I could not justify spending $50 a month on something like that and then buy games on top of it, but I am glad there are solutions.

They did say pleasw.

I have a computer from 2017. It’s also a Mac. I can’t play recent games and I think I’ve just gotten more and more turned off by the whole emphasis on better graphics and the need to spend ridiculous amounts of money on either a console or a really good graphics card for a PC has just turned me off of mainstream gaming completely.

Mostly I just go play games I played when I was a kid these days. 1980s graphics and yet I have yet to get tired of many of them…

It would be cool to do in VR too.

I did not, but it looks like it came out in the 90s and Battle Chess came out in the 80s.

It doesn’t seem to say, but I think that’s the MS-DOS version.

I don’t know if they ever made a color Mac version. I definitely don’t remember if that one was in color because I eventually got the MS-DOS version and I can’t remember if they were the same.

But this is a video I can find for the Mac version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKlUtx5tHg

Weirdly, there was a color version for the Apple IIgs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXnAcUAN0W4

Every version was different. This is the Amiga version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADcEI84wMX0

Worked great on my LC II!

I’m 47. You do know boomers would be adults by the time those sort of games were out, right?

A lot of people would rather just go to a store and buy a pie.

What really pissed me off when I switched to Linux was I suddenly went from OS wars to sub-OS wars.

What? I’m an idiot for not switching to Linux? Ok, I’ve switched to Linux.

What? I’m an idiot for not using Arch? Motherfucker, all you told me was to switch to Linux and I’m already having trouble figuring it out.

I can’t even imagine telling my child self playing Joust in the arcade about people like you…

Basically, yes.

You needed something to convince gamers it was worth buying. Note the awesome art doesn’t actually give any sort of realistic idea of what the product was like.

Oh wow. That takes me back. I remember doing it, but I also remember it being way too slow and annoying to do it for more than maybe 15 minutes.

At no point did a real US dollar enter this process.

Yes, but something something fiat currency.

Really, crypto’s existence legitimized grifting.

Sorry, we were in agreement. I’m saying there was always an adult market so you’re right.

Adults were fans of Minecraft when it came out since there was really no other sandbox game like it at the time. There were precious few sandbox games at the time period.

Right in front of the Dunkin, huh? It would be terrible if people kept accidentally spilling their coffee, hot chocolate and the like on it considering you have to immediately scrape bird shit and dead bugs off of it when you get to where you’re going to avoid corrosion. (Really.)

The only kind I support.

I got free of this addiction years ago.

I hate you.

Word Cookies. I absolutely love it. You can pay for things, but it is absolutely not necessary and is basically only if you feel the need to use boosts that allow you to cheat your way past the level. I think it costs $2 to go ad-free.

It does give you regular popups asking if you want to buy coins, which I admit is annoying, but they are unnecessary to enjoy the game. There’s also endless opportunities to get coins and other boosts for free. I have something like 80,000 coins and dozens of boosts and other than the $2 to go ad-free, I’ve never given them any money.

You do have to have certain word skills to enjoy it as much as I do. If you’re the sort who can crush it at Boggle, it’s the game for you.

Even 10 has annoying popups all the time. And they added AI to the bottom right hand corner where I’ve accidentally clicked on it twice now.

I don’t doubt what you’re saying, but you have to admit that this is terrible PR for them.

Sure, not necessarily… but in practice? Again, this is not something I have personal experience, but based on what I’ve read about it, it generally is about giving someone an advantage, isn’t it?

Also true of timed arcade games like Gauntlet. Unless you were very good, you’d have to keep putting quarters in when the time ran out.

I’m not a huge gamer anymore, at least not of newer games… aren’t microtransactions a bigger problem in multiplayer games because it gives player willing to spend money an unfair advantage over skilled players?

There’s a reason it was in Goodwill.

My daughter does too. She stopped touching it about two years minus one day after we got it for her for Christmas. And she really wanted it for Christmas too.

Stupid kids.

It’s not even a beta tester thing. They just bought it from Oculus, made a few minor changes (most notably requiring you to have a Facebook account to use it) and that was it. This is a “force consumers to upgrade” thing. And it should be illegal.

Not trying to negate what you said, but I honestly don’t remember people saying that. I remember people complaining about Oculus being bought.

Why should they be able to do this?

Because we own nothing now.

God I hope so. This is ludicrous. People are still developing NES games ffs! A friend of mine did.

If you’re one of the most charismatic men in the world, what you actually believe is much less important to people.

No likely about it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-will-and-jada-pinkett-smiths-scientology-school

Wait, so they just licensed Will Smith’s likeness?

They couldn’t have just done a character that looks sort of like Will Smith?

There’s a reason why Nintendo keeps suing companies making emulators out of existence.

Sure, but the abandonware version should still be archived and playable and the goal here is to make that impossible.

It sort of seems like another shot across the bow at abandonware archiving.

I just picked a title at random- https://archive.org/details/DungeonKeeperGoldEditionUSAEnFrEsNlSvPl

As long as companies think they can keep making money from old games, they will keep trying.

Very cool! I’m looking at the pictures now. It reminds me of part of the City Museum in St. Louis.

I’m sorry I didn’t see it when I visited SF some years ago.