Old school gaming - 16bits or less

DeadBankClerk

What are your favourite games of old?


I'm talking amiga, comadore 64, atari ST,
sega master system etc...
Them was the days...
Bruce Lee on C64.
I remember my brother buying Desert Strike the day it came out

My all time favourite has to be amazing "Another World" by Delphine.

(if you havnt played it search google - its easy to download)

Block (8

What about going back a bit to the days of the spectrum
Bashing those rubber keys to make Daley Thompson (what I thought look like legs) go faster ....if anyone remembers that one
Man, Bruce Lee in C64 hehe that was gr8.

Dustaz

Proof that you are indeed King of the Mongs DBC, no mention of the ZX Spectrum?
Anyway, my vote goes to Elite, it was pretty l33t

Dar

indeed - elite ruled all.

WhiteWashMan

how there was a huge amount of time wasted back then
the likes of ye are kung fu, renegade rocked, IK+, trans am, robocop, operation wolf, ,swiv, WIZBALL!!!!! wizball fúcking rocked! these were aon my little speccy.
on the amstrad we had the captain blood, driller, IK+ three player, 1942, bioic commando, ikari warriors, gauntlet.
on the amiga, bomb the bass and megablast! xenon 2!
nitro, it came form the desert, settlers, oh god hte list is endless.

and dont forget that seminal favourite, jet set willy.

Cake Fiend

Zelda 3, SMW, Flashback (sequel to Another World), anything Dizzy, atic atac, JSW, SMB3, Megaman 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Jurrassic Park, Secret of Mana,.... jesus, I could go on for an entire page.

Stephen

IK+ on the amiga... 3 player 0wnage

Celt

Laser Squad on c64 rocked

BabyEater

Harrier attack on the amstrad was just about the only game i used to play. Had others but cant remember them.

RasTa

terminator 2 for the C64
remember allmost cryin over how great i thought the graphics were

Spunog UIE

ya terminator2 was class on the C64 never passed it had a terminator joystick and it was a bit dodgy and so couldn't move properly and just passed the infermory bit with ur one...t;was also a cartage game which was cool i only had one, one of my friends had RoboCop3 and that was brillo too, didn't look as good tho but ya shot more stuff.

Any StreetFigher game cept no.1
I got StreetFighter one on tape for C64 and it was CRAP! side scroller.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

the best game ever for mega drive was olmpyic games with the multiplayer. ****IN BEat those buttons to run faster, and all those weird things that happened when ya got different scores, the ultimate muli-player game, i miss it...

Jimi-Spandex

Smash TV - Mega Drive

Need I say more?

TinCool

What about these C64 classics:

Impossible Mission
Spy vs Spy
Beach Head
Summer Games 2
Staff of Karnath
Entombed
China Miner
Rambo First Blood Part 2
Commando
Cauldron

and Super Sprint on the Atari ST. Myself and my cousins played this non-stop for about 2 weeks during the summer one year. Class stuff.

The list goes on and on.

Sangre

I wish i was old enough to know what the hell you are talking about! i vaguely remember my friend having a commodore but my first concole was nintendo. WAN hogans alley or that duck shooting game

NeRb666

Microprose Soccer on the C64
Commando on the 2600

amp

Apart from Atari's interpretation of Pacman on the 2600 (which people will remember I actually scored so high it reset to 0) I mostly played on an Amiga 500:

Speedball 2
Supercars 2
Gods
Simcity
Sensible Soccer
Xenon 2 (SI TEH MEGARBLAST!!!!1)
Oh and that Nitro game with the cars, it was like Supercars only the steering was different.
The first two monkey islands (fecking 12 disks in the 2nd one)
Thunderhawk (I think, some sort of 3d helicoptor game)
Canon Fodder.
Never played Elite at all but played a lot of Frontier (the sequel on the Amiga and then the PC) and I thought it was brilliant. Saving up to buy an Imperial Cruiser. Running around the galaxy doin stuff. X-gold just isn't the same (except it is )


Played a fair bit of Shadow of the Beast but only cos it was the only game I had for it for ages, and Days of Thunder but only cos I had the silly "fly around in the car cheat". Oh yeah! Indy 500, that was fun cos I got into the whole tweak the car to go faster thing. It's the only time I could be arsed getting into that apart from Gran Turismo.

The only time I actually won the race was when I manage to damage the rest of the computer cars enough so I was the last car running. Tough aul game.

Never really got into the snes or other consoles. Apart from the aul Jetpack on the Speccy. In fact I seem to have a problem playing games with out the comfort of a keyboard. The playstation 1 is the only console I've ever owned (other than a GB mostly played Zelda on that) and that was bought to play ridgeracer.



The first game I ever played on a PC was on some 286 piece of crap that managed to hack the hercules fontset to display (badly) horses running in a race. And the first "proper game" I played on a 386 was Flightsim, followed by Wolfenstein, Dukem Nukem (no 3d back then kids) and then the sheer joy of Doom.

IMO Doom brought proper gaming to the PC.

[end random stream of conciousness mode]

phobos

Did any of you write software for your C64?

I remember being addicted to
- Way of the exploding fist (figher)
- IK+ (fighter)
- Dragon Slayer (platformer)
- Double Dragon (1,2,3) (beat'em-up)
- Last ninja (1,2,3)
I also remember having Shadow of the Beast on cartridge for the unit.

On the amiga,
- Shadow of the beast 1, 2;
- Lemmings
- Pushover
- Moonstone
- Street Fighter 2
- Alien Breed
Plenty more, but I can't seem to remember

.....Those were the days I will never forget *sniff*

;-phobos-)

DeadBankClerk

Originally posted by amp
Never really got into the snes or other consoles.

Atari Jaguar

amp

I was going to buy an Atari Jaguar but everytime I went up to buy it I got a funny taste in my mouth.

Can't believe I forgot Lemmings and Alien Breed. And worms, and Project X and everything else Team 17 did.

bonkey

Spectrum 48k
- Ant Attack (I think thats what it was called)
- Manic Miner / JSW
- wizball

Comodore 64
- Zaxxon
- Iridium
- Impossible Mission
- Spy vs Spy

Amstrad 464
- Ikari Warriors

DOS
- Scorched Earth

Didnt ever use much of Atari ST or Amiga, so I wont comment on them.

Puck

Originally posted by bonkey
DOS
- Scorched Earth

Ah smashin!:D

I can't remember the names of a lot of them but some of the others I liked were:

Fatal Fury (MD)
Sol Feace (Mega CD II)
Desert Strike (MD)
Flashback (MD... I think)
Street Fighter II (SNES and now GBA ooooohhh I'm so happy:D )
Dynamite Heady (MD)

Kairo

[cough]....emulation board...[/cough]

C64
*Manic Miner
*Beach Head 1+2
*Impossible Mission 1+2
*Daley Thompson
*Thing On A Spring + Thing Bounces Back
*Many others...

Amiga
*Speedball 2
*Lemmings 2: The Tribes
*Gold Box Series of D&D games
*IK+
*Pushover
*Moonstone
*Last Ninja
*Sensible Soccer
*Cannon Fodder
*Elite 2: Frontier
*Flashback
*Another World
*Many others...

Cannon Fodder, IK+ and Speedball 2 would be my picks of the litter here.

Another world was too short...Flashback owned it severly

Couldn't be arsed listing all the console classics..except that Final Fantasy 3 (usa) owns all.

Krusty_Clown

Commodore 64:
Racing Destruction Set
Gribbly's day out
Creatures
Jet Pac
Hero
International Soccer (still the best game ever!) on cartridge
Lazer squad
Paradroid

BTW: Remember the magazine :Zzap64? I used to check the local newsagent twice a day for this magazine! For nostalgia, check it out on: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/

Trev

Amiga:
Kick-off / Player Manager
Fantasy World Dizzy
Treasure Island Dizzy

Spectrum:
Paperboy
Horace goes Skiing
Horace and the spider


just some of the delights not mentioned above :P

Baz_

elite

Asuka

8-bit Amstrad CPC!!

And yes, Elite beat em all.

A

DrunkLeprachaun

Ah, the days when I bought games not expecting to complete them(although, that could be because I was like 3).
I had me a nes with:
Solstice
Solar Jetman
Smash TV
Some Jackie Chan game
Mario 1 & 3(I don't lioke 2)
Zelda
Duck Hunt
and plenty others. They were great. I wished I hadn't sold it. *sniff.

LoGiE

C64
Turrican 1-2
rainbow islands
bubble bobble
Giana sisters
Ghouls 'n' ghosts
wonderboy
ice palace
ikari warriors

Amiga
Frontier: Elite
Hired Guns
Sabre Team
Cannon Fodder
Dyna Blaster
Alien Breed 1-2
Sensible soccer

* All classics! i found most of the amiga stuff in a shoe box in the atic two monthes ago and the amiga's around somewhere. I'd plug it in but loading times might drive me insane

Nintendo:
Mario 1/3 (2 sucked monkey nutz)
Zelda was quite elite.
Dunt Hunt was a blast

There was this other shooting one, but i cant remeber the name of it. It was one where you had to use the gun to kill these bandits in the wild west. Man that kept me entertained for hours on end. *sigh*

EL_Diablo

I usually spent most of my time playing IK+, speedball, Leisuresuit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards, (all on the atari st) and there was one game where you drove along in a red car and your mission was to catch various people and you could stand up and shoot at them and the odd time you got a rocket launcher or summit from a helicopter. anyone know the name of it?? oh yeah and navy seals and hudson hawk too

DiscoStu

the game you looking for is chase hq. does anyone remember carrier command? it was this cool 3d action stratagy game where u controlled an aircraft carrier but you could also hop into the planes and taks and fly and drive em. damn was it good(remade last year and released as hostile waters). how about powerdrome? and incredibly difficult futuristic racing game(wipeout was based on it). how about head over heels on the amstrad cpc464? i think its time to get monolithitic here, bump and jump on the atari 2600. i loved that game. what else can i think of? so many memories, the bards tale with its solar powered wizards qix on the atari 800xl my first ever game, dragons breath the music in that is so haunting and it was only music from the atari sts "yammy" chip, bubble bobble in the arcade damn that was years ago, mercenary 3 and those pulvin mines on dion damn you pc bill! lemmings was another one of my favourites. fiendish freddy's on that cartridge that came with the c64, kid icarus on the nes and the two zeldas and batman on the nes that game was feckin great.

its a shame all you young uns' will never get to play these games on their original systems. the horribly incomfortable joystick of the atari 2600, the pointed corners of the master system and nes joypads, the constanly grimy keybord of the c64, the rubber keyboard of the sinclair spectrum, the horrible pinky colour that was all you seemed to get from a cga 286 pc, the tiny black and white srceen of the mac............ christ im only 20 i need to get a life bad

jaggeh

elite
elite II frontier
carrier command
ik+
warlords
mercenary
starglider

The_Bullman

For the Mega Drive:

Jungle Strike-pure class. gaming took a long while to surpass this. For example i bought Nuclear strike for the pc a few year a go, but it just wasn't the same.

and Micro Machines 97(I think)- me and the brother had the best of duels doing the time trials. I think thats what got me into formula 1 racing. Shaving hundreds of second off the time, or more annoying getting the same time and not beating it. Also being able to design your own tracks rocked. I think that i made 4 or 5 impossible ones to do. only the best survived!!

Quality in gameplay there.

Kairo

Oh..and If anyone here completed Jet Set Willy..I'll personally award you with a trophy for perseverance.

Lemming

Commodore64:

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IK+
Last Ninja (1, 2, Remix, 3)
Star Trek (really Old "original series" one .. could start interstellar wars)
Navy Seals (Cartridge - based on the film)
Supremacy
Commando
Turrican 2
Wonderboy
the Dizzy games
Gianna Sisters
Creatures 1&2
Ghouls n'Ghosts
Bubble Bobble
New Zealand Story
Blue Max

(I'm gonna stop there cause I've over 600 c64 games and its getting too hard to name favourites - or remember them at any rate!! )

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by Lemming
Commodore64:

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IK+
Last Ninja (1, 2, Remix, 3)
(I'm gonna stop there cause I've over 600 c64 games and its getting too hard to name favourites - or remember them at any rate!! )

IK+ and Last Ninja games were wicked.....
Anyone remember Barbarian? Absolute class - choppin heads
What about green beret? Kung-Fu Master....timeless

Da Bounca

Anyone say Syndicate?
speedball?
Last ninja?

smoke.me.a.kipper

C64
Wizball - if you havnt played this download it and give it a go. i had it on the c64 but was never able to finish it, but when i downloaded it a few weeks ago i managed to defeat the beast!

OutRun - classic game. have the music from it as my ringtone! (how sad)

nes
mario 1 and 3 (mario 1 still ownz my pants)
zelda 1
Smash TV
Duck Hunt

snes
Mario World
StarFox
Street Fighter II
Zelda III
F-Zero
Mario Kart

megadrive
sonic 1,2,3
Desert Strike

pc
Lemmings - the origional
GoldenAxe
SimCity
Worms

Lemming

Originally posted by Dr. Loon


IK+ and Last Ninja games were wicked.....
Anyone remember Barbarian? Absolute class - choppin heads
What about green beret? Kung-Fu Master....timeless

Yup .. remember them all (and have them all!) Although Barbarian2 was better

Anyone remember "Rick Dangerous" ??

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by smak
C64
OutRun - classic game. have the music from it as my ringtone! (how sad)

Outrun... deadly.
Anyone remember continental circus - racing game...?
There was also Werewolf in London - or was it New York? London I think... it was brilliant

seamus

Omfg, all these games bringing back the memories. I almost want to get that A500 out and try get it going again (But it won't work )

Team17 had ownage on the Amiga. And a mate of mine's dad had a client who sold games, so every so often he'd come home with a boxful of about 20 obscure Amiga games for free.
1 of them was a speedball - type game except you were lizards and rhinos(I think) playing, and instead of just knocking people out, you punched their heads off and stuff. Scoring goals eventually never mattered Gods owned, as did Fuzzball - that game was rock hard. I d/l shufflepuck cafe the other day, and it's damn hard!!! I have no idea how I completed it all those years ago. I was too young 9-12 to enjoy elite, but I remember my bro loving it. Oh, the memories.....
The best was one Christmas morning, my bro had gotten the A500 pack with Shadow of the Beast, Back to the Future 2, Days of Thunder, and Night Breed. I remember the sound of my jaw dropping when I first saw the intro to Shadow of the Beast. It was absolutely spectacular :D

Thorbar

Elite would be my fav, did anyone play the sequel that some german company brought out recently? X:beyond the frontier, was a really ****e game.

Firefox

Yea, Elite was a favourite back then. I even remember somebody playing in on a BBC Micro. (Remember Those?)
I also remember sentinel on C64, that was a weird game.

Uphamizer

Paperboy on C64 is my best game of all time.
Desert and Urban strike on the megadrive where just as good

DeadBankClerk

paperboy on the C64 sucks...
the arcade version owns

Karl Hungus

SYNDICATE!

Quite easily the greatest game ever made.
Was years ahead of its time.

I could go on and on for ages talking about the game.

How you could re-do the missions in so many different ways, over and over again. They were all so open-ended.

Or playing the entire game again from the start just to see how you could research different weapons, and in time for certian missions.
Get the good old flame thrower researched quickly, and it would do you for ages!

And oh... That flamethower!
Squirt a bit of flame at someone, and they'd run around screaming for ages in a big ball of fire, before finaly crumbing down to a little frazzled skeleton.

T'was brilliant!

And there was none of that humanity rubbish going on it in...
A civilian gets in the way of your minigun? SO WHAT!? That's nobody's problem any more.
Problems with the police?
Fire a rocket into the station!

Need to get to the objective quicker?
Put a bullet through someone's windshield, and gun 'em in the back as they ran off, just so they don't come back as you're trying to steal their car.

Pedestrian crossing? Pff... It's a stolen car! You're not going to be bothered with a few dents and a bit of blood, of chunks of a body.

Cops coming after you then? Shoot the car a bit... It blows, taking out any cop near enough to the blast.
And the ones that aren't so near are shot up in flame, and run off screaming!

And what's this ****e about the mission ending when your objective is complete?
Not in Syndicate! No sir!
You ended the mission when you were GOOD AND READY to end it.
You could bugger off and loot all the corpses for any decent weaponary, or anything of use. And you could TAKE YOUR BLOODY TIME at it, too!


Like I said... I could go on for hours about how ****ing brilliant a game it was.

And nothing has EVER watched it since.

TinCool

I don't ever remember playing Syndicate on a C64, Spectrum, ST, BBC, Amstrad or Amiga. Old school my arse. Having said that it was a very good game, particularly syndicate wars.

Shinji

Syndicate came out on the SNES, which was a 16 bit console, and I *think* there was an Amiga version. I'll ask the guys on Monday.

DeadBankClerk

syndicate was primarily amiga and portet to the others afaik.


here's my list of A600 "backup" discs:

John Maddens (The orignal, no 'year')
Sensible Soccer
Sensible World Of Soccer
Chess Player 2150
Pinball Dreams
Delux Paint 3
Noddy
Advantage Tennis
Magic Pockets
World Class Rugby
Robocod
PGA Tour Golf
James Bond "Live and Let Die"
Street Fighter II - The World Warrior
North and South
Cannon Fodder
Toki
Lemmings
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Rainbow Islands
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challeng II
Xenon II - (Bomb the Base - Megablast - pwnage)

Lex_Diamonds

Originally posted by DeadBankClerk

Street Fighter II - The World Warrior

*shudder*

DeadBankClerk

Yeh there was one disk for the game, one for the backgorunds and two for the characters.


So if you changes characters and stages you could be swapping 3 disks between fights