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**the_bird** · 09-16-2006, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by The Happy Mug

Oh my god I forgot about the tape drive! We had a dual floppy drive too - It was the size of a toaster. Remember the plug-in cartridges? Rogue, Dallas Quest, Canyon Climber, Super Pitfall, Koronis Rift . . . Those 5-lb joysticks with the dinky sticks . . . a useless optional peripheral called a 'mouse' . . . and some games had COLOR!

Man, I wish I knew where that computer went to. It would be cool to check it out some time for nostalgia.

Ok>_

I have two of them (I think both are still there) at my folks' house. Our first computer was a 16K CoCo2, we upgraded to the CoCo3 (with 128K) a couple years later. Still have a boatload of tapes with my programs on them (helluva way to teach an eight year old, or however old I was at the time, how to do logical reasoning - write a damn progam in BASIC!).

My moms keeps bugging me to get them out of the house, but every time I say something to my wife about hooking them up, she just rolls her eyes at me.

I'll have to grab them next time I'm up there....

**Walker** · 09-16-2006, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by kornkob

BTW-- please buy lots of games--- especially Marvel games. (Activision does profit sharing).

ANd, buy nvidia. It's the way it's meant to be played. {plug, plug, plug}

Cheesefood · 09-16-2006, 10:27 PM

Every now and then I play Halo 2 online (screen name is cunnilicious) but I rarely have time. I bought Civilization, played it a few times and shelfed it. I just don't have time for video games anymore. Drat!

**nosnhojr** · 09-16-2006, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Walker-san

My 286. It was a 16MHz bad-ass hotrod of a machine with a 10MB hdd and both 3.5 and 5.25 floppies. I had to turn the 'turbo' button off and drop it down to 8 MHz so that Larry didn't run like he was on crank.

-walker

PS: That machine is still alive today in perfect working order. My grandpa uses it to play solitaire.

I played LSL on an original Mac in 1985 or so. That was my second computer. The first was an early model TRS-80, around 1978. Still have both machines, in pristine condition. Although I do have trouble reading programs from those damn cassette tapes...

knewshound · 09-17-2006, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Orpheus

I play many World War II games. Used to play Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Then I moved on to Call of Duty. Then got Call of Duty: United Offensive. Now I play Call of Duty 2.

I usually play COD2 on Virtual Mercs server, look me up sometime as "Milf Man".

Cheers,

knewshound

Exo · 09-17-2006, 03:05 AM

My first??? Commodore 64...

**Vagrant** · 09-17-2006, 03:53 AM

I'll admit to playing World of Warcraft. I'm not a huge gamer, but I fire it up once in a while. I also have a XBox 360. I mainly use it to stream music and watch dvds. I didnt own a game for it for 5 months. I just downloaded demo's from XBox Live when I felt the urge.. I'm a cheap bastard =)

Spyk'd · 09-17-2006, 04:12 AM

I was heavily into SWG after beta testing it. Rode that pony into the ground about the time my daughter was born.

I also beta tested Dungeons and Dragons online, but found that, once again, I had no time due to said daughter's birth.

Now I just log into forums and engage in the occasional stimulating conversation in between working and fixing my house.

I love MMORPS's, they really are evil.

**Walker** · 09-17-2006, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Spyk'd

Now I just log into forums and engage in the occasional stimulating conversation

None of that going on here.

Spyk'd · 09-17-2006, 05:16 AM

And now for your viewing pleasure:

MTrev

This was from my D&D Online Beta Board...