[Closed] Favourite video games from the past

Speedball 2 - Still never been beaten in a game

Turrican 2

Jet Set Willy - now have it on my iPad

Syndicate - the original was fantastic

I could go on all day I love video games.

Q'Bert
Galaxian

Syndicate - the original was fantastic

Loved that game. Had it for the Amiga 600. Lost hours and hours to that game.

One for me was the arcade version of 1942. Was always the game I headed for when at an arcade. Always came out with the high score too. 😀

I loved MK in the arcades too. Before that, many many 10p bits were claimed by Vulcan Venture (aka Gradius II) and a shoot-em-up no-one's ever heard of called Armed F.

+1 for JSW. I actually played Manic Miner again on a real rubber-key Speccy a couple of months back. Shocking how much of it is still in my muscle memory.

We've all seen this trailer incidentally, yes?

There are loads i need to mention but Ghosts & goblins and Rygar were 2 of my top favs.

Pjamarama (if only because it's the first game I completed)
Wanted: Monty Mole
Road Rash (for drunken after hours gaming with mates)
Resident Evil 2 (got me playing again after many years away, how much things had changed)

and more recently...

Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Soldier of Fortune 2 Multiplayer (first 'proper' foray into MP)
CoD United Offensive Multiplayer (particularly Base Assault)
Battlefield Desert Combat

Spent very many hours on lots of different games, couldn't possibly list them all here.

FFVII

Thread closed

Discs of Tron was another favourite.

And these;
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Space Invaders ....... 'Showing my age' ! 😀

Pjamarama (if only because it's the first game I completed)

That's quite a feat, Pyjamarama was a swine of a game to complete.

Wip3out......or wipeout 2097 still undecided on which was better.
Another vote for syndicate
another world & flash back
pinball fantasies
battle isles

Not really a video game but it did have a screen ' Starwars pinball ' in the arcades.

Spectrum & C64

Knightlore
Phantom of the Asteroids
Paperboy
Booty
The Perils of Bear George
Jet Set Willy
Horace Goes Skiing
720

Amiga

The Chaos Engine
Superfrog
Zool
Buggy Boy
Moonstone
New Zealand Story
Worms
Alien Breed
Flashback

Megadrive

Sonic the Hedgehog
Road Rash
Cool Spot
Super Street Fighter II: Championship Edition

CD32

Captive 2: Liberation
Pinball Dreams

Playstation

Final Fantasy VII
Soul Blade
Soul Reaver
Tekken 2
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Resident Evil
Resident Evil 2

Not including any of the later consoles because a) we’d be here all day and b) that was like, yesterday.

PC rather than console

EF2000

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Manic Miner
Cannon Fodder
Shadowrun (not the recent remake)

Biggest time-eaters:

Doomdark's Revenge on the Speccy. I was utterly obsessed with it.

Original GTA on PC. Gouranga!

More recently, the first PC version of Halo. Now I have to get hold of an Xbox so I can play the sequels.

That trailer looks great, not sure my kids will get half the characters but I will.

Battle Isles good call.

FF series next someone will claim Halo series, completely over rated rubbish.

Edit: Ha see ^^

San Andreas.

Talking of Pyjamarama,

There's a PC and Mac remake. www.remakeszone.com/juegos/juego.php?id=42&lng=english

There's some really really good remakes out there. Andy Noble's MM / JSW conversions are brilliant. http://www.andynoble.co.uk/games.htm

Atic Atac on the Speccy.

Mario Kart, SuperMario World, Zelda: A Link to the Past or Secret of Mana on the SNES.

Fade to Black on the PS1.

Tourist Trophy or TT Superbikes on the PS2.

Crazy Taxi on the Dreamcast.

Goldeneye on the N64.

Ikaruga or F Zero GX on the Cube.

SuperMario Galaxy on the Wii.

Advance Wars on the GameBoy.

And IL 2 Sturmovik on the PC.
That should just about do it 😀

Arcade:

Gyruss
Gradius
Hypersports

Home:

Doom

Thing on a spring for the C64
Aliens for the spectrum(scared the hell out of me)
Nodes of yesod for the C64
The count for the vic20,go dumb waiter,use garlic hahahah
sensible soccer for the Amiga
sybonoid for the Atari st(I forget how to spell it)
Space hulk for the ps1
and the greatest game ever dungeon master for the Atari st

Ohh the joy of gaming as a child
Great post guys:)

Shadowrun (not the recent remake)

Take a look at this, then.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns

Another Space Invaders, Defender fan back in the time....

Dungeon Master (only game I have ever completed!)

Never any good at Elite, but it was a great game.

What was the very early spectrum ZX81 game ( I think), where you traveled round a maze, bumped into other things that you would take turns in fighting, you would lose power every turn? all very basic
graphics?

Opps, nearly forgot the first version of gran turismo on the PS

I wonder, did Drac read the thread title...? Favourite, not best.

I liked:

Syndicate

Secret of Monkey Island

Kula World (PS1)

Doom

Prince of Persia

Asteroids

That original Star Wars one where you fly down the Death Star

Amiga: Sensible World of Soccer

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Still playing it on my XBox!

I wonder, did Drac read the thread title...? Favourite, not best.

He did and as you can see they weren't my favourite.

Ohh and Silent Hill - loved it until it scared me so much I couldn't play it anymore 🙁

Elite

Cougar - cheers!

(wanders off to give contents of Paypal account to the shadowrun man...)

Golden Eye!!!

Operation Wolf on the speccy.
Starwing on the snes.
Perfect Dark on the N64 - far superior to GoldenEye!
Phantasy Star Online/Shenmue 1&2 on the Dreamcast.
Kotor on the Xbox

Loads from recent times too.

What was the very early spectrum ZX81 game ( I think), where you traveled round a maze, bumped into other things that you would take turns in fighting, you would lose power every turn? all very basic
graphics?

Monster Maze?

(wanders off to give contents of Paypal account to the shadowrun man...)

I already did. Never played the SNES game, but I used to play (and later GM) the paper-based Shadowrun RPG.

Spectrum - Manic miner, Jetpac, Ant attack

N64 - Ocarina of time, Perfect Dark

Mega drive - Sonic 2, Road Rash two

What was the name of the one where you were hunting a tank. It was all 3d and green geometric shapes. I liked that one.

Oh, just thought of another.

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jak and daxter
ratchet and clank ps2

Think my favourite game of all time is:

Since then I've wasted many an hour playing Descent, Doom and quake, but never really "progressed". Or maybe I did in some ways lol.

EF2000 also, I still have a boxed copy on my shelf right here!

DrRS**** - Member
N64 - Ocarina of time

How could i forget that one!

Streetfighter II Turbo on the SNES. The only game you ever need.

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Megadrive- Sonic and Sonic 2
Pc- MoH allied assault ,silent hunter 2, IL-2 sturmovik, bf1942 (first multiplayer game, i spent way too many hours on that one)

IL2 Sturmovik is brilliant - but refuses to run for more than 5 minutes on my win 7 machine, it's sequel is technically great but lacking in the campaign/planes department.

Really loved fallout 1&2 as well.

Manic Miner on the 64? That's just wrong.

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Mr Do! In the arcade.

this is the short list (it could be waaay longer 😉
commodore 64
last ninja 1 & 2
bobby bearing
uridium
hawkeye
wizball
staff of kanarth
thrust
super cycles
mercenary
gunship

amiga A500+
eye of the beholder 1 & 2
space hulk
geoff crammond formula 1 grand prix
cannon fodder
lemmings
speedball 2
beneath a steel sky
gunship 2000
fire & ice
gods

3D0
space hulk
road rash
killing time
doom (it was by far the worst version of doom ever converted,but it was the first version of doom that i played.also the music was the best ever!)

playstation 1
final fantasy vii
doom
gran turismo 1 & 2
ridge racer type 4
disruptor
wipeout 2097 & 3
tomb raider
rollcage

playstation 2
god of war
ico
gta vice city
gran turismo 4
half life

atari jaguar
alien v's predator
tempest 2000
wolfenstein

xbox
half life 2
oddworld munch's odyssey,strangers wrath
project gotham racing 2
fable
doom3
jet set radio future

n64
ocarina of time
goldeneye
turok dinosaur hunter 1 & 2
super mario 64

gamecube
f zero gx
windwaker
twilight princess
metroid prime
resident evil 4

that'll do for now 😉

Scanned the entries so far and didn't see it.....

WORMS 🙂

Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System, a game completed 3 times due to battery backup failure.

One from the BBC B where you were in a massive haunted house of many rooms all filled with odd moving pixellated shite, early platform game. Any suggestions?

Not really that long ago I know, but..
Ty Tiger & motogp, both on xbox.

Head over heels. Utter brilliance.

Stealth Fighter

Renegade / Target Renegade

So many hours on a 128k spectrum +2.

RichPenny - Member

Scanned the entries so far and didn't see it.....

WORMS 🙂

Can't believe i forgot that one! Probably the most addicitive game that you don't have to pay monthly for.

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Sensi Soccer

OIDS [ST]
Dungeon Master [ST] Automation 097 😉
Doom [PC]
SWOS
Goal! or Kick Off2
Elite
Virtual Pool
Worms+
Dark Forces
Quake 2

Anyone remember Hellgate on the vic20?
What about any of the Alan minter stuff like attack of the mutant llamas?

This article is worth reading if you had a Speccy or C64. There are a few quotes from ZZAP and Crash magazine journalists. Really brought back memories. I still have my rubber keyboard Speccy 48k in working order. Wish I still had my Amiga 500.

[url= http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-face-off-zx-spectrum-vs-commodore-64 ]Eurogamer Digital Foundry Speccy vs C64[/url]

Repton
And Sensible Soccer, as above.

Also, there was one where you were some kind of wizard, and you could change into animals. You had a limited number of changes per level, and basically each level consisted of changing into appropriate animals - so a cat to jump up, a baboon to climb a rope, and so on.
No idea what it was called.

Tanks, too.

There are a few quotes from ZZAP and Crash magazine journalists.

I was chatting to Julian Rignall on Twitter the other day. In't the Internet brilliant?

Chuckie Egg! Why has no one mentioned Chuckie Egg?

Target renegade foe the speccy was ok but the bloke on this video is class... 😯

Bubble bobble anyone?

cheers Northwind I had no recollection of rebelstar II until I saw that screenshot and it all came flooding back !
Great game !

SNES-Zelda
Gameboy-Tetris
Arcade-Chase HQ

finest of their era.

Not quite a vintage as some, but this is epic.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_playing_the_same_game_of_civilization_ii/

SuperSprint (arcade version with all the steering wheels)

1942

Micro machines
Kick off
Defo bubble bobble
Arkanoid
Shuffle puck cafe
Hunchback
Missile command
Echo the dolphin
Crash bandicoot
To name but a few that owe me hours back!!!

cant believe i cant see it above, pacman..........

Loved this

This article is worth reading if you had a Speccy or C64.

Just read through that whilst eating tea. Dinner. Whichever. Anyway. Really interesting read, thanks for posting.

Bubble bobble anyone?

A mate and I completed BB on the ST. Genuinely, no cheats or anything other than the lives and few credits it gives you. It took us [i]months.[/i]

Target renegade foe the speccy was ok but the bloke on this video is class

Ooh cool, it's a wetwo weview of Tawget Wenegade. Shame he's wubbish at it.

Used to love playing Gauntlet when I was a lad. Epic multiplayer in its day. How times change.

Not quite a vintage as some, but this is epic.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_playing_the_same_game_of_civilization_ii/

Hehe, that's quite fascinating, even though I never played the game.

Elite, end of thread

well not quite, you can free download oolite and have even more fun
http://www.oolite.org/

Hired Guns on the Amiga

My favourite game ever

That's quite a feat, Pyjamarama was a swine of a game to complete.

I had a walkthrough, does it still count?

edit: thanks for the link, will be playing that again, cheers 🙂

+1 for Chuckie Egg if only for the sounds

Turbo Esprit on the spectrum - the first game I can recall where you could ignore the goal and the time pressure and just go and have a muck about in the game world instead

Reading this lot back there's so many games I've played and forgotten about.

Honorable mentions to Silent Hill (the original), Half Life 2, Hunchback, Tony Hawks Pro Skater (1, 2 and 3), Rogue Spear, Metal Gear Solid 2, Colin McRae's and Thrill Kill (!)