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Postby vooshy » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:35 am

You do realise it is possible to emulate an apple 2 on systems such as pcs, new apples, linux etc? Spectre has been around a while it seems, the apple spectre was released in 1988 if im not mistaken but the pc version I played was only released in 1992. Unfortunatly the company was bought out by Take 2 who now release games such as GTA.
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Postby xander » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:41 am

vooshy wrote:You do realise it is possible to emulate an apple 2 on systems such as pcs, new apples, linux etc? Spectre has been around a while it seems, the apple spectre was released in 1988 if im not mistaken but the pc version I played was only released in 1992. Unfortunatly the company was bought out by Take 2 who now release games such as GTA.

I should note that Spectre ran under the Mac OS, thus will not run on an Apple // . You will need to use something like Basilisk to emulate the Mac OS (I would suggest 7.x).

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Postby njaakkola » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:19 am

I have to say that I was completely blown away by Tempest when I got the chance to try the original coin-op at the 'Game On' exhibition a few years back.

I think there's an emulator version around, but it wouldn't be the same with a mouse...

Has anyone heard of USB paddle controllers?
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Postby Darksun » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:06 pm

Line Wars II ftw!
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Postby daddygoestowork » Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:28 pm

you could also try out Grid wars if you don't know about it already.

http://gridwars.com/

quite teh vectorish shoot em up, arcade :)

cheers
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Postby atze » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:38 pm

Best Vector Arcades ever 8)

ASTEROIDS: http://www.play.vg/games/4-Asteroids.html

and

BattleZone: http://www.cyberdyne-systems.co.uk/bz/bzsplash.html

BattleZone had two forward/backward joysticks for the left and right track-chains. the above link has a game with exacly that! push left chain backwards and right chain forward for a quick left turn.
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Postby Baelthazar » Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:22 am

You know... the original Asteroids was pretty sweet. I still stand by my Star Wars cabinet game though.

Anyone remember a really irritating and simplistic Moon Lander game. I NEVER could get my craft slowed down enough to land without fragmenting into a million lines...

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Postby Smacklug » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:19 am

I challenge you to a fight to the death xander... for I am the

WINDOWS WARRIIOR!!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby xander » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:01 am

Smacklug wrote:I challenge you to a fight to the death xander... for I am the

WINDOWS WARRIIOR!!!!!!!!!!!


Okay... Someone forgot to take their happy pills this morning...

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Postby Baelthazar » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:39 am

Well at least this thread didn't devolve into strangeness...

CRAP! Too late...

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Postby dorbot » Thu May 04, 2006 6:41 am

YOUR HEAD A SPLODE lol
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Postby Gravitron » Thu May 04, 2006 9:21 am

First of all, Astroids...space wars....just go play SubSpace people!
You'll get pwnt and addicted.

Second, windows warrior? WTF!?
P.S. GJ on the double Is.

Third, Baelthazar, I do believe that I've relocated your thread over there.
iGAME...on the PC
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Postby Phydaux » Sun May 07, 2006 11:14 pm

Well I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Elite!

RabidZombie wrote:Not very old, but Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is highly entertaining. This message will only be useful to you 360 owners unfortunatly...

Although a quick google of GridWars will link you to probably the greatest clone of it ever created.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is cool for a 5 min break from the main game.

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