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.



Another amazing game had to be Little Big Adventure 2, loved this game , crazy ideas and great scenes.




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




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.



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



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!!

[Bigfoot]

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



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



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

[Penfold aka The Dealer]

My Fav game on my old 386 comp was


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....


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]

This was a good one too!!!!

[MR TURBO]

I always loved this one too!!!

[Logg]

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

[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!

[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

[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

[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

[Sparkie]

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



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..

[MikeA]

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

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

[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????

[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]

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



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????

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 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????

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'?

[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....

[MR TURBO]

And this

[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

http://www.pwned.com/gamecovers/pc/4...key_Island.jpg

[Noa33]

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

[D4WNO]

Yay, cheers Ilker

[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]

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

[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.



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

[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/44...+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/

[Sparkie]

based on book 16 from Piers Anthony...

[scratcher]

This was my favorite game as a kid. Absolutly amazing!

[MR TURBO]

This was my favorite game as a kid. Absolutly amazing!

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

[scratcher]

You're right there mate. The dog was great. The gun was shocking

[MR TURBO]

You're right there mate. The dog was great. The gun was shocking

That dog still cracks me up now

[Brigsy]

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

[J$£5GTT]

double dragon,super hang on,super sprint.

[Kenobi]

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

[MR TURBO]

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

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

[Kenobi]

****e toejam and earl 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

[Kenobi]

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

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 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

[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!