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	* Gorf - woohoo!		* Gorf - woohoo!
	* Pengo - push those ice blocks around!		* Pengo - push those ice blocks around!
	* ~~Liza~~? The talking text AI? is that what it was called??		* Eliza? The talking text AI? is that what it was called??
	* Shufflepuck Cafe - a favorite of Sammy Boy on the Mac		* Shufflepuck Cafe - a favorite of Sammy Boy on the Mac
	* Temple of Apshai - can't remember anything but the name		* Temple of Apshai - can't remember anything but the name

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	* Atari: Mike wrote a typing game, like pong with paddles at top and bottom - to turn on a paddle you had to hit the key next to it		* Atari: Mike wrote a typing game, like pong with paddles at top and bottom - to turn on a paddle you had to hit the key next to it
	* Atari: Dan wrote snake, had to be one of the first versions ever written!		* Atari: Dan wrote snake, had to be one of the first versions ever written!
			* Darby The Dragon, most creative game ever! To quote Reiley quoting the game "who's that in the sky just a ziggin and a zaggin? it's darby, darby , darby the draaaaagon prince"!

			* The motorcycle game Betty and I played to death on the Amiga at her place in Ft Myers!
			* Monkey Island! ALL of them!!
			* Psychonauts!!

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my rambling approximate personal pathway to geekdom nirvana: the motherfucking mother of all video games - PONG bitch -> arcades -> henry mack's atari 2600 -> sears atari 2600 clone -> trs-80 with tape-deck-loading nethack -> atari 400 with BASIC cartridge -> arcades in every pizza joint and strip mall -> star wars 4-6 -> atari 800 -> atari 800 XL -> windows 2.0 what shit -> mac with custom db sales app -> amiga 2000 -> neuromancer -> virtual reality -> win 3.0 thru win 7 (ssdd) -> descent -> redhat linux 4 thru 9 (ssdd) with emacs -> tribes -> LAMP with all the flavors of P -> thedigitalmachine.com -> sharp zaurus with Opie and daily updates IN MY PANTS -> palm treo with TCPMP -> fedora linux -> star wars 1-3 -> gentoo linux (always and forever) -> mythtv -> eclipse -> multiplayer mariocart DS at ABB -> hak5 -> PAX 2007 -> firefox addons with greasemonkey, javascript, DOM, css (50k cross-platform users!) -> mac os x -> iphone ios4 -> PAX West 2009 -> QT ftw -> thedigitalage.org -> xbmc -> splatspace.org -> android? -> (todo) wearable HUD and keyboard pants with head-mounted camera and projector -> robots!

* Tribes Vengeance
* F.E.A.R.
* LOTR: Battle For Middle Earth
* Age of Empires ]I[
* Psychonauts
* UT2004
* Tribes
* Age Of Empires ][
* Descent Freespace
* Descent III
* Unreal Tournament
* Descent ][
* Descent
* Driver
* Interstate 76
* Mech Warrior
* Palm: b&w racing game
* my first "bullettime" game, what the hell was it, a huge city to explore, lots of magic powers...
* Assasin? something like that... you had to snipe big hulking guys way in the distance, they would taunt you with silly dances...
* Some command-and-conquer 1st person game I played with John - you'd drive your tank, build a base, manage it, then jump back in for action (lots of it)

* PC: Reflections Destruction Derby 2 (AWEsome! Cars took damage!)

* Amiga: Ballistix (constant crowd cheering, raising, falling)
* Amiga: Montezuma's Revenge
* Amiga: Psygnosis horror/adventure game with objects based on ellipsoids
* Amiga: Cinemaware Rocket Ranger (epic)
* Amiga: Dragon's Lair (VIDEO! on a COMPUTER!)
* Amiga: Shadow Of The Beast ("parallax" scrolling!)
* Amiga: Lemmings
* Amiga: some racing game with a SPLIT SCREEN, best multiplayer yet

* Amiga: Tempest
* Atari: Marble Madness
* Atari?: Chopper? That helicopter landing to pick up people
* Kixx (played until popped blisters stopped me)
* Scramble
* Zaxxon

* A nethack-like game on the TRS-80 Model ]I[ - took 20 minutes to load off cassette tape...

* Joust – one of Dan’s favorite
* Dig Dug
* Atari: M.U.L.E. (see http://atarimule.neotechgaming.com/index.htm)
* Dan's TRON
* The vector based coin-op Star Wars and Battle Zone games
* Pitfall
* Atari: Adventure (remember the red and yellow and black? dragons)
* Robotron
* Missile Command
* Pole Position I and II
* Spy Hunter (dunt dunt DUNT dunt DIDDLEY dunt DUNT dunt)
* Taipan (Apple II)
* Crush, Crumble, Chomp
* Sinistar (RAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRR!)
* Paperboy
* Breakout, Super Breakout, Arkanoid – a Michael favorite
* Q-bert
* Beer Tapper
* Super Cobra (helicopter flying through caverns!!)
* Defender
* Superman (Atari: Superman was made up of about 6 red and blue
blocks)
* Xevious (Mike was the champ at this game - 1st 3D shading in a
game!!)
* Donkey Kong
* Donkey Kong Jr.
* Moon Patrol (jump your moon buggy over the craters and rocks!)
* ZORK I, II and III
* Crazy Taxi
* Crystal Castles
* Mr. Do
* Some cop driving game where you get points for smashing through
donut shops
* Dark Forces
* GTA - the original top-down view
* Cloak and Dagger (there was a Disney movie tie-in filmed in San
Antonio, TX during our Youth Convention)
* Circus (clowns on a see-saw popping balloons)
* Choplifter
* 1942
* Tank - two tanks, one immovable screen, a few square-ish barriers
and unlimited ammo
* After Burner - now that was a heck of a joystick!
* Star Raider - kill the Krylons in the first 3D FPS ever!! with all 6
degrees of freedom, no less!
* Elevator Action - some kind of Spy game where enemies would emerge
from doors.
* Wizard of Wor
* Food Fight or BurgerTime?
* Toobin'
* Lunar Lander (b&w vector game - a little thrust, please)
* Frogger
* Star Castle (shoot the rings around the giant enemy ship)
* Night Driver (Atari 2600 paddle game)
* Lemmings
* a couple of racing games:
* one where there were four players with tiny cars - the track was on
one screen - it was coin-op
* one where there were multiple players, but the screen scrolled (was
it a split screen, or did you have to keep up or something - this was on one
of our consoles)
* Something with Oil in the title (Oils Well?)
* Outlaw - Cowboy on the left, Cowboy on the right, covered wagon in
the middle
* Yar's Revenge
* What was the other old game where the alien would jump up into your ship's viewscreen if you landed on the planet and scare the bejeepers out of you - a lucasarts game, I believe
* Berzerk
* Old Atari Basketball
* Qix
* Karateka - the first head to head fighting game
* Ball Blaster (or Ball Blazer as it was renamed after the original was pirated so much prior to release) - an amazing Lucasarts game where two players went head to head in a futuristic soccer match - one of the first 3D games with solid surfaces and 4 degrees of unrestricted motion
* Maze or Walls or something like that - the first game with walls (even prior to Wolfenstein) - I remember being blown away by the graphics
* Miner '49er
* Kaboom - a very old game that I don't even remember but the title
* Gorf - woohoo!
* Pengo - push those ice blocks around!
* Liza? The talking text AI? is that what it was called??
* Shufflepuck Cafe - a favorite of Sammy Boy on the Mac
* Temple of Apshai - can't remember anything but the name
* Seven Cities of Gold - one of Dan's favorites - discover the new world and plunder the gold!
* Prince of Persia - awesome
* The fast paced music played while you fly your carpet through colored rings in space - what WAS it??!!
* All the Psygnosis games - what WERE they??!!
* Homeworld - the game that re-defined the user interface
* Gauntlet - 4 player mayhem!
* Lode Runner - Todd Lorenz was the champ!

* Zork, all the versions - the first one I played was in 1983 on U of F's mainframe
* Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - babblefish! - no idea what year or system - you can now play online
* A (multiplayer!) Star Trek simulation game I played in 1983 on the mainframe during a campus visit to Lehigh University
* Amiga: some "cyberpunk" graphic-novelish game where you started in your small room - had video on the wall of some Chinese mafia guy's slick apartment...

* Atari: Mike wrote a typing game, like pong with paddles at top and bottom - to turn on a paddle you had to hit the key next to it
* Atari: Dan wrote snake, had to be one of the first versions ever written!

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