VileRancour wrote:We got a PC around 1987 as well, and for the whole of the 8088-286 era, any PC around me that had any games at all on it, had Alley Cat. Alongside Burger Time, Paratrooper, Digger, etc. The slightly less widespread booter games were mostly pirated in booter form, but at least those four were always the DOS rips.
I definitely played Paratrooper and Digger, and I remember associating them with Sopwith for some reason. I got a lot of PC games in the late 80s via my dad's work colleagues.
leileilol wrote:The one I was fond of was the "IBM" one with the switching CGA palettes and the screeching cicada pixelblob spider.
I watched a couple youtube videos earlier today, and I thought the Atari one did CGA palette switching, while the IBM one mostly used the cyan-magenta-white palette?
Gemini000 wrote:The odd thing is... I have virtually no nostalgia for any of the Accolade titles, and not that much for the Quest games either. Most of my PC nostalgia heads towards stuff I first played in the early 90s, even if it had come out in the 80s, whereas most of my gaming nostalgia for the 80s is rooted in consoles and arcade games.
I got a batch of pirated Accolade titles around 1990, including Mean 18, Rack 'Em, and Test Drive II (loved the intro sequence/music at the time).
PC games made a huge impression on me because I was stuck with an Atari 2600 as my only console until the early 90s, but we had a Heathkit H89 in the early 80s, and Color Computer 2 (aka Dragon) and Wyse 286 clone in the mid-to-late 80s.
Starflight was the first boxed commercial PC game that I owned, and I liked it so much that I still have the box: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwvZz … sp=sharing#grid
xjas wrote:BTW the sounds & graphical effects in the Atari version are pretty cool (except the title music in that vid, but I think it might be broken) and lend an interesting new perspective to the game. Makes it much more frantic and arcade-y. I never knew it was a port until recently; always thought it was a PC original.
The arcade version of Centipede was actually the most recent game I've played on a real arcade machine. Went to Scott's Dairy Freeze in North Bend, WA (where I grew up, later famous for being home of Nintendo's western US production/distribution facility) on a nostalgia trip with my brother for the first time in probably 20 years, and they had Centipede and Ms. Pac-Man in cocktail cabinet form.