Defender

Whinging Courier secured a place in history by writing:

FFS. Lunch money? Pilfering from your parents? What sort of teenager were
you?? And couldn't you take the mags back to your bedroom like the rest of
us? Kind of ruins your adolescence to be had up for Public Indecency.....

Still...you got away with it.

 

I used to play on FIBS (First Internet Backgammon Server - it was too,
no graphic interface, board with Xs and Os; now has graphic interface
available) but got bored. All the big name competition players were
there - I beat the then European champion once (but really I was only
mid ranking). Try it out.

I also have Jellyfish, a free neural net based backgammon game on my
PC. It's equivalent to a tournament champion. I beat it about once in
three matches (I play 7 pointers). Snow White, another such, is even
better, but you have to pay for it.

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Remember GORF? really shite game. But remembarable

Marble Madness? A late one for me...

I liked Space Invaders Part II, the colour one. Taito it was.
The best incarnation of Space Invaders, full fuckin' stop.

 

I could probably put that on my webspace if necessary.

 

Heh, emailed

 

<fx: Muttley impression>

I guess in all the excitement it passed me by.

 

No, buggering off to my Nan's for the weekend money. I used to spend my
lunch money in the leisure centre when I was supposed to be swimming or
playing squash.

Nah, I used to spend that on fags.

The sort who would've ended up being the sort of person I despise now if
life hadn't got in the way.

I was always to scared my old man would find them. He was dead strict,
he was. I did keep a couple under the mattress though.

Well yeah but I never got caught.

That's open to debate

 

Good point. The email I sent Ferger bounced as the attachment was too
big.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Whinging Courier

Buggered if I recall; I've just fired it up and after 2 shit games
racked up 1,419,000 on the third.

Mine won't go full screen anymore, bit of a bugger.

--

Dave

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Whinging Courier secured a place in history by writing:

How big is it?

 

Bounced. I'll bung it on my webspace.

<bungs it on webspace>

www.whingingcourier.dsl.pipex.com/Mame32.zip

www.whingingcourier.dsl.pipex.com/Read_This.txt

 

8 megs. It's on my webspace now.

 

Whinging Courier secured a place in history by writing:

Grabbed. And...oh....wicked. Just need to remember the keys I used to
use....

TVM indeed....

 

Lunar Lander, Battlezone and the God of all arcade games: Defender.

 

We had both of them at one time or another in the lobby (messroom).

"We apologise for the delay, which is due to an extra ball"

 

"The Winner's Book Of Video Games", by any chance? Picked up a
battered paperback copy in the archetypal secondhand bookshop a few
years ago - took me right back to the late '70s when I haunted a pub
that resembled nothing more than an amusement arcade with beer.

The landlord offered a bottle of whisky to the first punter to beat
the Defender preset high score (~21,000) on default settings - that
took me ten days (well, lunchtimes and evenings/nights) and many many
tenpees. Four months later I was beaten by a kiddy from the arcade so
had to up my game - went onto pints of orange squash when I realised
just how much even one pint dulls reaction speed and concentration -
looped the fucker the next weekend. I loved that game.

 

(John Munro) struggled to ejaculate:

Ah, Tanks. The pub I inhabited had that in a tiny dark room, next to
Night Driver and a submarine torpedo game which was another big
stand-up thing with a "periscope" to aim through. The light was never
turned on in that room.

"BAD MOVE, SPACE CADET!"

I loved that. Trackball control, object to spin your marble down
increasingly complex paths, avoiding the pop-up foghorn critters that
would blow yer marble off the edge.

 

Same here, I got something called MacMame, and just used the games out
of the zip file.

 

I thought you'd like it. I need a USB jobbie and haven't played the ones
that need more than arrow keys since before I moved house.

 

You have mail.