I've played all of Blizzards games :)) have been with Diablo since day 1.....excellent series of games but they have their problems balancing them constantly....

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

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Alotof Playing gav!

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Ah that's cool. Exciting to see what new game they are making, it will be revealed at ECTS in London 2-4 september. I played a lot of Starcraft and also quite a lot of Warcraft I & II. Not so much Diablo I tho. So how did it go yesterday?

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Yup I'd heard about the new game announcement....it'll be interesting to see what it is....still once they've announced it we've got to wait for it and Blizz are CRAP with release dates :))

Yesterday went fine....there are a load of bugs in the latest patch 1.08 which will hopefully be sorted in 1.09 but it's a pain constantly waiting for patches....

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Ya heard it was a lot of the in 1.08. Ya, release dates and Blizzard dont match. LoD was the first game the released when they said they should. Thought for a while Warcraft III really should come out in deceber but of course not...

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Warcraft should be cool when it's out....i might stop playing Diablo for awhile to give it a look :))

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Whatever happened to Paradroid and Defender?

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

I might even stop playing Champ. Man for awhile also when War 3 is out. =)

What and what Bobby?

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Defender was a great game...never heard of Paradroid mind :)) he's talking about really old arcade games sudden :))

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Paradroid was an old Commadore64 game (yes, I still have my machine and games...pass the anorak). You would have to work your way through a ship full of rogue droids on different levels of the ship. The clever bit was that you were doing this 'remotely' and the you used a parasitic host to 'take over' the bad robots. There was a game inside the game, because you had to win over each robot - kind of like fighting for an upgrade. Each robot had an ID card you could check out, like a biog, weapons, propulsion system etc. Very absorbing, very good.

Better than Beach Head too :-)

Favourite acarde games? Defender was class above, as was Galaga (not the wee Jock terrier, or Oasis version). Quite enjoyed Star Wars too and Paperboy.

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Ah Paperboy! Fun!

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

I was a paperboy once. Bloody cold in the winter. Can I join this clique (or even cliche)?

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Bobby, you can download a C64 emulator for the pc and Paradroid (amongst others) from lots of places e.g. http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Pressbox/7688/c64/c64.html

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Did you ever ask for a couple of bags of Tudor out of your wages?

Bobby - I often relive a wet afternoon down the nudgies with www.shockwave.com. They've got remakes of Defender, Joust, Robotron and Pacman. Top stuff (IMHO).

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Not to be outdone there's a decent spectrum emulator on...

http://www.80snostalgia.com/computers/spectrum/index.html

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

Oh and that site happens to also be one of the greatest in the world if you're into 80's crap tv ;))

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

I have the original "Space Invaders" sitting here on my desktop at home for when the conversations turn to makems.

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of that interesting table tennis game?

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

MAME32 is a great arcade emulator and allows you to play the original versions of Defender, Galaxians, Moon Cresta, Scramble and many others.

Check out the Classic Gaming website http://www.classicgaming.com/

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

I was also a butcher's boy until I was given the chop.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001