{"id":807,"date":"2009-11-07T15:08:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/?p=807"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:07:27","slug":"80s-computer-games-i-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2009\/11\/07\/80s-computer-games-i-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"80s computer games I remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think about it, I can remember more games I used to play on my Commodore 64 than I expect to.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve managed to recall.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monty On The Run<\/li>\n<li>Crazy Comets<\/li>\n<li>Attack of the Mutant Camels (weird!)<\/li>\n<li>Hovver Bovver (brilliantly English)<\/li>\n<li>Outrun<\/li>\n<li>Pod &#8212; I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s what it was called but can&#8217;t find any reference to it anywhere. Little man with big feet who had to jump across streams and walls and things.\u00a0 If he fell in he would turn white, grow angel wings, and fly up to heaven while music played.\u00a0 And I think maybe there a Welsh connection?<\/li>\n<li>Paperboy<\/li>\n<li>Nebulus<\/li>\n<li>International Karate+<\/li>\n<li>Little Computer People<\/li>\n<li>Winter Games<\/li>\n<li>Toy Bizarre<\/li>\n<li>Ghostbusters<\/li>\n<li>Falcon Patrol<\/li>\n<li>Blade Runner<\/li>\n<li>There was some kind of football game, don&#8217;t remember what it was called.\u00a0 Actually I think the copy I had was translated into German&#8230; looking around it must have been a version of Emlyn Hughes International Soccer.<\/li>\n<li>Cauldron<\/li>\n<li>Booty was the first one I had, a pirate treasure platform game with colour-coded keys and doors.\u00a0 At the time I had it plugged into a black and white TV set so that made it a bit more challenging!<\/li>\n<li>Haunted Mansion or something with a similar name.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t remember a lot about it except that it was quite a simple game, but enjoyable.<\/li>\n<li>Orpheus and the Underworld (but don&#8217;t remember much about it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think about it, I can remember more games I used to play on my Commodore 64 than I expect to.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve managed to recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[65,66],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie-stuff","category-thoughts","tag-commodore-64","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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