Random 80s computer game memory

Akrasia · 08-09-2015 12:34PM

I remember trying to play snooker on my dads old work laptop. This was before they figured out how to make colour LCD screens, so it was all in black and white

Good times

Akrasia · 08-09-2015 12:46PM

Speaking of Oceean
Terminator 2, the 1991 MS dos game was pretty cool but damn hard

The first level was a fight against the T-1000 and that was easy enough, but level 2 was a race through the dried up storm drain on the dirtbike with the 18 wheeler chasing you. I could never get past it.

5rtytry56 · 08-09-2015 12:52PM

Akrasia wrote: »

Speaking of Oceean
Terminator 2, the 1991 MS dos game was pretty cool but damn hard

The first level was a fight against the T-1000 and that was easy enough, but level 2 was a race through the dried up storm drain on the dirtbike with the 18 wheeler chasing you. I could never get past it.

On the Atari ST version of the same game, I could get past repairing T2's hand. I could never win in the 2nd fight with the T1000 which came after that.

_Kaiser_ · 08-09-2015 01:14PM

Massimo Cassagrande wrote: »

Elite - the game that taught me life was not fair..if you had cheats, you could get ahead in it, and if you could afford a disc drive, you were god...I didn't have either..

Neither did I, but I still remember one particular moment all these years later..

There I was minding my own business when I was attacked by an Asp that seemed to be blinking. After much ducking and diving I finally got him, and moved in to collect the cargo drum.

"Cloaking Device" appears on the screen. As a Star Trek fan I immediately thought "cool!" and tried to figure out how to turn it on.. in the meantime I get attacked by another ship and destroyed :mad:

Cue rewinding and reloading of tape drive.. after the 3rd attempt I finally figured it out (wasn't documented in the key guide). It was "Y" and it also allowed you to fire when cloaked like the Bird of Prey in Star Trek VI

I did actually make Elite in the end too!

Such a great game!

smash wrote: »

Anyone remember Blue Thunder?

I remember the TV show...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmBIk5RA0EQ

Only lasted a season but it was FAR better than Airwolf IMO

- there was a movie that it was based on too (a lot of the helicopter shots in the above intro are reused from the film) which was a lot darker but also very good.

circadian · 08-09-2015 01:24PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maKuCZi7MEc

Funnyonion79 · 08-09-2015 01:29PM

Anyone remember Frogger and Hunchback on the C64?

Also loved Ghosts and Goblins on the NES and a smililar game called Wizards and Warriors

http://youtu.be/DS7Cm9Rdymw

dr.fuzzenstein · 08-09-2015 01:33PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I remember the TV show...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmBIk5RA0EQ

Only lasted a season but it was FAR better than Airwolf IMO - there was a movie that it was based on too (a lot of the helicopter shots in the above intro are reused from the film) which was a lot darker but also very good.

That has Dana "Wayne's World" Carvey in it!

Amalgam · 08-09-2015 01:41PM

Space Pilot (Time Pilot) on the C64, getting a rage inducing forefinger/thumb blister, using it with an Atari joystick..

Loaded from a Commodore 1541.

_Kaiser_ · 08-09-2015 01:45PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

That has Dana "Wayne's World" Carvey in it!

Yup, also Hightower from the Police Academy movies

Episodes seem to be up on YT too

5rtytry56 · 08-09-2015 04:11PM

Again, got the cassette tape of a "Your Sinclair " Magazine long after other players.

720° skateboarding

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000041

banquo · 08-09-2015 04:14PM

Want some rye?

Course ya do.

/Return to Zork
/f*cking impossible game

captbarnacles · 08-09-2015 04:19PM

Loved Jet Set Willy. Platform game where you had to go round a house collecting glasses. It was infuriatingly difficult and we didn't know at the time but impossible to complete due to a bug.

Worst part was it took 15 minutes to load from the tape and then you were asked for a colour code from the card that came with the game. We only had half the card so this could take awhile. We still did it though.

wendell borton · 08-09-2015 05:37PM

Akrasia wrote: »

Speaking of Oceean
Terminator 2, the 1991 MS dos game was pretty cool but damn hard

The first level was a fight against the T-1000 and that was easy enough, but level 2 was a race through the dried up storm drain on the dirtbike with the 18 wheeler chasing you. I could never get past it.

At least you didn't have to contend with the load time of the C64 version.

dr.fuzzenstein · 08-09-2015 06:23PM

wendell borton wrote: »

At least you didn't have to contend with the load time of the C64 version.

I had the Freeze Frame cartridge. Loading took seconds. Also had a built in cheat, i.e. could turn off sprite collision. And as the name suggests, it could freeze the game and save whatever was on screen.
http://ar.c64.org/wiki/Freeze_Frame

Kerrydude1981 · 08-09-2015 06:48PM

I remember playing this on the Atari 7800,I think my brother finished it

NachoBusiness · 08-09-2015 07:18PM

We got a Commodore 64 in 1984 and all I played was Hover Bovver for a year.
Just listened to the sound that is made when the grass is being cut (intermingled with An English Country Garden of course) and it takes me right back.
I doubt a kid today would play it for five minutes, let alone a whole year.
I was obsessed with it though. Soon as I woke up all that would be heard was the sound of it loading and then grass being cut.
For.12.long.months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwaSgPVhyB8

kfallon · 08-09-2015 07:21PM

The Last Ninja games on the Amiga were class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osy-YCyId2M

Capt'n Midnight · 08-09-2015 07:55PM

This map Dungeon Adventure Game (AKA "Zork")
http://almy.us/image/dungeon.jpg

SouthTippBass · 08-09-2015 08:04PM

Akrasia wrote: »

Speaking of Oceean
Terminator 2, the 1991 MS dos game was pretty cool but damn hard

The first level was a fight against the T-1000 and that was easy enough, but level 2 was a race through the dried up storm drain on the dirtbike with the 18 wheeler chasing you. I could never get past it.

I had that on cartridge for C64, loved that game. I made it all the one to level 9 once, and only once. Thats the final fight with the T-1000 in the steel mill. Every other time I usually got to level 8, the helicopter chase.

The excitement then of progressing to the next level was very real back then, I would have been 9 at the time.

northknife · 08-09-2015 08:54PM

Way of the exploding fist on the cpc464 spent hours playing that

py2006 · 09-09-2015 09:30AM

northknife wrote: »

Way of the exploding fist on the cpc464 spent hours playing that

I bet you did...

citytillidie · 09-09-2015 10:20AM

blatantrereg wrote: »

Harrier Attack. Classic.

Fastest loading game on the Amstrad was great as well.

Player manager where you could choose different scoring routines and had to get your player in the correct position for the goal to count.

There is an app now called score which is sort of the same thing.

tinner777 · 09-09-2015 03:52PM

Do any of you remember the key code sheet for jet set willy

5rtytry56 · 09-09-2015 04:00PM

F 16 Combat Pilot by Digital Integration - the most authentic Flight Simulation you could get for your Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and Spectrum 128K, - not on 48k.

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/f-16-combat-pilot-n5