06-27-2002, 11:13 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Wanna play? Old games get new life
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-940066.html?tag=cd_mh
Ah, those retro games. When you go back to the old games, some are still fun, and others...well, you wonder why you ever wasted your time playing them. It takes a very special game to still be fun after ten or twenty years - remember those "red blip" games? Peter Hirschberg does.
"A programmer and self-avowed fan of classic video games has created software for Pocket PC and Palm handhelds that faithfully re-creates a breed of inexpensive handheld electronic games made popular by Mattel in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In creating LEDhead, software programmer Peter Hirschberg has managed to capture much of the essence of the simple games, which consisted of a few blinking light-emitting diodes (LEDs) moving around a painted screen.
The software, when run on a $600 Compaq iPaq, does a good job capturing the low-tech environment of the games, complete with blinking lights and high-pitched sound effects. At the time, such handheld games sold for around $20 and could be powered by a single 9-volt battery. Each game offered a simplistic take on a particular sport such as basketball, soccer and football. Titles along other themes included "Space Alert" and "Sub Chase." Hirschberg offers 11 of the games with LEDhead software." Source: various
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06-28-2002, 12:31 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 217
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I've downloaded LEDhead a while back and haven't looked back. It has some classics including my all-time favourite, Football II!!!! :P
This guy is great and the games awesome.
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06-28-2002, 03:09 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,878
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Originally Posted by sweetpete
It has some classics including my all-tim favourite, Football II!!!!
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Man, I loved that game!!!! I am downloading it now, flashback time!!!!
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06-28-2002, 06:09 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 38
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I still have my original Football II. Play it everyonce in a while. I added a switch back in high school to mute the sound so I could play it in class. I love that game!
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06-29-2002, 01:06 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 217
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Originally Posted by EyePAQ
I still have my original Football II. Play it everyonce in a while. I added a switch back in high school to mute the sound so I could play it in class. I love that game!
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Yeah, I know mine is in my parents attic somewhere! I've been to lazy to go digging for it 8O but I keep thinking about doing it over the last few months of playing this. :lol:
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