snuck this out of my parents closet when it was supposed to be a Christmas present. Played it a dozen times putting it back each time and acted surprised on Christmas morning. :)
First game, first computer for me. I remember my father and older cousin spending hours reading over everything and setting it up. I still have an old printer for it. Mainly because it's too heavy and big to move, lol
I still have an old dot matrix printer in the loft. I don't think I had a printer for my Vic-20, but I did have a Seikosha one for my C64. I remember the CBM MPS 801 was popular at the time. I still have my Okimate 20 (colour!) in the loft, too. I used that one on my Amiga.
@@necronom the metallicish insignia is unreadable on the old printer now. I honestly don't remember the name of it. I can say that the thing is about 4 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide. It works, but finding an ink roll for the thing has proven to be impossible the last 20 years. LOUD as hell. Lots and lots of paper stored in that thing.
This may have been the second cartridge I ever owned. Oh the memories! I still associate the word flagship with this game, maybe because it was the first place I encountered it.
The only cartridge I owned at the time was the Vixen 16k switchable RAM pack. I did borrow a few game carts I think. I always associate the colour Cyan with the Vic-20, as that's the first time I encountered that. The same with Magenta but that was with the Spectrum (a friend's Brother had one).
I never had a VIC as a kid, and didn’t think very highly of it at the time, but now I see it through a different perspective now that I understand that famous people like Linus Torvalds and The 8-Bit Guy cut their teeth on it. This little machine is a lot more capable than I realized. This version of Gorf is quite impressive on a system with character-based graphics.
I've always thought it was under-rated. When a friend had a ZX-81, I had a Vic-20. It was a vast improvement. Then the Spectrum and C64 came out and I upgraded again. I thought some Vic-20 games were about as good as some similar Spectrum games, and that was the next generation on. It certainly had better sound.
While the aspect ratio isn't accurate (that's mainly due to hardware limits) I prefer this to the C64 version. While the C64 version was good, I think the gameplay, as well as the sound effects in the VIC version are far closer to the original arcade.
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snuck this out of my parents closet when it was supposed to be a Christmas present. Played it a dozen times putting it back each time and acted surprised on Christmas morning. :)
First game, first computer for me.
I remember my father and older cousin spending hours reading over everything and setting it up.
I still have an old printer for it. Mainly because it's too heavy and big to move, lol
I still have an old dot matrix printer in the loft. I don't think I had a printer for my Vic-20, but I did have a Seikosha one for my C64. I remember the CBM MPS 801 was popular at the time. I still have my Okimate 20 (colour!) in the loft, too. I used that one on my Amiga.
@@necronom the metallicish insignia is unreadable on the old printer now. I honestly don't remember the name of it. I can say that the thing is about 4 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide.
It works, but finding an ink roll for the thing has proven to be impossible the last 20 years. LOUD as hell. Lots and lots of paper stored in that thing.
This was my third game, just after Avenger and Adventureland (both games came with the computer as my parents purchased it second hand)
This may have been the second cartridge I ever owned. Oh the memories! I still associate the word flagship with this game, maybe because it was the first place I encountered it.
The only cartridge I owned at the time was the Vixen 16k switchable RAM pack. I did borrow a few game carts I think.
I always associate the colour Cyan with the Vic-20, as that's the first time I encountered that. The same with Magenta but that was with the Spectrum (a friend's Brother had one).
1st cartridge i owned, my mother broke 2 joistick playing it.
Still the best game EVER
I never had a VIC as a kid, and didn’t think very highly of it at the time, but now I see it through a different perspective now that I understand that famous people like Linus Torvalds and The 8-Bit Guy cut their teeth on it. This little machine is a lot more capable than I realized. This version of Gorf is quite impressive on a system with character-based graphics.
I've always thought it was under-rated. When a friend had a ZX-81, I had a Vic-20. It was a vast improvement. Then the Spectrum and C64 came out and I upgraded again. I thought some Vic-20 games were about as good as some similar Spectrum games, and that was the next generation on. It certainly had better sound.
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While the aspect ratio isn't accurate (that's mainly due to hardware limits) I prefer this to the C64 version. While the C64 version was good, I think the gameplay, as well as the sound effects in the VIC version are far closer to the original arcade.
Ahhh! FROG, I remember it well..
I love that game vic 20 Gorf is fun great game. I love Gorf
the lasers in laser attack sound better than the c64
Vic-20 version is better than c64.