Retro games.

[DolansWaistcoat]

Just talking to my brother last week about the first computer we ever had the commodre 64.What a great machine had about a hundred games,mainly cause they cost 4 or 5 quid.

Remember Rick Dangerous,New zealand story,street fighter 1,creatures,bubble bobble.....the list goes on.Great games.

Ahhh to be young again.:( ;)

[Ruairi]

I had an Amstrad 464 meself. I was addicted to all the dizzy games and Seymour goes to hollywood. Ah the days of loading a game, coming back from dinner and finding your game still hasn't loaded..... magic..... playing the emulations on the PC ain't the same without the loading screen and waiting ten minutes....


actually I remeber Codemasters used to release "Quattro" tapes, which was four games on one tape for the price of one game.... they were the fcukin berries come to think of it.....

[Ruairi]

did a google search on retro games and found this...

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/issue10.html

Made me laugh I have to say

[Gary]

Street fighter 1 is shít.

I loved :
Pang
Bubble Bobble
Commando
Mr Do
Wonderboy
Chase HQ


and many many more
Oh and the best footy management game of all time:
football manager.

[shedite]

Not quite as old but I managed to find a copy of Lemmings for €5 in game the other day. Such a simple game. Played a few levels properly first, then got bored and started to find new ways to kill the little gus.

[NigeSausagepump]

Originally posted by Ruairi
did a google search on retro games and found this...

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/issue10.html

Made me laugh I have to say

As a kid I had a C64 and was totally addicted to games like the Last Ninja, Head over Heels and Microprose Soccer. However, I've downloaded a C64 emulator programme and some of these games and I must say that article is bang on. They're absolutely crap and you get bored inside 10 seconds of playing them. Kids today don't realise they have it so well....

[max power]

i can't believe nobody has mentioned double dragon yet, what a classic game that was

[Gary]

Originally posted by NigeSausagepump
As a kid I had a C64 and was totally addicted to games like the Last Ninja, Head over Heels and Microprose Soccer. However, I've downloaded a C64 emulator programme and some of these games and I must say that article is bang on. They're absolutely crap and you get bored inside 10 seconds of playing them. Kids today don't realise they have it so well....

Thats bollóx and you know it. Kids defo dont have it better today. The games today are over elaborate crap of the highest order.

Maybe its just me, but i like a game where u can just sit there and not bother having to think. Just press a few buttons and jump on baddies. I mean, even the most basic games today like Crash Bandicoot is too bloody difficult. And dont get me started on rubbish like Tekken. Fighting games peaked at Streetfighter 2 and Mortal Kombat 2. Ditto for platform games. None will be better than Super Mario, so go away and feck off with your tomb raider.

New games are too difficult (or maybe i'm just slow!)

At the moment i just like playing bomber man every now and then on my PS1 and Streetfigher on my SNES.

And as for Pro Evo football, well lets say ive retired undeafeatd in my entire Pro Evo career, never to be beaten.
:p

[A face]

Originally posted by Gary
New games are too difficult (or maybe i'm just slow!)


Gary ..... I think you're a bit slow !!





:D

[max power]

yeah they are really too hard, medal of honour rising sun took 4 hours to finish and i haven't been beaten on wwe smackdown in 3 years of competition.

[NigeSausagepump]

Originally posted by Gary
Thats bollóx and you know it. Kids defo dont have it better today. The games today are over elaborate crap of the highest order.



In fairness I'm comparing Commodore 64 games to the games out there today, and I stand by my statement that the ones today are infinitely superior. You may well have a case that games on the SNES/PS1 have some lastability, but saying that C64 games can hold a candle to what's on the market today beggars belief (to borrow a thread title from somewhere else!). The poxy ill-rendered graphics, 10 minute load times, further 10 minute save times and sound which resembled baby animals in pain may well have been all well and good in 1988, but just looks risible today.

I s'pose there'll always be people who claim that Pac-Man, Donkey Kong etc were the zenith of computer gaming, but I suspect that those people are too busy campaigning for the banning of cars in favour of the horse and cart to worry about what the latest PS2 games are like.
:)

[the 12 th man]

HAD A COMMODORE 64.WE HAD A GOLF GAME AND EVERY TIME YOU TOOK A SHOT YOU HAD TO WAIT FOR THE COMPUTER TO REBUILD THE COURSE TREES AND ALL FOR YOUR NEXT SHOT.AT THE TIME IT WAS AMAZING AS THE ARCADE WAS THE ONLY OTHER PLACE TO PLAY A COMPUTER GAME

[pineapple stu]

Sinclair ZX81!:eek: :eek: No keys per se - squares drawn onto a flat paper-like keyboard; "graphics" made up of the letter O and various quarters of a cursor; 1KB memory!

Moved on to an Amstrad CPC6128 - still have it up in the attic as well. Got an emulator on the PC recently (keeps freezing up lately though - anyone any tips on getting the right emulator or fixing it for speed, etc.??) and downloaded a load of games - most were fairly poor, but there were some classics like R-Type, Grand Prix Simulator, Masterchess (which I thought was the height of technology because at level 9, the instructions said it took two days to make a move!), Er-Bert, Sigma-7, Saboteur 2 and others. Some text only games were good too - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (technically not Amstrad, but anyway) in particular. These games definitely compete with some of the games today - even though they're much simpler (which is often a better thing in my view), they were really challenging, and we could use our imagination much more back then and be amazed at things easier!

[DolansWaistcoat]

I now the games for the ps2 are far superior to the c64 ones graphics wise but dosen't mean the games back then were crap.

I spent hours up in my bedroom playing away with my little white joy-stick.:) Even if the levels loaded for 10 mins and half the time the game would jam.It was worth it when the game eventually game on.

Bionic Commando,Terminater 2(Dead hard),Shinobi and all the double dragons.I remember clearing Double Dragon for the first time with my brother and then kicking his head in when we had to fight each other.

Does anyone remember the Cartridge that came with the C64 with 4 games on it.Klax,a circus game,international soccer(the ball could be bounced on year stick man's head all the way up the pitch and into the goal,he he).There was a platform game called Flimbo's Quest on the cartridge too.It was brilliant.You collected scrolls that teleported you to the next level and if you didn't clear the level fast enough a huge dragon would come and eat ya. :cool: :)

[EireBadBoy]

IF you really want to relive the magic all you need is to do a search for Emulators and ROMs for them!! You'll probably get a week out of each machine and then remember that life was pretty bleak then, no shoes and 50 miles to school and all that OR you could be like me and love it, ignore life as a whole and spend hours playing games you could'nt afford as a kid.

Just to slip in a ROM site ROMS Galore (http://www.emu-russia.net)

Although you do need to have the actual game to make it legal to download these......I hear :p

[Ruairi]

Originally posted by Gary

And as for Pro Evo football, well lets say ive retired undeafeatd in my entire Pro Evo career, never to be beaten.
:p

poxy bastid

:D

[Ruairi]

I played streets of Rage 3 on the pc last night. Played it for about an hour. Except the rom I downloaded was in Portugese. Which is kinda annoyin.

What's bizarre though is I hadn't played it in years, yet I remembered all the cheats and secrets (like unlocking the kangaroo, and the first boss).

And people say I wasted my youth sitting in a darkened room playing video games....

[John83]

Originally posted by pineapple stu
Some text only games were good too - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (technically not Amstrad, but anyway) in particular.
If you go to fhm.com, and click on their hundred greatest online games, you can play hitchhikers all over again.

While the majority of old games are dross, the enormous constraints on graphics and gameplay forced some programmers to be extremely creative. And some of the new games are just fantastic-looking graphics displays - no gameplay worth speaking of.