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i actually really like the cruisin games (i only played them recently via an emulator). i remember the slating they got in reviews. i think they are great fun to play.i don't think they deserve the slating they got tbh.
as for doom on the 3d0,it is by far the worst version of doom ever made,BUT it was my first experience of doom ever and thus will hold a special place in my heart (it also has the best music of any doom bar the playstation and n64 ambient soundcapes.
I spent *far* too long playing Turbo Esprit on the Spectrum in the 80s. Never quite understood what the point of the game was, but boy did I enjoy driving around!
Soldiers at War. It was slagged off but I still play it.
Great fun, turn based strategy.
Skool daze for the c64 was terrible but very addictive too
Chuckie Egg
I liked Defender for the Atari 2600.
It was slated, but not having much experience of the original I loved it.
Pele's Superstar Soccer really was crap though.
not sure if it was considered crap but i totally loved 'riven'.
was never really into computer games but i loved its slow and ambient lack of action.
Hogs of War.
Test Match Cricket for the mighty ZX Spectrum.
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Used to play full test matches, which took nearly as long as the real thing.
Oh, and this ear-melting bastard.
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star trek on the commodor pet
Test Match Cricket for the mighty ZX Spectrum.
Yep. Inexplicably that never got old for me either! 😀
Roland in the Caves - Amstrad special.
I knew no different, I was young and naïve
Raid over Moscow.
Sega rally , must have spent a fortune on it .
Objection! Leisure Suit Larry isn't crap, it's a stone cold classic.
Frak on the BBC
Frak on the BBC
And so was that.
"Crap" and "old" aren't synonyms.
Chaos for the Spectrum, wizard and a random set of speels, to try and create real or illusion creatures to defeat other wizards (up to 8 AI or human wizards).
The original was all about the gameplay and catching your mates cheating, simple but good fun game IMO.
Freeware variant of old game http://www.vectorlight.net/games/chaos-tournament
Modern take of game with nice graphics http://store.steampowered.com/app/319050/
Chuckie egg, skool days and hogs of war were great games! Only slightly crappy game I can think of that I loved was rampage.
I used to waste hours and hours on this - Herzog Zwei...
Was obsessed with Star Raiders (Atari 400/800) as a young teen. It captivated me completely. Vivid imagination. Even thought the membrane keyboard was super-futuristic, almost like I was in charge of a real Star Destroyer in, oh, 2008 or somesuch unimaginable future date)
Objection! Leisure Suit Larry isn't crap, it's a stone cold classic.
Clearly a man of taste. I also quite liked Space Quest with the Latex Babes of Estros. Not to mention
Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
I actually completed LGoP. Sod of a game (and in typical Infocom style, impossible without the map and assorted gubbins that came with the game).
Spider-Man on the Atari 2600-
BMX Racers on the Spectrum 48K+ (placcy keys!)-
Bugger, I'm old.
Duke Nukem Forever. Not as bad as everyone made out.
The Horace series on the spectrum, particularly Horace and the Spiders.
I stopped playing games mid 90s ,but I remember Downhill Dominator/ion? was both ace and a bit rubbish at the same time..
Erm...think it was called Zaxxon...absolutely loved it.
And an arcade (y'know...twenty pence in a slot) game called Mad Planets.
Chaos is a proper classic for face to face multiplayer.
Pastfinder on my Atari 800XL. Spin, shoot and jump ad infinitum... Strangely hypnotic and addictive.
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Choplifter, and then hours lost to Zork. Remember being cr@p at chuckie egg after pub closing time back at a mate's place. At the arcade, it was Pac-man and memorising the routes to make 10p last an hour.
I can't believe that somebody is claiming that the Horace games were crap! Horace Goes Skiing was a classic!
I really enjoyed Street Fighter II on the Amiga, despite the fact it was a terrible conversion, largely down to the controls (single button instead of six). Playing Championship Edition on the Megadrive was a revelation though!
The Dynasty Warrior games often get a critical panning, but I love 'em, especially 4.
Well yes they were cool but they were also pretty crap with hindsight!
Yeah trying to get Horace across the road to the ski slopes and then down was great fun...
Disco Dan, punchy. Games that came with the spectrum! Surprisingly addictive.
I actually completed LGoP.
Chapeau. I would give it another go if I had something to stick the 3.5 inch disk into.
... Downhill Dominator/ion? was both ace and a bit rubbish at the same time..
I got a PS2 last year. It exists in our house for one ^game^ only. And it is not 'a bit rubbish' at all! It is mightily cheesy and all the better for it IMO. Find self playing different characters just to hear the accents and choice taunts. Dammit, tomorrow night is DD night now. Sasquatch hunting on the Karpiel, jumpers for goalposts. *sigh*
I would give it another go if I had something to stick the 3.5 inch disk into.
The beauty of the Infocom games is, they separated out the game file (story.dat) and engine. So all you need is a "Z-interpreter" for your platform and you can run the original game on anything. Frotz is a well-known PC Z-interpreter, [url= http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXglulxXinterpretersXgit.html ]Git[/url] is an expansion on it, or you can try a multi-platform interpreter like [url= http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/interpreters-multi/gargoyle/gargoyle-2011.1-windows.exe ]Gargoyle[/url], and I have the story.dat somewhere if you do want to try again.
you all need to go to Bury Arcade club - its awesome.
£10 entry then everything on free play. Have lost track of a few Saturdays in there!
http://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/games
"Wizard needs food... ...badly"
Hard Drivin' on the Spectrum..
terrible.
yet i still played it.
Jet Set Willy on Spectrum 48k. Took an age to load but well worth the wait!
3D Death Chase. Basically you fly through a wood on a giant veiny cock!
Speccy classic.
Peeks n Pokes!
Icicle works on the Commodore 64 plus 4 (anybody remember getting one of those when they really wanted the regular C64 😆 )
That Bury Arcade Club looks ace - one for me and the lad.
"Wizard needs food... ...badly"
Gauntlet was far from crap!
Jet Set Willy on Spectrum 48k
Was a work of genius.
The skill of the 8 bit programmers to use some really clever tricks to get so much out of so little code was incredible.
used to play a fantasy type called Aliards tome (wanders off to search for it)
That Bury Arcade Club looks ace - one for me and the lad.
It's really good. Nice atmosphere, reasonably priced drinks and some lovely merchandise to be had.
Gauntlet was far from crap!
Too true! I was thinking of arcade games that were time sinks for me; I'd forgotten about the "crap" bit of the thread. Apologies to Atari.
I've got Gaunlet in my PS4. 😀
Jetpac for the spectrum....just don't know why I played it looking at it now.
Roland in the Caves - Amstrad special.I knew no different, I was young and naïve
+ Roland on the Ropes and (I think) Roland in Space. Many hours wasted there. Best bit was that the Roland character was totally different in each game with no reference to any of the others!
Sticking with Amstrad how about Harrier Attack, Fantastic Voyage or the early Dizzy games?
Another just remembered, Break Out on the Toshiba where you played as the Toshiba bloke from the ads.
Dizzy games were great or at least the first ones were.
Jetpac was awesome. No crapness there!
Agree ee coding skills as well. For consoles like the 2600 they had 1kB to play with. How they wrote anything that remotely worked is beyond me.
Often the development team was a person with a couple of months to complete the game.
Dizzy games were great or at least the first ones were.
Agree on Amiga, less so on Amstrad. At £4.99/7.99 they made many full price £24.99/29.99 games look vastly overpriced.
Dicewars
Snake
Return to Moonbase Alpha on my Acorn Electron
A text based adventure game.....I loved it.
Forbidden Forest on the Commodore 64.
What a train wreck of a game that was. Never stopped me spending hours playing it.
Lode runner, way of the exploding fist and Frank Bruno's boxing. All 48k spectrum classics
All of them good not crap.
Think people are getting mixed up with 'crap' looking games by todays standards and crap games 😆
The flip side to this thread title has gems like Uridium, Paradroid, Sanxion, Monty on the run, Crazy Comets, Gribblys day out, Loco, Hyper sports, Boulderdash.
Yes I was a C64 fan boi 😆
Wizball on the spectrum was an abomination compared to the C64 version, yet I loved it on the odd occasion it would load off the C90 full of other stuff 😆
I'm quite into Donkey Kong on the NES (emulator) at the minute 😳
Dizzy, Chuckie Egg and Gauntlet weren't pants.
Roland on the Ropes etc. were (and annoying music too iirc). That got played quite a lot, but mainly because it was one of the many games that came free with the CPC464. I don't recall the other games, but they were even worse, but didn't get played.
I don't recall the other games, but they were even worse, but didn't get played.
Harrier Attack.
Some wired mummy thing
Roland in the Caves
And some others.
I vaguely recall one being 3D FPV. 3D maze type thing. Step forward one square then wait 2 seconds for the screen to re-render with a handful of flat-filled polygons.
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Sultan's Maze
edit: just for clarity, that was a pants game I didn't like.
n0b0dy0ftheg0at - MemberChaos for the Spectrum, wizard and a random set of speels, to try and create real or illusion creatures to defeat other wizards (up to 8 AI or human wizards).
Nothing crap about Chaos! Actually still plays well today. we used to spend hours on it, making up our versions, setting up massive Gooey Blob vs Fire contests and that... Ace.
TBH a lot of these weren't crap, they were just old, it's like Citizen Kane's crap because it's not in IMAX.
Modern crap games... I've been playing a fair amount of Mordheim, it's pretty ropey- some outright broken game mechanics, inconsistent AI, orrible unuserfriendly menus and that, repetitive, and incredibly slow to play... But somehow it works, the core idea is good enough. It's maybe a 6/10 game but I'm loving it.
Rise of the Triad on PC (generic Wolfenstein/Doom-esque FPS).
I also spent months playing Quaratine (post-apocalyptic taxi simulator) - I'm not sure if that counts as rubbish or not though.
Rise of the Triads was great silly fun.
Quarantine was Ok.
Another C64 turkey - The Last V8
There were a few C64 games that you would tolerate being crap because they had a cool soundtrack. I think this was one of those.
It had a bit of digitised speech in it which, at the time, had a bit of a wow factor.
I actually played ET on a friends Atari 2600 way back when. Now that was a crap computer game, even for the time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_%28video_game%29
Rachel
+ Roland on the Ropes and (I think) Roland in Space. Many hours wasted there. Best bit was that the Roland character was totally different in each game with no reference to any of the others!
I loved Roland In Time; I still have the music stuck in my head every now and then even now. I never realised there were others, however!
I'm torn between trying to work out how I can play them again or just leaving them as happy memories instead of the aged, shonky disappointments they will inevitably turn out to be...
Not sure about the Amsoft games, but there are certainly a number of other Amstrad (and other platforms, since they weren't platform exclusive back then) games available online.
Played Dizzy a while back, and it was exactly as I remember. Be surprised if Chuckie Egg was not playable somewhere.
Must remember to fish out the Amstrad from the parents' loft sometime. Must be worth a tenner on ebay.
Be surprised if Chuckie Egg was not playable somewhere.
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