The Hangout: I didn't need to see Harry Potter's wand.

[Mikey]

I've never even heard of Barbarian. Then again, the NES was mainly about Mario and Zelda for me.

[crusher]

Almost as useless as crusher, right?

You have an unhealthy obsession over me.

[Fer!]

Oh, I forgot, check 01:30 of that vid.

[Panda Man]

YES! Loved that game. Seriously, I'm surprised the gore level didn't get more attention, especially after the uproar Mortal Kombat caused a few years later later.

Probably because it wasn't near as popular Games are as controversial as they are popular. There are much worse games than GTA, but GTA gets all the attention.

So, did anybody play an DOS games like syndicate wars or X-wing?

[Panda Man]

You have an unhealthy obsession over me.

[Cosmic]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=14ORMf6Sj...elated&search=

Uh...so let me get this straight, you had to load games from the computer, and you played them with a keyboard or a controller or something?

Yeah. You loaded them from either a 5.25" floppy disk or a cassette tape, which was essentially the same as a standard audio cassette. There were cartridges released towards the end of the C64's life but I never had any.

You could either play with the keyboard or a joystick, the latter of which used the same connector as a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis so the controllers are pretty much interchangeable. There was a mouse available too although mine never seemed to work.

[Evans]

Oh man, Turtles was great. It was also waaaay more difficult than the NES port that everyone complains about. I had Robocop too, although I could never find that Simpsons game. It was Bart vs the Space Mutants, yes?

Absolutely, but we lost the manual. You know what that means... :/

Simpsons Arcade Game, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_(arcade_game)

YES! Loved that game. Seriously, I'm surprised the gore level didn't get more attention, especially after the uproar Mortal Kombat caused a few years later later.

I can hear the music so well, too.

*hums*

[Panda Man]

There was a mouse available too although mine never seemed to work.

The poor thing wasn't designed to do that

[Evans]

Yeah. You loaded them from either a 5.25" floppy disk or a cassette tape, which was essentially the same as a standard audio cassette. There were cartridges released towards the end of the C64's life but I never had any.

You could either play with the keyboard or a joystick, the latter of which used the same connector as a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis so the controllers are pretty much interchangeable. There was a mouse available too although mine never seemed to work.

Correct.

Although, you couldn't type when a Genesis controller was plugged in. It would just screw the keyboard up. Try it.

[Fer!]

Yeah. You loaded them from either a 5.25" floppy disk or a cassette tape, which was essentially the same as a standard audio cassette. There were cartridges released towards the end of the C64's life but I never had any.

You could either play with the keyboard or a joystick, the latter of which used the same connector as a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis so the controllers are pretty much interchangeable. There was a mouse available too although mine never seemed to work.

Holy crap...I think a cousin had that thing too. I remember he had an old computer that used cassette tapes or something, but I never knew what it was.

Absolutely, but we lost the manual. You know what that means... :/

Simpsons Arcade Game, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_(arcade_game)

I can hear the music so well, too.

*hums*

Man, that Simpsons game rocked, I remember when Konami released some Beat 'em ups for 4 players, Simpsons game, Sunsetriders and Vendetta.

Brings back memories.

[Evans]

I'd like to point out that the computer WAS the keyboard. :X

[Cosmic]

Absolutely, but we lost the manual. You know what that means... :/

Copy protection! Yeah I remember that. The code page was difficult enough to decipher as it was - seriously, microscopic black text on a dark red background?

[Fer!]

Copy protection! Yeah I remember that. The code page was difficult enough to decipher as it was - seriously, microscopic black text on a dark red background?

The serial key was hidden in the manual?

What did you use, 3-D glasses?

[Evans]

Copy protection! Yeah I remember that. The code page was difficult enough to decipher as it was - seriously, microscopic black text on a dark red background?

Oh man, Ghosts N' Goblins!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W6wnGk5-mcI

[Cosmic]

The serial key was hidden in the manual?

What did you use, 3-D glasses?

It was a table laid out like an Excel spreadsheet, and the code changed each time. The game would load up and bark something like "COLUMN B2, ROW D7"! at you in large fluorescent letters.