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This is quite a ride. In the beginning it was a bit confusing, but its all about getting used to the world. There is a massive amount of information in this project. I sprinted through, but I want to go back and look at more about this project. It would be interesting if this project incorporated more video and actually allowed game play of these games.
Way back in primary school we used to use lunch times to play on the class computer on q-basic. That was great, especially that gorilla game throwing bananas at each other.
Once a friend of mine downloaded some data and took it to school on a floppy disk, didn't tell us about it, then loaded up a car-racing game on q-basic and told us that he designed it himself. We bought it, we thought he was so clever.
Once a friend of mine downloaded some data and took it to school on a floppy disk, didn't tell us about it, then loaded up a car-racing game on q-basic and told us that he designed it himself. We bought it, we thought he was so clever.
My friends and I were video game arcade junkies from the early days. The Regent spacies parlour in Whangarei was our permanent hangout (now a supermarket carpark) and our proficency at the games was a sore point with the owner. He would engineer power outages that reset the machines lest we spend the whole afternoon playing Donkey Kong on a single 20 cent piece. Of course to get that good cost a bit of money and the best racket we came up was returning glass bottles for the deposit, having just pilfered them from the back of the same dairy.
Great work Melanie!!
I can tell you both the Tunix and Grandstand games consoles where in fact repackaged Emerson Arcadia 2001 consoles. Tunix brought them in first and then disappeared of the market before they where then completely repacked and sold by Grandstand.
I also remember vividly playing our Tunix and playing "Super gobbler" which was a pac-man clone, and ""Jump bug" which was an actual license from an arcade machine. I also remember we had one bung controller, which used to make one of our fielders in baseball constantly, run on the spot. Funny as hell now I think about it but was annoying when I was a kid.
I also remember vividly playing our Tunix and playing "Super gobbler" which was a pac-man clone, and ""Jump bug" which was an actual license from an arcade machine. I also remember we had one bung controller, which used to make one of our fielders in baseball constantly, run on the spot. Funny as hell now I think about it but was annoying when I was a kid.