Like riding a bike....

[Atari030]

I'm amazed. In between resuscitating a few machines I fired the old 130XE up and played some of my favorite games. Blue Max, Action Biker, Batty builders, Landscape, Spy hunter, Star Raiders, Pole position, Laser hawk....

 

What amazed me is I still remember the moves and how to play. The first plane in blue max I nailed, because I knew he was coming and where he was going to be. Even remembered how to take off. I still remember how to play all these old games even with 30 years between alien invasions. Anyone else discovered this? What games opened the flood gates?

[adam242]

I still used the exact same pattern for every level of Miner 2049er the first time I went back to it after a decade or so... And I still fly the first 20 or so bridges of River Raid the same as I did at age 11.

[+Stephen]

It was River Raid for me. I went back to CRT after almost a decade of LCD. I thought my reflexes had went to the dogs, but after I went back to real hardware and a PVM, I went several levels farther.

[Atari030]

River raid is another one that I hadn't forgotten. I was never great at Zaxxon either, but still remember how to play.

 

Pixels may have been a b grade flick, but it wasn't wrong about old gamers.

 

I had forgotten how much time I had spent playing and how much I loved those games. So much more than modern games. When was the last time a genre was invented? These days I get bored to tears watching my Son play COD.

[+DrVenkman]

I don't get it as much with 8-bit titles; most of my home arcade-style gaming as a kid was on my 2600. But when I bought a VCS again for the first time a few years back and then got a copy of ASTEROIDS, the first time I played it I rolled the score (>99,999) with 7 extra lives remaining the very first time I played it, which was the first time I'd played 2600 ASTEROIDS in at least 30 years. Similarly, I beat game 1 of ADVENTURE in under 2 minutes the first time, and about 2:30 for SUPERMAN (damned helicopter threw me). What people say about the stuff you learn young sticking with you forever is - apparently - correct.

 

On the A8 level, I can score well over 100K on JOUST's default difficulty even after 35 years so ... that's something.

[Atari030]

Joust was another one I didn't do well at. I think my attention span was too low. I did nail the first level of Wolf 3D on the jag under par too.

Edited May 11, 2018 by Atari030