Re: Best good old II game ever?

[cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <3tkhm0$eis@crl5.crl.com>, Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com> wrote:
>Here are my favorite old games:
> 
>Robotron 2084
>7 Cities of Gold
>Wilderness
>Lode Runner
>Karateka

I'm afraid my favorites are really old (like the original breakout,
startrek (the text version), and super invader), for a couple of
reasons. #1 is the fact that me and some people I knew were locked in
high-score battles, which made the process much more fun (through sheer
perseverance, I won most of these. My Super Invader high score, for
example, is 6800 (or was it 8800? Too long ago, can't remember)). 

The reason why startrek is one of my favorites is weird: in the
beginning, I used it on my TV (this was in '79), and had only an
RF-modulator; no PAL card. This meant the quality of the picture was,
uh, less than perfect; inverse text was especially bad. This, for
startrek, meant (among other things) that the Klingons were invisible!
Only when they used phasers could they be seen. In addition, for a long
time I didn't know all the "goodies", e.g. trajectory computing. So
misses happened once in a while.
Ah, those were the days.

Then I learnt go and nothing much could excite me. :-)
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