Re: Best Games of All Time

[mumford@mango (Philip Mumford)]

In article <41tquh$726@atlas.odyssee.net> percim@odyssee.net (Mark Percival) writes:

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>  From: percim@odyssee.net (Mark Percival)
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>  Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:35:43 GMT
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>  mike.betzel@swamp.mn.org (Mike Betzel) wrote:
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>  >Best games of all time?  Hmmm ...
>  
>  >I'd have to say Monty's Revenge (I think someone else mentioned that one),
>  >Wasteland, Star Blazer, some of the Infocom games, and Bard's Tale I and
>  >III.
>  
>  >That's all I can think of, right now.
>  
>  >Oh yeah, and Lemonade Stand :)
>  
>  When my best friend got his Apple II (in 1979), we played Lemonade
>  Stand all night.  We were up $500 at the time we went to bed!
>  
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>  Mark R. Percival
>  Montr�al, Quebec
>  percim@odyssee.net
>  
Wow! how this is all coming back to me now. Yeah - I remember Lemonade too!
I was really impressed by the graphics - do you remember the lightning flash
and "I'm singing in the rain" playing! That first got me interested in finding out
how the sound worked on the Apple ][. I remember pulling out the code which did
the music and then modifying it to see what would happen ...

Ahh ... those lost Summers

Phil
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