Recommend an Application

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:17 am

The topic denotes games, but I suppose we may include all applications. Recommend a game, cart or program for discussion here.

Every week, we'll add a new title. Feel free to post your opinions, high-scores or reviews.

Being bias, I'll start it off with my first game: Gridrunner!

Next monday, your choice! Maybe we can even alternate turns. I can go in order of the member list. We'll start new topics every Monday.

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:32 am

So who is next up to submit a new game for next week?

Maybe use the top ten posters first, to increase the odds of posts?

Chris

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:40 am

Mole Attack! Does this mean this is the game for next week?

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:32 am

I had an idea. Whoever makes the current pick will (at the same time) select the next member to choose Game of the Week. We can continue like this selecting active posters.

I picked first, so I will select the most active member Carlsson. Carlsson, pick the next game of the week and choose a member for the following week.

This is a great way to try old games we haven't played in a while and obscure games we may not have thought of playing. Everyone must play, review, or otherwise examine the weekly selection.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:34 am

Should I reveal it soon or on Monday? I have a few ideas, and will prepare something in the weekend. Oh, I pick Boray for the next-next week, since he was eager and had some game to try.

(hmm.. it seems we are 8-10 active posters here, so if it doesn't increase much, we get to nominate one game every 2nd month with this activity)

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 5:08 am

Great, Thanks! I don't know if I will stick to Mole Attack though as I have played it so much now. I got 402 points yesterday! I even took a photo of the monitor to document it!

/Anders

Post by **Jeff-20** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:35 am

let's always make it a monday suprise...

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:06 am

Ok. Maybe I should get in touch with that old computer dealer around here and see if they still have some VIC software - it'd be a really nice Monday surprise to come up with a previously vaporwared cartridge as GOTW.. not very likely though.

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:33 pm

ever since you guys showed me how to run ROM images on a real vic 20, i am getting quite a feast of games that i have never played before.

it's going to be tough picking the game of the week next week

i hope we keep doing this for a while, because there are tons of games for the vic that are simply amazing, perhaps not in all aspects of what people consider to be a great game, (however, many do!), but many vic 20 games have some really cool things going for them, and i hope they get picked.

i am not sure how accurate it is, but i have read stories on the net, that lamented the fact that just as people were really starting to understand and push the vic 20 to the max, that support was diverted to the commodore 64, and that much of what could have been done and marketed with the vic 20, was never done.

from some of the games that i have played, and when they were made, i can see their point.

chris

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:48 am

The next time around it is my turn, I will make a genre round-up with poll on which one of the games you find is the better one. Not saying which genre though.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:44 pm

I think we need to change this section to Game of the Every Other Week. . .

I am having a hard time keeping up. I feel like I need more than a week to really check each title out. I guess we need to remember that we can post to any of the previous threads. So, if you get busy, please feel free to go back and check out picks from prior weeks.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:24 am

we may have slacked off... I guess we can change the rules. Let's just put up a game whenever the mood strikes us and agree to give each game at least a full week of discussion. Whenever you have a cool game, just post it here.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 7:44 am

Maybe it is enough to remind Leeeee, the extra engineer (sounds like E.T. :-) about it is his turn.

sjakie43 · Post by **sjakie43** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:53 am

it's gonna be a lot harder to pick a game once gamebasevic20v01
is released probably tonight!

regards

sjakie43

Shaun.Bebbington · Post by **Shaun.Bebbington** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:54 am

Recommend an application was a bit misleading at first

However, there's an interesting story behind Jelly Monsters... apparently.

Regards,

Shaun.