Any one into retro gaming?

Ive got a Sinclair ZX spectrum, i wonder if thats worth anything?, off to ebay now for a looksy

 

And 20 odd years later and I still get angry at the dungeon game (cant remember name) as still cant get past 2nd level (its renowned for its crapness) off to find the name......

 

Dragons Lair thats the one. Im also not the only one angry at it after 20 yrs

 

Now that's real retro gaming.

 

Do conkers count?

 

Remember playing the original at Plymouth fair before getting the ferry to Spain in the mid 80's ,the graphics were amazing for the time.

 

I got my old Atari up and running earlier in the year and was having a blast on Space Invaders and Phoenix until the joystick packed up.

 

My first game was space invaders on a Tangerine computer. You had to load it into the RAM (all 8k of it) from a cassette tape. That's retro. I don't get much more recent than space invaders, asteroids and pinball.

 

Phoenix was amazing

 

If anyones knows a little about computers you can download mame32 which is an emulator then get all the arcade roms there so small ,I've got over 1000c ,only takes a few min for perfect old skool arcade games on your laptop ,there the original roms as well so they load up how an arcade cabinet would load up

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/5/

then get some roms.

http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/mame103.html

 

There's a new VW version of Monopoly out - only in the US and Canada though
http://molinarenterprises.fastserver5.com/wo/photoiG.php?wo=711956&sub=&ino=VW_MN_BT_3D_print

 

Luxury!!

On my old Texas Instruments TI99/4A we had to copy the one game we had line by line from text in a magazine.

I'd take turns with my brother to either read or type each line in.

Eventually you could load it on to a tape recorder if you were careful pressing record.

The game was a horse jumping over fences with graphics that made a Lowri painting look detail rich. You couldn't even play against someone else!!!!

 

I remember doing this on my first computer, an Amstrad cpc464, spent all day or maybe a whole weekend typing in code from a magazine, to then have it crash before it had even loaded!

Good job - they dont make them like they used to!

 

Decathlon.........A joystick waggling, button bashing extravaganza!

 

I've got tennis with an option of singles or doubles, in black and white, with full rotary racket control and realistic "beep" when you hit the ball back or bloop when you lose a point, ( 9 volt battery, mains power optional ) AND its now hooked up in the bus, hah.

 

Sounds like my teenage sex life to be honest...

 

Anyone know of any good PC emulators of retro games?

 

Look up a few posts.