Any other weirdos still remember this?

[Ben E Lou]

If you can identify what these numbers mean, like me, there's something wrong with you. Bring it.



9213
9727
9229

[Kodos]

Yay! I'm not a weirdo!

[molson]

Is that how you get unlimited guys on Contra?

[albionmoonlight]

Originally Posted by molson

Is that how you get unlimited guys on Contra?

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by molson

Is that how you get unlimited guys on Contra?

That's no Konami code! And that's 30 lives, not unlimited!

SI

[sterlingice]

My first guess for 4 digits are Lego set numbers but it doesn't look like ones I know.

SI

[Ben E Lou]

HINT: Of all the places I hang out on the internet, and even of ones I don't, this board would be a place I'd expect to have one of the highest concentrations of people who might have had reason to use these numbers.

[sterlingice]

NFL Draft trade value chart?

SI

[Vegas Vic]

Dial-up number for America Online?

[bob]

I was thinking codes in Maniac Mansion.

[cartman]

Were these from the code wheel for Earl Weaver Baseball?

[cuervo72]

Guess we're the oddballs among weirdos.

(We were definitely in the minority.)

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by bob

I was thinking codes in Maniac Mansion.

My initial thinking is along the same lines.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Intellivision football plays.

[molson]

He's not going to tell us the answer, is he.

[cuervo72]

H_B got it.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

Intellivision football plays.

The Intellivision kicked the 2600's ass, and I'll fight anyone who disagrees.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Vegas Vic

Dial-up number for America Online?

Weeeeeee-hooooo....weeeeee-hooooo waaaaaaaaaaaaa.....

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by cartman

Were these from the code wheel for Earl Weaver Baseball?

The wheel!!!

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

Intellivision football plays.

Incomplete. These were the BEST Intellivision football plays!

[GrantDawg]

I never owned an Intellivision. My mom worked at K-Mart, so I would stand there and play the demo of it for hours while she worked. Football and B-17 bomber.

[JPhillips]

God, I loved B-17.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

That's no Konami code! And that's 30 lives, not unlimited!

SI

you're weird

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Incomplete. These were the BEST Intellivision football plays!

Heh!!

For some reason 9228 sticks in my head as a play I’d always call. I was very big on the two screen pass plays. You’d force your opponent to either take the QB on the top or bottom or cover the running back on the opposite side. An impossible conundrum!

My brother and I used to play that all of the time as kids, but rarely ever played more than 1 quarter. The game took forever to play. For. Ever.

We had a few Intellivisons, including Intellivoice over the years. So many great games.

[Ben E Lou]

For the uninitiated...


9213, though technically a passing play (9), was basically an option run, and the bread and butter play that I ran maybe 70% of the time. It was a split-end left formation (2). When your team was moving from right to left, the QB takes the ball and runs to the top of the screen (far sideline) and the SE down at the bottom (1) is the target receiver. Because the route (3) is right where he's lined up split wide left, he basically just stood there near the line of scrimmage, waiting. The only defender who was decent was the one human-controlled guy, so if your opponent followed your QB to the top of the screen, you threw it across the field to your SE. If he tried to cover the pass, you ran it with the QB. Good times.



9727 was basically the same concept, but a deeper route, more across the middle, which made it a little easier for the human defender to get an interception, plus the horizontal distance between QB and WR was less, so it was easier for him to come up and tackle the QB if he ran. Worked *sometimes* against the very best players, almost always against guys who didn't play the game at home for hours like my brother and I did.


9229 was a bomb right down the middle. It *looked* like 9213 (same formation,) so if I'd run it after a bunch of 9213s, I might catch my brother "cheating" his defender toward the top or bottom and get a big play. Very much a play action or changeup kinda play.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

Heh!!

For some reason 9228 sticks in my head as a play I’d always call.

Yeah, that's just like 9229--still deep, just slightly to the other side of the field.

I was very big on the two screen pass plays. You’d force your opponent to either take the QB on the top or bottom or cover the running back on the opposite side. An impossible conundrum!

Heh. SOUNDS FAMILIAR! (Funny that I'm guessing many people used that play despite no internets to spread the word. It was the best!)

My brother and I used to play that all of the time as kids, but rarely ever played more than 1 quarter. The game took forever to play. For. Ever.

This is true. But on those not-infrequent days when it was 100 degrees and humid in Columbus, GA--so hot that even my "go outside and don't come back in here until dinner time" mother wouldn't let us go out for any extended period of time, there wasn't much else to do, so we had our share of four-quarter battles.

[sterlingice]

It was just a couple of years too young for Intellivision. I got into a little bit of the tail end of the Atari 2600 but I really cut my teeth on the NES

SI

[fortheglory]

My favorite play was 9428

[Radii]

Aye we had an Atari 2600, there's no equivalent to this on the 2600 I don't think?

[rjolley]

My friends had Intellivision. I had a 2600 and later, a C-128. I remember going over and playing games like Sea Battle (I think) and Basketball. The basketball was kool because you picked your team.

Good times.