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Awesome! I still have my Atari 800 kit in mint condition, with two drives, original joysticks, and probably a bunch of stuff I've forgotten. Oh yeah, my Star Ge
by ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
Awesome! I still have my Atari 800 kit in mint condition, with two drives, original joysticks, and probably a bunch of stuff I've forgotten. Oh yeah, my Star Gemini 10X printer is in the attic. My Commodore 1702 monitor needs "re-capping" though.
My first job (at 15) was working on a software store, which was when MULE came out. I disagree with this: "which sounds much better than the Atari original despite the lack of a fourth voice." We had the Atari and 64 next to each other and would load up MULE to argue about which platform was better. I thought the music on the Atari was better in some ways, although the Commodore's synthesizer chip was pretty cool.
Side note: I own an Ensoniq keyboard, which was made by former Commodore peeps. And, of course, its disk storage is non-standard junk. Still not as bad as the 1541 though...
One thing EA nailed was packaging. Simple but "high-end" cardboard folders (like gatefold album covers) with cool art on them. I still have my original ones of Archon (great game) and... Music Construction Set maybe?
- evo_9 3y agoThat reminds me, I still have my original MULE disc and packaging, you're right they were really nice / very stylish for the time. Like mini-LP's, square and very distinctive. The original batch of games (I believe) included MULE, Larry Bird & Doctor Jay Go One-on-One, Hard Hat Mac and Pinball Construction Kit... I might be missing one or two.
- pico303 3y agoI’ve still got my Seven Cities of Gold cardboard folder sitting on my shelf on display and Starflight in a box somewhere.
- evo_9 3y agoOh right, Starflight, PC only. I always forget about that one and it's the only original title by EA I never actually played. Seven Cities was another classic, they really had quite an impressive set of launch titles.
- mgkimsal 3y agoAll their early stuff was uniform sizing, intended to be analogous to albums. Treating the programmers/designers like 'rock stars' was an intentional move.