Gyroscopic Investing

I must admit to being totally out of date with computer games.

As a teenager we had similar to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCqIkgFKHr4. (on a black & white TV - no colour then )

and was very impressed with the video quality and story line of a modern game I stumbled across on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHKUVdb5YTM

What are some other games you and/or your children are playing now with superb video quality?
Anything you really liked in the past?

PS: The town I came from had banned pinball machines, video arcade games and even disallowed construction of a drive in theatre. Bad influence on the youth - we had to walk a few miles outside the town limits to a truck stop to play "Space Invaders"

Hal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:19 pm
Anything you really liked in the past?

Go and search for Doom comparison videos and images.

It's a particularly good comparison because a lot of the monsters and characters are the same, despite almost 30 years transpiring. Same demons and entities, just better graphics. It's really something.

It goes deeper. Every year these graphics and VR simulations get better, the probability of the simulation hypothesis being true improves.

Younger plays Elder Scrolls and Minecraft.

I used to love Ultima, Choplifter, Galaga (made my own Mame arcade machine a long time ago), Defender, Zork, SSI text-based games.

Good Times.

I can't get into any of the first person games anymore, did try Portal, not bad, but I would have never come out of my room if I was a teenager now.

Hal, I didn’t really play Kriegspiel. :-) i was looking at the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late just yesterday and I went down the history of computing rabbit hole that I occasionally go down. This time is was the Dragon 64. There’s an archive of Dragon User magazine, and that led to the Kriegspiel ad.

No pinball? What an odd town you lived in!

We had pong in the 70s. We had a white cat (apologies, Pug!) who normally stared at the wall but that Pong ball really brought out his hunter instinct. No Internet to put him on nor even a camcorder with which to film him.

The Golden Age for my family was the Atari 2600. Pitfall and stuff like that. (On youtube, you can find Jack Black as an unknown little boy doing an ad for it).

Two arcade games that really stood out for me — Physical games that you had to visit and feed quarters — were Joust with its knights on flying ostriches, with lances; and later, Dragon’s Lair, which might have been the first laserdisc game. We first saw Dragon’s Lair at a rest stop. It blew us away. We may as well have been Amish. So many quarters spent on that one. (Two at a time).

After we got our first home computer, two floppy disk games kept my brother and me in the cool air of the basement every day after school and all summer long: King’s Quest, which we first saw demonstrated in some quiet little computer shop; and Sun Tzu’s Art of War (by Broderbund?)

A friend outside D.C. introduced us to Castle Wolfenstein.

i’ve seen my nephew play fancy games over the holiday but for me the thrill is gone. I can never get it back.

Heh,

You reminded me of Battlezone and Asteroids when I went to Uni. Having to design/build "high power" 8085 systems (ran at a few Mhz if I remember correctly)

Too many games to list, but I also really loved Punch-Out. I can still picture beating the stuffing out of Glass Joe, making another opponent’s eyes bulge, and getting knocked out by higher level characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_P ... characters

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:44 pm Younger plays Elder Scrolls and Minecraft.

I used to love Ultima, Choplifter, Galaga (made my own Mame arcade machine a long time ago), Defender, Zork, SSI text-based games.

Good Times.

I can't get into any of the first person games anymore, did try Portal, not bad, but I would have never come out of my room if I was a teenager now.

You would have self-quarantined and thought it was great! Maybe these absorbing games are training the younger generation for the coming apocalypse multi-pandemics (caution, conspiracy theory).

Hal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:50 pm Heh,

You reminded me of Battlezone and Asteroids when I went to Uni. Having to design/build "high power" 8085 systems (ran at a few Mhz if I remember correctly)

Played Battlezone for hours at the Malibu Grand Prix back in the day - They would run a Saturday special $5 real American for $15 in tokens

Old commercial from YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_03bO0FXOE

Holy moly the new Resident Evil 3 remake REALLY brings some memories back from my childhood.

Being chased by Nemesis at HD resolution and modern textures really makes you load your pants.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:41 am Holy moly the new Resident Evil 3 remake REALLY brings some memories back from my childhood.

Being chased by Nemesis at HD resolution and modern textures really makes you load your pants.

You're right - the graphics are awesome !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt8Tm1P0LQs

Choplifter. Battle Zone. Anything Infocom.

Wow those were some good ones.

I'll add Dr J and Larry Bird Go One On One, Archon, Red Baron, Pole Position, Karate Champ, Pirates, Defender of the Crown, Qbert...probably a zillion others.

The good old Commodore 64...

The arcade near my high school gave out a surprising amount of free tokens for good grades. So one of the (few) perks of being a nerd was getting hours and hours of arcade time for nothing!

What game should I get next? One of:

- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Witcher 3
- GTA V
- Skyrim

They're all about the same price on the playstation store at the moment...

Skyrim was great.

I load up youtube and what do they recommend? Skyrim Meets Metal.

It's almost as if Google is spying on me!

That's one vote for Skyrim!

Lol Google's mantra now seems to be "Always be evil."

I also got Resident Evil 2 for PS4.

Currently 51% off the normal price on the playstation store!

I loved Zaxxon in the 80’s. So much so that every time I see a photo of storage tanks, I think of Zaxxon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon

Remember "Limbo" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ie19_GXAAw