Retro games

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What is your first retro game have you played?

My first one is Super Mario Bros

Ruu_Old

Terminator 2 on the Commodore.

Retr0gamer

Not sure if it was Gryzor or ghosts n' goblins in the arcade.

snorlax

super mario land 2 on the gameboy and donkey kong

byte

I think Space Invaders, in the arcade!

GAAman

Centipede on the atari 2600

http://latte.overcoffee.com/de/images/333_Video_Game_Alliance/CENTEPID.BMP

some back in the day stuff there have to go see if it still works!!

tk123

Excitebike(who would have known) , Mario3, Megaman, Wizards and Warriors oh and that annoying yet addictive Rad Gravity thing..

killswitch

shadow warriors (otherwise known as "Ninja Gaiden"), quantum fighter, the almighty super mario bros 3 and probotector.....i love my NES i still have all those games except for probotector

petes

I can't remember. Could have been something on the Spectrum like Skool Daze. That was good.

Darren

Head over Heels in the speccy.

Oobie

More than likely pac man.

snorlax

firefox actually have a pretty good toolbar plug-in which includes the likes of lemmings and sonic and GBA emulator (runs gameboy games live on the net, great for dossing off work ).

Anyone remember Alleycat or Sonic?

Super Mario Bros for the NES on December 25th, 1992. Accurate eh?

sonofsam

snorlax wrote:

firefox actually have a pretty good toolbar plug-in which includes the likes of lemmings and sonic and GBA emulator (runs gameboy games live on the net, great for dossing off work ).

Anyone remember Alleycat or Sonic?

Have you got a link to this ?

snorlax

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3031/

Ruu_Old

snorlax wrote:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3031/

Brilliant, quality link. Danke snorlax!

justfortherecor

California Games.
What a game it was as well. Who's up for a game of hackey-sack?

justfortherecor

justfortherecor wrote:

California Games.
What a game it was as well. Who's up for a game of hackey-sack?

Oh yeah, I'm in!

Could never beat the record in the surfing but had everything else sussed.

fatherdougalmag

For the ultimate retro arcade night in, you must try MAME out. Shenobi, Salamander, R-Type, Super Sprint, Gauntlet and many many more.

r3nu4l

Arcade - Space Invaders
Console - PacMan on my cousins' Atari 2600
Retro Computer - Platoon on the Commodore 64
Retro Pc - Duck Shoot on an old IBM PS1

TCamen

First arcade I played was the Superman one they had in Dublin airport back in the 80s -- that was so good, split between walking levels with thugs and flying levels where you'd shoot missiles with heat vision

Dublin airport was also the first place I ever played Street Fighter II and Ghouls 'n Ghosts!

We had an ancient Amstrad as our first computer, so very first non-arcade game was probably something like 'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'Gauntlet' or a really old space ship game -- I'll try and describe it just incase someone actually knows what it is:

You were played as a spaceship that had to go through this kind of slimey ooze world with narrow bits to manouevre through - the object being to pick up stranded astronauts. When you got close to an astronaut, a ladder would extend and they'd go up into the space ship. I remember the ship being very white, and the background being garish green -- it was a really cool game back in the day!

At school/summer camps, I remember playing Spy Hunter & Great Guyana Sisters, but never owned 'em. Does anyone by chance remember this series of really old adventure games, it had some woman's name in the title, and the one I remember the most involved exploring the garden of her house or something like that? There was a puzzle about bees & jam, with a tree in there somehow, that's about all I can remember for sure. I think it may have been educational in nature. Something like "Mrs. xxx's Garden/House Mystery" or some such

Used to adore the Batman movie game on Amiga, that was so good -- a mini-level about picking what cosmetic producets Joker had put in his poison? Not to mention the driving/flying levels - Genius

Creamy Goodness

snorlax wrote:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3031/

looks good until i read the comments. can you confirm it isn't riddled with spyware?

Roar

first game i probaly played was burnin' rubber on the amstrad 464+.. played it to death, but i remember i could never qualify higher than third.. that theme tune has been burned into my brain for the rest of my life...

The Bollox

it was either Paperboy on the Master System or Duck Hunt on the NES

Hagar

Lander and Hamurabi on Data General Nova 3 Sytems in the mid 70's.
Absolute rubbish in retrospect but the real deal at the time.

Mrs. MacGyver

Centipede on the Atari 2600
Hen Harrier on the old Amstrad

Mrs. MacGyver

Also meant to add pocket simon by MB

snorlax

Cremo wrote:

looks good until i read the comments. can you confirm it isn't riddled with spyware?

there's alink you can click on to enable it/ disable it (privacy button), but i wouldn't go as far to say it's riddled with it, the games make it worth it. anyhow you can find a good few of the games on this site if your interested : http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2

DéiseGirl

I remember the Amstrad making an appearance on Christmas morning 1986 and the game that came with the computer was Gems of Stradus. Even then it looked sh1te Add Strangeloop to the list of games that looked sh1t even at the dawn of home computer games...

I loved the Codemaster games - eg Dizzy and Seymour games. Rock Star ate my Hamster was good for a laugh (for a while). Spindizzy was totally addictive. I was also a sucker for text adventure games

r3nu4l

D&#233 wrote: »

I was also a sucker for text adventure games

Ah yes, Zork! I spent hours playing it. I loved that game apart from some of the oddities

Hit table with hammer
I'm sorry I cannot do that
Scream
You utter a terrifying, blood-curdling scream...a secret door opens...

Walk through door
As you walk through the door a goblin splits you down the middle with an axe. You are dead. Play again?

fuzzywiggle

Super Mario Brothers! Have played it on the net a few times recently...man it was brilliant

Trode

Just FYI, since this thread seems to be in something of a resurgence, there's now a whole forum on this site for discussion and reminisince of retro games. Feel free to talk about your favourites there.

wampyrus77

super mario bros 25th anniverary edition sorry to say thats wrong Super Mario Bros 1983 in Japan and USA only on Nintendo Entertainment System/NES then the NES in 1985 everywhere else, Also Mario original called Jumpman in 1981 in Donkey Kong arcade game, then in 1982 Jumpman became a villain kidnap Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong jr had rescue his father from Jumpman, then Jumpman was renamed Mario in mario bros in 1983 on NES 1st ever Mario & luigi game ever known as mario bros then started the series of the super mario bros so if you counted him as jumpman then Mario real age would be 29th since being a mario game but there was mario bros in 1983 so it has 27th since being a mario bros game

wampyrus77

Donkey Kong Jr. was also a cartoon on Saturday Supercade, a cartoon series that aired on Saturday mornings from 1983-1985. The plot had Jr. looking for his dad Donkey Kong who is on the run from Mario and Pauline.

Paparazzo

Combat on the Atari is the earliest.
Gorf in the Arcade.
Then on the Amstrad, Harrier Attack.

admiralofthefleet

super mario all starz

Jordan 199

F-Zero on the SNES. Great stuff.

wampyrus77

A 3ds game of Lylat Wars on the Nintendo 64, rendered into 3D, you can play as old way like you would on the Nintendo 64 or new Gyro controls, player vs player get see each others expressions while you play.
And its awesome.

darkdubh

Anyone remember a late 80's shoot em up where you were a cop shooting escaped convicts.Cant remember the title ,the convicts all wore stripey jumpsuits they'd hit you with their ball and chain if you got too close to them and some of them would lob petrol bombs.

Vote 4 Pedro

Super Mario Brothers. on the NES.
Played and played that game all night through many times,
still play it now online and it's still as good.

BlackEdelweiss

Duck hunt and pong on an Atari, it was sometime after 1978 and before 1981. I have been addicted ever since.

Bounce1993

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