No choice but to stay up and play old-skool 'MAME' games I guess. My faves were (and still are) 'Ghosts-n-Goblins', 'Rygar', 'Rolling thunder', and 'Karnov'…
Anyone else from 'my era' care to declare what games they 'slammed endless twennies' into? LOL!!!
OMG YOU JUST (profanity) FOUND THE GAME I WAS SEARCHING FOR MY WHOLE LIFE! I WISH I COULD GIVE YOU 1000 upvotes for that comment! THANKYOU!
Which one was it?
Elevator Action
@Zachary: That game hit the scene ('got me') at the somewhat vulnerable age of about 9 or 10; and I was hooked. The addictive nature of it truly was like 'gambling for kids'! LOL
Fun game …
None of the subsequent incarnations of it were really comparable…
Doing Friday’s cryptic crossword. One to go. With the fan on it hasn’t been too bad but it helps if you stand in the cold shower for a bit and go to bed with your hair wet,
I'm glad cryptic crossword game was never in my arcades 😋
You pick your game and I pick mine. Got it all out now.
Actually I will double down that this is a game. I run an app to “play” it on and I solve puzzles to get it out. I don’t see this as much different to all the puzzle games I play. At the moment I recommend the iOS 50 Room Escape apps, there are several sets of them. You solve puzzles to get out of the rooms. The app is free, the in app cost is hints to solve but there are plenty of YouTube walkthroughs if you get stuck.
Sorry, couldn't reply earlier, too busy dreaming about playing pacman as I sleept in the heat.
Still freaking hot. I'm not loving Melbourne so much lately.
The change is coming this afternoon. At least we aren’t Mildura which has days and days of hot weather.
There right now.
Guess what's worse than 40C at 10am? 40C at 10am with 35 km/h wind. At least I'm not stuck with an evaporative AC like most people.
So it is humid as well?
@try2bhelpful: No, no sign of clouds in any direction.
The problem with trying to use an evap in windy weather is that it needs a window open, and the wind gusts will often be stronger than the AC fan.
@ssquid: ah - thanks for the info. You could, probably, find a way to seal around the outlet. We used to run ours out through the cat door. Annoyed the cat, but the size was about right. We have been lucky enough to be able to open up the house and blow out most of the hot air overnight, so we, probably, haven't used our evaporative cooler more than 10 times since we got it; quite a few years ago now.
Double Dragon!
Outrun, 1942, Robocop, Twin Eagle, After Burner, Gauntlet (played this more on c64)
'Wizard, needs food…. badly.' LOLOL
oh rygar. i remember spending so many 20 cent coins on that one.
Of course we had it tough - I grew up with pen, and paper, Dungeons and Dragons and Runequest. My little brother got, at exorbitant cost, a game that played pong. My other half built his own kit home computer with 2k of memory and tape recorder game download. It had a rather sophisticated maze program, for its era.
Meme games, Luxury.
My favourite Amiga game was the guiding the marble game.
Meme games? Sounds vaguely modern….
Amiga you say? Yeppers, we had one of those, the original Amiga 1000 no less—which required you to insert a 'kickstart' floppy disk every time you turned it on (seriously; it did, by design). The game you are referring to is 'Marble Madness', and it was one of my faves too.
Oh yeah, we had an original one too - we are both nerds so we knew it was coming and got one of the first to hit ground. Best damn machine for its era - Guru Meditation error, and all. The graphics were incredible.
Before SSDs, HDDs and USBs - the good old boot(strap) disk, with a label that was usually so worn that it was unreadable. Without it old PCs were basically paperweights, unless you had a genuine IBM machine that had BASIC in its ROM.
I don't go back "all the way" but I know of people who used two pass paper tape compilers for writing code and my other half used to bootstrap a PDP 8 with front panel switches. Me, I go back to mark sense cards for programming. By the time you got the code correct all the graphite was rubbed off and the compiling machines kept failing cause they were full of eraser. I lived in the halls of residence at Uni; got up one morning and there was a bunch of mark sense cards bluetacked to my door. Ran it through the reader and it was a birthday greeting.
The punch cards were more reliable but you couldn't reuse them.
What is the term for anti nostalgia - never want to go back there again.
I remember playing Final Fight…. and that hamburger game…..can't remember the name of it…..it was pretty fun…
'Hamburger game'?!? I'm intrigued, please elaborate…
BurgerTime
Play a leprechaun sized Chef unhygienically walking all over burger patties, cheese and buns to stack them onto the plate, while dousing pepper right in the face of sausages, eggs and pickle monsters chasing you
LOLOL, I assumed you were joking at first (or had too much bad acid in the 1960s) when I read your description, but I just checked and that seriously was (or you could loosely say 'is', I guess) a game! Hilarious! I'm gonna get the ROM and try it.
Ah so that's the title…thanks…
Yeah what this guy said, pretty much describes what you do in the game….don't think I ever finished/beaten it though…..
There's also boss battles too if I recall…..throwing your made burgers at it to hurt it in some way……
My MAME picks
Cabal, Golden Axe, Operation Wolf, GROWL, Vigilante, Arkanoid, (Root Beer) Tapper, Green Beret, MIA
of course, set difficulty to Very Hard :)
Just curious, what is the best way to play MAME on a TV.
I was thinking using an old laptop (or desktop) with HDMI cable and use the PS4 controller via Bluetooth.
Can a Raspberry PI run MAME?
Before those there was '1942' (the arcade game, not the year) 'exciting hour', and 'Elevator Action'! …