[sdiy] [OT] A zillion arcade schematics

[KHeck73 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/7/2002 8:01:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dhughes at globalnet.co.uk writes:


> Hello,
> 
> Paul Maddox wrote:
> >
> > For me, it was tempest, just love that game, I dont want to know how much
> > money I stuffed into it!
> > Worst game, Defender, I was bad, very bad..
> 
> I had the key to our defender machine. Five pints of scrumpy jack and loads 
> and
> loads of free games at 3 am in the morning. You start seeing the little 
> b*stards
> popping out of the walls.
> 
> Regards
>    David
> 

I was a glutton for Galaxian and 'Robotron 2084'. (Liked Defender, but just 
could never seem to get the hang of the scrolling). The thread here got me 
searching the net, and I found a site where you can play demos of some of 
these games. The emulation is terrific...video and audio are exactly what I 
remember:

www.shockwave.com/sw/games/arcade/
 
Only problem is having to use your computer keyboard as a controller :( The 
player interface was a big part of the games, and for Robotron you really 
need the dual joysticks ;)

I also had Atari plug-in cartridges for my Commodore 64 for both Robotron and 
Galaxian. I thought the 64 did a pretty good job of duplicating the sounds of 
original arcade games.

-Karl.
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