Old School Computer Games

[Martin_T]

Anyone remember Grogs Revenge from the Commodore 64? I'm still irrationally scared when I hear that ominous music when you are on the same level as Grog to this day!

 

Feel free to move thread to Console Talk if more appropriate.

 

 

[Cruyff]

Slightly before my time but I remember my cousin had one and I used to play duck hunt on it. 

 

First computer I got was a Snes for my Christmas in 1992. It came with the super scope thing. Used to love playing this. 

 

 

As well as Street fighter, F-Zero, Mario Cart, Super Mario World. 

[Салатные палочки]

Sensible Soccer European Champions for the Mega Drive. 

 

I am quite confident I would still skelp anyone's erse at it.  

[Samuel Camazzola]

8 minutes ago, Salad Fingers said:

Sensible Soccer European Champions for the Mega Drive. 

 

I am quite confident I would still skelp anyone's erse at it.  

Sensible World of Soccer was probably the pinnacle in the versions of the game released. I only played it on the Amiga and don't know if it made it on to other platforms. 

[Hansel]

Had a C64 but don't remember Grogs revenge.

 

Games I remember 

Platoon

Rambo

Jet set willy 

The last ninja

[Ribble]

Chucky Egg on the Spectrum was my first foray into gaming

[mrmarkus1981]

4 minutes ago, Ribble said:

Chucky Egg on the Spectrum was my first foray into gaming

Same

[mrmarkus1981]

Chucky Egg...

 

http://bbcmicro.co.uk//jsbeeb/play.php?autoboot&disc=http://bbcmicro.co.uk//gameimg/discs/25/Disc002-ChuckieEgg.ssd&noseek

[milky_26]

1 hour ago, Samuel Camazzola said:

Sensible World of Soccer was probably the pinnacle in the versions of the game released. I only played it on the Amiga and don't know if it made it on to other platforms. 

i'm sure it made it to the atari as i'm sure it was an atari played it on

[Samuel Camazzola]

6 minutes ago, milky_26 said:

i'm sure it made it to the atari as i'm sure it was an atari played it on

I picked up one of the plug and play emulators of Sensible about 10 years ago. Good fun and came with Mega drive controllers. 

 

There was talk of a SWOS being rereleased a couple of years ago but would have to look to see if it ever materialised. 

 

Found this which looks intriguing 

https://www.sensiblesoccer.de/

Edited August 11, 2020 by Samuel Camazzola
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[Lovecraft]

38 minutes ago, Samuel Camazzola said:

I picked up one of the plug and play emulators of Sensible about 10 years ago. Good fun and came with Mega drive controllers. 

 

There was talk of a SWOS being rereleased a couple of years ago but would have to look to see if it ever materialised. 

 

Found this which looks intriguing 

https://www.sensiblesoccer.de/

 

I have it on the Xbox One via backwards compatibility.

 

 

 

[frankblack]

1 hour ago, Samuel Camazzola said:

Sensible World of Soccer was probably the pinnacle in the versions of the game released. I only played it on the Amiga and don't know if it made it on to other platforms. 

 

I had that on the Amiga and PC.

 

I gave some of my mates the skelpings of their lives on that.  Think I destroyed one of them about 14-0 but it has been a long time since I played it!

[frankblack]

1 hour ago, Ribble said:

Chucky Egg on the Spectrum was my first foray into gaming

 

Manic Miner first for me.  However, I had a mate with a Speccy before me and mind him playing Hungry Horace games.

[neilnunb]

Loved this one

 

 

 

 

[Cade]

Many of these games can be played on a PC using an emulator.  

With some of them, you can even load the game from a wav file, which works exactly like the old tape driver, with the emulator getting the information via sound.

I've seen people playing the wavs on their phone and their PC microphone loading the game.

 

[Lovecraft]

https://www.myabandonware.com/

 

 

[doctor jambo]

2 hours ago, mrmarkus1981 said:

Same

I play it on the ipad on the spectrum simulator, along with manic miner

[inspector]

Pong. That is all.

[jim747]

Repton and Scrumpy on the BBC Micro, that's about it.

[kila]

 

 

[kila]

 

 

Sega Mega Drive had a lot of classics I loved.

 

[muldoon74]

4 hours ago, Ted (Theodore) Logan said:

Had a C64 but don't remember Grogs revenge.

 

Games I remember 

Platoon

Rambo

Jet set willy 

The last ninja

Off the top of my head

 

Manic miner

Gryzor

California games

Gunship

Commando

Daily Thomson decathlon

Scramble

Airwolf

Way of the Exploding fist

 

Had the last ninja aswell.. Quality game. Loved it. 

[Marvin]

4 hours ago, Ribble said:

Chucky Egg on the Spectrum was my first foray into gaming

 

Mine too. The spectrum was excellent, don't forget Manic Miner and Skool Daze  

[Marvin]

9 minutes ago, muldoon74 said:

 

Had the last ninja aswell.. Quality game. Loved it. 

 

Was that in 3d? I seem to remember a ninja game in 3d or could of been hi-res graphics.  You young buggers reading, don't laugh. The Speccy was an excellent console. Just ask your Dad.

Edited August 11, 2020 by Marvin

[Sergio]

Remember chucky egg and also Remember Frogger played on my Acorn

[Vlad Magic]

Beach Head and Trans Am on the speccy.

 

Citadel, The palace of magic on the BBC micro.

 

 

[Samuel Camazzola]

3 hours ago, Lovecraft said:

 

I have it on the Xbox One via backwards compatibility.

 

 

 

It had some playability. 

 

Old school games from SNES days;

Super Bomberman 

Super Mario World 

Super Mario Kart

Striker

 

C64 Games;

 

Out Run

Tracksuit Manager

FA Cup

Paperboy

Dizzy (And various others from the series

World Cup Italia '90

[steve123]

5 hours ago, Samuel Camazzola said:

Sensible World of Soccer was probably the pinnacle in the versions of the game released. I only played it on the Amiga and don't know if it made it on to other platforms. 

It was outstanding on the Amiga

[XXX]

 

 

The Great Escape is possibly the best game in this vein that I’ve ever played.

To get wholly engrossed in the game and its plot all you have to do is read the instructions and watch your character wander around the camp doing his daily chores.

 

By the time you understand how the game works there is no way you can possibly leave it alone.

[Marvin]

45 minutes ago, The Spy Who Loved Me said:

 

 

The Great Escape is possibly the best game in this vein that I’ve ever played.

To get wholly engrossed in the game and its plot all you have to do is read the instructions and watch your character wander around the camp doing his daily chores.

 

By the time you understand how the game works there is no way you can possibly leave it alone.

 

Brilliant game 

[Martin_T]

1 hour ago, The Spy Who Loved Me said:

 

 

The Great Escape is possibly the best game in this vein that I’ve ever played.

To get wholly engrossed in the game and its plot all you have to do is read the instructions and watch your character wander around the camp doing his daily chores.

 

By the time you understand how the game works there is no way you can possibly leave it alone.

 

I remember that one to. If I recall correctly a large part of the gameplay involved lining up for roll calls and if you didn't make it in time the alarm would go off?

[Салатные палочки]

Never understood how people could play football sim games on the PC. I remember having a FIFA tournament at my mates house in the lead up to the 98 World Cup. I went Holland and went out in the group stages. Just couldn't grasp it when not using a controller. 

[XXX]

4 minutes ago, Martin_T said:

 

I remember that one to. If I recall correctly a large part of the gameplay involved lining up for roll calls and if you didn't make it in time the alarm would go off?

Yes, the thrill of ditching roll call to hide away stashed items in your tunnel then back out again before the nazis found you was genuinely exciting.

[muldoon74]

2 hours ago, Marvin said:

 

Was that in 3d? I seem to remember a ninja game in 3d or could of been hi-res graphics.  You young buggers reading, don't laugh. The Speccy was an excellent console. Just ask your Dad.

It's, sort of 3d.  🤔🤔 You kind of moved up and across, the screen. 

I remember saving for weeks to get it. 

Also remember interational karate and Ik+.. 

 

Outrun mentioned above.. How could I forget outrun?! 

Edited August 11, 2020 by muldoon74

[Der Kaiser]

7 hours ago, Salad Fingers said:

Sensible Soccer European Champions for the Mega Drive. 

 

I am quite confident I would still skelp anyone's erse at it.  

 

Now if you'd said the Amiga......and I got to go my favourite team School Dinners.....buddy...you are going down.

 

[Jambomb]

Trying to remember ZX81 games, think asteroid and defender. And think RocketMan pushed the limited of the 81...

remember adventure game of the Hobbit, typing in instructions...

ZX spectrum Ant world was amazing when first released, and I used to love playing School Daze..

[Vlad Magic]

Sabre Wulf was on multi platform.

 

Played it to death on the BBC micro.

 

Could never complete it.

[¼½¾]

9 hours ago, Jambomb said:

Trying to remember ZX81 games, think asteroid and defender. And think RocketMan pushed the limited of the 81...

remember adventure game of the Hobbit, typing in instructions...

ZX spectrum Ant world was amazing when first released, and I used to love playing School Daze..

I mind playing Asteroids on the ZX81. I was even worse at that than I was at the arcade version.

 

I think the first Football Manager was for the '81.

[ri Alban]

12 hours ago, Marvin said:

 

Mine too. The spectrum was excellent, don't forget Manic Miner and Skool Daze  

Jetpac

Paperboy

Jet set Willie 

Match of the day 

Football manager 

Hypersports

Decathlon

And Horace goes skiing from the starter pack.

[doctor jambo]

10 hours ago, muldoon74 said:

It's, sort of 3d.  🤔🤔 You kind of moved up and across, the screen. 

I remember saving for weeks to get it. 

Also remember interational karate and Ik+.. 

 

Outrun mentioned above.. How could I forget outrun?! 

Not as good as Spyhunter

[frankblack]

Bak to Skool was pretty good - going about knocking out anyone you didn't like and shooting teachers with catapults IIRC.

 

 

[frankblack]

On the Amiga I quite liked It Came From The Desert:

 

[crunchy frog]

I loved to play this on the C64 with one of the old Atari joysticks. Correction- several of the Atari joysticks, they used to snap like twigs under the old 360 degree action 🤥 

Edited August 12, 2020 by crunchy frog

[jkbam]

Laser Squad was my favourite, was great on my mate's Spectrum, but pretty poor on the Amiga, whiled away lots of those long summer holidays playing that.

 

On the Amiga, loved Moonstone, Sensi Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Pinball Dreams/Fantasies, Lemmings, Kick Off 2, Bomberman.

[AWM]

 

[XXX]

8 hours ago, jkbam said:

Laser Squad was my favourite, was great on my mate's Spectrum, but pretty poor on the Amiga, whiled away lots of those long summer holidays playing that.

 

On the Amiga, loved Moonstone, Sensi Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Pinball Dreams/Fantasies, Lemmings, Kick Off 2, Bomberman.

 
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/spectaculator-zx-spectrum-emulator/id421662150

 

If you have an iPhone, you can download for a small fee, plenty others including Rebelstar 1 and 2.

[Mad Dog Logan]

Harrier Attack and Bomb Jack on the spectrum👍

[Darth Sidious]

Bak 2 Skool, Skool Daze, Chuckie Egg, Barry McGuigan Boxing and Rebelstar II on the ZX Spectrum.  And dont forgot it was a golden age for text adventures...Kentilla, The Hobbit, Excalibur...

[Marvin]

 

Another I loved playing.

[superjack]

On my spectrum my faves were manic miner, paperboy, jet set willie and, the favourite, Daly Thomson's decathlon.