How Games Have Changed

YYYYEEEESSSSS! I found my MAME32 emulator and the disk with millions of ROMS on it.

Can you say...

Burger Time
Root Beer Tapper
Crazy Climber
Donkey Kong
Mario Bothers
Venture
Zaxxon
Xevious
Gravitar
Space Duel
Black Tiger
Zookeeper
Asteroids
Wacko
Amidar
Beastie Feastie
Roc N' Rope
Pandora's Box
The Wiz
Wizards Of Wor
Robotron
Black Widow
Sinistar
Satan's Hollow
All the Pac Man series
Donkey Kong Jr.
1941
1942
1943
Galaga
Phoenix
Son Of Phoenix
Star Wars
Arkanoid
Gauntlet I and II
Journey
Aerosmith
Hypersports
Track And Field
Joust
Contra and Super Contra
Commando
Bump And Jump
Roadblaster
Spyhunter
Afterburner
Elevator Action
Mousetrap
Crystal Castles

and the beat goes on. So many games, so little time. Memories.....I'm going out tomorrow and buying me a few joysticks, a few track balls and maybe a steering wheel.

 

LOL, well put my friend.

 

Imagine all the hard work you had to do with all the floppy disks. Changing them every time you got to a higher level.

The memories are good, but I'm glad I am older and it's all a lot more easy now.

 

I've only bought few video games in recent years. I'm still a fan of the Sid Meier/Firaxis products so I will typically pickup whatever the latest rev of Civilization is and I really enjoyed their update to Pirates a few years back. In my mind they did a great job in that game of playability with updated graphics engine.

Similarly, I was a huge fan of X-Com and X-Com II back in the day, and have dabbled in some of the spiritual successors and open source homage games (UFO:AI), but they always seem to lose that creepy "dark" quality of the original game. I never finished Icewind Dale, but i seem to recall that it was a reasonable engine, but not as nice as ToEE's... although it's been so long since i've played that I can't remember what about it I didn't like.

I've struggled with this very topic - makes me feel old that I'm not interested in multi-player.

I think DarkStorm's engine is The Last Great Hope. I'm not sure about the legalities of reverse engineering an engine, but I doubt anything in the original Atari EULA explicitly prohibits it. :eyebrow: I think Hasbro/WotC might wake up and send out a ceast/desist if the team branded DarkStorm Engine with New Contact as "Dungeons and Dragons", but if you put out DS engine + new engine branded as under OGL you could probably get away with it. (I will save my comments for a OGL vs. 4th Edition GSL for different day, but short version: electronic distribution strictly forbidden.)

I think an interesting survey for the forum would be: "If ToEE game engine was re-written, what module/adventure would you like to see converted?" Give a couple of classic modules vs. brand new content as options. [edit: and obviously not include KotB as that' sin the works...]