/vr/ - Retro Games

(yeah that game is from 1982, but it's a good game)

>>5526258
Wait, are you saying you're going to spend the rest of the year gaming like it's 1979? Damn, son, more power to you. I've always wanted to do something like that, but giving up the internet is hard.

>>5526293
I've been trying to do similar stuff for games myself. If I play anything now, I limit myself online to tools that I would have had at the time-- the manual, scans from a magazine, etc. It's fun, but I don't know if I could go full media blackout like OP.

OP was never heard from again.

>>5526258
Only casuals play by 20th century rules tbqh

>posts game released in 1982

If you want RPGs that are authentically 70s you're going to want to learn about PLATO

https://www.cyber1.org

He's more of an attention whore than Sevenleaf

>>5526797
>>5526838
Why did you delete?

>>5527072
He's a janitor trying to make me feel bad before he prunes my on-topic posts. Eventuality they're going to realize they're hated for something I'm making them work way too hard at for no money.

>>5527141
BASED gramps strikes again.

>>5527156
Then more and more their act of deleting my posts creates more interest in the story and fosters extensive off-topic metaposting so they're putting themselves in a lose-lose situation. I haven't even been samefagging since that would be like cheating but if I did I could probably trap them quite quickly and force them to delete entire threads. Good thing people who actually make quality posts generally don't often stoop to those levels I guess.

>>5527163
*pssst* what did you say?

>>5527174
Oh, I was just talking about the PLATO mainframe network that existed in the 70s on which university students played some surprisingly advanced online multi-player games by the late 70s including but not limited to dungeon crawl style RPGs more or less directly derived from the then brand new Dungeons & Dragons phenomenon like Avatar. Running on million dollar computers unavailable to the public, these have are shockingly advanced while also being very pleasantly 70s in both design and amber vector aesthetics. I also plugged the cyber1 organization, a current group that does multi player PLATO emulation.

You can always take a look all my posts on the archive. It's quite telling how much the janitors are triggered.

>>/vr/?task=search2&search_username=babbage%27s+gramps&search_res=post

>>5527204
Thanks. (the archive system makes no sense to me btw) So anyway, yeah it's almost scary how much information is being lost and how advanced things really were for their time if one looks.

>>5527215
Yeah I don't know if you read up on PLATO but a tremendous amount of those very early RPGs were lost because gaming was an unapproved use for the very limited storage space on the (officially educational) mainframes and admins would ruthlessly delete hundreds of hours of work by students who generally did not have physical access to the system to back their games up onto tape.

Far more server side data was lost in the /v2k/ area (and continually even today) but it will most likely never be as historically significant. A lot of Americans fantasize about traveling to Japan and trying to find lost satellaview games on flash without realizing that they probably live relatively nearby to a university that had a PLATO mainframe and they could be pounding the pavement trying to locate old tapes that might have truly important games on them.

>>5527243
>Yeah I don't know if you read up on PLATO but a tremendous amount of those very early RPGs were lost because gaming was an unapproved use for the very limited storage space on the (officially educational) mainframes and admins would ruthlessly delete hundreds of hours of work by students who generally did not have physical access to the system to back their games up onto tape.
No, first I heard of it, and man, that's tragic. Unrecoverable too, I imagine. Once things on those mainframes were deleted, they were deleted for real, right? Fascinating especially since all that comes to mind from the infancy of video games is usually Space War on a PDP, or "Tennis for Two" on Higinbotham's oscilloscope, which technically can't be a "video" game.

>>5527204
Would you just fuck off? No one cares about your personal war with the moderators.

>>5527269
Yeah it's an entirely hidden side of 70s video gaming that was invisible to the public as it was too advanced for consumer equipment at the time to even hope of replicating and it even had an additional layer of secrecy to it being a violation of college policies that technically students could even get kicked out for which is also why what software that survives is largely uncredited and in some cases its authorship is even disputed. MUDs offer similar gameplay experiences but don't have quite the same level of mystique or require as much technical knowledge just to make work at all.

>>5527273
Oh actually more and more people seem to be interested in it but their posts are also starting to mysteriously disappear. Also, not sayin you're a janitor but samefagging is an offense that can actually cost janitors their position. Just sayin.

>>5527072
the dude has admitted to ban evading, repeatedly

and now he's trying to say he dindu nuffin, he wuz a good ol boi ;_;

>>5527354
>>5526838

Video games didn't get good until 1975.

>>5527591
>2075
fix'd

>>5526258
As long as it keeps you off the internet I'm all for it.

>>5526258
I don't even care.

>>5526258
You're limiting yourself to (primitive) first party 2600 games and a handful of Intellivision games.