Anyone here remember the Commodore days?

[Brue]

the vic 20 was my first computer. i learned basic on it and wrote several games - and a mortgage calculator.

i kept it until i decided it wasn't worht tinkering with AGAIN to keep it going.

i think i have the handwritten programs i wrote somewhere still.

i had a GORF carteidge - I LOVE THAT GAME.

I also had Radar Rat Race - a rip off of Rally X that played 3 blind mice over and over with one note wrong. - another gresat game.

i wanted to get compuserve in the 80's but never got it done. i didn't get on line until 1994 (though no one was on the www before 93.

[EmergencyIan]

Yeah, I had a C-64 and C-128. We used them some at school between '85 and '88, but I mostly played games on them. "Kung-Fu Master", "Winter Olympics", "Pogo Joe", "Dr. Jay vs. Larry Bird" and "Airborne Ranger" and another basketball game were some of my favorites.


- Ian

[steshell]

Vic 20 was my first computer too, I used to love playing the old text only adventure games(By Scott Adams?).

I upgraded to a C64 and can remember paying a fortune for my external disk drive. I used to go into the local electrical stores and type a few lines of BASIC(Peeking and Poking) into the display models, filling the screen with different coloured stars. My mates thought that I was some kind of programming wizzard and I never let on that I had memorised those few lines of code and couldn't do anything else!!



Steve

[megoscott]

VI used to love playing the old text only adventure games(By Scott Adams?).

Yes, that was how I made my fortune before writing Dilbert.

[cjefferys]

I still remember, one of my fav games on the Commodore 128 was called Realm Of Impossibility on discette

Everytime I wanted to play it, it would take 22 minutes for that damn disc to fully load in

Oh yeah, Realm of Impossiblity was a great game, very fun. It was an early Electronic Arts game (they made some really good video games even back then). That program I mentioned above really helped with load times. Cut them in less than half.

Some of my other favourites were:

Bruce Lee
Raid on Bungling (sp?) Bay
Space Taxi
H.E.R.O.
Toy Bizarre
Archon
Winter and Summer Olympics
Impossible Mission (although I could never figure out the whole puzzle thing, probably because I didn't have the instructions!)

[Bo8a_Fett]

I kind of figured that you were getting to that. You just wanted to build up the suspense first. Isn't it funny how certain things made us feel important back in those days. For me it was a pager. Do people even use those things any more? Everyone just had to have one eventually.

yeah on nthe London Underground certain stations still use pagers for updates on travel news...it's so annoying

[Hector]

Ah...the Amiga. I remember it went hand-in-hand with the Video Toaster...that made for an excellent editing and video graphics machine.

[Hector]

Video Toaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

During the early 1990s the Toaster was used quite widely by many desktop video enthusiasts and local television studios and is even used during The Tonight Show regularly to produce special effects for comedy skits. It was frequently easy to detect a studio that used the Toaster by the unique and recognizable special switching effects. Also all of the external submarine shots in the TV series seaQuest DSV were created using Lightwave 3D, as were the outer space scenes in the TV series Babylon 5 (although Amiga hardware was used for all 5 seasons and in the following spinoffs like Excualiber). The fact is that the Amiga is still beign used to make movies like Iron Man and the game by the same name. Even Mac Format magazine is made on an Amiga a A1200 as said by the Editor and Chief ,"Macs cant handle the power we need." The list goes on. In summary the Amiga is still being used in alot of places

[mego73]

Did I remember it? Vic 20 and Commodore 64 was part of my family's livelihood back in the day. My father created computer games and sold them for the Commodore Vic 20 and 64.

They included Snakman, which was just like Pac Man (of course)



Pinball Wizard

and a couple others.

We made them on floppy and cassette and in the basement using about 12 Vic-20 or 64's. They sold quite well for a while.

[toystalker]

i just found a stash of about 20 vic 20 games carts in my shed, are they worth anything these days ?

[livnxxxl]

i just found a stash of about 20 vic 20 games carts in my shed, are they worth anything these days ?

I am by no means at all an expert in the Vic 20 field of games although I would think that the right interested person come along would make you a decent offer for them. Check out eBay's past winning auction history on them to see if you have something worth while. Sometimes certain cartridges, games or what have you are more rarer than others. Depending on what you may have and of course the condition. You may also want to try a Google search for sites that are specifically geared towards the Vic 20. I hope that helps a little. Best of luck!

[livnxxxl]

Yeah, I had a C-64 and C-128. We used them some at school between '85 and '88, but I mostly played games on them. "Kung-Fu Master", "Winter Olympics", "Pogo Joe", "Dr. Jay vs. Larry Bird" and "Airborne Ranger" and another basketball game were some of my favorites.


- Ian

Those were great games. I do not remember "Pogo Joe" so I am not sure if I had that one or not. Probably did I just do not remember it. I litterally had thousands of disks, but that one isn't ringing a bell of the top of my head. I liked all of the Winter Games, Summer Games and Knight Games editions. One on one with Dr. Jay vs. Larry Bird was great to for it's time.

[livnxxxl]

Some of my favs. just off the top of my head.


Gunship
Bop N Wrestle
Tenth Frame
Winter Games 1 & 2
Summer Games 1 & 2
Caveman - Ugh Olympics
Atomic Handball
Asteroids
Kung Fu Master
Airborne Ranger
Raid over Moscow
Dr. Jay vs. Larry Bird
Maniac Mansion
Zack McCracken and the Alien Mind Benders
Pit Stop II



Soooo many more I cannot begin to think of them all.

[livnxxxl]

Anyone remember the public domain side of games?

The Aztec Challenge was awesome for a FREE game.

I also like alot of those Sids and the Sid Player. Rob Hubbard was a great composer.

[livnxxxl]

Ah...the Amiga. I remember it went hand-in-hand with the Video Toaster...that made for an excellent editing and video graphics machine.

Yes, The Amiga along with the Video Toaster was quite the package to behold. I can remember walking in a Software store back in the day seeing a new Amiga displaying awesome graphics done by the Video Toaster. Very neat stuff indeed.