Favourite video games from the past

I’m no ‘gamer’, but I certainly have fond memories of a few video games that I was reminded of when someone asked about silly things we had done after a break-up.

Not including such things as ‘adventure games’ for the Vic-20, the short list is as follows:

‘Mortal Kombat’ in the arcade, c. 1989
‘Lethal Enforcer’ for Sega c. 1992
‘Cabal’ in the arcade c. 1990

And I remember liking the music for ‘Looping’ on Colecovision.

What games do you remember fondly?

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?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OGkov7sj64

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;

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

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. http://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.

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

/thread

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.

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!

DrRSwank – Member
N64 – Ocarina of time

How could i forget that one!