For those who remember...Ali Baba was an Atari 800 game. Role playing type, but with the loudest and cheesiest sounds you'll ever remember. But man, it was/is fun. I just downloaded a simulator for Atari 800. Found the game .ATR online, and now, Elbo Whomps Al-Nazzir (made up name) ----> Aieeeyyyeeeee!

Fun, fun, fun, I tell ya.






If you're too young to know what I'm ranting about, just ignore this old man.

P.S. While you are at it, download M.U.L.E.

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All I ever really needed to know, I learned from watching Star Trek.

I still use my Atari 400 now and then for some retro gaming goodness.

MULE had some killer sound.......... for the time.

MULE baby, MULE. Any young'ums here, check that game out...fun too.

game play, game play. Not everything is about eye candy.

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All I ever really needed to know, I learned from watching Star Trek.

My first computer was an Atari 400XL with a cassette drive. Was a door prize my folks won. Was a stepping stone to say the least as was doing programming on a TRS 80.

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OWC Larry
Other World Computing
[www.macsales.com]

The original Atari 400 was my second computer (TRS-80 Model 1 was the first). Defender for Atari 8-bit was a whale of a game. So were Miner 2049er and Star Raiders.

Also had the Atari 400, and Miner 2049er rocked hard! One of the first games I actually finished. I'm glad it was a cart based game. That damned cassette loader would sometimes take a half hour to load. But with floppy disk drives costing nearly $1000. it was the only way to go at the time.

Blue Max, anyone? My brother would drop by and we could easily spend 4-5 hours on it.

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Mr. Lahey: A lot of people, don’t know how to drink. They drink against the grain of the liquor. And when you drink against the grain of the liquor? You lose.

Randy: What the @#$%& are you talking about?

I think Caverns Of Mars was probably the first game I ever "finished." That one had a neat backstory, it was written by a young guy for a programming contest, and it turned out so well that Atari released it.

Man...I remember playing Ali Baba on our Apple III. When I got my IIc we got Miner 2049 and I thought it was awesome....

...then I discovered Battletech (on a 256k Emmerson 386 SX-16mhz with CGA graphics)..wow!

Hheheh....I got iTouch apps that would choke one of those old 8 bit computers....

Jay

I too played Ali Baba, on the Apple ][. World's slowest game:

"Luthien whomps Ali Shaheed Mohammed"

(Pause 15 seconds)

Weird sound effect plays

(Pause 15 seconds)

"AIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!"

(Pause 15 seconds)

Weird sound effect plays

And don't diss the TRS-80 Model I! I bought, begged and borrowed all of the Big Five Software (speaking of Miner 2049er...) titles I could get, and they were actually pretty good. I think my favorite game on that platform was Sea Dragon, a Scramble-esque side scroller (not produced by Big Five, however).

[www.bigfivesoftware.com]