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The Digital Infinity
A Retrospect of old school Bulletin Board Systems(BBS) door games, 1990's to 2000's computing, gaming, and programs along with random reviews.
A Retrospect of old school Bulletin Board Systems(BBS) door games, 1990's to 2000's computing, gaming, and programs along with random reviews.
Your Top 10 Atari 2600 Games Volume 3
The Digital Infinity plays though the commenters top 10 favorite Atari 2600 games volume 3!
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:07 Freeway
0:49 Chopper Command
1:21 Berzerk
1:42 Space Attack
2:20 Mario Bros
2:48 Ms. Pacman
3:18 Jungle Hunt
3:45 Circus Atari
4:14 Kaboom!
4:43 Solaris
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:07 Freeway
0:49 Chopper Command
1:21 Berzerk
1:42 Space Attack
2:20 Mario Bros
2:48 Ms. Pacman
3:18 Jungle Hunt
3:45 Circus Atari
4:14 Kaboom!
4:43 Solaris
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Your Top 10 Atari 2600 Games Volume 2
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The Digital Infinity plays though the commenters top 10 favorite Atari 2600 games volume 2! Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:10 Wizard of Wor 0:38 Air Sea Battle 1:05 Vanguard 2:01 Phoenix 2:24 H.E.R.O. 2:49 Frostbite 3:12 Crossbow 3:38 Warlords 4:17 Defender 4:43 Enduro 5:05 Final thoughts #atari2600 #videogamesretro
Your Top 10 Atari 2600 Games Volume 1
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The Digital Infinity plays though the commenters top 10 favorite Atari 2600 games volume 1 Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:23 Demon Attack 0:56 Yar's Revenge 1:19 Moon Patrol 1:41 Keystone Kapers 2:04 Starmaster 2:42 Turmoil 3:06 Cosmic Ark 3:32 Seaquest 3:54 Megamania 4:20 Spider Fighter 4:49 Final thoughts #atari2600 #videogamesretro
Atari 2600 Pinball Games and why I fell in love with pinball
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The Digital Infinity reviews three Atari 2600 pinball games Video Pinball, Midnight Magic and Bumper Bash and how this shaped my love for pinball over the years. 'Thanks to @anthonyspecf for the shout out of Midnight Magic as one of their favorite Atari games! You can find Nukey Shay's Midnight Magic paddle hack here: forums.atariage.com/topic/169160-hack-midnight-magic-to-use-paddle-controller...
Atari 2600 ET the Extra-Terrestrial IS a good game & I'm tired of pretending it's not!
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The digital Infinity delves into the backstory, gameplay and reasons why the Atari 2600 E.T the Extra-Terrestrial game is of one of their favorite Atari 2600 games. #atari #atari2600 #gamereview Here are the links to many of the websites and photos featured in the video top 10 worst list www.deafsparrow.com/2014/03/21/top-10-worst-atari-2600-games/ Cube map from Consumers Guide how to win at ET...
ATARI 2600 TOP 10 Favorite Games
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The Digital Infinity showcases their Top 10 favorite Atari 2600 Games Special shout out to @NillyMii for the Awesome video of Wii Play - Tanks - Missions 1-100 Complete ua-cam.com/video/orLxrg51xL8/v-deo.html Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:10 Frogs and Flies 0:38 Atlantis 1:10 Frogger 1:25 Maze Craze 1:53 Pitfall! 2:14 Adventure 2:58 Combat 4:24 E.T. 4:56 Raiders of the lost ark 5:52 River Raid 6:31 Fi...
Rocking Rip Galleries featuring over 100 Rip art graphics [Quick Version]
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Rock out with over 100 BBS RIP art graphics Featuring the amazing musical works of @TrackTribe and the amazing RIP Art Galleries of Piranha BBS: Telnet piranha.acid.org:27 Black Flag BBS: Telnet blackflag.acid.ord:23 If you would like to just sit back and relax to over an hour of lounge Jazz while chilling with over 100 BBS RIP art graphics you can find that version of this video here: ua-cam.c...
Relax and Chill Jazz Lounge and RIP Art Galleries
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Sit back and relax to over an hour of lounge Jazz while chilling with over 100 BBS RIP art graphics Featuring the amazing musical works of @TrackTribe and the amazing RIP Art Galleries of Piranha BBS: Telnet piranha.acid.org:27 Black Flag BBS: Telnet blackflag.acid.ord:23 #BulletinBoardSystem #BulletinBoardSystems #BBS #DoorGame #BBSDoorGame Bulletin Board System Bulletin Board Systems Bulletin...
Super Rig BBS Door Game Review
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The Digital Infinity reviews The Truck driving door game Super Rig by Marvin Davis #BulletinBoardSystem #BulletinBoardSystems #BBS #DoorGame #BBSDoorGame Bulletin Board System Bulletin Board Systems Bulletin Board System (BBS)
DYAHT PRO BBS Door Game Review
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The Digital Infinity rolls the dice in the BBS door game Yahtzee clone Dyaht Pro by Andrew Pamment #BulletinBoardSystem #BulletinBoardSystems #BBS #DoorGame #BBSDoorGame Bulletin Board System Bulletin Board Systems Bulletin Board System (BBS)
GRAND SLALOM BBS Door Game Review
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Head down the slopes with The Digital Infinity in the door game review of Grand Slalom By Brian Pirie #BulletinBoardSystem #BulletinBoardSystems #BBS #DoorGame #BBSDoorGame Bulletin Board System Bulletin Board Systems Bulletin Board System (BBS) POV Shot Of Skier Skiing Down Snow Covered Mountain Slope Solden Austria Tunnel Stock footage provided by Videvo, downloaded from www.videvo.net
STACKTION BBS Door Game Review
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The Digital Infinity Reviews a great Arcade style door game Stacktion by Larry Lagomorph You can find a copy of Stacktion here: github.com/chairmanmow/stacktion You can play the online Stacker arcade game here: filiprei.itch.io/stacker-arcade-game #BulletinBoardSystem #BulletinBoardSystems #BBS #DoorGame #BBSDoorGame Bulletin Board System Bulletin Board Systems Bulletin Board System (BBS)
TITAN SLOTS BBS Door Game Review
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The Digital Infinity tries their luck at Titan Slots BBS door game an Apam game #BulletinBoardSystem #BulletinBoardSystems #BBS #DoorGame #BBSDoorGame Bulletin Board System Bulletin Board Systems Bulletin Board System (BBS)
RIPSWEEPER Door Game Review
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The Digital Infinity searched for mines in the Rip Graphic door game Ripsweeper by Searchlight Software #BulletinBoardSystem #BulletinBoardSystems #BBS #DoorGame #BBSDoorGame Bulletin Board System Bulletin Board Systems Bulletin Board System (BBS)
CHAOSWAR BBS Door Game Review
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The Digital Infinity reviews the action arcade BBS Door game Chaoswar by Rajib K Mitra #BulletinBoardSystem #BulletinBoardSystems #BBS #DoorGame #BBSDoorGame Bulletin Board System Bulletin Board Systems Bulletin Board System (BBS)
Championship Joust BBS Door Game Review
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Championship Joust BBS Door Game Review
Starship Galactica BBS Door Game Review
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Starship Galactica BBS Door Game Review
Its similar to Zelda 2 or Friday the 13th , they tried to do too much for the system and relied on the manual and knowledge of the game to play it. A simpler pick and play style for just works better for a first impression in older games.
There are very good points on Zelda 2 and Friday the 13th Both of these we rented for the weekend and of course you never got the manuals when you rented the games. Friday the 13th my brother and I figured some of it out and Zelda 2 took quite the hot minute to get our bearings as well. Without the manuals the all these games seem almost inpossible
Freeway is one of my FAVORITE Atari games of all time!
Freeway seemed like it would have been a blast playing with freinds
Air Sea Battle was awesome!
I spent many evenings at my freinds house playing Air Sea Battle on his Atari it was good times. although in my kid brain I could never understand what the giant smiley faces were until I realized it was just a shooting gallery
Jungle Hunt, Fishing Derby, Berzerk, Frogs & Flies, River Raid, etc.
Frogs and Flies and River Raid are in my top 10 Atari games I owned ua-cam.com/video/vKYJJmwBCbc/v-deo.html Jungle Hunt and Berzerk I just reviewed in Volume 3 ua-cam.com/video/zLSC09neav0/v-deo.html I havent had the honor of playing Fishing Derby yet I will check it out
Pitfall, Megamania, Turmoil, Amidar, Space Invaders, Berzerk, Asteroids, Bowling, Astroblast, and Defender.
Several of these I have reviewed in Your Top 10 Atari games series Vol 1,2 and 3
Pitfall 2.
I will add that one to the list!
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1:36 - Look at the new enhanced Berzerk that the current iteration of Atari is selling. It does have voices "The humanoid must not escape", and it's been updated to fire diagonally. It looks identical to the OG 2600 Berzerk, but is a very good improvement.
Thanks for pointing out the new addition to Berzerk It's pretty cool that Atari is re-releasing these with enhanced features that they could not do originally but with advancementd in chip capacity and technology they can finally do things like add the voices and such.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I had a bunch of these games growing up. I had to give up my Atari 2600 to help my family. Awesome video keep up the great work.
Thank you! I am glad to have sent you on path of fond memories. I was glad to also have a chance to play all these game everyone was suggesting in the comments. Many of them I'd never even played before. So it was quite the treat to discover their brillance for the first time.
Some of these kind of change the way I see Atari, there were some decent graphics along side some of the arcadey gameplay.
Several of these games that was suggested to me by many of the cemmenters really thew me for a loop as most of these games I had never seen before. Solaris just seems other worldly on the Atari as if it is from another system
This is one of the shittiest review vids I've seen.
Thank you! I perticulary love all the review videos you have done
Image ratio fail, should be 4:3
Yes, It was recorded in 4:3 in DOS then upscaled to 16:9 and cropped to fit the 1080p so it is viewable in the video and not a tiny square in the middle of the video
Amazing art
It's amazong how much detail they could get into those ansi artworks 16colo.rs/ this is a great place that has archived many of the ansi works
Raiders of the lost ark was surprisingly deep for a game of that era. I remember enjoying it
I only ever remember beating I once as a kid But that never stopped me form playing over and over again My brother and I would see who could aggravate the spider the closest without being killed
This list represents some of the best of what Atari had to offer, with a couple of notable exceptions (River Raid and Pitfall! spring to mind immediately), but that said, I don't know what I would take out-Turmoil in particular is a fantastic game that never got enough attention back in the day. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the comment! A while back I did an off the cuff top 10 video of Atari games that I owned and not a review of the top 10 best Atari Games. It took off and I got an amazing amount of comments of everyone telling me what their favorites were So I have been doing a video series about the many games people recommended. My favorite 10 I owned was Frogs and Flies, Atlantis, Frogger, Maze Craze, Pitfall!, Adventure, Combat, E.T., Raiders of the lost ark, and River Raid I just released the 2nd Volume yesterday I am glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you will enjoy my others as well
Glad you like my game, boss :)
You're welcome. I quite enjoyed playing it !
It's crazy how many of the multi-player games still hold up and are pick and play ready for fun.
It goes to show it's not always about the looks but the game play
Spider Fighter was highly regarded among the fifth graders on the playground. I was playing Laser Blast personally and did not get to play it for a couple years. It definitely lived up to the hype.
I imagine i would have been talked about on the playground at school. I found it to be a very intense game it's a shame I never played it until this video
Great video. I had no idea about last game you mentioned so I will try to pick that one up. I used to love Pinball machines and this place that had many arcade machines when I was a kid had upward of 30 machines and when I went back they had gotten rid of most of them and maybe 3 were left. So sad.
Thanks! Bumper bash I think was a Canadian Atari game with a limited release it maybe very hard to find Arcades anymore are not what they used to be. Most newer arcades are just ticket redemption type of phone app games. I'm not saying they are bad but it misses some the of majesty the 70, 80's and 90's arcade games. There was a really cool Arcade at Indiana Beach but the last time I was there almost all the old games were gone. It was very sad as well. One of my bucket list items is to go to The Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago you pay for entry and everything is on free play
Oh man...I played pinball at my town's pizza joints well before there were widespread video games; I do own Video Pinball and Midnight Magic (which I had played a version of for the C64 called David's Midnight Magic), but never heard of Bumper Bash before I saw this video...I will have to keep an eye out for that, thanks. But interestingly, I also have an Atari console that came out in late 1977 called Video Pinball. This was a dedicated console that had two versions of pinball that had flippers that looks like big logs :); but it also had two buttons, one on each side that was meant to simulate flipper buttons. It also had a couple of basketball variants, as well as a version of Breakout, which is why the unit also had a spinner controller on top. Surprisingly fun.
I did see some photos of the Video Pinball you are talking about it's a pretty cool unit and to think it was the forerunner of all those plug and play games. We didn't have any pinball games at any of the local places but they did have a US Marshal Mechanical shooting game my brother and I played at the laundromat all the time. As far as I can tell Bumper Bash was a Canadian Atari game and it maybe very rare to find a copy. I had a C64 but I didn't have David's Midnight Magic and that is a shame as well
Used this allllll the time. Customized it with new jpgs. Kept an old machine around forever just to be an extra screen with Cthugha on it. As we all moved to WinAmp and lots of visualizers came out, all felt like Cthugha was always more responsive and “in tune” with the music. Like it also cared about color and speed. While most new things focused on waveform representation rather than the values of the frequencies being used first other data. Thaks a million Zaph!
Cthugha was a great comfort during my long study hours at college. Later in life I used a similar software in windows it think it was the Psychedelic Screen Saver but for the life of me I cant remember for sure. I used to run it for a local heavy metal band piping it out from the TV out on my video card and used an old VCR to pump the signal to several old TV sets I had all over the stage including 2 large projection TV's they used as the backdrop. I ran a microphone to one of the speakers and used the audio to drive the visuals. It was one of my favorite things to do and everyone loved it. When they took a break for the set I ran multiple ads on the screen that also got visualized for their Website I ran and CDs for sale and their next gigs, etc. It seemed pretty forerunning to stuff that is now common place at gig's and concerts. The bar owner decided to start doing the same thing and added their own ads to the big TV's as well. It was pretty good times back in the day. I did the visuals for this and also with the use of my first Digital camera I also use to do live wedding slideshows using Play Inc's Gizmo's 98 slideshow software the forerunner to Proshow Gold to make an on the fly video presentation I got to see a live presentation of Gismo's 98 at Comdex in Chicago and it was presented by non other than Kiki Stockhammer I scanned the bride and groom's pics of growing up and then I took photos during the ceremony and added them to the slideshow for the reception. everyone was flabbergasted how I was able to do it but with the new tech it was becoming very easy to do these things and again its now commonplace Funny how many of these things we grew up with have become incorporated in everything that is used today
Not a bad game but I wouldn't call it a good game either.
Pinball is actually making a comeback and there are new companies making pinball games. I ama place near me that has tons of pinball games and some arcade games. You pay a set fee to get in for an hour and everything (except the charity pinball games in the front) are on free play. Just recently played Baby Pacman, the arcade game/pinball game combo.
I was fortunate enough to have played a Baby Pacman arcade sometime back. It's a pretty bold hybrid of a pinball/Arcade game especially for how old it is. The pinball game Safecracker was similar to Baby Pacman in the aspect that once you broke inside the bank you then played a "board game" on the backglass to try and get into the vault. it was one of my favorites the late 90's ~00's. I went to a similar place in Columbus, OH called Level One Bar & Arcade. All the arcades was set on free play or had a button to add quarters and all the pinball machines was .25 to play. One of the things on my bucket list is visiting Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL. The Arcade is $25 to enter and play all day with almost 900 arcade games on free play including a few prototype arcade games such as Primal Rage II.
The sequel to Atlantis was Cosmic Ark. Atlantis 2 was a limited release game (contest) that was essentially the same game as Atlantis with cosmetic changes.
Yes, you are correct on this. In my defense I really didn't script this video I did it off the cuff as I said at the start of the video and I was trying to remember everything from when I played all these games as a kid since I really hadn't done it since the mid 80's. I was trying to rack my brain while talking and I think Atlantis 2 popped in there instead of Cosmic Ark. I also messed up on maze craze as well. I said the cops were running around the maze instead of the robbers :(
@@TheDI No worries! It takes a lot to make these videos and we all love watching them.
it's all good I took it as good constructive criticism and was being more hard on myself :)
I remember trying and failing to get a RIP terminal working back in the day, so this is the first time I am ever seeing any of these damn pictures despite trying my best 30 years ago, haha
It was something else for it's time. There was a Chicagoland area BBS that had a RIP front end and I download RIPTerm to use it and it took forever to download and cache the sound effects and the image files. The main menu was a graveyard and flashes of lightning would crack in the background and play a thunderclap sound effect. All the tombstones were different menus for the board. I only had a 14.4 modem and it took a long time to do anything on the ripboard so I abandoned it and went back the Ansi.
This is the first time I’ve heard a UA-cam channel mention that ET boots up on the most difficult setting. I’ve been arguing forever that this is why the game got a bad reputation
I was mostly right about that statement. I forgot that the A-B difficulty switch meant (A)dvanced and (B)eginner instead of A being standard and B being Harder. But the rest was dead on. Game 1 was whole hog, Game 2 was FBI and Elliott only and Game 3 was Elliott only. So unlike Adventure where Game 1 was the easiest ET started out with the hardest. I think the logic was that they wanted you to have the "Full" ET experience . I have always said that ET was not as bad as everyone made it out. Yes the pit pixel perfect collision could get annoying but the game was different every time you played. That in it's self was gold to me that I didn't have the game memorized and could beat in in 4 mins like I could in Game 1 of Adventure. Many of the comments left on this video pretty much are in support of ET not being a bad game. Some people state they still don't like the game but that facts about it's short development time and such gave them different view about the game. And then there are the people that no matter what is said they hate it into the ground. That is fine with me because we are not all alike and that is what makes us human.
same here, this game just became the game to hate on the internet.
that are many other Atari games that deserve the worst game title but it mostly comes from the Game crash and bad decisions from Atari and ET was square in the middle of all of that
I never realized Midnight Magic had an official 2600 release. It is one of my fav Atari XE games.
It was a late release (red box) in 1986.
Apple II and C64 also had Midnight Magic. It's a shame I never got to play that as I believe both my Atari and my C64 was taken out when a bolt of lightning struck our house and fried many electronics in the house in 1985 :( We ended up with a NES as a replacement
I liked Video Pinball okay when I was 6 or 7 years old. I would play it some but wasn't that into it. However, I probably lost the better part of a year of my life to Midnight Magic! I LOVED that game! I had never heard of Bumper Bash until today.
I played the Atari version and kind of remember keeping the ball in one of the vertical channels using the nudge factor.
yeah, that increased your score by a boat ton!
hey man! great video, thanks for that! 🙏🏻 i am looking for a specific card of that time. where do you think is the best place to track that down?
Thanks! This was an early video of mine Funny you mentioned trying to find these I saw 1 on eBay and I think it was for jokey Smurf when I did the video but there is quite the void of any info on these cards or anywhere to pick them up which is sad
@@TheDIthanks for the quick reply, man! yeah, they indeed are super difficult to find. i hoped you might have a lead 😁👊🏻! but it is what it is. will keep looking!
So I'm not the only one who loves ET. I loved it as a kid and had no problem conquering it. Raiders of the Ark, on the other hand......
I had only ever beat Raiders once as a kid. I'd come close but I'd catch my parachute on the tree branch trying to get into the cave. You know just like it happened in the movie :)
I 100% Agree. I got the game for Christmas when it came out and always liked it. Once you read the manual (which we did back then) you knew what had to be done and could play it over and over. Much like Adventure or Haunted House (should have the manual but can fumble through them) and raiders of the lost ark (need to read the manual) they expected you to want to read the manual.
Many Manuals ad hint sections in them to give you clues about what to do. Raiders had many sections to it about the game play
Firefly is the worst 2600 game.
I never saw it or played it but it's not the first time that game has come up in the comments
Blame AVGN for the whole ET is bad. It's his fault.
There are Atari compatible joysticks such as the Hyperkin Trooper 2 that have 2 fire buttons. With the Stella emulator you can set the left button to the left paddle paddle button and ditto for the right. Works great for Bumper Bash. The Hyperkin Trooper 2 also has 4 more buttons. 2 on the front and 2 on the back. Set the left and right top buttons for stick left/right and one of the front buttons to fire and you're set to go with Video Pinball and Midnight Magic. Or, with a utility such as Joy2Key you can leave the Stella settings mostly default and set up profiles for each of the pinball games. For bumper you will need to assign 2 keyboard keys to the paddle buttons for Joy2Key to trigger. ( I used O & P ) and map the front left button to Fire. This works for Midnight but for Video Pinball you will need to disable the default fire button.
You left out Air Sea Battle
Funny. I saw my posts there in Atari age when you were scrolling where I originally asked if someone could do that hack, then nukey did it.
It was a great find indeed. It was so awesome to play it with the paddles and I easily increased my score. Another poster @jeremiahthomas8140 said Nukey Shay had passed away.
Nice overview of the 2600 pinball games. Have you ever covered the dedicated Atari Video Pinball console? RIP to Nukey Shay, he did a lot for the Atari community.
Yars Revenge was my favorite.
I never got to play Yar's until I got the Atari plug n play controller and it was a very good game
This was my favorite door game on BBS (Trade Wars was too complicated, and you'd always get flattened by a more experienced player and have to start over). I just wish there was a good way to emulate it on my current computer to play it occasionally, out of nostalgia. I suppose I should just learn to build my own.
@@TheDIRunning it dosbox sounds convenient. I used dosbox to run the control.exe for Pit 3.6 when I was trying to set it up a local synchronet BBS... but I didn't get the configuration right (even following the Synchronet instructions). Based on your comment, I also tried running the pit.exe directly with d-fend reloaded, adding a dorinfo1.def file type from Synchronet's example docs, placed in the game directory, but no dice there either. I'm just really fuzzy on what the pit.exe requires to run.
Well, I guess this is the only video on YT about Cthugha that isn't about some anime. I used it back in the day. I don't remember the JPG functionality nor seeing that guy but it's nice to know. I probably still have the software somewhere in diskettes.
We had a ridiculous amount of 2600 games. I can't even begin to remember them all. A lot of stand outs are on this list. One of the biggest standouts I didn't see is Keystone Kapers. That was with out a doubt one of the best on the system IMO! River Raid was definitely up there. We had Frog Bog on Intellivision rather than the 2600, which was endless hours of fun. Frogger was ok but we always though Freeway was far better. Same concept but chickens crossing the road. E.T. was perhaps the most confusing and pointless of all the games to play because we never got anywhere but for that reason we used to play the heck out of it. Wasting hours just trying to figure it out. Same for Raiders. They were just so unusual and ,seemingly at least, more complex than any other games of the time.
I was truly amazed to find this video! This was my first programming adventure that i attempted to sell to the public. Thank you for the kind words.
The graphics were not important as good gameplay. If the game sucked graphics made no difference. Most games today are all graphics but no substance. Then games like Fallout that are fan favorites get pushed aside for almost 2 decades and gimmicky multiplayer version is pushed that wasnt the sa e formula as the success of yesterday
@@TheDI I've only played Video Pinball. I was just looking at adding Midnight Magic to the collection CIB. This off-topic from pinball, but you mentioned your dad's 286 PC. I had an IBM PS2 50Z with the 286 chip and I was still using it in engineering school around 1992 (I skipped the 386 era). We had to write code from scratch in a fluid dynamics course to model fluid flow and performance of nozzle. The program took over 23 hours to run on the 286. I happened to get a Zeos 486 via mail order, and the code ran in less than 17 minutes! All of my friends wanted to borrow my PC.
Defender and Demon Attack were my favs
Never got the chance to play Demon Attack back in the day but it is a pretty great game. Defender was a pretty good port of the arcade on the 2600