Random 80s computer game memory

dr.fuzzenstein · 11-09-2015 04:18PM

everlast75 wrote: »

"Monty on the run" anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_z2vrLrzQ

Monty on Armstrad? Aaaaaarrrrhgghhghhh!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcgruWlXnQ

Found this on YouTube, guitar version of Monty theme tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKssGfAtTP4

rgmmg · 11-09-2015 04:29PM

Some classics already mentioned - Raid Over Moscow, Kick Off 2, Chuckie Egg. Winter Games too

ceadaoin. · 11-09-2015 04:35PM

Has no one mentioned Prince of Persia? I spent hours playing that on amstrad. It was the first game I actually finished.

everlast75 · 11-09-2015 04:41PM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Has no one mentioned Prince of Persia? I spent hours playing that on amstrad. It was the first game I actually finished.

the only reason people went to computer class in my school

BattleCorp · 11-09-2015 04:43PM

Back in the early 80's I was pretty much a Donkey Kong professional. Every penny I had went into the machine in the local chipper. I got quite good at it.

One time I got so carried away playing the game that I actually jumped in real life as my character jumped over a barrel in the game. Fookin made me get killed so it did, and cost me 10p. :mad:

Not my finest moment.

11-09-2015 04:53PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqF_Wh97_o

First game I bought with my own cash, purely for the box art alone!

Who wouldn't buy this game nowadays?

Wetbench4 · 11-09-2015 05:02PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2e866bEcM

Oh the laughs I used to have with friends, setting up traps in Spy vs Spy.

Does anyone remember how the c64 was also cartridge capable, and finding games in the cart format was liking finding gold.

Mike Litoris · 11-09-2015 05:11PM

Deleted User wrote: »

But during the game you could say a word at any time and your character would change into a super hero. Or back again. And you had to type a word like "khazam" or "kapow" or something odd like this.

PLEASE tell me I did not dream this and someone remembers this game The bet I have with my mates was this was a ZX spectrum game. My mate thinks it was an Atari ST one. And my brother believes it was one of the first text games on the PC.

Dunno if anyone replied to this but I think that was one of the Marvel text adventures, either Spiderman or The Incredible Hulk. I remember reading it in a tips section in Crash.

Anyway, Level 9's the Price of Magik was my favourite text adventure.

northknife · 12-09-2015 03:58PM

northknife wrote: »

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

py2006 wrote: »

I bet you did...

HUH!!

captbarnacles · 12-09-2015 10:53PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

Back in the early 80's I was pretty much a Donkey Kong professional. Every penny I had went into the machine in the local chipper. I got quite good at it.

One time I got so carried away playing the game that I actually jumped in real life as my character jumped over a barrel in the game. Fookin made me get killed so it did, and cost me 10p. :mad:

Not my finest moment.

People trying to look over the hill when playing outrun in the arcade (yes me too)

the evasion_kid · 12-09-2015 11:10PM

Oh the wasted hours.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqScgMHVe3c

NIMAN · 12-09-2015 11:16PM

I wonder what Jeff Minter is up to these days?

5rtytry56 · 13-09-2015 10:51AM

NIMAN wrote: »

I wonder what Jeff Minter is up to these days?

HE of the famous computer games with Lamas in then? He owned an Atari ST as well... That's al I seem to rembember.

Ace Attorney · 13-09-2015 12:08PM

used to spend ages playing rick dangerous 2 on the c64

also there was a game where you played as a fox running around with the william tell overture as the music. It was a platformer type game if i remember correctly, cant rememember the name of it tho. anyone know?

Edit It was foxx fights back

dr.fuzzenstein · 13-09-2015 01:32PM

The Castles of Doctor Creep
I spend many a night on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi2dvxcioBw

Manic Moran · 13-09-2015 04:43PM

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I remember a couple on the Spectrum:

A bridge to far - absolutely fcuking brilliant - except it took so long to play and you had to save to tape. Saving to tape was grand but the chances of reloading from tape were about 50/50.

The other one was a lord of the rings type thing. It was good but I suspect impossible to win. Every turn ended with the haunting words "Do you want the dawn?". There were four characters the only one I remember was Tolken the Skulkren. At the time that name always jarred as a little too similar and a little too poetic.

Anyway very limited controls and graphics. You could either look North, East, South or West or move that direction. Good game but never won it.

You are thinking of "The Lords of Midnight". It was Fawkin the Skulkrin. I spent ages on the thing. Eventually won it after many, many tries. The game's designer didn't think it was actually possible to win. Amazing game for 48k of RAM.

As I look it up, I see that there's an Android app of the game now. I may look it up. And the sequel. He thinks again....

I swung by a demo of the current Elite: Dangerous, and it was just like the original Speccy version. But in color!

I recall an AH64 game, Tomahawk. It came with the Lenslok copy protection system. You had to place a faceted lens over the tv screen, and then figure out what the collection of blocks was telling you.

Keplar240B · 13-09-2015 04:45PM

Manic Moran wrote: »

You are thinking of "The Lords of Midnight". It was Fawkin the Skulkrin. I spent ages on the thing. Eventually won it after many, many tries. The game's designer didn't think it was actually possible to win. Amazing game for 48k of RAM.

As I look it up, I see that there's an Android app of the game now. I may look it up. And the sequel. He thinks again....

I swung by a demo of the current Elite: Dangerous, and it was just like the original Speccy version. But in color!

I recall an AH64 game, Tomahawk. It came with the Lenslok copy protection system. You had to place a faceted lens over the tv screen, and then figure out what the collection of blocks was telling you.

I thought you would mention the epic M1 tank platoon?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Tank_Platoon

5rtytry56 · 13-09-2015 06:11PM

For memorably CRAP 8 bit games, a zx spectrum game look no further than
"Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator"

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

less well known for the same platform

"The Wizards Warriors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMY6D8HtMg

Manic Moran · 13-09-2015 08:08PM

Keplar240B wrote: »

I thought you would mention the epic M1 tank platoon?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Tank_Platoon

Didn't play it in the 80s.

Hotblack Desiato · 14-09-2015 09:42PM

The Ultimate games on the Spectrum were great.

Jetpac
Atic Atac
(Never had Sabre Wulf)
Knight Lore
Alien8 (mapped and completed it)
(Never could figure out Underwurlde - taped copy, no instructions, but Ultimate instructions were totally cryptic anyway)
Then they switched to a new system - Nightshade and Gunfright were only OK, nothing like as good as Knight Lore or Alien8.

Head Over Heels (Ocean) was basically a rip-off of Knight Lore / Alien8 but with some good new ideas and having two characters added a lot to the game.
Match Day and Match Day II were great too.

Canis Lupus · 15-09-2015 12:14AM

Spy vs Spy was so much fun. Good times.

harry Bailey esq · 15-09-2015 07:57AM

I could happily while away a couple of hours playing Flimbos Quest right now on the commodore 64 right now,I feckin loved that game.Leaderboard golf,also on the C64 was another favourite of mine.

The Corinthian · 15-09-2015 09:18AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I remember a game when I was a kid - on one of our computers - a text based adventure game but with pictures done in ascii at the time. But it was one of those "go north" "examine pedestal" type games.

But during the game you could say a word at any time and your character would change into a super hero. Or back again. And you had to type a word like "khazam" or "kapow" or something odd like this.

PLEASE tell me I did not dream this and someone remembers this game

Nope, you didn't dream it. It was called Redhawk and you turned into a superhero by shouting "Kwah!".

Manic Moran wrote: »

You are thinking of "The Lords of Midnight". It was Fawkin the Skulkrin. I spent ages on the thing. Eventually won it after many, many tries. The game's designer didn't think it was actually possible to win. Amazing game for 48k of RAM.

And now available, and quite playable, for Android. There's quite a few ports and emulators out there. I even ported a version of Don Priestley's Dictator to Android a while back.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

The Ultimate games on the Spectrum were great.

Great software house that consistently came out with great titles.

Other worthy games off the top of my head include:

Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy
Stonkers (one of the earliest RTS games ever written - the later Nether Earth deserves a mention on this front)
Heavy on the Magick
Pyjamarama
The Great Escape
Avalon
Bruce Lee

harry Bailey esq · 18-09-2015 04:25PM

NIMAN wrote: »

I wonder what Jeff Minter is up to these days?

No clue.Probably doing gay porn.Maybe not.But with a name like that he very well might become one of the biggest stars in the 'industry'

dasdog · 18-09-2015 05:27PM

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

The Ultimate games on the Spectrum were great.

Jetpac
Atic Atac
(Never had Sabre Wulf)
Knight Lore
Alien8 (mapped and completed it)
(Never could figure out Underwurlde - taped copy, no instructions, but Ultimate instructions were totally cryptic anyway)
Then they switched to a new system - Nightshade and Gunfright were only OK, nothing like as good as Knight Lore or Alien8.

I've done plenty of boring IT work over the years but have been working alongside the studio that Ultimate evolved in to for the past 18 months.

Phoenix (Arcade), just evil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSBbQl2o6u8

everlast75 · 21-09-2015 01:56PM

Jet Pack Willy

5rtytry56 · 23-09-2015 03:19PM

The most successful 80s computer game platforms are those still with games being turned out for them in the present day, namely the C64 and the ZX Spectrum.

There is an R Type clone called "More Tea , Vicar" released this year for the Spectrum

http://oldschool-gaming.com/view_review.php?rev=spec_more_tea_vicar

I don't have a similar game for the C 64, but it has a thriving fan base on the web, clearly.

Random 80s computer game memory

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