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Retro Gaming
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11/04/2012 21:11
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I've just bought this on a whim after reminiscing about just how good Goldeneye was. Best game ever? For me it's got to be up there with Doom and Duke Nukem 3D for best FPS. I've also got a SNES and I'll often have a few goes on Mario World. I have a yearning for an Amiga 500/600 but I think the truth is you wait minutes at a time for games to load! Emulators don't really do it for me. They don't have the feel of the original game, on the original pad, on the right console. What do you go back to? Can you recommend me the best N64 games I should have?
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11/04/2012 21:19
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Playstation. Doom and Ultimate Doom. Somewhat crappy graphics on a 42" LCD, but still two of my all time faves. I never played it on the PC, my fave PC games would be the Mechwarrior series .
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11/04/2012 21:33
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Pinin all you've done is show your lack of FPS knowledge Best FPS? Either, Half Life System Shock 2 Unreal Deus Ex (the original) Or maybe, Far Cry (the original) Duke Nukem wouldn't even come close, it was old before it was even released. Made to look sorry for itself by Quake.
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11/04/2012 21:37
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I didn't say half life 2, a good sequel but still not the ground-breaker of the original.
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11/04/2012 21:41
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They're still supposed to be working on HL2:Episode 3! The success of Steam and Portal really screwed them over. Completely rearranged their development priorities.
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Re: Retro Gaming
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11/04/2012 21:45
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yeah it was a little ahead of it's time, but its been awesome for the last few years. An online computer game store that stores all your purchases so you can install and uninstall as you please, store all your achievements etc, etc.
but yes for HL1 it was a pain.
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Re: Retro Gaming
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11/04/2012 21:46
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I have amased a bit of a retro collection from my trips to Sunday morning car boot sales (sad I know) I love firing up the snes, n64, nes, master system and playing though some old games. Zelda 3 a link to the past keeps me comming back time and time again although I think I have uncovered every secrete to that game twice over now. Played games at the moment Mario cart 64 Mario cart (snes set up for battle mode when brother is over) Mario all stars for the snes I have splashed out for a wii classic controller for my I-Pad though as I often load up starfox on the train home
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Re: Retro Gaming
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11/04/2012 22:02
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I've got all the Nintendo consoles (expect the Virtual Boy) so I can comment on Nintendo games you need to own! NESSuper Mario World Super Mario World 3 The Legend of Zelda - Links Awakening Super Spike Volley Ball (4 player compatible with a multitap!) World Cup (also 4 player!) Lunar Pool SNESSuper Mario Kart Super Mario World 4 Super Probotector Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past Secret of Mana Street Fighter II (Turbo) Donkey Kong Country Star Fox N64Mario 64 Mario Kart 64 Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time Legend of Zelda - Majoras Mask Goldeneye Perfect Dark (made by Rare as per Goldeneye but with better multiplayer - requires expansion pak) If you've not heard of, or played it, try Super Probotector, it's a hidden gem of a game. Perfect Dark is also excellent.
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11/04/2012 22:08
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Ready to rumble boxing....afro thunder!
..Somebody call the Doctoooooorrrrr! Love it! I had a Dreamcast the week after they came out in the UK. Paid £100 for it from somebody in the pub. I found out later it was from a ram raid on argos I had Sega Bass fishing including the rod Thanks Gunzi, that's some top recommendations there. I'll be getting Mario 64 and Perfect Dark after I'm bored of Goldeneye.
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11/04/2012 22:13
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....after I'm bored of Goldeneye. This is not possible.
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11/04/2012 22:43
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A jail broken Ipad, Snes 9x with the Bluetooth stack a wii remote with a classic controller plugged in. I was given a dream cast last weekend with crazy taxi and fur fighters Owned at the moment: Sega Master system Sega MegaDrive Sega Dreamcast Nes Snes (x2) Game cube (x2) Wii DS PS1 PS2 PS3 Xbox (original)
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11/04/2012 22:46
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Rogue Spear - great stuff Was that the first Rainbow Six game? That was awesome too
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12/04/2012 00:40
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Just 'mega lol'd' at that.... Not sure if it's classed as retro yet,but Final Fantasy 7......for me...the be all and end all of gaming.... Speaking to a 'geeky' gaming friend tonight,if they were to release FF7 on PS3 it would take 30 years to programme/produce the graphics to a suitable level to suit the current platform.....as he said...think 'advent children',now think how much gameplay there is in FF7....... Not sure about 30 years but by christ there's over a hundred hours gameplay to come near completing the game 100% Wish they would though
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12/04/2012 00:54
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A jail broken Ipad, Snes 9x with the Bluetooth stack a wii remote with a classic controller plugged in. I was given a dream cast last weekend with crazy taxi and fur fighters Owned at the moment: Sega Master system Sega MegaDrive Sega Dreamcast Nes Snes (x2) Game cube (x2) Wii DS PS1 PS2 PS3 Xbox (original) Nice Collection mate. I'm a veteran gamer too My collection must be Vintage if yours is Retro. I cant remember alot of the stuff in my attic. I have; Loads of Handheld LCD/LED games Grandstand games console from around 1978. Sinclair ZX Spectrum Dragon32 Computer Atari 2600 (6 switch Wood)Console. Mattel Intellivision. with voice module and Computer Component and Piano Keyboard Component. BBC Micro. Atari 400 Computer with Membrane Keyboard. Atari 800XL. Atari ST. Commodore Amiga SNES Sega Megadrive ATARI Lynx x3 Xbox original. PSP x2 PS3. Several Amstrads Mac Classic x 2 Mac Powerbook. Power PC Palm xion Ipod Touch 4 x2 Ipad 2 Galaxy S" There is more but I've forgotten and I wont list the current stuff as its to much. I've run a Computer business for nearly 20 years now so I have an excuse andI was always getting offered stuff by customers. I play on PC's mostly and have PC's everywhere. I Sim Race regularly every week and have a Proper Racing seat Logitech G25 & G27 Wheels Pedals etc etc. Probably my main PC Rig is worth more than my coupe. Which seems crazy. Currently playing BF3 and Skyrim a bit. Have been playing the Monkey Islands series with the whole family on the PS3 over the winter and also Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis. Which second time around are still great games and very funny. And Who remembers M.U.L.E ? one of the best Multiplayer games ever. You can now download it and play it on line with no emulation hassles. I got lots of computer technophobes( I dont play games ) ) hooked on that game during the early 1980s. Go to http://www.planetmule.com/I'll shut-up before I bore some of you to death. I'm off to practice Spa
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12/04/2012 01:20
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Yes I'm at about my limit for space and I hope to start getting some up on ebay at end of Summer. I know I'm very lucky because Computers are my Biz I have a perfect excuse to "research/invest" in new technology. (boys toys) So I dont get too much grief. I get a lot of stick over car ownership though.
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12/04/2012 03:20
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I've had:
ZX81 BBC Micro Atari ST Commodore Amiga Acorn Archimedes SNES PS1 PS2 Sega Dreamcast and all manner of PC's from a 286 upwards.
The Atari ST is the only old machine I've still got and use occasionally, although not really for playing games.
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12/04/2012 17:42
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Ditto Kev.
I STILL miss that game. Developing players, competing in the champions league (or whatever it was called back then)
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12/04/2012 17:49
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Some serious rigs there! I could never get away with having that much 'clutter'. I'd always dreamed of having my own room in the house set out like an arcade with all the best old consoles/games. Of course this will probably never happen. But maybe with a lottery win? I was never into Sensi Soccer But my bro played it constantly and so did most of my mates. It's probably the most popular game on the Amiga. I recall they did 'Sensible World of Soccer' a couple of years after too. I did have a demo disc that had a game of SS in which the ball was a bomb. That was fun!
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12/04/2012 17:54
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Renegade soccer was the grenade version IIRC.
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12/04/2012 18:01
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Speaking to a 'geeky' gaming friend tonight,if they were to release FF7 on PS3 it would take 30 years to programme/produce the graphics to a suitable level to suit the current platform.....as he said...think 'advent children',now think how much gameplay there is in FF7....... Not sure about 30 years but by christ there's over a hundred hours gameplay to come near completing the game 100% Wish they would though I agree. ff7 was groundbreaking on the playstation. I fully completed in around 160-200hrs. Tbh, I completed it around 3 times, selecting different characters and making sure I got Vincent and Yuffie. Golden chocobo. Ross
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12/04/2012 18:01
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Here you go: "On the Amiga Power Coverdisk 21 one of the demos was Sensible Soccer: England vs Germany, also known as Sensible Soccer Meets Bulldog Blighty.[13] This featured a mode of play that involved replacing players with soldiers from Cannon Fodder, and the ball with a hand grenade. The grenade would randomly begin to flash eventually exploding, killing any nearby players." From Wikipedia
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12/04/2012 18:15
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I was wrong then!!! But I do remember this being shown as a demo in my local computer store!! Ross
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12/04/2012 18:32
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You can get FF7 on ps3 network Rueben. £3.99. FF8 also.
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I actually started playing FF9 for the first time during easter. FF7 and FF8 have been played to death on several occasions. Never been a big fan of C64 or NES, but I started beck in the Amstrad 464 days. Best game I played on the Amstrad was The Sacred Armour of Antiriad. Groundbreaking in its day, both in the gameplay and in the graphics. Other than that I have had an Amiga 500, PSX, PS2 and currently a PS3.
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12/04/2012 20:22
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You can get FF7 on ps3 network Rueben. £3.99. FF8 also.
Ross NO WAY!!! Now,do I risk putting my details into ps network after all the hacking hoohaa? Now that you've mentioned chocobos.Did you defeat all 4 weapons?Another achievement...buying a lifetime pass for 'Golden Saucer' I dread to think how much of my life has been spent playing FF7
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12/04/2012 20:27
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4 weapons?
Thought there was only 3?
Emerald, Ruby and Ultima?
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12/04/2012 20:39
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You can get FF7 on ps3 network Rueben. £3.99. FF8 also.
Ross Actually.. You can get Final Fantasies 5 through 9
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12/04/2012 20:41
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You can get FF7 on ps3 network Rueben. £3.99. FF8 also.
Ross Actually.. You can get Final Fantasies 5 through 9 Oooooooo didn't know that!!! I have ff9 on ps1, if anyone is interested!! Ross
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12/04/2012 21:07
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4 weapons?
Thought there was only 3?
Emerald, Ruby and Ultima?
Ross Aaaand........Diamond... you have to fight it,it's not an option,think back towards the end of the game when your heading back to Midgar.Your on the world map and you watch it walking out of the sea,you then fight it,it 'runs away' towards Midgar and the Shinra cannon blasts it...
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12/04/2012 21:11
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Lol. Your memory better than mine!! Your putting me right in the mood to start playing it again though.... Ross
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12/04/2012 21:38
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A friend of mine had a walkthrough for it and it reveals LOADS of mini extras.Such as meeting vincents mother,tells you where to go to watch a sequence explaining how cloud ended up as 'zack' and loads more. So I bought it off him when he got bored.lol.Just to get a complete 100%
Sounds sweet!! I had a full walkthough which I gave to my cousin, who lost it Gutted. Ross
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12/04/2012 21:58
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Can you recommend me the best N64 games I should have? Apart from an Atari STE (yes, sensi soccer was the best although we played a hell of a lot of Kick Off 2 also), the N64 is where it all started for me, with Goldeneye and the gold controller. Over the years I have spent silly money and for the last few years been getting rid of it all at a huge loss! Hey ho, it was fun while it lasted. I have rather a large box of the finest N64 games which are going on ebay soon. I would say you need to play the Zeldas, Mario Tennis and Golf, Perfect Dark, 1080 snowboarding and a little known gem called World Driver Championship. Actually, the latter is probably crap now, considering how far driving games have come, but I would still far rather hack around 18 on Mario Golf than Tiger Woods 20XX. Also, four player tennis has never been bettered in my opinion.
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Yes Kick Off 2. Had forgotten about that. Played that a helluva lot on the ST after the pub
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I remember Kick Off 2 well, I think I spent longer hacking it than actually playing it though, haha.
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13/04/2012 09:57
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FYI, Due to YouTube's increased 'video' length limits, there are alot of full game soundtracks now appearing on there.
I've been spending the last week listening to great soundtracks to games like:
Unreal Command & Conquer (first version and Red Alert both had awesome soundtracks) Quake 2 Carmaggedon Wipeout (of course!)
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Yes Kick Off 2. Had forgotten about that. Played that a helluva lot on the ST after the pub I used to play KO2 so much. I still remember the name of my leading goal scorer (J Downs for England - obviously). I remember that I used to break joysticks every 2 or 3 months. Once I actually snapped one lol My other favourites where Robocop, Test Drive, Double Dragon, Outrun (and Outrun Europa), Bombjack and Operation Wolf.
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13/04/2012 10:27
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Bombjack? That was the wee guy that had a cape and could jump about really high? Double Dragon was a legendary game, but Golden Axe was so much better (plus it had a nice chick in it!! ) Ross
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13/04/2012 10:39
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(plus it had a nice chick in it!! ) Ross Which brings us to Tombraider (PS1). Personally I never "got" Tombraider, so didn't bother, although my lads in Bosnia were desparate to find the "Lara Croft naked" hack Wipeout was a favourite which I subsequently bought on the PSP, proof you can't beat the big screen for gaming. Another fave was Time Commando. I've just discovered the PS1 in our house has been Ebayed so my new found enthusiasm for retro gaming has been dashed..
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Bitch please! Operation Thunderbolt.
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I did wolf through Doom and onto Quake 3 which I still play on line - it rocks ! I also had a lot of fun with Commander Keen
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That was the wee guy that had a cape and could jump about really high? That sounds more like Rick Dangerous. Dungeon Master and Stunt car racer were probably my favourite games on the ST.
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Stunt car racer was legendary. Why it put holes in the car when you crashed I'll never know!! Rick dangerous I remember, had the first and 2nd ones. Bombjack was the guy in the cape that jumped about I'm sure... Ross
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Rick Dangerous was the one who cried when he got hit. Waaaaaa!
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For me the best bit about old games on the Amiga was the music in the 'crack' menus
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13/04/2012 14:21
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Please tell me ps3 has this as well.
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13/04/2012 14:29
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My best game for the ZX Spectrum was Super Stuntman, which I believe we bought from a garage lol
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13/04/2012 14:36
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If you were particularly cocky you could get your striker to do a diving header into the flight of the ball and get it in the near top corner That's what I always tried to do. If you were playing 2 player (which you could on the amiga) you can block that shot with a careful defender header out for a corner!! Ross
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PC game - Lemmings,the first PC game I became addicted to.
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What i dont get is how the Amiga was playing music like this: Bomb The Bass - Megablast dont beleive me? Here's the licenced Amiga version: Xenon 2 : Megablast The Amiga was capable of this in the 80's... about the same time people were listening to the electronic farting noises of the NES.
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Defender is easily my fav. Pole Postition was great too but I could top the leader board with ease. On defender i never even got close. I am generally a fan of Williams games and Joust was another odd but very addictive game. None of these games is the same on anything but the stand up arcade machine format
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wow, how have I not already posted in this thread. I love retrogaming, I spent £1000 building a mame arcade cab complete with genuine arcade sticks and trackball. it is brillant. Also I have sensible soccer on the xbox so if anyone wants a game send me a message (bigmike20vturbo) i am not very good mind you, i have barely played it. also if you like your classic games, check out assault heroes and choplifter HD on live arcade, 2 very good classic style shooters (choplifter HD was half price on steam yesterday) I remember my mum buying me that back in the early 80's on my home computer. i loved it. PS if you havent already look at this thread for retro remakes some are brilliant and all are free http://www.avforums.com/forums/retro-gam...ion-thread.html
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Stop this thread now please. Or stop posting links. I need to do some work. I've got a shop full of PC's to fix before I leave for Spa on Thursday and this thread is not helping me fix them
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Excellent thread. Surprised no F-zero mentions as yet - probably my favourite game series.
Original F-Zero on the SNES was great, F-Zero GX on the Gamecube is excellent, and I'm currently working through F-Zero GP Legends (Gameboy Advance) on my DS.
James Pond was awesome, as was Speedball 2 - and still is, on Xbox Live Arcade.
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Speedball 2 was brilliant!! Had it on the mega drive. Just a funny moment in computer games comment. Madden 94' mega drive. Guy gets injured - what happened nexT? Ross
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Taken from the games link thread I have an atari 2600. Well, its my dad's. And he has the original Yars Revenge game. And he is STILL brilliant at it. We had a retro games night in the family a few months ago, and we had the SNES, megadrive, Atari, dreamcast and the orange *pong* style system (first home computer system supposedly) there, all of which myself and my dad own. It was possibly the most fun I've had in years. Best game of the night - mirco machines V3 with 4 player. What a game!! Ross
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Oh yeh. Speedball 2 was superb.
I spent many hours playing John Madden 94 (was there a 95 too?), EA Hockey (fight!) and NBA Jam
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Manic Miner on the Spectrum 48k,first game I ever got seriously addicted to! Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix on the Atari ST,had to build a joystick,from real metal and with proper microswitches because the plastic joysticks could not cope with the pace! Used to race against my mate,but the computer used to crash your car while you waited for your next go . . . Track and field was great,used to be one in my old local,could buy one pint and be on the machine til closing time . .
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Ah, isn't a trip down memory lane nice? Some great memories have came flooding back. Well the N64 arrived yesterday, and my god Goldeneye feels dated! I remember being awestruck by the graphics, the control pad, everything. It's not quite how I remembered it! The graphics are glitchy, the control stick is worn which doesn't help, but the aiming system is a right 'mare. The layout is also backwards if you've been fed on a diet of Xbox/Call of Duty for the past few years. The sound is laughably bad. You can't jump? You can't run? The mind really does remember things with a distinctly rose-tinted hue. I'll be honest, I felt like just putting it straight back on ebay. But I persevered for just one level. Then the second. Then when I woke up the next day, I had that feeling when you're starting to get addicted to a game. That 'urge' to play that only the good ones give you when you're doing other things. Everything else fades, but the gameplay never does Look out Trevelyan....
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Well the N64 arrived yesterday, and my god Goldeneye feels dated! I remember being awestruck by the graphics, the control pad, everything. It's not quite how I remembered it! The graphics are glitchy, Bit like Doom on PS1, and a 42" LCD Flatscreen. It's not that the graphics were crap, it's just that now they are so good! Anybody remember Qix? Cost me a fortune in the early 80s on a table top pub game in Canada. As for the ultimate - Space Invaders. Put in the choggie shop when I was on an NI tour in 79. Queue around the shop, only allowed one go at a time, at 10p a game. The machine had to be emptied the day it was installed. Nobody had ever seen anything like it Those young soldiers who queued are now in their 50s
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lol I forgot all about that thread that i made back on 09, i just tried to update it with the retrogames remake link i added on here, alas it is such an old post it wont let me/
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Any one ever played command and conquer red alert link up with 2 TVs&ps1 in same room facing away from each other?
Best fun i ever had gaming.
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Any one ever played command and conquer red alert link up with 2 TVs&ps1 in same room facing away from each other?
Best fun i ever had gaming.
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Yes Johnny, great multiplayer Game. Used to play it on PC over a dial-up modem with my a good mate who is sadly no longer with us. This was Mid 1990s before broadband. You dialed their phone from game and they answered from game. Worked really well apart from no one could phone you for hours My mate Paul could never beat me, but one mega long game he really did have me surrounded and beat all ends up and was on course for his first victory. So as a last resort I sneaked Tanya right round ouside of Map and couldn't believe he had left only a couple of guards at his base. He was so engrossed in destroying my base and finaly beating me, he never noticed his base was being destroyed by a Solitary Tanya. I couldn't stop laughing after the game when he called me afterwards "ow the f-in ell did you win that you @##tard. He refused to play me again. Still makes me laugh Happy Days eh
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Any one ever played command and conquer red alert link up with 2 TVs&ps1 in same room facing away from each other?
Best fun i ever had gaming.
FF7 a close 2nd
Strategy on a console?! I couldnt imagine a less enjoyable gaming experience
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Any one ever played command and conquer red alert link up with 2 TVs&ps1 in same room facing away from each other?
Yes I remember the fun of lugging the old CRT tv's to other people's houses. Ross
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cracking link, that is my bedtime reading sorted for tonight
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I loved playing Duke Nuke'em 3D linked on serial. I wouldn't actually call it retro gaming though. That's just 13 years ago. Retro gaming = asteroids. My favourite was moon lander. Have to add though - didn't get our first computer until around 1998 when I bought a monster Pentium 133 with 128 MB of RAM and a Miro DC30 video editing card with a gigantic RAID-0 2 x 20GB stripe set - that was in times when regular harddrives were 1 GB or so. Crazy stuff.
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Have to add though - didn't get our first computer until around 1998 when I bought a monster Pentium 133 with 128 MB of RAM and a Miro DC30 video editing card with a gigantic RAID-0 2 x 20GB stripe set - that was in times when regular harddrives were 1 GB or so. Crazy stuff. Pfffft How about an Amstrad PC1512 with No HDD and a single 5 1/4" FDD that ran dos and word Then a few years later my first 'proper' PC was a stonking 486 DX (yes with the built in maths co-processor), a massive 4mb ram and gigantic 40Mb HDD. Beat that fatboy As for retro gaming, my first favourite home game was gorf on the Vic-20, that had 3.5k ram until i added a 16 k expansion pack! The spectrum 48k with rubber keys was a beast by comparison, jetpac, jetset will, manic miner, blimey what a blast!
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My mate Paul could never beat me, but one mega long game he really did have me surrounded and beat all ends up and was on course for his first victory. So as a last resort I sneaked Tanya right round ouside of Map and couldn't believe he had left only a couple of guards at his base. He was so engrossed in destroying my base and finaly beating me, he never noticed his base was being destroyed by a Solitary Tanya. I couldn't stop laughing after the game when he called me afterwards "ow the f-in ell did you win that you @##tard. He refused to play me again. Still makes me laugh
Happy Days eh Where was his base defence? The old telsa coils would have sorted out the tanya Whats your opinion on the new versions of the game? I think they have ruined it by going too futuristic with too much bad actors playing out movie story lines.
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I'm playing RA:3 again at the moment, it's great fun but very short ! Each campaign is only about 5 maps.
I've never really like the Tiberium Sun games, apart from the first C+C game. That was just epic, but then they started introducing, as you say, daft futuristic units like hover tanks, and walkers etc.
Generals was a welcome and original boost to the series and i'm looking forward to the sequel which should be out pretty soon.
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Also there it nothing more pissing off than having to do a non-base building level. luckily RA:3 doesnt seem to have any of those, but i remember them being all over the place in the earlier games.
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Did anyone else have the 3DO like me? I've not seen it on any of your lists... it was ahead of its time (well thats what I thought at the time). Some classic titles been mentioned which has brought back some very fond memories. It wasn't that long ago, me and the mates all got together for a retro game night (about 4 years ago) where we got the SNES, N64 and PS1 out for a blast, Needless to say the night revolved around Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.
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I had a 3DO. There was a really good football game for it but that was about it!! Ross
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Look at the bad boy that I just dug out of the loft. I've got a videomaster superscore! Wow!
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I still have my old megadrive light gun scope!! It was quality. The SNES one was crap!!! Ross
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My mate Paul could never beat me, but one mega long game he really did have me surrounded and beat all ends up and was on course for his first victory. So as a last resort I sneaked Tanya right round ouside of Map and couldn't believe he had left only a couple of guards at his base. He was so engrossed in destroying my base and finaly beating me, he never noticed his base was being destroyed by a Solitary Tanya. I couldn't stop laughing after the game when he called me afterwards "ow the f-in ell did you win that you @##tard. He refused to play me again. Still makes me laugh
Happy Days eh Where was his base defence? The old telsa coils would have sorted out the tanya Whats your opinion on the new versions of the game? I think they have ruined it by going too futuristic with too much bad actors playing out movie story lines. Sorry, only just noticed this.(spa trip interrupted reading of this thread). I totaly agree. I have tried a couple of them but it just wasn't the same so I've ignored all others. I still play the Microsoft Close Combat(cc) games series from the mid 1990s. CC4 "Battle of the Bulge" was my favourite and I visited some of the Battle Maps/Towns when I was at Spa last month(eek what a Geek!) They are excellent and have beem updated and re-released recently. Matrix Games
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