when you were young, what was your best game? You know, the one you would ever lend anyone. For me it was this. Cant beat vagina sharks.
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I have never heard of Space Gun.
My favorite game was this (on the ZX Spectrum):
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I also spent many hours on The Lords Of Midnight, Football Manager and Bomb Jack.
Chaos - the ZX Spectrum's finest hour:
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My favourite game as a young'un was Psycho Fox (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_Fox) for the Sega Master System.
Honourable mentions: Rastan, and Actraiser - also Master System.
Cheers
I remember the cover to Psycho Fox. Never got to play it though. My mum probably didn't want me playing a game with the word Psycho in the title. Fair enough I suppose. Haven't gone to jail yet.
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Odd that it says 'One to two players' instead of 'One or two players'
Tomb Raiders 1-3 and the Command and Conquer games for the PS1 and the Grand Theft Autos on PS2 ate up a shocking amount of my free time. At one point I was let go from a job and my first thought was "great, I'll get to play more San Andreas."
I vaguely recall the ZX Speccy and 8-16 bit stuff like Mad Max and Story of Thor, but revisiting them via emulation sites wasn't a great idea.
Quote from: WhizzBang on 23 April, 2017, 12:50:22 PM
Odd that it says 'One to two players' instead of 'One or two players'
Checked my copy of the game and it's as I thought, you take turns in playing. :)
If the Nintendo Switch doesn't do it for you, the next iteration of ZX machines, the ZX Spectrum Next, is out tomorrow. Has a whopping 5MB of RAM, apparently, but more importantly supports all original Spectrum peripherals and games, and comes with HDMI output so you can enjoy all 256 colours and both sound channels on a HDTV and no I don't even know if I'm joking anymore but THIS IS A REAL THING THAT IS HAPPENING (http://www.specnext.com/).
Nintendo could learn a few things from that. Why do I feel I need one so badly? Damn you nostalgia!
Quote from: Greg M. on 23 April, 2017, 08:10:43 AM
Chaos - the ZX Spectrum's finest hour:
This is a good shout. I had a game of this earlier this week and ended up in a draw against a wizard who was surrounded by my Magic Fire and about to die. Galling!
I love it but I do prefer Rebelstar 2 which is the best Speccy game for me.
My all time favourite game is such a hipster choice but here it is. King's Bounty, an old top down RPG/turn-based strategy thing. It was best known on the Amiga and a bit on the Megadrive but I've got a better-than-perfect port of it for Windows Mobile 6. I've had to keep my super old phone to play it on. Like the phone I had ten phones ago.
Well, the game i mostly remember I played voraciously in my childhood was Blood by Monolith. It had cool weapons, unique level design (which was something breathtaking to me) and cool enemies. Also, it had wicked sense of humor, but I remember it as well for ridiculous amount of grotesque violence (like from earlier Pter Jackson movies) and for I still was new for save/load system and play using keyboard and mouse (as by default the game control were mostly on keyboard). So I died a lot, and it took me a very while until I managed to get thru all levels.
Wizball on the C64, what an awesome game:
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Quote from: broodblik on 08 February, 2021, 01:28:15 PM
Wizball on the C64, what an awesome game:
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Wow, kindred spirit. :)
I had to beg, borrow and steal money to get this game and it was worth every cent !!!
PS1 Rik Mayal voiced turn-based genius
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Wizball was one of my favourites, but we used to play it on a b&w TV so guessing the exact colour of the paint drops from the shade of grey made it even trickier!
Quote from: Dandontdare on 08 February, 2021, 03:04:17 PM
Wizball was one of my favourites, but we used to play it on a b&w TV so guessing the exact colour of the paint drops from the shade of grey made it even trickier!
Ditto. :) In fact I never really played C64 games in colour until I bought one on eBay.
Wizball in B+W must have been tricky. Not my favourite C64 game (that's probably Paradroid), but up there with the best. I got it up to 999,999 points during one session (at which point, I figured I probably didn't need to play it again).
Paradroid was awesome as well, nostalgia what will we do without you
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I'd argue these games are still great. Most C64 titles aren't — many of them have aged terribly. But Paradroid still has what it takes for me, even today.
I never revisit these old games, my memory of them is more important too keep intact. They where awesome growing up but now most of these title did not age well. Paradroid is more about the gameplay mechanics than the actual look of it (like Tetris addictive but looks boring)
I used to write for Retro Gamer, and so had to dig back into old games for research. Many of the games were quite a trudge. Some weren't. Robotron: 2084 still stands up as a heart-pumping arcade experience, for example. I'd happily have that as a cab. Mostly, it's the games that are the opposite of what you say below that suffer — so those reliant on aesthetics more than mechanics. A scant few of course hit the sweet spot of having both.
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 08 February, 2021, 04:27:54 PM
I'd argue these games are still great. Most C64 titles aren't — many of them have aged terribly. But Paradroid still has what it takes for me, even today.
I still play a few regularly (well, occasionally)(more than never at least :) ), including Armalyte, Creatures 1&2, Paradroid, Buggy Boy, and many others. I also enjoy browsing my Zzap!'s and diving into games I could never afford, or that were disk only. Finding one of those that stands up without the nostalgia scaffold is a rare, rare treat. And of course, there are plenty of new C64 games to buy for pennies if you're into that kind of thing. All in all, still loving the 64.
A few Spectrum classics: Lords of Midnight, Rebelstar 1 & 2, Laser Squad. Hard to pick between any one of those, but Lords of Midnight would probably edge it as my favourite!
Space Rogue for me!
Way of the Exploding Fist
I was the zen master of that. No one could beat me. No. One.
3D Starstrike on the ZX Spectrum or Streets Of Rage II on the Sega Mega Drive.
Reading these comments, I've been taken away to the past, my childhood. Which started somewhere in the mid 90s. Yogi Bear, platform game, and Lion King on Sega Megadrive. On PC, beside Blood, I remember some cool golf game, that unlike normal golf games, this one had quirky level design, filled with various obstacles. I remember one level took place under the walter, with octopus that moves your ball away if it gets near him. Then, Pac-Man ofcourse. Atomic Robo Kid. Tekken 3 I played almost every day on the arcade. Hm... Oh, yes, Need For Speed High Stakes, oh that was blast. Despite my awful driving then, I couldn't waste one day if I didn't play the game. Jurasic Park. Microsoft Fury3. Yep, these are all games that occupied me for hours and days.
I was also a dab hand at Law in Tekken 2 and 3. I played so much I developed callouses on my thumbs.
I once got a perfect round against my older brother, standing outside the room, with my back to the screen and my eyes closed. I played based on sound cues from his character.
Then he beat the crap out of me for being a smart arse. Which was kind of just like the game, only in real life and reversed. And more painful.
My best ever game was Doctors and Nurses with Samantha Fairbrother behind the bikesheds at primary school.
She won.
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 10 February, 2021, 07:53:28 PM
I was also a dab hand at Law in Tekken 2 and 3. I played so much I developed callouses on my thumbs.
I once got a perfect round against my older brother, standing outside the room, with my back to the screen and my eyes closed. I played based on sound cues from his character.
Then he beat the crap out of me for being a smart arse. Which was kind of just like the game, only in real life and reversed. And more painful.
Ahahaha, lol.
When my buddies said to look at Nina, she is hot. I was like WTF, it is the game. At that time, I thought that T3 is the coolest game ever. How I hated certain characters who appear in later stages (Lei, Hwoarang, Xiaoyu, King, Nina, Bryan, Mokujin)