retro gaming memories

[djinuk]

Ok so just a post to list what games spurred many hours of fun for you as a kid.

My first major strategy game had to be warcraft 1, loved this game and played all sequals on day of release.

http://i35.tinypic.com/2ui7j2x.jpg
http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/real_time/screens/warcraft1.jpg
Another amazing game had to be Little Big Adventure 2, loved this game , crazy ideas and great scenes.

http://www.planete-aventure.net/jeux/lba2.jpg
http://medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_5945_thumb300.jpg

And last but not lease the Discworld Point and click series taken from the books wrote by terry pratchett. Again crazy imagination into the game, humor and great visuals

http://jsveron23.cdn1.cafe24.com/blog/images/discworld_cdi_cover.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/262292016_8078e0ee0a.jpg

So these are 3 of the games that moulded my chilhood, there are many more which i may list but lets see what you come up with.

[Misky]

My three:
for the love of cars it had to be outrun on the commodore.

http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/commodore/images/c64/out_run.jpg

For adventure i moved onto pastures green and got a snes! Mario world all the way!!

http://www.mariomayhem.com/consoles/snes/SNES_Super_MarioWorld.jpg

And my final choice Golden eye for the N64 possibly the best smultiplayer shoot em up to ever be created! hours of fun with this and 3 other mates!
great wepons, great characters, and excellant levels! even the storyline for the game was great!!

http://redzonegamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/gold007.jpg
http://www.gaming-age.com/reviews/archive/old_reviews/n64/goldeneye/1.jpg

[Bigfoot]

One of the first games apart from Sonic the hedgehog was arrow flash

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Arrow_Flash.jpg

I got it on my birthday when I was 8 years old and completed it that day, only took me 6 hours to do so. Just couldn't put the controller down

Other great game was Rock n Roll racing

http://nibtempfile.ign.com/mbozon/article/699360/Banner%20Complete%20Rock%20N%20Roll%20Racing.jpg

Downloaded that whilst at uni and played on an emulator :D brought back lots of memories :)

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

My Fav game on my old 386 comp was
http://www.pu.nl/userfiles//Police_quest_1_agi.png

Police quest, so basic & yet so good... still play it today... on my old Pentium 126 ;-) still works with Windows 95 & the games are on CD(8x speed) or Floppy disc's.

That comp cost £1899 in 1996, We still have the reciept for it!

Also another great game i go into when i was about 12 or so was Lesiure suite Larry....
http://ui24.gamespot.com/2167/lsl6boxart_2.jpg

I have all the LSL game's :-)

Is it me or did Sierra make some of the best & basic PC games!

[Shane P]

Amiga 500/Amiga 1200

Dragons Breath - Top class, Very very complex spell casting, dragon breeding and controlling, village burning mayhem.

Gloom

Mortal Combat 1 and 2

Lotus Turbo Challenge 1,2 and 3

Gravity power

The original version of Worms

Dune and Dune 2 The battle for Arrakis

Original version of The Settlers

:)

[MR TURBO]

http://www.arcadefever.net/flyer/RASTAN.jpg
This was a good one too!!!!

[MR TURBO]

I always loved this one too!!!

http://www.premier-md.com/images/Arcade/Super%20Sprint/Super_Sprint_a1.png

[Logg]

I always loved this back in the day on the spectrum zx




http://www.speccy.org/spa2/Inlays/Rampage%28Proein%29.jpg
http://www.guv1.com/jd-res02/Art/rampage_2.gif

[Brigsy]

Feel like pulling the Nes out of the loft after seeing this thread.

Super sprint was ace. I used to love Adventure Island (wonder boy in the arcades), All the Mario series!

http://www.triforcegamez.com/images/nes/AdventureIsland1.jpg

http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Adventure_Island_NES_ScreenShot2.jpg

[D4WNO]

Discworld, I remember that!

Other games I played a lot on the old Amiga 500 were things like Frogger and Newzealand Story (I think that's it, the one where you rescue the Kiwi bird)

I actually bought a SNES from eBay last year with about 15 games, including Super Mario and Mario Kart :D

[djinuk]

i got far far to many old consoles/pc systems. Terry pratchett was great, got me into the books big time aswel.

Another epic thread , brought to you by the likes of me.

I actually completed discworld 2 last year when i had like 2 weeks off work :ashamed:

[D4WNO]

Discworld appropriately came on load of discs too, lol. Monkey Island, now that was awesome :)

[Brigsy]

I used to love Monkey Island on my amiga:) Took many hours to complete when i was a young'un:laugh:

[Sparkie]

back when i was a boy, i used to play this on my dads ZX81....

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/3DMonsterMaze.JKGS.tape-cover.jpg

here is the link to actual gameplay....

you need to go about a minute in to see anything though. then the actual game is 1.57 onwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvd0zPfBE4

[MikeA]

Wow, some good memories there!

I miss my SNES the most for some reason. Although the Atari was good.

Heres some of my favorites from the Atari and NES..

http://www.upupdesign.com/my_favs.jpg

[MikeA]

I used to love Monkey Island on my amiga:) Took many hours to complete when i was a young'un:laugh:


Yeah Monkey Island was good...
...do you remember Day of the Tentacle (DOTT)?



http://www.williamwilling.com/blog/pictures/day-of-the-tentacle.jpg

[D4WNO]

Does anyone know if they sell a PC version of monkey Island that will cope with modern PC's?

[MR TURBO]

Who remembers this????

http://www.wicked-witch.com.au/images/chuckieegg.jpg

[djinuk]

Does anyone know if they sell a PC version of monkey Island that will cope with modern PC's?


If you can get along with settign up a piece of software, then do a quick search for a program called dos box. Using that you can emulate a dos enviroment and play old games etc. Just takes a fair bit of setting up, there are a few graphic based interfaces though.

[twallwood]

http://www.supersega.com/files_public/imgs_peq_previews/noticia_juan_montolio@hotmail.com_193944_Street%20 of%20Rage%202%20titulo.JPG.jpg
http://i15.ebayimg.com/05/c/000/77/76/6c76_32.JPG

spent hours on these with my little brother, still got them in a box somewhere!

http://www.planet-nintendo.de/img/articles/4734/Zelda-Ocarina-of-Time-15.jpg

goldeneye was great, but this was the best n64 game i reckon.

also anyone here into the final fantasy games? FF7 is probably my fave game ever

[Bigfoot]

Who remembers this????

http://www.wicked-witch.com.au/images/chuckieegg.jpg

hahahaha, got this on a CD at home, but played this whilst in uni class on my mates mobile, had a great tune on it :D shame the one I got at home is silent :(

[djinuk]

i went through a phase of the FF's FF7 is my fave again, however prefer other Rpg's

[Sparkie]

Who remembers this????

http://www.wicked-witch.com.au/images/chuckieegg.jpg

hahaha- yes, it was like a poor manic miner! - didnt it used to make a funny 'squishing' noise when you actually got an egg?

how about 'horace goes skiing'?

http://www.bioeddie.co.uk/Spectrum/Images/HoraceGoesSkiing.jpg

[Noa33]

my first stratergy game was settlers! man that was an oldy but a goody, also of course cant forget that the city planning magic of sim city, or the godlike powers obtained through playing civilisation! some real classics

Cant get better then a bit of 007 on the N64 or some hardcore Zelda and the Ocarina of time man some coool games from back in the day

Command and conquer another classic or even its fore runner Dune (cant remember if it was Dune or Dune 2 but it was the stratergy game not the puzzle thinker)

And another classic but i can remember the name of the damn game but it was a haunted house full of puzzles and all i can remember is the answer to one game and it was the one where you arranged tin cans on a shelf to make a little poem of sorts to get past that room the answer was "shy gypsy shyly spryly twyst by my crypt" no vowels in it made it a tough one

[Sparkie]

shy gypsy shyly spryly twyst by my crypt"


sounds like a dodgy heavy metal band or the latest gangster rapper....:laugh:

[MR TURBO]

And this

http://i.testfreaks.co.uk/images/products/600x400/19/gauntlet-ii.396051.jpg

[wrightygtt]

The first game I ever owned and loved when I was around six was Jet boot Jack on the Atari./ Boulderdash on the Atari/ Both took around an hour to load and when I was 11, International Superstar Soccer Deluxe was freaking awesome

[i l k e r]

Does anyone know if they sell a PC version of monkey Island that will cope with modern PC's?


aye, the final one of the series:Escape from Monkey Island. it's not for the faint of heart tho so prepare for many sleepless nights :agree:

http://www.pwned.com/gamecovers/pc/4fb5a7851e3c819ceadd9eaa335d3db6-Escape_From_Monkey_Island.jpg

[Noa33]

worked it out that game with the random poem stuff in was called 7th Guest

[D4WNO]

Yay, cheers Ilker :D

[5alldaway]

damn the memories! theres too many games that ive played and liked to mention, most have already been mentioned by you lot! but when i think to games that have made the biggest impact has to be ridge racer on the arcade machine back in 1993, street fighter 2 on super nintendo and virtua fighter 2 on arcade, all three games made a massive impact changed gaming forever, theres loads more to mention but i guess nobody cares lol!

[DaveAVT]

http://www.factor5.com/images/site_art/t2_1.gif

TURRICAN!

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

Damn i am so tempted to get my Amiga 500 out of the loft later and have a go with it :D

[djinuk]

I think it calls for a LCD screen, a small generator and a few old consoles at natioanls day, 4 player perfect dark/007 any1 1


Another one of mine although i dont think its really that cool, just one of the first games i got my hands on.
http://ben.bacchus.com.au/vpcblog/images/ccaves1.PNG
http://ben.bacchus.com.au/vpcblog/images/ccaves2.PNG

and then another which i could happily play today as the graphics really have not aged.

http://www.gamehothit.com/images/Theme_Hospital.jpg
http://blog.pricegrabber.co.uk/buttonsmasher/files/2008/05/theme-hospital.jpg

[djinuk]

Just remembered a game i played and loved. It was a real kinda twisted RPG game named "companions of Xanth" Point and click spec. Now whats even cooler is its free to download, so if anyone gets very bored go get it.


http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/449/Companions+of+Xanth.html

Although it works in XP you may need to run Dos box for the sound to work so
http://www.dosbox.com/

http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/c/companions_of_xanth/companions_of_xanth-1.jpg
http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/c/companions_of_xanth/companions_of_xanth-5.jpg
http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/c/companions_of_xanth/companions_of_xanth-9.jpg
http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/c/companions_of_xanth/companions_of_xanth-10.jpg

[Sparkie]

based on book 16 from Piers Anthony... ;)

[scratcher]

This was my favorite game as a kid. Absolutly amazing!
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g319/pimpscratcher/duckhunt-label.jpg

[MR TURBO]

This was my favorite game as a kid. Absolutly amazing!
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g319/pimpscratcher/duckhunt-label.jpg

I think the best bit was the stupid looking dog that fetched the dead ducks!!!! Oh and that gun was never accurate but was hours of fun :D

[scratcher]

:laugh: You're right there mate. The dog was great. The gun was shocking :dearme:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g319/pimpscratcher/duckhunt.jpg

[MR TURBO]

:laugh: You're right there mate. The dog was great. The gun was shocking :dearme:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g319/pimpscratcher/duckhunt.jpg

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: That dog still cracks me up now :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Brigsy]

Duck hunt was ace! All the games on the nes that used the gun were pure comedy:laugh:

[J$£5GTT]

double dragon,super hang on,super sprint.

[Kenobi]

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm152/Kenobi_rtoc/ToejamEarl_Split.jpg

Wake up.................wake up...............wake up........................WAKE UPPPPP!!!!!

[MR TURBO]

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm152/Kenobi_rtoc/ToejamEarl_Split.jpg

Wake up.................wake up...............wake up........................WAKE UPPPPP!!!!!


****e toejam and earl :laugh: i was thinking about this game earlier what a pile of **** tho but funny

[Kenobi]

****e toejam and earl :laugh: i was thinking about this game earlier what a pile of **** tho but funny

Awesome game. Play in the morn b4 breakfast, leave the megadrive on all day whilst at school, get home, realise ya mums turned it off, even though you hid it and turned the telly off. Cry. Go out side and set fire to action force figures. Line them up on fence, shoot them with air rifle. Set fire to fence. Get sent to room. Start Toejam and earl all over again.

[MR TURBO]

Awesome game. Play in the morn b4 breakfast, leave the megadrive on all day whilst at school, get home, realise ya mums turned it off, even though you hid it and turned the telly off. Cry. Go out side and set fire to action force figures. Line them up on fence, shoot them with air rifle. Set fire to fence. Get sent to room. Start Toejam and earl all over again.

That must have been before the days that they learnt to confiscate the control pads or even the console whilst grounded :cry::cry::laugh:

[Kenobi]

That must have been before the days that they learnt to confiscate the control pads or even the console whilst grounded :cry::cry::laugh:

Yeah I didnt get grounded unless i did summat mega bad. Like i once kicked down a farmers crop. I mean i very nearly flattened the whole field. He thought he was bigtime with a shotgun to my head. When I got home my dad had bought me championship manager 94 or summat. So he grounded me with that to play on.

[MR TURBO]

Yeah I didnt get grounded unless i did summat mega bad. Like i once kicked down a farmers crop. I mean i very nearly flattened the whole field. He thought he was bigtime with a shotgun to my head. When I got home my dad had bought me championship manager 94 or summat. So he grounded me with that to play on.

I'd have loved to be grounded at your house by the sounds of that :laugh: I remember i got sent home from school for throwing a ninja star at a teacher while on break time....Didn't hit him tho i just wanted it to get real close he didn't even know who'd done it, thats before some bisnich went and snitched....I swear everything was removed from my room minus my bed :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[Trevhib]

Can't believe games like these haven't been mentioned yet:

Joust - Atari 2600
Speedball 2 - Amiga
Snapper - Acorn Electron
Cylon Attack - Acorn Electron
Pitstop 2 - Commodore 64
Kickstart - Amstrad C4+4

Any takers?

Btw, Turrican is a bloody brilliant shout.

[Scoff]

Can't believe games like these haven't been mentioned yet:

Joust - Atari 2600
Speedball 2 - Amiga
Snapper - Acorn Electron
Cylon Attack - Acorn Electron
Pitstop 2 - Commodore 64
Kickstart - Amstrad C4+4

Any takers?

Btw, Turrican is a bloody brilliant shout.

Acorn electron - great until you accidetnally knocked break!

[soapymech]

Can't believe games like these haven't been mentioned yet:

Joust - Atari 2600
Speedball 2 - Amiga
Snapper - Acorn Electron
Cylon Attack - Acorn Electron
Pitstop 2 - Commodore 64
Kickstart - Amstrad C4+4

Any takers?

Btw, Turrican is a bloody brilliant shout.

dr do ladybug coleco vision damn im old:mart:

[Scoff]

..and wern't they the predicessor to the BBC computers ? I have a BBC master under my bench still, working order ! worth about 2p on ebay I expect.

[Trevhib]

Acorn electron - great until you accidetnally knocked break!

Syntax error :xbones: :cry:

[Scoff]

I used to love the old acorn stuff, I remember them being the latest technology in my school. It took me and a friend about 2 weeks to hack the lot of it resulting in us being banned for 1 year from the newly formed "IT" department. It was also the first contact I had with any kind of networking, econet! games were pretty basic too - elite being about the best :)

[Trevhib]

..and wern't they the predicessor to the BBC computers ? I have a BBC master under my bench still, working order ! worth about 2p on ebay I expect.

Keep hold of that BBC :)

The Acorn was out at the same time as the Master but was marketed as a bit more of a noddy/gamer/home/cheaper slightly less capable machine.

Sphinx Adventure was a terrible example of the standard Acorn fare - You go into the pyramid, do you want to turn right or left? Left. You are killed by a mummy and have to start again. You go into the pyramid, do you want to turn right or left? Right. You see a switch and a door. Do you want to flick the switch or try the door handle. Try the door handle. The door is locked, do you want to knock on the door or try the handle again? Try the handle again. The handle comes away in your hand and water fills the room and you drown. Do you want to start again or put the game in the bin? Put the game in the bin.

[Scoff]

lol, it was nonsence wasn't it. but novel nonsence because most people hadn't seen that kind of interraction before.

[Trevhib]

I used to love the old acorn stuff, I remember them being the latest technology in my school. It took me and a friend about 2 weeks to hack the lot of it resulting in us being banned for 1 year from the newly formed "IT" department. It was also the first contact I had with any kind of networking, econet! games were pretty basic too - elite being about the best :)

Elite were the programmers right?

Who else was there back in the day. Mastertronic or something.

[Trevhib]

lol, it was nonsence wasn't it. but novel nonsence because most people hadn't seen that kind of interraction before.

Lol, that's because most of them had just come out of the mines :laugh:

I couldn't hack an Acorn now, let alone back in the day.

[Scoff]

Ooh, I don't remember. I remember elite being a starship type game, arrow keys to manouver about and space bar to blast stuff. Maybe they were the makers ? There was another game that involved 2 players taking turns to fire cannons at one and other, inputting elevation and velocity, or something like that !

[Scoff]

I couldn't hack an Acorn now

Me neither, I remember it being something to do with econet station 254 and obtaining the IT teachers login. Once you were able to login as the teacher you could copy his admin programs to disc, or if you were brave your own login account. 5.25" floppy discs were passed around covertly amongst the IT-crowd like contraband :D There was an admin utility called remote, enabled you to pop up any message you like on any other machine. Awsome fun during lessons !!

[Trevhib]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/31/Arcelite_through_vipers.jpg/225px-Arcelite_through_vipers.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arcelite_through_vipers.jpg)

[Trevhib]

There was an admin utility called remote, enabled you to pop up any message you like on any other machine. Awsome fun during lessons !!

We did that at college on a windows 3.1 system in 1994. Teachers got sent some dodgy messages and it was all over :wasntme: What actually happened was that you had to specify who you wanted to send to. Someone made a mistake and it went to every single PC that was logged in at the time. Went something like: Mr Wood, I didn't complete my coursework, don't tell Mr Whitely. Oh f*ck. We went to my Whitely's office that was locked and could see the message on his screen. We laughed for days.

[Ben]

..and wern't they the predicessor to the BBC computers ? I have a BBC master under my bench still, working order ! worth about 2p on ebay I expect.
if you have a few accessories and mags could be worth-http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170308846631#description
:scared:

[BriC]

Jesus fecking christ. My memory goes back about as far as GTA 1.

[5alldaway]

Jesus fecking christ. My memory goes back about as far as GTA 1.

lol mines goes back to the atari 2600 where we were blessed with 3 colours on the screen

[MR TURBO]

lol mines goes back to the atari 2600 where we were blessed with 3 colours on the screen

twist left or right controller with one button either side or that horrid cube with the tube stuck in it with one red button :laugh::laugh:

[5alldaway]

twist left or right controller with one button either side or that horrid cube with the tube stuck in it with one red button :laugh::laugh:

correct, and i bet yours was brown and tasted of poo :)

[Matt Cole]

I had numerous computers and loved them all.

list:

Philips vidoepac
dragon 32
acorn electron
BBC Micro
archimedes
Commodore 16
Commodore Vic 20
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga
Atari 800xl
Atari 130xe
Atari St
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Spectrum zx (rubber keys)
Amstrad console thing (cant remember)

Master system
Nes
Super nes
Megadrive
Mega CD
Neo geo

and then the later gen consoles:smokin:

[stuTHC]

Sooo many games ive owned played and loved on my home consoles, most of the ones mentioned already.

But the arcades games are the ones i remember most, before i had a games machine at home. My folks would take me to an arcade every month or so and i always went straight for-

http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=5218

then pull your coat sleeve over your hand to get a good 100m time without taking the skin off your knuckles on-
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=5210

Followed by a bit of-
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=5217


In later years the machines that eat all my change were-
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=5211

Out run, which has already been mentioned.

But for me the ultimate arcade game when it first came out was-
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=5216

saying that, the only aracade game ive ever completed was-
http://www.rtoc.org/boards/picture.php?albumid=245&pictureid=5219

i always played as donnatello :ashamed:

[DaveAVT]

Sega Rally 1 is still the best driving sim.

[tiff_lee]

Yep cant beat the old stuff hence why my emulation folder is over 15gb

[DaveMayGTT]

Speed ball 2, quality
No mentions of road rash?!

[Matt Cole]

Yep cant beat the old stuff hence why my emulation folder is over 15gb

Which emulators are you running mate??

[scratcher]

Sega Rally 1 is still the best driving sim.

Damn straight. I always get on it at Ace Cafe, I'd love to have arcade machines at home.

[5alldaway]

sega rally baddest rally game ever, even tho it only had 4 tracks it still is king today!

reminds me of college when they had the arcade machine in the canteen and everyday we and some other guy were trading best times and pretty soon our names had covered the scoreboard, i never did see or meet him tho but i did leave college with my name still at the top of the leaderboard :)

[tiff_lee]

Which emulators are you running mate??
I haven't done much emulation lately been busy with other stuff but the ones I run are:
MAME
Nester
P64
nes9x
Gens
Various master system ones
Sega model 2 emulator - as MAME is unable to play Daytona usa and the like
WINUAE

There are probably some new better emulators out at the minute I don't know, like I said it has been a while.