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From: Andreas Kohlbach on 26 Jun 2010 20:40 I hope this is not off topic here. Back in the "good days" when I was a late teen/early twen in the mid 80s a friend and me spent endless hours playing some catching games. Games we knew they had an end, and wouldn't repeat endlessly (like Pacman, which would crash in the arcade version at some point due to a counter overflow and improper handling of that). There are at least two games we spent days to finish it. We were probably not good players as others might have done this in hours. One was Pharaoh's Curse. Luckily here you received a password for a completed level so you could pick up at the start of a new level. The other was Bruce Lee. That not only crashed at a certain level. You also had to start from the scratch if you lost all lives. That was a really hard one. The friend also claimed he finished Elite without cheating. I only made it to Commander while playing on the C64 back then. I tried it again (without cheating, as there were cheats available I think) in 2000. But after some days I accidentally overwrote the save file, so I gave up. What games did you finish? And how long did it take? -- Andreas
From: redrumloa on 26 Jun 2010 22:26 On Jun 26, 8:40 pm, Andreas Kohlbach <a...(a)spamfence.net> wrote: > I hope this is not off topic here. > > Back in the "good days" when I was a late teen/early twen in the mid 80s > a friend and me spent endless hours playing some catching games. Games we > knew they had an end, and wouldn't repeat endlessly (like Pacman, which > would crash in the arcade version at some point due to a counter overflow > and improper handling of that). > > There are at least two games we spent days to finish it. We were probably > not good players as others might have done this in hours. > > One was Pharaoh's Curse. Luckily here you received a password for a > completed level so you could pick up at the start of a new level. > > The other was Bruce Lee. That not only crashed at a certain level. You > also had to start from the scratch if you lost all lives. That was a > really hard one. > > The friend also claimed he finished Elite without cheating. I only made > it to Commander while playing on the C64 back then. I tried it again > (without cheating, as there were cheats available I think) in 2000. But > after some days I accidentally overwrote the save file, so I gave up. > > What games did you finish? And how long did it take? > -- > Andreas I finished a few, off the top of my head "Realm of Impossibility". I bought that game from Toys-r-Us and played the hell out of it. I don't remember how long it took me... I know there were certain arcade conversions I got so good at, i would have to turn off because I'd get bored playing forever.
From: nyder on 26 Jun 2010 22:39 On Jun 26, 7:26 pm, redrumloa <redrum...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 26, 8:40 pm, Andreas Kohlbach <a...(a)spamfence.net> wrote: > > > > > I hope this is not off topic here. > > > Back in the "good days" when I was a late teen/early twen in the mid 80s > > a friend and me spent endless hours playing some catching games. Games we > > knew they had an end, and wouldn't repeat endlessly (like Pacman, which > > would crash in the arcade version at some point due to a counter overflow > > and improper handling of that). > > > There are at least two games we spent days to finish it. We were probably > > not good players as others might have done this in hours. > > > One was Pharaoh's Curse. Luckily here you received a password for a > > completed level so you could pick up at the start of a new level. > > > The other was Bruce Lee. That not only crashed at a certain level. You > > also had to start from the scratch if you lost all lives. That was a > > really hard one. > > > The friend also claimed he finished Elite without cheating. I only made > > it to Commander while playing on the C64 back then. I tried it again > > (without cheating, as there were cheats available I think) in 2000. But > > after some days I accidentally overwrote the save file, so I gave up. > > > What games did you finish? And how long did it take? > > -- > > Andreas > > I finished a few, off the top of my head "Realm of Impossibility". I > bought that game from Toys-r-Us and played the hell out of it. I don't > remember how long it took me... I know there were certain arcade > conversions I got so good at, i would have to turn off because I'd get > bored playing forever. While I don't recall any I finished (long time ago) I do recall playing Civilisation on my C64 till it took about 45 mins for the computers turn. Then it just took too long to play the game.
From: Robert Roland on 27 Jun 2010 06:33 On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:40:10 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach <ank(a)spamfence.net> wrote: >What games did you finish? And how long did it take? My favorite is Impossible Mission. I was really pleased when I managed that. Later, I even finished it without dying once. I also remember finishing Trollie Wallie, Raid Over Moscow and Action Biker. -- RoRo
From: Anssi Saari on 27 Jun 2010 07:14
Andreas Kohlbach <ank(a)spamfence.net> writes: > The friend also claimed he finished Elite without cheating. I only made > it to Commander while playing on the C64 back then. I tried it again > (without cheating, as there were cheats available I think) in 2000. But > after some days I accidentally overwrote the save file, so I gave up. Commander isn't a rating, it's what you are in Elite... I remember I got up to Deadly and was really bored with the game already at that point, so never got to Elite status. I looked up how much work it is, but it's a little hard to figure out since different ships have different kill values. But still, the numeric Elite rating is 2.5 times the Deadly rating, so a very long way from Deadly. I think I played Elite off and on for months, though. Got the secret missions too. > What games did you finish? And how long did it take? I suppose there were many. What comes to mind: - Uridium. A friend of mine actually got the game by accident when a repair shop forgot the disk in his 1541. The ending was really lame, just a short message. Took maybe a few months to finally manage it, but there are only 15 or so levels. - Parallax, although my copy just hung at the end. - Space Rogue, Elite-like with RPG flavor and a plot. But while making money in Elite meant trading, here the best way to make money was bounty hunting, basically just shooting up ships who attacked you. - Impossible mission. This can be played through in a few hours, since that's the time limit. A friend of mine claimed that if you restart enough times until you saw a specific layout in the first screen, it would be much easier. Never confirmed that, though. - Raid over Moscow. Well, the game actually had considerable fame here in Finland since some commie MP took it up in the parliament. Game wasn't censored or anything, though, but of course the publicity was enormous, presumably sales too. I remember there were two endings, either you escaped the final explosion or you died in it. Some adventure games, Tass Times in Tonetown for which I needed a lot of help and Gruds in Space, which was rather easy. I remember playing some other Activision adventure games, but didn't finish. Also Dallas Quest with a friend, since I didn't have a 1541 at that point and he did. |