I remember those tunes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:30 PM Subject: Re: audyssey: Monty, of course
> 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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