Geek Attack: What did you used to play?

[hyperD]

Yay!

Adventure. I remember that. Looked at the compiled code & it had been written in FORTRAN...

And StarTrek on a G.A. 16-220 minicomputer.

The last game I could actually win at.

Indeed it was. Called Advent on our PDP11-23. If you typed in GDT (which I found out printing the dump of the exe) you had the cheat mode where you could become god and do various things.

I actually managed to work out the address for the room location and using PIP on the save file, move from room to room until we solved it.

The bird in the tree. The troll. The cave. The bat guano. The house. The dynamite. The jewelled egg. The trapdoor in the house.

Jeez... memory flashbacks...Nam etc

[zathras]

Star Trek

First Programme I wrote was a version of this.

A Grid 10x10 containing 100 grids themselves 10x10

This was space and it randomly generated Star Bases, Stars and Klingons

One travelled around using impulse for the inner grid and warp speed for the outer one.

Eventually wrote a multi-user version on the College Minicomputer. We also had a message system built in allowing one to have conversations with other players in realtime.

Another thing was to add support for planets who may or may not be friendly and how you treated them.

[Bernard Common]

jaysus, it's a wonder some of you guys haven't had a monitor grafted to your faces by now.

[TheMonkey]

Anyone ever play that horrid card game: Magic: The Gathering?

I wasted a whole year of my life on that bloody game.

As for writing games, I just finished writing a raycaster engine to browse wolf 3d maps using SDL on MacOS X. Fun

[zathras]

I'm with Churchill - Elite for me too. I started on a BBC model B and graduated to the 286 version.

Elite - the only real version was for the BBC, wimps used the C64 version. Did you ever leave a system by turning around and shooting up the space station till the police came after you - you could really rack up the scores shooting them down. Then scarper for a few sessions!

[RSoles]

Star Trek

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Oh Crap!
Now what's the easy(well, easier) way out?

[hyperD]

Elite - the only real version was for the BBC, wimps used the C64 version. Did you ever leave a system by turning around and shooting up the space station till the police came after you - you could really rack up the scores shooting them down. Then scarper for a few sessions!

Yep! And then realise as you tried to dock with the space station to escape the pounding, the crashing sound and your shield levels plummeting told you the developers weren't going to allow that.

Them pesky Thargoids. Scoop up those alien artifacts.

Right on, Commander hyperD!

[hyperD]

Ah, those halcyon days when you could cruise through systems with your Navy Shield generator and stick 2 cyberfingers up at pirates.

[TheMonkey]

Sod all that rubbish!!!

Chuckie Egg!!!

[Lucifer Box]

As he has actually been a manager of a Games Workshop store, I nominate MF as the God of all Geeks. In idle moments I hanker after opening a games store but it is of course horribly niche and at the mercy of even slight economic downturns. Plus most of your customers are either spotty 14 year olds or fat, bearded types with poor personal hygiene.