Atari and Colecovision games

[DRK Star]

For all the old farts around here (present company included), Archive.org has released all the Craptacular games we grew up on, FOR FREE on your computer this morning.


https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom


Relive those moments we wasted in our youth trying to play some of the shittiest graphic games ever produced.

Atari and Coleco games o plenty!


Also, show this to your kids and tell them to "Fuck Off' the next time they complain about not getting Call of Duty. Show them "Flag Capture" on Atari, which I spent my allowance on and then ground them.


Enjoy

[Corrigan]

River Raid 4 life

[BUBBLES]

Pitfall
I think Pitfall Harry was the 1st video game phenom.

[vegas1369]

Already rocked some Dig Dug and B.C.'s Quest for Tires. Me and a buddy were just talking about how we remembered thinking back then that B.C.'s graphics, along with The Smurfs, were awesome.

[Corrigan]

Already rocked some Dig Dug and B.C.'s Quest for Tires. Me and a buddy were just talking about how we remembered thinking back then that B.C.'s graphics, along with The Smurfs, were awesome.

haha I remember having BC's on my apple IIc

[shortbuspoker]

all of this nostalgia is making me want to download Zork so I can continually get lost and stabbed by a damned pickpocket

[gauchojake]

all of this nostalgia is making me want to download Zork so I can continually get lost and stabbed by a damned pickpocket

I was just looking up some shit about zork and I'm pretty sure you can get the trilogy for free.

[Sanlmar]

Already rocked some Dig Dug and B.C.'s Quest for Tires. Me and a buddy were just talking about how we remembered thinking back then that B.C.'s graphics, along with The Smurfs, were awesome.

haha I remember having BC's on my apple IIc

I ran some numbers through VisiCalc....

An 8 bit Apple IIc retailed for about $1300 in 1977. Maxed out at 48K $2,700.

1977 Chevy Vega MSRP $3,249

Corrigan was a rich kid.

[Corrigan]

heh I was born in 1977 - what they go for in the 80s?

[Sanlmar]

heh I was born in 1977 - what they go for in the 80s?

Guess I gave you price of plain jane Apple II in 1977

Apple IIc
Released: April 1984
Price: US $1300
How many: 400,000 in the first year
Weight: 7.5 lbs
CPU: MOS 65C02, 1 Mhz
RAM: 128K-1Meg
Display: 40 or 80 X 24 text mode
560 X 192 maximum
Ports: Two serial ports
RGB monitor port
Composite video output
External floppy port
Storage: Internal 143k 5.25-inch disk drive
OS: Apple DOS or ProDOS

[Ryback_feed_me_more]

heh I was born in 1977 - what they go for in the 80s?

Guess I gave you price of plain jane Apple II in 1977

Apple IIc
Released: April 1984
Price: US $1300
How many: 400,000 in the first year
Weight: 7.5 lbs
CPU: MOS 65C02, 1 Mhz
RAM: 128K-1Meg
Display: 40 or 80 X 24 text mode
560 X 192 maximum
Ports: Two serial ports
RGB monitor port
Composite video output
External floppy port
Storage: Internal 143k 5.25-inch disk drive
OS: Apple DOS or ProDOS

First PC my old man bought.. He got from a co-worker at the Pentagon. Custom build.
8088 with floppy and 20MB HD, 1200 Baud modem, 640K Memory, and a tape backup system.. $3200 (also had a dot matrix 132 column printer) and ran Dos 3.1

[Sanlmar]

Guess I gave you price of plain jane Apple II in 1977

Apple IIc
Released: April 1984
Price: US $1300
How many: 400,000 in the first year
Weight: 7.5 lbs
CPU: MOS 65C02, 1 Mhz
RAM: 128K-1Meg
Display: 40 or 80 X 24 text mode
560 X 192 maximum
Ports: Two serial ports
RGB monitor port
Composite video output
External floppy port
Storage: Internal 143k 5.25-inch disk drive
OS: Apple DOS or ProDOS

First PC my old man bought.. He got from a co-worker at the Pentagon. Custom build.
8088 with floppy and 20MB HD, 1200 Baud modem, 640K Memory, and a tape backup system.. $3200 (also had a dot matrix 132 column printer) and ran Dos 3.1

honestly, they were pretty fucking useless too. inventory with VisiCalc... word processing ... games

i remember looking in the back of PC Magazine around 1985 or so for IBM PC AT with RGB monitor, math coprocessor. Just had to have my own. $5000 easy. I was actually seriously considering it too.

Lost everything I saved as a kid gambling IBM stock (first Calls I ever bought) prior to the release of something called the IBM Peanut. affordable home computer ... figured stock would go nuts.... it didn't. LOL

Never, ever buy the news, kids.

[DirtyB]

I played almost 3 minutes of E.T. It is truly horrible. It looks exactly like one person spent 5 weeks working on it.

[BeerAndPoker]

Do the games have no sound or is it just me? Part of the fun in these games for me was the sound in certain games like moon patrol for the 2600.

[Walter Sobchak]

I played almost 3 minutes of E.T. It is truly horrible. It looks exactly like one person spent 5 weeks working on it.

I never could figure it out. Urban legend has it there are millions of them in a landfill somewhere.

[DRK Star]

I believe that they are working on getting the sound to work, but for now, no sound.

[Daly]

I played almost 3 minutes of E.T. It is truly horrible. It looks exactly like one person spent 5 weeks working on it.

Thats actualy not far from the truth. Probably one of the largest disasters in all video game history.

[Daly]

http://nintendo8.com/

Most of the Nintendo games are here......

[DirtyB]

I played almost 3 minutes of E.T. It is truly horrible. It looks exactly like one person spent 5 weeks working on it.

Thats actualy not far from the truth. Probably one of the largest disasters in all video game history.

It is the truth. Atari paid $25M for the rights to make the game. But they didn't get the deal done until the end of July. In order to have the game out by that Christmas, it had to be completed by September 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._th...e)#Development

[Daly]

Thats actualy not far from the truth. Probably one of the largest disasters in all video game history.

It is the truth. Atari paid $25M for the rights to make the game. But they didn't get the deal done until the end of July. In order to have the game out by that Christmas, it had to be completed by September 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._th...e)#Development

It really is amazing with all the money that was in the 2600 back then that they fucked up so many games. The Pac-Man port was a semi-disaster as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_%28Atari_2600%29