All of a sudden I'm in the middle of the 80s again and all my quarters are disappearing.

And XGalaga's much harder than the original arcade version, right? It's not that I'm older and my reflexes are slow? Right? Right?

Damn Knoppix.

Maybe that didn't come out right. I'm joking. What? Nobody likes Galaga? Other games? Fond memories of the 80s? Awful memories? *sigh* I've said elsewhere I'm not a gamer - what's this DOOM I hear all about? Etc.

Okay - wich is b3ttr? Kasteroyds or Glagalala?

Boy I'f never even heard of the game.
I kinda liked prince of persia. And doom as well.

What are they? I've *heard* of Doom, but know nothing about it. I haven't heard of Prince of Persia.

Galaga aka Galaxian is kind of like a much much better Space Invaders. Still a spaceship shoot'em-up but the ships fly into formation and dive bomb you solo and in groups and you've got no shields unless you happen to hit one that drops a little package you can grab, if you don't get blown up in the process - sometimes it's temporary shields, sometimes better guns, etc.

My arcade things that I recall were Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Galaga, and Yie-Ar Kung Fu. There was also one about Elevator Action or some such. That one was kinda goofy, but fun. My favorites were Asteroids and Galaga, though. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

Hi

I know galaga, yes i am that old, i used to play it on my MSX
and later i had it on the Mame emulator, never had to trow real
money at it though.
It was great 'till rsi showed up

enjoy

Hi:

I've got Galaga for windows. (MaME+galaga rom file).
I've abandoned Windows definitly.

I can't make any game work under Xmame nor Xmess. ( And I'm no linux newbie, I tell ya.). Can't I use Windows roms under them ?

My girl keeps asking: Where is MY Galaga gone ?????

Any help ?

Sorry - don't know anything about those. I would say download the source and compile XGalaga for Linux but I can't seem to find the damn source. I think all I found was a busted link somewhere. I want to get it in Slack. I just play it when I have Knoppix booted.

mrGee - rsi?

doom

prince of persia

rsi- yes mainly thumb related, but no nasty side
effects.
Though i can dislocate both thumbs-joints
--is that correct english --
But i can do that as far as i can remember, scaring
little kids and it's great for removing handcuffs.

To get back to galaga, i still had more fun playing those
'old' retro games then the games i see nowadays
Uhm i begin to talk like my grandpa "in the early days, when i
was young etc etc"

Oh, oh - rsi=repetitive stress injury. Sorry about that. I thought rsi was some game you found that you liked better.

Yeah - "I remember when..." But really, I think people who grew up with the games and computers don't get how amazing it all is.The old games I think still have some of that initial magic where even Pong and Breakout were amazing just for existing at all.

And it was all correct English to me.


Thanks for those links. schatoor - I'm utterly lost at the Doom site but I'll figure something out. Must be 5,000 versions of it.

Thanks! I got to try out rpm2tgz and being comfy in Slack got me my highest score since I rediscovered it. Level 13 - 143,300. (I was never all that good, I don't think - I think my high score back in the day was 250-300 or so. Forget what level. Used to play at a pizza parlor and there was this one guy who was incredible - could blow me out of the water.)

'Course, now my slow Linux learning curve will get slower. Sound doesn't work for some reason, though, so that's something to figure out.

The only real way to play Galaga is to play the original arcade version... Yes, my workplace has a *real* Galaga machine. It consumes many many breaks of mine (not including my ping ponging on breaks) since I quit smoking 4 months ago.

No doubt. Are you guys hiring?

Seriously, that would be nice. On the other hand, I'll pass on the ping-pong - that's one thing I completely suck at. *g*

And how'd you quit? Cold turkey, patches, etc?

Cold Turkey, yup, been since April.

Well, if you don't like ping pong, we do have a foosball table too..