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HopeHoops

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5. Funny story from an old game - King Authur type thing.

Reply to Ohio Joe (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 9, 2011, 01:19 PM

Dec 2011

It was on the Amiga (way more advanced than PC games) and one of the requirement for winning was to be of strong character and just, and all that shit.

Anyway, my wife were playing it together and I said "fuck horse" - it responded "Those are not the thoughts of a pure man". My wife threatened to kill me if it made us lose the game.

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Vintage games - anyone into MAME? [View all] HopeHoops Dec 2011 OP

I am. I have have an x-arcade tankstick to play Mame on my pc. n/t FSogol Dec 2011 #1

98SE is the best platform for MAME. It's kind of quirky (at best) on Vista. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #2

I keep my rom set current and don't have any problems on XP. n/t FSogol Dec 2011 #7

Do NOT post it in a public forum, but just where the hell do you get the ROMs now? HopeHoops Dec 2011 #9

They are not contraband. They have been widely avaiable for the last 15+ years. n/t FSogol Dec 2011 #16

I know. Most of mine are older than that. But I have updated some since. The sites keep getting.. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #17

Sites that sell them are shutdown. The developers of Mame FSogol Dec 2011 #19

I got it for Romance of the Three Kingdoms Ohio Joe Dec 2011 #3

I'm more the Space Invaders and Berzerk sort. Frenzy is my favorite, but it won't run on anything. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #4

My favorites are: Robotron, Frenzy, Besersk, Vanguard, Tempest, Defender, Bosconian, FSogol Dec 2011 #10

Tempest is worthless without a dial. You need a joystick for the others. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #13

I have an x-arcade tankstick. It has the double joysticks for Robotron and a trackball FSogol Dec 2011 #15

Your files are probably from different versions than the emulator. FSogol Dec 2011 #11

Most of them are ten years old or more. They have been difficult to locate. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #12

See below FSogol Dec 2011 #14

That's 1/10th of one of my external drives (of which I have many). HopeHoops Dec 2011 #18

Frenzy really is an awesome game. Systematic Chaos Dec 2011 #26

When it was in the arcade, I regularly got up into the white bouncy walls (can't shoot through those HopeHoops Dec 2011 #27

I never got much beyond 150k at Centipede. LOVED Millipede also. Systematic Chaos Dec 2011 #28

Is Super Pac-Man the one with the Lego block maze on the second level? HopeHoops Dec 2011 #29

The Lego maze one is PacMania, which I forgot to list. Systematic Chaos Dec 2011 #30

I've got the newest version. My ROM sets are out of date. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #31

Funny story from an old game - King Authur type thing. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #5

heh, One of my favorites Ohio Joe Dec 2011 #6

You can't be a D&D fan without thinking about shit like that. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #8

Same here Hayabusa Dec 2011 #24

I still play Angband once in a while... SidDithers Dec 2011 #20

I must admit, sadly that I have become a visual junkie Rex Dec 2011 #21

Skyrim renews my faith in the place beautiful visuals have in games Occulus Dec 2011 #22

Big time. Does anyone know the best control setup for Defender? Mayberry Machiavelli Dec 2011 #23

I've been out of it for a while. RexDart Dec 2011 #25