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Item 94: Man sets new Donkey Kong record

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23 responses total.

#1 of 23 by twenex on Thu Jul 17 20:11:25 2003:

That is way cool.

Doesn't leave much time for socializing, tho'!


#2 of 23 by tod on Thu Jul 17 20:19:18 2003:

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#3 of 23 by gull on Thu Jul 17 20:46:57 2003:

It took me a few minutes to realize this wasn't from The Onion. ;)


#4 of 23 by other on Thu Jul 17 21:13:41 2003:

Stubborn monkey beats Stubborn Monkey


#5 of 23 by jaklumen on Fri Jul 18 04:42:36 2003:

Oh no.  It does say Associated Press, after all.  The article has a 
picture of him staring into the game, i.e., you can see his reflection 
in it.  Personally, with these classics, I'd think you'd get really, 
really bored after a while as the levels just repeat themselves.  But 
it's nice, in an '80s retro- sort of way.


#6 of 23 by gull on Fri Jul 18 13:32:05 2003:

I don't know what it is, exactly, about those old classic repeating
games, but I find some of them really addictive. Centipede, for example.


#7 of 23 by mynxcat on Fri Jul 18 14:33:12 2003:

Tetris. 

Now those were true games, no flashy graphics, but you just couldn't 
get enough of them. Atari, anyone?


#8 of 23 by gull on Fri Jul 18 15:23:08 2003:

Yeah, Tetris is another good example.  So addictive that some people
jokingly suggested it was a Soviet plot to ruin worker productivity in
the U.S. :>


#9 of 23 by mynxcat on Fri Jul 18 15:40:13 2003:

Heh, I could play it for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.


#10 of 23 by jaklumen on Sat Jul 19 03:42:31 2003:

I bought the Atari: Anniversary Edition which included Centipede, 
Millipede, Crystal Castles, Battle Zone, Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, 
Gravitar, Pong, Warlords, Tempest, Missile Command, and Super 
Breakout.  I fell in love with most of the games and loved returning 
to most I remembered-- Pong, Missile Command, and Super Breakout were 
the only ones that looked a little tired.

The only big difference was that you didn't have the benefit of the 
classic controls: very evident on Tempest-- I missed the control 
knob.  But I could play the Tubes variation that had been a big hit in 
some bars.

Crystal Castles especially was a big favorite and in my opinion, a 
real underrated gem that I think the arcade world overlooked.  It was 
created, incidentally, when they were trying make a 3D version of 
Asteroids.

This CD pack has a lot of memorabilia, interviews, and just a ton of 
old school goodies.

Speaking of Tetris, when it was released, there was a columnist 
writing for the Compute! staff who half-jokingly wrote that Tetris 
must have been a Commie plot because the software wasn't copy 
protected.  You could copy the hell out of it.  I do remember it was 
wonderful, though-- lots of scenery of Russia while you matched up the 
tiles.


#11 of 23 by other on Sat Jul 19 13:38:59 2003:

Galaxian!


#12 of 23 by jep on Sat Jul 19 18:33:02 2003:

Spade Invaders, the grandfather of Galaxian.
Tron

Then there was an obscure criminal-shooting game called Hogan's 
Alley.  I could play that one for over an hour on a single quarter.


#13 of 23 by scott on Sat Jul 19 18:38:18 2003:

I'd love to find one of those old wireframe animation "Red Baron" games - it
was a flight simulator similar to that tank game.


#14 of 23 by gull on Sun Jul 20 18:40:42 2003:

Missile Command isn't the same without that big trackball, but a mouse 
makes an okay substitute.


#15 of 23 by goose on Mon Jul 21 03:21:47 2003:

Timepilot.


#16 of 23 by tod on Mon Jul 21 16:37:27 2003:

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#17 of 23 by goose on Tue Jul 29 23:36:31 2003:

*that* is frigging awsome.....long live mame.


#18 of 23 by tod on Wed Jul 30 18:19:52 2003:

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#19 of 23 by oval on Wed Jul 30 18:25:54 2003:

galaga, Q-bert, metroid!


#20 of 23 by micklpkl on Wed Jul 30 18:27:00 2003:

I remember Q-Bert as being very difficult for me to play. Cool 
graphics, though, for the time.


#21 of 23 by tod on Wed Jul 30 18:43:59 2003:

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#22 of 23 by jaklumen on Thu Jul 31 03:21:42 2003:

Galaxian was the sequel.

Q*bert was a pretty keen game-- still is.  Not sure what to think of 
the 'update.'


#23 of 23 by goose on Thu Jul 31 03:22:52 2003:

www.megachump.com/lars.html is a fave too...


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