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What games do you associate with certain computers?

I believe the Infocom games were a bit too expensive and complex to have been sold in such quantities they would emerge most anywhere. On the other hand it was said that the Infocom adventures suffered almost no piracy, much due to all the extra material included in the box which was required or at least enhanced the play. The adventures would not be quite as playable without the original box. I don't know if this is true though. Other major adventure games certainly suffered from their fair share of pirate copies, just like all other titles.
 
Donkey Kong was ported to just about every computer and video game console in the '80s, but the Atari 8-bit computer version was by far the best:

http://www.videogamecritic.net/xeae.htm#Donkey_Kong

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p.s. Well, okay, I'll admit that from what I've seen, the Coleco Adam version is even better... but who actually has a Coleco Adam anymore!? :p
 
Going back through the ages..

Going back through the ages..

Timex/Sinclair 1000 - Frogger, but you had to be careful not to dislodge the 16k Ram Pack.
Vic-20- Impossible Mission, Never did finish that game.
C-64- Many great titles.. The Bards Tale was the most popular. I liked the the various flight sims for it.
IBM PC- Infocom's Planetfall
Amiga 500- Firepower, F/A-18 Intercepter, Ballistix, and Port of Call.
486- Doom
 
Me personally:

Atari 400/800: Star Raiders - still in my top 5 games!
Amiga: Shadow of the beast
IBM PC (ok, for me it was an Amstrad PC2286/12): The Space Quest series
 
vwestlife said:
Donkey Kong was ported to just about every computer and video game console in the '80s, but the Atari 8-bit computer version was by far the best:

http://www.videogamecritic.net/xeae.htm#Donkey_Kong

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p.s. Well, okay, I'll admit that from what I've seen, the Coleco Adam version is even better... but who actually has a Coleco Adam anymore!? :p
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Actually I still have my Coleco Adam, it's the reason why I started collecting vintage computers these past few years. Yeah the Coleco Adam version is pretty darn good, so is the TI-99/4A version as well. But then again they did have similar video display processors.

By the way if you ever want to play an "interesting" version of Donkey Kong, try it on the Intellivision. Mesmerizingly awful.
 
Aaron Teeling said:
Vic-20- Impossible Mission, Never did finish that game.
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I think you mean Mission Impossible, the text adventure game by Scott Adams, Adventure International. It may have been known as Impossible Mission on some other formats, but generally people think about the Epyx action adventure/puzzle game for the C64 etc.

As for Donkey Kong, I think it was re-implemented on the Colecovision the other year. Whether the new port was based on the Coleco Adam, arcade or other version I'm unsure. Of course we're talking about old school gaming though, so new releases for old systems wouldn't count as classical.
 
carlsson said:
As for Donkey Kong, I think it was re-implemented on the Colecovision the other year. Whether the new port was based on the Coleco Adam, arcade or other version I'm unsure. Of course we're talking about old school gaming though, so new releases for old systems wouldn't count as classical.
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The Coleco Adam version had the musical "intermission" between each level and the animation of Kong grabbing the girl and climbing up the ladder at the end of each level, both of which were missing from the ColecoVision version. As well as having all four levels, this made it the most complete home version of the game.

Actually the long story is that Coleco had the contract with Nintendo for releasing Donkey Kong in the USA on video game consoles, and Atari had the contract for releasing it on home computers. Atari was in the process of negotiations with Nintendo on releasing the NES in the USA as an Atari-branded console when they saw Coleco using Donkey Kong to demonstrate their new Adam computer. Atari freaked when they saw this, and negotiations with Nintendo over the NES quickly fell apart. It was a mutual break-up because Atari was upset about Coleco producing a home computer version of Donkey Kong and Nintendo was upset because Atari was stalling the NES deal while they hurriedly worked on the 7800 so they could compare it with the NES and see which system would be better.
 
Not to lead the topic to unobsolete systems, but on 486 when I first got an adlib supporting sound card, Galactix was awesome.. first time I heard high quality sounds for shots, voices through the adlib, it was amazing. Played it all the time. Then I found Raptor (another overhead flight shooter game) which I almost liked better but have no idea why.. just good weapons and fun play. Then later Terminal Velocity .. which I just now find came out AFTER Descent???.. anyway.. sorry but the Doom references kept making me think of games I enjoyed much more.. lol actually I think I found most of these demos on local BBSs.
 
I didn't realize that this Vintage Game sub-forum existed. I guess I never scroll down far enough. :p

Anyways, my list would have to be:

C64 - Ghostbusters and Loderunner
TI-99/4A - Munch Man and Parsec
Tandy CoCo - Downland
Atari 800 - DK/DKjr
Apple ][ - Lemonade Stand (probably the first game most people played on their Apple ]['s)
Vic - 20 - Tooth Invaders
IBM PCjr - Shamus
486 - Doom
 
dreddnott said:
This is a tough one for me, I'll have to say the only one that really evokes a gut-level nostalgic response is the paper airplane game for ye olde Macintoshes.
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Wow I totally forgot about that game -- that one was a pretty fun one to play! Thanks for bringing back the memories, senility creeps up on me more often than I'd like it to.
 
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