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Ah, yes. The good(?) old days! 07/15/2015, 16:27:08 |
Hi Indighost, (independent ghost? Indignant host?) you have an interesting name. I take it from your reply that you, like Peter2 and I, are not some 15-year-old pk who holds anyone over 21 in utmost contempt. (Tongue firmly in cheek.) Whenever I get nostalgic for the old games (which I do frequently,) I stop and remember:
1. Ghastly graphics, in which even our favorite heroes looked like they were made out of Lego blocks; 2. Swapping out your play disk for a character disk, your character disk for a dungeon disk, etc., then repeating the process in reverse for ending a game; 3. Load * 8,1 (or whatever computer language your machine ran on 
4. Lo-o-o-ong load times (I used to keep my latest knitting or crochet project in my lap, and made several couch throws during load waits
5. Need a hint or tip? Wait for the next issue of Shay Addams' "Questbusters" or Scorpia's* column in "Computer Gaming World" and hope your game was in it; 6. Arm wrestle whoever else lived in your house for possession of computer time, when they wanted to check out that new educational kiddie game or "America Online" (Papa Elf actually was one of the beta testers for it
7. Assorted instructions to turn the inner wheel to show a star, the outer wheel to show a rainbow, and type in the number in the window, or type word three, paragraph ten, page 211 in the instruction manual to access the game (it was called "copy protection". Yup, I don't like the trend (which apparently is here to stay forever) of substituting bigger, badder, wrist-and-finger destroying hordes of monsters for the hard, but fair and clever, puzzles found in the earlier games. But I surely don't miss anything on the above list! The Elf Herself *For those unfamiliar with Scorpia and the late, lamented CGW magazine, JVC had a clever in-joke in MMIII; a fat, ugly, overly-made-up villainess (think Miss Piggy as a hippo) was named "Scorpia." The first time I saw it I nearly disgraced myself laughing. |
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