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The super duper retro gaming review thread

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,524 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Yup, remember the first screen of The Hobbit on the speccy, as it drew a picture of your hole! ;)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Yup, remember the first screen of The Hobbit on the speccy, as it drew a picture of your hole! ;)

    Oh Matron!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Sparks43 wrote: »
    Thats the way the 10 year old developers did it in the good old 80s:D


    Still a cracking game though
    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Yup, remember the first screen of The Hobbit on the speccy, as it drew a picture of your hole! ;)

    How'd you know it was Sparks hole :pac::pac:


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Yeah leaderboard was the game that got my oulman liking games.
    A classic and i don't think golfing games now a days have strayed far from the formula.

    Remember when you hit the water and the game created a special island for you to hit your next ball off.
    Always a highlight for me and my bros..we called it a jutter
    used to like Leaderboard
    Spent a massive amount of pre-pub-cans-drinking-time with my mates playing PGA II on the meg when I was in my twenties
    Ended up playing MS Golf 3.0 (which is the great grandson of leaderboard as it happens) when I got my first PC years ago.
    I played a fair bit of an odd freeware golf/ether induced halluctination game called "Golf?"

    Oddly enough I can't stand real world Golf.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,524 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    pdbhp wrote: »
    How'd you know it was Sparks hole :pac::pac:

    Well, I've seen it kicked enough times, playing Boulder Dash!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,930 ✭✭✭Doge


    That swing animation is pretty decent/realistic in Leaderboard isnt it?

    Tis almost on "par" with Prince of Persia rotoscoping, well as good as you can get for a golf game on the c64 anyway!

    Being the sad little immature git I was when I was 4/5,
    I used to break my hole laughing anytime my old man ended up in the drink,
    I used get a great kick out of tiny floating platform your player would stand on afterwards!

    Thankfully, playing golf that was the only time he would end up "in the drink!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    yup it went back up
    TBH I'm probably going with plan B for some of the older non dosbox friendly games .(win 98 era laptop outputting to S-video, then vidcapped).

    Just watching through all these now...great stuff, very enjoyable :cool:


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Because you asked for it
    Rise of the Robots

    I'm actually giving away a free(unboxed) copy of it via the youtube channel if anyones interested by the way
    http://www.youtube.com/user/luasdublin


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,524 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Nice freakin Hat!!
    Great plug for here as well!


  • Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Cant believe you actually went through with it ya poor bastard :pac:


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Can't believe you said Rise of the Robots looks good. It looks like absolute ass.

    Also I keep hearing from a lot of people that only had PCs during the 90's that One Must Fall is great but I thought it was a pretty poor street fighter clone. Definitely not Rise of the Robots bad but still not great.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Can't believe you said Rise of the Robots looks good. It looks like absolute ass.

    Also I keep hearing from a lot of people that only had PCs during the 90's that One Must Fall is great but I thought it was a pretty poor street fighter clone. Definitely not Rise of the Robots bad but still not great.
    I still reckon that it doesnt look that bad , and it has nothing else going for it! . Going to be doing a few pc games soon so will look at o.m.f. Bearing in mind there were some terrible fighting games for the pc at the time I remember it being decent though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 34,278 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Hah! Nice review dude. I didn't know that about the crouching kick.

    Skip to 13:40 if you want some unintentional filth :pac:


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Hah! Nice review dude. I didn't know that about the crouching kick.

    Skip to 13:40 if you want some unintentional filth :pac:
    Neither did the developers evidently!
    Ba-Dum-Tish!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob



    A few grandstand VFD games.
    (scramble/Alien Attack Firefox F7 and Astro Wars)
    Man I'm getting the urge to buy some of these again , the prices have jumped though the roof)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Yus!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Short review of Super C.

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2012/02/super-c.html

    Edit with an actual link :P


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob



    Quickie looking at a tabletop jungler game
    uploading via phone is actually fairly handy (BAR MY SHAKEY CAMERA STYLE!!!)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer




  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob



    Mystical fighter on the meg . Few sound problems by the way so had to basically rerecord the commentry and reupload it
    ..and now the intro musics gone gaaah ..I've done a bodgy youtube edit to cut out the bit without sound ...man I'm besieged by gremlins.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    A review of the original Phantasy Star, hoping to follow it up with Phantasy Star 2:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2012/03/phantasy-star.html


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Not really retro but a game that hopefully will interest some people here.

    Nier is probably the most under rated game of this generation. Ignore the mediocre reviews, it's one of the most fascinating games this generation with some stellar narrative, writing and acting performances. Also by far and away the best soundtrack for a videogame in years:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2012/03/nier.html



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,716 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Not quite a game but interesting all the same..



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭martineatworld


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Not retro but my review of Skyward Sword:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg
    You might want to check that link Retr0!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Oops, link fixed :)


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob



    The bestest version of Tetris evaaaar , plus a look at a nice famiclone!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,694 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Nice to see you back making videos :)


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Nice to see you back making videos :)
    cheers!
    have a tiny bit of free time now that himself is born , just enough to manage 1 vid a week if I forgo sleep :)


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