Aw, man! I don't know a kid alive above age 5 in the 80's who didn't love playing TMNT. Grin. In fact, i still have my NES copy here, but rarely play it now. Nothing beat the coin machines though.
Vapour Wiseblood wrote: > I don't know how many quarters I fed into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles > machines.... probably hundreds... (Wonder where I got the money at > nine-years-old.) I also remember a coin op Dungeons and Dragons sort of game > wher eyou could choose one of four characters.... came out during my > freshman year of high school (1994-1995) Does anybody know the name of this > game? > > -Vapour > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jack scrimshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 1:01 AM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Monty, of course > > > >> Coinops! Ah there are some great memories there of me being about five or >> six going on holiday first place was the arcade to play golden axe teenage >> mutant ninja turtles or the wwf's latest game on the old stand up coinop >> machines. There was also i recall a vertion of super mario and a king >> arthur game but i forget the name of it. In alter years this progressed to >> streetfighter 2 and tekken 2. There's some nastalga. >> you ai'nt heard nothing til ya heard it from the mad man >> www.livejournal.com/users/afro_thunder nothing but pure truth. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: James from Alchemy >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:16 PM >> Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course >> >> >> Hi, Tom. >> >> >> >> I grew up on an Atari 800 I got for my 13th birthday from my Dad who >> worked >> at Atari for years back in the 80's. Spent a lot of time at two of the >> locations in the bay area. I used to love the arcade rooms they had set >> up >> there with not just their games but games from all the stand-up coin-op >> machines. And, they were set so that you pressed one or two player and >> played for free. Got to know the engineers, went to a lot of the company >> picnics and outings. Got to know the engineers, went to a lot of the >> company picnics and outings. My Dad used to bring home cartridge ROMs >> and >> the PC boards that they plugged into and I'd have to go through the box >> of >> the chips and match the numbers on the 16k cartridges (the 8k cartridges >> only had one chip), plug them into the PC board put them into a cartridge >> casing and see what game it was. I remember when one of them was Caverns >> of >> Mars well before it was released. My first Atari was a regular 800, but >> I >> still have an Atari 800XL down in the garage somewhere with all the >> peripherals, cartridges, discs, etc. I got to see all the machines Atari >> produced well before they made it onto the market and even some that >> didn't. >> In fact, I have a few hundred each of the old Votrax SC-01A and SSI 263A >> voice synthesizer chips that were being used in the Atari 1450. >> >> >> >> - James >> >> >> >> _____ >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Tom Randall >> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:15 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: audyssey: Monty, of course >> >> >> >> Hi Allan and all. >> >> Ah, another Atari Freak! Hail brother! I remember all those titles too, >> in >> fact I still have several working atari systems here and have some of >> them >> on good old 5.25" floppy disks and tapes although I avoid the tapes like >> the >> plague whenever possible. Not sure if I have the original Montezuma game >> or >> not, may have to hook one of the old beasts up and see. It is amazing >> how >> many of those old games we can play, true not as well as a sighted >> guy/gal >> but we could learn them because the sounds actually meant something. >> >> Regards, >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> --- >> msn username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> skype username: lord_amexos >> yahoo username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of allan thompson >> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:03 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: audyssey: Monty, of course >> >> >> Hello,I remember playing several old atari computer games in the old >> days. >> My friends and I would have to load the program into the olde timey atari >> 800 with a cassette loader. Any little bump or movement in the load would >> crash the load and we would have to start it again. So basically you had >> a >> bunch of kids being very still and quiet for ten to twenty minutes, and >> then >> a flurry of fisticuffs for the wico joystick when the game was ready to >> play..lol Man, we used to play blue max, shamus, this very cool game >> called >> age of discovery, and the classic lode runner. I seem to recall playing >> monty's revenge as well and this game returns back alot of memories... >> One >> question for James. Was any sounds used or recreated from the original >> game? >> >> Anyway, I am going to have to buy a copy for myself and my friend from >> those >> old days. 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