The Miller Brothers History Of Gaming

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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!
  • Eliza? 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!
  • 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!!