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    5 days ago

    Awesome… Are there even adaptors? It was an analog antenna-signal. If there is one, it’s probably not cheap. I dunno. If the cartridges still work after 40yrs is doubtful, isn’t it? Got pacman, qbert, space invaders, star wars and whatnot lying in my old-stuff-shrine 😁

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      5 days ago

      do you remember Montezuma’s Revenge? i loved that game. also the one that had you plug in a 10-key thing to play some space game (i have lost the 10-key thing and the cart for that so idk)

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        It just rings a bell, but that’s about it. But I remember the early copy protections…like these paper wheels to scroll through symbols to enter a code before playing.

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            Oh yes lol, and those. But they had to up their protection when we just included the scanned manual 😁

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              3 days ago

              my favorites were: at the beginning of the game:

              **Please do not pirate this. We worked hard and could use some money"

              or something like that. The shareware version of Doom got me hooked on FPSes for a good decade though.

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                Oh yes. It even worked. I felt bad if I didn’t pay. But also it wasn’t that easy. For me, back then, only one big shop had games for those rare computers. And it was a 1hr drive with my bike…

                Oh yes…I still know the maps and cheatcodes by memory. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago!