Ok, well not sure if anybody is even looking at this page any longer, but, just in case...I DO actually remember my personal best, 106,000 points, I believe I was on like level 12 or 13. My only issue was my hands we're getting tired by then, with the
joystick getting slippery from all the sweat from my hands. I had the whole family behind me (this was maybe 1983 or 1984) rooting for me to keep going, but sadly a killer satellite took me out. I have been a console gamer, although in my 30's and 40's
now, only once in a great while (hauled out my PS1 and PS2 consoles recently and started going through all the games I have still.

Unfortunately, the TI is history, but still have great memories and Parsec is a legendary game, seemed almost ahead of its time when launched in 1982. My brother and our friends played it all the time back in the 80's, and although I did keep it until
maybe around 2012 or so, I had no way of hooking it up to modern day TV's with just the RCA plugs. I'm sure there was a way but 1 of the spade connectors had broken off and it didn't fire up when plugged in as it was.

Other notable games besides TI's own carts we're Atarisoft's Moon Patrol (spent lots of hours playing that one), Ms. Pac Man, and a game called Computer War (I think that was the name of it) that was very interesting and a lot of fun to play. There was
also another cart from Imagic software, I think it 'may' have been Super Demon Attack (screen was black with a large moon), that was awesome as well.

There is something to be said for the simplistic, but addictive quality to the games produced for the TI and other consoles back in the 80's, pre-NES. Nowadays, games are really complicated. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, many are very deep and a lot
of fun, but a child of the 1970's and 80's had a lot more arcade type games (and actually real arcades!!) that many friends would crowd around and there was always a numbered score to try and beat. Sure, there are many ports of a mix of classic games on
CD/DVD for modern day game consoles, but it just isn't the same as playing them back in the day with a real joystick and fire button, or rollerball in some cases on stand-up arcade games.

Aaaah, the memories.

Eric

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Speaking of Chisholm Trail, Alpiner and such, Blasto was a really cool game too. The Attack could get a bit overwhelming in later levels as the number cubes would count down faster and faster before they hatched into a monster.

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On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 07:18:30 UTC+1, northla...@gmail.com wrote:

Speaking of Chisholm Trail, Alpiner and such, Blasto was a really cool game too. The Attack could get a bit overwhelming in later levels as the number cubes would count down faster and faster before they hatched into a monster.

Blasto was great, one of the early ones if i remember?

Another great game (for me) was Tombstone City ... I had that game with my TI in 1986 .... I never actually knew HOW to play it though, and it wasn't until actually about 4 years ago I found out.

Literally blast them next to any pair of Cacti and then you can let them chase you to another pair. I can now make it to day 5. At 45 years old. When I was 10 I didn't have a bloody clue.

I'm making games for the TI at the moment. Done a few over the years. I'm known as Retrospect , on AtariAge.

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In article <0584f2b9-157a-46fe-a328-ddf2b40daf68n@googlegroups.com>, ti99guy@gmail.com says...

On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 07:18:30 UTC+1, northla...@gmail.com wrote:

Speaking of Chisholm Trail, Alpiner and such, Blasto was a really cool game too. The Attack could get a bit overwhelming in later levels as the number cubes would count down faster and faster before they hatched into a monster.

Blasto was great, one of the early ones if i remember?

Another great game (for me) was Tombstone City ... I had that game with my TI in 1986 .... I never actually knew HOW to play it though, and it wasn't until actually about 4 years ago I found out.

Literally blast them next to any pair of Cacti and then you can let them chase you to another pair. I can now make it to day 5. At 45 years old. When I was 10 I didn't have a bloody clue.

I'm making games for the TI at the moment. Done a few over the years. I'm known as Retrospect , on AtariAge.

AtariAge has lost a lot of credibility with the intellivision amico drama...

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mgarcia.org

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The TI-99/4a was at the the last Bay Area Maker Faires, and Parsec was one of the games shown to the crowds!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo

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