Old skool gaming

[valis2]

Just spent an hour hooking up the Texas Instruments 99/4A computer and playing some old games like Parsec and Hunt the Wumpus.

It's in preparation for selling a bunch of old stuff off. Seriously, I have multiple boxes containing obsolete video game systems, and I need to get rid of this stuff. As much as I adored Final Fantasy III and ChronoTrigger, I have to admit to myself that I'll never play them again. Final Fantasy VIII is still shrinkwrapped and waiting to be played, after all. And if I'm going to spend 40+ hours on a videogame now--it's going to be Xenosaga III. Seriously.

So I found that I have four (!) TI 99/4A computers hanging out in my closet. Two work, two don't. A Turbografx-16. A Sega Master System. Genesis with CD. Sega Dreamcast. 8-bit Nintendo. Super Nintendo. Also, lots of games. An Intellivision. An Atari 2600. Pong. Sears Tele-games. Wires and RF switches and joysticks, oh my.

I'll be keeping the Atari (it's such a party machine!), Pong (slice o' history), and one of the TI computers. It was such an integral part of my childhood that I can't bear to get rid of it--though I will be selling off some of the games. Don't need Othello or Video Chess, for example.

But Parsec? Definitely staying. Damn, I still love that game. In fact--I wrote fanfiction about that game, now that I think of it, lol.

Comments

[artystone.livejournal.com]

LOL
One of Emily's favorite things about Animal Crossing is that you can buy an NES system and actually play some of those old crappy games that everyone thought were so great back then.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

God, the NES had a helluva lot of crap, didn't it? There were a few gems (I was totally addicted to the first Zelda game and also to Final Fantasy and Castlevania), but there was also a lot of horror there, too. I love it when EGM shows screen shots of 8-bit games, it always cracks me up.

[cnary-crem-dght.livejournal.com]

I know some hardcore gamers, so do let me know what you are selling because they (or I) might be interested. ^_^

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's all going up on eBay. I'll be listing it tonight or tomorrow. ;)

I'm selling the systems listed above (some incomplete--I've lost track of power supplies), and a few games. Mostly RPG stuff.

[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

I am not much of a computer gamer, but there was this game called "Betrayal at Krondor" which Lord B. and I spent one winter playing back in the 90s. We could come home from work every night and go dungeoning. (Or, as we called it, "kill people, take their stuff and go shopping.") The game was based on Raymond Feist's universe and characters, but amusingly enough the narrative sections were written by someone else and were far better than anythign I ever read by Feist. Anyway, that game has a special place in my heart. Recently, I found a DOS emulator that allows me to run it under Windows XP. Yay!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

That's pretty entertaining! I went through a brief Feist period, but I don't remember ever playing that game.

Of course, I do remember playing the omnipresent Oregon Trail game that nearly everyone played on a TRS-80...hee.