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