I answered yes to all of those. I even remember the first time I played it, taking turns with my older brother at the Rolling Rock bar (which seriously had the BEST ribs in town). I even had a copy of that book. I read that in first grade while waiting for the other kids in the reading group to catch up to where I was in the primer.
I wish I had one of the tabletop models. That would make the best coffee table EVER.
Dude, you shouldn't let The Man tell you that you have to pay for your kids. If we were Eskimos at ten years old the kids would have to kill a polar bear with their bare hands and then fashion clothing out of its hide and jewelry out of its balls. If they failed they would be eaten. I think we should get back to that.
"I got a pocket full of quarters, and I'm headed to the arcade. I don't have a lot of money, but I'm bringing ev'rything I made. I've got a callus on my finger, and my shoulder's hurting too. I'm gonna eat them all up, just as soon as they turn blue."
Atari was my daddywriterboi329June 17 2005, 16:41:58 UTC
I lived for atari and pac man and spaced invaders and dig dug and the other games that occupied my childhood. i also answered "me" to the above listing of questions, and its good to know that a day of silence does not indicate death.
I've never been into videogames.... I guess I spent too much time outside, as a kid.
Even though I got my first computer when I was 8... I couldn't play games on it. It was an 8086 IBM-PC, with no graphics, no monitor (I hooked it up to a T.V.), no disk drive, and like 640 bytes of memory or something. It booted up into Basic. No wonder I spent so much time outside playing sports. LOL
Seriously, though... I couldn't play games on my computer. I had this vague notion that I had a cool new toy... but the only way I could actually use it, would be if I learned how to program in Basic. Gradually, over time, I got upgrades... more memory for a birthday, a monitor for christmas. By the time I got graphics and a disk drive, though, I already had learned how to program in Basic (plus, with the disk drive came a whole new puzzle to learn about: DOS
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Yeah, ASCII-based. You were a little arrow moving along at a constant speed (up, down, left, or right). You are trying to hit a target (the little house-shaped character), which would sit still but would change locations every so often.
You changed directions using the slash and backslash keys, which would put a "mirror" in front of your arrow: so if you're going right, slash would change your direction to up, backslash would change it to down. The thing is, each time you hit a key to change direction, the mirror would stay in the location you placed it in, and would change your direction whenever you hit it. So the longer you played, the more cluttered the screen got, and so the harder it would be to navigate to get to he target.
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I wish I had one of the tabletop models. That would make the best coffee table EVER.
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At $900, that's only three months of child support payments. Clearly, I need to quit paying that shit. (j/k)
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I don't have a lot of money, but I'm bringing ev'rything I made.
I've got a callus on my finger, and my shoulder's hurting too.
I'm gonna eat them all up, just as soon as they turn blue."
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In my defense, though...it was given to me. I didn't buy it.
Honest.
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Even though I got my first computer when I was 8... I couldn't play games on it. It was an 8086 IBM-PC, with no graphics, no monitor (I hooked it up to a T.V.), no disk drive, and like 640 bytes of memory or something. It booted up into Basic. No wonder I spent so much time outside playing sports. LOL
Seriously, though... I couldn't play games on my computer. I had this vague notion that I had a cool new toy... but the only way I could actually use it, would be if I learned how to program in Basic. Gradually, over time, I got upgrades... more memory for a birthday, a monitor for christmas. By the time I got graphics and a disk drive, though, I already had learned how to program in Basic (plus, with the disk drive came a whole new puzzle to learn about: DOS ( ... )
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You changed directions using the slash and backslash keys, which would put a "mirror" in front of your arrow: so if you're going right, slash would change your direction to up, backslash would change it to down. The thing is, each time you hit a key to change direction, the mirror would stay in the location you placed it in, and would change your direction whenever you hit it. So the longer you played, the more cluttered the screen got, and so the harder it would be to navigate to get to he target.
I was kinda fun.
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