Man! My web host, Dreamhost, sent this along to me as a part of their monthly newsletter. It was a link to a TI-99/4A emulator for Windows. Perhaps only Heeble will appreciate this, but oh well!
Let me explain– from my earliest days I can remember playing video games. My dad had an Atari 2600 as well as an Intelivision, and I grew up on those systems. Classic games like Adventure, Tron: Deadly Discs, etc. When I’d go over to Jeff’s house, he had an old TI computer as well as a Commodore 64 (not sure if I spelled that right), and we mostly played games on the 64. However, there was one game I remember we loved on the TI, and that was Hunt the Wumpus. Now that I play it again, it reminds me a little of something like mine sweeper– but mine sweeper was never this cool! Who cares if you get blown up… it’s scarier to try to aviod getting eaten by the Wumpus or falling into a pit! Perhaps this game was a good part of why we liked drawing stick figure drawings of little guys trying to avoid deadly pits, traps, and monsters. Good times…
Anyways, if you wish to try Hunt the Wumpus, it’s included in that emulator. Just download the file, unzip, run the setup program, then run the emulator. From the “Cart” menu, select “Insert Cartridge” and then select “Hunt the Wumpus”. There seem to be a bunch of other old school games– I just spent a minute playing Donkey Kong:
They sure don’t make them like they used to!
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6 responses to “Hunt the Wumpus”
Rock on with the classic games, man. I remember 1985 like it was yesterday. Going down the street to my 4th grade buddy’s house to play the Commodore 64. He only had Winter Games, though. Also his name was Gabe, but everyone called him Gay. Anyway, his neighbor had the NES with Super Mario and Rushin’ Attack, which we all thought was really Russian Attack. Then for Christmas… there it was, under the tree. My very own Nintendo Entertainment System. I remember discovering the warp zone at the end of stage 1-2, where you jump up on the bricks and keep running to the right past the exit pipe. Oh man. My life would be so different now if not for the NES. My hand-eye coordination would suck, and I might have dated a girl before I graduated high school. hehe
Yeah I have been addicted to tecmo bowl ever since I got my emulators… I have even started using the michael vick roll out pass and scramble something that I never would have thought would work back in the day. We need a rematch… see you in Korea this summer?
Holy crap, now that’s nostalgia! Man, we used to play Hunt the Wumpus for hours. So classic!
Oh man, we played Winter Games on C64 all the time at Heeble’s house. That game was classic… including the music. Another game we played a lot of on C64 was Pitfall 2– such a great game in it’s day.
If you go to the video game themed Homstarrunner menu, it has an homage to one of my all time favorite atari games– “Adventure”. I can’t remember which button it is but when you scroll over it strong bad comes across the screen holding the chalice with this “dragon” chasing him and Strong Bad says “I gotta get this freaking duck away from me!” Ah, such a classic game. Funny that this week’s Strong Bad e-mail is about old school games too, hehe.
I remember how amazing the NES was to me– Mario was such a classic.
Yeah Joel I shall have to brush up on Tecmo Bowl– my new Pocket PC has a NES emulator on it so I can play tecmo bowl anytime, anywhere 😉
OH MAN! i can’tuh beleive. i used to have this TI whatever computer, too! i totally remember learning how to use BASIC to do…. well, something. i can’t remember what we did, but we could write programs that would say things and answer questions. not unlike the new SB email…. wow. i can’t wait to show my dad. he used it for…. hmmm. maybe work. hehe. he programmed it to play popcorn popping and the snowman song from primary. wow. this goes way beyond the NES
seriously, that is quite the plug, no?