I remember playing THIS when the "486" was the FAST computer.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Whew, that was fun.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Good times.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Yeah, I loved Scorched Earth back in the day. But I played it on a 386SX16! You can still download the shareware version of it.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Found the original HERE. Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
I remember playing this, except it was with Gorillas that threw exploding bombs at each other.
And oh yeah, it was in QBasic, which meant you had to type the entire thing into the compiler by hand, only to discover that you made a spelling mistake on lines 12,56,105... well you get the idea.
Good times, good times.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
My first computer had less RAM than my current (4-year old) calculator...
I played a QBasic version of this once, when I was 12 or so. I think it was on a 386.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Oh, man, I remember that gorilla game! They stood on top of buildings and threw exploding bananas. I seem to recall trying to do weird things like throw the banana so hard it never came back down, or use the explosions to cut all the way through a building.
Posted by OverRon (Member # 2036) on :
I loved that gorilla game!
I also remember spending days copying basic line by line from a magazine, into my old Amstrad. Those were the days of gaming, eh? Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Yeah. Kinda sucks that there's no simple programming anymore. I used to take the games I typed in and modify them, or create my own stuff. Besides the fact that nobody uses BASIC anymore, I wouldn't know where to start today.
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
OverRon: I did that too!
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
B.J. : Try Python, it's pretty simple. Or DarkBASIC; it's like BASIC for DirectX.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Dan, nothing will ever compare to the original basic.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I knowz Just pointing out modern crappy alternatives. QBasic wasn't my first love, I'll confess...I was first seduced by Turbo Pascal.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Does anyone remember playing Alpiner, Parsec, and Tombstone City on the Texas Instruments TI99/4A? I may have only been four at the time but I mastered Alpiner.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Not those, but my graphing calc has tetris and a mario knock off. An interesting diversion from class Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Dan, nothing will ever compare to the original basic.
I remember, dimly, doing stuff in BBC BASIC on my older brother's BBC Micro. Loading in Mr. Do and Crazy Rider from tape. Man, good times.
A few years ago on holiday in a rented house in Cornwall I found an MSX in one of the bedrooms. According to the stack of magazines that was in the box next to it, it was a Japanese alternative to the Spectrum back in the day. I proceeded to spend two whole days typing in one of the crappiest games I ever played into it, and loving every minute of it.
I really should have nicked the thing and brought it home with me, they wouldn't have noticed!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I think I am too young to have expirenced the joy of programing your own computer games. I don't think I am too dissappointed though...
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I started programming when I was 12; a buddy of mine started when he was 6. Trust me, it's not over your head if you really want to try.
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
My TI-83 had a SkiFree knockoff, bowling, poker, and a couple other games. I had to go into the programs just to fix the creator's spelling on the poker program...
Came in quite handy when our algebra teacher my freshman year realized that only a handful of us knew our multiplication tables. God, would I have been bored out of my skull but for those games.
(edit) Ooh! Oooh! This is my 200th post!
(bride of edit) How many posts does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Roll Pop be able to change my stat line, anyway?
(son of edit) I fail at closing HTML tags. Mock me to your hearts' content.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
750? 800? I'm not sure...
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Or a flutter of the ole eyelids at a mod.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Or you could be the butt of many practical jokes... I think I only have about 300 posts.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
quote:Originally posted by HopefulNebula: My TI-83 had a SkiFree knockoff, bowling, poker, and a couple other games. I had to go into the programs just to fix the creator's spelling on the poker program...
Came in quite handy when our algebra teacher my freshman year realized that only a handful of us knew our multiplication tables. God, would I have been bored out of my skull but for those games.
(edit) Ooh! Oooh! This is my 200th post!
(bride of edit) How many posts does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Roll Pop be able to change my stat line, anyway?
(son of edit) I fail at closing HTML tags. Mock me to your hearts' content.
I remember my TI-83 had baseball, breakout, bomberman(a favorite), two galaga clones, bust-a-move(another favorite), tetris,and some erotic text adventure game.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I see no reason to have any type of game on a calculator, other than to increase profits, and decrease students' grades.
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
Most of them don't ship with the calc, but are programmed by people. At least, I nicked mine off of a friend's. No idea where she got hers...
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Or, downloaded onto them via a serial/USB cable like all of mine were. Also, a suite for doing calculus and chemistry problems! I cheater Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
There's a chem problem thingy? Where? On the TI-84, or the '83?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Probably for every version of the calculator that's ever been made.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Well, I can't find it. We are made to clear our calc's memory before exams, so I think what ever is on there is wiped, and has been for the past year.
Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :
God... this is fun still. Where's the one with the Monkeys throwing bananas in the city scpaes?
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Look for "Gorillas (computer game)" in Wikipedia. For some reason, Flare won't let me link to that page because of the parenthesis in the URL.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
UBB Code doesn't like parenthesis and spaces very much.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Sean: For a TI-89, this version was.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I have a TI-83 so that probably explains it. BUt when I first got it, therte was a shit load of programs on it. Now, zilch, nada, nothing. The only thing on there now is a financial calculator peripheral.
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
Scorched Earth was the shiz-nit. There's actually a 3-D version out now that's not too bad.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
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Just pointing out modern crappy alternatives. QBasic wasn't my first love, I'll confess...I was first seduced by Turbo Pascal.
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