Fav retro computer game

thats the poo - great stuff. forgotten all about that - sound effects used to crack me up & turbo mode was mental & that deflecting thing so funny, specially the howls when you got knocked overor t**tted 1 nice 1 - i'd got that confused with ikari warriors for some reason (age)

 

nes
super mario 1,2,3
castlevania

snes
un squadron
castlevania
secret of mana
f zero
super mario 4
mario kart

megadrive
Mercs
wrestle wars
secret of shinobi


arcade
any streetfigher version
virtual racing
bells and whistles
final fight
mortal combat
racing jam


Lee

 

Earthworm Jim



Boogerman

 

The only old skool game I still play today has to be Sensible World of Soccer 96/97 on PC. I know SWOS was really a Amiga game, but I found it more fun on the PC. Older games focused on playablility, instead of the latest cutting edge 3D gaming engine.

Other titles worthy or note are...
SWOS - Goal Scoring Superstar Hero
Cannon Fodder - War has never been so much fun
Utopia - My cousin designed that game
Sid Meiers Pirates (not the recent remake)
Civilization - Civ 4 is out later this year
Goldeneye - best FPS on any console ever!!!
Street Fighter 2 Turbo on the SNES
Tetris - still the best puzzle game.

I recommend a visit to www.the-underdogs.org for more old skool gaming fun.

Cheers, Jamie

 

Sensible Soccer

 

How about Elite? Anyone who can cram 8 entire galaxies into 6 bytes of data could teach Bill Gates a thing or two about coding efficiency

 

I spent so much time playing Elite
Edited by: superden

 

elite on the acorn - black & white fun. i was so young i asked my dad what narcotics were - couldnt work out why the policeships kept chasing me

 

'elite' was the best!

esp, on the amiga

 

must admit i spent a fair few hours playing



Frogger on the bbc

 

It's crazy thinking back that we could spend so much time playing a game that could fit on a console memory card now?

 

class game, selling drugs got the best money

 

how did I forget Elite! I spent ages playing that on my Electron. A mad amount of stuff crammed into that game, not least 3D space!

 

Sure it wasn't slaves? because the cops would be after you

 

I never got into Elite tbh, which is strange as it sounded like my kind of game. I guess some of you will be pleased to hear they are making Elite 4.

Cheers, Jamie

 

much smaller than that! you could fit the entire memory of a 128k Spectrum (which was the max size for a game, apart from ones that loaded bit by bit) onto an 8Mb PS2 memory card 64 times over!

 

Even onto a bloody phome nowadays

 

Yeah, heard about that. It`d bloody better be worth the wait. I wonder what spec your PC will need to be.....

 

The game was never about graphics, but more about playability. But the World of video games has moved on since the late '80's, so it'll need to look good before anyone wants to play it .

I found this info about the game (don't get excited it's not much) www.frontier.co.uk

Cheers, Jamie
Edited by: Yorkie

 

Frontier - Elite II one one Low Density Floppy for Amiga and one High density floppy on the PC.

Elite III - First encounter was appalingly bad though, makes windows ME look stable.