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Sat, 01/15/2011 - 16:03
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Hi everyone!

I hope this isn't too long and boring.

I'm in New Jersey and have been online since 1996. The Dell Inspiron 530 computer I bought July 20, 2008 is my fourth computer. I bought it after the motherboard on my previous computer, a Gateway, committed suicide. My Dell came with a 2 gigahertz processor, a 250-gigabyte hard drive and a gigabyte random access memory on which I run Windows Vista Home Basic operating system. My next door neighbor was able to salvage the 160-GB hard drive from the Gateway, on which I run Windows XP Home operating system. So I dual-boot; though my system defaults to starting Vista, when the Dell logo screen appears, I can hit function key F12 and start XP.

Since I like to play games and have had a computer since 1996, I have a lot of old computer games. Am I the only person here who likes text adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure; graphic adventures like the Leisure Suit Larry series and the King's Quest series from Sierra; first-person shooter games like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom from id software; Sanitarium from ASC Games; The Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango from Lucas Arts; Dust: A Tale of the Wired West from Cyberflix; grab and dash games like Lode Runner from Sierra; and others?

Please give me your thoughts, and perhaps tell me that I am not alone. Thank you.

Jim

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Sat, 01/15/2011 - 18:00
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I used to play the Sierra/Wolfenstein type games before I got into Wii and PS3 stuff...it was a while ago though!

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Sat, 01/15/2011 - 22:16
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Love all those games. Money Island is one of the best series of all time.

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 14:08
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Never got into any of those games. Got hooked on my first MMO last year (Star Trek Online), still am hooked on it. We have a Wii that we go through spurts of using, still have not played Epic Mickey yet, and I just got an XBox for Christmas that I still have to figure out how to use. A have played Black Ops on it though.

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 17:48
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cdub wrote:
Love all those games. Money Island is one of the best series of all time.

I think you mean Monkey Island and those are indeed some of the best games of all time! awesome

Mon, 01/17/2011 - 22:58
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We do (or have done) alot more of the MMORPG games over the past 10 years or so - Dark Age of Camelot, EverQuest, World of Warcraft - but also have had lots of fun computer games, like Diablo and Diablo II, and Alice. When I got my first computer in the early 1990's, someone gave me a copy of Leisure Suit Larry but I couldn't figure it out. I was not all that smart apparently. laugh

Currently, we just play ToonTown or Wii (Epic Mickey) mostly, but not very often, especially while I recover from the surgery.

Mon, 01/17/2011 - 19:26
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Diablo II was a hoot. So Jeff, you managed to successfully quit WoW? You should write a book helping some of those others who can't seem to quit!

Mon, 01/17/2011 - 23:14
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Haha - no kidding, Brad! Oh, the hours we've spent....

Tue, 01/18/2011 - 01:43
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There was like 45 words in there I didn't understand! Haha, anyway the hubbs loves computer games..he's getting back into them as recently he's been more into his xBox. He has been playing a lot of Starcraft lately and FallOut.

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