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  1. Posted

    Amstrad/Schneider CPC

    Bruce Lee: 30 min

     

    VIC 20

    Avenger: 7 min

    Rat Race: 5 min

     

    Vectrex

    Mine Storm: 5 min

    Armor Attack: 7 min

    Vector Pilot: 10 min

     

    Sharp 68000

    Chourensha: 10 min

     

    Philips G7000

    Gunfighter (#14): 3 min

     

    Atari 2600

    Frogger: 10 min

    Mario Bros: 10 min

     

    Atari 800

    Mashed Turtles: 6 min

     

    A ton of variety this week. The reason is that yesterday, I was at the DoReCo in the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn/Germany. Lots of geeks soldering, lots of systems ready to play, lots of fun conversations.

    Noteworthy among the games are Mashed Turtles on the Atari 8-bit (a Freeway-like game for 8 players - simultaneously) and Vector Pilot (an excellent and very hard port of Space Pilot) for the Vectrex. I also had the opportunity to play through the Bruce Lee port for the CPC twice, which is one of my all-time favourite games on the C64. Took me a while to get used to the slightly different mechanics. It was very helpful that the guy who had set up the CPC had hacked 99 lives into the game :-).

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  3. Posted

    Atari 2600

    Fatal Run: 5 min

    Frogger: 20 min

    Mission 3,000: 3 min

    Moon Patrol: 8 min

     

    Commodore 64

    Bruce Lee: 8 min

     

    A shame that I had so little time that week. We played Frogger on difficulty A in the HSC, and I love that game. Only had time to squeeze one quick session in, leaving me about 2k points short of my previous personal best.

    The 8 minutes of Bruce Lee were played on original hardware. Even while visiting my dad over the weekend, I just had time enough to fire up the C64 for one playthrough.

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  11. Posted

    Atari 2600

    Bank Heist: 8 min

    Centipede: 1 min

    Gangster Alley: 10 min

    Millipede: 2 min

    Missile Command: 12 min

    Outlaw: 4 min

    Star Wars – Jedi Arena: 3 min

    Super Breakout: 35 min

     

    A little more above detection limit this time. I played Missile Command, Centipede and Millipede to test the trackball controller I scored in an ebay lot recently. Predictably, it doesn't work all that well, even if it works. Mine has one direction broken. It seems like one of the magnetic clicky switches triggered by the rotating magnets is kaput. The longer playtime for Missile Command is a result of me plugging in the Joystick after testing the trackball and playing a decent round just for fun.

     

    Most played: Super Breakout for the current Paddle Weeks in the HSC. We are playing Game 7, which I love. Here's hoping that I find some more time to play. I am still around 300 points short of my previous highscore for that game variant.

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  16. Posted

    Game Boy Megalit: 12 min

     

    A puzzle game I grabbed off a flea market for € 1.50. Nothing to write home about...

     

    Pong 5 min

     

    Well, kind of. Last week, I was invited to an official event, where they had a mechanical Pong Coffee Table on display. It is intended to be coin-op, and it looked utterly awesome, with a colourful and futuristic attract mode and a very high quality feel to it. I didn't have a camera with me, but I did grab a flyer. See attached photos. They also had cubic Atari style seats to go with it, which were super-awesome and also felt high-quality.

     

    But - and that's a huge "but": the gameplay... the game works magnetically. There seems to be a mechanism under the playfield that moves the bats and the ball (i.e. white blocks) along. The huge heavy paddle wheel feels great at first, but it's extremely laggy, has lots of inertia and feels altogether mushy. The ball doesn't follow a straight line, but does little zig zag movements. Borderline unplayable if you are used to the instant pixel-perfect paddle controls of Pong and the 2600. And certainly not fun.

     

    So how does their slogan "Lets bring back the Magic" hold up? Very well - as long as you don't play it. A price point of roughly € 3,500 apiece doesn't help either:

     

    https://pinball-universe.de/694-pong-table-classic

     

    The seats... now those are tempting, I must say. The price is high, but they really do look and feel great. You can see them if you scroll down the page.

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  17. Posted

    Exactly 20 years ago, on February 20, 1999, an awesome website was started to collect and preserve solutions, maps, stories and everything else around good old text adventures, or Interactive Fiction, if you will. The site is still online, ist still being maintained, and still being contributed to by different users. It is, as far as I can see, one of the best, if not the best archive for anyone who is into this flavour of gaming.

     

    Here is a little reminiscence written by the fine fellow called Jacob Gunness, the owner:

     

    https://solutionarchive.com/casa_20_years/

     

    I highly recommend the text, and the whole site, to anyone who has a soft spot for text adventures.

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