Old Folks ARPGing

46 here. Gaming since pong. Gamers gotta game :)

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Michael_GGG wrote:

<3 Privateer

TutTut Michael,

You need to atleast confirm you are in receipt of a pension before posting in this thread :o

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Raycheetah wrote:

Nice to see folks mention Autoduel. I played it as Car Wars, the paper map and cardboard counter tabletop original version from Steve Jackson Games.

Surprising that it (apparently) has no current game inCARnation. =^[.]^=

I always wanted to play Car Wars, but everyone I knew, was into Star Fleet Battles. I have been looking for a computer game that feels like autoduel, but the few I have found did not seem like they were worth the effort.

Every few years, I load an emulator and C64 ROM and play autoduel.

two words guys,

Ultima Online.


:)


respect to the silver surfers. I'l be one of you guys eventually.

Was listening to local radio on the way home. The stereotype of the average videogamer in the UK & Ireland is an 18 year old teenager who doesn't study (lol).

Apparantly an extensive study was done, and they found that the average videogamer is actually:

-35 year old male
-stable job
- married

The only major difference they found was that videogamers were twice as likely to have an argument with their partner!

And guess what they were arguing about; Yes, you guessed it, the amount of time they spent playing videogames. LMAO!

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conall88 wrote:

The only major difference they found was that videogamers were twice as likely to have an argument with their partner!

And guess what they were arguing about; Yes, you guessed it, the amount of time they spent playing videogames. LMAO!

That's why you marry/date a fellow gamer. Then you can to kinky stuff, like sex while playing PoE on a laptop... :P

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Sheriff_K wrote:

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conall88 wrote:

The only major difference they found was that videogamers were twice as likely to have an argument with their partner!

And guess what they were arguing about; Yes, you guessed it, the amount of time they spent playing videogames. LMAO!

That's why you marry/date a fellow gamer. Then you can to kinky stuff, like sex while playing PoE on a laptop... :P

TMI dude.. I first started with the original Mario in the late 80's, can I join? :D

"only" 29 here, but hoping to be gaming the next 40 years as well :)

nice to see a 15 page long thread with only positive posts, keep up the good spirit, young and old!

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Michael_GGG wrote:

<3 Privateer

Funny story, for the longest time I didn't know about the fly-by button that automatically takes you to the different sectors so I was flying manually to each spot. Took freakimg forever to get anywhere but still loved the game. Ah the joys of being young and not fully understanding games.

GGG should talk to Roberts and see if there can't be a little PoE ARPG action on the planets when you land your ship. Man a space sim like privateer, with a wing commander type campaign, with planet exploration and fighting and gearing up like PoE would be the ultimate game.

57 years here this coming July 20.

Sometime in the early 80's I decided I had to have William Shatners
amazing Commodore Vic-20. No real good reason other than I had to have one and
it was affordable.
I remember not having enough scratch available to buy the optional disk drive. So
I used their cassette tape memory system for external memory.
I remember PEEKING and POKING and hand typing in code I'd find in magazines just
to play some basic adventure game then assuming no typos getting that to run. HAHA. Those
were the days.

Forget a modem too, as in those days a modem cost around 1 dollar per baud or more.
The first 'affordable' ones came later actually, around 1986-87 as I recall. Six hundred
bucks or a bit more for a 1200 BAUD modem.
Which, was just as well I could not afford that either at the time, as I lived
in the boondocks of East Texas and had no phone anyway as I was too cheap to pay line costs andreally did not need a damn phone.
So My Vic 20 ended up as a adjunct to my amateur radio hobby as a packet radio and RTTY
terminal.
My FIRST experiences with BBS and FIDO (a form of what is known as USENET) were via
VHF Packet radio and via HF Shortwave RTTY and later occasional HF packet radio stations.
Talk about some slow data transfers. Course in those days it was mostly just reading
bulletin boards and FIDO net type traffic.

Sometime in late 80's I 'upgraded' my Vic 20 to a 8088 10Mhz TURBO PC with 64K RAM. Two
360 floppy drives, and a wonderful monochrome 12" amber monitor complete with a knock
off and probably pirate, Taiwan made Hercules emulator card. This to allow for CGA 4 color
emulation on a monochrome monitor.
Leisure Suit Larry was awesome played that way (emulated color on monochrome monitor).



I remember wishing I could upgrade to 640K RAM but balked
at doing so as it would have cost well north of 1000 dollars to do so.
Not justifiable then unless one had great need.
In those days one could find shady RAM dealers that were more akin to todays drug dealers,
RAM was so expensive there was a underground market of stolen RAM. Guys that worked in
places that had 'access' would occasionally 'borrow' RAM to take home for resale.
I met one of those guys. It was still too high so I didnt' buy. LOL.


Anyway, been down hill ever since.

41 here.

For xmas mom got me an Atari2600 in the late 70's (can't recall exactly)

For another xmas mom got me a VIC20 - later I managed to get a tape drive for it.

A few years later she married a man that did taxes on the side. He used an Apple 2e that had x2 floppy disk drives (!!) - big $$ in the early 80s. On this computer my start to 'gaming' blossomed. I will forever hold dear the time I spent playing Bards Tale, Ultima, Wizardy, etc.

Before all that I was playing paper & pen D&D (& later AD&D) with friends in school. Hell, even after the early computers I was still playing paper & pen rpg's ...