- That's some way to relive the trauma, add to that at least in my case that the tape was also a hit or miss, wonderful afternoons retyping things in that lovely keyboard. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
- In Spain we had to watch it in the news programs that went all crazy about it for a couple of days.
It's sad how things have changed, now we have the Apple CEO bowing like the rest.
- Nice selections both of you. Mines would be in no specific order: Battlezone. Asteroids. Pacman. Tempest. Pole Position.
BTW, even if those are my favorites I'm really bad playing them.
- As an owner of a ZX81 at the time it's difficult to explain what it was 3d Monster Maze at the time, first it was rare/unusual to have a computer at home, 2nd what they did with the game as simple as it looks today , graphics, gameplay etc .. was incredible.
- In that era, I had first seen a 2D 'computer maze' game on teletype (i.e. paper) terminals of the student friends I knew, who were learning mainframe things at home in a period (70's/80's) before computing got personal.
We kids weren't allowed to play that game much (better, Chess), since it emitted reams and reams of updates, but there was always about a 60cm pile of green teletype paper around, for re-using with a different colour ink ribbon ..
Seeing it on a ZX81 in this manner is just glorious!
And now, watching my kids playing Counter Strike in the background while I hack on some playDate thing or two .. what a change in resolution.
- Just seen something of interest for this post.Doom running on a camera. https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112678325976882369
- That link is pure really exhaustive. +1
- You should try the version with updated engine and graphics. https://www.hard-light.net/ It has a nice modding community.
- VRML, remember when was the hype, everything was going to be 3D. There were plugins for the web browser, but it didn't worked out it was slow as hell as internet at that time was limited (slow AF). "Jurassic Park" and "Hackers" movies with 3D file browsers, really nice but of less practical that the 2D representation.
- From what I recall it's a fantastic read, have to reread it again. As a nice but much less technical and deep complement you have https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/22/15820540/crash-bandicoot-a...
- I played it on the speccy too. It looked incredible when you read that it had 10000 levels. And also recalled that after a month or so all the codes were appearing on the magazines at the time. Beautiful absorbing game.
- More
Star Castle, Armor Attack, Tail Gunner (I think), and both vector goodness and real sound, full with bass notes front and center.
Bad. Lol. I think I got to red levels on Tempest once. Maybe twice. I still play play because it’s fun. My top score on asteroids is in the 70,000. And I’m sure I never completed any run on outrun despite owning the actual standup for a couple of years.
Damn right.