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Re: KITTY! by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/28/2007, 2:05pm PDT
Zseni wrote:

everyone in the family played video games. We had computers my whole life and mom liked girl games (puzzles, rpgs, King's Quest) and dad liked chess programs, which he played incessantly, and it would get him fired from more than a few jobs too.


Holy shit. I love video games but I've never had that happen to me. There was no alt-tab back then either, so I guess when you got caught playing Battlechess at work the game stayed there as your boss at first tried to ignore it but then couldn't as the queen continued to shake her ass. Actually, that reminds me: I learned absolutely nothing about real chess from Battlechess because I'd "develop" my queen as soon as possible, since even EGA Queen was so GOD DAMN hot. I would have her out, killing off the computer's side and then intentionally let one of the computer's pawns get her because the animation where she loses her powers to the worst piece on the board is so humiliating. I don't know if we can still be friends after writing this, but I am assuming that by including "Juno First" into a game list I have bored off 90% of the audience.


Mom and Bro used to play Tetris - right when it first came out for PC, like what the fuck was that, 88? I was cool, man, back in the day, so it was only a source of mild frustration that I couldn't crack the Mom/Bro dominated top ten. Then one day I got 6th! Out of the blue, motherfucker! I was so happy about it, I think we even went out to dinner that night to celebrate my intiation into the cult of the high score board.


I think we had the "Spectrum Holobyte" release of Tetris, which used about 40% of the screen for the game. The rest of the background area depicted over-idealized scenes from what it's like to live in Russia. The backgrounds would rotate and I remember that one depicted some Russians in space. It would have been great if, as the game progressed and the scenes rotated back around, if every time the space scene came up another cosmonaut was missing from the picture. All right, it wouldn't have been that great, but there is no version of Tetris I know of for the 800 and I have no other place to put that.

Do you find you still enjoy Tetris, Zseni? I like having it around on various systems and platforms, but I don't know how much time I spend actually playing it.


ICJ
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I bought a Flashcart for Atari 800. Here are the games. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/27/2007, 10:27pm PDT NEW
    DONKEY KONG by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/27/2007, 10:34pm PDT NEW
        Re: DONKEY KONG by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/13/2017, 7:02am PDT NEW
    SHAMUS by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/27/2007, 10:56pm PDT NEW
        SHAMUS on the c64: Awesome, Impossible. NT by mark 08/30/2007, 11:15pm PDT NEW
        Got Shamus going again on my Atari 800. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/13/2017, 6:59am PDT NEW
    POGO JOE by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/27/2007, 11:12pm PDT NEW
    To clarify by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/27/2007, 11:21pm PDT NEW
        I actually played MULE on C64 with OTHER KIDS as recently as 1996. NT by Jerry Whorebach 08/27/2007, 11:48pm PDT NEW
            Re: I actually played MULE on C64 with OTHER KIDS as recently as 1996. by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/28/2007, 12:08am PDT NEW
            Family friends and I play the NES version each Christmas break. NT by mark 08/30/2007, 11:16pm PDT NEW
    WIZARD OF WOR by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/28/2007, 2:45am PDT NEW
    JUNO FIRST by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/28/2007, 2:51am PDT NEW
    CENTIPEDE by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/28/2007, 3:01am PDT NEW
        KITTY! by Zseni 08/28/2007, 10:51am PDT NEW
            Re: KITTY! by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/28/2007, 2:05pm PDT NEW
                Caltrops is my Tetris now. by Zseni 08/29/2007, 12:26am PDT NEW
                    play Tetris Attack by Bananadine 08/30/2007, 4:02pm PDT NEW
                        Kirby's Avalanche. NT by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 08/30/2007, 8:40pm PDT NEW
                            Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine by any other name is still just Puyo Puyo :( NT by Jerry Whorebach 08/30/2007, 9:45pm PDT NEW
                                agreed by Bananadine 08/31/2007, 4:25am PDT NEW
                                    What are your thoughts on Pokemon Puzzle League? by Jerry Whorebach 08/31/2007, 5:01am PDT NEW
                                        Re: What are your thoughts on Pokemon Puzzle League? by Bananadine 08/31/2007, 6:35pm PDT NEW
                        Tetris Attack is indeed the king of Tetris Clones by FABIO 08/31/2007, 5:01am PDT NEW
                    What are your views on Modern Tetris? by Worm 08/30/2007, 10:22pm PDT NEW
                        Tetris is the sort of game you really want to run off a hard disk, not a DVD. by Jerry Whorebach 08/31/2007, 12:12am PDT NEW
                            Well that didn't take long. Buyer beware: I don't think it's very good. NT by Jerry Whorebach 10/03/2007, 10:15am PDT NEW
            Re: KITTY! by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 08/28/2007, 2:14pm PDT NEW
                Re: KITTY! by Zseni 08/29/2007, 12:31am PDT NEW
                    Actually I did not almost get fired. But it's definitely good to BE working. NT by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 08/29/2007, 12:37am PDT NEW
                        Kill your booss. NT by Zseni 08/29/2007, 2:36am PDT NEW
                            No. ^_^ NT by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 08/29/2007, 3:15am PDT NEW
                    Re: KITTY! by Mischief Maker 08/29/2007, 7:44am PDT NEW
                This was a funny Jhoh Cable post. 2007. NT by Souffle of Pain 06/30/2011, 9:54pm PDT NEW
                    So no, he hasn't posted anything funny in more than three years. NT by Fortinbras 06/30/2011, 10:39pm PDT NEW
                        What about Josh? Has he EVER done anything funny? by caltrops blank 06/30/2011, 11:33pm PDT NEW
            This explains why you can never leave a thread without having the last word NT by Mischief Maker 08/30/2007, 11:16pm PDT NEW
    I was thinking of downloading an atari emulator to find some old games I played by Grumah 08/28/2007, 6:46am PDT NEW
    Give Star Raiders a try by Mischief Maker 08/28/2007, 12:47pm PDT NEW
        Oh, it's in the queue, boyo by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/28/2007, 1:45pm PDT NEW
            Would you kindly. NT by Atlas 08/28/2007, 1:52pm PDT NEW
            Moira is a pain in the neck alright NT by Grumah 08/28/2007, 2:15pm PDT NEW
            Are ye tellin' me, mui wife an' chile NT by Atlas 08/28/2007, 2:38pm PDT NEW
            I'm not so sure about that by Mischief Maker 08/28/2007, 2:48pm PDT NEW
                Re: I'm not so sure about that by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2007, 11:28am PDT NEW
    LODE RUNNER by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/27/2012, 10:47am PDT NEW
        This is one of those games that holds a certain mystique over me by Arbit 08/27/2012, 2:19pm PDT NEW
            Fact: my dad spent dozens of hours on Lode Runner when he was older than us NT by Fullofkittens 08/27/2012, 5:16pm PDT NEW
 
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