Originally posted by texasmom
Now there's a phrase that I had a tough time processing.
LMAO at remembering C64. I played Moon-Mist back then on there. I don't even think there were graphics on that game ~ I think it was entirely typing.
A lot of the games for Commodores had no real graphics. There was a Midway Battle game, forget the name, that just had a grid map. A "C" in a grid was a carrier force. An "M" was Midway Island. You detailed your strikes to go out to a particular grid to scout or attack the enemy carriers. You would hear a little sound file play for attacks, but everything else was in the text buffer. Any hits, any misses, any enemy sunk, your losses all came in text only.
I wasted many an hour with that game.
That C-64 was also my first link to online BBS (I remember Modem Over Manhattan, the various Fed busts at the time to the early community --- guess we'd all be terrorists today and sitting in GITMO....) and the Prodigy Network. Eventually got a 286 when they came out, and upgraded to Compuserve and Usenet Groups.
Scary thinking that far back.
