Retro computer games

maxgrdn

i was playing captain skyhawk for the nes today what game the amount of hours i wasted on the game ha, what are your favourite retro games?

Ann22

'Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and 2' on the Mega Drive. Also 'Streets of Rage'. Before my oh and me were married, we'd be up half the night playing these.:o Also 'Road Rash'-great fun belting each other with chains.:D His mother would be hours playing that one when the coloured jewels would fall down and when you'd get three or more in a row together they'd disappear, she'd be starry eyed.:)Some versions of it are called 'Tetrus' I think.

Ruu_Old

I was brought up on Sonic (first on the Master System) and then on the Megadrive, which we had to rent from the video shop as we couldn't afford one at first.

KStaford

I used to own a Commodore Vic 20. I remember playing a game where you bombed a city with a helicopter. It was simple 2D stuff where the helpcopter passed left to right across the screen and you had to drop bombs on skyscrapers until the city was gone.

The game was loaded from tape (yes ordinary audio tape). You had to load the tape into a tape player, set the Vic 20 to load, press play, go away and have your supper, come back later and the game would be ready to play (hopefully, and only if the RF modulator to your TV set was still working - they used to blow)

I cannot for the life of me remember what that game was called

God be with the days

IvyTheTerrible

KStaford wrote: »

I used to own a Commodore Vic 20. I remember playing a game where you bombed a city with a helicopter. It was simple 2D stuff where the helpcopter passed left to right across the screen and you had to drop bombs on skyscrapers until the city was gone.

The game was loaded from tape (yes ordinary audio tape). You had to load the tape into a tape player, set the Vic 20 to load, press play, go away and have your supper, come back later and the game would be ready to play (hopefully, and only if the RF modulator to your TV set was still working - they used to blow)

I cannot for the life of me remember what that game was called

God be with the days

Harrier attack, maybe? My friend had it so we used to go over to her house to play it, it was class!

dlofnep

I remember captain skyhawk. I had a master system and my friend had a nes, we used to always bring our consoles to each other's houses to play a mixture of nes and master system games. For the master system, Alex the Kidd in miracle world was one of my favourites... Along with Sonic, Enduro Racer, Afterburner, Wonderboy and a few others.

For the NES, Marable Madness, Mario 1-3, Battle of Olympus, Duck Hunt, Captain Skyhawk, Crash TV, Simpsons (although in retrospect, it now sucks).

On the commodore 64 - All the Dizzy games, CJ's elephant antics, Terminator (the first catridge based game I ever played on the commodore.. No more waiting 6 years to load a tape).. Bubble Bobble. Can't remember much of the rest.. I gamed most on my Master System when I was a wee bucko.

On the Mega drive - Altered Beast, Shinobi, Sonic, Golden Axe, Road Rash, Streets of Rage 1 & 2 (3 sucked), Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 1-3, Fatal Fury 1 & 2, Moonwalker.. Jaysus, I'll be here all day if I named them all - Same as SNES (Mario World, SF 2, Starwing) being my favourites. Dlofnep bought starwing a month before christmas and stared at the cool graphics on the back of the box until christmas, wishing he could play it.

cullig_jp

maxgrdn wrote: »

i was playing captain skyhawk for the nes today what game the amount of hours i wasted on the game ha, what are your favourite retro games?

Spent a serious amount of time playing the mega-drive in my younger days. Favourite games would have been Sonic,Steets of Rage and Konami's Zombies. What a game!:D

chakotha

Space Invaders Part II - Best game ever.

We had a table one in a bar I worked in in the 90's.

Like the Part 1 only more colour and the invaders sometimes split into two when you hit them and sometimes even more invaders were dropped in from above.

To be uber-nerdy you start the first level, take out the left 3 columns in 22 shots, then slide over to the right and wait for a flying saucer that will come from the left and will be worth 300 points (not 50 heh).

Then shoot 14 shots into the air and slide left across under the invaders to wait for a flashing 500 point spaceship coming from the right (shoot it on it's 10th flash).

Then repeat the process of shooting 14 shots and sliding across from one side to the other to pick up the 300 point saucer coming from the opposite end. It had a satisfying kind of symmetry to it. The thing was not to start blasting invaders for as long as possible (because it speeds them up) and to get as many 300 point saucers as possible before gradually picking the invaders off.

Same with levels 2 and 3 though they start progressively lower. Levels 4, 5 and 6 were fairly identical though fraught enough and no time for counting shots. Levels 7, 8 and 9 were purely taking the p1ss, and if you managed to clear 9 and weren't reduced to a frenzied, dribbling basket case it all started again, only harder.

Another different thing you could do was shoot all the invaders except 1 column, then take out the column leaving the lowest invader till last, then you get a 500 bonus and the screen did a big rainbow.

Geek central lol!

silverharp

missile comand & the 1980's starwars game, I think I just spotted my xmas pressie


http://www.voyagerarcade.com/product_info.php?products_id=1073

Tableman

Centipede on Atari 2600

Super Mario Bros 3 on NES (Which I still believe is the best game I have played, although admittedly I havent played any of the current consoles)

Double Dragon 3 on NES
Faxanadu on NES (Which really was an original concept at the time)

Sonic on Master Drive

Also, there was a thing on the mega drive where you 6 games together. There was a soccer game and a motorbike game on it. The motor bike game was deadly, cant remember the name of it

Ann22

Tableman wrote: »

Centipede on Atari 2600

Super Mario Bros 3 on NES (Which I still believe is the best game I have played, although admittedly I havent played any of the current consoles)

Double Dragon 3 on NES
Faxanadu on NES (Which really was an original concept at the time)

Sonic on Master Drive

Also, there was a thing on the mega drive where you 6 games together. There was a soccer game and a motorbike game on it. The motor bike game was deadly, cant remember the name of it

Wonder if it was Road Rash? You could buy bigger bikes and stuff, pull chains off other riders and batter them. When you'd crash a little ambulance would come along and carry you away, sometimes they'd leave you there and take the bike.:D

Tableman

Wonder if it was Road Rash? You could buy bigger bikes and stuff, pull chains off other riders and batter them. When you'd crash a little ambulance would come along and carry you away, sometimes they'd leave you there and take the bike.

Dont think so. I would have remembered the ambulance and chains. But you could upgrade your bike as you won races and buy better ones etc.

rferguson

Terminator 2 for the C64 (the first cartridge i got for it) felt like a superstar

oh and Streets of rage 2 :-)

admiralofthefleet

i loved alex the kid in miracle world on the master system

Ruu_Old

Tableman wrote: »

Dont think so. I would have remembered the ambulance and chains. But you could upgrade your bike as you won races and buy better ones etc.

Probaby Super Hang on, hard game. You could upgrade different parts of the bike individually and so forth.

The Don

Ruu wrote: »

Probaby Super Hang on, hard game. You could upgrade different parts of the bike individually and so forth.

Ya that was it. Really hard game.

Tableman

Probaby Super Hang on, hard game. You could upgrade different parts of the bike individually and so forth.

Yeah, thats it Super Hang-on, Good auld game back in the day

We had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was incredible fun. You go off have your dinner, your dessert, brush your teeth, come back and then game still wouldn't have loaded.

There was a whole load of games we used to have for it, but I don't know where they're all gone now.

For anyone who's interested:

Top 100 ZX Spectrum games

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

Part One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uno3qWrY1MA

Part Two

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Golden Axe ftw



Sensible Soccer

The Master

Great call brother Des , Golden Axe - 100% pure awesome

branners69

The first game I was addicted to was Elite on the Acorn! Definitely showing my age!

I cant even imagine how many hours I spent trying to land the damn ship!

uncle ernie

asterix on the master system 2 was great too

mixer101

In the arcades it was 'Tron' ... remember that?:)
Used to have an Atari 800 and would type in the programs that were listed in the computer mags (some programs had hundreds of lines of 'code'!!) good geeky fun.:o
Remember 'Dungeon Master' on the PC and a bit later 'Captive' (man, that was one HUGE game!):D

Wonga

I had a Commodore Amiga. The best thing about it I never had to buy any games because you could just copy all the discs.

Cannon Fodder, Syndicate and Lotus Turbo Challenge were my favourites

lord lucan

we had a commodore 64 in the early 80's,2 games spring to mind. one was "tooth invaders",a game where you had to brush and floss 2 sets of teeth before the plaque destroyed them all. i'm pissing myself laughing just thinking about it.
http://www.lemon64.com/games/popup_screen.php?name=tooth_invaders_01.gif

the other was "zaxxon",was like a fighter jet in the classic space invaders style,just blow up stuff. great fun.:D

Capt'n Midnight

Dungeon on a Vax
very large image - don't bother if you haven't played
http://www.vaxdungeon.com/dungeon_large.gif

starglider

gogo

Paper Boy ftw!!




Highly addicted to this game

Tchaikovsky

'Lemmings' on the Commodore Amiga..... ah, animal suicide :pac:

Weidii

Classic concentration, that tv show style dos game.

Einstein

commodore64 for me.

Rygar, Cobra (the stallone movie one) and The last ninja series...they rocked.

I often wondered if they actually didnt have endings for some of these games they were so difficult...no save point? Tuff..ye start again

ctrl-alt-delete

anyone remember Klax?

97i9y3941

loved the sonic games myself,the best sonic i ever played was sonic cd,its on the sonic gems collection if you dont have a mega cd or dont know how to emulate,the game has 60+ levels

BroomBurner

Did anyone make it to level 100 in Bubble Bobble? My cousin and I got to 99 then got stuck and before we could get out, another cousin unplugged the computer in an act of pure evil :mad: Never got to find out what was passed level 99...

callaway92

Streets of Rage pure Class...
also Micro Machines was pretty cool
oh and Revenge of Shinobi awesometastic

dmigsy

Platoon and Operation Wolf

Platoon review and pics
http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D526


Emlyn Hughes International soccer was great too

Actually doesn't look too bad :
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fEmVYsgsxi0

callaway92

oh ya Operation Wolf..that was impossible

Tableman

Streets of Rage pure Class...
also Micro Machines was pretty cool

Good call

Nenah

I loved Monkey Island 1 and 2 !