The super duper retro gaming review thread

CiDeRmAn · 08-01-2012 4:25pm

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

Retr0gamer · 08-01-2012 4:44pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

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

Oh Matron!

pdbhp · 08-01-2012 4:50pm

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:

Dr Bob · 09-01-2012 5:04pm

unky chop chop wrote: »

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5LKcl56HE

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.

CiDeRmAn · 09-01-2012 5:11pm

pdbhp wrote: »

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

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

Doge · 09-01-2012 10:39pm

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!"

Myrddin · 09-01-2012 11:14pm

luas_dublin wrote: »

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:

Dr Bob · 22-01-2012 6:27pm

Because you asked for it
Rise of the Robots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EL2SGi7UFg

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

CiDeRmAn · 22-01-2012 9:08pm

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

Professey Chin · 22-01-2012 9:24pm

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

Retr0gamer · 23-01-2012 3:51am

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.

Dr Bob · 23-01-2012 8:47am

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.

o1s1n · 23-01-2012 11:34am

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

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

Dr Bob · 23-01-2012 12:59pm

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!

Dr Bob · 08-02-2012 10:59am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enA0RCed48Y

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)

Myrddin · 08-02-2012 11:04am

Yus!

Retr0gamer · 19-02-2012 10:28pm

Short review of Super C.

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

Edit with an actual link :P

Dr Bob · 20-02-2012 1:47pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgU_3eeF5LI

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

Retr0gamer · 20-02-2012 2:44pm

Short Castlevania review:

http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2012/02/castlevania-nes.html

Dr Bob · 21-02-2012 5:04pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M1G0Wd-vuQ

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.

Retr0gamer · 06-03-2012 10:32pm

Simon's Quest review:

http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2012/03/castlevania-ii-simons-quest.html

Retr0gamer · 13-03-2012 12:48am

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

Retr0gamer · 28-03-2012 12:38am

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