Was up in the loft for a bit last night rummaging through some old computer crap. Amost my old editions of McFormat and Total Amiga, I recalled some old skool games which I really quite miss. Generally, I have little regard for computer games now. I don't have a Play station or xbox or anything, nor to they interest me in the least.

 

But I do have a soft spot for the following which I actually miss.

 

James Pond AKA Robocod.

 

 

Jaguar XJ220

 

 

Does anyone remember the really cool stereo CD player that you had in game setup? Kinda cool electronic music.

 

Alien Breed

 

 

 

 

 

Lemmings

 

 

 

 

Outrun

 

 

 

 

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge

 

 

 

 

 

Leisure Suit Larry

 

Manic miner, Jetpac, etc

the sinclair spectrum rocked :D

not a computer game.... kiss and chase... :rofl:

My dad used to work for ATARI - so it would have to be Pac-Man, and Jump Man Junior for me!

I'm crap at games now - If it's a driving game I have to turn the controls in the direction I'm stearing! :)

ELITE, awesome game

thank goodness for pc emulators so we can still play these games on our new pcs..

Donkey Kong

ELITE, awesome game

 

:bow:

 

Way ahead of its time. Despite the clones and attempts to better it, Eve is the only true successor, and look how much time passed between the two!

you guys are forgetting about these classics!!

 

Speed Ball 2 :Brutal Deluxe

Sensible world of Soccer

Original Worms

Alien Breed (already said i know)

Golden Axe

street fighter 2

Final Fight

Dungeon Master

 

list is endless!!!

Pit fall or river raid on atari. ;)

elite on all formats

 

virus on the archimedes

 

lunar jetman on the speccy not to be confused with jetpac

 

pogo on the speccy

 

beach head2 on the 64 mmmmmeeeeeedddddddiiiccccccc

 

revenge of the mutant camels on the 64

 

and last but defo not least oids on the stfm

my favourites were:

 

barbarian

elite

green beret

apb

hill street blues(amiga)

 

many others but my mind has gone blank

 

 

Paul

i loved elite and carrier command.

 

as for elite , you played x3 the reunion?? makes elite look like a kids game, its elite with steroids!

MANIC MINER - the king...

JETSET WILLY - so much better in so many ways but could never match MM

Jetpac - ace..

and the one with the lad on a skateboard jumpin over rocks and tortoises and stuff, collecting fruit.. cant think of its name, mostly in pubs..

 

T

monty mole

 

on the spectrum

Transport tycoon, lost aobut 9 months of my life to that game

heres one for you, need to know what this game is called, for the amiga (stick with me here!) it was like an american football type game but you could pick up swords and axes and shit and beat the hell out of each other! never had so much fun, ive got thousands of amiga games now but cant remember what this one was called. please help!!!

What you need is one of these ;) :bow:

 

 

Built it myself using a top quality 2nd hand arcade cabinet with 30" screen and some decent PC to arcade interface hardware running MAME Multiple Arcade Emulator etc.

Supports 4 player games with trackball and a spinner so it can play almost anything ever made.

 

It's loaded up with 6000 arcade games, 450 Neo-Geo games, 500 Pinball games, 30 Laserdisk games, 22000 Amiga games, tens of thousands of Atari and Commodore 64 games, 1000 ZX Spectrum games, PC Engine, Nintendo etc etc...

 

Taken a long time to do and the control panel still needs a bit of trimming but keeps me and my mates busy!

 

Chris.

^^ :eek: How cool is THAT!!!!!!!

 

Aw, my 'child within' is telling me to build one now too :D

Frogger, Galaxians, Asteroid - oh the days of the BBC model B, the Atari 400 and 800, the Commodore 64 and all those other home computers that have long since bitten the dust.

 

Remember this:

 

10 Print "Hello"

20 Goto 10

 

run

 

How many times did we use to enter that on computers in Dixons - LOL

Outrun had possibly the best in-game music of all time :)

 

Some faves of mine:

 

Home:

 

Binatone "TV game" - Pong anyone? (1978)

 

Elite (the speccy version was the best, followed closely by the Atari ST version.... and yes, I was. And I met David Braben once at an ECTS after-show party)

 

Gauntlet (speccy) - me and a mate once put in 12 solid hours before it crashed on us :(

 

Quazatron (speccy) - Braybrook's finest hour.

 

Daley Thompson's Decathlon and Hyper Sports (speccy)

 

All the Mario games (ninty) - nuff said

 

Zelda (ninty) - as above

 

I never did like C64 games with their brick-like graphics (although the sound WAS better)

 

Arcade:

 

720˚ - with the off centre joystick

 

Mr. Wardner - completed many times off 10p

 

Insector X - ditto

 

Bubble Bobble, Pacland - class games that even girls liked to play!

 

Mad Dog McCree - light gun video disc game. I used to draw crowds in Newquay when I completed this

 

Konami '88/Track & Field/Hyper Sports - never beaten (I have a special finger technique)

 

Outrun - never did finish it/Power Drift - superior to Outrun

 

Space Harrier - the hydraulic cabinet version

 

Ridge Racer - the first fully textured 3D driving game - used real Honda NSX telemetry captured by staellite. It was ACE!

 

SFII - simply the best fighting game ever.

 

720˚ (the arcade version with the off centre rotating joystick) was unique.

Frogger, Galaxians, Asteroid - oh the days of the BBC model B, the Atari 400 and 800, the Commodore 64 and all those other home computers that have long since bitten the dust.

 

Remember this:

 

10 Print "Hello"

20 Goto 10

 

run

 

How many times did we use to enter that on computers in Dixons - LOL

 

LOL

 

 

In Dixons, when I got a bit older I moved onto:

 

edit autoexec.bat

format c:

save and run away to a safe distance ;)

Target Renegade on the speccy, Double Dragon on any format, Badlands on the Amiga, Eswat and Altered Beast on the Megadrive (still got one of then ;)), Bomberman on the SNES (got one of them too ;))

 

Anyone remember Splatterhouse in the arcade? Kind of a Friday the 13th arcade game - fookin' awesome game, real gory for it's time too :D.

dizzys eggselent adventures, they were great, also flimbos quest

Frogger, Galaxians, Asteroid - oh the days of the BBC model B, the Atari 400 and 800, the Commodore 64 and all those other home computers that have long since bitten the dust.

 

Remember this:

 

10 Print "Hello"

20 Goto 10

 

run

 

How many times did we use to enter that on computers in Dixons - LOL

 

Yeah I had an Atari 400 and 800 then moved on to the STFM and Commodore Amiga.

My love of games got me into I.T somehow LOL

 

Remember typing in 10 pages of programing from computer magazines? to make a crap game and spending 2 days checking it to find why it wouldn't run... only to give up and find in the next issue that it was a printing error! :headvswal LOL

Remember the joys of waiting an hour for a 64k game to load from tape, only for it to fail 3 times running at the last minute...

 

When PC's started appearing in the shops I moved on from typing lines of Basic at Dixons to typing FORMAT C: or FDISK/Delete partition. Oops! :x: :rofl:

Anyone remember Splatterhouse in the arcade? Kind of a Friday the 13th arcade game - fookin' awesome game, real gory for it's time too :D.

 

I remember that one, might go play it now LOL

Got so many games on my arcade machine I can't remember what any of them were called LOL