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  • ghostdancer 583 days ago | parent | on: Usborne 1980s Computer Books
    I hate it when they do those things. When it asks about language and location set English and USA. I recall some of those books trying to adapt some of the listings to your own computer. Typing, save to cassette, correcting and retyping, save to cassette again and try again.
  • ghostdancer 610 days ago | parent | on: Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form
    This is destined to be on a shelf. It must be close to unusable unless you can connect a real size real keyboard. BTW, the bootnote is epic.
  • ghostdancer 618 days ago | parent | on: Westworld: the first film with CGI (and its source...
    Remember watching this as a child when it came out Yul Brynner was terrifying, so relentless. And the SFX were so realistic for me. The heat/infrared vision images. A total experience for me who was younger than the recommended 14 years old.
  • ghostdancer 618 days ago | parent | on: Tiny Computers from Texas
    That was an interesting read.
  • ghostdancer 635 days ago | parent | on: Happy Holidays Everyone!
    Happy holidays to you too. Thanks for to you building this place and to all the ones that are filling it with content and I hope creating a community.
  • ghostdancer 641 days ago | parent | on: Donkey Kong: A Record of Struggle
    Thanks, if it was not for your comment I'd not have read it cause I was thinking "No, not again, not another blog post about it"
  • ghostdancer 641 days ago | parent | on: Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers
    For the love of the FSM! There goes my evening jumping through all the posts.
  • ghostdancer 645 days ago | parent | on: The Invention Of Battlezone
    I still remember the first time I i saw a Battlezone machine in an arcade. It looked incredible to me, it was the most impressive videogame i had seen. It became also an economical disaster that afternoon. I could not stop playing and I was, still am, a disaster playing it.
    • jgrahamc 645 days ago
      The game that took all my money was Defender. But I do remember Battlezone was completely amazing. The whole 3D graphics and vector look were mind blowing. One day I'll break down and buy myself a Vectrex.
      • ghostdancer 645 days ago
        Defender was too difficult for me, had a friend at the time that was the only one playing it cause the rest were not up to the task. And a Vectrex is one of those things I keep saying my self I really don't want one and every few months reading about it and the new games that are our and sighing.
      • bmonkey325 644 days ago
        In Canada, Battlezone was $1 to play when most other games were $0.50 so I simply couldn't really afford to play it more than once or twice.

        Defneder and Stargate certainly took a ton of money off me. There was a pizza place down the street from me that had a Defender that I would play while waiting for my order on Friday nights.

  • ghostdancer 656 days ago | parent | on: Feature question: interests
    Looks like a nice idea.
  • ghostdancer 658 days ago | parent | on: Lunar Landing Game Related Documents
    Remember was one of the first games I typed in a computer, a BASIC version of this and a version of "guess the number".
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