Oo!  No kidding!

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From: "ken downey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: arcade machines was Re: audyssey: Monty, of course


> Look online for MAME, the multi arcade machine emulator.  There are over
> 5000 games for it, TMNT among them.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: arcade machines was Re: audyssey: Monty, of course
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>> Aw, man! I don't know a kid alive above age 5 in the 80's who didn't
>> love playing TMNT. Grin.
>> In fact, i still have my NES copy here, but rarely play it now. Nothing
>> beat the coin machines though.
>>
>>
>>
>> Vapour Wiseblood wrote:
>>>     I don't know how many quarters I fed into Teenage Mutant Ninja
>>> Turtles
>>> machines.... probably hundreds... (Wonder where I got the money at
>>> nine-years-old.) I also remember a coin op Dungeons and Dragons sort of
>>> game
>>> wher eyou could choose one of four characters.... came out during my
>>> freshman year of high school (1994-1995) Does anybody know the name of
>>> this
>>> game?
>>>
>>> -Vapour
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "jack scrimshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 1:01 AM
>>> Subject: Re: audyssey: Monty, of course
>>>
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>>>
>>>> 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
>>>> www.livejournal.com/users/afro_thunder nothing but pure truth.
>>>>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>  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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