Random 80s computer game memory

MrBobbyZ · 07-09-2015 06:25PM

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Loved this game.
Learned to play poker on my 6128 as I had a disk my neighbour copied for me and it had a game of strip poker on it. How many hours I wasted just to see a green muff as I didn't have a colour monitor!
Became sh1t hot at poker though!

Brilliant game but I used to go rough and bomb everything quite a lot.

niallo27 · 07-09-2015 06:34PM

Anyone else type out all that code on the Commodore 64 just so it would make a ping noise or show a green box. What language was it. Was it C.

Buona Fortuna · 07-09-2015 06:36PM

niallo27 wrote: »

Anyone else type out all that code on the Commodore 64 just so it would make a ping noise or show a green box. What language was it. Was it C.

I did it on the spectrum. Heady days

Dr Turk Turkelton · 07-09-2015 06:36PM

MrBobbyZ wrote: »

Brilliant game but I used to go rough and bomb everything quite a lot.

Haha so did I!
Also had Operation Wolf, another classic. I ordered it from some Amstrad magazine and had to send off a postal order to get it!

Very Bored · 07-09-2015 06:39PM

There was a game on the NES. Nintendo Soccer or something. It was the first time I ever worked out a pattern in a game. You controlled one player, two in two player, and the computer controlled the rest of your team. My mate, on the same team, used his player to run around everywhere doing stuff and I just hung around on the edge of the area. Any time the ball came to me in the air I did an overhead kick and scored. We won the World Cup or whatever tournament was on the machine through that simple tactic.

Ruu · 07-09-2015 06:48PM

One of the FIFA games (maybe 94?) on the Megadrive had the bug where you scored from a kick out, you had to reset the machine, it just froze! >_<

niallo27 · 07-09-2015 06:54PM

I loved FIFA on the Super Nintendo. Spent a lot of my childhood playing Kevin keegan football manager. Best game ever.

ThisRegard · 07-09-2015 07:45PM

timthumbni wrote: »

Many summer days lost playing..Bruce lee....

We had every game you listed but 2 player Bruce Lee was hilarious with a mate controlling the sumo guy. It was supposed to be cooperative but often the guy playing Bruce Lee would give him a box for the craic when running past. Sumo guy would retaliate and eventually there'd be a rush to kill the on screen CPU characters so the 2 of you could get back to baiting each other, well Bruce baiting the lesser strength sumo guy.

ThisRegard · 07-09-2015 07:49PM

niallo27 wrote: »

Anyone else type out all that code on the Commodore 64 just so it would make a ping noise or show a green box. What language was it. Was it C.

It was Basic.

ceadaoin. · 07-09-2015 08:21PM

Ghosts n goblins, or maybe it was ghouls n ghosts, on the Commodore 64. Hardest game ever. It was nigh on impossible to get further than a couple of minutes into the game.

Skerries · 08-09-2015 09:14AM

Arthur Daley wrote: »

The great manic miner. Never got to finish it in the 20th cavern, got to about 17. There was an emulator online but haven't got it work in a while.

here ya go

Daith · 08-09-2015 09:21AM

There was a Batman game based on the movie. I remember in the last level you could smash into a wall and get unlimited lives.

Getting pissed off that the Dungeon and Dragons game I got was nothing like the cartoon.

dr.fuzzenstein · 08-09-2015 09:36AM

On the C64 (of course!):
Boulder Dash, Uridium, Paradroid, Monty on the Run, The Castles of Doctor Creep, Impossible Mission and for the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDAhixO2t5w

What I like about Commando and other games, the C64 had 3 sound channels, which means one of them would have to stop playing background music in order to play a sound effect.

razorblunt · 08-09-2015 09:49AM

That football game on C64, where if you time it right the ball would land on your head and bounce up and down perfectly meaning you could just run the ball into the goal.

beertons · 08-09-2015 09:55AM

On my commadore, midnight express would have been my favourite.

On my cousins spectrum, Panama Joe was deadly.

Tabnabs · 08-09-2015 09:57AM

Ace of Aces, because shooting down German's was still a right of passage in the 1980s

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

Into The Blue · 08-09-2015 10:01AM

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Sensible Soccer. The software team behind it left Ocean software to make this game. Who remembers Ocean today?

Say ocean, think robocop!

smash · 08-09-2015 10:04AM

Insert Turtles game in to c64, wait 10 minutes.
Type unique code that's listed in manual to prove you have a legit copy of game, wait 10 minutes.
Look at loading screen, have dinner.
Finish dinner, game is ready to play!

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

08-09-2015 10:08AM

I still occasionally replay "Supremacy" the space war strategy game if I find the time. Hard not to use the "cheat" in it though when playing. Good game though.

Very Bored · 08-09-2015 10:17AM

@razorblunt you could do that on Super Kick Off on the Master System too. In fact you could chip the ball up onto your own head and run the length of the field just heading it along before scoring with a final header. I remember World Soccer on the Master System too, the first soccer game I remember which genuinely changed its difficulty depending on who you were playing. If you played Japan or the USA you'd hammer them, (West) Germany or Argentina not so much.

Banta · 08-09-2015 10:19AM

Midnight Resistance still has a special place in my nostalgic heart. The theme music alone... just wow. Can still hum it on cue.

Into The Blue · 08-09-2015 10:31AM

If we were going to play Bounty Bob on the 130xe, we had to get out of the room while it was loading.. Even the slightest vibration would fúck it up! 45 mins wasted!

smash · 08-09-2015 10:32AM

Anyone remember Blue Thunder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtqiWJERGY

Dramatik · 08-09-2015 11:15AM

The best C64 game!

This one featured a famous unorthodox cheat where you wet your finger and rubbed it on the joystick port and you would get infinite lives! I'm not taking the piss either, it actually worked

Other great games I played a lot were:

Midnight Resistance
Outrun Europa
Sly Spy Secret Agent
Turbo Charge
The Last Ninja
Flimbo's Quest

Parents threw my C64 in a skip years back while doing "spring cleaning" along with my 100+ games :mad:

dr.fuzzenstein · 08-09-2015 11:21AM

We played this for days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIIinFG6XOo

dr.fuzzenstein · 08-09-2015 11:26AM

I just remembered! Raid Over Moscow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33CCXg8B4aM

That was bloody hard to play if all you had was cracked games and no instructions!
I never paid for a single game, was lucky enough to have friends connected to several cracker groups back then.

dr.fuzzenstein · 08-09-2015 11:49AM

Aliens!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKq1b9CzToE

nozzferrahhtoo · 08-09-2015 12:14PM

GaryCocs wrote: »

There was an egg character one for the C64, platform based from what I remember??

This is likely one of the areas I out-nerd most of you, if not all of you.

In my youth I not only played all of the Dizzy games going, but I ordered them and their story lines in a way that chronologically made sense, made up stuff to fill in the gaps, and then actually wrote a book called "The Adventures of Dizzy" based on that entire amalgamation.

Given the age at which I wrote it.... it was not very good at all. But not bad for a kid. I think it currently lives in a folder in an attic somewhere in my parents house in Dublin.

Akrasia · 08-09-2015 12:31PM

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Sensible Soccer. The software team behind it left Ocean software to make this game. Who remembers Ocean today?

Ocean made some awesome games. New Zealand Story was amazing

5rtytry56 · 08-09-2015 12:32PM

Gauntlet on all 8 bit systems

http://www.mobygames.com/game/zx-spectrum/gauntlet

Surprised to see it went as far as Gauntlet III on the spectrum as well.

Random 80s computer game memory

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