Do we have room for a retro gaming corner?

[delanvital]

why did u chuck them! im surprised this is going so cheap, especially when most games go for £ 2-3  each
 
 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/commodore-64-loads-of-games_W0QQitemZ270019643989QQihZ017QQcategoryZ4193QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The tapes were so old I doubt they work anymore and over here you can get a C64 with 1 tape deck and 1000 games for typically £50.

Cheap? Well, the games (at least mine) are/were not originals. It is prob. 10-20 tapes with 50 games per tape, loaded using a Turbo 2K.

[Dewey]

My god.  I'd forgotten how much time I'd wasted  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:

 Oh yes, I remember doing just that, me and my mate taking turns typing in a page of code each into a ZX 81 (hard going as the keyboard was supposedly touch sensitive!!) using a magazine that just had listings for you to type in. After several hours we where near the end of the final page, looking forward see if the 16k of code we had put in worked (doubtful, so much code) and his mum accidentally knocked the table and we got 'ram pack wobble' and the screen just cleared.... we just stared at the empty screen for a while, before looking at each other, then his mum in disgust - 'well thats that then - lets go and get ****ed!' - oh happy days - but it was cool, you felt like you where at the cutting edge and it taught you how to program or at the least how to type he he!

[Penfold]

Stryker,

Nice touch !

We'll definitely sort something out for that if you're happy to bring it.

Space shouldn't be an issue unless we suddenly get a hoarde of new sign-ups.

I imagine it will generate a fair few watchers, so we can rack up a table somewhere we people can stand around and watch.

Great - will sure be great to see all those ol' games again

PEN

[Stryker]

I have a commodore 64 with disk drive too whhhoooo.  Anyways, I mentioned the atari as its going to be most practical for a LAN having a built in disk drive an all :biggrin: an games that are mostly retro and playable.

Right, I think there will be some interest then.... just my luck I just got my PC an LCD monitor so now I'm lugging a 21" TV :smile:

We can get three players on rampage, two on joysticks and one on keyboard, got no 8 player games though :flirty:

Anyone an ex-master of kickoff?  kickoff2?  sensible soccer?  now what was the one by the "bitmap brothers" the footy with all the violence, I was only playing that the other day.

[Stryker]

Oh yes, as I said I have 3GB of games too.  I'll bring the best of em that I know on floppy, plus the software to get any game requests on floppy on my pc so there will be no end of games.

[Cadaver]

now what was the one by the "bitmap brothers" the footy with all the violence, I was only playing that the other day.

Wasn't that Speedball, or Speedball 2? :unsure:

Top game, if that's the one you're thinking of.

[Penfold]

Right, I think there will be some interest then.... just my luck I just got my PC an LCD monitor so now I'm lugging a 21" TV :smile:

Unless we swipe one of the TV's from a bedroom :norty: (However I can't think they'd be too plussed about that).

Thanks
PEN

[Cadaver]

Unless we swipe one of the TV's from a bedroom :norty: (However I can't think they'd be too plussed about that).

Thanks
PEN

Non-starter I fear.  They should be able to provide a TV, being a conference centre, but I bet they'll want paying for it.

EDIT: Oh yes, £30 a day for A/V equipment it seems. :eyebrow:

[Niel]

I have a Vic20 in the garage.........and there's some games on cassette tape..........how retro u wanting to get.......

[Penfold]

EDIT: Oh yes, £30 a day for A/V equipment it seems.

Well, as Stryker's happy to being along his 21" .........  :whistle:

PEN

[Benny]

Anyone an ex-master of kickoff?  kickoff2?  sensible soccer?  now what was the one by the "bitmap brothers" the footy with all the violence, I was only playing that the other day.

Speedball?

[Liberator]

Speedball?

Oh dear, Benny you must have played speedball!

It was one of the Bitmap Bros most famous games.

Based on the "Rollerball" movie, but without the skates and bikes, just the violence. :devil:

[Liberator]

I have an Amiga 500 (Kickstart 1.2) available as well!



Oh, an Amiga 500 (kickstart 1.3) also......



And an Amiga 1200 with CD-ROM and internal hard drive.



Theres a Philips 8833 MkII monitor sat in the cupboard as well, dunno if it works, might possibly explode with power! :unsure:

[Gorion]

well, my mother threw away my amigas :/

but heres some info: theres a pc version of the old Xenon, named Xenon2000

its dlable from the bitmapbrothers webiste, it only has 1 lvl tho, still its nice

[Stryker]

speedball, thats it.... what a hoot.  Just been playing rainbow islands and newzealand story.... most excellent.

I went a little mad a few weeks back.... I've now got:

vic20 with tape deck

classic shape c64 with tape and disk
3 * new shape c64 (two with tape, one with disk)
About 500 cassette originals
CD with every C64 game ever written (just need a good tape deck as to put them on tape I have to play them through my soundcard while recording them)

MSX

Atari STFM with second floppy drive