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BydoEmpire

Member Since 13 Mar 2004
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In Topic: Let's Talk Burgertime (Burgertime Appreciation)

Wed Feb 8, 2012 3:04 PM

I love Burgertime, with the Inty version being my favorite version. I recently picked up Diner as well, and it's cool!

I also recently picked up Burgertime for the NES and I love the look of it, but man, is it tough! Never even made it past the second level.

In Topic: Do you think pc's from the late 1990's & early 2000's will ever be classic?

Tue Feb 7, 2012 10:06 PM

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Emphasis mine. This is really the heart of it. With '90s PCs, you don't have a single, named product like a Commodore 64 or TRS-80. Instead, you have a collection of named components that combine to form a single node of nostalgia.
My thoughts exactly, and I'd consider that general hardware spec a classic computer even if it's not one specific machine.

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The '90s were perhaps less fundamental for driving computing forward than previous decades (and then only in certain ways), but they were no less important, and no less iconic.
Agreed 100%. I grew up with the Commodore 64, and when I got my first job I saved all summer to buy an Amiga 500. Truly classic computers, and fantastic eras for computer gaming. If I had to pick a favorite decade of gaming in general it'd be the 80s without question. However, the early-mid 90s - when VGA and SoundBlaster were standard but before 3D cards arrived - was also an amazing time. There were just SO many games, in so many genres, and so much quality stuff. Especially if you were an RPG, strategy or sim fan. You had all the depth of 80s titles, with the added benefit of a hard drive. PCs didn't do action games as well, but everything else was great. I was flipping through an old Dragon magazine from about 1994, and there were about four RPGs from SSI alone, not to mention from Psygnosis and other smaller publishers. I love that era of PC gaming. Every publisher was going nuts, and some of the best computer games of all time were written.

In Topic: BYTE Magazine

Tue Feb 7, 2012 12:24 PM

View Posttosteve, on Tue Feb 7, 2012 4:37 AM, said:

Hello,

Here is my effort to continue the cause:

Currently only one posted - BYTE November 1979 - Fun and Games!

http://oldcomputers....-magazines.html
Holy crap - turn to page 27. It's Tetris!!!

In Topic: Best NES Clone?

Mon Feb 6, 2012 5:24 PM

Thanks guys!

In Topic: Interesting Ad

Sun Feb 5, 2012 8:05 AM

That's pretty cool. I don't care about comics, but I would like to see some classic game ads! It's like going to the movies to see the previews. :)

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