Favourite video games from the past

and for the very old, Galaxians

mmmm, monochrome

School daze on the speccy. Wizball C64. Wasteland and Bard’s Tale on the PC and the original AD&D games on PC too. Oh, and Autoduel on the Amiga. Bother, forgot Bruce lee on the speccy.

I played Hunchback in green monochrome, my mates old Amstrad.

Numerous spectrum stuff as a geeky kid, Descent and Lara Croft thereafter, thankfully didn’t get into it more.

Descent

– Thanks, that was the game I had in my head but just couldn’t remember. Never could get the hang of that

Speedball II was ace and now on the iPad! Hogs of war was class and played Powermonger to death to complete the entire map only to realise it was only one small map in a grid of about 50 maps!

They put speedball 2 on the iPad??? WICKED! Time to raid the wife’s iTu nes account. All I need now is for the new X-COM to be a addictive as the original version and I’m sorted.

Now, if they did a re-boot of System Shock and Syndicate that were better than the originals…

Double Dragon
Golden Axe
Pole Position
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
FFVII
Outrun
Sonic the Hedgehog
Manic Miner. (possibly the most difficult platform game of all time).
There was an arcade game where you flew an F15 fighter. Cant remember the name. Anyone?
Best of all was Granny’s Garden on the BBC.

afterburner 😀

Phfffft. Dizzy collection FTW

Ah, some great stuff up there. It was a big night, when I completed Magicland Dizzy! Outstanding. Tony Hawks 2 was almost a perfect game.

The best of these are still worth playing today…

I had a walkthrough, does it still count?

Yeah. Even then it was still a sod. I think I used an infinite energy POKE in the end.

Manic Miner. (possibly the most difficult platform game of all time).

No, that accolade goes to Technician Ted. TT was like Jet Set Willy, only with many of the rooms being impossible unless you do them in an (undisclosed) set order, and then just in case that wasn’t evil enough there was a time limit on everything.

Technician Ted walkthrough. All 45 minutes’ worth.

Evil, evil game. Technically innovative, but evil.

Just downloaded the spectrum emulator on my iPad. Wow the Bruce Lee game is bad!

Megadrive

Super Shinobi
Steel Empire
Eswatt
Marvel Land
Magical Hat Flying Adventure
Strider
Bare Knuckle

Super Famicom

Contra Spirits
Super Mario 4
Axelay
Area 88
Gambre Goeman
Super Castlevania
Final Fight
Super Tennis

PC Engine

Splatterhouse
PC Kid 2
Devils Crush
Rainbow Islands

I love this thread!

My faves in no particular order:

Speccy –

The Magic Knight Trilogy (Spellbound, Knight Tyme & Stormbringer)
Turbo Esprit
Elite
Robocop
Harrier Attack
Renegade

Amiga –

IK+
Frontier
Syndicate
Turrican 1 & 2
Xenon

Stop.

MSX.

Penguin Adventure.

As you were.

Arcade:
Scramble
Battlezone
Moon Cresta
Phoenix
Crazy Climber

Lots of 10ps in slots in the local record shop and taxi ranks. You got very good when you had to pay to play….

Chuckie Egg.
Donkey Kong. Played this in my local chippie, spent more playing the game than on chips.
Dig Dug.

I used to spend hours playing Bombjack…..that one in 3D erm..Heads & Tails??

Loved Jetpac….but that’s already had a mention….

You could go way back to ZX81 and go Jumping Jack…..

grum you should have played the far superior commodore 64 version of bruce lee 😉
here’s a fantastic remake by smila (he does some fantastic remakes of classic games 😀
http://bruce.ovine.net/ to download it (it really is great 😀

Orbitor
Manic miner
Gunship 2000
Arcadia
Jet set willy
Wheelie

Forgot all about wizzball on the commi64,me and my cousin would play two player.He was much older so i had to use cat:(
Another world on the Amiga pre Flashback

80s: Chuckie Egg, Killer Gorilla, Philosophers Quest, 3-D Monster Maze
90s: The Incredible Machine, Monkey Island
00s: Unreal Tournament

80s defender or moon cresta
90s goldeneye
00s medal of honour 1,2,3
10s don’t game anymore

Atari 2600
Space Invaders
Combat
Asteroids

C64
Way of the Exploding Fist
Summer Games (Epyx)
Daley Thomsons Decathalon
Thing on a Spring
The Hobbit
Forbidden Forest
Aztec Challenge
Monty on the Run
Rambo
Kickstart

ZX Spectrum
Anything by Ultimate

Amiga
Batman
Sensible Soccer
F29 Retaliator
David Ledbetters Golf
John Madden’s Football

PC
Falcon 3
EF2000

SNES
Zelda – A Link to the Past
Super Mario World
Mario Kart
Street Fighter 2

N64
Super Mario 64
Mario Kart
Goldeneye
Zeldo – Ocarina of Time
Zelda – Majoras Mask

A few more that took many hours of my precious life
Tempest
R-Type
Super sprint
Asteroids
phoenix
Leisure Suit Larry
Special mention for Tetris, still play now 28 years after its release.
Happy Days!!!!!

Moon Cresta! Thanks for that, the hours and hours I used to play that for.
I wanted to build a table top game console using MAME until I found out how much table tops cost. 😉 I might have another look at that now a flat screen should be fauirly cheap to slot into a glass table or something.

Bet there are sites dedicated to this stuff….

There you go…
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/how_build_kickass_mame_arcade_cabinet_old_pc

Llamatron
Revenge of the Mutant Camels

(as well as Elite, of course)

Amiga

Superfrog
Cannon Fodder
Syndicate
Flashback
Worms

Sega MD

Sonic 2
Jungle Strike

N64
Goldeneye
Forsaken
Mariokart 64

PC

Theme Park World
Carmageddon
Civ 3/4
Half Life (game changer)

C64 games were so addictive, and easily playable, that they beat most top end games today on PC’s for time wasting and satisfaction value. It’s almost as if the gaming world has lost its way.

I see we have one mention for Daley Thompsons Decathlon from Rossendalelemming. That was a right joystick killer!

Another list of games I loved/liked on the C64:

Wasteland (disc only, and a kickstarter is running to remake it)
Gateway to Apshai
Parallax
Uridium
Airborne Ranger
Raid Over Moscow
Professional BMX simulator (4 player! 2 on keyboard, two on joysticks)
Commando
Ghostbusters
Revenge of the Mutant Camels
Great Gianna Sisters (was better than Mario!)
International Soccer (on cartridge)
Archon
Kikstart2
Buggy Boy
Powerdrift
International Karate

There’s loads and loads more, but every edition Zzap64 used to arrive in the post and I used to dream 🙂

Edit: how could I forget Paradroid! That’s got a couple of remakes on Linux, I played one recently although they don’t have the same “feel”

Nostalgia is great but there was lots of really dismal unplayable shite back in the day too.

Used to love some of the old Arcade games though.

Favourites were:
Donkey Kong (really bastard hard)
Ghost and Goblins
Track and Field
Aliens
Operation Thunderbolt
Afterburner
Out Run

Later when the 3D revolution took hold. I was obsessed with arcade racers. I must have spent over £200 playing Ridge Racer (at 50p a go!) but it was worth it to hold the lap record in Time Trial mode. Sega Rally 2 and Ferrari 355 Challenge (I actually won a competition at an arcade in Glasgow on this game) followed but Ridge Racer will always hold a special place in my heart.

Geoff Crammonds ‘Grand Prix’, ‘Grand Prix Legends’ and ‘Richard Burns Rally’.

I only do sims!

Arcades:

Slapfight
Karate Champ
Super Hang on
1942

acorn electron
Elite
Ravenskull

C64
paperboy
california games
commando
the last ninja
bubble bobble

atari st
xenon
leisure suit larry
starfighter
dungeon master

arcade
double dragon
outrun
chase hq
shinobi
afterburner

System shock.

There is one standout for me.

C64
Stunt Car Racer

Stunt car racer was great!

Stunt car racer with a rough arsed soldered null modem cable between 2 Amigas head to head!

Airbourne Ranger