Newcomer (C-64 game)

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:04 am

Has anyone played Newcomer? It would need an emulator unless you got an old C-64 lying around, but looks like a great game nevertheless. Link below. When you get there check out the "Gallery" link on the left
http://www.newcomer.hu/Pages/MainEnglish.htm

Growler · Post by **Growler** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:57 pm

Haven't played it, but may still have an old C64 lying around.. looks like fun & diggin' the way they slipped a lil low-tech porn in via an innocent 'poster' o' a nekkid lady.

Can't be sure she's a lady, but she sho got charms x duo!

8)

Domhnall4h · Post by **Domhnall4h** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:46 pm

I got the Commodore, but no disks that still work. All of them have long since deteriorated to the point of no return, sadly. The computer itself, however, works just as well as the day it was new. Some two decades or so ago. A testament to sound engineering.

Growler · Post by **Growler** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:47 pm

Dom, you or anyone else recall how the C64 disk drives used to go outta alignment every 5,000 miles or so??

I learned how to align 'em too late to do any good.. did anyone do any C64 programming by chance? I did a little with the built-in BASIC interpreter, but nothing swanky.

Anyone get a C-128--man, that wuz a sleek ride...compared to the boxy/cheapy-lookin' C64 box, but they both lasted thru all kinds of kindless trauma. As Dom said, good engineering & apparently decent manufacturing to booty.

origen · Post by **origen** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:55 pm

So far, both C64 and the hundreds of disks I have are holding up. I still have it hooked up, and break it out every now and again. Sometimes, a good game of Space Taxi or Spy Hunter is what you need to get you through the day.

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:43 pm

Spy Hunter was an awesome game. Gotta love the music for it too. I remember a few really good games for the C-64...................

1.) Pitstop II - 2 player car racing game. kicked arse! tires wear down and eventually explode, gotta stop in the pit + refuel + change tires. great game.

2.) Summer + Winter Olympic Games. 2 player. You choose what country you want to play, and try to beat the other countries at each event. (I think there were Summer+Winter Games II as well. All kinds of sporting events. Really good fun games.

3.) GI Joe: A real American hero - This game ruled! 2 player. one player picked a GI Joe and player 2 picked a Cobra and you could fight each other in the desert, snow, cobra command center, but the best place to fight was the city where there was a cobra armored trooper that would walk around and zap anyone that got close to him and the more times you shot the armored trooper the faster he would go tryin' to zap you, so me + my cousin would just go around shootin' at him. What a blast! You can also play the game using vehicles which was cool but not as fun as fighting on foot in the city.

4.) Save New York - Fun game 2 player. each player had a jet and you attack aliens that are invading the City of New York before they destroy the city......but it sure was allot of fun shooting at the base of each building and watching them collapse.

AND OF COURSE.............
5.) Pool of Radiance. I don't think I need to say anything more about this game. It speaks for itself 8)

Domhnall4h · Post by **Domhnall4h** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:11 pm

I well recall aligning the disk drive every so often. Fun times, fun times...

I did some programming as well, in fact I still have two copies of the Commodore Programmer's Manual laying around somewhere.

I had a 128 at one point as well, but it was after most of my disks had failed. So I gave it away.

I think at one point I had about 500 different games for the C64. Phantasie I, II, and III, Bard's Tale III, Mars Saga (Mines of Titan on other systems), NYC, Bump-n-Jump, Bruce Lee, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Test Drive II, etc... etc...

We had kept up a classification system for our disks, each one was numbered, and each sequence was for a different type of game, i.e. RPGs. So we had a stack of printer paper that passed for a C64 inventory.

I miss the good old days, before internet and FreeCiv; back when the C64 was supremely reliable, and I could play straight through a month and not get bored.

*backs over a Yeti with a M4 Sherman* Damn it, i just cleaned those tracks too!

Growler · Post by **Growler** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:35 pm

Hmm, wonder if that was uncle Philly (Buster, if ye musty no)?

If so, he used to eat M4-Shemans fur breaking his fast.

But that gave him double-heart burn, so ye may've caught him sleeping.. I should ring him--see how his Howitzer's holdin' up.

Domhnall4h · Post by **Domhnall4h** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:22 pm

Probably not this one. After being squished all over my tracks, I could see the contents of his breakfast quite well.

I'll try to indiscriminately slaughter your blood relatives later. Now I'm working on building a shelf for weird small objects I've aquired, like souls.

Growler · Post by **Growler** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:22 am

Dom, sometimes I worry 'bout ya...& other times--now, for instance, I just call the law.

*Ding-Dong*

(that's prolly not Avon calling..

)

Domhnall4h · Post by **Domhnall4h** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:36 pm

I don't have a door bell. Or a door for that matter. Mostly, I keep my things in my dungeon, save for the garage/shop. Which could probably be called a bunker, without doors or windows. I just phase a wall when I come and go with some machinery, and apport to the lower levels of the dungeon (which are structurally seperate by about 12 feet of concrete and steel).

I've often wondered why this was built like that, seeing as how I don't think many could reach the lower levels without drilling equipment, and that anyone in the upper bunker would eventually starve to death. I guess that explained the skeleton in the floor when I moved in. At least the place was cheap. And the neighborhood sucks, but then when you mostly leave via medium tank armed with a 75mm main gun, occasionally a heavy tank armed with 88 or even as large as 120mm main guns, then bad neighbors don't bother you much.

*here's gunshots next door* I guess that explains the non-existant doorbell on a non-existant door. *brings up TV to watch the ruckus next door and eats popcorn*

Growler · Post by **Growler** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:43 am

Ok.. now I understand why Bush'n'Cheney are so desperate to create those 'Bunker-Buster' mini-nukes!

8)

Domhnall4h · Post by **Domhnall4h** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:27 pm

Yeah, probably. I just wonder what the bloody heck this was built for? Not my first choice, but it was cheap. Krak des Chevaliers was too far and in too poor condition, Tioram is in too bad condition. Heck, the places I like best are either too far away, too expensive, or too damaged, if not some combination of the bunch.

Growler · Post by **Growler** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:36 pm

eYe, there's tha rub.

Quintessence o' dustiness oui bee.

As the kid in 'My Life as a Doggie' was wont to wax:

"Remember Laika.. one must always compare."

Poor lil sweet Laika.