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    Default Duel on PET, on of the earliest screen to home PC license?

    Without getting a license of course.

    According to the PET Library guide booklet: You are the driver of a car, PET drives the lorry trying to bump you off the road. There is only one way to win...

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    Interesting...but maybe not the first. I think there were "Star Trek" games in the early 1970's before the PET.

    "Duel", eh? Outstanding movie for anyone who's never seen it! IIRC it was released theatrically in Europe, but here in America it was just a TV movie of the week directed by this guy nobody ever heard of named Steven Spielberg...(link to more info)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pantechnicon
    Interesting...but maybe not the first. I think there were "Star Trek" games in the early 1970's before the PET.

    "Duel", eh? Outstanding movie for anyone who's never seen it! IIRC it was released theatrically in Europe, but here in America it was just a TV movie of the week directed by this guy nobody ever heard of named Steven Spielberg...(link to more info)
    I have the DUEL dvd!! That movie rules!!!! I watched it yesterday when I heard Dennis Weaver died.

    That movie, in some weird multi-dimenional kind of way, is better than Jaws. Probably because it is Jaws... It just came first.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pantechnicon
    Interesting...but maybe not the first. I think there were "Star Trek" games in the early 1970's before the PET.

    "Duel", eh? Outstanding movie for anyone who's never seen it! IIRC it was released theatrically in Europe, but here in America it was just a TV movie of the week directed by this guy nobody ever heard of named Steven Spielberg...(link to more info)
    Actually it was re-released as a movie at the theaters after appearing on tv - according to several books on old movies I have lying around...

    Anyway the PET was hardly a PC. Business and academic use mostly.
    Dude, they should have seriously put Kissinger and Nixon in their own reality/sit-com show. It would be like the odd couple.

    Nixon: Is that chairman Mao on the phone?
    Kissinger: Yes, but you can't speak to him, you're too drunk right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kirin jensen

    Anyway the PET was hardly a PC. Business and academic use mostly.
    True, but that doesn't rule out a "Duel" game being whipped up by some PET enthusiast circa 1976. I'm imagining some sort of ASCII based scroll-job. Screen/emulator shots...anybody?

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    what a strange coincidence this topic comes up as Dennis Weaver passes away, i wonder if he ever played it?

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    Sorry no screenshot of Duel in my Commodore PET Software booklet, but they have screenshots of other titles:

    http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/album110

    The screenshot under the Duel text (Treasure Trove of Games 11) is for 'Landslide', a Avalanche clone

    I guess the PET was a good machine for the 70s, an all in one package, Computer, Screen, Saving device, something Alan Sugar revided in the 80s for his Amstrad CPC, and claiming it to be 'his breakthrough idea'

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