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What other games are you playing?

Discussion in 'Off Topic - All other stuff here' started by fafay, Jan 4, 2017.

  1. fafay

    fafay New Member

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    I throw this thread like a bottle in the sea ....
    I doubt that the pleasure of playing are part of the daily life of many people "generation nintendo"
    Then jespere you will have fun to tell us what you play except your simu

    For me, it's been 4 months that I work on the realization of a portable pinball machine
    When I say portable it means I can store it under the bed, because I live in apartment
    and I have a retrobox made using a raspberry pi because I love old games
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    noorbeast VR Tassie Devil Staff Member Moderator Race Director

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    My non sim activities are a bunch of VR room scale games and art related programs.
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    Assetto Corsa. Always.

    Then: Rise of the Tomb Raider, Broken Age, Doom, Wofenstein the new order, Far Cry 4, Crysis 3 (and many else) depending on the mood.
    I play videogames since I can remember starting from Pong. With the first money I saved as an 8 year old kid I bought myself a Commodore 64 and started programming and gaming. Good old tapes times...

    I played thousands of games since then.
    Always will
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    Blame73 Well-Known Member

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    Have you got pics of your retrobox? I'd like to build one myself too, one of these days (months)
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    Not but I would make one later
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    I'm guessing you're around 40 then. I started on a TRS-80 but I loved the C64. I believe yobuddy said he started on an Amiga. Yes, lots of games since then. :)

    "Good old tapes times..." :grin
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    Yes, almost 44 and... let me go back to fixing the azimuth alignment of the C64 tape deck.
    [​IMG]

    I had the cream color one
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    I used a tape drive with my trash-80 but one of the reasons I loved my C64 so much, besides that fact that it had color, sprite graphics, and a music synthesizer, was that it had a somewhat affordable floppy disk drive as an option. It was slow as heck but still loads better than a tape drive. But from what I've read they weren't as widely used in Europe.
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    I remember the switch from the tape drive to the floppy drive. I bought a second hand drive together with some 50 games. The 'speed' was just amazing, I felt the best kid in the block!

    From PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
    Then waiting 235412 minutes, then pressing STOP and praying
    To LOAD "*", 8, 1
    a few seconds and playing
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    Exactly! But those sure were to good ol' days. :) It beat the hell out of not having computers at all.

    I first dreamt of building a motion simulator while playing this game on my C64. It took almost 30 years before it happened but now its finally reality.

    fp_splash.jpg

    fp_cockpit.jpg
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    The first flight sim I played, on a Vic20
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    LOL, MS Flight Simulator back in 1985 :)
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    Is there a plugin for that?? :D
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    I started out on a ZXSpectrum 48k with a tape player I always wanted a C64 but never got one I purposely stuck a screwdriver in the back of it to break it so maybe I would get an upgrade to a C64 but my dad went and got me Speccy 128k with the inbuilt tape player grrrrrrr :( then it was a MegaDrive(Genesis) hardly had any games as they were to expensive. Then I got an Amiga 500+ and the freedom to pirate lol I loved my Amiga had some good times with mates networked up playing ArmourGeddon to name 1 and then to PS1 and the original top down GTA then got my first proper PC pentium 3 800mhz with a voodoo2. I spent 2 years solid playing a game called KingPin playing on Wireplay it was from 1999-2001 probably the best days I ever had online the internet was new and big phone bills from the 56k dial up lol then upgraded to ISDN 64k woooooo :D Quake3 RA was another game I spent a long time playing. Then came EVE:Online that was another few years wasted lol I have owned PS2, XBOX, Xbox360, PS3, XBOX One, PS4, PSP, Vita, Wii, NDS maybe some I forgot and always a decent PC too. Once a gamer always a gamer !!

    I could carry on for hours lol been so many memorable times playing games online and offline, wouldn't change it ever

    For now I'm addicted to playing ARK: Survival Evolved for the last month or so. Wish I had never started it but its gotta hold on me and won't let go !! :D

    Also play on the PS4 COD and Battlefield although not for a few months now.

    Obviously the sim and VR are always here and here to stay :)
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    C64 was my first real PC.
    Remember when they came with manuals that had everything in them you could ever want?
    From programming and example programs to anything else you want to know about the machine.
    I think my C64 book was the only book I ever read front to back as a kid. lol

    I remember my first program was turning the tv into a "strobe light" on the C64.
    (Ok, it was just a bilking white screen, but I was really amazed! lol)
    Can't be to hard on me, I still thought the smurfs was quality TV at the time. :D

    To be honest, in those days we still had the excitement of, "where is all this going to go".
    And every year brought huge upgrades in what you could do on the PC.

    I sort of miss that giddy excitement I used to feel when booting up something new for the first time.
    And then waiting for it to load, still waiting, no really this took forever.
    And if it was a multidisc game you had to swap disks all the figgin time...
    And then wait again, and again...
    On second thought, I'm good! :grin
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    With the very first money I saved I bought myself a C64.
    I got home, turned it on and wrote: "Hey, I'm your master. My name is Davide. Who am I?"
    That white underline cursor kept blinking and no answer! "Stupid computer", I thought, "there must be something else..."

    So I started reading that blue and white user manual with a metal white spiral. It was written in English, so I also had to learn (improve) it too
    [​IMG]
    As anybody else I made that C= baloon fly around the TV after hours of data inputing. What a joy!
    And I wrote my first program, a multi answers English test

    I miss those days, stupid computers!
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    I can't tell you how many null modem cables I made for Amiga's.
    I think being able to connect 2 Amiga's together and play 4 people at the same time was pretty awesome back then!
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    I Started with Pole Position and Grand Prix Circuit in c64, I still have it in c64 emulator.
    But now only play in VR (Waiting for c64 wrapper like vorpx :) )