The Retro Gaming Thread

[Scutch]

A thread dedicated to old school gaming; computers, consoles, games, peripherals.

Basically, memories

Those who have played Sensible World of Soccer will recognise this intro:


Jools and Jops, God bless you soldiers :approve:

Those were the days.

 

[Adam.P]

As soon as I saw the thread title, I thought of Alex The Kidd, used to love that game. I've still got it somewhere.

I still remember the game music haha.

 

[welshname]

Anyone else have the pirate copy with the devil f**king an angel walking across the screen at the beginning?????

 

[Adam.P]

I remember I used to be obsessed with Echo The Dolphin as well

Never got the hang of it, used to swim around. God I need to find my mega drive, Cool Spot as well.

 

[Scutch]

I remember I used to be obsessed with Echo The Dolphin as well

Never got the hang of it, used to swim around. God I need to find my mega drive, Cool Spot as well.

I remember Ecco the Dolphin getting 97% or thereabouts in Mean Machines magazine. I thought it was good but it wasn't that good.

 

[Scutch]

 

[Gally]

Echo the dolphin? The only game where you couldn't actually get by the first part of it? Evererer! f**king hated that game!

 

[Scutch]

Echo the dolphin? The only game where you couldn't actually get by the first part of it? Evererer! f**king hated that game!

PMSL! So true. Maybe that was the problem?

 

[Lee]

Classic controllers there too. I've still got my Competition Pro 5000 along with one of my Amigas. I've still got my old Coleco Vision in the loft too.

We spent many a lunch time playing Sensi on the SNES when I was at Elite. I was in QA during the end of the NES era, through 16 bit and in to the launch of the PS1. I still remember when our first PS1 dev kit arrived, and we fired up Ridge Racer, nothing will ever have that impact in gaming again. That was the biggest tech leap, even after the 3DO had done a reasonable job.

 

[Adam.P]

PMSL! So true. Maybe that was the problem?

I'm going to dig it out, maybe, just maybe I can get past the first part.

Micro Machines racers! God there were so many awesome, yet simple games.

 

[Lee]

I'm going to dig it out, maybe, just maybe I can get past the first part.

Micro Machines racers! God there were so many awesome, yet simple games.

Micro Machines was another big lunch time game at work. On the PS1 with two multitaps connected. The banter was awesome.

 

[Revels]

I used to love Micro Machines.

Lemmings too.

 

[Scutch]

Lemmings was awesome. Such a simple game yet difficult to complete.

 

[.Adam.]

California Games. Absolutely superb.

 

[Scutch]

California Games. Absolutely superb.

Was superb on the Master System. I remember my mate came round with it years ago and accidentally left it so I thought I'd be playing it all night. He turned up a few minutes later to take it back. Prick.

 

[Adam.P]

James Pond 2: Codename: Robocod. I was fully obsessed with that game.

Golden Axe, where you could be a woman, a hench dude or a dwarf and fight all kinds of mythical sh*t.

 

[oska]

Xenon on the Atari ST

 

[Hixle]

Micro Machines was another big lunch time game at work. On the PS1 with two multitaps connected. The banter was awesome.

Micro Machines V3 was brilliant. Racing round science labs and beaches with four mates was genius, good memories of that.

 

[.Adam.]

Was superb on the Master System. I remember my mate came round with it years ago and accidentally left it so I thought I'd be playing it all night. He turned up a few minutes later to take it back. Prick.

Lol. Yeah, I played it on SEGA too. Just realised I posted a Commodore 64 picture.

The hacky-sack game was f**king infuriating.

 

[Scutch]

Lol. Yeah, I played it on SEGA too. Just realised I posted a Commodore 64 picture.

The hacky-sack game was f**king infuriating.

Snapped a controller playing that. Footsack.

 

[Scutch]

Oh, and of course, the daddy:

 

[@Spoonie]

Ahh, memories

 

[Scutch]

Desert Strike

A game so good on the Megadrive, I even bought it on the SNES.

Followed by Jungle Strike and Urban Strike, IIRC.

 

[.Adam.]

Genesis Does What Nintendon't.

 

[Goodj]

Xenon on the Atari ST

<3

also.

 

[Scutch]

FPMSL :

 

[Scutch]

<3

also.

Mode7 at it's finest

Anyone remember Stunt Race FX which was the follow up to Star Fox in a graphical sense?

 

[.Adam.]

FLOL at that video Scutch!

 

[Lee]

Mode7 at it's finest

Anyone remember Stunt Race FX which was the follow up to Star Fox in a graphical sense?

I remember Stunt Race FX, as we were working on two Super FX games at the time:

Dirt Racer



And Powerslide:




Both were s**t of course.

I remember spending hours playing Pinball Dreams on the Amiga too. Awesome intro music.

 

[Christopher]

Who would have thought that the chaps that created Pinball Dreams would have gone on to create Battlefield 3? Not me.

Mental.

 

[Scutch]

Who would have thought that the chaps that created Pinball Dreams would have gone on to create Battlefield 3? Not me.

Mental.

Wow. Is that true? Genuinely didn't know.

 

[Lee]

Wow. Is that true? Genuinely didn't know.

DICE = Digital Illusions CE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Digital_Illusions_CE

 

[Christopher]

Wow. Is that true? Genuinely didn't know.

Yup.

DICE: Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment.

 

[Scutch]

Awesome fact.

 

[mace¬]

Used to love the Speedball series. Peaking at Speedball 2.

 

[Darren S]

Awesome fact.

Aye - Swedish weren't they, iirc?

D.

 

[Tim.]

A few of my old favorites... So many long hours spent playing these:

 

[@Spoonie]

I played quite a bit of speedball on XBLA. Great when you power you team up and you are in the lower divisions still. Carnage

 

[Gally]

Awesomeness!

 

[oska]

Lol @ Double fisted action!