Vegan vintage gaming club

[Hitty]

Idea! How about we pick a game, any game, starting at 1970, play the game over a set period of time, then get together and discuss and review it? Then pick a game from 71, etc. Preferably abandonware. I know where to find all the necessary emulators and whatever else you need.

[brimstoneSalad]

You're talking Oregon Trail and the likes? Sounds like a tricky hobby, but @Red might like something like that, I know he's a gamer (me not so much).

Maybe pick a game and post about it, and see if you can catch some interest. I'm not sure what the copyright situation is though.

[Red]

You're talking Oregon Trail and the likes? Sounds like a tricky hobby, but @Red might like something like that, I know he's a gamer (me not so much).

Maybe pick a game and post about it, and see if you can catch some interest. I'm not sure what the copyright situation is though.

I'm not much of a gamer these days (I may get back into it someday) but I am fairly well versed in the history of video games, I'm willing to join in. I highly doubt we'd get in trouble for running an emulator, it's the people running the emulators who have to worry about getting in trouble (of course on paper people using it are violating the law, but too many people do it for the law to invest energy in it).

I'm actually more of a film guy these days, that might be a game we can all play together. I can start a thread. It would be an interesting game where we watch a film or listen to an album starting from a certain year.

Anyway, since we're starting with 1970, guess we can start with Hamurabi, which was released in '68, I'm not quite sure if there are any full on games released in that year (Pong is arguably the first game, but "Tennis for Two" on that radar equipment goes back to the late 50s):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game)

Wonder if we'll ever do Magnavox Odyssey games.