Random 80s computer game memory

banquo

Want some rye?

Course ya do.

/Return to Zork
/f*cking impossible game

captbarnacles

Loved Jet Set Willy. Platform game where you had to go round a house collecting glasses. It was infuriatingly difficult and we didn't know at the time but impossible to complete due to a bug.

Worst part was it took 15 minutes to load from the tape and then you were asked for a colour code from the card that came with the game. We only had half the card so this could take awhile. We still did it though.

wendell borton

Akrasia wrote: »

Speaking of Oceean
Terminator 2, the 1991 MS dos game was pretty cool but damn hard

The first level was a fight against the T-1000 and that was easy enough, but level 2 was a race through the dried up storm drain on the dirtbike with the 18 wheeler chasing you. I could never get past it.

At least you didn't have to contend with the load time of the C64 version.

dr.fuzzenstein

wendell borton wrote: »

At least you didn't have to contend with the load time of the C64 version.

I had the Freeze Frame cartridge. Loading took seconds. Also had a built in cheat, i.e. could turn off sprite collision. And as the name suggests, it could freeze the game and save whatever was on screen.
http://ar.c64.org/wiki/Freeze_Frame

Kerrydude1981

I remember playing this on the Atari 7800,I think my brother finished it

NachoBusiness

We got a Commodore 64 in 1984 and all I played was Hover Bovver for a year.
Just listened to the sound that is made when the grass is being cut (intermingled with An English Country Garden of course) and it takes me right back.
I doubt a kid today would play it for five minutes, let alone a whole year.
I was obsessed with it though. Soon as I woke up all that would be heard was the sound of it loading and then grass being cut.
For.12.long.months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwaSgPVhyB8

kfallon

The Last Ninja games on the Amiga were class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osy-YCyId2M

Capt'n Midnight

This map Dungeon Adventure Game (AKA "Zork")
http://almy.us/image/dungeon.jpg

SouthTippBass

Akrasia wrote: »

Speaking of Oceean
Terminator 2, the 1991 MS dos game was pretty cool but damn hard

The first level was a fight against the T-1000 and that was easy enough, but level 2 was a race through the dried up storm drain on the dirtbike with the 18 wheeler chasing you. I could never get past it.

I had that on cartridge for C64, loved that game. I made it all the one to level 9 once, and only once. Thats the final fight with the T-1000 in the steel mill. Every other time I usually got to level 8, the helicopter chase.

The excitement then of progressing to the next level was very real back then, I would have been 9 at the time.

northknife

Way of the exploding fist on the cpc464 spent hours playing that

py2006

northknife wrote: »

Way of the exploding fist on the cpc464 spent hours playing that

I bet you did...

citytillidie

blatantrereg wrote: »

Harrier Attack. Classic.

Fastest loading game on the Amstrad was great as well.

Player manager where you could choose different scoring routines and had to get your player in the correct position for the goal to count.

There is an app now called score which is sort of the same thing.

tinner777

Do any of you remember the key code sheet for jet set willy

5rtytry56

F 16 Combat Pilot by Digital Integration - the most authentic Flight Simulation you could get for your Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and Spectrum 128K, - not on 48k.

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/f-16-combat-pilot-n5

Kerrydude1981

Another game that I had for the Atari

Wompa1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1IdhgazTKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eASiZA8NCHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMl5W4NN1N8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrS1hcyNIDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FupPnY0bmLQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFEw5Xcq4uM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc62hFksKo4

I'll stop now

everlast75

"Monty on the run" anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_z2vrLrzQ

5rtytry56

Stunt Track Racer, also known as Stunt Car Racer 1989 or 1990 depending on system.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/stunt-track-racer

Maximus Alexander

Carrier Command on the Atari ST. 3D, open world warship simulator all the way back in the late 80s. What a time to be alive.

everlast75

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHLrPYvPrdo

dr.fuzzenstein

everlast75 wrote: »

"Monty on the run" anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_z2vrLrzQ

Monty on Armstrad? Aaaaaarrrrhgghhghhh!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcgruWlXnQ

Found this on YouTube, guitar version of Monty theme tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKssGfAtTP4

rgmmg

Some classics already mentioned - Raid Over Moscow, Kick Off 2, Chuckie Egg. Winter Games too

ceadaoin.

Has no one mentioned Prince of Persia? I spent hours playing that on amstrad. It was the first game I actually finished.

everlast75

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Has no one mentioned Prince of Persia? I spent hours playing that on amstrad. It was the first game I actually finished.

the only reason people went to computer class in my school

BattleCorp

Back in the early 80's I was pretty much a Donkey Kong professional. Every penny I had went into the machine in the local chipper. I got quite good at it.

One time I got so carried away playing the game that I actually jumped in real life as my character jumped over a barrel in the game. Fookin made me get killed so it did, and cost me 10p. :mad:

Not my finest moment.

Riesen_Meal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqF_Wh97_o

First game I bought with my own cash, purely for the box art alone!

Who wouldn't buy this game nowadays?

Wetbench4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2e866bEcM

Oh the laughs I used to have with friends, setting up traps in Spy vs Spy.

Does anyone remember how the c64 was also cartridge capable, and finding games in the cart format was liking finding gold.

Mike Litoris

Deleted User wrote: »

But during the game you could say a word at any time and your character would change into a super hero. Or back again. And you had to type a word like "khazam" or "kapow" or something odd like this.

PLEASE tell me I did not dream this and someone remembers this game The bet I have with my mates was this was a ZX spectrum game. My mate thinks it was an Atari ST one. And my brother believes it was one of the first text games on the PC.

Dunno if anyone replied to this but I think that was one of the Marvel text adventures, either Spiderman or The Incredible Hulk. I remember reading it in a tips section in Crash.

Anyway, Level 9's the Price of Magik was my favourite text adventure.

northknife

northknife wrote: »

Way of the exploding fist on the cpc464 spent hours playing that

py2006 wrote: »

I bet you did...

HUH!!

captbarnacles

BattleCorp wrote: »

Back in the early 80's I was pretty much a Donkey Kong professional. Every penny I had went into the machine in the local chipper. I got quite good at it.

One time I got so carried away playing the game that I actually jumped in real life as my character jumped over a barrel in the game. Fookin made me get killed so it did, and cost me 10p. :mad:

Not my finest moment.

People trying to look over the hill when playing outrun in the arcade (yes me too)

the evasion_kid

Oh the wasted hours.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqScgMHVe3c

NIMAN

I wonder what Jeff Minter is up to these days?

5rtytry56

NIMAN wrote: »

I wonder what Jeff Minter is up to these days?

HE of the famous computer games with Lamas in then? He owned an Atari ST as well... That's al I seem to rembember.

Ace Attorney

used to spend ages playing rick dangerous 2 on the c64

also there was a game where you played as a fox running around with the william tell overture as the music. It was a platformer type game if i remember correctly, cant rememember the name of it tho. anyone know?

Edit It was foxx fights back

dr.fuzzenstein

The Castles of Doctor Creep
I spend many a night on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi2dvxcioBw

Manic Moran

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I remember a couple on the Spectrum:

1. A bridge to far - absolutely fcuking brilliant - except it took so long to play and you had to save to tape. Saving to tape was grand but the chances of reloading from tape were about 50/50.
2. The other one was a lord of the rings type thing. It was good but I suspect impossible to win. Every turn ended with the haunting words "Do you want the dawn?". There were four characters the only one I remember was Tolken the Skulkren. At the time that name always jarred as a little too similar and a little too poetic.
   
   Anyway very limited controls and graphics. You could either look North, East, South or West or move that direction. Good game but never won it.

You are thinking of "The Lords of Midnight". It was Fawkin the Skulkrin. I spent ages on the thing. Eventually won it after many, many tries. The game's designer didn't think it was actually possible to win. Amazing game for 48k of RAM.

As I look it up, I see that there's an Android app of the game now. I may look it up. And the sequel. He thinks again....

I swung by a demo of the current Elite: Dangerous, and it was just like the original Speccy version. But in color!

I recall an AH64 game, Tomahawk. It came with the Lenslok copy protection system. You had to place a faceted lens over the tv screen, and then figure out what the collection of blocks was telling you.

Keplar240B

Manic Moran wrote: »

You are thinking of "The Lords of Midnight". It was Fawkin the Skulkrin. I spent ages on the thing. Eventually won it after many, many tries. The game's designer didn't think it was actually possible to win. Amazing game for 48k of RAM.

As I look it up, I see that there's an Android app of the game now. I may look it up. And the sequel. He thinks again....

I swung by a demo of the current Elite: Dangerous, and it was just like the original Speccy version. But in color!

I recall an AH64 game, Tomahawk. It came with the Lenslok copy protection system. You had to place a faceted lens over the tv screen, and then figure out what the collection of blocks was telling you.

I thought you would mention the epic M1 tank platoon?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Tank_Platoon

5rtytry56

For memorably CRAP 8 bit games, a zx spectrum game look no further than
"Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_UgbpFkMAY

less well known for the same platform

"The Wizards Warriors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMY6D8HtMg

Manic Moran

Keplar240B wrote: »

I thought you would mention the epic M1 tank platoon?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Tank_Platoon

Didn't play it in the 80s.

Hotblack Desiato

The Ultimate games on the Spectrum were great.

Jetpac
Atic Atac
(Never had Sabre Wulf)
Knight Lore
Alien8 (mapped and completed it)
(Never could figure out Underwurlde - taped copy, no instructions, but Ultimate instructions were totally cryptic anyway)
Then they switched to a new system - Nightshade and Gunfright were only OK, nothing like as good as Knight Lore or Alien8.

Head Over Heels (Ocean) was basically a rip-off of Knight Lore / Alien8 but with some good new ideas and having two characters added a lot to the game.
Match Day and Match Day II were great too.

Canis Lupus

Spy vs Spy was so much fun. Good times.

harry Bailey esq

I could happily while away a couple of hours playing Flimbos Quest right now on the commodore 64 right now,I feckin loved that game.Leaderboard golf,also on the C64 was another favourite of mine.

The Corinthian

Deleted User wrote: »

I remember a game when I was a kid - on one of our computers - a text based adventure game but with pictures done in ascii at the time. But it was one of those "go north" "examine pedestal" type games.

But during the game you could say a word at any time and your character would change into a super hero. Or back again. And you had to type a word like "khazam" or "kapow" or something odd like this.

PLEASE tell me I did not dream this and someone remembers this game

Nope, you didn't dream it. It was called Redhawk and you turned into a superhero by shouting "Kwah!".

Manic Moran wrote: »

You are thinking of "The Lords of Midnight". It was Fawkin the Skulkrin. I spent ages on the thing. Eventually won it after many, many tries. The game's designer didn't think it was actually possible to win. Amazing game for 48k of RAM.

And now available, and quite playable, for Android. There's quite a few ports and emulators out there. I even ported a version of Don Priestley's Dictator to Android a while back.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

The Ultimate games on the Spectrum were great.

Great software house that consistently came out with great titles.

Other worthy games off the top of my head include:

• Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy
• Stonkers (one of the earliest RTS games ever written - the later Nether Earth deserves a mention on this front)
• Heavy on the Magick
• Pyjamarama
• The Great Escape
• Avalon
• Bruce Lee

harry Bailey esq

NIMAN wrote: »

I wonder what Jeff Minter is up to these days?

No clue.Probably doing gay porn.Maybe not.But with a name like that he very well might become one of the biggest stars in the 'industry'

dasdog

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

The Ultimate games on the Spectrum were great.

Jetpac
Atic Atac
(Never had Sabre Wulf)
Knight Lore
Alien8 (mapped and completed it)
(Never could figure out Underwurlde - taped copy, no instructions, but Ultimate instructions were totally cryptic anyway)
Then they switched to a new system - Nightshade and Gunfright were only OK, nothing like as good as Knight Lore or Alien8.

I've done plenty of boring IT work over the years but have been working alongside the studio that Ultimate evolved in to for the past 18 months.

Phoenix (Arcade), just evil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSBbQl2o6u8

everlast75

Jet Pack Willy

5rtytry56

The most successful 80s computer game platforms are those still with games being turned out for them in the present day, namely the C64 and the ZX Spectrum.

There is an R Type clone called "More Tea , Vicar" released this year for the Spectrum

http://oldschool-gaming.com/view_review.php?rev=spec_more_tea_vicar

I don't have a similar game for the C 64, but it has a thriving fan base on the web, clearly.