Omega-TI Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 We all have our personal favorite games for our TI, but what are your two favorites, and honorable mention, that are playable on an UNEXPANDED system? 1) My first is BORZORK by Nanochess. I wanted that game for the TI like forever, it's the main one I go to when I have some time to kill. AWESOME GAME! 2) My second is 'currently' Dragon's Lair by Tursi. I still suck at the game, but it totally blows me away with what it's doing with sound and graphics on an unexpanded system. 3) My honorable mention is Parsec as it's partially responsible for originally getting me into the TI in the first place and it's a good play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Two Favourites: - Bouncy's Obstacle Course (great music, relaxing and pleasant) - Dragon's Lair (technical marvel) Honourable Mention: - Super Demon Attack (just an altogether really solid fixed shooter with interesting enemy patterns). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Top two: TI Invaders Centipede Honorable mention: Donkey Kong or Bigfoot 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Isn't a cartridge an expansion in itself? 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 ti game: alpiner 3rd party: bigfoot homebrew: dragon's lair 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsf Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 I have to judge by nostalgia, and not quality. My favorites are Adventure (Pirate Adventure specifically), Car Wars, and Blasto 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 My favorite is Bouncy's Obstacle Course (of course). Closely followed by Dragon's Lair and Pitfall! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 (edited) As long as your not counting the MP3 / tape player and interface cable as a "expansion": Same Colors by senior_falcon. Honorable mention to Morphy. Carts that dont need TIPI/32K/FinalGrom: Dragons lair, hands down. Honorable mention to Zero Zap <Ducks for cover> Edited August 30, 2019 by jrhodes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xabin Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 I'm rather keen on Hunt the Wumpus and Peter Cottontail's Egg Hunt, myself. Never got to try Tursi's Dragon's Lair pack, so I wouldn't know about it. Curious about Pitfall on the TI, though. Speaking of Donkey Kong, I'm trying to convince my boyfriend that it has all of the levels from the arcade, just spread out, instead of one after the other like in the arcade; he thinks that the game was only able to fit in two levels. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted August 31, 2019 Author Share Posted August 31, 2019 1 hour ago, jrhodes said: Honorable mention to Zero Zap <Ducks for cover> I just KNEW somebody was gonna mention ZERO ZAP! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted August 31, 2019 Author Share Posted August 31, 2019 I don't see a single cartridge as an expansion myself. If you plug a Parsec cartridge in the console, it does not give the TI any more capabilities than it could already natively handle. It's just now days some of you Uber Programmers have come up with some pretty amazing programs that we could never have even envisioned or considered possible BITD. I mean really, if you could go back in time to any TI users group meeting in 1982 and plug in a Dragon's Lair cartridge, the place would have come unglued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 1 hour ago, --- Ω --- said: I just KNEW somebody was gonna mention ZERO ZAP! ? Are you guys poking fun at OLD CS1's favorite game? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Torrax Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 (edited) My top two games are Q*bert and Moon Patrol. Honorable mention to TI-Toad. Edited August 31, 2019 by Torrax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 16 hours ago, arcadeshopper said: ti game: alpiner 3rd party: bigfoot homebrew: dragon's lair Registered business, licensed title, R&D, full commercial package with manufactured hardware... what's a guy got to do to lose the homebrew tag? Maybe in twenty years I'll be "third party". 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted August 31, 2019 Author Share Posted August 31, 2019 I hereby nominate Tursi to third party status among us. Does anyone second the nomination? If so, voting will begin in a secondary thread. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 I think the product he put out was FAR superior to any Ti module producers, including TI. He is a step above. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Originally my favorite was TI Basic game TANKS using joystick the kids and I would play. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz442 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Adventure and Tunnels of Doom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 1 hour ago, --- Ω --- said: I hereby nominate Tursi to third party status among us. Does anyone second the nomination? If so, voting will begin in a secondary thread. ? I second the nomination, this second. Not a second too soon. Tursi for 3rd party! Go Tursi! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Trusi do not feel alone, I know that feeling. RXB has been distributed by no less than 9 third party TI99/4A producers and I am still stuck in Home Brew crowd. Even though sold in Cart form by Competition Computer, Asgard, Western Horizon (Budd Mills), and many others. Or not even on the lists. Yet RXB (Rich GRAMKRACKER Extended Basic) has been around since 1992??? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Registered business, licensed title, R&D, full commercial package with manufactured hardware... what's a guy got to do to lose the homebrew tag? Maybe in twenty years I'll be "third party". I always succeed in poking your sore spot..CorrectedModern third party: dragon's lairSent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Why the need to categorize games into TI/3rd party/homebrew? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Why the need to categorize games into TI/3rd party/homebrew?Got me.. it is a retro crowd thing to call anything new HomebrewSent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Yeah, I feel like the first party/third party/bootleg/homebrew distinctions can make sense in some contexts. I mean, those are pretty well defined in the case of say NES games, just due to the absence of magnetic media, the system manufacturer insisting on controlling all distribution, and the consequent necessity that bootlegs implement a circumvention device. But in the 80s home computing sphere, it's a bit weird. Granted, less so in TI's case, since they were more hands-on than some, and most popular original era games are mass-produced carts rather than magnetic media. But in an MSX or Speccy context for example, it really doesn't make much sense at all. I feel like it's mostly a case of language relevant to most popular gaming platforms of the era being somewhat erroneously extended to the entire market, when portions of the market don't really recognise these distinctions, and when, furthermore, in the present day, they've often become essentially meaningless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted August 31, 2019 Author Share Posted August 31, 2019 7 hours ago, sparkdrummer said: I think the product he put out was FAR superior to any Ti module producers, including TI. He is a step above. Damn straight! And if THAT don't qualify you for third-party status NOTHING will! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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