There is a huge online Bomberman game going on as we speak

For those who used to play this game many moons ago....

I played for about 5 minutes before accepting the fact that everyone else in there must be a 15 year old who games 24/7 and has lighting reflexes. 

http://bombermine.com/#/

craigb


As much of a gamer as I used to be, I've never heard of Bomberman.

It's an old school arcade game where you and an opponent run around a 2D maze dropping bombs with the intention of blowing each other up. Only in this version, the maze is huge and there are hundreds of players. 

I was pretty much the same with Defender as a kid. I could keep playing no matter how hard it got and racked up scores in the millions. I can still play the game in my head if I close my eyes. 

I don't remember Bomberman either, but it looks cool. :) I tried to get on last night but it was too busy.

@CraigB: I never heard of PM+ so I checked it out on You-toob. It looks hard as hell!

When I was a kid, I had gone swimming at my Aunt's house and got sunburned to a crisp one smoldering summers day. Couldn't go outside, couldn't hardly move, so I sat inside with the curtains drawn in nothing buts shorts sitting in an upright, stiff Indian position, with the AC blasting on me, for an entire day playing Asteroids. Somewhere, in a forgotten drawer full of old Polaroid's ... there's 'screenshot' of me getting some ridiculously high score before I finally couldn't take it anymore and quit. IIRC it was around 2.5 million or something like that.


That was on a 2600 ... don't know if it was easier on those though. My parents would never let me spend money in the arcades, so I never played it on a real machine.

Yeah, or playing Missile Defense without a big trackball - no fun!  I actually have a game input for a PS2 that has a big trackball and those fun buttons - I only bought games like Pac Man or Asteroids for it as well.  Hmm...  I wonder where I put it in my storage unit?

I've always rather have a PC that can play games.  I can't stand that they're going away from that more and more (heck, that PS4 IS a one-trick PC...).

ChuckieEgg was one that I used to go into as a kid. Sharke would probably remember that one. Here is an internet version:

http://www.repton3.co.uk/chuckieegg.aspx

To be honest I kind of lost interest in gaming in direct proportion to the realism which has come about in video games over the last 10-15 years. There was something about that surreal world of 8-bit platformers that I loved. You were really in another world and it was weird and wonderful. I remember the first time I played on a Playstation sometime in 1994(?) or so...the game was Wipeout and I was on magic mushrooms. That was pretty cool, I was amazed at the graphics. But then everything just became so complicated. You actually had to read the manual and learn a huge list of controls in order to play. I hated that and kind of lost interest. 

A friend of mine from those stoner days ended up getting a job as a video games tester, and later worked his way up to a fairly well known video game producer. I think he works for Sega now. 

Another bit of video game name dropping: one of my clients in New York last year was Richard Garriott, who wrote the original Ultima series of games in the 80's. He wrote them in BASIC and made a ton of money. A few years ago him and a couple of other guys funded their own trip into space. There is some serious cash to be made in the business. 

Bristol_Jonesey


I was disappointed to find out that none of my old games (Quake/Unreal Tournament/Aliens v Predator) wouldn't even install on my newish Win 7 machine

Really?  'Cause I've been looking forward to trying some of those eventually...