When life was in 256 Colours...

[Pesty]

I remember Dr.Sbaitso and the talking parrot. You can get Dr.Sbaitso from Home of the Underdogs. I can't seem to get his voice to work, but it's still fun to talk to him.

[Meowster]

YOU BEAUTIFUL THING!!! Where?

[Pumaman]

Yeah, I've still got a copy of Dr Sbaitso here on my hard drive, dates back to the 386 I had with an original sound blaster.

His voice only works if you have a proper sound blaster card (ie. probably older than 5 years old), but his mis-pronounciations were a great laugh.

Those were the days

[Pesty]

YOU BEAUTIFUL THING!!! Where?

Right here: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=330

I prefer Daisy, though, mainly because Daisy says she loves me and Dr.Sbaito tries to keep our relationship professional, so denys any feelings for me by saying he's in love with a math coprossessor.

[Meowster]

Doctor Sbaitso molested me! Doctor Sbaitso molested me!
EXACT conversation as follows!!! ( I still have the window open and the voice works fine for me ...)

Doctor Sbaitso is in CAPS

>your voice is retarded
MY VOICE IS RETARDED IS NOT OF YOUR CONCERN
>So, tell me about you, doctor
WE WERE DISCUSSING ABOUT YOU, NOT ME
>Okay, what do you wanna know?
WHY DO YOU ASK THIS QUESTION?
>Because you... wanted to talk about me?
DOES THAT REASON EXPLAIN ANYTHING ELSE TO YOU?
>...Are you messing with my head?
PERHAPS IN YOUR FANTASIES I AM MESSING WITH YOUR HEAD


LATER IN THE SAME CONVERSATION:

>okay
>TOO LITTLE DATA, SO I MAKE BIG
*He fainted*
>Okay. Bill Gates.
REALLY? DOES THAT BOTHER YOU?
>No, I like Bill Gates.
JUST NOW YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT COMPUTERS. I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT.
>I like drawing
WHAT COULD YOU DO TO HELP RECTIFY THIS?
>No, I mean I LIKE drawing
I WOULD LIKE TO SWITCH BACK TO THE TOPIC ABOUT LOVING ME
>No. What? Uhh... I love you
ME TOO


SMART ASS PROGRAM


Priceless - "I am Sbaitso. Don't question my intelligence, it's fake"

>You're cute!
I THINK YOU ARE ALSO CUTE!


I'm falling in love with a machine!

[Trapezoid]

Dr. Sbaitso rocks. I still have him somewhere. Always lots of fun making him say things. Yeah, those were the days. Because we were little then. I suppose back then there were people saying that the early 80s were the days.

[Meowster]

He won't stop talking about Love. I mean it. He keeps saying, "Let's talk about you loving me" and stuff. He's scaring me!

[Jimi]

are you sure you didn't download "Peado Sbaitso"?

I want to make my own one of them. Itd be fun.

[Timosity]

Remember the old 'Game&Watch' games, they were a small LCD display with a couple of buttons.

I had a game called 'Turtle bridge' You had to jump on turtles backs across river and get a package and bring it back, the only problem was the turtles often went for a dive, and if you jumped then, you would drown. That was basically the game. (wonder if it was the inspiration for Frogga, or a very basic spin off???) I think The original 'Donkey Kong' was on Game&Watch, it was so cool, it had 2 screens.

They were made by nintendo before any of the nintendo game machines were invented.

[Jimi]

OK....Dr Sbaitso keeps asking whether I love him......  

[Matt Brown]

life was better in 256...

my first computer was a 386dx. it had windows 3.1, dosshell, and was 75mgz. I played my first adventure game on it, (robin hood: conquests of the longbow) my dad hadnt gone nuts yet...i was like, 7 years old, and we were the first kids on our block to have a computer with sound blaster. it was sooo cool, it made little beeping noises.

[Meowster]

Mr Panda, your story is the same as mine, right down to the first computer you ever had with soundblaster (not counted Speccy coz it was retarded) and your dad going nuts.

[Matt Brown]

whats your dad got? mines manic depressive/bipolar. he doesnt work anymore...he's on disabilty. it sucks, cause some days he's allright, and cool, and can do dad stuff, other days he just kinda yells and cries.

[BlackBaron]

I realized I was getting "old" when I saw a SimCity2000 on an Abandonware site the other day...
Man, I remember like if it was yesterday the first time I played that game.

[Dave Gilbert]

Gosh, this takes me back.  I spent an unhealthy amount of my childhood playing Infocom games in the basement.  It was freezing down there in the winter, and the only heat would come from a portable heater that was next to my feet. It would clunk when it got too hot, and then would shut off briefly to cool down.

It's weird.  Back in the day, there was no such thing as a walkthrough.  I played Infocom's "Spellbreaker" for months, not making any progress, plugging away for hours at a time... AND ENJOYING MYSELF... before I finally broke down and ordered the hintbook (which were quaintly called "Invisiclues"  because the hints were invisible until you used a special pen).  Nowadays, I get frustrated and reach for a walkthrough after maybe a few hours of being stuck.  Usually even less than that.  

Has the internet sapped my attention span?  Or maybe I'm just older and just don't want to waste the time anymore.

[Meowster]

I have the same problem. With MI1, I was stuck on the god foresaken ship for at LEAST two weeks. Why? I didn't look in the chest. I didn't even SEE it. So anyway, I loved being stuck. It made getting unstuck even fun-er. I played it again five years later, got stuck in exactly the same place, and got a walkthrough within five minutes of not knowing what to do.

My dad is just insane. Turned violent. Attention disorder, keeps claiming he's deadly ill and going to die. All sorts of shit

[MachineElf]

Welcome to the oldies club, Dave. Think about 1998. Not that long ago, right? Just. Uhm... FIVE YEARS!?!? Ahg!

Oh, when playing adventures when I was a kid I barely knew half of the words... I think I've learned most of my english from adventure games... Fuck school.

Doesn't sound good with your dad, Yufs. Just try giving him any support you can.

[Meowster]

Oh I'm just relating to Mr Panda. My dad doesn't need support. If he was on life support, I'd unplug it. What's it called? Forced Ethusasia or something? Seriously, I'm one of those unlucky people with only one parent. The father just donated his sperm.

[Dave Gilbert]

Welcome to the oldies club, Dave.

Wiigii!  I'm 27 and I'm an oldie.

[Meowster]

Ha ha ha! Oldie! Oldie! I'm young! My joints still work!

Hey... seriously... how old is Tim Schafer and that lot?

EDIT: That Lot not... did not make sense.