SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2020/21

Daddy bought a C64 one day about 10 years after they first came out....having failed to secure an Amiga 1200 which was where it was at back in the day. Thought we could all be the next Steve Jobs. Might have helped if we actually had desks and tutors and somebody whose preferred method of "teaching" was not to make you know.

Instead it was "TURN THAT ON. HIT RUN"

And C64 stuff was notably dodgy as the magnetic tapes were suspect to damage and so often it would not load or would just go on forever until the tape clicked off. And he'd rage like fuck over it. Sucks to grow up poor because every fucking minor issue has the potential to be an epic catastrophe.

Eventually we got this Desktop and he was the master of it. Once Christmas day he'd bought a load of shareware and he decided it would be best to write down the size of every programme on the floppy discs {like 65,032 bytes etc} so "If it ever crashes, I know where everything is". This neglected the obvious {to me anyways} fact that if it crashed, we wouldn't be able to find anything, because we wouldn't be able to turn it on, because it had......well......fucking crashed.

Remember that scene in Scarface where Elvira interrupts and says "Can't you stop saying fuck.........."...........well that's my household as a kid. Can't you stop being an enormous unknowing fucking aggressive tard who wrecks Christmas with the most Sisyphean of tasks over absolutely nothing.

It makes me feel bad because he sank so much time and effort and genuine parental dedication into the matter but just ruined it all by being insufferably emotionally and physically overbearing.

 

LOL that's actually quite good. Norton and Baer are the right colour....and Norton is fighting crab-style.

 

1. Gym
2. Fight
3. Options
4. Exit.

Sounds like a lot of boxing careers

 

Norton 3 points down after 2 rounds.........god damned Racist Japanese coders.

 

Kind of yeah, but unfortunately every character moved and punched exactly the same. You had to use your imagination.

Another cool thing was you could not only control the fighters in standard video game fashion, but there was an option to work the corner. Essentially the CPU characters would fight it out and you would pick the strategy in between rounds. Just basic stuff, be aggressive, be defensive, use the jab or whatever. Sometimes when things changed though additional options would come up. For example it would tell you between rounds if the opponent had an injury. You could then instruct them to "go after the cut" or what have you.

 

Haha no this was Sierra. American game company. One of biggest at the time for PC games. Not sure if you every played any of the King's Quest games but same company.

Looking at the score i remember another option. You could pick round scoring or 10 point must. For such a small ancient game that fit on a floppy disk they sure managed to jam a lot of features into it.

 

Did it have "Gil Clancy Mode. Run Away The Last 3 Rounds of A Close Fight".

 

Of course, you can jam in features when you've not dedicated half the space and all of the money to Chris Rock voiceovers or "Let's look at the score cards, sponsored by......Dodge" or some shit.

 

Haha i don't recall. Didn't use the mode that often as a kid you want to play and not watch. In addition from the little i remember it wasn't clear if the computer was following your direction whatsoever. For all i know it didn't and whatever strategy you selected was a facade. Not because it was overruling you with a better strategy, but i'm just doubtful they could program that kind of detail into it.

 

We had a boxing game called “Fight Night”

 

We had this one game that was like the olympics except with unusual sports like cliff diving, log rolling, barrel jump, caber toss etc ... use to play that one all the time... we didn’t get a Nintendo until like late 1989

 

Think the first console I had was the Commodore 64, can't remember any of the games, just that it took a fucking age to load. Then my folks got me a Japanese knock-off version of the NES (yes I know Nintendo is a Japanese company but it wasn't an official Nintendo console), played all the NES games though. I remember the first cartridge we had for it was this 42-in-1 thing with all these different games:

 

Dubiously in retrospect my fave on commador by far was sports of kings - a horse racing/gambling simulation. Wee 4 year old hut vs the bookies

 

Anyone have a BBC Micro? I was given my school's old one many, many years after its peak in the late 80's. Fun machine.

 

I had Daley Thompsons Sports or something like it.........you basically had to break the joystick to get your pixellated steroid freak to swim/run/jump like fuck.

 

I had a similar winter Olympics game...cross country skiing swish lefffft swish riiight swish swish

 

BBC Zero Insertion Force.

Right.

 

I think somebody should take some acid then listen to this, for 12 hours.

 

Fuck aye! That refreshed some thinning synapse connections. I definitely had that too

 

Lucozade. Adidas.

 

The Olympic game had slalom skiing

it was hard

 

Oh i bet it was.

 

That is horrifying

 

That's a great piece of useless knowledge.

MTF

 

Sitting in on a friday watching a woman brush a bear for 11 minutes. I fucking love youtube

 

The bear is so relaxed

 

Bears are simply the best.

 

QPR v Leeds.

 

1-0 to the SUUUUPAAAAAAA HOOOOOOPSAAAAAAAA