I had a Commodore C16, I remember my Mum being keen on it because it was a real computer and would therefore mean a lifetime of success and wealth for me and my little Brother whereas an Atari would only lead to glue sniffing. They used to cost 200 I think, plus a tape drive which wasn't cheap either - inflation corrected you could probably get a 8GB laptop these days with an i5 processor for the same money, still they were cheaper than the C64 my posh mate had, they cost a probably twice as much. I think Commodore made a lot of money selling ****ty games machines to parents under the pretence of selling them a future of "working in computers" for their Kids - It came with a book of commands you can type in, a couple of hundred lines of commands without a single keystroke error was all that separated the owner from a blocky circle being slowly drawn on your TV, I don't suspect anyone ever tried these things more than once or ever used anything other than the R, U, N & Return keys - saying that I'm an IT Consultant (of sorts) now so maybe Mum was playing the long game, a very long game I didn't move into the IT Industry until I was 35. We mostly used it as prop in our fantasy games, unless we had half an hour to wait for it to load BMX bandits from a cassette, you only needed to do a half load every time you died, 10 minutes, 15 tops before you could try the impossible ride between the bollards again - at least that's what I think they were, they could have been cars or maybe policemen - we're talking 4 pixel barriers here. I remember my mates Dad bought a 3.5" disc drive for his for about 200 which loaded the same game in about 20 seconds - ****ing witchcraft! After that Mum saw through the whole 'home computer' thing and I had a NES system, foolishly I asked for the special one that came with the Teenage Mutant Ninja game instead of Super Mario Brothers, film tie-in games, as ever, being ****, I got bored with it in a week, plus unlike the C16 when you could buy games for 2 in pretty much any news agent they games cost a bloody fortune, I had to wait until my birthday 6 months later to get another one - Motorcross Madness, a game based around being able to save your progress and thus had a huge amount of levels you progressed through, unfortunately the memory plug-in device needed to do this never actually made it to market, so you pressed 'start' to save your game and a flashy screen saying "SAVING" came up, but never went anywhere. I gave up after that, some of the kids in School had SNES machines, Amigas and early PC's - I didn't have another one until I had a PS2 after moving into my first place away from home - mostly because it was the cheapest DVD player in the shop, GTA3 and it's spin-offs and the Grand Tourismo games get a proper airing though! Got a PS3 now, again mostly because I wanted a Blurray to justify my new (back then) HD TV, GTA V being the only game that's ever matched my expectations ha ha. Might get a PS4, maybe if I end up buying a 4K TV of there's a really good new GTA game.
Atari 2600. Loved it! Then a sega master system with 'hang on' built in followed by a mega drive, snes etc. Anyone remember the Jaguar? Way ahead of its time, shame it didn't take off. For me the sega dreamcast was the best console for its time ever made.
Sega rally 2 never did it for me. Amazing graphics but it never had the gameplay of the original which I'd go as far to say is the greatest game ever made. I remember selling just about everything I had to buy a Saturn and a copy of sega rally, the first time I played it I knew video games would never be the same again! In fact I might dig out the Saturn and fire it up just to play it again
I'd almost forgotten about the Atari Lynx I had - who remembers that? The graphics were mindblowing to me at the time and on a (somewhat) handheld system!
I've still got mine in full working order and about 14 games Apb,roadblasters,California games all good fun i still play it now and again was top notch back in the day lol My psp is hacked and has quite a few emulators on it mega drive,master system,snes,Amiga love em all lol
yeah my mate had a jaguar, wasnt impressed with it tbh though you did have a shody port of doom on it which I liked mushy cannon socker was on a demo disk from one of the amiga mags, it was sensible soccer pitch but with army blokes from cannon fodder and a grenade for a football! It even bounced a bit funny liek a grenade woult (I imagine) plus it would also explode randomly and take out your players if you didnt get rid of it! Could take out the goaly with it I have an adf of it somewhere if you wanted to take a look
Mate of mine bought a Jaguar, it was meant to be twice as powerful as it's competitors? Sort of a PS2 in the age of PS1 - but the controller was bloody awful and they never had any games come out for it. Another mate of mine had a bloody Neo Geo machine which I seem to remember cost as much as a car and was basically an arcade machine under your TV, even had a massive controller - 100 a game too, 20 years ago!
Commodore plus4, still got it too!! Icicle works, fire ant, treasure island etc all classics ( none of this halo bolx lol)
I went a bit mad with the emulators (albeit for PC) a while back Have ones for: Master System, Megadrive, 32X, Dreamcast SNES, N64, Gamecube PS1, PS2
Neo geo! There's a rare machine! I remember the screen shots for a racing game they had planned, the graphics were beyond anything of its time. Something like a million polygons and no background pop up which back then was unheard of. Seriously expensive and specialist though! Edit. I think the racing game might of been on a machine that never actually made production. It was around the very early Sega Saturn days iirc
My First games console was a 1980 INGERSOLL ATARI CX2600 WOODGRAIN games console, when sold two years ago got about 30 but it didn't work which was a real shame. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-1...meConsoles&hash=item565c621fe9#ht_1525wt_1396 Then we had these in no order; Commodore C16 plus Commodore C64 Commodore Amiga A500 V1.2 Rom Commodore Amiga A500 V1.3 Rom Commodore Amiga A500 Plus 2.0 Rom Commodore Amiga A600 1.9 Rom Commodore Amiga A1200 3.0 Rom Commodore Amiga A1200 3.1 Rom with CFHD and 68040 processor Sega Game Gear Nintento Game Boy Nintento Snes Atatri Lynx I had now sold some of my consoles but still got my game gear (back light and capacitoras changed as they fail on the game gear) and all my amiga computers which are worth a forture now. I have got games like Turican 2 and Turrican 3, shadow of the beast series, Moonstone, Agony and superfrog plus many other rare games I picked up either new at the time or from bootfairs see prices here: Would you believe there was a game like Grandtheft auto invented on the Amiga, it was called hunter, a 3D action game that you could steal cars, hovercrafts etc and kill humans, birds, seagulls etc..... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shadow-Of...eo_Games_JS&hash=item19d88dd2d2#ht_263wt_1158 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amiga-Gam...mputing_RL&hash=item5d4109204e#ht_6183wt_1502 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-E...eo_Games_JS&hash=item1c376da800#ht_352wt_1396 I am real commodore nerd.... I caught the bug at school and it's never left me. lol
hehe hunter was cool, did you ever try the 'everything is a helicopter' cheat? You could turn yourself into a helicopter, then bail out of yourself if you were clever you could set your helicopter-self into a landing curve then bail out of yourself, then talk to yourself once your helicopter-self had landed. it would say 'the you says: this is french something or other'
It was a ****ing hell of a thing, basically a coin op machine in a smaller box, or maybe the arcade machines was one of these things in a wooden box, either way it came about around the time the standard stand-up coin-up machine died off.
Nooooooo I didn't but sounds great. I will try that cheat. Have you seen Lemonamiga website? www.lemonamiga.com That lists all cheats for the amiga games, also halloflight is another good website. There is something about Comodore amiga's I find so "Apealing" Yes I have an Xbox 360 and PS2 but the Commodore sadly wins everytime. lol Another game which is so addictive is syndicate by bullfrog, really good game. Also Dreamweb is a good action puzzle game. Not a great fan of games like Gloom or testament on the A1200, I found it very jurky and would only run well on 4m of ram. BUT we all know the best games ever produced on the amiga is Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back. Dungeon Master 2 is cool too but the first series is always the best. My brother won Legend of Grimrock in a week. He just has this nack of winning these games, guess that's why he is a games programmer!! lol
I think the hunter cheat was due to me having a cracked version, not sure if it was one you could actually type in? yup played all of those, dont forget hired guns I had a 1260 and millions of rams so pretty much everything ran great, I had every single fps you could get as I love em so much! ab3d got me into them. ab3d2 is about the limit of what it coudl handle (but only the hacked version that came out, the original was too slow) had breathless, fears, gloom, another one where you were some kind of floaty robot, Doom after the source was released, descent, duke nukem 3d (mac emulator, 1260 was never available for them so my 'mac' was quicker than any real mac at the time ) amigaquake but it could only run 60% screen size, like playing from inside a letterbox ) there was another one which was basically like dungeon master but smooth movement in that you coudl only move in blocks and turn 90degrees, that little section in jurrasic park... list goes on. as i say i was well into the amiga team fortress scene for a while, was a member of a clan and everything had a bit of an advantage thanks to my big processor and 56k modem as not many others could afford these things at the time! eventually they moved to q3fortress and I gave it up as I hated it, stupid bugs allowing grenade jumps across the whole map in seconds
lolYour havinga laugh on the price of this A1200. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-VINT...omputing_RL&hash=item43c04237e7#ht_1320wt_901 I have six of those A1200's and higher spec. Normally only worth 50 - 60 with a faded case and keyboard. Flash card is about 30. It's only got 2meg of ram and no additional graphics card or higher processor like the 030 or 040.
