What were some computer programs and games you grew up with?
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Gen z here. Animal jam was goated
I remember when they removed shelves from the in game stores so there was just a black market of shelves for no reason
Kingdom Hearts Re-coded is the best game ever and you can't change my mind. I got my dad's cartridge and DSi and it was the BEST.
Ive actually just now gotten around to playing the actual kingdom hearts 1 and OMG I don't know how they managed to make the controls WORSE than a DSi game with like 10 buttons, it's so bad you can't see anything while in combat.
In the DS one you could at least snap the camera to look at the back of your headedit: also coolmathgames.com
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Roadrash & Prince of Persia & IGI 2
I like how if you hadn't put IGI, there's no way to tell if you're talking early 90s or late 2000s
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DESQview - multi-tasking for DOS:
Norton Commander - shell/file manager for DOS:
I ran a BBS under DESQview X and it worked flawlessly!
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
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Telemate, by Tsung Hu, was one of the best pieces of DOS software I ever got to use. It featured internal multitasking via its own file reader and composer. With every other terminal program out there if you wanted to create a new file or use a scratch pad you had to exit the program first and load something else.
With telemate you could download a text, open it in the internal reader, then start copying bits over to the internal composer and then cut and paste the whole thing back into the terminal. This was godlike power at the time.
It had a slew if other really useful comm program features, the file downloading system was super tight and had every protocol, the local file browser was really nice. ansi and other graphics support was superb.
I eventually put it into autoexec.bat so my 286 would boot right into telemate. I was terminally online when online barely existed
I learned to program thanks to this app. I used it to dial up and access shell accounts so i could IRC and MUD. I made friends I still talk to today through it. For years it was my daily companion.
If i could celebrate one single DOS app it would be the humble yet amazing Telemate by Tsung Hu (who went by Winfred Hu at the time)
you can grab it here:
https://archive.org/details/telemateThe only reason i ever stopped using it was I graduated on to Slackware!
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Treasure Cove
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
wrote on last edited by [email protected]one of the best DOS games ever, Battle Chess!
watching the knight lop the arms off the pawns never got old!
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Nowadays, Microsoft Fury is just copilot being thrown at everyone's faces
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Most of the stuff was whatever demos came with those magazine CDs. Half wouldn't run on the family computer - none of LucasArts' adventure games did. Some that did run and I remember playing were:
- Diablo (only the 1st level of the dungeon available, the Butcher would also show up and kill you after you cleared it, got out and went back)
- Age of Empires (3 small scenario maps, which I played to death)
- Stargunner (only 3 levels and most of the equipment wasn't available)
- Raptor (some weapons were locked but, weirdly enough, one time the game "registered itself" and all weapons were unlocked. No idea wtf happened)
\ - (EDIT) Capture the flag (yes, the game's name was just that. A turn based capture the flag that really left me wanting that level editor! Also, that's a link for the developer's site, he's still selling his games)
One of the few things we had was Lion King's Activity Center (Brazilian version, Centro de Atividades). I distinctly remember that, for whatever reason, the VA for Rafiki was different from the movie
At my dad, I played a lot of Lemmings and some of those Arthur interactive books. To my then non-english-speaking ass, the story reading was mostly pointless, but most scenes would let you click around to see what happened, characters would either say something or do something funny (I personally loved one where you clicked DW and she'd ride her bike over a small hill, crashing then coming back)
Also this one, which I don't think I enjoyed as much as Arthur for whatever reason
(That picture immediately made me "smell" crayons. Is there a word for when a picture reminds you of a smell?)
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Chip's Challenge:
Commander Keen:
Can't forget good ol' Ski Free:
Chuck's Challenge 3D is a spiritual sequel of Chip's Challenge, with the same puzzle designer
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Hyper Card
Kid Pix
For those like me that don't know HyperCard, it's a visual programming tool for Apple II. Ars Technica has a good rundown with more technical and historical details
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For those like me that don't know HyperCard, it's a visual programming tool for Apple II. Ars Technica has a good rundown with more technical and historical details
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Foe Apple II? No, it runs on Macintoshes not Apple machines (other than the IIgs but that's kind of an odd ball). It was developed until the mid 2000s.
"visual programming" I would also say isn't quite correct. The programming was textual, using a Hyper Talk based language (based on Small Talk). But it interacted with visual objects. Kinda like Flash (which was also Hyper Talk based if memory serves).
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I like how if you hadn't put IGI, there's no way to tell if you're talking early 90s or late 2000s
wrote on last edited by [email protected]IGI is old enough brother/sister. I could add Red Alert & Tiberian dawn
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Most of the stuff was whatever demos came with those magazine CDs. Half wouldn't run on the family computer - none of LucasArts' adventure games did. Some that did run and I remember playing were:
- Diablo (only the 1st level of the dungeon available, the Butcher would also show up and kill you after you cleared it, got out and went back)
- Age of Empires (3 small scenario maps, which I played to death)
- Stargunner (only 3 levels and most of the equipment wasn't available)
- Raptor (some weapons were locked but, weirdly enough, one time the game "registered itself" and all weapons were unlocked. No idea wtf happened)
\ - (EDIT) Capture the flag (yes, the game's name was just that. A turn based capture the flag that really left me wanting that level editor! Also, that's a link for the developer's site, he's still selling his games)
One of the few things we had was Lion King's Activity Center (Brazilian version, Centro de Atividades). I distinctly remember that, for whatever reason, the VA for Rafiki was different from the movie
At my dad, I played a lot of Lemmings and some of those Arthur interactive books. To my then non-english-speaking ass, the story reading was mostly pointless, but most scenes would let you click around to see what happened, characters would either say something or do something funny (I personally loved one where you clicked DW and she'd ride her bike over a small hill, crashing then coming back)
Also this one, which I don't think I enjoyed as much as Arthur for whatever reason
(That picture immediately made me "smell" crayons. Is there a word for when a picture reminds you of a smell?)
Your English is better than many English-as-first-language Americans I know hahaha
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
Kidpix Delux 3
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Gorillaz:
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
Whatever you are... MAKE ME A PIZZA (Zoombinis) -
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
Monster Bash!
And Alex the Kidd on my brother's Sega
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
The first video game I ever played was a Lode Runner clone for the IBM PC called Freddy's Rescue Roundup.
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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin' but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
Does anyone else remember the zero-player game Progress Quest?
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Lode Runner: The Legend Returns was a game that came preinstalled by Compaq on Windows 95. Around age five I found the game captivating, and the level editor was fantastic for my brother and I.
I worked on part of that game. Age 5, hoooboy!
