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Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

Again thinking about the ST, it had this cool early flight simulator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwna7jBxCfc

As a five year old I was proud if I just got the plane to move forward and at some point I actually did manage to take off. It was pretty impressive to see an actual rendered landscape with a city and mountains on a screen back then.

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iastudent
Apr 22, 2008

I'm getting an A8! :dance:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131119798001?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Gromit
Aug 15, 2000

I am an oppressed White Male, Asian women wont serve me! Save me Campbell Newman!!!!!!!

d0s posted:

It's pretty criminal to make an Amiga megapost and not talk about demos. Problem is, I know nothing about the demoscene beyond State of the Art. It would be awesome if someone knowledgeable would make an Amiga demoscene megapost listing the coolest demos!

I wish I knew anything interesting about the demoscene at all, but it was very euro-centric and I'm all the way down here in Australia so had no idea what was going on. However, I loved me some demos so here's some that are worth a look:

This might well be the first one I ever saw, but my memory is hazy. I remember decompiling the music and seeing that it used a bunch of what I thought were awful sound samples from some released disk collection. Just goes to show what someone can do when they are great musicians.
DOC demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNSx_fgtq1o


Enigma/Phenomena. I like this one more for the music than the visuals, really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuesTvUYsSc


HumanTarget by MelonDesign. I'm putting this one in mainly because this is the first time I think I've seen the demo. I only got the music track back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLWkgtb8bg


Looking through some demo lists I see I lied about the DOC demo being the first I saw. The first had to be this one, the Juggler demo that was used in shop windows to show off the Amiga, and I would have seen this well before I bought my Amiga 2000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSGvQSWfZc


Another one I like for the music - Rebels Coma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy6n7Wd3IeM


Honourable mention goes to the Bar Brian demo, using samples from the game Barbarian. They win the award for sneaking rampant cartoon cock into a demo. Lots of Amiga demos featured animation that went along with each of the 4 audio channels, and this takes that to the extreme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAaUlcl7gfk


Not demo related, but did anyone post about the Video Toaster in this thread yet? I think because the system was clocked so well in relation to video hardware of the day it was well-suited for work on broadcast video systems. The Toaster was a hunk of hardware that would let you do effects and video work for TV, but don't let me tell you about it. Listen to Wil Wheaton, Penn Jillete, and Tony Hawk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_K8vnx2ZDc

I really should go to my shed and look through all my Amiga floppies to see what demos I liked so much, rather than look at lists on the web and hope something jumps out at me.

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass
Check out the Mind Candy DVD's--they are top quality collections of great demos. They put a ton of work into getting the demos to transfer to DVD without issues (there are all kinds of nightmares with framerates, interlacing, etc.) and it really shows in the great quality. Looks like you can download the out of print DVDs for free now too: http://www.mindcandydvd.com/

My favorite demos are from the early PC days. Future Crew in particular did some amazing stuff like Second Reality, which basically proved the PC could be just as good and even better than the Amiga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA

I still love the soundtrack from that demo.

Pierzak
Oct 30, 2010

mod sassinator posted:

My favorite demos are from the early PC days. Future Crew in particular did some amazing stuff like Second Reality, which basically proved the PC could be just as good and even better than the Amiga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA

I still love the soundtrack from that demo.
And after watching the original Second Reality, watch this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPW40ygds4

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Pierzak posted:

And after watching the original Second Reality, watch this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPW40ygds4

Haha drat, that is pretty impressive for a C64.

One thing I forgot to mention about the Mind Candy DVDs--most of the demos have commentary tracks with the original authors (including Future Crew for Second Reality) and are super fascinating. A lot of them explain how they made certain effects, how long they spent working on them, etc. Really great stuff if you're at all interested in the demo scene.

Gromit
Aug 15, 2000

I am an oppressed White Male, Asian women wont serve me! Save me Campbell Newman!!!!!!!
Sticking those 2 into Youtube Doubler was great to compare them. I mean, the timing is different but you get to see the effects nicely. Amazing stuff on the C64.

e: And both the first and second Mind Candy DVDs are available for free download. Nice.
http://www.mindcandydvd.com/

Gromit fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Feb 24, 2014

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

I know this thread seems to be more about physical computers, but any tips on Amiga emulation for someone who never owned a real Amiga?

I can get one running, but don't really know what to do next. Or would I be better just picking up Amiga Forever?

d0s
Jun 28, 2004

Angrymog posted:

I know this thread seems to be more about physical computers, but any tips on Amiga emulation for someone who never owned a real Amiga?

I can get one running, but don't really know what to do next. Or would I be better just picking up Amiga Forever?

Find ADF files of games you want to play, put them in the emulator's virtual drives, boot the emulator. Make sure you have Kickstart 1.3 ROMs in it's config directory.

El Estrago Bonito
Dec 17, 2010

Scout Finch Bitch

Red Warrior posted:

Another good resource for Amiga game recommendations is Amiga Power's Top 100 list which ran annually.
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/legend/top_100s.html

Hosted on an old site put up by some AP alums years ago that has all kinds of fascinating little tidbits if you used to read what was by far the best Amiga games mag back in the day.
Most of the Amiga Power magazines are uploaded here:
http://amr.abime.net/

mod sassinator posted:

My favorite demos are from the early PC days. Future Crew in particular did some amazing stuff like Second Reality, which basically proved the PC could be just as good and even better than the Amiga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA

I still love the soundtrack from that demo.
By the time Second Reality came out the Amiga was dead anyways.

Salt n Reba McEntire
Nov 14, 2000

Kuparp.
Ooh, demos!

Obligatory Spaceballs links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCc5ZHqwdXY - State of the Art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-RfTaxcMw - Nine Fingers

Also have fond memories of the LSD Grapevines - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapevine_(disk_magazine) - that managed to work their way around our big piles of copied floppies (if you didn't sit up 'til the early hours of the morning cursing XCopy and Nibbler you were doing it wrong). I think Hugi picked up from where it left off, but didn't have the charm for me. And the last ones were full of terrible teenage drama (we were all terrible and teenaged).

Europe was a great place to be for the Amiga in those years. Good times.

Dr. Quarex
Apr 18, 2003

I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

TOVA TOVA TOVA
As a former mildly prolific demoscener myself I feel obligated to post a link to Nectarine Demoscene Radio, as it is pretty much your one-stop shop for amazing computer-based nostalgia:

https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/

And this is even coming from a member of the USA/DOS demoscene which is pretty largely underrepresented due to Nectarine's Euro/Amigacentric focus (but fortunately that happens to still make it awesome).

d0s
Jun 28, 2004

Here's some stuff I neglected to include in my games post because I'm an idiot:

Leander - Traveller's Tales



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mROgK7srbDM

Very good platformer/hack and slash by Traveller's Tales. Reminds me of Conquest of the Crystal Palace for NES of all things. :woop:ALLOWS A SECOND BUTTON FOR JUMPING:woop:

Cybernoid/Cybernoid II - A.P. Cooper



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0k_kS49sek

Very "C64-ish" series of shooters, cool music.

Wolfchild - Core



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lF1rSfZFhI

You're a werewolf trying to save his dad or something :furcry:. Strange plot but great graphics, lovely controls.

X-Out - Rainbow Arts



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeEmfFdyLlM

Cool but very difficult shooter where you can build out a ship before the game which adds an element of strategy. Great atmosphere.

Assassin - Psionic



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j0GQ0vQwUI

Inane sidescroller with bad controls, still kind of fun??

Shadow of the Beast Series - Reflections



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-U6HUaAONI

Famous series of sidescrollers with great art direction.

Speedball/Speedball 2 - Bitmap Brothers


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5_h5iowgc

Excellent futuristic sports game.

d0s fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Feb 25, 2014

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Quarex posted:

As a former mildly prolific demoscener myself I feel obligated to post a link to Nectarine Demoscene Radio, as it is pretty much your one-stop shop for amazing computer-based nostalgia:

https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/

And this is even coming from a member of the USA/DOS demoscene which is pretty largely underrepresented due to Nectarine's Euro/Amigacentric focus (but fortunately that happens to still make it awesome).

Wow that's awesome--I remember listening to Nectarine back in the early 2000's. Glad to see it's still around.

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass
Something folks here might be interested in, it looks like Monoprice is having a sale on their mechanical keyboard: http://slickdeals.net/f/6743848-monoprice-mechanical-gaming-keyboard-cherry-mx-blue-43-shipping It looks a lot like a model M and has Cherry MX blue switches so it should have a similar feel and sound as the model M. No stupid gamer stuff like backlight or x-treme!! branding. Not a bad price ($43) considering how stupidly expensive mechanical keyboards can get.

Pierzak
Oct 30, 2010

d0s posted:

AMIGAAA :black101:
The list grows. Can you do strategy/RPG titles next?

Captain Rufus
Sep 16, 2005

CAPTAIN WORD SALAD

OFF MY MEDS AGAIN PLEASE DON'T USE BIG WORDS

UNNECESSARY LINE BREAK

Pierzak posted:

The list grows. Can you do strategy/RPG titles next?

I don't think he likes that sort of game much. Which is probably why he trolls me on IRC even though I spent a good 2 hours scanning that 1200 guide to save his sorry spending 1000+ on a x68000 rear end. :colbert:

But if you like Dungeon Master clones the Miggy is packed with them. I would list a site that has wrapper exes for a ton of Amiga games but that would probably be :filez: so I won't. (But feel free to ask me on IRC for the link. Consider this my way of forcing more of you fucks to get onto #retrochat. Plus we can troll you with Vkeios' love for anime and I can annoy with Two Best Sisters Play and TGWTG which apparently enrages people.)

Strategy isn't as big though. A lot of PC ports mostly. And Battle Isle. And Cannon Fodder and Lemmings if you want to call them Strategy.

See that's the thing with the Amiga. If you aren't in the UK it is really a giant pain in the rear end. But if you don't mind not Amiga experience a shitload of games were on other platforms, sometimes better sometimes worse.

Unlike how most NES ports of C64 games were a sin against both God and Man, Genesis from Amiga usually ended up as good, sometimes better (No up to jump! No loading!), sometimes worse if they didn't account for PAL/NTSC framerates. (Shadow of the Beast. Because it wasn't nearly impossible UK Micro hard to begin with..)

Some end up as a wash like Gods. Runs stupid fast on SNES and Genesis ports and loses the Nation 12 song but gains in game music and a jump button. I guess if you adore you some Turbo Street Fighter 2 it will be your new Jam. Or when the Retron 5 comes out or an emulator just go to PAL speed if capable and still enjoy a game that will still be UK Micro tough.

Basically a DOS PC (or DOSBOX which every retro computer gamer should have unless you really want to be like Lazy Game Reviews and have space for 5 Intel x86 platforms) and a Genesis will give you about a third to a half of all the major Amiga titles. And usually in a good format.

One of these days I plan on compiling a list of US Genesis games that are from the Amiga and collecting them all.

But as a TurboDuo owner I do have the best version of Shadow of the Beast so there. CD music? More colors on the sprites? Jump button? More than 12 HP life options? Continues? Hell yeah. Sadly Beast 3 is not on consoles so the original trilogy isn't playable on any platform but the Amiga and maybe the PC.

Also the expansions to Hero Quest and Space Crusade seem to be Amiga only even if the DOS ports got CDROM releases.

Like all retro computing its based on how much effort you want to put into it all.

Pierzak
Oct 30, 2010
I'm not asking for files~. I can get many popular games cheaply enough and I have an actual local retro-gaming store (with reasonable, non-inflated prices! Last time I was there you could get best boxed versions of many games, complete/mint/originally sealed, for like $15-20 a pop), so I'm covered on this front.

I was mainly looking for some insight on which titles are actually worth playing, which ones were good back in the day but aged badly, and which ones are surprise turds that happen to be very pretty on the outside. For example, I'm absolutely in love with Perihelion's atmosphere and art style, but it seems that it's noticeably worse than it seems. I want to avoid pitfalls where actually playing the game would not be enjoyable, compared to watching a longplay.

I basically grew up on Dungeon Master-type games, so I'd love some more. As for strategy, I didn't mean that in the PC gaming "turn-based military game", but I know Amiga has quite a few of strategy/RPG hybrids. Also, economic and simmy (in the building/management sense) games.

TheRedEye
Sep 10, 2003

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!


I collect Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts stuff, because they were my favorite studio of all time. I think the combination they had of wildly creative people with a huge bankroll to fund their games is a unique environment we'll never see again in game development.



I think my collection is probably unique. A lot of people collect the well-known adventure games, but I also collect everything that lead up to them. Lucasfilm Games did work for other publishers (Atari, Epyx, EA, Activision) before self-publishing Maniac Mansion in 1987, and went on to almost exclusively self-publish from then on, focusing mainly on the adventures. Even though I'm only really a fan of the adventure games, I always felt like the stuff that preceded it was an important part of the story, so I wanted them displayed side-by-side.



Another reason I think my collection is unique is because I collect them like people collect books: I don't want the BEST versions, I want the FIRST versions. I also get them signed sometimes, since I work in the industry and have met a lot of these guys over the years. Above are some of the rarer/more interesting things, including:

-An unopened Koronis Rift signed by the entire development staff (of three people)

-The preorder-only Grim Fandango "signature edition" with a sturdier box, fake signatures, and a toy inside

-A practically new copy of Labyrinth for the C64, probably the hardest Lucasfilm game to get. The shrinkwrap's still on this one!

-An unopened Rescue on Fractalus signed by author David Fox

-The very first printing of Maniac Mansion for the C64, a newer box was reissued when a parent complained about the word "lust" on the back.

-The original 16-color 5.25" floppy EGA version of The Secret of Monkey Island, signed by designer Ron Gilbert.

At this point I'm just missing Fate of Atlantis (I just haven't gotten around to it), the other Monkey Islands (I haven't found a copy of 2 I'm happy with, and I don't like 3 or 4 much so I've been slow in acquiring them), and I might get OCD and swap the Mac version of Full Throttle out for the PC version.

And then there's the "triangle box" version of Day of the Tentacle to think about...

al-azad
May 28, 2009



It's not an adventure game but you need to add Afterlife to your boxes.

TheRedEye
Sep 10, 2003

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!

al-azad posted:

It's not an adventure game but you need to add Afterlife to your boxes.

If I start doing non-adventure stuff past Maniac Mansion then I have to think about stuff like Pipe Dream and Night Shift and Outlaws and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and every Star Wars game ever and...ugh.

I'm limiting it to the adventure games, and everything that preceded them. Unfortunately this means I will probably always have exactly one hole: Habitat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)

Habitat is considered the first online virtual world, and it was never actually launched, though there was a beta program with 500 participants. Technically those 500 participants got a beta kit in the mail, but I've never even seen a PICTURE of a disk, let alone one for sale. The manual is scanned online though, which is cool.

The game was stripped down and released as Club Caribe through QuantumLink (the company that became AOL). I have a better chance of scoring a Club Caribe kit (a disk, a map, and a manual in a paper envelope) than Habitat, though again, I've never even seen a picture of a disk.

Awesomonster
Feb 26, 2008

Because there's always an ending.
Oh man, I was already jealous of the fact that you found Labyrinth, but one with the original shrinkwrap? You're killin' me, man.

I collect CIB pc games in general, mostly adventure games. I suppose my collection might be more appreciated in this thread than the retro games thread, since that's mainly for console games (sorry about the crummy phone picture):



That first game is the first release of Space Quest (with original shrinkwrap), and the third game from the left is Space Quest 3 missing its sleeve. The pride of my collection is my newest acquisition, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. Its not a big collection, but it makes me happy and its fun to add to!

I also sort of collect old computers. I currently have a c64, an apple IIc, and a mac classic (you can see the mouse of that one in this picture just barely). I would have a whole working museum of them if I could!

Awesomonster fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Feb 26, 2014

TheRedEye
Sep 10, 2003

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!

Awesomonster posted:

Oh man, I was already jealous of the fact that you found Labyrinth, but one with the original shrinkwrap? You're killin' me, man.

It wasn't "find" so much as "freak out when one finally popped up on eBay and spend a couple month's worth of disposable income in a brutal bidding war." This was by far the most I ever spent on a game, outside of unreleased prototypes...

d0s
Jun 28, 2004

Captain Rufus posted:

I don't think he likes that sort of game much. Which is probably why he trolls me on IRC even though I spent a good 2 hours scanning that 1200 guide to save his sorry spending 1000+ on a x68000 rear end. :colbert:

:confused: I have no idea what you're getting at here and when did I troll you and what does that have to do with the kinds of games I like or what I spend my money on? Are you OK?

EDIT:

Pierzak posted:

The list grows. Can you do strategy/RPG titles next?

Sadly they're not really my thing I'm more into arcadey action games, probably other people here can help with that though!

d0s fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Feb 26, 2014

Awesomonster
Feb 26, 2008

Because there's always an ending.

TheRedEye posted:

It wasn't "find" so much as "freak out when one finally popped up on eBay and spend a couple month's worth of disposable income in a brutal bidding war." This was by far the most I ever spent on a game, outside of unreleased prototypes...

I think its fair to say it was worth it! I'm still hoping to come across a copy someday, especially since its one of my favorite games. Also, that's almost how I felt about finding a boxed copy of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, I was shaking with excitement for days after I bought it like a kid around christmas, and I spent way more on it than I normally would (though its nowhere NEAR as much as other people pay for games, I'm just a tightwad) without batting an eye. Of all the people I know who collect adventure games, nobody has a copy and only one of them has ever even SEEN a copy, so I think only paying what I did was remarkably lucky on my part.

Genpei Turtle
Jul 20, 2007

TheRedEye posted:

It wasn't "find" so much as "freak out when one finally popped up on eBay and spend a couple month's worth of disposable income in a brutal bidding war." This was by far the most I ever spent on a game, outside of unreleased prototypes...

Wait, Labyrinth is worth a lot of money? I have a copy somewhere, though I don't remember if it's C64 or Apple. Doubt I have anything more than a disk though...

SUPER HASSLER
Jan 31, 2005

Awesomonster posted:

Of all the people I know who collect adventure games, nobody has a copy and only one of them has ever even SEEN a copy, so I think only paying what I did was remarkably lucky on my part.

I bought one for $15 in '98 :smug: and still have the disc anyway. Even then I never would have heard of it if it weren't for generally being an adventure nerd at the time. I haven't played it since then and wonder if the humor holds up any.

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

I miss big box games. You got a proper manual to read, and maps, and general cool stuff without having to splash out for collectors editions.

Jimbo Jaggins
Jul 19, 2013

Angrymog posted:

I know this thread seems to be more about physical computers, but any tips on Amiga emulation for someone who never owned a real Amiga?

I can get one running, but don't really know what to do next. Or would I be better just picking up Amiga Forever?

WinUAE has a 'quickstart' option where you just choose the model and disk images. Nine times out of ten you'll be wanting A500/A2000 1.3 ROM, ECS Angus, 1 MB Chip RAM. As someone else pointed out you'll also need a Kickstart 1.3 ROM (kick31.rom). Just above 'Quickstart' in the settings bar is 'Paths', make sure you your kickstart rom directory points towards where kick13.rom is stored. You can also manually select the ROM under ROM below harware then go back to Quickstart.

Demos and trainers on cracked disk images usually require a mouse click to skip past.

TheRedEye
Sep 10, 2003

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!

Genpei Turtle posted:

Wait, Labyrinth is worth a lot of money? I have a copy somewhere, though I don't remember if it's C64 or Apple. Doubt I have anything more than a disk though...

The boxed American version is worth a lot of money, yeah. A loose disk is not worth a lot but is probably worth more than your average loose disk. Foreign versions sell for a reasonable amount too.

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Angrymog posted:

I miss big box games. You got a proper manual to read, and maps, and general cool stuff without having to splash out for collectors editions.

It's kind of funny that at one point, including a novella was a selling point for a video game.

The biggest of the big boxes that I've seen is Star Saga One. It's basically a glorified gamebook but you input your actions into the computer which adjudicates the results. It's multiplayer, too.

Awesomonster
Feb 26, 2008

Because there's always an ending.

SUPER HASSLER posted:

I bought one for $15 in '98 :smug: and still have the disc anyway. Even then I never would have heard of it if it weren't for generally being an adventure nerd at the time. I haven't played it since then and wonder if the humor holds up any.

I think it does! I played it as soon as I got it, since I'd never played it with the videos or music before, and I enjoyed it just as much now as I did a decade ago when I first played it.

Also, I've seen jewel case only versions before over the years, even those go for about $45! Its such a hidden gem of a game, by far Legend's best game, and that's saying something.


Angrymog posted:

I miss big box games. You got a proper manual to read, and maps, and general cool stuff without having to splash out for collectors editions.

This is kind of exactly why I collect them. I LOVE feelies and maps and documents that come with games, and I miss the days when that was just standard rather than $100 collectors editions. Ultima always just HAD a cloth map, that was just expected when you bought an Ultima game, and I always took it for granted. All my cloth maps of Britannia are missing now and its such a genuine shame!

ShankyMcStabber
Mar 9, 2012

I spend way too much money on computer parts.

al-azad posted:

It's kind of funny that at one point, including a novella was a selling point for a video game.

The biggest of the big boxes that I've seen is Star Saga One. It's basically a glorified gamebook but you input your actions into the computer which adjudicates the results. It's multiplayer, too.

I have Star Saga for the Apple II and it is a large box.

I do believe Oil Barons had a larger box that was used to hold the game board you played on simultaneously with the computer.



I have 2 copies of this "rare" Epyx game (one for C64 and one for Apple II). It is still quite a bit of fun to break out once in a while.

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

Awesomonster posted:

This is kind of exactly why I collect them. I LOVE feelies and maps and documents that come with games, and I miss the days when that was just standard rather than $100 collectors editions. Ultima always just HAD a cloth map, that was just expected when you bought an Ultima game, and I always took it for granted. All my cloth maps of Britannia are missing now and its such a genuine shame!
Somewhere I still have my map that came with Ultima Online and my paper maps from GTA I. And whilst it's a silly price collectors edition, I ordered the DaS 2 CE mainly for the cloth map. I hope it's not a disapointment. :ohdear:

Dr. Quarex
Apr 18, 2003

I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

TOVA TOVA TOVA
Anyone who is not aware of The Shadows' Nose might find his seemingly endless time spent playing 1980s computer games on the original hardware, coupled with his actually being really bad at playing games seemingly, fairly compelling:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Theshadowsnose

Pierzak posted:

I'm not asking for files~. I can get many popular games cheaply enough and I have an actual local retro-gaming store (with reasonable, non-inflated prices! Last time I was there you could get best boxed versions of many games, complete/mint/originally sealed, for like $15-20 a pop), so I'm covered on this front.
Please go to this store for me and buy me an in-box copy of every MS-DOS game they have, thanks

Does this store have an online storefront?!?!

TheRedEye posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)

Habitat is considered the first online virtual world, and it was never actually launched, though there was a beta program with 500 participants. Technically those 500 participants got a beta kit in the mail, but I've never even seen a PICTURE of a disk, let alone one for sale. The manual is scanned online though, which is cool.
There is somebody on these forums who was an original Habitat tester; I corresponded with him via private message but I cannot find the exchange off-hand. This is not to say that he would actually still have his original materials or be willing to part with them, but it is at least something interesting to mention.

al-azad posted:

The biggest of the big boxes that I've seen is Star Saga One. It's basically a glorified gamebook but you input your actions into the computer which adjudicates the results. It's multiplayer, too.
I have Star Saga Two complete in the box, in what I have to say is the nicest shape I have ever seen a not-in-shrinkwrap game in, despite the fact that I just picked it up for so little at an auction that I have no idea why the previous owner kept it in such impeccable shape if (s)he did not care about it. Oh, and the point of saying that is that I imagine if the sequel is anything to go by, yes, Star Saga One has to be an obnoxiously huge and heavy box.

My original-in-box game collection is about 300-odd games large, though I imagine only a small number of those are of actual interest to any collectors. Like I remember someone trying to buy my copy of Knights of Legend off me for like $30, and that was in about 1997, so I can only imagine it is way higher now (or nobody cares anymore, either way). My Rendezvous at Rama box seems like it should be valuable, even though I never even owned a C64 and now I am not too sure I remember how I even ended up with the game. Maybe this industry will get big enough at some point for someone to actually start compiling prices!

TheRedEye
Sep 10, 2003

WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!

Quarex posted:

There is somebody on these forums who was an original Habitat tester; I corresponded with him via private message but I cannot find the exchange off-hand. This is not to say that he would actually still have his original materials or be willing to part with them, but it is at least something interesting to mention.

Any lead's a good lead, thanks!

Dr. Quarex
Apr 18, 2003

I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

TOVA TOVA TOVA
Your enthusiasm led to me figuring "aw, I am sure I can find it if I look through every private message I have from someone whose name I do not recognize!" and I did that and I STILL FAILED TO FIND IT. I must have accidentally deleted it one of the times my mailbox filled up during the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter :(

But yes, such a person is out there in THESE VERY FORUMS and you would think someone else in this thread would remember it coming up in whatever context it came up last time that led to me asking about it in private messages in the first place. It was probably either a MMORPG or an "early online memories" thread actually.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.
I've been reading this thread and it brings back a lot of memories.

A few pages ago, a lot of the old, classic, AD&D games were mentioned (Gold Box series, as well as others) but one I didn't see mentioned, and one of my favorites when I was a kid, is DragonStrike.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ZmLYRkiLo

Dragon flight simulator! :black101:

al-azad
May 28, 2009



I'm a fan of Stronghold. Really unique city builder that's almost like an early Majesty where everything is mostly automated and you incentivize production.

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superh
Oct 10, 2007

Touching every treasure

al-azad posted:

I'm a fan of Stronghold. Really unique city builder that's almost like an early Majesty where everything is mostly automated and you incentivize production.

I used to LOVE playing that game as a kid, but I didn't know how to actually do anything in the game.

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