Humble Beginnings
The past week or so I’ve been slowly going through all my stuff, trying to cull off everything that won’t have some definite use or purpose in New York. I’m scheduled to move in about a week, so I really should be hauling ass but it’s always an emotional process and I’m kind of lagging.
In my cleanings, I found a stash of old floppy disks, and had to share them with everyone: (click for big)
From left to right, top to bottom: A Guided Tour of Macintosh (This came with the original Macs, and taught you how to move a mouse, how to click, drag, double click, etc.) SimCity, SimCity 2000, Minotaur: Labyrinths of Crete, SimLife, SimAnt, Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego, Wolfenstein 3D, MS Flight Simulator, Kid Pix, SimEarth, Hypercard, and Battle Chess.
These defined my gaming youth almost as much as my NES tapes (which have also been found.) Not all my old diskettes are making the move- I mostly kept gaming disks, and a few game related disks, like Hypercard (which is where I cut my game dev teeth.) A find that made me happy is The Rodney Caper, which is a game I made in Hypercard as a kid, where you played a dude named Rodney who had to fight and jump through 9 levels to kill some jerkoff so you could get out of a speeding ticket. I’m not kidding. Every level was split up by commentary by Beavis & Butthead. I can’t wait to dive into it again, but it will probably take a Carbonized Hypercard Player, and I’ll need to get the game out of the .sea (self extracting archive. Oh, the memories.)
Also of note, I found a treasure trove of “games” I made as a kid by drawing their title screens in a program called Modern Artist (essentially a 256-color MacPaint.) They’re all dated ‘88-’89, which would put me at 7-8 years old. It’s actually amazing to see how much I put into it- I had games, a few of which had sequels. I had a “company” called Mac Master Games, a magazine called On The Air (kind of like my own Nintendo Power) and even pictures of my own arcade and restaurant. I even had fucking catalogs. I was going to put the best ones up here, but I was trying to pick out my favorites, and there are so many that I’ll have to put them in a separate post. First one’s coming later tonight, but here’s one to whet your appetite:
I really hope you’re ready for this.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Son bring it! I’m hunting in my old HDs and backup CDs! Already found Aldus Super Paint! Still works in Classic!
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