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# 8 bit games history forgot


Treasure Island Nohands
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 22:56, archived)
# There simply aren't enough
Woos and Yays to do that justice. This needs to be on the front page. Now.

Incidentally, who decides? I asked the other day, but never got an answer, I don't think.
(Kalshassan, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 22:58, archived)
# it's better
not to know. wooooo, mystery!
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:00, archived)
# the evil people decide
.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:00, archived)
# Hmm....
That explains my lack of frontpagers...
(techsmurf, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:03, archived)
# OK the truth
There are 17 trusted people who are allowed to approve to front page. They are encouraged to approve on humour rather than technique.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:06, archived)
# Oh Rob - can you get rid of this
(Please nobody else click the link if you do you take full responsibility for any queasiness) NSFW * 100 www.b3ta.com/board/4/4/1/6/3 It'll help me to sleep more easily knowing i won't stumble across it any more while spazzing around the archives.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:07, archived)
# done
BTW: That was foul.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:08, archived)
# at least 3 times i've stumbled over it
then managed to blank it out of my memory by the time i saw any one about I could get to remove it.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:12, archived)
# You know..
..saying "nobody click" is possibly the worst thing you could say!

(*blegch*)
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:11, archived)
# Of course, I
remembered it from the last time it was posted and I still clicked on it.....duh.....
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:13, archived)
# *ahem*
/b

[edit]ahh, you beat me to it[/edit]
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:14, archived)
# b3tcha
:)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:15, archived)
# that's
most woo-alicious! You're not one of them programmers of yore are you?
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 22:59, archived)
# actually...
...now you come to mention it.

Of course, the Oliver Twins left at least 10 years before I joined :-/
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:01, archived)
# Very nice pic
There's a good article about Dizzy in this month's Edge magazine.
(I helped save b3ta! Quelabra Don't Knock New York, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:02, archived)
# Oliver Twins......gnnnn......dammit.....
<sound of wrenching gears>......Ocean?
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:09, archived)
# no..
..Codemasters (where I work now)

Of course they left codies and set up Blitz Games
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:13, archived)
# Arsecakes.
I probably thought of Ocean 'cos I know someone there.....
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:15, archived)
# now if only I'd worked on something interesting..
.. but at least I've got a default high score in :o)

clickety
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:20, archived)
# Heh;
I'm currently wopping some of the high scores given out with some MAME roms.....old timer that I am....
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:29, archived)
# i totally loved OCEAN's logo
it was a proper logo all fancy and stuff it stood for something, you saw it and you knew exactly who they were. It wasn't made up by some twatty consultancty marketing company PR bollocks wankfaced stupid twat brained moron.

It was nice.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:23, archived)
# *cough*
Ultimate

*cough*
:)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:28, archived)
# The theme music to Treasure Island Dizzy
was my favourite of any game.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:14, archived)
# Fantabulous
Remember not to try and get that coin on the right..... a drowning nohands is not pleasant...
(I helped save b3ta! Reverend Dan, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:00, archived)
# woo
etc
(Baj does Minecraft - http://www.youtube.com/w92baj, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:00, archived)
# I would so play that!
But what do you have to do?
(I helped save b3ta! bigdave, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:01, archived)
# I played that whilst doing my a levels
I loved my CPC
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:01, archived)
# I've got some spares
if you want to relive the good old days......
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:05, archived)
# thanks
I'd love to. But I'm not sure my missus would approve.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:06, archived)
# Surely all you need
to do is fire up Chuckie Egg and she'd be hooked :)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:08, archived)
# hmmm
emulation circumvents that argument
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:09, archived)
# damn. I'll shift this
one one of these days.....don't you feel the need for REAL 8-bit keys and that fab colour monitor? I give up
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:19, archived)
# I'll take one off your hands
if you have a 6128. I knackered the disk drive on mine :o(
(AlmightyFishMonster, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:25, archived)
# Hmm....might have a spare 6128; deffo
got the monitor, and deffo got a spare 464+ with all the trimmings. I'll check; drop us a mail here and I'll see wot I can dig out. Oh if you get an error after submitting ignore it...
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:33, archived)
# talking of nohands
he's finally back in the top 20 at www.ratemykitten.com!
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:02, archived)
# marvel
arse!

woo & yay!
(I helped save b3ta! monkeymanblue mathematically safe, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 23:04, archived)
# FUCK!
DO YOU HAVE THAT ROM?! I've been looking for that all month! I got the amiga one but it doesn't work.
(Harris, Wed 16 Oct 2002, 0:59, archived)
# Woo bloody Yay!
That's great
(I helped save b3ta! JayBeeEmm, Wed 16 Oct 2002, 9:35, archived)