I was a big fan of the Atari 2600 pinball game called Midnight Magic. I guess that makes me an ancient.
I still remember the one game where I managed a score in the millions. Good times.
I just remember you could hit ctl or alt and it would jiggle the screen. If you did it too much, it would void the game due to tilt.
It basically simulated the real world pinball machines that you could smack or jostle a little too when the ball got stuck or was about to roll straight down the middle. They would lock up when the players did that too obviously, both to keep the machine from damage and, since those were generally arcade machines, so the players would buy another round.
Fun fact: A lot of those anti-tilt sensors was just a pendulum hanging through a conductive ring. Tilt or otherwise get it to sway too much? It’d swing and bap the edge, completing the circuit which indicated tilt to the system. Simple and effective.
I remember we put the front feet of the pinball machine on our metal cap boots (the thing isn’t light!) and the game didn’t care (after calming down). It didn’t really help though, the ball was just like slower, but it was fun.
Slower can still be a good help on some tables!
I, too, watch Technology Connections.
Nah, I actually got that info from rummaging around an old pinball table my uncle had.
Technology Connections is good shit, though.
rummaging around an old pinball table my uncle had
That’s awesome!
Simulating tilting the table.
Im even older
Oh yeah?
Oh shit. This brought back some memories. I used to play this game in kindergarten at around age 4-5!
Oh shit that’s bringing back some memories, what was that one again?
Hover, shipped on the Windows 95 CD.
Not bad really, especially for its time.
The Windows 95 CD also had the music video for Weezer’s Buddy Holly!
Yes indeed! They also had the Good Times video.
Shame on Micro$oft, they didn’t even give proper credit where credit is due…
Edie Brickell - Good Times
Finally… The search is over. I have wanted to find this song and video for years. I only remembered the feeling of it but not the lyrics or musician and I just knew it came with our first PC ever, but had no clue as to why or where it came from. I was obsessed with the song, mostly due to the singer’s voice.
Thank you for bringing this up, you have made a random internet stranger very happy today.
You’re very welcome.
I totally get your feeling there, I had to jump down that rabbit hole years ago with only two main tidbits of information, GOODTIME.AVI and Geffen Records.
Seriously, shame on M$ for not dropping proper credits to Edie Brickell, she’s a wonderful singer!
You know I keep that mfin thang on me
Hell yeah
Now I’m up late, thanks guys
You want to know something fun? The windows version of this game was not complete. There were more tables and I found out not long ago. The real game was called Full tilt! And if you search on youtube, you can see all the other tables.
Yeah, that was the demo that Stafford, Gliner and Sandige pitched to Microsoft in an intentionally fuzzy fax and slammed out in record time.
Back when the ECA logo didn’t make me immediately think “soulless money grab”.
Archon !!!
I think it was always EA, but I see how you could think the logo represented 3 letters. But yeah, back when that logo existed EA was a great company.
Ya, my young self assumed that the logo was ECA stylized into the square, circle and triangle and it was for “EleCtronic Arts”. I was more interested in playing the games (soooo many hours spent on Starflight) than learning about the company.
Holy shit, I forgot about this bad boy
I still want to play this
Hero
I was going to post this. Well done.
I have it on my phone. Based on the same ropo
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Wasn’t this on 98? I don’t recall the xp theme going with this.
It’s on many distros.
Honestly, the tank battle game or some Buddy Holly would be way more nostalgia bait than Space Cadet.
Hey, where’s the four color version?! (or how ever many, I forgot what ye olde dos games supported lol) https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a5KogMbB1xQ/hqdefault.jpg
I played the 1994/5 version. Maybe you played the original?
Yea there are a ton of versions. Lode Runner and Lemmings were the shit. Plenty of versions of both. Lemmings even had a 3D one. lol Don’t remember if it was official or a fan project, though.
What was that game called!? I forgot the name and have been trying to find it for years!
Hehehe
Yeah it’s hard kind of to find because there were a ton of them… I played soooo much of this. Came on the same install pack as battle chess and sim city i think…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner:_The_Legend_Returns
Also see the mad monks revenge release in legacy
Thank you so much!
I definitely played Mad Monks Revenge judging by the gameplay description. Now just gotta find out where to acquire it and if I can get it to run on Linux :)
Edit: Well that was easy to find, a rewrite for Windows, Mac and Linux! https://mmr.quarkrobot.com/
Of course!
Ooh nice! Gotta grab that and have a food of memories from childhood lol
I remember playing this on Windows 2000.
I was already kinda old when I played my first pinball game on computer, it was Epic Pinball.
You can still play it on modern windows, i even have it on my nintendo switch 1
