[Maze Craze: A Game of Cops and Robbers (Atari VCS, 1980)]

^ ^ Thank you! It's nice to be back.

[Chronogaming not dead, not even sleeping...]

Hi!!!

 

Yeah, Chrontendo is awesome. I used to link to it from my blog but I don't see it on there now! This shall be rectified. And Yes, Nelio, I could spend a lot of time there myself!

 

I'm not saying I'm back, but I will say that I cleaned up my darn computer room and got the Atari 7800 hooked up to the VCR which then goes to the old Sony PVM and I did actually play a little bit of Maze Craze... then I had to start hunting for another controller. It will be fun if one of my kids will play it with me. I may have to bribe them with something from Steam.

 

Hi, thegoldenband! Thank you and thank you for the link to the manual, heheh. I went and read it cover to cover. Now I want to learn something about maze algorithms...

[Let's get lame, boys!]

I haven't heard it yet! It's so great that he's still going strong. I remember putting my cassette recorder upside down over my clock-radio to record the Doctor Demento top 5, just in case a Weird Al tune was going to be on it. (Weird Al and Existential Blues which I actually still might have on cassette somewhere in a closet). Thanks for the review! I'll have to get it now.

[Back from Japan]

Wow, so I come back and think, "Hey, I think I'll do an entry" and then I can't figure out how to do an entry! xD I mean, literally, I can't figure out "new blog entry"... duh... more later...

[Outlaw aka Gunslinger]

Hmm.. I'm going to not watch that review on the grounds that I'm thinking of taking Chronogamer to YouTube and if I see something epic it might just scare me away. xD

[Space War, Atari VCS 1978]

Meh. I was hoping for a player vs AI mode. Playing alone is not that much fun. :-)

 

The docking game was interesting, though. More difficult than one initially expects. I guess that's why we're not all astronauts.

 

Yes! Oh, speaking of astronauts... Kerbal Space Program. Oh my god. I've been loving that game intensely lately.

[Basketball, Atari VCS]

I meant the AI, of course. IA is how we spell it in Portuguese, and I'm just too used to it. I'll probably make the same mistake quite often.

 

IA in the US is also the abbreviation for the state Iowa. Fun fact. xD

[1977 Retroview]

Hey!

 

It's been a long while since I've posted here. I've been stuck in 1979's games for a while. In fact, I'm just one game away to move forward to the 80s! YAY! But there are still quite some posts you haven't replied to me yet!

 

This has been a crazy year for me. Things at work have been bad aaaaaaand... I got divorced! lol

!!

 

Wow, I hope that 2014 is going better for you. And what I hear about divorce is that "happy marriages don't end in divorce" so it's a new beginning for you both and I hope it's going well!

 

Yes, I'm very behind in anything to do with this blog, though I've recently been forced to relocate my stuff. I'm hoping it will get me doing something again. ^ ^

[1978 Protoview]

Shoot, Nelio, that's a question I knew the answer to once-upon-a-time. It had something to do with the year being listed differently whenver I looked up its release date. Wow, the fact-checking I'll have to redo when I get started doing this again o_O makes me make a face.

 

I think it had something to do with the Zircon resurrection, though, I don't entirely remember what that was. D:

[1977 Retroview]

The controller was definitely a fun-subtractor but 8 years in my rearview mirror and I still remember my feeling of indignation over the apparent lack of "quality" control in them. Of course... I've never programmed anything decent looking in my life. The only game I ever successfully completed looked very blocky (It was a knock-off of Tetris, so I guess I can be forgiven.) A joystick would have certainly made some of them less physically painful, but the raw aesthetic anguish (in this context, on a relative scale, the word "anguish" is appropriate but certainly not in real life.)

 

Nelio, my friend, I hope you are doing well and may I say again how helpful those prev-next links are for fixing these articles up? Thank you!! ^ ^

[Air-Sea Battle + Little Girl]

Hey, thanks! I tried to fix it but I think I pasted the link to the "edit" page for the previous entry. Derp! ^ ^

 

Thanks for the kind words about my daughter. We made her ourselves! (bought a kit at WalMart.)

[Star Ship]

WOW... okay very interesting and I didn't know the bit of retro-conning about the maw either. very cool! I like how, when we all work together we learn stuff! Whooo!

[Space War]

BEWARE!!!! OMG... NUUUUU! It's like you've dug up that native indigenous burial ground and BROUGHT THE REMAINS INTO YOUR HOME!!!! xD

 

Enjoy it in a sort of twisted "I'm having so much fun because this is so bad" kind of way... it's the only way to maintain your sanity.

[Fun Tzu]

!! When did we get like buttons?

[Back from Japan]

@thelooon: Actually I adored the uniformed, customer facing politeness of all of the adorable shop people (even the guys, I just adored them in a "bro" way). I'm in customer service and A. I learned a few things and B. for quick transactions that require little interaction I love the extremely polite personas. For some reason having a cute girl say a bunch of very polite sounding things and then her giving me a bow (all this at the 7-11) makes me want to retire in Japan someday. I know I'm guaranteed to smile at least once a day.

 

@thegoldenband! Hi and thank you for your encouragement!

[#14 Sonar Search, Fairchild '77 recap.]

Slowly moving forward... and yeah, Channel F coulda been a contender. It's one of my favorite "also rans".

[Videocart # 10 - Maze and Backgammon]

Yeah, I don't know how they got like this, but it's interesting to note that when I edited this entry the "next" link from the previous entry broke, and your "previous" entry link in the comments of the next entry also broke. Thanks for doing that, by the way!

[Anyone play SG-1000?]

Wow, I had no idea the SG-1000 games would play on the Telegames Personal Arcade! (which I thought had always referred to a Sears thing). Apparently when the Telegames Personal Arcade was released in the States it was marketed as a Colecovision compatible system and didn't talk about the SG-1000 compatibility (I guess because those games weren't sold in the States?) Wow, thanks for making me want to give this system a closer look.

[Atari Video Computer System]

Wow, thanks for all of the "Previous Next" links! I will fix how these things look.

 

I love that you've run with that "crap game from hell" line. xD

[Videocart # 10 - Maze and Backgammon]

WOW I guess this was as far as I got in the Redux. All of the previous entries I'd actually gone back, reformatted and re posted the pictures for. THIS entry is how they had all looked... okay, I guess I know where I need to restart the redux.

[#9 Drag Race]

David Crane wrote a Dragster game too for the Atari 2600, I understand that his is really fun too once you "get it". I'm still not out of 1980 though. Maybe soon.

[#8 Mindreader and Nim]

hahah, yes! I was cheating. I just remember reading the solution and being fascinated by it. "Here's the tangled mess and here's the one thread you can pull to untie it all." I don't think I understood -why- that solution works and I think that's what I had hoped to understand by doing it on paper.

[Space War, Math Quiz I + II]

Interesting bit about our countries doing division differently! That would have never occurred to me either!

[Spitfire - Fairchild VES]

KLOV is our friend! So is MAME. I find it hard to compare home videogames with arcade videogames. On the one hand, Arcade Videogames were designed for you to eventually lose OR to keep taking your quarters. Home videogames went through a sort of evolution where slowly designers realized that even though everyone wanted arcade ports, they could do so much more. (Adventure being the best early example of this, I think.)

[We pause for a PSA.]

Ah, some very good points, and yes, MMOs are time sponges. Especially Guild Wars 2, which I love.

 

I actually wrote this as sort of a parody, some articles urge people to do more with their lives than just play videogames. I just urge people to not forget to play different kinds of video games. Spending a life on videogames is fine. xD Alas, I have been neglectful of this.