PixlBit

Are you interested in Kerbal 2 coming out soon? I played some of the first one. 

That's cool. 

I was reading a New York Times book about the 80s yesterday and they had an old article about video games. The picture they used was the screen of Pac-Man but one thing was different. Pac-Man had legs! Do you know about that?

Yeah, that was a good one. My friend Mark killed it at that game. 

I wouldn't mind checking out a lot of games I never played on computers like TRS-80, C64 and that European one, what was it, Amistrad? Amiga?

I played some 4.1 but not enough to notice a difference. 

I just beat the game today with a Ranger. I jumped around in difficulty though, so no achievement. I'm now replaying levels to get the normal and hard achievements. Maybe hardest too. I'm trying some Inferno difficulty too for new weapons. 

Nice laptop. I'm curious what you are playing. 

I was a teenager, so the memory is a little clearer for me but a lot of it is guessing. But like in the case of Wizardry that came out in '81, I know I played it in '84 because that's when the Apple IIc came out and my parents bought one. I mean, it could've been '85 but definitely not later. It's fun to try and figure out just when. 

They were all amazing in that picture. That guy up front looked like he popped right out of the game. 

Pac-Man was never a favorite with me but I liked it. Donkey Kong too. I remember getting into DK Jr. more, weirdly enough. I like climbing vines, I guess. 

I totally ignored it until I went for the "one bullet" achievement. You had to shoot a lock at the very beginning with the one bullet. Then it was all grav gun and the brief moment you had to use rockets. 

It's weird I put up with such a port of Pac-Man on Atari 2600 at the time. Thing is, it was always a thrill to see something close to the arcade version at home, even if it did flicker like crazy and the maze was totally different.