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What games have you been playing?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:27 pm
by James McGrath
Personally I'm a PC gamer, (see the
Let's see you Computer thread), so I've been making use of the recent Steam summer sale.
Bagged myself Ryse: Son of Rome for under a tenner. Defiantly worth it at that price but it's a bit short (about 10 hours) to justify it's full non-sale price. Amazing graphics and the story is very engaging if a little historicity inaccurate.
Re: What games have you been playing?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:47 pm
by Robsey
Last game I played was Crash Babdicoot on the Playstation 1 (later version) back in about 2000 / 2001 ish.
Never play games because they are quite anti-social and swallow up so much of your time.
Not so bad if you are single and / or you have loads of spare time.
As a youngster I used to play Airwolf or something like that on a Commodore B2000.
Circa 1990.
Re: What games have you been playing?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:31 pm
by James McGrath
Robsey wrote:Last game I played was Crash Babdicoot on the Playstation 1 (later version) back in about 2000 / 2001 ish.
Never play games because they are quite anti-social and swallow up so much of your time.
Not so bad if you are single and / or you have loads of spare time.
As a youngster I used to play Airwolf or something like that on a Commodore B2000.
Circa 1990.
Agreed, I find myself playing less and less the last few years.
Wouldn't say they are anti-social though, depends what you play, how often and who with. They are in the same category as watching TV, films or reading novels really.
I have a bit of a thing for classic video games and since 2005 I have built up quite a collection. I haven't bought much recently as the prices have skyrocketed in the last few years, but I have most of the main consoles from Atari 2600 (and older) through SNES and Mega Drive up to N64 and Dreamcast. I hardly play them at all these days, just admire them in their boxes.
Re: What games have you been playing?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:08 pm
by Robsey
Ah - but do you have a Philips G7000?
Got one in my loft -
Big top loading cartridges.
The biggest one holds 4 Kb of memory.
Graphics are like a colour version of the old tennis / squash games.
Never played it since I got married 20 years ago.
Hard wired basic micro-switch joysticks...
Eeek!!
Re: What games have you been playing?
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:17 pm
by James McGrath
I actually don't have a G7000, but it was one that I was looking to buy a few years ago.
I do have a Adman Grandstand (more commonly known as the Fairchild Channel F), original 1977 Sunnyvale Atari 2600 'Heavy Sixer', Mattel Intellivision, ColecoVision and a Vectrex. All of a similar age.
