40 hard drive on my Commodore 64 - pretty rare stuff back then. I then moved onto the Amiga line, had a 500 and a 1000. Always wanted a 3000.
Long before the internet I ran a local BBS out of Oshawa - started as one node on the C64 and ended (around 1995, when the internet started to take over) on my Amiga with 4 nodes.
My first time ever "online" was at 300 baud using one of these... I'm dating myself.
Good times.
Hahah..yeah, almost forgot the Vic20. I did own one of those too. Spend 3 weekends at our cottage one winter hand typing in code from a BYTE magazine to make a "banner printer" program. Saved it to a datasette...something else probably foreign to a lot of people around here.
What BBS did I run..or what's a BBS?
@mimco_polak there's the datasette!Hahah..yeah, almost forgot the Vic20. I did own one of those too. Spend 3 weekends at our cottage one winter hand typing in code from a BYTE magazine to make a "banner printer" program. Saved it to a datasette...something else probably foreign to a lot of people around here.
What BBS did I run..or what's a BBS?
What is a bbs? You're talking to a guy that can't get a printer to work 90% of the time!
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It was short for for "Bulletin Board System". Think of them as little self contained communities, basically - very similar to message forums today in some ways, although they did a lot more - file upload/downloads, online games, etc etc. Some cities had many of them, some only 1 or 2..., some none. You accessed them via good old dial up modems (back in the era of 300, 1200, 2400..and if you were willing to spend the $$$...4800 or 9600 baud) and because long distance was expensive (so if you wanted to call a BBS in Oshawa from Toronto, for example...you paid by the minute - remember those days?) most tended to be focused on a local membership.
They were very community oriented, basically.
Some reading here.
http://www.bbscorner.com/usersinfo/bbshistory.htm
I ran "Ground Zero BBS" in Oshawa for a total of about 6 or 8 years. I'm still friends with lots of other SysOps from the local area from that era, although now it's on FB or real life, not just online anymore.
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Wow. 1200 dial up modems! My parents hated me. 1993 laptop word processor that had Internet access so we had "chat rooms" that we accessed in college. I said "meh, this will never take off." and kinda avoided computers and stuff. Then dropped out of Radio Broadcasting at Humber. The rest of my life follows with an amazing succession of more incredibly bad decisions.
I think I will now eat ice cream and play N64.
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I think I will now eat ice cream and play N64.
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Holy crap! Never thought I'd see one of those again! Brings back good memories.
Yes, and no. Datasettes were frustrating sometimes, not to mention the speed...or lack thereof.
[video=youtube;4qTaW7XzcOA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qTaW7XzcOA[/video]
I don't know PP....this was back in the late 80s....I'd say the technology was great at the time. Considering we didn't have many options beyond this, you play with what you got.
True enough, it does bring back some warm and fuzzies from the era in general, but as someone who used datasettes a *lot*, I had my share of bad memories. I remember loosing several programs because of tape breaks, or accidentally recording over part of a program because you didn't cue a cassette properly.
Ever have a casette with 4 or 5 programs on it and no number-counter record of where each program was...so you basically had to start at the beginning and let the datasette search for it? If it was the last program on a long cassette sometimes you'd be sitting and waiting 10-20 minutes for it to find what you're looking for.
I *do* remember how excited I was when I got my first 1541 floppy drive. I also remember my dad shelling out the >$1000 it cost at the time as well. It was a long many years before I realized how lucky a kid I was growing up.
Never played Contra back in the day but I've got it on this Super Fun Joy thing I found at a flea market for $3. It's a Chinese plug and play game with like 80 NES and classic arcade games built in. It's basically an NES on a chip and it's all built into a N64 looking controller.
I have something like this only it's a commodore 64 on a chip, looks like the controllers you had back then.
Xhumeka
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That's awesome man - have you watched "The BBS Documentary"? Any former sysop would definitely enjoy it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSz-Hb9LQY
I was co-sysop of a BBS in South-Western Ontario - "the FIX" (or SOS Internet depending on the year). We started off as a single node bbs and eventually by 1995 were running with 128 phone lines and provided internet access though the BBS software using winsock and trumpet
Remember those days?? We ran a variety of software over the years but mostly used mbbs/worldgroup. The home of the BBS started in Wingham Ontario until it grew to the size that we had to move the server to Waterloo. Back then we were just kids with limited budget so we had so many crazy ways of extending our local call zone - for example we had a cell phone number in Breslau that would allow local calling from Guelph; we simply used call forwarding to pass on unlimited connections. Once Bell figured that out (years later) they made us pay for separate PSTN connections, but for awhile it was awesome checking your cell usage (you have used 25 thousand minutes this month, your cell phone bill is currently at $43 dollars).I still miss playing my daily BRE/SRE/TradeWars/GlobalWars turns...
