OT: Video Games of yore

wmc_sr20@bellsouth.net wmc_sr20@bellsouth.net
Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:11:48 -0600


At 07:04 AM 11/7/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Okay, I feel very old.  I owned Colecovision, and Atari 2600
>games.  Missile Command was the best.  Why didn't they make those punks
>play M/C??

Ever seen a Milton Bradley "Micro Vision"?  It's a circa 1978 handheld with
[gasp - ooh, ahh] interchangeable game cartridges and a whopping 16x16
pixel LCD.  Big step above that Mattel "chase the red dots" they spoke
of.  I still own one of the few [only?] working samples in existence.  If
Nintendo has a "Game Boy"  I guess this was the "Game Fetus".

Then around 1981, high school got an Apple II [Crikey!  some LMs were
probably in diapers then!]  Had to teach myself 6502 machine code to get
anything resembling a game to run at reasonable speed.  Cheap bastards
wouldn't even buy me the assembler package.

Anyone recommend good Palm OS games?  Mine Sweeper just ain't cutting it.

    -Wayne    '91 NX2k - '93 NK2k - '93 SE-R - '92 SE-R parts car