Well done. We had Cosmic Fighter, Missile Attack and Galaxy Invasion, all on cassette for the Model III. Also had Hangman, which I didn't see in this group. Good memories.
@ukcroupier2 ай бұрын
Given the limitations of the machine, these are some hugely impressive games. TRS-80 programmers must have had a real love for the machine to make games with this amount of polish.
@TheMonkeyNeuron2 ай бұрын
It looks like this channel may not be live any longer, but if the creator ever reads this, you must saw the mystery that’s been bugging me for 40 years: what was the text based TRS80 game we played together as a family when I was small? Zork My first video game!
@cathrynm3 ай бұрын
TRS-80 programmers managed quite a bit, considering the system basically has no graphics.
@janfreidun3 ай бұрын
Will there be a "mini"?
@charliejolly60224 ай бұрын
I'm getting Pico-8 vibes.
@markaes4 ай бұрын
I never had a TRS-80 (had a TI-99) but man I just love those chunky graphics and crackling sound (and voice). Games seem quite comparable to the Apple II.
@FunAfter525 ай бұрын
I don't remember playing any games, but in 1981-82, I took a "computer math" class when I was a Junior in High School.
@johneygd5 ай бұрын
Donkeykong will be my favorite game on the trs80😁
@antonnym2146 ай бұрын
I had friends with flight simulator on the TRS-80 and the Apple ][. It was UGLI, but we didn't care; we were FLYING!
@antonnym2146 ай бұрын
I didn't know about Armored Patrol, but that is a great looking game! Only a year after Battle Zone came out, and certainly does it justice; in fact, improves on BattleZone with a couple of nice elements, like the humanoids and the houses. Very nice job by Terry Gilman and Wayne Westmoreland! Getting a 3D engine in a z-80 machine. Wow!
@antonnym2146 ай бұрын
Big Five and Instant software houses were legendary. Also, I loved, LOVED Asylum. I was so impressed by it, I called one of the authors. A young man about my age (19-ish?) and told him how much fun I was having with it and asked how he fit so many rooms in memory, and things like that. Very cool and generous of him to talk with me about it.
@antonnym2146 ай бұрын
In 1980, My father and I wrote Games Pack I for the TRS-80 which was Battleship and a few card games. Also we wrote a Monopoly that was years before Monty came out. Our games would output speech to the Voice Synthesizer, if you had one. Fun times! What impresses me is how much you could do with an 8-bit Z-80, like the sound and speech, because there were no sound chips on the TRS-80. That output was from the Cassette write port, that you had to toggle to the frequency you wanted. Very CPU intensive.
@jeffbarnhart64416 ай бұрын
I played a game called wormy on this back in the 80s a lot.
@dc99yt6 ай бұрын
Can you please do a Pacman run through?
@909crime7 ай бұрын
your intro is so catchy
@SqueekyBums8 ай бұрын
Can't believe 'starfighter' wasn't featured. Amazing game, and I doubt anyone has beaten the death caster. Rumor has it you got a special code if you did and could send off for official acknowledgement of your conquer 😁
@andyastrand8 ай бұрын
I had attack force and galaxy invasion. Great games. Also worth a shout out to the Scott Adams adventure games.
@BilalHeuser19 ай бұрын
With my TRS-80 computer all I would have to do get sound was get an AM radio within 20-feet of computer and turn it on. Of course my neighbors didn't appreciate listening to the games!!
@Thegoldmine110 ай бұрын
I think the Apple 2 Games just look better
@johnsmith1953x11 ай бұрын
What speech synthesizer was used?
@ChristopherWentling Жыл бұрын
Thanks to all the authors. I had most of these games and actually paid for most. In many ways the TRS-80 model 1 was my all time favorite computer. I could actually write software and even though I wasn’t an artist I still could write games. Later bought a coco I and was severely disappointed. Was always amazed at how much could be done with such a basic machine. Joystick, sound, stringy floppy, disk, magic crayon. Haha good times. One gem I thought you missed is Starfighter. Man I loved that game.
@bokami3445 Жыл бұрын
Aww no Bounceoids? or Pac-Attack? Still some good memories. I remember typing in the code for Android Nim from 80 Micro magazine.
@VegasPublicity Жыл бұрын
Nice to see someone playing 13 Ghosts. We created that game and licensed it to Tandy. It was great fun. We also made Orchestra 90 and Orchestra 90cc for Tandy plus a bunch of other software. Bryan Eggers / Software Affair.
@Krimsorn Жыл бұрын
None of the games I played are here. They are 'Monster Maze', 'Castle Guard' & 'Wildcatting', that's all I can remember
@terminalbooboo Жыл бұрын
Had a Model III in 1981 and fondly remember most of these. At the time Big Five and Adventure International were the main players. I go back as far as Spook House and Voyage of the Valkyrie. Burned many a brain cell with Armored Patrol, Sea Dragon and Eliminator. Great days.
@giselavaleazar87688 ай бұрын
Same for me. I also had a Model III in 1981. I played a lot of Decathlon with my friends. I keep the computer in the attic, still in it's original box. Armored Patrol is from the arcade game Battlezone. I remember playing that in the Arcade hall at the time. It was quite thrilling with the 3D. I think you needed to look through some kind of viewer (simulating a tank's periscope) and the machine vibrated.
@Vickron Жыл бұрын
Tô velho mesmo... Já joguei todos esses aí...
@chinabluewho Жыл бұрын
The crazy part about the TSR-80 games in this video is that I don't recognize any of them as we had a basic programming class in our high school and they used TRS-80's with dual 8" floppy drives and all the games we played were home brew affairs as the only way to pass the class at the end of the semester was to create your own unique game. So many dozens if not hundreds of home brew games we got to choose from in our 7th grade home room class that served as the computer room for our high school, man while all the other kids went outside to play physical games at recess all the kids in my home room went straight for the computer room to play those games, the other kids didn't understand why anyone would stay inside when you could go outside run around and play wallball and basketball. We were allowed to bring in our own 8" floppys and copy as many as the games that we wanted and take them home but my family was dirt poor and there was no way my parents would buy a ton of floppys for me, much less a TSR-80. I wish I could have saved all those games from that computer class.
@meangreen323 Жыл бұрын
This takes me back... computer class in junior high
@chadfarrow2086 Жыл бұрын
Ok, so I had a Trs 80 with a cassette player and I had this math based game (on cassette) about a crew who landed on a planet that had some sort of pandemic that ended up affecting the crew one by one. You had to answer match problems to create the serum to cure everyone. Does anybody remember the title name ?
@squirrelattackspidy Жыл бұрын
Do you have Starfighter? Love your intro. The sound quality is great too.
@japhyriddle Жыл бұрын
The TRS-80 seems magical to me. I was gifted a CoCo II recently, but I've always desired one of these.
@neilthomas8070 Жыл бұрын
Interesting video, games looked primitive compared to the arcade originals.
@navinmandla3871 Жыл бұрын
I liked raaka tu, cuthbert, phantom slayer on my trs80 - on cassette-
@jables3377 Жыл бұрын
I had a trs 80 cassette game that was a sci-fi action adventure where a group of space adventurers and a robot visited a planet where the people had been infected by a mysterious virus that put them into hibernation. The crew then started to become infected and you had to do math problem to determine the right amount of serum to produce. Does anybody remember the name?
@IrishCarney Жыл бұрын
I had a different TRS-80, the Color Computer, but I remember reading in detail about 13 Ghosts. Maybe it was a type-in game in one of the magazines.
@thearners Жыл бұрын
Definitely some of my favorites! I did not know there was a Galaxy Invasion Plus. The original you could pretty much play forever once you got good at it. And, how I loved looking forward to getting the monthly edition of CLOAD magazine in the mail!
@Dreamshadow1977 Жыл бұрын
I played many of these games on my Model 3 as a four year old. I had a ready pipeline as my father worked for Tandy during the 80s and early 90s. While the CoCo II and my Tandy 1000 were my favorite PCs, I have fond memories of booting LDOS and typing in games from a magazine when I was five and six.
@LauraSeabrook2 жыл бұрын
I used to have at least half of those!
@casalessv2 жыл бұрын
I happy Very much because i player almost all games. Good times
@AE-bm4no2 жыл бұрын
it's kind of interesting that virtually all the games are shooters. And that, shooters (FPS) is one of the most ,if not the most, biggest genre in 2022! This is an outstanding compilation!
@johnknight91502 жыл бұрын
You do the best of these kinds of videos.
@mmmasseo99522 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks for showing this. I really dismissed the TRS-80 as nothing more than an equivalent to the PET. I assumed the games would be the same. Boy, was I wrong! Im going to have to get a TRS80 model (non coco) emulator running on my handled now.
@capnzilog2 жыл бұрын
Cornsoft game author here... thanks for the memories and the slick editing!
@JustWasted3HoursHere10 ай бұрын
Did you also program for other systems or just the TRS-80?
@capnzilog10 ай бұрын
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Many systems, but primarily PC and Amiga
@JustWasted3HoursHere10 ай бұрын
@@capnzilogDo you still program? If so, do you miss being able to "scrape the metal" to get the very best performance. Or actually do you do anything for those old systems anymore? Retro gaming is red-hot right now.
@capnzilog10 ай бұрын
@@JustWasted3HoursHere God yes, I lived for that. Optimization uber alles! Still code a bit, but yes I miss the Wild West fondly. <3
@JustWasted3HoursHere10 ай бұрын
@@capnzilogNowadays systems have so much memory, storage and speed that there is little incentive to optimize and everything is so bloated. Heck, even a simple phone app is 30 megabytes or more (over 450 times as much memory as a C64).
@DKUGM2 жыл бұрын
great KZread channel. hope you get time to do some more. loved the trs-80 stuff ;)
@elephantrange2 жыл бұрын
Not exactly known as a 'games machine'. Amazing what these programmers got out of it.
@eranfeit2 жыл бұрын
Hi, Nice video , Please watch my new experience of playing the Atari games :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/qH6DmNCGp7ioiNo.html Eran
@frankguthrie28252 жыл бұрын
I have all but 4 of the games you showed - you brought back some great memories, thank you. I still have my TRS-80 Model 1 with the expansion interface. I need to get it out of the box and fire it up. I also have something pretty rare. I have a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 desk. Thanks again for putting this together, it was great!
@martindejong39742 жыл бұрын
I liked sea Dragon the best (on my LNW-80) I'm always amazed at how many arcade games the model 1 could do.
@retroguy43222 жыл бұрын
Great video! From today's perspective, the games have a very special charm. I love my TRS-80 for this and will certainly try one or the other game from the video.
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Well done. We had Cosmic Fighter, Missile Attack and Galaxy Invasion, all on cassette for the Model III. Also had Hangman, which I didn't see in this group. Good memories.
Given the limitations of the machine, these are some hugely impressive games. TRS-80 programmers must have had a real love for the machine to make games with this amount of polish.
It looks like this channel may not be live any longer, but if the creator ever reads this, you must saw the mystery that’s been bugging me for 40 years: what was the text based TRS80 game we played together as a family when I was small? Zork My first video game!
TRS-80 programmers managed quite a bit, considering the system basically has no graphics.
Will there be a "mini"?
I'm getting Pico-8 vibes.
I never had a TRS-80 (had a TI-99) but man I just love those chunky graphics and crackling sound (and voice). Games seem quite comparable to the Apple II.
I don't remember playing any games, but in 1981-82, I took a "computer math" class when I was a Junior in High School.
Donkeykong will be my favorite game on the trs80😁
I had friends with flight simulator on the TRS-80 and the Apple ][. It was UGLI, but we didn't care; we were FLYING!
I didn't know about Armored Patrol, but that is a great looking game! Only a year after Battle Zone came out, and certainly does it justice; in fact, improves on BattleZone with a couple of nice elements, like the humanoids and the houses. Very nice job by Terry Gilman and Wayne Westmoreland! Getting a 3D engine in a z-80 machine. Wow!
Big Five and Instant software houses were legendary. Also, I loved, LOVED Asylum. I was so impressed by it, I called one of the authors. A young man about my age (19-ish?) and told him how much fun I was having with it and asked how he fit so many rooms in memory, and things like that. Very cool and generous of him to talk with me about it.
In 1980, My father and I wrote Games Pack I for the TRS-80 which was Battleship and a few card games. Also we wrote a Monopoly that was years before Monty came out. Our games would output speech to the Voice Synthesizer, if you had one. Fun times! What impresses me is how much you could do with an 8-bit Z-80, like the sound and speech, because there were no sound chips on the TRS-80. That output was from the Cassette write port, that you had to toggle to the frequency you wanted. Very CPU intensive.
I played a game called wormy on this back in the 80s a lot.
Can you please do a Pacman run through?
your intro is so catchy
Can't believe 'starfighter' wasn't featured. Amazing game, and I doubt anyone has beaten the death caster. Rumor has it you got a special code if you did and could send off for official acknowledgement of your conquer 😁
I had attack force and galaxy invasion. Great games. Also worth a shout out to the Scott Adams adventure games.
With my TRS-80 computer all I would have to do get sound was get an AM radio within 20-feet of computer and turn it on. Of course my neighbors didn't appreciate listening to the games!!
I think the Apple 2 Games just look better
What speech synthesizer was used?
Thanks to all the authors. I had most of these games and actually paid for most. In many ways the TRS-80 model 1 was my all time favorite computer. I could actually write software and even though I wasn’t an artist I still could write games. Later bought a coco I and was severely disappointed. Was always amazed at how much could be done with such a basic machine. Joystick, sound, stringy floppy, disk, magic crayon. Haha good times. One gem I thought you missed is Starfighter. Man I loved that game.
Aww no Bounceoids? or Pac-Attack? Still some good memories. I remember typing in the code for Android Nim from 80 Micro magazine.
Nice to see someone playing 13 Ghosts. We created that game and licensed it to Tandy. It was great fun. We also made Orchestra 90 and Orchestra 90cc for Tandy plus a bunch of other software. Bryan Eggers / Software Affair.
None of the games I played are here. They are 'Monster Maze', 'Castle Guard' & 'Wildcatting', that's all I can remember
Had a Model III in 1981 and fondly remember most of these. At the time Big Five and Adventure International were the main players. I go back as far as Spook House and Voyage of the Valkyrie. Burned many a brain cell with Armored Patrol, Sea Dragon and Eliminator. Great days.
Same for me. I also had a Model III in 1981. I played a lot of Decathlon with my friends. I keep the computer in the attic, still in it's original box. Armored Patrol is from the arcade game Battlezone. I remember playing that in the Arcade hall at the time. It was quite thrilling with the 3D. I think you needed to look through some kind of viewer (simulating a tank's periscope) and the machine vibrated.
Tô velho mesmo... Já joguei todos esses aí...
The crazy part about the TSR-80 games in this video is that I don't recognize any of them as we had a basic programming class in our high school and they used TRS-80's with dual 8" floppy drives and all the games we played were home brew affairs as the only way to pass the class at the end of the semester was to create your own unique game. So many dozens if not hundreds of home brew games we got to choose from in our 7th grade home room class that served as the computer room for our high school, man while all the other kids went outside to play physical games at recess all the kids in my home room went straight for the computer room to play those games, the other kids didn't understand why anyone would stay inside when you could go outside run around and play wallball and basketball. We were allowed to bring in our own 8" floppys and copy as many as the games that we wanted and take them home but my family was dirt poor and there was no way my parents would buy a ton of floppys for me, much less a TSR-80. I wish I could have saved all those games from that computer class.
This takes me back... computer class in junior high
Ok, so I had a Trs 80 with a cassette player and I had this math based game (on cassette) about a crew who landed on a planet that had some sort of pandemic that ended up affecting the crew one by one. You had to answer match problems to create the serum to cure everyone. Does anybody remember the title name ?
Do you have Starfighter? Love your intro. The sound quality is great too.
The TRS-80 seems magical to me. I was gifted a CoCo II recently, but I've always desired one of these.
Interesting video, games looked primitive compared to the arcade originals.
I liked raaka tu, cuthbert, phantom slayer on my trs80 - on cassette-
I had a trs 80 cassette game that was a sci-fi action adventure where a group of space adventurers and a robot visited a planet where the people had been infected by a mysterious virus that put them into hibernation. The crew then started to become infected and you had to do math problem to determine the right amount of serum to produce. Does anybody remember the name?
I had a different TRS-80, the Color Computer, but I remember reading in detail about 13 Ghosts. Maybe it was a type-in game in one of the magazines.
Definitely some of my favorites! I did not know there was a Galaxy Invasion Plus. The original you could pretty much play forever once you got good at it. And, how I loved looking forward to getting the monthly edition of CLOAD magazine in the mail!
I played many of these games on my Model 3 as a four year old. I had a ready pipeline as my father worked for Tandy during the 80s and early 90s. While the CoCo II and my Tandy 1000 were my favorite PCs, I have fond memories of booting LDOS and typing in games from a magazine when I was five and six.
I used to have at least half of those!
I happy Very much because i player almost all games. Good times
it's kind of interesting that virtually all the games are shooters. And that, shooters (FPS) is one of the most ,if not the most, biggest genre in 2022! This is an outstanding compilation!
You do the best of these kinds of videos.
Wow, thanks for showing this. I really dismissed the TRS-80 as nothing more than an equivalent to the PET. I assumed the games would be the same. Boy, was I wrong! Im going to have to get a TRS80 model (non coco) emulator running on my handled now.
Cornsoft game author here... thanks for the memories and the slick editing!
Did you also program for other systems or just the TRS-80?
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Many systems, but primarily PC and Amiga
@@capnzilogDo you still program? If so, do you miss being able to "scrape the metal" to get the very best performance. Or actually do you do anything for those old systems anymore? Retro gaming is red-hot right now.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere God yes, I lived for that. Optimization uber alles! Still code a bit, but yes I miss the Wild West fondly. <3
@@capnzilogNowadays systems have so much memory, storage and speed that there is little incentive to optimize and everything is so bloated. Heck, even a simple phone app is 30 megabytes or more (over 450 times as much memory as a C64).
great KZread channel. hope you get time to do some more. loved the trs-80 stuff ;)
Not exactly known as a 'games machine'. Amazing what these programmers got out of it.
Hi, Nice video , Please watch my new experience of playing the Atari games :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/qH6DmNCGp7ioiNo.html Eran
I have all but 4 of the games you showed - you brought back some great memories, thank you. I still have my TRS-80 Model 1 with the expansion interface. I need to get it out of the box and fire it up. I also have something pretty rare. I have a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 desk. Thanks again for putting this together, it was great!
I liked sea Dragon the best (on my LNW-80) I'm always amazed at how many arcade games the model 1 could do.
Great video! From today's perspective, the games have a very special charm. I love my TRS-80 for this and will certainly try one or the other game from the video.