Why you lucky sucker! I had to beg my mom and pop for all those games. Grin. I even had to have a pocket full of quarters to head down to the arcade, because I had pacman fevor. Smile. In fact does anyone still remember the Atari game songs that were out in the 80's like Pacman fevor and Space Invaders? "He's hooked. He's hooked. his brain is nearly cooked. Space invaders."
James from Alchemy wrote: > Hi, Tom. > > > > I grew up on an Atari 800 I got for my 13th birthday from my Dad who worked > at Atari for years back in the 80's. Spent a lot of time at two of the > locations in the bay area. I used to love the arcade rooms they had set up > there with not just their games but games from all the stand-up coin-op > machines. And, they were set so that you pressed one or two player and > played for free. Got to know the engineers, went to a lot of the company > picnics and outings. Got to know the engineers, went to a lot of the > company picnics and outings. My Dad used to bring home cartridge ROMs and > the PC boards that they plugged into and I'd have to go through the box of > the chips and match the numbers on the 16k cartridges (the 8k cartridges > only had one chip), plug them into the PC board put them into a cartridge > casing and see what game it was. I remember when one of them was Caverns of > Mars well before it was released. My first Atari was a regular 800, but I > still have an Atari 800XL down in the garage somewhere with all the > peripherals, cartridges, discs, etc. I got to see all the machines Atari > produced well before they made it onto the market and even some that didn't. > In fact, I have a few hundred each of the old Votrax SC-01A and SSI 263A > voice synthesizer chips that were being used in the Atari 1450. > > > > - James > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom Randall > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course > > > > Hi Allan and all. > > Ah, another Atari Freak! Hail brother! I remember all those titles too, in > fact I still have several working atari systems here and have some of them > on good old 5.25" floppy disks and tapes although I avoid the tapes like the > plague whenever possible. Not sure if I have the original Montezuma game or > not, may have to hook one of the old beasts up and see. It is amazing how > many of those old games we can play, true not as well as a sighted guy/gal > but we could learn them because the sounds actually meant something. > > Regards, > > Tom > > > > --- > msn username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > skype username: lord_amexos > yahoo username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of allan thompson > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: audyssey: Monty, of course > > > Hello,I remember playing several old atari computer games in the old days. > My friends and I would have to load the program into the olde timey atari > 800 with a cassette loader. Any little bump or movement in the load would > crash the load and we would have to start it again. So basically you had a > bunch of kids being very still and quiet for ten to twenty minutes, and then > a flurry of fisticuffs for the wico joystick when the game was ready to > play..lol Man, we used to play blue max, shamus, this very cool game called > age of discovery, and the classic lode runner. I seem to recall playing > monty's revenge as well and this game returns back alot of memories... One > question for James. Was any sounds used or recreated from the original game? > > Anyway, I am going to have to buy a copy for myself and my friend from those > old days. 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