זיכרונות ילדות 2# | Childhood memories #2

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That I was a kid The thing I loved most about school after school was going to my best friend who lived on the penthouse floor of my building.
He had a fancy house, lots of toys that were constantly updated. He had big toy jeeps on the roof that we used to do competitions with, a video library with a huge selection of movies, as you understood it was durable. I remember we used to play with his little brothers almost every possible childhood game such as football hallway that it's a game that everyone sits on their knees on both sides of the corridor and there's a ball that needs to be repelled, one to the other in order to get around the other and score a goal but the thing I loved most about him Play at his ATARI ST.

ATARI ST It is not a game console that is actually an operating system that was intended for the home market that ATARI released in the mid-1980s. Even so, my friend did not have software or anything but games. He had floppy disks that are very similar to the 1.44 disks we know from the usual PC and each diskette usually contained one game. Although this computer had a keyboard that was actually understandable inside the case, we used joysticks that were connected to the computer, which controlled most of the games.

The performance and quality of the games of this computer at the time as a child compared to the 286 computer I had at the time that the ATARI ST topped every test. The graphics were colorful, the animation smooth like butter, the sounds were addictive and not annoying and was just fun to play in almost every game. The consoles that could be compared with the computer at the time were Sega and Nintendo and still if you compare some of the games, the versions of those games at ATARI ST were better for my taste especially in the field of sound.

One of the games I loved most was RAMPAGE

The most fun was to play 3 players together that it usually worked with 2 joysticks and the third had to play with the annoying doorbell :).
The goal is to use your big monster to destroy as many buildings as possible as soon as possible without getting shot by police and helicopters. One of the fun things was when we fought between ourselves and ourselves instead of destroying buildings just for laughter.

Another really addictive game that I loved to play in is a metro cross

Here you play alone or queue in line according to what I remember but the game is crazyly challenging and you will not find anything similar to that from recent years. The goal is to control the figure with a helmet running on the screen and have to go through all sorts of obstacles that are becoming increasingly difficult as the stages pass. Occasionally you get a skateboard that allows you to step on tiles that would normally disqualify you.
The most fun thing about the game was that you get to such ramps that jump you forward a great distance in the runway and succeed in creating a sequence of such jumps from ramp to ramp was very satisfying (playful course of course).

Anyone who does this is happy to know that the emulator and the games themselves can now be downloaded and played on the computer in the same way they were originally seen. (Maybe without the fun joysticks that were atari you'll have to play on the keyboard but not too bad :))
You can easily find guides on the Internet / YouTube

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