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"Carl Jackson" <jax...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 1. Half Life - The Beast from the Blast Pit
>
> As Barney warned me, "Shhhh...it can hear you". Surely he couldn't
> have been right...this is a game, how can it 'hear' me?

Ah yes, that's a classic bit.  I remember playing it through the second time
and putting a satchel charge up there (I think I was using weapons cheats)
on the boxes of high explosives, then climbing back down and detonating
them...

Of course the Barney died instantly, and his bloody skull came skittering
past my feet.  But the truly funny part was that concurrent with the
explosion and his death, the sound effect for him saying "Hey!  Be careful
with that!" was triggered - and was still playing as his skull slid by!

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"Carl Jackson" <jax...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 2. Thief - The Dark Project. How not to be seen.
>
> Having the guards walk right past you, sometimes even right up to your
> face as you cower silently in a shady corner.
>

Have to agree here.

I was playing the first mission in Thief, and entered a brightly lit room -
an art gallery it looked like. Suddenly I heard the door open behind me.

There was a small cubby-hole in the corner, I quickly dodged into it, and
crouched in the corner, motionless,quite worried the guard would find me.

'I know you're in there' he said.

His footsteps approached, getting louder as he got closer and closer to my
hiding place. The tip of his sword poked around the corner...

"Ah it's nothing, must have been rats' he sighed, and walked away.

A great moment!

-- Steve

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1.  Eye of the Beholder 2 - the exhilaration of defeating Dran Draggore,
followed quickly by the terror created by his newly arisen alter ego.

2.  Wizardry 7 - the satisfaction offing Blienmeis' smart a$$ coupled with
the drunken sense of power when my Faerie Ninja first hoisted the Cane of
Corpus.

3.  Planescape - FFG's farewell.

BC3K - getting it to actually run



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In no particular order.

1) Solving "Adventure" on the Atari 2600.

2) Capturing the flag for the first time in a Team Fortress Classic
game.

3) Winning the World Series on Ken Griffey Baseball for Super NES.

4) Blowing up the ship in Grand Theft Auto 3.

5) Sucessfully controlling a chopper with Flight Simulator 2000.

6) Playing TV Sports Football for the first time on my Amiga 500.

7) Seeing the first large ant while walking in the desert in It Came
>From The Desert.

8) Flying the little plane around in It Came From The Desert.

9) After becoming an ace with 25+ kills in Wings, dying when my
biplane crashes into a balloon.

10) The first moment that using the controls in Half-Life became
second nature.
The game changed forever at that point.

11) Uploading my first No Limits coaster to CoasterSims.com

12) Playing Asteroids with MAME for the first time.

13) Beating 8 of my friends with the best time on Skiing for Atari
2600.

14) Playing Warlords on Atari 2600 with 4 people for the first time.

15) Scoring on a one-timer from the defense in overtime to win a
playoff game in NHL 94 for Super NES.

16) Buying 2 used Atari 2600's and 50 cartridges for $10 at a tag
sale.

I could go on all day. I have been a gamer for a long time and have
many happy moments from my game time.

Gil Violette

Gil Violette wrote:
> 
> In no particular order.
> 
> 1) Solving "Adventure" on the Atari 2600.
> 
> 2) Capturing the flag for the first time in a Team Fortress Classic
> game.
> 
> 3) Winning the World Series on Ken Griffey Baseball for Super NES.
> 
> 4) Blowing up the ship in Grand Theft Auto 3.
> 
> 5) Sucessfully controlling a chopper with Flight Simulator 2000.
> 
> 6) Playing TV Sports Football for the first time on my Amiga 500.
> 
> 7) Seeing the first large ant while walking in the desert in It Came
> From The Desert.
> 
> 8) Flying the little plane around in It Came From The Desert.
> 
> 9) After becoming an ace with 25+ kills in Wings, dying when my
> biplane crashes into a balloon.
> 
> 10) The first moment that using the controls in Half-Life became
> second nature.
> The game changed forever at that point.
> 
> 11) Uploading my first No Limits coaster to CoasterSims.com
> 
> 12) Playing Asteroids with MAME for the first time.
> 
> 13) Beating 8 of my friends with the best time on Skiing for Atari
> 2600.
> 
> 14) Playing Warlords on Atari 2600 with 4 people for the first time.
> 
> 15) Scoring on a one-timer from the defense in overtime to win a
> playoff game in NHL 94 for Super NES.
> 
> 16) Buying 2 used Atari 2600's and 50 cartridges for $10 at a tag
> sale.
> 
> I could go on all day. I have been a gamer for a long time and have
> many happy moments from my game time.
> 
> Gil Violette

My favorite 2600 gaming was having friends over for a game of
'Decathlon'. Man, that game was a joystick killer.

--

Too many sticks, not enough carrots.

"No one ever says Italy" - Hank Scorpio

Name: Santa's Little Helper
Occupation: Butt Doctor
Income: What I finds, I keeps.

In article <3FA63BA9...@ns.sympatico.ca>, 
rodger...@ns.sympatico.ca says...
> My favorite 2600 gaming was having friends over for a game of
> 'Decathlon'. Man, that game was a joystick killer.

I found that using the Epyx joystick got me to and sometimes above the 
medal leaders.  That was a great joystick.

"Kershek" <m...@here.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3FA63BA9...@ns.sympatico.ca>,
> rodger...@ns.sympatico.ca says...
> > My favorite 2600 gaming was having friends over for a game of
> > 'Decathlon'. Man, that game was a joystick killer.
>
> I found that using the Epyx joystick got me to and sometimes above the
> medal leaders.  That was a great joystick.
A long time ago someone lent me WWF Wrestling for the Atari ST. That game
was impossible to complete over a certain level. Except for the fact that
the joystick and mouse fit in the same port, and that the mouse signal for
"Moved a fraction of a millimetre" corresponds to a single joystick movement
in that direction. This meant that when the supreme wrestlers got a hold on
you and you had to do the
Joystick-waggle-to-win-the-grapple-and-do-your-special-move action (I'm sure
they gave it a more concise name), you could pause the game, disconnect the
joystick, connect the mouse, unpause the game and run the mouse in circles
to do the equivalent of hundreds of joystick waggles per second. This would
enable you to win half of the matches towards the end of the game.

What is the globally accepted S.I. Unit of joystick waggles per second? :-)

"Magma"wrote

> What is the globally accepted S.I. Unit of joystick waggles per second?
:-)

WAPS?

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:12:44 -0000, "Vince" <vme...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> "Magma"wrote
> 
> > What is the globally accepted S.I. Unit of joystick waggles per second?
> :-)
> 
> WAPS?
> 
> 

isn't that the same measurement used for the rate of going blind trying 
to make hair grow on your palms?

-- 
hoy.

".hoy." schrieb:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:12:44 -0000, "Vince" <vme...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > "Magma"wrote
> > > What is the globally accepted S.I. Unit of joystick waggles per second?
> > :-)
> >
> > WAPS?
> 
> isn't that the same measurement used for the rate of going blind trying
> to make hair grow on your palms?

That one's spelled with an "F" as per the "Sexy Losers" webcomic, which
popularized it, AFAIK.

mendel
-- 
Feel the stare of my burning hamster and stop smoking!

Vince wrote:
> 
> "Magma"wrote
> 
> > What is the globally accepted S.I. Unit of joystick waggles per second?
> :-)
> 
> WAPS?

That reminds me of BattleTech: Crescent Hawks Inception and Revenge. 
Great games.  If you stole a Chameleon at the beginning of Inception
life is pretty easy!

".hoy." wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:12:44 -0000, "Vince" <vme...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > "Magma"wrote
> >
> > > What is the globally accepted S.I. Unit of joystick waggles per second?
> > :-)
> >
> > WAPS?
> >
> >
> 
> isn't that the same measurement used for the rate of going blind trying
> to make hair grow on your palms?

No that is "FAP"

In article <3FB1947B...@nmt.edu>, James Garvin <bo...@nmt.edu> wrote:
>Vince wrote:
>> 
>> "Magma"wrote
>> 
>> > What is the globally accepted S.I. Unit of joystick waggles per second?
>> :-)
>> 
>> WAPS?
>
>That reminds me of BattleTech: Crescent Hawks Inception and Revenge. 
>Great games.  If you stole a Chameleon at the beginning of Inception
>life is pretty easy!

So long as you get out of there halfway intact, anyway ... and it was
nice having a bunch of manportable SRMs, too.

Chris Schack