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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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