Games were so much simpler then. I had one called pyramid, which was entirely text based and you typed commands like “walk left” or “pickup torch” to navigate through the pyramid. It was a fairly short and simple puzzle game, but because there was no internet with walkthroughs if you got stuck it took literally years before I figured it out. (stuck in a maze of twisting passages, all alike).
I had one like that on my Amstrad. His name was Alan and he was in tunnel. You gave Alan commands and he answered back. Sometimes Alan didn’t do as he’s told. I got pissed off. I typed in Fuck you Alan. You’re a dumb cunt. Alan replied back “You shouldn’t talk to Alan like that”. Alan stopped working after that. Alan is still stuck in the tunnel.
I remember one where the tires changed colour according to how many laps you did and you could go into pitstop to change them. When they turned red, they were ready to pop.
Dot matrix printers! Remember the ones that had to have paper with holes in the side to feed it through - it would be joined together with perforations, and you had to tear off the sides and separate each sheet of paper.
Computers could run cassette tapes
Yes. Commodore 64. Brian Lara Cricket.
Games were so much simpler then. I had one called pyramid, which was entirely text based and you typed commands like “walk left” or “pickup torch” to navigate through the pyramid. It was a fairly short and simple puzzle game, but because there was no internet with walkthroughs if you got stuck it took literally years before I figured it out. (stuck in a maze of twisting passages, all alike).
I had one like that on my Amstrad. His name was Alan and he was in tunnel. You gave Alan commands and he answered back. Sometimes Alan didn’t do as he’s told. I got pissed off. I typed in Fuck you Alan. You’re a dumb cunt. Alan replied back “You shouldn’t talk to Alan like that”. Alan stopped working after that. Alan is still stuck in the tunnel.
Then there was Leather Goddess of Phobos: Fuck Trent. Trent is not in the mood.
Trent’s angry because his name is Trent.
Trent can’t make a tent in his brass loincloth
America’s Cup… Each “level” was one leg of the triangular course, and took a few minutes to load.
😂 The Summer Olympics took For ever.
And California Games - https://youtu.be/7_3QteCI7Pk?si=Z0l8xftmD9jfbFDb
I can hear this.
How about this one https://youtu.be/ZLgK5mP5HQs?si=SLBNgXHkIYRiAUQe
Yes. Vaguely though.
Test Drive.
I remember one where the tires changed colour according to how many laps you did and you could go into pitstop to change them. When they turned red, they were ready to pop.
That’s it. And Print shop. I printed many dot-matrix banners on that!
Dot matrix printers! Remember the ones that had to have paper with holes in the side to feed it through - it would be joined together with perforations, and you had to tear off the sides and separate each sheet of paper.