Games of yesteryear

DARK-KNIGHT

:)Anyone remember quick draw mcgraw? just talking with someone today and this game came to mind i had hours of fun with this anyone have any real classics they miss

ShawnRaven

Played this in the very early 90s on the Amstrad CPC. I remember it being feindishly difficult!

civildefence

The best games on these consoles:

Commodore:
Arnie
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
The Last Ninja
Exile
Operation Wolf
Wonder Boy

Mega Drive:
Sonic Series
Street Fighter
Flashback
Streets Of Rage
Ghouls & Ghosts
FIFA Soccer

LoGiE

raycaulwell wrote: »

:)Anyone remember quick draw mcgraw? just talking with someone today and this game came to mind i had hours of fun with this anyone have any real classics they miss

Good old hi-tec software! If it had anything to do with hanna barbera these guy's released it. Sadly I don't think they were all made to the
highest standards

CiDeRmAn

civildefence wrote: »

The best games on these consoles:

Mega Drive:
Sonic Series
Street Fighter
Flashback
Streets Of Rage
Ghouls & Ghosts
FIFA Soccer

Look man, I'm not sure if you understand the rules in these here parts, but if you are going to rattle off a list of fave megadrive games, you'd better consider including GUNSTAR HEROES in there as well.
I know it's not very good, gods know Edge thinks so too, but Retrogamer is liable to get rather....

anxious if it doesn't get represented.

Just so as you know,
wouldn't want anything, well, unfortunate to happen,

that's all I'm saying...

civildefence

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Look man, I'm not sure if you understand the rules in these here parts, but if you are going to rattle off a list of fave megadrive games, you'd better consider including GUNSTAR HEROES in there as well.
I know it's not very good, gods know Edge thinks so too, but Retrogamer is liable to get rather....

anxious if it doesn't get represented.

Just so as you know,
wouldn't want anything, well, unfortunate to happen,

that's all I'm saying...

In fairness it wasn't great, but it was one of the first you'd remember. What I find unbelieveable is that although the games on the likes of the PS3 and 360 can't be beaten for graphics and interactivity, they still never seem to have the playability or simple enjoyment you got from games like Gunstar Heroes.
By the way I forgot to add Midnight Resistance to the Commodore 64 list.

noodler

Creatures/Creatures 2.

CiDeRmAn

Dammit, Retro is adapting, no longer rising to the bait, must change strategies.....




ANYONE ELSE THINK IKARUGA AND PANZER DRAGOON SAGA SUCKS?



and now the trap is set, we need only sit, wait and watch.......

Retr0gamer

You're only lucky I'm in a hoop from last night

RHunce

anyone know where or if i can get a download link for the gam GORILLAS on the system DOS

this is a pic of it
http://www.oddsim.com/other/images/gorilla2_b.jpg

kwalshe

kick off 2, daley thompson decatalon, operation wolf +1, and another i think was called clumsy colin action biker

CiDeRmAn

Fave games of yesteryear,

On Speccy anyway,

Tau Ceti and it's sequel Academy

Elite (natch)

Chase HQ

Uridium

Quazatron (superior remake/sequel to Paradroid)

3D StarStrike (brilliant Star Wars clone)

Manic Miner

Kevster

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Manic Miner

What a title! That must surely be a DOS game?

Red Sleeping Beauty

I liked PaperBoy and Rampage on the Commodore and Probotector for the MegaDrive.

CiDeRmAn

Kevster wrote: »

What a title! That must surely be a DOS game?

You're kidding, right?

LoGiE

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You're kidding, right?

Play nice!

Manic Miner was written for the Speccy but was released on many other systems.

Retr0gamer

Alan Rouge wrote: »

Probotector for the MegaDrive.

This game gets far too little love. In my opinion it's the pinnacle of the series and far better than the overrated Contra 3.

Gadge

I didn't know Probotector came out on the Mega Drive. It was definitely out on the SNES anyway.

And I'm sure Probotector on SNES was just Contra 3, apart from the name change and the clothing the 2 guys wore (metal suits instead of jeans & t-shirts).

Retr0gamer

Probotector on the SNES and Megadrive were too completely different games. Probotector/Contra 3 on hte SNES was 3 excellent levels of run and gun, a final level of rehashed bosses from the series and 2 dreadful tech demo overhead levels. Probotector/Contra: Hard Corp on the Megadrive was a bastard hard Boss fest featuring dozens of levels and multiple paths through the game.

I think everyone hates the gay robots europe got shafted with, at least the games still rocked.

Gadge

Sounds good, I might seek that one out.

Retr0gamer

Be warned that the megadrive probotector is legendary for how tough it is. It's definitely beatable but there's a lot of bosses that will have you stuck on them for a good while such as the 3rd level last boss and jungle level last boss. Took me a few weeks of dedication to get through it. Might be worth playing the japanese version which is much easier since you get 3 hits before you lose a life whereas it's only 1 hit per life on the megadrive version.

CiDeRmAn

I think I have Probotector for the Nes somewhere, is it any good? My NES is toast a the mo, awaiting replacement.

I used to love, and still do really, Starblade, the arcade version had me addicted, not that I was any good, and the superior 3DO version kept me smiling.
Although quite limited by todays standards, an onrails space shooter, it looked fab and played great, with great camera swoops and nice changes of enviroment.
The atmosphere was perfect too, with little music only the thruming of your weapons fire and the sounds of the cruisers zipping past, lovely!

Retr0gamer

The NES version is quite good but it's dated a little. It's a bit different to the arcade version though with some new stages, some extended ones and one or two new bosses.

For me the series only got good with Contra 3, although for their time Contra and Super Contra were excellent. Contra: Hard Corp, the Gameboy contras and Contra: Shattered Soldier are all awesome.

Just pretend the PS1 and GBA games never happened.

CiDeRmAn

I remember a mag doing a freezeframe run through of the Mode 7 bombing run early on in Contra on the Snes and I remember being well impressed, of course when I actually bought the thing I was shocked at how unforgiving it was, bugger!
They were the days, the days of that great games show on Sky, remember Big Boy Barry and all the rest, great days lads and lasses

Retr0gamer

Contra 3 is probably the easiest of the series I remember that show as well, it was supposedly really good but i never had sky. They brought out a really good mag as well.

DARK-KNIGHT

jesus forgetting game shows lol please bring em back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gaming now is huge compared to late 80s early 90s why is there no proper gaming shows?

and before someone says it (player is not great its terrible lol)!

anyways long live gaming, fellow addicts lol

LoGiE

Ah yes... We had GamesMaster, Bad Influence, Gamesworld and When games attack. All of them pretty good shows. I think the less said about Gamesville the better. It probably set back Video game shows a decade....

Hmmm... Dominick Diamonds comment on Gamesville was spot on if a little risky.

"I have more respect for suicide bombers than I do for the people who are involved with Gamezville... it's all ****ing 'Yo mate...' I mean these guys can't even speak ****ing English"

o1s1n

LoGiE wrote: »

Hmmm... Dominick Diamonds comment on Gamesville was spot on if a little risky.

"I have more respect for suicide bombers than I do for the people who are involved with Gamezville... it's all ****ing 'Yo mate...' I mean these guys can't even speak ****ing English"

Funny, but then sad as it's all too true

I've been watching through series 1 & 2 of Gamesmaster again recently. It really was a great show. Would love to see a DVD boxset released.

Zerroth

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

They were the days, the days of that great games show on Sky, remember Big Boy Barry and all the rest, great days lads and lasses

I remember that show! I think it was called Gamesworld. And Big Boy Barry was one of the videators. :P I think i recall him being the one weakest gamers out of the videators as he lost most frequently.

Red Sleeping Beauty

o1s1n wrote: »

Funny, but then sad as it's all too true

I've been watching through series 1 & 2 of Gamesmaster again recently. It really was a great show. Would love to see a DVD boxset released.

Where are ye watching them ?

o1s1n

ChallangeTV (At least I think it was them anyway?) reran a lot of the old series a few years ago. As far as I know it's the only time they were ever broadcast digitally. Apart from that, everything else will be from VHS.

The guys over on the www.Gamesmasterlive.co.uk forums have taken on a fairly huge project in trying to compile them all. I think someone a while ago found loads of VHS tapes in an attic in Germany which contained a lot of the lost stuff.

They have a download section for forum members. But there's a minimum post count you have to meet before you can access any content.

That's the only option really until they are released on DVD. Which by the looks of things will never happen.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Challenge Tv? Ah... Sky only

When was Gamesmaster on ? 6pm on a friday evening on Ch4 wasn't it ?

CiDeRmAn

I never liked Gamesmaster, with Sir Patrick Moore, a nerdy hero of mine, prostituting himself on that show, awful.
Gameworld, a great format, a different show each day of the week too, excellent.

Gamesville was the worst niche show ever, if not the worst show ever, positively dreadful and more interested in getting two planks to talk "street" about gaming and reduce it to a pre pubescent waste of time than treating it as anything else.

And the "Games Guru" should be dragged out onto the street, have his eyes put out with a poker and his belly tore open and his entrails wrapped slowly around a thorny stick before being fed to wild dogs.

Or am I being a little too.....


Merciful?

Red Sleeping Beauty

What was the shite gaming show on TCC ? I think it was like in between programs or something they had kids play games, usually fighting or sports games.

Professey Chin

Alan Rouge wrote: »

What was the shite gaming show on TCC ? I think it was like in between programs or something they had kids play games, usually fighting or sports games.

Oh christ. I rmember some kid on that in a captain scarlet costume :eek:
I was only about 6 and I wanted to kill the little plank

CiDeRmAn

Let's face it, good videogame shows are so few and far between, and now, with XBLA and PSN we can simply download games for ourselves and try them, so we don't have to see some plank giving them a go.
Not to mention the fact that there are loads of online news sources that have media content that, again, cover more than TV video game shows ever did.
Perhaps the TV program covering Videogames is outmoded for good?

Have to say though, I quite like to watch Playr, not bad.

Anyway, games of yesteryear, lots of rose tinted spectacles have been handed out round these parts, yes?
I mean, honestly, how can Perfect Dark compare to Fear 2, or Alien8 compare to Bioshock? How can most of the games we hold dear, especially from the 8bit era possibly compare to range of great games over the last 5 odd years?

Retr0gamer

I think a lot of them compare quite well. Some games age really badly such as Goldeneye, very innovative but compared to todays FPS games it's dreadful. However can you honestly say in the last five years we have had platformers better than Super Mario World and Metroid.

Some games also offer experiences that modern games have not been able to match. Just look at Doom. It's still a very playable and excellent game and no FPS has been able to offer the same type of gameplay experience. Modern FPS games rely on processor heavy enviroments and character models meaning you only see about 2-3 enemies with good AI. And don't even compare Serious Sam to Doom because it's nothing like it. Sure it did the dozens of enemies thing but having them being mindless enemies that run straight towards you in levels that amount to nothing but a series of large arenas can't compare to Dooms excellent level and enemy design.

Some games have aged but the true classics are still as relevant today as long as you can get over the graphics.

CiDeRmAn

Well now, Serious Sam was never a good example of the modern FPS, and even though a game is played from the 1st person perspective, the breadth of game types out there is almost oas broad as those games that use side on or isometric viewpoints, the difference between Doom, Metroid Prime, Bioshock, BattleField and Thief are obvious, only the point of view being in common.
Sure the games are processor heavy, but why must this automatically be a bad thing?
And, soon enough, retrogamers like ourselves will have to accept the likes of Descent, Doom, System Shock 2 and Deus Ex as classics of gaming as a whole,
Great games that will stand the test of time are not just 2D sprite based titles, no way.
Already we look upon Elite, Mercenary, Star Wars, Battlezone and evn more recent fare like Ridge Racer, Daytona USA and Sega Rally as classics, and so they are, and that list is only going to get bigger with time.

LoGiE

What I love most about retro arcades in particular is that they where designed to give you 2 to 5 minutes of play before it was game over! It took real skill to complete an arcade game. Actually, never mind complete but actually play for more then 10 minutes without emptying your pockets!

When I have mates over for beers and a spot of arcade gaming, everyone gets a credit and is back guzzling your beer in quick time. I think I already mentioned in another post that myself and my mates are playing Track and Field the last few weeks... TRACK AND FIELD!!! A game released in 1983 has guys more competitive and into it then the latest PS3 Pro Evolution Soccer.
I'm convinced that games have lost something along the way.... I'm just not 100% what that is yet.

CiDeRmAn

Track and Field rocks, and it's easy to argue that the DS version is superior in every way and even MAME can provide arcade perfect button hammering at home,
BUT
Track and Field is a competitive game, you need to have a mate next to you hammering away too, and without the noises of an arcade circa 86 in the background the whole experience loses something essential.
Plus there's the fact that you are spending real money on a 5 minute experience, the value, the psychology of investing in a game is lost in the home, it's just not the same.

Then again, you don't have the town pervert watching the kids play Tetris either, so you have advantages and disadvantages I guess....

civildefence

Alan Rouge wrote: »

What was the shite gaming show on TCC ? I think it was like in between programs or something they had kids play games, usually fighting or sports games.

If you're talkin about the one presented by the little blondie bird with the short hair, it was called Head 2 Head.

pimpdaddypriest

ah god it has to be magicland dizzy on the speccy for me!
excellent game!

CiDeRmAn

I never got into the Dizzy games, just got rid of my Spectrum as they came out, I enjoyed the Magic Knight games though, Finders Keepers, Spellboung and Knight Tyme, there was another one, called Stormbringer, but by that time I had moved on from the 8 bit gaming world, took 4 years off of gaming, the madness, before buying a Gameboy in 90, I am better now, have no fear...

Randy Shafter

I dont think anyone has mentioned it yet but Choplifter was great little game!

Professey Chin

Grrrrrrr. Everytime people mention Dizzy I get flashbacks :mad:

superfly

anyone remember Bits that used to run late on Channel 4?
it was presented by 3 girls who did mad cap stuff in between reviews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6mcf9t3GFw&feature=related

mufc4lfe

PES 5BEST GAME EVER FACT!

superfly

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Grrrrrrr. Everytime people mention Dizzy I get flashbacks :mad:

Why? did he touch you in an inappropriate manner?

CiDeRmAn

Dizzy, wasn't a Christian Brother was he?
I know that several alleged gaming icons seemed to fade away soon after the first couple of games, I never thought it could be down to imprisonment or possible long stay psychiatric incarceration.
Explains where Bubsy, Sly Raccoon and Blinx went though!
Any other gaming characters off the scene recently?
And why do you think they disappeared?
Maybe the ClayFighter characters were killed in a tragic bus crash whilst on a promotional tour in India?