Best games of yesteryear - Any Platform

Spacedog

Growing up I could never afford the latest new consoles (until a newer generation came out and you could buy a megedrive for 40 pounds etc.) and so never got to play all those classics to be. name your fave games and what platform they appeared on and a description...

C64

1) Creatures 2 (cute teddy like creatures being killed with chainsaws, excelent blood effects, funnyest game ever, cheat was to lick your finget and run it off joystick port 1 during the title screen, how'd they figure that one out??? don't want to know)
2) Mayhem in monsterland (sonic for the C64)
3) Rick Dangerous 1/2 (indina jones type platformer)
4) Super Cars (like micro machines)

tman

nice idea for a thread.

Super Metroid - SNES - my favourite game of all time, bar none. find out why for yourself tbh.
Speedball2 - Amiga - sports games went to **** after this with the exception of the pes series.
Micro Machines 2 - Mega Drive - SECKS!
Super Mario Kart - SNES - can't wait until my gamecube joypad adapter arrives

KdjaCL

Megadrive Road Rash Sonic
Snes Street fighter 2 SM All stars Mario Kart ISS Deluxe(oh this could be a long post)
C64 Silkworm /Salamander/ IK+ (best stop now this could go on)
Atari 2600 Pitfall 4 Nightmare Tank game Missile Command Commando
Amiga Lemmings Flashback Turrican Gods


kdjac

bus77

C64 - Chase HQ, Sly Spy, Wacky Darts
Atari2600 - All I had was the Smurfs
Megadrive - Rambo 3, Starflight, Mortal Kombat, Power Monger
Arcade - Sunset Riders, Operation Wolf, Cabal

Spacedog wrote:

Creatures 2 (cute teddy like creatures being killed with chainsaws, excelent blood effects, funnyest game ever, cheat was to lick your finget and run it off joystick port 1 during the title screen, how'd they figure that one out??? don't want to know)

great game I was blown away with the graphics they managed to get from the C64 in that one

Retr0gamer

God where to begin. Heres just a small sellection of the top of the top in my opinion:

NES: Mega Man 2, Castlevania 3, FF3, Legend of Zelda, Mario 3
SNES: Final Fantasy 6, Super Metroid, Axelay, Contra 3, Castlevania 4, Zelda: Link to the past, Super mario world, Yoshis Island, Mario Kart
Mega Drive: Pantasy Star 4, Gunstar Heroes, Alien Soldier, Dynamite Headdy, Rocket Knight Adventures, Probotector, Shining Force 1+2
Sega CD: Snatcher, Lunar 1+2, Shining Force CD
Turbografx16: Castlevania Rondo of Blood, Lords of Thunder
Sega Saturn: Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Panzer Dragoon Saga/Azel, Radiant Silvergun, Gaurdian Heroes, Nights, Albert Odessy, Dragon Force, Shining Force 3
PSX: (well its old enough) Castlevania Symphony of the Night, final Fantasy VII + IX, Xenogears, MGS, Suikoden 2, Grandia, Final Fantasy Tactics, Resident Evil 2

ApeXaviour

Just one..

N64: Goldeneye.

Nuff sed..

Creature

PC - Ultima 7: The Black gate, Ultima Underworld and the first game I ever played....Commander Keen 4.

And Streets of Rage on the Megadrive also.

LoGiE

C64: Head over Heels, Batman The Caped Crusader, Rainbow Islands, Chuckie egg, Wonderboy

Amiga: Turrican2, Frontier:Elite2, IK+, Carrier Command, Supremacy, Zool, Chaos Engine, Sensible Soccer

Mega Drive: Golden Axe, Sonic2

Arcade: The New Zealand Story, Pacland, Ghouls and Ghosts, Bubble Bobble, Robocop, Aliens, Street fighter 2, Killer Instinct, TMNT

And about 20 more...

Paulmee

Easy choice,
Mega Drive: Sensible Soccer

Tom Dunne

Atari 800XL: Dropzone, Star Raiders II, Montezuma's Revenge, Great American Cross Country Road Race, Ballblazer (all of which I play now on my PDA)

MegaCD: Any of the games with FMV. I remember being amazed at Sherlock Holmes way back in 1993! Don't get me started on Night Trap

Atari ST: What was that 3D game where you had a ship, two landing craft/hovercraft thingys and two aircraft? You had to capture Islands from the baddies. You could switch between each craft at will and had to co-ordinate an invasion. Brilliant. And Lemmings.

Zith

tom dunne wrote:

Atari ST: What was that 3D game where you had a ship, two landing craft/hovercraft thingys and two aircraft? You had to capture Islands from the baddies. You could switch between each craft at will and had to co-ordinate an invasion. Brilliant. And Lemmings.

Carrier Command. Excellent game......

TinCool

My all time favs still remain to this day to be C64 games. I could list off about 50 but I'll keep it to 3.

Impossible Mission
Spy Vs Spy I and II (I know its 2 but come on)
Summer Games II

hamster

C64 - The Sentinel, Pitstop II, Cauldron, Storm Across Europe, Defender of the Crown

Amiga - Rainbow Islands, Dungeon Master, Elite, Gods, 3D Construction Kit

PC - Ultima VII, Ultima UnderWorld II, C&C, Half-Life, Doom, Thief Series

Spacedog

oh yeah, forgot about the pc!

1) Doom
2) Dune II
3) Full Throttle
4) Virual Pool (mouse as a cuestick, worked really well)
5) Starcraft (still fun to play)

Horsefumbler

Goldeneye. It was just so so ahead of it's time, games that came out well after it couldn't even live up to it.

Andrew Fotzpatr

Goldeneye is brilliant i'd love to play it multiplayer over the net..
Best games hmm
snes = Mariokart,final fantasy series/ chrono trigger, secret of mana, super mario world super metroid(arguable the best game ever made)

anyone play conkers bad fur day on the n64?
multiplayer was class game was very funny as well.

wiggy69

Daley Tompson Decathlon Sinclair 48k
Enough Said , Played That Game For Hours , Bashed My Keyboard Up In The Process

Kristok

C 64 - last ninja 2 remix. Perhaps the best game ive ever played.

Stugots

Sinclair Spectrum - Jet Set Willy (what ever happened the 17 year old whiz kid who wrote all those games in Z80 assembly??)

Arcade - Bomb Jack, Missile Command + one that I don't remember the name of (Western/Bankrobber/quick draw type theme)

I was in Toronto recently staying in a hotel beside a place called "Dave and Busters". Great general entertainment place with a large arcade game area. Best part - they had an 80s corner!!! I relived my youth for hours on end. Its amazing how much you remember (fire 22 shots, then wait for the mothership, then 14 between subsequent mother ships - anybody???) Funny though, the crowds didn't gather behind like they used to when you were going for a record score

Stugots

Stugots wrote:

Sinclair Spectrum - Jet Set Willy (what ever happened the 17 year old whiz kid who wrote all those games in Z80 assembly??)

Curiosity got the better of me - the guy's name was Matthew Smith and he was a phenomenon in 83/84. 17 and writing the best selling games on the Sinclair Spectrum.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Matthew%20Smith%20%28programmer%29

rogue.goofball

It would have to be the Sega Arcde classic SHINOBI. Many's the day I spent in Bob's Casion (Skerries) lobbying 10 pence pieces into it.

MrVestek

Surely you can play Goldeneye over the net with an emulator and kailerra installed? Anyways my list:

Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Sonic 1
Sonic 2
Sonic 3
Sonic and Knuckles
Pacman (Original, not world or any of the other half assed pacman games)
Toe Jam & Earl

Andrew Fotzpatr

hmmm ill have to look into that thanks..

MrVestek

Goldeneye had a two player mode if i remember correctly, playing against eachother either two or four people. Kailerra is a client for emulators that virtually plugs an online person into port two of a game, and, providing you have a decent broadband connection, you wont much if at all any slowdown. Ohh and if you still have the original game downloading an image of it from the net is legal.

rainbow kirby

Super Metroid (2nd best Metroid game, I just love Prime too much)
Super Mario Kart
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Super Mario World

I'm very predictable.

Amnesiac_ie

Amstrad 1640: Dambusters

puntosporting

Amiga: syndicate,rainbow island(legend),sensible soccer(memories)
For me the amiga was the ultimate in old school!

okee

Amiga: Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Knights, Dune 2
PC: Ultima Underworld (The Stygian Abyss), C&C
Atari ST: IK+

monkey tennis

How has noone mentioned James Pond on the Amiga yet?!

NES: SMB1 and 3, Mega Man 2, Zelda, Rad Gravity

SNES: Street Fighter 2 (original, none of this Turbo nonsense), Jurassic Park, Donkey Kong Country, Super Metroid, Axelay, Flashback.... too many to mention TBH.

MD: The 'Strike' series, Landstalker, Micro Machines


Speaking of which, anyone know if Jurassic Park works with any of the popular SNES emus? The rom I have won't run with Snes9x or ZSnes, is it a dodgy rom or does the game just not work emulated?

Roar

hmmmm...*roar racks his brain*

Amstrad 464: Dizzy (all of em), Seymour Goes To Hollywood, Burnin Rubber

Amiga: Senisble Soccer, Stunt Car Racer

Nes: Robo Warrior, Mario 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

SNES: Mario Kart, Super Mario World

Mega Drive: Sonic (1-3), Skitchin', Road Rash, Streets Of Rage 1-3, Street Fighter, NBA Jam, John Madden Football, NHL Ice Hockey, FIFA 95

PSX: resident evil 2, Silent Hill, pro Evolution Soccer 2, Worms

monkey tennis

W00, never mind, it was a dodgy ROM. I've waited almost 10 years to play JR again!

DonkeyStyle \o/

Roar wrote:

Mega Drive: Sonic (1-3), Skitchin', Road Rash, Streets Of Rage 1-3, Street Fighter, NBA Jam, John Madden Football, NHL Ice Hockey, FIFA 95

hehe I thought I was the only one who loved Skitchin'
They really need to remake some of these games in glorious dx9/opengl.

Anima

MD - Mutant League Football - Anyone who has played this will know the joys of this game, best American football game ever.

SNES - Chrono Trigger - One of, if not the best RPG I've played.

MD - Bomberman 2 (I think) - Very simple but such a laugh with friends.

Eye

Wow so many classics, probably my all time favourite from any platform would have to have been Combat School on my old Amstrad CPC464, i broke more joysticks with that game than i care to remember Sorry i ever got rid of that machine

trailing behind that then would be stuff like, bomb jack, oh mummy, target renegade and gauntlet again on the amstrad.

then on the SNES it's gotta be super mario kart and the original donkey kong country.

and finally onto my old gameboy.... gotta go with Zelda that and Super RC Pro AM.

still have my GB and Snes but i regret ever getting rid of my amstrad all those years ago, would love to be able to load up combat school and hurt my wrist and break some more joysticks

dublin_apache

I use to spend hours as a kid playing a game called "SNOW BROS", I use to play it a chipper in inchicore (Pat's), I loved it so much I got my-self a Super-Gun and I bought the jamma board... I sold the Super-Gun and the few games I got for it in the end.

The other games where Superman & Spiderman another two great classic games.





I can't find a screen shot of the Spiderman game ...

Dingatron

Its amazing how much you remember (fire 22 shots, then wait for the mothership, then 14 between subsequent mother ships - anybody???)

Think that was Space Invaders??

Arcade: 1942, Asteroids, Galaxian, Space Invaders
BBC Micro: Chuckie Egg. Elite
Mega Drive: Sonic, EA Golf, Micro Machines
PC: C&C. (Found it recently and still addictive)

monkey tennis

Dizzy!

How the hell could I forget the Speccy's finest mascot?

Stugots

ding wrote:

Think that was Space Invaders??

Arcade: 1942, Asteroids, Galaxian, Space Invaders
BBC Micro: Chuckie Egg. Elite
Mega Drive: Sonic, EA Golf, Micro Machines
PC: C&C. (Found it recently and still addictive)

You got it!!

Seeing as you mentioned 1942....
one friday evening in '97 a friend sent me a link to the MAME website. I downloaded and started playing 1942 via keyboard - no joystick! After a horrendous weekend, bleary eyed at about 3am on Monday morning, I made it to the final screen! The problem was that since MAME use dthe original code from the ROMS, it carried all the original bugs, one of which was that *sometimes* the final bomber never arrived. THe result after a 40 hour weekend of battling with my keyboard was an unendign flight over open see with no opponent!! I have never played 1942 since then!!!!!!

dublin_apache

monkey tennis wrote:

Dizzy!

How the hell could I forget the Speccy's finest mascot?

LOL I remember it ......

Deadwing

Kristok wrote:

C 64 - last ninja 2 remix. Perhaps the best game ive ever played.

YES! Last ninja 2 was excellent. Brilliant music too I had it on the atari st tho