Coinops! Ah there are some great memories there of me being about five or six
going on holiday first place was the arcade to play golden axe teenage mutant
ninja turtles or the wwf's latest game on the old stand up coinop machines.
There was also i recall a vertion of super mario and a king arthur game but i
forget the name of it. In alter years this progressed to streetfighter 2 and
tekken 2. There's some nastalga.
you ai'nt heard nothing til ya heard it from the mad man
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From: James from Alchemy
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course
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
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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
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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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