Oh yeh!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "allan thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: audyssey: Monty, of course


> Lol, there is nothing with kicking butt. As long as you are not a one 
> legged
> man in a butt kicking contest.
> I remember Double dragon very well. I don't remember legacy of kain, but I
> think I used to play something similar called shinobi. You would create a
> high turn over rate in evil ninja employment by killing  them just as you
> described. There was one interesting level in Shinobi that was kind of 
> cool.
> It was first person and ninjas would come from the right or left of the
> screen and the perception was that they were perhaps fifty feet away. As
> they charged across the screen you could throw shuriken or ninja stars at
> them. Eventually, if you didn't kill them fast enough, they would turn
> towards the screen right at you and you would have to pick him off before 
> he
> reached you and killed you with his sword.I would love to see some of the
> old school  stuff come out.
> allan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 8:47 AM
> Subject: Re: audyssey: Monty, of course
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>> Chuckle. Well, that would be a wonder. However, speaking of classics I
>> am currently thinking of writing some of my own side scroller classics
>> now that James has opened that can of worms.
>> For instance how many of us loved NES games like Double Dragon or Legend
>> of Kage. They would be easy enough to write, and were fun and simple to
>> use.
>> You had four movements like jump up, crouch, left and right, and the A
>> and B buttons fired your weapons. Like swing bat, sword, roll barel,
>> etc...
>> I don't know if you remember Double Dragon  but thugs would attack you
>> with say a bat and you used your kick and punching skills to get the bat
>> away and then proceeded to beat the crap out of the thugs. was great fun
>> I asure you. Especially, when they dropped to the ground knocked out.
>> In Legend of Kage you faught an relentless army of ninjas in the forest
>> outside a castle. Then you went under this mote, jumped up these stone
>> stairs while thugs attacked from above and behind.  If you kicked the
>> black ninjas butt you made it in to the castle proper and got to take on
>> even more ninjas. Eventually you rescued the princess, but wait you have
>> to finish off with the leader of this band.
>> One thing about those games they were less about story and characters
>> then all out kicking butt.
>>
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>> allan thompson wrote:
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>> Thanks for the info. Just think, when Usa games is twenty years old, we
>>> will
>>> all be playing the  console version of those old USA games classics
>>> *grin*
>>>
>>> as for James... Does it get any better than that? How did he not bust a
>>> gut
>>> from pure delight?
>>>
>>> allan
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 4:36 PM
>>> Subject: Re: audyssey: Monty, of course
>>>
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>>>> Hi, Allan.
>>>> Actually Atari has risen from the dust nationally. Activision has
>>>> produced tv game consols with all the classic Atari games on them at
>>>> Wal-mart. I have seen several different ones, and baught a delux one 
>>>> for
>>>> my son recently which plugs in to your audio-vidio ports on your tv and
>>>> all the games are on it like Asteroids, Pacman, Galaxian, etc... They
>>>> are pretty cool. An all in one console.
>>>> Although they have cheaper versions with 5 to 10 games on them. Check
>>>> your local Wal-mart toy and games isles and you should be able to find
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> allan thompson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Tom,
>>>>> *gives secret atari brotherhood handshake*
>>>>> Atari will rise again!
>>>>> lol
>>>>> It is good to hear some of those machines are still kicking. My atari
>>>>> computer kicked the bucket in the late  eighties and I grieved over 
>>>>> it.
>>>>> I can't seem to recall my atari call sign. I want to say it was 7600?
>>>>> It
>>>>> was
>>>>> white and had this interesting feature where you could create a 
>>>>> virtual
>>>>> ram
>>>>> disk with it. I am probably wrong about the number, I also owned the
>>>>> advanced atari game machine with the controllers that had a   number
>>>>> pad
>>>>> and
>>>>> side fire buttons made of soft rubber, and a joystick. I remember
>>>>> playing
>>>>> galaxians and star raiders on it. Oh and pac man. I can't remember any
>>>>> others. It all starts to run together after a while.
>>>>> keep  gaming,
>>>>> allan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "Tom Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:14 PM
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> -----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. He is sighted, but playing something like this, being a
>>>>>> recreation
>>>>>> from a game he actually played might be very cool. thanks allan
>>>>>>
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