Defender

Whinging Courier says...

I never liked centipede, now Missile Command there was a game.

 

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Centipede was a girl's game. Missile command certainly had something
though, not least that rollerball thing which was somewhat unique in its
time.

Tempest, that was another I thought deserved awards. And I was quite taken
with Battlezone, it started the line-vector graphics thing that Star Wars
followed up on. That was another goody.

Hang on....I sense I'm getting old and boring....

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Missile Command was a good game, I also liked Joust,
Galaxians(obviously), Moon Cresta(remember that), and Donkey Kong.

 

Did you ever play that Marble Madness?

 

Oh I don't deny that you can make some very nice machines from scratch , but
it won't look quite like the real thing.

An odd choice , as arcade games will almost certainly not run at the
screen's native resolution
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I'm running it under MAME and have been for some time.

Works perfectly in XP and is identical to the arcade version that
Williams did. You can even go through all the diagnostic checks on it

 

John Munro says...

Joust is one of the games I still play one our Atari Lynx(s).

 

Galaxians definitely. Missile command was ok but got too hectic for me
after 5 or 6 levels, even back then.

 

It was but a prototype, and it was said it was too difficult, and it was
gonna get binned.
And the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Remember Battlezone? Big stand-up thing with vector graphics?

 

Whinging Courier secured a place in history by writing:

I need to find some time to check out these emulator doobreys. Actually, I
probbly don't, when Williams released their Arcade Classics, my career lost
about 6 months.....

 

John Munro secured a place in history by writing:

Reminds me, I have some ace book from about 5 years back on the history of
this stuff which I lent to my Brother-in-Law and haven't seen since....

<fx> tring tring </fx>

<indignation>

Where's my fucking book? The one I lent you about 20 years ago? My fucking
FAVOURITE book?

</indignation>

 

John Munro secured a place in history by writing:

That rings a bell...one that feels like it should never have been put back
up the belltower....

 

Whinging Courier secured a place in history by writing:

Poof. Your youth was inadequately misspent.

 

John Munro secured a place in history by writing:

I could clock that too [1]. Partly because some technician left the keys
in the back of it whilst he went for a cupotea at our local sports centre.
So we visited over the next year, played it to buggery and shifted bags of
10ps out the back to pay for fags. Amazed me they left it there for so
long, 'cos it wasn't making money.....

Ho hum....I wouldn't tolerate it in my own children....

[1] Going backwards...that was the trick....

 

How big an attachment will gmail let you have? I've got a MAME emulator
I can send you and a defender ROM to get you going.

 

Ho Yuss. I loved that and they used to have it down the leisure centre.

Star Wars was another good vector game and in colour, too!

 

I was probably spending more time wanking to dirty mags in the woods and
could only go to Brighton to the arcades when I went to see my Nan and
then I only had a fiver, which didn't last long.

 

Whinging Courier secured a place in history by writing:

In the interests of modern science....go on then

 

Whinging Courier secured a place in history by writing:

Look, ginge, I said all this up there somewhere