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Posted byMitaine
Posted on05/20/03 05:05 PM



I've been watching ghostbusters tonight on cable, and suddendly had a flashback : I remembered playing a ghostbusters game on a "portable" PC in the late 80's / early 90's (though the game & hardware were probably older).

I'm pretty sure it was a Compaq; it was the size of a Hi-Fi speaker laid on one side if not bulkier, had a monochrome, orange-tinted LCD diplay (!?) which could slide up and tilt back from the brick, and a handle - though the thing was heavy as lead. I don't know where the keyboard hid, it probably slid under, and of course there was no mouse.
The game used paper-based copy protection (i.e when you need to refer to a paper manual to pass the first screens of questions), and I didn't understand shit, there were different play sequences, with rope swinging and wall climbing maybe, and the display killed my eyes.

Was the computer simply a very old IBM PC ? Or maybe a different architecture ? What game is that (probably Ghostbusters II, d'oh) ? Can it be played in an emulator ?

Thanks for any info !






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.Name the computer, game  Mitaine05/20/03 05:05 PM
.*it looks like...  newsdee05/27/03 11:07 AM
..*Found !  Mitaine05/31/03 06:47 AM
.*Re: Name the computer, game  Lando24205/20/03 06:12 PM
..*Post deleted by Evildrak  Evildrak07/04/03 12:18 PM
...*Re: Jesus Christ, for that price I can get 2 great Dell laptops wtf nt  Lando24207/04/03 02:00 PM
....*Post deleted by Evildrak  Evildrak07/04/03 02:09 PM
.....*Re: Now now boobala, that wasn't very mature..this guy has the right idea! (mt)  Lando24207/04/03 05:07 PM