SHOWING YOUR AGE

[Rincewind]

im sorry but ive always wanted to start off something like this.
and the question is..... what is your all time favourite computer game off the past and on what machine. :wink:
im talking vintage stuff ere not your new fangled top of the art mega-bit stuff off today.
mine was a delightfull game called BUBBLE BOBBLE on the rather spankey SPECTRUM 128K.
but i did play it on arcade machines first and spent many an hour legging it to the change attendant to get some 10 pences while the continue clock was slowly counting down.
i remember it like it was yesterday ( sigh).
only trouble with the old speccy was enduring hours of time waiting for it to load while listening to what sounded like RTD2 on speed and having black-outs due to all the soddin flashing, to then suddenly freeze at the end of the tape and nothin happen :evil:
BUBBLE BOBBLE paved the way then for other superb games such as RAINBOW ISLANDS and THE SNOW BROTHERS.
they dont make em lik they use too. :)

[pup]

this might bring back some more memories for ya then

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[Rincewind]

lol , those were the days
cheers pup. :lol:

[Big_Joe]

mmm i ofcourse am so much younger :wink: and dont remember such games :roll:

well ok perhaps not that much younger :)

i remember jetpack ?????? on the acorn electron, what was that one on the spectrum where u went wxploring a scary mansion ??

but what about elite on the BBC b has to be the game of all games. i still have a soft spot for space invaders and galaxians 8O

Joe

[Villan]

Ah memories :cry:

Queueing up to play Space Invaders at college :x
Queueing up to play Galaxians in the pub :evil:
Trying to dock a ship without a docking computer in Elite - BBC B :twisted:
Trying to win the prize in Eureka - Commodore 64 :?
Larfing till milk ran out my nose, The Secret of Monkey Island - PC :lol:
Waiting for Doom to load in High Memory - PC :(

Oh yes, I think was "Jetpac Willy".

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[Clanman]

Old Arcade:

Commando >> loved this one and played it for many hourS
Double Dragon >> kicked so much arse


Computerl ones:

Renagade & Manic Miner on the Speccy
Eddie Kidd's kick start on the MSX
Xenon & Xenon2 on the ST

[shifty]

Blimey I must be old 8O I can remember PONG :oops:
Me and the wife used to play for ages on a TV.........OH those bygone days 8O
I must of been crazy bouncing that square ball round the screen 8O
Maybe thats why I got dot`s before me eyes now :D

Then we had an Atari 2600 game console,with spud invaders :D
I`m not sure but I think after that I had a an Atari 800xl first keyboard typ pc,Elite was my fav,trouble was there did`nt seem to be an end to that game :lol:

After that I moved to the commadore,great machine,just thought though,a lot of the games were on tape 8O ,use to take ages to load the ruddy thing,and what a pig if that went wrong :(

But looking back I do have some favs: The Wing Commander series,
And one I used to play all the time cos they always brought out add ons for was Secret Weapons Of The Luftwaffe 8O
oooooooooooh.........memories of a lost childhood 8O :D

[Hami]

I gotta be honest people, i loved chuckie egg...
i was also partial to commando and double dragon in the arcade or ye ar kung foo. So many good titles that would have you occupied for hours with no save points, if you died u had to start the fucker again.

Loved everything the bitmap brothers done (known as renegade in later years i beleive) xenon/xenon2/speedball/speedball2/gods/chaos enigine/magicv pockets.........sigh those were the days

me an clanman seen every type of computer over the years thanx to outr older brother, so we seen games on loads of different platforms eg.

sharp summit or other
z81
acorn
speccy
msx
atari (2600/ST)
amiga
master system / mega drive
nintendo / super nintendo

just too many to fuckin mention aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

i miss those days

[Envoy]

I always liked the original Star Wars arcade game..and most of the ultimate games on the Spectrum (Jetpac etc)...R- type was cool and I really liked 4-player Gauntlet..seems crap now though!!

Doom was superb and I have a soft spot for the original Resident Evil, even though I got pissed off by loading times..

[pup]

the first resident evil rates as my all time fave game of all time

i was totally addicted to it, it had the strangest eerie feeling, and empty, lonely haunting sounds...and the most scarey alsation dogs, and those sharks, no matter how many times i played it i was still just as scared of those sharks as the first time ...and the bad, hammy over acting by the characters seemed to add to the game and not take away

thought it was brilliant cos there were tons of puzzles to work out along the way and you could actually get through the game by stealth rather than just killing all the zombies and dogs... i heard that if you completed it in less than 4 hours you started the next game with a rocket launcher but the fastest i could ever do it in was 4 hours and 3 mins and i could never seem to shave off those few mins ...so i never found out if this was true or not

must be what about 9 years since i played it but i can still remember everything about it.. a pure classic

[Envoy]

under three and a half hours you got the unlimited magnum and under three hours got you the rocket launcher.....I could claim to have done it...but I just looked it up on google...easier, although less zombie head stamping

[willofgod]

under three and a half hours you got the unlimited magnum and under three hours got you the rocket launcher.....I could claim to have done it...but I just looked it up on google...easier, although less zombie head stamping


Haven't you got work to be doing Envoy... Oh no... thats me isn't it!

That said Andrew said I could take s'afternoon off as holiday to fix up all the bits in the house I didn't do last night.

Will aka Normal Colin

[Envoy]

Just cookin me lunch then a snooze for me!!!

[willofgod]

Just cookin me lunch then a snooze for me!!!

Just treated myself to Fish, Chips and Sausage from the local chippy, lovely jubly! And now to the house... If I can resist COD'ing!

[pup]

hehe willo aka 'normal colin'... still makin me laugh that

[shifty]

MMMMnnnn sounds good Will, :D
Just thought of a new insignia a COD fish holding a machine gun, 8O
Banner underneath COD at arms :D

[BuLLiTT]

mmm,methinks gunship ,ispent hours jotting down tape positions so i would'nt spend hrs waitng for the right place on the tape:;@#superb sim on the 600 amiga.ps.it cost me £60 yes 60 quid to get me a 1meg upgrade!! :idea:

[Anonymous]

just 4 words...DALY THOMPSONS OLYMPIC CHALLENGE
nuff said

[LeecH]

for all time fave game - has to be Elite - played it on BBC b, C64, ST, AMIGA and PC
also loved anything with music by rob hubbard on the C64 - ah, "phantoms of the asteroid"
"kokotoni Wilf" on the 64 - the first game with an incentive to finish it quickly - when you completed the game you got a code to send off, and if you in the first 100 to finish then you got a free "The Fall Guy" for whichever platform you finished "Kokotoni Wilf" on.

them were the days - watching one of the lads trying to see up the reels on "Vegas Jackpot" on the 64 (HONESTLY - THAT DID HAPPEN)

more recent faves incl. Silent Hill - PS1, and of course - the Tomb Raider series and the extreme quality of Soul Reaver - my favourite of recent games.


if people are interested in the lovely old games of bygone eras, try this link.

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you can search through loads of pc remakes of old games from jetpac and manic miner to elite and bubble bobble and on and on...