Favorite Retro Game...

joshcork

I remember Decent me and a mate used to play two player coop on the hardest difficulty with one driving and one on the keyboard selecting and firing some weapons was great craic.
Does anyone remember Syndicate Plus now that was a game for the ages with miniguns aplenty

Giblet

Metroid.

Just great.

i_am_dogboy

all i have to say is jet set willy

po0k

Elite II:frontier
Followed closely by Cannon Fodder, SFII and Flashback...and a plethora of other games.
Currently hacking and slashing my way through Mordor 1.1

RobertFoster

Commander Keen

Retr0gamer

Currently favourites:

Super Metroid
Snatcher
Mario 3
Axelay
19XX
Final Fantasy 1
All the Shining Force games

Theres way to many great games and memories to list.

SeeYouJimmy

Nice to see another Frontier fan out there. this is probably the best game ever made, i can remember coming home from school and booting up the amiga for endless hours of space exploration

its number one on my list and no other game will ever come close

Davey Devil

I've been playing Carmageddon II recently - it kicks ass.

seanos

Teenage mutant ninja turtles {NES}
platformer - hit manhole covers back at enemies, be the first to steal that slice of pizza, spin-jump kicks... ah the days

Monkey Island 1+2 [still play soundtracks to them constantly as housemates will confirm]

Little Nemo: The Dream Master {NES}
Bionic Commando
Darkwing duck
Double Dragon
Joe & Mac Caveman Ninja

Sorry so many - went into nostalgia mode ... and .... damnit, wanna go home and find NES and start playing now ...

dangerman

monkey island 1 + 2 defo agree great stuff.

carmageddon, the original + its sequel still piss over 99% of todays games.

wolf 3d/doom, original prince of persia...

commander keen was a classic.

anyone remember captain comic?

pango, digger ~ seriously old school and some of the best.

I think if more game designers took a step back and looked at what made these games great the quality of todays games could be seriously improved. its not celebrity voice overs or per-pixel shaders that make games great.

DRakE

Sonic 2
Mario 3
Mega Bomberman
Golden Axe 2
Micro Machines Turbo tournament

sionnach

SUPERFROG!
james pond
commander keen

geezup

Shinobi
Shadow Dancer
Rastan
Wind Jammers
....

too many to name....

bless mame for bring'em back !

Jim

Originally posted by RobertFoster
Commander Keen

Dammit, I finally managed to forget...

Now I have to go into the attic.
Also had a fondness for Metal Slug (and its sequel, Metal Slug II)

Sarky

I have rediscovered a soft spot for the Dizzy games.

i_am_dogboy

yes dizzy rocked, honourable mention goes to flimbos quest and spy vs spy

Sarky

AAAH! Flimbo's Quest! I still have that on Amiga floppy. Still works, too. must have a go again...:)

Tivoli

wow no mention of dopewars yet, i think that old game will never die out

JDxtra

Castle Master (Amiga)
Super Frog (Amiga)
Bomberman (Amiga)

Deadwing

Last ninja 2 Absolute classic
Also Turrican 2, Monkey island, Supercars 2, Dizzy, ahhh..so many memories of a wasted youth

TheWolf

The Clue! - cracker of a game

Also some of the old Space Quest series

Aahhh, the memories

honru

At the moment I'm playing Street Fighter II alot, but there are so many other games out there that deserve a mention.

DiscoStu

Originally posted by jdempsey
Castle Master (Amiga)

holy jebus, someone remembers it.
great first person puzzle game, kind of like a proto-metroid prime.

cannon fodder is another one and was sensible softwares finest hour.

Dave

Just got the sonic mega collection for the GC. Mmmmmm sonic goodness. Also Street Fighter 2 Turbo.

-oRnein9-

Street fighter 2 turbo, double dragon, golden axe 2, but I can't believe no,one has mentioned super mario world, classic best platform game ever. don't you just love Yoishi!

TheWolf

Streets of rage

Great game

joshcork

Original Post By Syxpac
Elite II:frontier followed closely by...

That was one of the best games ever so much to do you hardly needed a story and the graphics were great (for the time) so much fun

krattapopov

streets of rage
golden axe
shinobi
chase hq
flimbos quest
sonic series
early mario
duck hunt
original fifa
fiendish freddies circus


actually a freind of mine just got the sonic series for his gamecube... i found it strange to be playing such a graphically simple game on such a comparitively powerful machine... but hell we played the sonic games for ages as opposed to playing any of the new games.... all the old games had class gameplay i echo dangerman when he says developers should take a little look back and see what has come before, not to try and rip off games which has happened but just to try and spark something new off.

amp

Originally posted by joshcork
I remember Decent me and a mate used to play two player coop on the hardest difficulty with one driving and one on the keyboard selecting and firing some weapons was great craic.

Along with Duke Em nukem I was playing lan games of Decent 1 and 2 back when they were released.

Navigation wasn't easy but eventually we learned how to do 3 point turns in 360 degrees. Out manoeuvring an enemy was the key in close combat even more so than say Quake or CS.

The single player was kinda fun too with the whole adrenlin rush of getting the hell out before the place blew up.

Stopped playing when Decent 3 came out as it was buggy and ran like a dog on my underspecced pc.

tman

Commander Keen - the one with dopefish:D
Lemmings - 'wan DMA
Speedball 2 - superb 2 player mode
Flashback - this game is long overdue a replay by me.
Scorched Earth - 4 player secks
Doom/Wolf3D/C&C/Super Mario World/Nemesis along with countless others that i can't remember...

Super Metroid - the only game here deserving of bold tags. one of the most replayable games ever... 11 (?) years on and it still feels fresh

Dont be at yourself

Yeah, Super Metroid is tops. And Duke Nukem. But I'll always have a soft spot for the Micro Machines series. I was playing them not too long ago on an emulator, and the grin on my face was wider than something really wide.