Mezrabad
-
Posts
913 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
1
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Store
Blog Comments posted by Mezrabad
-
-
On 1/22/2013 at 11:13 PM, Nelio said:I was going to skip this game until you mentioned that the character's animations were cool. I agree, they are! Particularly when doing a synchronized headbanging with both characters!
I always assumed you had a full time job. So, you're about to graduate... 6 years ago. lol
hahah yes! In 2007 I graduated (slightly before turning 40) I started with getting a gig as an accounting clerk for about a year and then in 2008 moved to a big corporation that makes these cool phones with touch-screens on them that turned out to do pretty well...
-
On 1/22/2013 at 10:52 PM, Nelio said:
I agree! It looks very nice! I couldn't watch your video (broken link) but I tried the game. I was also surprised that you could rotate simultaneously while moving up or down. It's not a big deal, but I expected it not to work.
Seems like you dropped your Computer Intro section for good.
I'm glad you got to see the helicopter! I'm sorry my link was borked.
and yeah, I probably never picked Computer Intro again though I likely still have the book around.
-
On 1/22/2013 at 10:24 PM, Nelio said:
I'm sorry for being too anal about it but, they are either 4 planets orbiting around a star or 4 moons orbiting around a planet.
I tried to play the game in two different emulators, but it was buggy on both. Once any ship was destroyed I couldn't revive them, even if there were plenty of planets with the right color still around. ? Too bad, this seems like a nice game to try. I did watch some videos on YouTube, but it seems like everyone sucks terribly at it.
What happened to your Computer Intro section? I hope you haven't quit already...
LOL you're absolutely right on the "planets" vs. "moons" call-out. I don't know if I can blame a manual for that mistake either. I certainly knew the difference at the time. xD
Oh, I bet I totally bailed on the idea of the Computer Intro thing. From the start of this entry I can tell that I was already procrastinating creating new entries because of the long process for taking screenshots. (I think I had a digital camera and I was overwhelmed by the process of taking the pictures, moving them to the computer, deciding what to crop and use... it was just too much for me while I was going to University at night. If I didn't "get lazy" and simply things, the project would have stopped altogether, which, eventually it did.)
-
On 1/22/2013 at 9:34 PM, Nelio said:
There's a typo in this article's title.
Thank you! Fixed! ^ ^
On 1/22/2013 at 9:34 PM, Nelio said:The game wasn't too bad, would have been nice to have a single-player mode.
I don't disagree, it would have been nice. I did like this two player, even if implemented oddly. I don't actually remember playing this with my son. It makes entries like these priceless to me, personally, though.
-
On 1/21/2013 at 10:27 PM, Nelio said:
Now that was an unexpected read...
Yeah, it's an extremely strong memory and I honestly cannot see a black and white TV without thinking about the memory of the black and white TV I had in my room and that night seeing the news of the murder of John Lennon. I don't remember anything else about having it.
On 1/21/2013 at 10:27 PM, Nelio said:Yeah, I was wondering if you were going to comment on the exclamation point galore. Eeesh.
I'm curious to find out if you managed to make any interesting stuff with that cart. From what I remember reading, it was very, very basic. Not sure if you could do anything useful at all with it. I wonder if it inspired future game developers at the time, though.
They really ran with that exclamation point, didn't they?
I never did anything interesting with Computer Intro(!). In fact, I'd have to say that most of my adult life was spent coming up with ideas and not having the ability to concentrate hard enough to follow-through on them. I recently was diagnosed with ADHD which explains a hell of a lot about my lack of ability to follow through on anything my entire life. If I'd been diagnosed, say, in my teens or 20s, I may have lived a very different life. (Not saying a better one, just a different one.) Just being aware that this is a "thing" for me now makes it easier to "snap out of it" and pay more attention to what I'm doing vs. what I had intended to be doing. We're still working on figuring out a good dosage for me, but now that I'm aware of it, I get to hate myself a lot less.
-
On 1/21/2013 at 10:02 PM, Nelio said:
Just a reminder that the links above no longer work.
Aye, they sure don't. ?
-
On 1/21/2013 at 9:24 PM, Nelio said:
Oh, and all links are broken again.
?
-
On 9/21/2006 at 8:15 AM, Flack said:
The blogs on Digital Press is what inspired me to start blogging. After doing it there for a while, I had someone mention to me, "I wish you were on Live Journal -- it's so much easier for me to keep track of all my blogs in one place." That's when I decided to start posting them on both DP, and Live Journal. Somewhere in the middle I installed WordPress on my own website, and began duplicating entries there as well. And then wouldn't you know it, I had people telling me, "it would be SO much easier to track your blog entries if they were on MySpace ..." ugh! So, I signed up for MySpace. With the imminent destruction of the DP Blogs, I also signed up here, and yesterday I signed up at 1UP.com as well.
It has been my experience that while a small amount of people will read your blog no matter where it is posted, the vast majority of people who read it are people who blog the same place you blog, or are at least familiar with the site you're blogging on. In other words, MySpace users tend to read my blog on MySpace, LiveJournal users read it on LiveJournal, and so on. Each time I mirror my blog again, I gain more readers and make more friends.
The one thing I didn't like about DP's blog system was that it wouldn't notify you when someone responded to your blog, something that this (AA) and MySpace do really well. Since Digital Press is moving to the same software Atari Age runs, I hope to see the same blog software installed at some point.
Flack!!!! Reading this again reminds me how much I always liked how you write. I hope you're doing well. (I haven't gotten to the point of my return where I actually start looking people up yet. Mostly because I don't expect that many will remember me. Regardless, it's great to see "you" here even from 15 years ago.)
-
On 1/21/2013 at 9:09 PM, Nelio said:
None of the links work now.
Dang. I don't have the strength to fix all those links again. I will remove them and not call them links. Thank you for checking.
On 1/21/2013 at 9:09 PM, Nelio said:You have a typo above: Magnavox.
Fixed!!! (only took 8+ years)
-
On 1/21/2013 at 9:02 PM, Nelio said:
You should check, indeed.
That never crossed my mind... interesting. Kinda like "chronometer", I see. Oh well, need more emphasis on the GAMER part, I suppose.
Never happened.
For some reason you skipped the remaining Channel F games and jumped to the Odyssey 2. Perhaps because they were actually released in 1980+?
Nelio, you were my long-suffering friend/reader from the future and now you're my long-suffering friend/reader from the past. I do apologize from the bottom of my heart that I was and may yet still be such an inconsistent person at this.
-
Damnit, i did it again, Nelio posted something in 2012 and I accidentally deleted it. grrrr. He was saying that in 2012 he went to look for my blog over on DP but to no avail.
This is why I should sleep more, else I start deleting bits of history. Sorry, Nelio!
-
On 11/4/2012 at 7:12 PM, Nelio said:
Oh, nice that you tried Boxing again and corrected your previous statement on the AI!
xD I haven't seen that correction yet. I've been reformatting entries but not really re-reading them. I guess I'll do that after I've finished reformatting. I actually wrote a little correction in the entry a couple nights ago that my memory seems to think I must have plagiarized from somewhere else but I have no idea where I could have read another explanation of this game.
(ooooh, now I see the correction! herp derp)
-
On 1/7/2017 at 2:27 PM, lancegmason said:
[1] Open command box to your roms folder
[2] Type copy /B apf1013a.bin+apf1013b.bin SpaceDestroy.bin
You now have a single cartridge that will work with MESS/MAME.
[4] Open command to your mame/mess folder and load your rom (wherever you put it)
[3] mame apfimag -cart "SpaceDestroy.bin" -keepaspect
Note: If your rom image does not work, try:
Type copy /B apf1013b.bin+apf1013a.bin SpaceDestroy.bin
instead.
Controls seem to be:
LEFT=Left arrow
RIGHT=Right Arrow
FIRE=Number pad Enter.
It is super cool of you to have provided these instructions for Nelio and others that came after. Thank you, Sir Lance!
-
On 11/4/2012 at 1:18 PM, Nelio said:
I couldn't play most of these games on MESS, so I was hoping for some screenshots here. The links to the videos don't work, so tough luck for me. ?
I wonder if you still have this stuff and you'll be able to put them online again.
On the discussion above, about video cameras, we've come a long way since 2006. Digital cameras are very practical nowadays and you can get an MPG or AVI file straight away, and even upload directly to YouTube through your wireless LAN. Yes, that's how we do things here in the future.
Sadly, I have no idea where any of this stuff has gone.
The intervening years were a rough patch. I still have my physical things, but I'm unsure about where any of my digital things are. Even if I had the foresight to back this stuff up, they're probably burned into a CD-ROM that I might not even be able to read anymore. (I have one CD drive in the house. A superdrive that works with a MacBook Pro from 2015 or so.)
-
1
-
-
On 11/4/2012 at 1:05 PM, Nelio said:
By the way, your video isn't working. I think I already mentioned it before, but nothing on your chronogamer.com domain is working.
The whole blog is absolutely riddled with linkrot, I'm so so sorry to say.
-
On 11/4/2012 at 10:59 AM, Nelio said:
There's something that you mentioned that doesn't make much sense, probably because you simply forgot about it by the time you wrote this entry. The 3 computer-controlled fighters are actually quite different, at least on the emulator. One barely punches, another never stops punching (he's a pain to beat), and the last one is something in-between those two.
I had remembered they were different, but I hadn't remembered enough about their differences to write about them. I just now made an edit to the entry, though I can't remember if what I just wrote was something I read elsewhere in the intervening years or if it was something I'd figured out on my own. My brain bugs me sometimes.
-
On 11/4/2012 at 11:06 AM, Nelio said:
Oh, on the "ZZzZ" discussion above, I don't understand your gripe with it. I think it can apply to both being asleep or having lost consciousness. Of course they're not the same thing, but it's just simply implying that the person isn't conscious. I don't think it has to necessary mean the person is snoring - more likely just an indication that the person is still breathing and not dead.
Oh, I think I was making reference to the idea that I only saw "ZZZs" as something people do when they're asleep, but it was pointed out to mean "snoring" which can happen if someone is asleep or knocked unconscious (different from sleep in a few ways, but I'm no doctor.)
-
On 1/20/2013 at 10:04 PM, Nelio said:
I'm not that much into bowling to understand everything you praised about the game. But I also had fun with it, and found the graphics to be pleasantly simple and elegant.
I'm sure I've mentioned this in other Bowling videogame experiences, but after thinking about it some, I realized that Bowling was one of the very few Real Life experiences I could claim that have been translated into videogames. (Skiing is another. Driving should count, too.)
-
On 1/20/2013 at 9:49 PM, Nelio said:
Hah! I hadn't thought of it in the sense that Checkers was a "simpler version" of Chess! Weird decision. It would be great if someone involved with the Channel F in the day could share some insight on this. But that's probably another great story we'll never hear.
I wish someone had asked someone who might have known. I had remembered playing Checkers on the Channel F but I'd forgotten I'd used the MESS for it. (MESS doesn't exist in 2021 anymore, it's merged or something with MAME or another emulator designed to play a bunch of different emulators. I'm SOOO lost now with emulation and I used to be able to feel my way around before.) I'm really happy I found this entry for Checkers. While playing through 1980 there have already been three checkers games. I'm glad I don't need to do this one after all.
-
On 8/11/2007 at 6:44 PM, e5frog said:
If you read the instructions carefully (perhaps a babelfish-translation from German to English from the instructions on my page http://go.to/channelf, direct link: http://w5.nuinternet.com/s660100106/gallery/txt/saba20.txt ) you'll notice that the game can be set to different levels....
Ofcourse, the computer takes much longer time when increasing the level.
If you look at my avatar - that's how a re-built SABA#20 may look.
OH WOW! And PAC-MAN! Dang, I have missed out on the comings and goings of Channel F. I did get to play Tetris on the emulator though, that was a real treat.
Thank you for that link! I did figure it would take longer at higher levels. I'll babelfish the instructions. (Well, I don't think babelfish is still around (though that was an awesome name for it) but google translate is going strong.)
On 1/20/2013 at 8:44 PM, Nelio said:When you mentioned the "thinking light", in your 2005 quote, I thought you meant it was on the screen! Having it on the cart itself is kind of neat and weird at the same time!
I really do like the light!
-
On 1/15/2013 at 8:49 PM, Nelio said:
*phew*
It got me 2 months to get to this post. Why? Because I had to cover all the computer games from 1978, and, finally in 1979, I went through all arcades and pongs before moving on to the consoles. In fact, I still have to read about a few less known consoles (that you don't seem to have played) before joining you in the next entry.
Anyway, kind of strange that after two months without visiting, I start reading this entry and it's sooooooo depressing! And I was in such a good mood! lol
Talk to you soon!
(Here I am talking alone again.)
oh dude! I envy your journey. I do hope it has continued (Playing computer games, i mean, not the whole "talking alone" bit, which I'm kind of doing now, too.) And yeah, the thing about looking into the past, it's so easy to get nostalgic, morose and melancholic, at least it always has been for me. (even when I was a kid, which, I mean, c'mon, as a kid it wasn't like I had a whole bunch of years about which to feel melancholy, but I managed to do it then, too.)
-
1
-
-
On 3/27/2006 at 5:23 PM, Nathan Strum said:
I realize this is probably an evil question... but do you have any plans to include some of the handheld games from back then? (Of course, not all of them, but maybe a few of the more popular ones...)
Here in 2021, I've encountered something I never expected that would have made the handheld games better to play sooner rather than later: Eyesight!
Playing handhelds is a bit of a chore now. I can take off my glasses and hold things close to my face, but it's just not as pleasant as sitting at a desk or on a couch in the living room. I'm in my early 50s now and was in my late 30s when writing these entries originally. I just had no idea that it would become a hassle to play something on a tiny screen some day. (This eye sight kicked when I was about 45. I can play on handhelds with my glasses off, but if I'm wearing my contacts forget about it.)
-
On 11/20/2012 at 8:10 PM, Nelio said:
I liked your backstory! It's probably better than the real thing!
You know, the other day I was looking for pictures of some system - I think it was the Interton VC 4000 - and I ran into a website about old systems and found some of YOUR pictures there! I recognized the tiles on the floor! Let me see if I can find it again...
*searches*
Meh, I can't find it. If I run into it in the future, during my research, I'll post it here.
I think you do mention it in another comment as the "old computers" site. I think you also mentioned how oddly formatted some of my entries had become. (Which I hope I've fixed for good now, but who knows.)
-
On 11/20/2012 at 7:37 PM, Nelio said:
I'm looking forward for 1979, but I still have a few computers to cover: the Commodore PET, the TRS-80, and the Apple ][!
Here in 2021, I have an Apple II-GS that I probably got not too long before you came long and started commenting. I think I booted it up once or twice and was happy to discover it working. Apparently the thing has a board in it that's an entire working Apple II. I really love the computers from back then and I suppose I'll get around to exploring those, someday, too.
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
AtariAge on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Chat on Discord
War of Nerves (Odyssey^2, 1979)
in Chronogamer
A blog by Mezrabad in General
Posted
I literally have no memory of this game anymore. T_T I don't know why I left the exclamation points off my titles. I think that my sort of amused mocking of them broke down into annoyance at the fact they weren't entirely consistent with it. (Computer Intro, for instance.) (Yes, I should forgive them for not being consistent, since consistency isn't exactly a hallmark of my own personal behavior.)