[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 27.05.2013 09:13, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> On Mon, 27 May 2013 08:22:02 +0200
> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 01:29:12 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:20:59PM -0700, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>>> On 05/26/2013 01:04 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I did the 'Soccer' one.
>>>>
>>>>    http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/Soccer.htm
>>>>
>>>> That's before my time. :) I have played with ones similar to
>>>> this though:
>>>>
>>>>    http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Nintendo/Octopus.htm
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Whoa. This one brings back the memories! Was this the one where
>>> you had
>>> to evade the tentacles and get to the sunken ship and back? I
>>> must've
>>> been a primary schoolboy when I played this game (never owned
>>> it though
>>> -- I used to visit my grand-uncle's electronics store and
>>> played it
>>> there).
>>>
>>>
>>> T
>>
>> Oh man! My first handheld,
>>
>> http://www.gameandwatch.com/screen/widescreen/manhole/index.html
>>
>
> These were my first:
>
> http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/Pinball.htm
> http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/ElectronicFootball.htm
> http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/DoubleDragon.htm
> http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/NinjaGaiden.htm
>
> (I like this thread, it makes me feel comparatively young ;) )
>
> I played the heck out of those pinball and football ones. Strange
> though, I had totally forgotten about those two until browsing that site
> just now.
>
> I also had the Castlevania II, MegaMan 2, and some racing one from a
> different company, not sure who. No idea what happened to any of them.
> (The watch one I remember I lost a loooong time ago.)
>
> Many years later I participated in a very fun little "Make an
> LCD-handheld style game" homebrew competition with a GBA entry (got
> third place): http://pdroms.de/files/gameboyadvance/my-robot-v1-0
>

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.