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Interesting this is popping up. I had an Atari 800 and loved it. Not sure, though, why it's currently front page. Loved my C64 as well.

Anyone else that was hooked on the "Miner Twenty Four Niner"[1] game that was popular on Atari 400/800? My non-techie wife even loved it.

Also loved "Full Metal Planet" on the Amiga platform.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner_2049er

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Still have the cartridge, Miner 2049er was something of an obsession for me after Star Raiders and the Atari 8-bit Donkey Kong cartridge. 4 player M.U.L.E. and Seven Cities of Gold were amazing.

Actually, playing Seven Cities of Gold on a reservation generated some amusement.

MULE, Archon, Miner 2049er, Boulderdash, and one of the Ultimas [Ultima IV I think] were my favorite computer games in my childhood.

There was a semi-realistic semi-3D RPG-style game that I really wanted to get into but never could. This thread caused me to research it, only to find out that it was Alternate Reality that another sub-thread is extolling. I think I was too young and impatient perhaps, but I got so frustrated at dying and having my bank investments go bust so often.

Archon, oh Archon. Friendships were almost lost from Archon.

M.U.L.E. was great fun!

For some reason this also reminded me of another game (not a 4-person one) that also had at the beginning some sort of trading/bartering component, but then you were outside in some sort of vehicle (airship?) searching for components. I can't remember the title or enough details to track it down though. (I remember riding up and down in a lift in the beginning though.)

Loved Miner 2049'er. The sequel Bounty Bob Strikes Back was also great!

Never heard of that. This is why I love HN. I'm likely to now Google around for how to grab this and run in an emulator. Appreciate the share.

You can get it straight from the original developer: http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/Emulator/emulator.htm

Let us know if you find one. I still have a couple hundred floppy disks with all these games somewhere, and often consider pulling out the whole system. But then I realize I have nothing to connect it to.

Wow, I haven't thought about "Miner Twenty Forty Niner" for a long time!

I can still remember my father bringing home an Atari 400 - the first computer I ever used. Tape drive, and typing in programs from computer mags.

I had an Atari 800 XL(?) and I loved Miner 2049er. My favorite game, by far, though was Behind the Jaggi Lines (so?) where you had to save downed pilots on an alien planet.

That game was awesome! The procedural terrain rendering. Got re-released as Rescue on Fractalus!

Another game that blew me away as Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set.

Atari 800XL was my first computer, I have to say it changed my life. Built in BASIC interpreter was what got me into programming.

The Atari 800 was a fantastic machine. Miner 2049'r was a great game. The Atari 800 was way ahead of its time in terms of graphics and sound. Check out the stuff Philip Price did with Alternate Reality in 1985. Also have to give a shoutout to the Atari 130XE.

I had the 800XL and was obsessed with Super Breakout, Boulderdash, and most of all Landscape (later released as Stealth).

OMG I played SO MUCH Landscape...

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