[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

Remember this $hit? Seems crazy today.

That was the brand I smoked from age 18 to 22. I was up over 2 packs a day. Back then smoking was the cool thing to do and I jumped in with both feet. I got up to 2 pack a day.

The ads were everywhere. There were characters smoking on the TV shows and in the movies. Regardless of the surgeon general warning, smoking was everywhere.

One morning I woke up after a party the night before and I felt like $hit. Too much drinking and too much smoking. I looked in the mirror and said, "What the fk are you doing!?". That very day I quit the cigarettes cold turkey. Once of the best decisions of my life.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Why do I suspect that the floppy disc media has turned into dry, flaky rust powder from sitting 40 years?????

Maybe so. I'll let you know when I finally get around to getting it out. I'm really interested the games, not the floppy discs. The games were on cartridges that I plugged in as I recall.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by wdb

Speaking of ASCII there was another game they had access to. They were programming nerds for GE Aerospace and had mainframe terminals at home. There was a text-based game called "Colossal Cave Adventure." You navigated through the cave using commands such as "GO LEFT", and clues were given after each move such as:

YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING. AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND DOWN A GULLY.

YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT.

I remember a Commodore 64 game like that where you had to get out of a building before a time bomb went off.

[Vindicator3]

The king of text-only games in my life was Zork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

Remember this $hit? Seems crazy today.

My mom smoked those, with the charcoal filter.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by wdb

Speaking of ASCII there was another game they had access to. They were programming nerds for GE Aerospace and had mainframe terminals at home. There was a text-based game called "Colossal Cave Adventure."

<--- Finished both the original Don Woods 350 point version and the later 550 point version.

xyzzy.....