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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[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.