Whips out the old Commodore Vic 20...

Anime Jedi · Post by **Anime Jedi** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 1:53 pm

My grandparents dropped the computer over here a bit ago, and I decided to get it up and running. They even game me the few decade old tv that the Vic 20 was hooked up to!

To think, this is the system I always played when I visited them about 10 years ago...

Most addicting game ever, Omega Race!!! I was reading the intro, and I think it takes place in the year 2003. o_0

It even still has the joystick! ^_^

Anime Jedi · Post by **Anime Jedi** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 2:11 pm

Caution when using really old television sets! Extensively playing (approx 30 mins) may cause the set to seem really hot, and and have strange smelling fumes...

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 4:40 pm

Ah yes, the Vic-20. Me and klinky still have one in the closet at our mom's house that we bought at a thrift store a few years back.

Quite the spunky little machine. 3.5 kilobytes of (free) RAM! Blazing 1 Mhz 6502 processor! And for that awesome internet experience, a blazing 300 bps modem, with no network protocols or web browser available for it!

Still, at about $100 in the 80s, it was certainly a pretty good value, especially when "full fledged" machines like the IBM PC and Apple II were several thousand dollars and didn't really offer much more than the Vic.

Devolution · Post by **Devolution** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 4:52 pm

:O dear god, the Vic-20 was great! i still have one buried amongst my other Commodore stuff(14 C64s, a Vic20, an Amiga1000, and an Amiga500, plus all the crap to make them work ^^)...

my all time favourite game was Trashman(pacman ripoff) or SeaFox...never really owned any others though :p

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:25 pm

i never had a vic-20, but i did have a commodore 64, that was a cool system. I wasn't able to get any thihg but games to work on it ... but who cares. I had defenders, jump man and mission impossible. i can't remember having any other games that worked that were worth mentioning. But jump man was great, i wasted a good deal of time sitting in front of that box, so many weird games ... including this one druid game that for some reason R-A-N-M-A's avatar reminds me an awful lot of the main character from that game ...

Anime Jedi · Post by **Anime Jedi** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 5:56 pm

Play that for 10 minutes and you really start to appreciate the clarity of your computer and monitor! lol ^_^

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 6:01 pm

yea ... nothing like a video game where your character is a 3x5 square of pixels.