Old School

Name the game:

I had the old SE (bought by my Bride in 1988) out and running the other night. These games, and this one especially, are still a lot of fun.

15 Responses to “Old School”

1. Skyler says:

   June 6, 2013 at 9:41 am

   Game of Thrones.

2. Mr. Bingley says:

   June 6, 2013 at 9:45 am

   nope!

3. JeffS says:

   June 6, 2013 at 11:16 am

   Dungeons and Dragons.

4. Mr. Bingley says:

   June 6, 2013 at 11:35 am

   Nope. It’s called “Beyond Dark Castle.”

5. JeffS says:

   June 6, 2013 at 12:10 pm

   Heh! Shows what I know about old games….

   I do have a functioning Tandy TRS-80 model 100 computer, the original “laptop” computer. It sports an original, all caps, QWERTY keyboard, a 3 line x 40 character LCD, and a whole 2 kilobytes of RAM; offline storage uses a cassette tape deck. And it runs on 4 x AA batteries!

   But the only games on it are those I’ve written, which are no where near your “Beyond Dark Castle”.

6. Mr. Bingley says:

   June 6, 2013 at 12:55 pm

   The Trash 80!

7. JeffS says:

   June 6, 2013 at 2:25 pm

   Yep! 😀

8. Jon says:

   June 6, 2013 at 2:43 pm

   So close, I thought it was the original Dark Castle!

9. Gunslinger says:

   June 6, 2013 at 5:40 pm

   Sixty rocks but no bombs?

   You might want to rethink your inventory.

10. Kathy Kinsley says:

    June 6, 2013 at 8:26 pm

    Trash 80…lol. I never played games on that. It was, however the first business (non-mainframe) computer I ever used.

11. Kathy Kinsley says:

    June 6, 2013 at 8:36 pm

    C-64 was my games computer. Complete with tape-drive. 😛

12. Kathy Kinsley says:

    June 6, 2013 at 8:37 pm

    Macs were WAY over my budget.

13. Dr Alice says:

    June 7, 2013 at 1:59 am

    Remember the old, oooollld games where there were no graphics AT ALL?

    Gather round, children. In my young days you only had prompts. As follows.

    >10 steps E
    >You are in a dark cavern with skeletons on the walls.

    Etc. You had to have a pencil and paper handy to make sense of the thing. Good times.

14. Mr. Bingley says:

    June 8, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    Guns, it was pitiful how badly I played!

    Mind you, I blame the 25 year-old mouse, whose rubber ball really isn’t tracking the way it used to…

15. Kate P says:

    June 11, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    This model is the first Mac I ever saw! We used these for “Computer” class in high school. I learned how to draw columns using concentric circles and I was hooked.