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[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yes. Commodore 64. Brian Lara Cricket.

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Games were so much simpler then. I had one called pyramid, which was entirely text based and you typed commands like "walk left" or "pickup torch" to navigate through the pyramid. It was a fairly short and simple puzzle game, but because there was no internet with walkthroughs if you got stuck it took literally years before I figured it out. (stuck in a maze of twisting passages, all alike).

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had one like that on my Amstrad. His name was Alan and he was in tunnel. You gave Alan commands and he answered back. Sometimes Alan didn't do as he's told. I got pissed off. I typed in Fuck you Alan. You're a dumb cunt. Alan replied back "You shouldn't talk to Alan like that". Alan stopped working after that. Alan is still stuck in the tunnel.

[–] 6368_39162@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then there was Leather Goddess of Phobos: Fuck Trent. Trent is not in the mood.

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trent's angry because his name is Trent.

[–] 6368_39162@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Trent can’t make a tent in his brass loincloth

[–] Eagle@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Test Drive.

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember one where the tires changed colour according to how many laps you did and you could go into pitstop to change them. When they turned red, they were ready to pop.

[–] Eagle@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's it. And Print shop. I printed many dot-matrix banners on that!

[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Dot matrix printers! Remember the ones that had to have paper with holes in the side to feed it through - it would be joined together with perforations, and you had to tear off the sides and separate each sheet of paper.

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

America's Cup... Each "level" was one leg of the triangular course, and took a few minutes to load.