[kj] [OT] Please...

[Leigh Newton]

Metroid! 

Best. NES. Game. EVER!
 
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From: sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 6:00:40 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...

You just reminded me the reason 
  I ever quit all these games together: 
    my older brother and I used to miss school, then later would skip work, and flake 
  on friends just to stay home and play some game called Metroid (and Spyro and Crash
  Bandicoot..) til 2,3,
 4a.m. 
   
   
  ~~~ "...and I'll never do it again....."~~~
  
Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:
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  You’ll also find a bunch of old arcade games on the web through Java pages, and
 I’ve even had a copy of Pacman that someone embedded into Excel…worked perfectly. Strange thing to do with a spreadsheet I thought, but hey. Takes all sorts J
    
  AND if you’re really rabid about it, you can buy those little handheld Nintendo games on ebay. I got Donkey Kong and a couple of other for a laugh…real good fun if you remember them from when you were a kid. For about 10 minutes… J
    
        
  From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Saturday, 19 April 2008 9:45 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...

    
  Oh wow, thanks. I will. 

Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote: 
    You can download the vast majority of those arcade games, there’s various programs called ROM emulators, I think, that play them. MAME32 is one I’ve used (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)…being so basic the games run fine on any old PC. It’s a Windows program…just download and install it, then download the games and throw them in the ROM folder and you’re away.

     

    Then there’s emulators for various other platforms like Atari, SNES, probably the Speccy and all that…(the Speccy was just a PC – 8086 - clone, albeit faster and more
 popular…)

      

        
    From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Saturday, 19 April 2008 9:21 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please...


      

         I walked into a video arcade in Hollywood a good while ago and all the way 


      in the back they had these games from the, i think, the 1660s 1680s or so, games
 


      like Missile Command, Defender, and Galaga. I played them and i had the most fun 


      i've had gaming in a long time. 


      I also like that AfterBurner game.


       


      Wait: trend?


       


      GAME TITLES


      Asteroids


      Afterburner


      Empire (song)


       


      ...all are KJ song titles.


       


       


      

folk devil < folkdevil_23 at hotmail.com > wrote:


      mate, i remember space invaders, pong, but not Horace....he looks like a bloody mutant!


> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:12:56 +0100

> From: praest76 at gmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] Please..

> 

> On 18/04/2008, folk devil < folkdevil_23 at hotmail.com > wrote:

> >

> > but wtf is this?

> >

> > http://www.clive.nl/images/10457.jpg

> 

> Horace. He's Hungry.

> 

> He's also been known to go skiing.

> 

> He's what's known as a computer sprite. They look a bit weird because

> the world they lived in back then was old and crap and limited to

> about eight colours in low res.

> 

> Count yourself lucky that you live in Super-Hi-Res Real Colour [tm].

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