You should try a hat. For securing the ice cube to your head.
Posted by second_prize at October 2, 2005 05:47 PM
Reading this, I recalled the FIRST video game I ever owned, back in 1981 or so. It was a Radio Shack game called "Space Warp", which I had on cassette tape (!) for my TRS-80 Model 1. No joysticks, and all of the graphics were alphanumeric; it was a Star Trek scenario where you zoomed from sector to sector in the "USS Endever" (their spelling) defending your Federation bases from the Jovian hordes.
As I recall, your spaceship looked like this: "V"
And the Jovians were: [*]
To shoot at them, you had to type in a command which would fire your phasers, including a compass heading; calculating a heading on the fly was a bother, so I just used to maneuver alongside and fire straight on. It had no colour, no sound and limited visuals, but it was pretty dazzling for a computer with 4K memory and no hard drive!
Posted by David at October 11, 2005 04:07 PM
second_prize - Good idea. Now, if I could just remember what I did with my hat....
David - Good Lord! I think I remember that game, or something very similar, although I did not have it, myself. Something about the V serving as a spaceship is jogging faintly at my memory, but I can't remember exactly where I saw it. I knew a couple of folks with TRS-80s, but I don't think that was it. I think it was...an Atari port, or something? Man, I don't know. Maybe it was something else entirely. It...it scrolled downwards, this game I'm thinking of, and just went on and on forever. And there were spelling mistakes in the game text.
Man, it's like going on an archaeological dig, here, digging up all these old games, and the memories that go with 'em!
Posted by Rats at October 15, 2005 12:08 AM