Favourite video games from the past

Holy smokes! Thanks for reminding me of Double Dragon! Of course, it was that game I was thinking about when I started this thread and NOT Mortal Kombat.

And, in case anyone from the thread about silly things done after a break up is reading this, it was Double Dragon I very cool-y played for a few hours in the arcade.

Elite – BBC Micro

Just stunned how he could put a 3d game with so much content on an old floppy floppy disk.

rumbledethumps – I won a stunt car racer competition at a school xmas fair with that very setup

Supercars 2
Moonstone
North and South
Cannon Fodder
Speedball 2
IK+
SmashTV
Monkey Island

Mariokart
Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Zelda
Marioworld

Super R.C Pro-Am on Gameboy
Link game of Tetris

So So many I can’t list them all:

Mega Drive

Mortal Kombat 1 & 2

Amiga

Shadow of the Beast (In fact most Psygnosis games)
IK+
Chaos Engine
Speedball 2
Sensible Soccer
Cannon Fodder

SNES – Mainly Multiplayer
Killer Instinct – CCCCCCCCombo Breaker!
Mega Super Streetfighter 2 Turbo Super Enhanced Edition x45p
Rock n Roll Racing

PC

Carmageddon
DooM – I remember getting the sharware version on 2 floppies on front of a mag.
Syndicate
F15 Strike Eagle 3
F-16 Fighting Falcon
EF2000
MDK
Half Life
Discworld
X-Wing – I never had a joystick for my first PC (an Apricot) my god it was hard work playing it with a mouse particularly towards the end with the TIE Interceptors.
Mechwarrior 2 – The intro was just incredible at the time. We used to take pc’s monitors the works round to each others houses for LAN parties with our P100’s all from Special Reserve!

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

I remember at Uni we had a room with a bunch of Atari STs in. Got a MIDI Maze going on a couple of them using a mate’s MIDI cables (it was like a 3D multiplayer Pac-Man that networked using the MIDI ports).

Borrowed a few more MIDI cables and got a couple more talking, but was still very short on getting them all connected. So I brought in a roll of bell wire and hooked up the rest by pushing bared wires directly into the pin sockets in the MIDI ports. It worked well so long as no-one bumped the tables.

We’d take turns to be a rigger running between machines keeping them going in case any of the wires fell out, a bit like the poor kid / little brother who got lumbered with putting cars back on the track when everyone else was playing Scalextric.

MECHWARRIOR 2! <nerdgasms> What a game! Then Mercs, once they fixed the bugs, the campaign in that is still the best I’ve played.

Mechcommander and MC2 were great too- flawed genius.

Not been through the whole thread so sorry for any duplicates… all mine are Amiga based…

Manchester United in Europe
Kick off 2
IK+ Karate
Supercars 2
Skidmarks
Geoff Crammond F1
F/18 Interceptor
James Pond – Robocod
Rainbow Islands
Chuck Rock
Sensible Golf
Zool

hahah~ interesting topic! I just remember Super Mario and Street Fighter. 😉

Best thread ever.

Jetpack
Duke Nukem (pc)
Descent (pc)
Sonic 1 (Master System)

Goes on an on until…

Ocarina Of Time.

Commando

Forgot about this one, loved it.

North and South

Forgot about that!

I remember tickling the photographer 🙂

Elite BBC B disk version combined with a Quick Shot Pro joystick.

Anyone else remember return of the tentacle and wing commander

Double Dragon was actually a pile of mince.

You could defeat the game easily by continuosly pulling off one move (the elbow).

Mortal Kombat wasn’t a whole lot better – summersaulting back and forward and kicking would pretty much win the game. Its remembered now for its finishing moves rather than its gameplay

Street Fighter II though remains a classic. I still play it on Xbox Arcade

I remember at Uni we had a room with a bunch of Atari STs in

Southampton?

We also used them for uses other than the dumb terminal and front end to the transputer boxes under the desk.

Had a couple of STs in digs though, which was where most of the games were played/written.

Southampton?

Heh, no, though I’d a few friends there.

Anyone else remember return of the tentacle and wing commander

Day of the Tentacle, ITYM?

I used to like Joust (arcade).

Does anybody remember Schizoids (sp?) for the Spectrum. Think it was by Imagine. WTF was it about?

Used to love playing network Quake at lunchtime at work….

Stunt Car Racer – still surprisingly playable:

http://dosdose.com/game/934/stunt_car_racer/

spectrum:

krakatoa
3d deathchase
lunar jetman
underwurlde

st:

populous

Enough said.

When I was a bored operator many years ago, I used to play the only game I’ve ever liked – Yie Ar Kung Fu on a BBC Micro

Can I get it for the iPad?