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Have the hardware and cassette but no player so I use an emulator.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_of_Doom

Here's the emulator for windows with the game: http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/showprog.cgi?search=Classic99

Manual: http://ridingthecrest.com/edburns/classic-gaming/tunnels/images/

Mortal Kombat III for the SNES. I got few NES classics for the gameboy advance, about the only one I put any time into is Zelda II:The Adventures of Link.

On an emulator these days.

However, I play it on my Galaxy Tablet...


...does that count?

On a little nintendo now!

haven't played it in a while and Galaga90 on the TurboGrafx 16 was fun as well, could make a triple ship... I grabbed the new Galaga demo on the PS3 and it sucks, not even close to as fun as the first 2.

My other favorite is, Dirt.

That was the last year they made it for the MAC. I used to get a new version every year but I stalled out in 2008.

I know they make versions for my phone and iPad. And I hate playing it on a console. I miss the desktop version. It was like being right on the field.

It came out in 1999 or thereabouts. Roly Bug needs to free ladybugs that have been captured by the evil ant king.

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Yes, I have it in my good old fashioned TI-86.

on an emulated Apple II....

In my current lab one of the older researchers was only forcibly separated from his Apple II's just a couple years ago. He used them because they were simple enough he could be absolutely sure about what they were doing with his sensors and explain them to his students. But they gave the impression to outsider reviewers of being "obsolete" so he had to trash them in favor of spiffy "black box" commercial interface cards to the same instruments. Strangely, he spends much of his time these days debugging odd signatures that appear in his data that didn't used to be there before the switch.

Us older duffs are constantly surprised that our students these days simply take computers for granted. A lot of my generation's excitement was in MAKING them do things rather than seeing what cool things they can DO. The buy-in to understanding a computer like the Apple II was much smaller - so that a single person could actually do it. So I consider that computer Apple's true contribution to society.

It had worked fine for 35 years, but the company was bought by some conglomerate and they made them replace the Apple II with a commercial system that usually, but not always, opens the gate now.

When I was developing on an Amiga 500, I kept my C=64 next to it. The Commodore monitor had both composite and RGB inputs and a switch on front to toggle between them. The C=64 had the boot and OS code in ROM so you simply turned it on (like a calculator) and it was there. If I had to run calculations for a constant I needed in my Amiga code, I'd just switch to the C=64 and start a short program and then go back to coding on the Amiga.

I also built a pinout from the expansion port to a test board and made some pretty cool circuits controlled by the C=64. It's sort of sad, but assembly language and self-modifying code are a thing of the past, taboo even. I used to use both regularly, but that was long-long ago in a 1 MHz galaxy far-far away.

If I ever get on top of the finances I'll go one better than an emulated. Of course my wife would not understand -- you want to buy an OLD computer?

We used one Z80 in an industrial application until 1998. It was awesome, instant on just like you said. The only quirk was that it sent a POSITIVE signal to the motors to stay in place. If that signal were interrupted the motors would decide they were in the wrong position and so they'd go nuts trying to catch up. We had panic buttons EVERYWHERE in case that happened. But that system was put together by just one guy. He was eccentric and a genius. We don't seem to have as many of those as we used to...

Keep on hacking (in the old school sense!)

There are a lot of very reasonably priced units, cards, software, cables, drives, complete systems, etc.

I put the search string in parenthesis to avoid confusion with the quotes. You have to quote "apple ii" or you get all kinds of iWhatever products in the results.

Still fun after all these years.

King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry. Man, I just loved those kind of games and run them perfectly in dosbox now.

I only get to play it when I'm home in California. My nephew and his buddy built an arcade-style video game, and it includes Joust. Pretty awesome.

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got an old DOS version on my puter -

frigadee - those guys move FAST!!

http://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man

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Oh - 'scuse me

Gubments don't deal with facts . . .

It looks like this:

I've tried playing old games again or for first time, but they're too tough to complete or the views / mechanics of camera angles bug me. Or I get bored. Recently finished Borderlands 2, just started Crisis 3 for PS3.

all the arcade games in CoinOps on my modded original Xbox.

I also enjoy all of the Kirby games from the NES, SNES, and Gameboy era. In fact, I am working my way through Kirby's Adventure right now emulated on my modded Wii.

The one I play the most is Robotron 2084. I just cracked the 2,000,000 point barrier last month.

One of SSI's Gold Box Series that was based off a tabletop RPG that was essentially a modified version of Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition. IIRC, the CEO of TSR at the time was the granddaughter of the original creator of Buck Rogers in the 20s and she decided to release an RPG version during the late 80s. I actually have scans of most of the old game books. I've always wanted to try the tabletop version out.