Nex.... you're awesome for making the Airheads reference.

I don't know when exactly it happened, or what the game was called, but it was a MUD and it was some time ago now, like, 7-10 years.

Anyhow, it was a SciFi RPG, more or less a precursor to EVE in a lot of ways. so, anyhow i'd made a friend and he'd loned me some cash to buy a cruiser, which I paid him back in short order with all that sexy cargo space.

One day I was joking to him that we should cut the hatch on the oe only battlecruiser anyone owned and stun him for a few hours and take the battlecruiser.

Next thing I know I'm being attacked by the fucking battlecruiser, in seconds i'm destroyed and in my escape pod, I get a message saying that there is an FTL inhibitor in effect and I can't escape.i'm tractored onto the thing and taken to a planet, as they drag me out I see a list of like a thousand different ships and a helluva lot of people too.

Apparently this is where people they don't trust go, seven or 8 people fired stun guns at me for about 2 or 3 hours straight, I didn't stay for it all, but I came back a while later and they were still shooting me. By the time I came back and they had gond they had stunned me for a few months of real time, and that was the last day I played that game.

The admins also had a tendency to stun me with swarms of robo-bees. I forget why, I think cause I'd guessed correctly they loved bear cock, then again it may have been cause I said the only person who loves it more than them is there mom. They deserved it though, I assure you, i just forget why.

Are any of these still on the internets?

Listen, I remember creaming my shorts over Adventure for the 2600.



Adventure was a radical, next generational step forward in the fine art of videogames. Prior to Adventure, your four pixel square had no backstory -- no reason to hit the other squares. After Adventure those other squares became DRAGONS! And WIZARDS! And TROLLS and shit!

It blew our adolescent minds. The Future!

This is how it went:

1) Pong: "Dots move on our television!"
2) Combat: "Holy shit, that dot is a tank!"
3) Adventure: "Now it's a fucking dragon!"

This was pretty much how each month of our young videogame lives went back in those days. Each week a new miracle. It was like Captain Kirk himself came down from space and made us hoagies and egg creams... with his bare hands.

These days "next gen" is increasing the poly count 12% on field grass (Cliffy B: "We've given the chlorophyll advanced AI and added an additional blu-ray disc just to hold the textures for dandelions.") Back in the day, an entire forest was represented by a single off-green pixel. That was Hyrule, bitches. A green dot... that would flash at like 3 frames per minute.

My Atari ran on steam.

It had belts and filters that needed to be replaced each week.

I'm not even going to tell you how difficult it was to see two chicks kissing.

It'll make a grown man weep.

damn, im old school but not that old school. i never got to play those old PC games.

I remember sitting at the computer for hours and playing Zork. I used to get mad when I'd get stuck and couldn't figure out what command to give and I'd start swearing at it and it would say "I don't understand 'shit'". That was probably THE game of its time. To date myself a little more, I remember buying a book to write little typing games and such on my Commodore VIC20 (PRE-commodore 64) that I had to hook up to my little 13" black and white tv as the monitor.

Dungeons of Daggorath! I still have my copy of that game, and the TRS-80 Color Computer to play it on. :D

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Before there were pretty graphics, there were 'games' that would draw 4 bit greyscale pictures pixel by pixel. And it only took 10 minutes on my old 8086. PC games were, and always will be, the leader in gaming graphics.

my first PC game was "Hell Taxi" with FULL. MOTION. VIDEO. on my 33 mhz computer with a 1X CD-ROM drive.

I still kill time with roguelike games. Nethack and Dwarf Fortress, mainly. As a matter of fact, between Christmas Eve and Christmas day, I literally spent 20 hours playing Dwarf Fortress.

I also idle around on a ~10 year old Final Fantasy / Squaresoft MUD. uossmud.sandwich.net:9000

You kids with yer fancy graphics need to get off my lawn.