Naff old gaming memories

Sprocket77

I recently laid my eyes on a Barcode Battler for the first time in probably 20 years and got really excited about the fact that here was a Barcode Battler, question is am I just mad or is this the type of thing people have fond memories of?

I also have really fond memories of Harrier Attacks on the Commodore 64, first game I can ever remember playing regularly.

KylieWyley

loved it!

o1s1n

This whole forum is dedicated to naff old videogame memories

The Barcode battler is pretty naff, but Streets of Rage 2 is a masterpiece!

Retr0gamer

Robocop vs. Terminater. Really bland contra clone that only had the license and music going for it. Loved it at the time but it's fairly bad playing it now. Thought it was amazing that you got to see skynet at the end which was a naff looking big terminator head.

Mortal Kombat series. One of the worst beat'em ups ever made but I loved it! Now I realise that the Capcom and SNK games were streets ahead of it and much better.

I think I had a thing for gore at the time. Was really into awful and gorey anime at the time.

o1s1n

Mid 90s exploitation Manga releases are classic. I won't hear a bad word said about them :P Urotsukidoji is a masterpiece!

Mortal Kombat games are indeed junk.

Retr0gamer

3x3 eyes had me and my mates pissing outselves laughing every lunchtime during school. Used to tape them off the late night Channel 4 thing and sometimes they were on BBC. It was great you'd either be pissing yourself laughing at the hilarious amounts of gore or else the odd time they'd show an absolute goreless classic like Wings of Honneamise.

ghostchant

Urotsukidoji...gave a loan of it to a friend years ago and never got it back...didn't mind, he can keep it as far as I'm concerned!

My vote goes for Mortal Kombat as well, mainly number 2. Rubbish in retrospect but I played the hell out of it at the time, at least as much as SF2.

um7y1h83ge06nx

I bought Rise of the Robots

And I'm not joking.

Retr0gamer

Zariyah Odd Sluggishness wrote: »

I bought Rise of the Robots

And I'm not joking.

I think there's a support group for people like you. Maybe you should start a thread in personal issues about this traumatic experience.

um7y1h83ge06nx

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I think there's a support group for people like you. Maybe you should start a thread in personal issues about this traumatic experience.

I know, it's almost embarrassing to admit I own it!

I was one of these impressionable young ones fooled by the cool box and screen shots.

Back then, due to being young and impressionable and good gaming information being harder to come by (relying on expensive mags and no internet) it made game purchasing harder.

One lesser known gem I bought in my SNES days (think it was on the MD too) was The Lost Vikings, excellent game!

Another naff memory is not having the cash to get everything I wanted, so many games and consoles passed me by.

monkeyfudge

Was thinking about this one only yesterday:

Nuclear War on the Amiga



Brilliant little strategy game. In a similar vain to North and South without the poorly conceived arcady bits.

CiDeRmAn

Like sh1te in a cup!

CiDeRmAn

I just got Rise of the Robots from Jack Burton for my MD, and yes, it stinks.
It's important to have crap like that in your collection, along with Golden Axe it shows the great stuff up well, by comparison.

o1s1n

>must not rise to troll bait! Must not rise to troll bait!<

LoGiE

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Brilliant little strategy game. In a similar vain to North and South without the poorly conceived arcady bits.

I loved those bits! In two player anyway. The Computer controlled opponent was a cheating bastard!

monkeyfudge

LoGiE wrote: »

I loved those bits! In two player anyway. The Computer controlled opponent was a cheating bastard!

Ha. Just tried playing it recently and it totally drove me nuts.

Loved it back in the day on the C64.

CiDeRmAn

Naff gaming memories though, the pack in titles with my first 48k Spectrum, "Biorhythms", some "game" based around electronic gates, another would be edutainment that's about evolution.
It was only Chequered Flag, Horace Goes Skiing, Scrabble and the Breakout clone on the starter cassette that redeemed it all.

LoGiE

The c64 version of North and South was on two tapes and was mulit-load... enough to drive anyone crazy! Once I discovered the Amiga version I never looked back...

I remember playing endless amounts of Hired Guns and Dyna Blaster on the Amiga. I owned an amiga multitap so it was clearly AWSOME at the time... Now everyone just plays online.... *sniff*

Retr0gamer

The death of split screen gaming is a tragedy. Many games I hate playing online I actually enjoy playing 4 player with mates. Even my hated Halo series is a whole lot better with 4 people in the same room.

monkeyfudge

Hired Guns was huge amounts of fun.

I remember bringing it around to a friends house to play once and he had an A600 and it had loads of extra sound effects in it... was raging!

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The death of split screen gaming is a tragedy. Many games I hate playing online I actually enjoy playing 4 player with mates. Even my hated Halo series is a whole lot better with 4 people in the same room.

You're mentioning Halo an awful lot lately Retro, throughout the A&R forums, you ok? Getting a little teensy bit excited at the new game? You know Master Chief isn't in it, right?

cursai

Ikari Warriors II or (Dogosoken or Victory Road) Was played to bits in the back room of the local shop in my village when u was a kid. Am ashamed to admit a few of us found a 'fault' in the machine wherein if you pulled the joystick board back and trip the wire you could get free credits!!!! Brilliant game. tried to get an emulator for it but no! only found the poxy megadrive emulated version......not really a naff memory.:o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBLRMCP0PFc&feature=related

CiDeRmAn

Had the misfortune to put a couple of coins into a Pitfighter machine once, might as well have just bought a ball of sh1te instead, actually now I think of it, I did! What an awful game!

jonnybadd

I remember loving Clayfighter as a kid on the SNES. Got it on the VC there a while ago and either its aged really badly or I really liked crap as a kid cause it was woeful.

LoGiE

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Had the misfortune to put a couple of coins into a Pitfighter machine once, might as well have just bought a ball of sh1te instead, actually now I think of it, I did! What an awful game!

You weren't very good at it then? There seemed to be a lot of arcades with Pit Fighter back in the day. It was ported to most systems available at the time as well. I played through the entire game recently, and while it has it's flaws i found it enjoyable.

o1s1n

Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, now Pit Fighter? Sometimes Logie I think you're just a masochist :pac:

LoGiE

o1s1n wrote: »

Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, now Pit Fighter? Sometimes Logie I think you're just a masochist :pac:

I also enjoyed Primal Rage! I think these games were just gorey fun in a time when videogame violence was still tabbo. Sure we could go on about how Super Street Fighter 2 and Virtual Fighter 2's juggles, combos and other technical elements were better but you couldn't use Ryu to 'Dragon Punch' Ken's face off or Kill your opponent by exposing your characters knockers. As an early teen these things were AWSOME

When I have the mates over for a few beers you get more cudo's for remembering how to morph Liu kang into a dragon and biting your opponent in half then giving an technical display followed by a super combo


*Note*I love sf,vf, the snk fighters and a dozen other obsure fighters!

monkeyfudge

I remember spending far too much time with Hard Drivin' in the arcade and on it's woeful C64 home conversion.

LoGiE

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I remember spending far too much time with Hard Drivin' in the arcade and on it's woeful C64 home conversion.

While i enjoyed the arcade version ALL the ports where complete sh1te. Staring at a painting provided a greater sense of speed when it came to the c64 version. It was practically static! Even the Amiga version of Hard drivin which was the best of a bad bunch had it's ass handed to it by Stunt Car Racer.

On a side note did you get that with the wheels of fire compilation? If you had at least Turbo Outrun and Power Drift were good!

monkeyfudge

Turbo Outrun was a horrible multiloader though... Had to wait ten minutes for it to load in a screen to hear a digitized voice say 'Let's Go!' or something only to wait another 5 minutes to actually play the game.

Powerdrift was good... Buggy Boy was the best racer on the C64 though!

CiDeRmAn

Watch out Retro, Logie seems to like an awful lot of games with prerendered graphics!
Next thing he'll be singing the glories of the Donkey Kong Country series, or even Mariokart 64!

Shock, Shock, Horror, Horror, Shock, Shock, Horror!

LoGiE

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

prerendered graphics!

YAY!!

CiDeRmAn

Careful now, you could find yourself a target here, I know I suffer for my alleged big love for Halo, DKC could be the straw that breaks the camels back, they can be ruthless!

Retr0gamer

Correction, lazy prerendered grahics. If it's done like Resident Evil or Abes Odyssey then it's fine. The stills are prerendered then dropped to 16/32-bit colour. The problem is when the developer leaves them that way and doesn't bother to touch them up to make sure they aren't grainy ugly **** smeared across a screen.

CiDeRmAn

Worst use of pre-rendered graphics for me was the awful awful Crusin USA, gods that game was so bad, and the guy behind the greatest game of all time, Robotron natch, Eugene Jarvis, was involved in making it!
What was he thinking?
It sucked!
In an age of Sega racing game supremacy, with Namco coming a close 2nd imho, along comes Ninty and Williams and gives us the arcade equivalent of the 32X, hopelessly out of date from the day it hit the Arcades and so irrelevant, and yet they brought it, and Killer Instinct to the console, makes me want to weep!

Retr0gamer

Ah yeah, the 'ultra 64' arcade hardware that was in fact not at all based on Ultra 64 hardware. Cruisn USA was Midways own arcade hardware and Killer Instinct was a really badly put together machine that was great at spooling frames of animation from a hard disk but awful at 3D. Read a great article in retrogamer of Rare saying that the game struggled to do the 3D stages (a textured square floor). Still I was totally fooled by the prerendered videos that played for the backgrounds and thought that was what actual N64 graphics would be like. Little did I know it would be all vaseline smeared, muddy textures and no RGB!

LoGiE

The ports sucked alright as the hardware of course was nothing like the N64's but the killer Instincts hardware and graphics were unique at the time. Now most arcades are basically of the shelf pc components, so I guess it was ahead of it's time using a Hard drive.

The Crusin USA games ran on different hardware and in fareness all the Midway V games were crap. I recall they had a cab in Dublin airport for years gathering dust...

Retr0gamer

Midway did give us the Rush games like San Francisco Rush 2049 which was amazing.

Have to say that the prerendering in Killer Instinct actually did look amazing. I thought they let the ball drop for KI2 though.

M.J.M.C

Jesus I'm not even in my 30's and remember these two gems

Manic Miner:



And PaperBoy:

Sprocket77

M.J.M.C wrote: »

Jesus I'm not even in my 30's and remember these two gems


And PaperBoy:

I loved Paperboy, God that was naff )

Retr0gamer

Ah now Paperboy is still great! I loved it on the C64.

Sprocket77

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ah now Paperboy is still great! I loved it on the C64.

Anyone got a thread for Paperboy so I can get addicted to it all over again. )

djimi

Paperboy was and still is awesome; I wont hear a bad word said about it!!!

CiDeRmAn

djimi wrote: »

Paperboy was and still is awesome; I wont hear a bad word said about it!!!

Then your posting in the wrong place!

Paperboy was and is a terrible game, always detested it, arcade, speccy, c64 dreadful.
Atari made little of note with that hardware, jumping the shark with Return of the Jedi imho.

Manic Miner was awesome, I preferred it to Jet Set Willy.

o1s1n

What's wrong with Paperboy?! I always loved the Megadrive version.

LoGiE

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Paperboy was and is a terrible game, always detested it, arcade, speccy, c64 dreadful.
Atari made little of note with that hardware, jumping the shark with Return of the Jedi imho.

Manic Miner was awesome, I preferred it to Jet Set Willy.

I believe that puts you in the minority;) Paperboy was a well recieved and widely ported game. I loved the arcade and c64 versions. As for the hardware, 720 and Super Sprint ran on it (and maybe Marble madness?) and are there classics! I'm cant remember what hardware ROTJ was on but it's not Atari System 1 or 2.

My memories of ROTJ are custom cab with the speeder controller and picking it up along with Star Wars and ESB in a box set for the c64. I wish I still had it as it's probably worth a few bob now!

djimi

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Paperboy was and is a terrible game, always detested it, arcade, speccy, c64 dreadful.

*covers ears*

LA LA LA I cant hear you...

:mad:

o1s1n

The only thing I didn't like about Paperboy was the cover. It's a terrible piece of art. The kids face looks like Chucky from childsplay or something.

LoGiE

o1s1n, I didnt even read what you'd typed and I thought the exact same... I feel a terrible cover art thread coming on.

CiDeRmAn

I just never got into it, yes I loved Marble Madness, Super and Championship Sprint were also great.
But Paperboy, sorry, I was a teenager at the time, I played a lot, I mean a lot of games, and this one, nope, it just did nothing for me at all, didn't like the visuals, the gameplay, nothing, I was playing better games elsewhere.
Looking at Wiki, I'm still pretty sure that ROTJ was on the same hardware, the controller was modified for the Paperboy game at least, and it was awful.
You can have Paperboy, enjoy it if you must, but don't say it was anything like a classic please.

Retr0gamer

I'd expect nothing less from a Halo fan. Get back to looking forward to Gaylo: Reacharound.