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PC Games 1986 > 2009

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Gauntlet and Sabre Wolf!

and about 4 days of my childhood wasted trying to complete combat lynx
 
Bizarrely, I can see my speccy and zx81 from where I am sitting. I'm also reading through back issue of old computer mags at the moment. Great to read a review of the first Microsoft Mouse ("unlikely to be very popular").
 
Oh, and I must have "wasted" months playing Pools of Radiance from TSR...
 
I remember spending whole saturdays typing out those spectrum games from the magazines, checking and double checking the code with my brother as most of them didn't work, then they would print an apology the next week as they had left out or misprinted some of the code!....

Favourite spectrum games :

Jet set willy
Jet Pack
Lunar Jet Man
Valhalla
Manic Miner
Scuba Dive
Wheelie
 
And don't forget Radar Rat Race and The Hobbit (you are being watched by pale bulbous eyes......)
 
i have just turned my pc in to a c64 and am downloading hundereds of games......oh my god im young again!!!
 
Does anyone remember how one of the two joystick ports in the C64 was polled before the other? In other words (although I don't remember if it was that way round) if you had joystick 1 then the person with joystick 2 would always be polled just that fraction of a second later, so in any game which involved both players pushing and holding the joystick down to do something, the person playing with the first-polled port would win!
 
Does anyone remember how one of the two joystick ports in the C64 was polled before the other? In other words (although I don't remember if it was that way round) if you had joystick 1 then the person with joystick 2 would always be polled just that fraction of a second later, so in any game which involved both players pushing and holding the joystick down to do something, the person playing with the first-polled port would win!

So it was fixed, I knew it!!!

Please tell me it was the same on the Amiga?
 
If you can make it to Manchester's Urbis museum between 14th May and 20th September, 2009, you might want to visit their Videogame Nation exhibition. This looks like a great exhibition for fans of early computer gaming covering the rise of computer gaming in the UK over the last 30 years.......

Find out more here -
Urbis - videogame nation
 
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