.. You mean Day of the Tentacle? ;)

Monkey Island 1 and 2 would definetly be up there towards the top of my personal list of most important games. Up until the rat, all my avatars where MI themed. :p:

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Some favourites would be Monkey Island 1 & 2 (of course), Day of the Tentacle, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and the two first Simon the Sorcerors. The two first MIs are at least a head and often a shoulder above the rest, though.

Played that a bit.

Not at all (see the past few pages of old Atari and computer games for example). Hell, I still have my Pitfall Atari cartridge, the only problem is I don't know how to hook my old 2600 up to a modern TV.

Haha yes, most certainly did. Fancy getting a game and a novel mixed up, when did they ever live happily side by side? It's unfortunate I missed your MI avatars, i'm sure they would have been unexpected! Can't beat the witty dialogue of Threepwood.

Emulators are your friend.

Bah. Why emulate when you have the real thing?

agreed, nothing tops the real thing, especially if you get a few old friends to tag along for the trip down memory lane.

you happen to have a vcr kicking around?

otherwise you'll need some sort of converter box, or you could just get an old tv at a flea market.

My SNES and NES don't work anymore and my Genesis's library is meh.

So that's why I use emulators, I don't own a lot of games on cartridge because I rented games mostly when I was a kid.

My old consoles / computers are either gone or not working. I always got one computer hooked up to the telly and I have an old USB joystick and although it's not at all genuine, just playing emulator on the TV with joystick in hand does give it some appreciative level of authenticity.

Oh - and I'd rather play c64 games on emulator than on my old one. I would pray to all sorts of deities in the hope that the games would actually load and all of them being on casette tapes, of course I had to wait for quite a while for games to load. The emulator has the possibility of speeding up loading times. :)


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One piece of hardware I don't really miss that much.

Yeah I do want to get a gamepad for my computer because some games are just awkward with a keyboard.

Especially SNES games.

oh man that thing was horrible. you ever try playing those cassettes in a regular player? hahaha we'd also force normal cassettes into the recorder because they were cheaper. the hardware manufacturer hadn't made the custom tapes small enough to really cause an issue when using 'unofficial' storage media haha

Yeah, most of my games by far were pirate copies :p:

Playing them in the regular player was a bit like an 8-bit cover version of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

I do have a VCR. Funny thing though, just last night I was having problems making that work with my new TV. But hypothetically, if I do get it to work, how would I use it to hook the Atari up?

The most fustrating thing about Commodore 64 emulators is how every game has a completely different control scheme. Playing games shouldn't be a damn homework project. :mad:

unless you've got a fancy RCA only VCR there should still be a coax cable connection (the kind where you have to screw a piece of cable with a wire sticking out of it)

you'll need another converter but they're dirt cheap. (the bottom one)

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any kind of random electronics / hardware store should carry these, should be no more than $2-3.

once you have those pieces in place all you need to do is hook up the old RF switch to the converter, pop that onto the coax connection on the VCR and select the proper input.

agreed,

and if i may on a double post. my choice for best C64 game ever.

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