[quote name='slidecage']funny thing is you probally could had 2 or even 3 washers and dryers on how much you blew in a year at the laundromat . Did your house have room for them . I ask this cause my grandfahter never had a washer and dryer. for the last 60 years he went to the laundromat every week . He figured he probally would had a few new house how much cash he blew in 60 years LOL
he never built a room in their house to hold a washer and dryer said it was eaiser just to go down there and do them[/QUOTE]
No, sorry, I should have mentioned we lived in an apartment. Where we lived owning a house was only for the rich - yes, even in 1980
. Though now that you mention it we did have a small room that I think had washer/dryer hookups. But I used that as a darkroom and putting those in would have ruined that. You know, I was a kid and didn't think about that stuff very much - my Dad probably should have found some way to buy a house back then. He managed to finally do so in the 1990's and paid WAY more than he would of earlier.
Anyway, WAY off topic, except that my frequent laundromat trips meant frequent Pac-Man playing. I never did get very good at it though. When I see these reports of people beating the game and getting the max score I'm amazed. As a kid I never realized that was possible. Isn't there some pizza chain owner in Florida who recently played the game perfectly (all points, no lost lives, etc)? I saw something on TV about that anyway. I mean, I'm obsessive when playing console games in that I always want to beat them 100%, but I could never get into something as repetitive and monotonous as Pac-Man in order to get that good :lol:.
I also remember taking $5 or $10 in quarters down to Silverball (bonus points if anyone knows where that is - hint: West Coast) and playing all the various "classic" games back then. Missile Command, Defender, Robotron, Space Invaders, followed by Burgertime, Joust, Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, DK Jr, Zaxxon, etc... Moon Patrol, Joust, and Zaxxon were my favorites. I've played a bit of the XBLA Joust, and while it was nostalgic for a bit, I just can't get back into those games. I remember being utterly blown away by how incredible the graphics in Zaxxon were. Why is that game never recreated? I know it wouldn't look all that great now, but I'd like to play it again just the same.
OK, just looked this up:
A popular game, Zaxxon was ported to almost all home computer and video game console systems between 1982 and 1985. Among them were DOS (as a booter), Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari XL, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Dragon 32, Amstrad CPC (as zaxx), ColecoVision and Intellivision.
The Atari 2600 and Intellivision ports were noticeably different because they used a three-dimensional perspective instead of the isometric graphics of the other versions. This is probably due to technical limitations of these consoles.
The game was also released for Sega's own console, the SG-1000, in 1985.
A clone of the game was released on the TRS-80 Color Computer as Zaksund.
In 2006, Zaxxon games were included as bonus game on the Sega Genesis Collection for Sony's PlayStation 2 and PSP consoles. The original Zaxxon is the game included on the PS2, and Super Zaxxon is the one available on the PSP.
I'm pretty sure I had the 2600 and Colecovision versions (or at least one of them). Too bad my Dad sold ALL my old stuff to some guy for, like, $50 10 years ago
. I probably also had the TRS-80 Color Computer version as I was all over that system (I think he included that, too, in the $50 Atari/Colecovision bundle
). So it's on the Sega Genesis Collection... Hmmm, I wasn't interested in that at all for the Genesis crap, but maybe I'll pick it up cheap for Zaxxon
.