tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2451249208412384226.post6890476956332617399..comments2008-08-15T01:53:12.938-04:00Comments on New (on the) Jersey Shore: Why would anyone steal a 10,000-year-old egg??Shrutihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388310999096054638noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2451249208412384226.post-74701506360130418642007-02-14T22:19:00.000-05:002007-02-14T22:19:00.000-05:00Geez, I played computer games in the Dark Days (TM...Geez, I played computer games in the Dark Days (TM), in the days of PEEKs and POKEs and learning BASIC on a Commodore 64 and PET (with cassette drives!) I was born too late; a few years earlier and I could have been a bazillionaire with the growth in home computers and needed software....<BR/><BR/>There's a typical '80s movie called WarGames. I forget what the real name was, but there was a BASIC "find your way through the castle" game that I renamed Falken's Maze. I'm not sure if there was really a point to it, though. You just wandered through the castle, collecting items and battling creatures and hoping you didn't get killed or transformed.<BR/><BR/>For arcade games, I was real good on Tempest, dropping many a quarter in and eventually getting to start on the higher two-digit levels. I also liked Rampage, where the apes beat up the city (and sometimes each other if you didn't like your opponent!)<BR/><BR/>I also had an Atari 2600. If we had the rapid fire device plugged in you could cheat at Asteroids and just hold down the button while spinning around in a circle. Combat, though simple, was good. Space Shuttle was too complicated for me to get the hang of.<BR/><BR/>I have the CD game of Where in the World... now I'll have to install it on my home computer.Hartsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03545970675595229413noreply@blogger.com