Old School Games/Consoles
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Ah, I have fond memories of the Dizzy games on my Amstrad 464 Plus. I didn't get it until the early 90's, but there were still huge amounts of games that were from the 80's still kicking about.
After that I was very much a console boy, having a Megadrive then a Playstation, but around 2000 I got myself a PC and haven't looked back since.
I still have my Megadrive and a stack of games in the loft, and have since bought a Playstation as well with a few games I really liked. As for replaying really old games, I use emulators or just make do with watching people posting "Lets Play" videos on YouTube.
After that I was very much a console boy, having a Megadrive then a Playstation, but around 2000 I got myself a PC and haven't looked back since.
I still have my Megadrive and a stack of games in the loft, and have since bought a Playstation as well with a few games I really liked. As for replaying really old games, I use emulators or just make do with watching people posting "Lets Play" videos on YouTube.
I think my favourite console memories come from the PSX/PS2. Some of the best games and pioneering games came out on these consoles around these times.
Special mention to the Mega Drive, being awesome in it's day and something I was brought up on, with Sonic still being one of my favourite characters of all time.
N64 - Great console for playing party games with friends - Smash Bro's, Mario Kart and Goldeneye / Turok were great fun with friends, pre-internet days these games were a must have.
Special mention to the Mega Drive, being awesome in it's day and something I was brought up on, with Sonic still being one of my favourite characters of all time.
N64 - Great console for playing party games with friends - Smash Bro's, Mario Kart and Goldeneye / Turok were great fun with friends, pre-internet days these games were a must have.
Riknos said:
I think my favourite console memories come from the PSX/PS2. Some of the best games and pioneering games came out on these consoles around these times.
Special mention to the Mega Drive, being awesome in it's day and something I was brought up on, with Sonic still being one of my favourite characters of all time.
N64 - Great console for playing party games with friends - Smash Bro's, Mario Kart and Goldeneye / Turok were great fun with friends, pre-internet days these games were a must have.
I've got agree with you on the N64. I used to love playing goldeneye with my dad and we managed to find mario kart for us all to play as a family.Special mention to the Mega Drive, being awesome in it's day and something I was brought up on, with Sonic still being one of my favourite characters of all time.
N64 - Great console for playing party games with friends - Smash Bro's, Mario Kart and Goldeneye / Turok were great fun with friends, pre-internet days these games were a must have.
I've recently started playing on the PS2 again. Making memories with my younger brother on Tony Hawk:Underground 2. Great game for creation, we've already made several parks and have mucked about on the character creator. All in a really fun game
SlipStream77 said:
I had a boxset for the CPC464 called 'Wheels of Fire', it included Chase HQ, Turbo Outrun and Hard Drivin'.
That was a great compilation!
I had turbo outrun!That was a great compilation!
Also one called 'cars'. Which, obviously, was a racing game. If you steered, the car didn't move, the road did.
That's if it actually loaded from the tape!
Also, Arkenoid....classic!
Mandown46 said:
Dizzy was nails. Properly hard game as a kid.
I miss the crazy loading noises from the tapes, and how long it took to load some. One game I recall had space invaders load up almost straight away, for you to play while the 'actual' game was loading.
I also remember playing one of the Turtles games, getting properly far on it, then trying to save my progress it on a blank tape, then finding the next day that it didnt work.
That was my first ever ragequit
Yeah I remeber making games ragequitable became quite common with games such as contra. Thus the invention of cheats I miss the crazy loading noises from the tapes, and how long it took to load some. One game I recall had space invaders load up almost straight away, for you to play while the 'actual' game was loading.
I also remember playing one of the Turtles games, getting properly far on it, then trying to save my progress it on a blank tape, then finding the next day that it didnt work.
That was my first ever ragequit
My kids do love 1080 snowboarding on the N64. 8 year old wants to play Goldeneye but he'll have to wait. Got a few old things in storage but I think the highlight is going to be getting the SNES out and showing them the original Mario Kart and Starfox. Or Sonic on the Sega Master System.
Picked up a 21 inch Sony CRT off freecycle purely for old school games. 1080 snowboarding and Mario Kart 64 look ok on a LCD but most of the other N64 games look terrible.
Picked up a 21 inch Sony CRT off freecycle purely for old school games. 1080 snowboarding and Mario Kart 64 look ok on a LCD but most of the other N64 games look terrible.
Many hours lost as a child playing Scott Adams text adventures on the Vic20(The Count & Voodoo Castle spring to mind) and mapping them out on paper. Manic Miner probably caused a few Rage Quits.
So many good games for the Atari ST. Dungeon Master, Super Sprint, the Sierra adventure games, Star Glider, Speedball and Populous to name a few. Used to go to a computer club in a Tuesday and come away with 3 or 4 disks of games cracked by the likes of Automation or the Pompey Pirates and be half asleep at school as I'd been up most of the night playing them.
So many good games for the Atari ST. Dungeon Master, Super Sprint, the Sierra adventure games, Star Glider, Speedball and Populous to name a few. Used to go to a computer club in a Tuesday and come away with 3 or 4 disks of games cracked by the likes of Automation or the Pompey Pirates and be half asleep at school as I'd been up most of the night playing them.
Edited by AnimalMkIV on Friday 11th October 09:36
I started off with an Amiga CD32 for a Christmas present.
Me and my mum got addicted to playing Superfrog, she'd literally rush to get home from picking me up from school so that we could play it some more, and try and complete some more levels.
It was a good console but the Playstation was in development and on the horizon, developers were only porting over Amiga 1200 games instead of making use of the hardware to its potential, a patent dispute stopped the console being sold in the USA all led to Commodore declaring bankruptcy soon after its release.
After the house got broken into my parents replaced the Amiga with a Playstation.
Funnily enough, mine and my mates favourite game for it was the original GTA.
My mum got addicted to Crash Bandicoot just like she did with Superfrog.
Of course I had all the other popular titles like, Gran Turismo, Spyro the Dragon, Colin McRae etc.
Once the price dropped to around the £300 mark I asked my parents for a Playstation 2.
It still remains my favourite console, and it was a pretty spectacular piece of kit when it was released. I remember playing games and finding them difficult, simply because I didn't think the console was capable pf certain things and I was so used to the limitations of the PS1. One example was a game called ICO. It was a puzzle game where you had to escape from a ruined castle, in one part my passage was blocked and I was trying to figure out where to go next. I spent a good hour looking around but just couldn't see any way through. Finally I worked out that you had to climb outside through an open window. I was so used to the confinement of PS1 games where you're pretty much outside or inside or a lengthy loading screen partitioned the 2 environments apart, that I just didn't expect to be able to climb out an open window.
My first game I played on the PS2 was GTA3 and being able to play GTA in a 3D enviroment was amazing. I remember looking at screenshots of the game and just not being able to imagine how awesome GTA would be in 3D. It remains my favourite GTA game, Vice City has better music, San Andreas was huge, GTA4 was next generation but I just loved the dark atmosphere that 3 protrayed.
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My favourite game was Final Fantasy 10 though, and it still is today.
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I lost interest in games after the PS2 era. The new consoles were just too expensive when they were released and by then I had a full-time job and spent most of my free time out with friends. One had a XBox 360 and I'd sometimes go round and play it but never saw anything that prompted me to go buy one for myself. When another friend got one and they started playing GTA4 online together, I went and got one myself to join in.
I had a few other games like Forza 4, Bayonetta but the 360 was only really used for GTA4 or to stream videos from my PC onto the TV. I never even completed GTA4, the story didn't interest me at all and I just got bored of doing missions, but we did have a lot of fun playing online together. GTA4 was a but of a disappointment really. Okay the graphics and physics were much better but you had gone from the open environment of San Andreas with its 3 cities and countryside to just being confined to a single city again. Not only that but planes were not accessible like San Andreas and it just seemed inferior as a whole. I've not played GTA5 but it seems to be what 4 should have been all along.
About 4 years ago I went through a period of collecting old Amiga consoles, I had a 500, 500+ and a 1200, along with an old 80s commodore monitor and a load of games. They were a lot of fun but immensely difficult. I'd spend hours on Project X just to get past one enemy wave.
I sold them after my first child was born though as there just wasn't space or time to keep them. I sold them for more that I paid for them though, as the first thing I did when I came into possession of them, was clean them and remove the yellowing. The 500+ still had its original warranty sticker, and a collector paid me quite a large sum for it.
About 2 months ago I downloaded a NES emulator. I decided that whilst I do my 6 year Physics course, I might try and get through all the Final Fantasy games when I have a spare hour or so, or need a little rest from studying. Of course I've started with Final Fantasy 1 and I'm enjoying it a lot.
Just proves that you don't need amazing graphics to have a good game.
Me and my mum got addicted to playing Superfrog, she'd literally rush to get home from picking me up from school so that we could play it some more, and try and complete some more levels.
It was a good console but the Playstation was in development and on the horizon, developers were only porting over Amiga 1200 games instead of making use of the hardware to its potential, a patent dispute stopped the console being sold in the USA all led to Commodore declaring bankruptcy soon after its release.
After the house got broken into my parents replaced the Amiga with a Playstation.
Funnily enough, mine and my mates favourite game for it was the original GTA.
My mum got addicted to Crash Bandicoot just like she did with Superfrog.
Of course I had all the other popular titles like, Gran Turismo, Spyro the Dragon, Colin McRae etc.
Once the price dropped to around the £300 mark I asked my parents for a Playstation 2.
It still remains my favourite console, and it was a pretty spectacular piece of kit when it was released. I remember playing games and finding them difficult, simply because I didn't think the console was capable pf certain things and I was so used to the limitations of the PS1. One example was a game called ICO. It was a puzzle game where you had to escape from a ruined castle, in one part my passage was blocked and I was trying to figure out where to go next. I spent a good hour looking around but just couldn't see any way through. Finally I worked out that you had to climb outside through an open window. I was so used to the confinement of PS1 games where you're pretty much outside or inside or a lengthy loading screen partitioned the 2 environments apart, that I just didn't expect to be able to climb out an open window.
My first game I played on the PS2 was GTA3 and being able to play GTA in a 3D enviroment was amazing. I remember looking at screenshots of the game and just not being able to imagine how awesome GTA would be in 3D. It remains my favourite GTA game, Vice City has better music, San Andreas was huge, GTA4 was next generation but I just loved the dark atmosphere that 3 protrayed.
|http://thumbsnap.com/70UXU4jQ[/url]My favourite game was Final Fantasy 10 though, and it still is today.
[url]I lost interest in games after the PS2 era. The new consoles were just too expensive when they were released and by then I had a full-time job and spent most of my free time out with friends. One had a XBox 360 and I'd sometimes go round and play it but never saw anything that prompted me to go buy one for myself. When another friend got one and they started playing GTA4 online together, I went and got one myself to join in.
I had a few other games like Forza 4, Bayonetta but the 360 was only really used for GTA4 or to stream videos from my PC onto the TV. I never even completed GTA4, the story didn't interest me at all and I just got bored of doing missions, but we did have a lot of fun playing online together. GTA4 was a but of a disappointment really. Okay the graphics and physics were much better but you had gone from the open environment of San Andreas with its 3 cities and countryside to just being confined to a single city again. Not only that but planes were not accessible like San Andreas and it just seemed inferior as a whole. I've not played GTA5 but it seems to be what 4 should have been all along.
About 4 years ago I went through a period of collecting old Amiga consoles, I had a 500, 500+ and a 1200, along with an old 80s commodore monitor and a load of games. They were a lot of fun but immensely difficult. I'd spend hours on Project X just to get past one enemy wave.
I sold them after my first child was born though as there just wasn't space or time to keep them. I sold them for more that I paid for them though, as the first thing I did when I came into possession of them, was clean them and remove the yellowing. The 500+ still had its original warranty sticker, and a collector paid me quite a large sum for it.
About 2 months ago I downloaded a NES emulator. I decided that whilst I do my 6 year Physics course, I might try and get through all the Final Fantasy games when I have a spare hour or so, or need a little rest from studying. Of course I've started with Final Fantasy 1 and I'm enjoying it a lot.
Just proves that you don't need amazing graphics to have a good game.
This was my first gaming memory IIRC.
I also remember this game very well and being excited by it:
Both were built in games (first MS and second, MD).
Lots of games stick in my mind from the 'early' years... well my early years. Castle of Illusions with Mickey Mouse, Ecco the Dolphin, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Micro Machines, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Cool Spot...
I also remember this game very well and being excited by it:
Both were built in games (first MS and second, MD).
Lots of games stick in my mind from the 'early' years... well my early years. Castle of Illusions with Mickey Mouse, Ecco the Dolphin, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Micro Machines, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Cool Spot...
Ah. Another retro gaming thread I like these.
I think a shrink would have a field day with me. Last year my wife got me a Master System 2 for my birthday. (I had one as a kid, and stupidly sold it). She's regretted it ever since. It was the sole reason I set up an eBay account. Not including current gen, my collection now includes mainly vg/mint boxed 8bit and early 16bit machines:
Binatone Mark IV (Pong baby!)
PS1, PS2, PSP
Sega MS1, MS2, MD2, Saturn, Dreamcast
Acorn Electron (with plus1), BBC model b, Master (with SD and CF drives to save the loading times!)
Commodore C64 , Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 (with CF drive), CD32 (hugely underrated)
NES, SNES, GB Advance, GB Advance SP
Spectrum ZX+ 48k, 128k +2B
And... a subscription to Retro Gamer magazine
Some might call that a habit.
My early days were on an Acorn Electron. The game that really got me into gaming was Repton. The first game I ever completed.
My justification for such a collection is so our boys can appreciate the evolution of gaming and learn to identify true gameplay rather than just get wowed with flashy graphics and hype - which in my view there is too much of these days. They can also learn to programme their own games in basic on the beeb. It's the best excuse I can come up with anyway...
I like these. I think a shrink would have a field day with me. Last year my wife got me a Master System 2 for my birthday. (I had one as a kid, and stupidly sold it). She's regretted it ever since. It was the sole reason I set up an eBay account. Not including current gen, my collection now includes mainly vg/mint boxed 8bit and early 16bit machines:
Binatone Mark IV (Pong baby!)
PS1, PS2, PSP
Sega MS1, MS2, MD2, Saturn, Dreamcast
Acorn Electron (with plus1), BBC model b, Master (with SD and CF drives to save the loading times!)
Commodore C64 , Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 (with CF drive), CD32 (hugely underrated)
NES, SNES, GB Advance, GB Advance SP
Spectrum ZX+ 48k, 128k +2B
And... a subscription to Retro Gamer magazine
Some might call that a habit.
My early days were on an Acorn Electron. The game that really got me into gaming was Repton. The first game I ever completed.
My justification for such a collection is so our boys can appreciate the evolution of gaming and learn to identify true gameplay rather than just get wowed with flashy graphics and hype - which in my view there is too much of these days. They can also learn to programme their own games in basic on the beeb. It's the best excuse I can come up with anyway...
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