Do we have room for a retro gaming corner?

Stryker · August 24, 2006, 09:05:56 AM

Say an Atari ST, 21" TV?

I could bring that with two joysticks and any games anyone wants (I have 3GB of ST floppy disk images).

It would be a lot of effort and we'd need a little table space so thoughts please?

I just figured with beer a few games of rampage, international karate, rainbow islands, commando, stunt car driver, robocop, pac man, xenon, r-type etc etc would be fun, esp the multiplayer ones.

Thoughts please.... TL/oldie?

TeaLeaf · August 24, 2006, 09:14:04 AM

Think we might be able to figure out something for that, sure! We'll arrange a side table for it be be solo on, Penfold can handle the details as he's heading up the organising of the event.

Over to you Penfold!

TL.

sulky_uk · August 24, 2006, 09:15:29 AM

if i was going youd find it hard to get me away from stunt car driver

vvvrorrorooom... weee......... crash

Dewey · August 24, 2006, 09:25:11 AM

Retro pah - what about a spectrum with Chaos on it - we can play 8 players

DuVeL · August 24, 2006, 09:51:22 AM

What kind of an Atari is that?
An Atari 1040 or something similar?
We used to have an Atari 1040 ST FM at home which was great. We still have it stored in the closet. Loads of games aswell: G-sisters and such which had a great 2-player action.

sheepy · August 24, 2006, 09:57:55 AM

i will be bringing TRON again for a bit of retro action

GhostMjr · August 24, 2006, 11:00:49 AM

Shall i bring my n64? All the old classics but i need 2 more controllers

. 2 v 2 goldeneye comes to mind

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sheepy · August 24, 2006, 11:46:05 AM

ghost, you are 2 young.

N64 is NOT classic/retro in any definition!

Im just wishing i still had my comadore 64!! fed by tape drives!

sulky_uk · August 24, 2006, 01:17:19 PM

got an acorn electron and a bbc b in the cupboard that i got for christmas's 84 and 85

Dewey · August 24, 2006, 01:34:22 PM

Quote from: sulky_uk;145537got an acorn electron and a bbc b in the cupboard that i got for christmas's 84 and 85

we could bring some program listings and type them in woohooo! *i'm joking, no really I am

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GhostMjr · August 24, 2006, 02:57:52 PM

Quote from: sheepy;145510ghost, you are 2 young.

N64 is NOT classic/retro in any definition!

Im just wishing i still had my comadore 64!! fed by tape drives!

lol its retro to me. Actually a few lan's back i sat talking to a few of the guys: Fatal, Fatbob, Lionheart and JAS to name a few. We sat down in the local curry house and those guys talked about their old consoles and games. I couldn't grasp the fact they had to feed tapes into machines which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. I then spoke to Lionheart at the last lan in April and realised how he typed a few pages of codes at a time into consoles to get them to do bits a bobs. I was amazed. I think one think i did learn from this experience was that the next generation take steps in technology for granted and never realise how the generation before didn't have this technology.

I'd love to see those machines working and wouldn't mind a go of what sheepeh calls a "trully" retro machine :biggrin: .

Sn00ks · August 24, 2006, 03:23:55 PM

Well if I was going I could have brought my Spectrum. Oh the joys of Jetset Willy or the real Elite. :dribble:

delanvital · August 24, 2006, 03:34:04 PM

Quote from: sheepy;145510Im just wishing i still had my comadore 64!! fed by tape drives!

I just threw my two c64s out... plus 1 turbo loader, two tape decks and 1000 games. I doubt the tapes would have worked anymore anyway... I considered keeping the ol' breadbox for a split-second, but I would never use it. It has been in the basement for years now so out it went.

Still have an ol' IBM 8086 with 12" monochrome display store down there I got my hands on some 12 years back, with original software! I plan on keeping it as long as I live in a box or something... It is from before my time (I started with 80286 12MHz with regard to PCs) but the original IBM PC is kinda special. Yeah, just make fun of it, I don't care :narnar:

sheepy · August 24, 2006, 04:07:26 PM

why did u chuck them! im surprised this is going so cheap, especially when most games go for Â£ 2-3 each

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/commodore-64-loads-of-games_W0QQitemZ270019643989QQihZ017QQcategoryZ4193QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Cadaver · August 24, 2006, 04:15:55 PM

Quote from: Sn00ks;145585Well if I was going I could have brought my Spectrum. Oh the joys of Jetset Willy or the real Elite. :dribble:

My god. I'd forgotten how much time I'd wasted playing Elite on the Speccy - I loved that game. So much so that later on I bought a copy for my Amiga, and a copy of Frontier (Elite 2) for my first PC.

If I was being pedantic though, the real Elite was the monochrome version on the BBC micro. I remember spending ages playing that round my mate's house...

And GMjr, you've not lived 'til you've used a personal computer that required you load games in off of a cassette tape. Or spent hours typing in a 1000 line poke from a games magazine, only to have the piece of **** reset two lines before you finished because you inadvertantly knocked the woefully designed plug-in joystick interface. Ah, happy daze.... :biggrin: