Something I remembered...

[Nesbroslash]

I just remembered how in my kindergarten class, we had Missile Command and Pac-Man clones on the class computers, as well as a generic clone of Columns where the gems where replaced by balloons. Has anyone else ever played a classic game clone when they were little and thought it was the real McCoy?

[Video]

I just remembered how in my kindergarten class, we had Missile Command and Pac-Man clones on the class computers, as well as a generic clone of Columns where the gems where replaced by balloons. Has anyone else ever played a classic game clone when they were little and thought it was the real McCoy?

Don't know that any of them made me thin they were the real deal, but I played tons of knockoff (clone) games back in the day. People act like piracy and blatantly ripping people off are new Ideas, but I guess it's been around since the first computers have.

 

Still, they were fun, Our AppleII's from school had Pac-man and missile command too, that must have been a common game or something for those computers. There was also asteroids, which the 2 did quiet well IMO, but I think none of the games were actually called what they were.

 

I copied the games to a disc, but we never did get any type of apple computer, simply to expensive. I probably still got the disk around here somewhere, but I bet it's corrupt by now. (assuming it wasn't cannibalized for some other games...we did have a C64, and while it looked better in pretth much every way, and was programmable, it would have still been cool to have some apple stuff.

[fiddlepaddle]

Don't know that any of them made me thin

I need to find a good game that'll make me thin.

[Video]

Doh, stupid typos I'm pretty sure most games did the opposite of make me thin though

[Eltigro]

I don't think any of the games I played were clones... Carmen Sandiego, Moon Patrol, and Oregon Trail are all that I remember though... they were on Apple II's I think...

[johnny_boy]

A friend of mine thought for the longest time that "Digger" for DOS was an original game, before I told him about "Mr. Do!". I'm sure he not the only one who got confused. Its graphics make fairly good use of its limited CGA palette, but it's not as good as the real thing.

 

http://www.digger.org/