Lemonade Stand

[jon_chaisson]

So lynxreign had mentioned old floppy disks in one of his posts this morning, and it got me thinking of the old Apple IIc games I used to play in high school...pretty tame compared to today of course, but at the time (1986-88) they were a lot of fun to play. These were simple games like Lemonade Stand, where you'd decide how many cups of lemonade you wanted to sell and for how much, and depending on the day/weather/chance, you'd see how much money you'd make with each turn. Nice little simple game about making profits and keeping it in the black. And if I remember, each day would start off with a quick MIDI song snippet like "Stormy Weather" or something like that.

The only other game I can think of at the moment was "Jungle Hunt", which was one of my favorites...another simple one, in which the player had to get a little guy to swing on vines, jump over boulders (which looked suspiciously like Cocoa Puffs), and swim with alligators.

So...anyone else have memories of those simple games of yore?

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[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

I used to have a C=64: I remember Archon, which I liked a lot, and also the ridiculously addictive Raid on Bungeling bay (didn't realize until I looked at the wiki that the fellow who wrote it went on to do the Sim City etcetera games!) and I spent a lot of time with F-15 Strike Eagle. I loved Elite.

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

We had a Trash80 color computer which had a space invaders clone that I would play for hours and hours. :)

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

I remember a friend of mine had one of those and used to code his own games for it.

[nimisha.livejournal.com]

I remember playing Jungle Hunt, or something very similar, on Atari. That and Adventure were my two favorites :D

For the Apple, I just remember the old, old, old version of Oregon Trail. Ah, the good old days, dying of a rattlesnake bite or typhoid... Good times.

[wizardru.livejournal.com]

Archon was always super-cool. Karateka was the shitnitz in it's day. The original Castle Wolfenstein. Wizardry.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

How could I forget Wolfenstein! ACHTUNG! WAS IST DAS? Awesome.

[ying-ko-4.livejournal.com]

Gads...I remember playing a text based Star Trek game written in Basic. We played it on a Mainframe...wasting obscene amounts of paper in the process.

The first video game I recall playing on a computer was on a Commodore Pet. There was this blocky guy with a somewhat blocky balloon. The object was to let go of the balloon and knock something out of the sky. Pretty slick at the time. Probably dull as dried paste now.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, I used to visit my mother at her job at the computing center at RPI. They had a couple of games on the mainframe: one was a Trek-based multiplayer shoot-em-up which identified players' ships with a text character (an X or a Y, usually I think.) I was filled with wonder. There was also a text based game called "Kingdom."

[ying-ko-4.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so was I.

I also remember typing out a huge stack of punch cards to print a banner that said, "Happy Birthday, Mom!" That took a couple of Saturday's and a couple of runs through the mainframe to work the bugs out.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

o_O
Punch cards. Waow.

Never had to use that medium. Though when we first got the c=64, it saved & read from cassette tape. When we switched to floppy disk it seemed SO FAST.

[ying-ko-4.livejournal.com]

I recall using an acoustic coupler when I was in high school when we would dial in to the mainframe. We had accounts that were something in the order of 1000 records or something like that. It was a long time ago...I don't really recall. All I can tell you is that it was, by today's standards, a very small account.

Even then, I wanted a program that would allow me to keep track of my records or books...something like that.

[marsh-dragon.livejournal.com]

Who could forget Oregon Trail?

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Oregon Trail.

Whenever we drive down south through Oregon (because the SOs parents live down that way) I always yell "The Dalles! We're almost to the end of the game!" and the SO groans.

[nimisha.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Well, I think it's funny :D

[dollydelusion.livejournal.com]

OREGON TRAIL!