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Play a quick round of Demon Attack tonight!

Get Super Football. A work of genius went into that one Well, my favorite has to be the M-Network Football. To this day, I wonder why real tacklers don't run AWAY from who they're trying to catch. They're bound to reappear right in front of the guy with the ball.

Yes, but the arcade game is raster, not vector. But didn't they make Scramble for the Vec? I remember playing it...

Well, we might clothe such maladies in words like "love," but woe be it unto you, my friend, when you start the next phase -- putting those quarters into slots. Trust me: You don't want to put those quarters in cleavage or the plumbers crack.

It's VERY well done. I honestly hadn't played it until tonight. Very challenging.

Very nice! Did you get to have any extended conversations with him? Otherwise, how was the con?

Why do you guys think the stores pass up on people who do know their stuff?

Never forget: Reviewers are there to get readers and keep them. Reviewers say good and stupid shit because they need people reading their words or they lose their job.

Clearly the Football was missing guided passes, like in the original (Unrealsports?) Football.

Imagic sure made some good games, eh? :-(

I don't understand. Are you guys in it for money? If you're tired of that game, sell it. Let someone else enjoy it. Now, if you're in it for money, then fine. I can understand why the upset. Still, I'm wondering where most folks' focus is?

Hey, I think it's a shame these text-only services are getting pushed aside. But you can't fight progress!

What was the difference between eating the shield and shooting it? Aside from the fact that one was much easier and the other was much riskier?

You watch. That kid's gonna run for office.

Yeah, this is the right stuff. This is part of our lives just like Humphrey Bogart and orchestras were part of our grandparents lives. They went to their last days loving those things, too.

They're all suffering. It's a combination of factors -- spammers, low retention by ISPs, new people not caring or knowing, etc. Of course, many people have predicted the Death of Usenet...

Wargames really threw me head first into wanting to get online. I had an A400 at the time and the first thing I did straightaway after having seen that move was call a local computer store and find out how much the modem cost. You could tell from the guy's tone that they must have fielded a bunch of calls from teenies with dreams of hacking NORAD. (It was $400 at the time!!!) So, I'd probably watch that again. I also liked Cloak And Dagger. I never was very good at the game, though. I think it appealed to so many of us simply because it had this element of being able to play an obscure, unreleased game. We _ALL_ wanted to do that at the time. Dabney Coleman can go get shot if he wants to, I'm playing this game!!

I like the answers here. I've never been very good at games and when I read magazines where the reviewers beat the game in a few minutes and then talk about how that makes it a bad game, I certainly feel quite inadequate. Having said that, I like to discover new levels and things. It's fun that way, too. Back in the classic days, we didn't have much of this level-level-level-boss stuff (or the expansive worlds), so the only two points really there were the score and the amount of time you could play. It's certainly different these days.

So, what do you do? Just play until you get to a point you can't get past?

What's your philosophy on beating games? Do you believe you must beat every game? What do you do with games you don't beat? Are people who don't beat games lesser gamers?

What would happen if you opened it? Seriously. What's your hangup?

I owned an SMS. I got it cause, well, I couldn't afford an NES at the time. I didn't really care for the unit, but I didn't stick with it long enough either. Anyone know why Coleco is doing this?

Hmmmm... I wonder if age plays any factor in the way folks felt. As far as I know, Pac Man 2600 was released in 1981, which would put me at 10 or 11, depending upon the month. In any case, I'm not sure I was mature enough to care.

That's a good point about the difference between being good at the home game versus the arcade game. I remember always having been pretty good at 2600 Asteroids. I just played it again today after all these years and somehow my memory seemed to exclude the fact that the smaller asteroids still moved the same line as the bigger ones. This made the game infinitely easier than the arcade version.

Seems like most IRC channels are comprised of several folks not saying anything at all. I've always wondered why that is... :-(