Recent content by Quartz_Dragon

Nope. Not only do I know of the VIC-20, I actually used one for a while. My friend used one for some programming he was doing, and he had even added 16k of RAM via the expansion port. He traded up to the C64 when it was released, and then grabbed the C128 when it came out. We both had...

I play about once a week at the FLGS on Monday nights, but I try to host a game day at least once a month at my house for some friends. It's usually a Saturday that starts around 10 a.m. with croissants, muffins, fresh fruit and mimosas and then moves on to the gaming. We usually go for about...

When I worked at an ISP doing dial-up tech support, me and a couple of the other guys used to get together in the room that housed all the modem racks and try to determine the connection speed based on the handshaking noises. It was easy for the V.32 and V.42 connections, but was really hard...

- phonograph console with a reel-to-reel recorder and multi-band radio built in - 8-track tapes - cassette decks for computer program storage - floppy disks of various sizes (3.5", 5.25" AND 8" disks) - dial up BBS systems that I connected to at a screaming speed of 1200 baud thanks to my...

Skullcrusher Mountain for me. Love the whole "I just want to be loved" evil overlord thing. Millionaire Girlfriend is pretty good too. Of course, Still Alive is awesome (and not just because it's the one song on Rock Band that I can kick my wife off drums and convince her to sing).

Carrier Command. Of course, hardly anyone remembers it because most gamers aren't old enough to remember it. I spent a huge amount of my youth on that game though. There was also Roadwar 2000 (and its sequel, Roadwar Europa), Miner2049er, Archon, Montezuma's Revenge, and a host of other...