Old school gaming - 16bits or less

DeadBankClerk

What are your favourite games of old?


I'm talking amiga, comadore 64, atari ST,
sega master system etc...
Them was the days...
Bruce Lee on C64.
I remember my brother buying Desert Strike the day it came out

My all time favourite has to be amazing "Another World" by Delphine.

(if you havnt played it search google - its easy to download)

Block (8

What about going back a bit to the days of the spectrum
Bashing those rubber keys to make Daley Thompson (what I thought look like legs) go faster ....if anyone remembers that one
Man, Bruce Lee in C64 hehe that was gr8.

Dustaz

Proof that you are indeed King of the Mongs DBC, no mention of the ZX Spectrum?
Anyway, my vote goes to Elite, it was pretty l33t

Dar

indeed - elite ruled all.

WhiteWashMan

how there was a huge amount of time wasted back then
the likes of ye are kung fu, renegade rocked, IK+, trans am, robocop, operation wolf, ,swiv, WIZBALL!!!!! wizball fúcking rocked! these were aon my little speccy.
on the amstrad we had the captain blood, driller, IK+ three player, 1942, bioic commando, ikari warriors, gauntlet.
on the amiga, bomb the bass and megablast! xenon 2!
nitro, it came form the desert, settlers, oh god hte list is endless.

and dont forget that seminal favourite, jet set willy.

Cake Fiend

Zelda 3, SMW, Flashback (sequel to Another World), anything Dizzy, atic atac, JSW, SMB3, Megaman 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Jurrassic Park, Secret of Mana,.... jesus, I could go on for an entire page.

Stephen

IK+ on the amiga... 3 player 0wnage

Celt

Laser Squad on c64 rocked

BabyEater

Harrier attack on the amstrad was just about the only game i used to play. Had others but cant remember them.

RasTa

terminator 2 for the C64
remember allmost cryin over how great i thought the graphics were

Spunog UIE

ya terminator2 was class on the C64 never passed it had a terminator joystick and it was a bit dodgy and so couldn't move properly and just passed the infermory bit with ur one...t;was also a cartage game which was cool i only had one, one of my friends had RoboCop3 and that was brillo too, didn't look as good tho but ya shot more stuff.

Any StreetFigher game cept no.1
I got StreetFighter one on tape for C64 and it was CRAP! side scroller.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

the best game ever for mega drive was olmpyic games with the multiplayer. ****IN BEat those buttons to run faster, and all those weird things that happened when ya got different scores, the ultimate muli-player game, i miss it...

Jimi-Spandex

Smash TV - Mega Drive

Need I say more?

TinCool

What about these C64 classics:

Impossible Mission
Spy vs Spy
Beach Head
Summer Games 2
Staff of Karnath
Entombed
China Miner
Rambo First Blood Part 2
Commando
Cauldron

and Super Sprint on the Atari ST. Myself and my cousins played this non-stop for about 2 weeks during the summer one year. Class stuff.

The list goes on and on.

Sangre

I wish i was old enough to know what the hell you are talking about! i vaguely remember my friend having a commodore but my first concole was nintendo. WAN hogans alley or that duck shooting game

NeRb666

Microprose Soccer on the C64
Commando on the 2600

amp

Apart from Atari's interpretation of Pacman on the 2600 (which people will remember I actually scored so high it reset to 0) I mostly played on an Amiga 500:

Speedball 2
Supercars 2
Gods
Simcity
Sensible Soccer
Xenon 2 (SI TEH MEGARBLAST!!!!1)
Oh and that Nitro game with the cars, it was like Supercars only the steering was different.
The first two monkey islands (fecking 12 disks in the 2nd one)
Thunderhawk (I think, some sort of 3d helicoptor game)
Canon Fodder.
Never played Elite at all but played a lot of Frontier (the sequel on the Amiga and then the PC) and I thought it was brilliant. Saving up to buy an Imperial Cruiser. Running around the galaxy doin stuff. X-gold just isn't the same (except it is )


Played a fair bit of Shadow of the Beast but only cos it was the only game I had for it for ages, and Days of Thunder but only cos I had the silly "fly around in the car cheat". Oh yeah! Indy 500, that was fun cos I got into the whole tweak the car to go faster thing. It's the only time I could be arsed getting into that apart from Gran Turismo.

The only time I actually won the race was when I manage to damage the rest of the computer cars enough so I was the last car running. Tough aul game.

Never really got into the snes or other consoles. Apart from the aul Jetpack on the Speccy. In fact I seem to have a problem playing games with out the comfort of a keyboard. The playstation 1 is the only console I've ever owned (other than a GB mostly played Zelda on that) and that was bought to play ridgeracer.



The first game I ever played on a PC was on some 286 piece of crap that managed to hack the hercules fontset to display (badly) horses running in a race. And the first "proper game" I played on a 386 was Flightsim, followed by Wolfenstein, Dukem Nukem (no 3d back then kids) and then the sheer joy of Doom.

IMO Doom brought proper gaming to the PC.

[end random stream of conciousness mode]

phobos

Did any of you write software for your C64?

I remember being addicted to
- Way of the exploding fist (figher)
- IK+ (fighter)
- Dragon Slayer (platformer)
- Double Dragon (1,2,3) (beat'em-up)
- Last ninja (1,2,3)
I also remember having Shadow of the Beast on cartridge for the unit.

On the amiga,
- Shadow of the beast 1, 2;
- Lemmings
- Pushover
- Moonstone
- Street Fighter 2
- Alien Breed
Plenty more, but I can't seem to remember

.....Those were the days I will never forget *sniff*

;-phobos-)

DeadBankClerk

Originally posted by amp
Never really got into the snes or other consoles.

Atari Jaguar

amp

I was going to buy an Atari Jaguar but everytime I went up to buy it I got a funny taste in my mouth.

Can't believe I forgot Lemmings and Alien Breed. And worms, and Project X and everything else Team 17 did.

bonkey

Spectrum 48k
- Ant Attack (I think thats what it was called)
- Manic Miner / JSW
- wizball

Comodore 64
- Zaxxon
- Iridium
- Impossible Mission
- Spy vs Spy

Amstrad 464
- Ikari Warriors

DOS
- Scorched Earth

Didnt ever use much of Atari ST or Amiga, so I wont comment on them.

Puck

Originally posted by bonkey
DOS
- Scorched Earth

Ah smashin!:D

I can't remember the names of a lot of them but some of the others I liked were:

Fatal Fury (MD)
Sol Feace (Mega CD II)
Desert Strike (MD)
Flashback (MD... I think)
Street Fighter II (SNES and now GBA ooooohhh I'm so happy:D )
Dynamite Heady (MD)

Kairo

[cough]....emulation board...[/cough]

C64
*Manic Miner
*Beach Head 1+2
*Impossible Mission 1+2
*Daley Thompson
*Thing On A Spring + Thing Bounces Back
*Many others...

Amiga
*Speedball 2
*Lemmings 2: The Tribes
*Gold Box Series of D&D games
*IK+
*Pushover
*Moonstone
*Last Ninja
*Sensible Soccer
*Cannon Fodder
*Elite 2: Frontier
*Flashback
*Another World
*Many others...

Cannon Fodder, IK+ and Speedball 2 would be my picks of the litter here.

Another world was too short...Flashback owned it severly

Couldn't be arsed listing all the console classics..except that Final Fantasy 3 (usa) owns all.

Krusty_Clown

Commodore 64:
Racing Destruction Set
Gribbly's day out
Creatures
Jet Pac
Hero
International Soccer (still the best game ever!) on cartridge
Lazer squad
Paradroid

BTW: Remember the magazine :Zzap64? I used to check the local newsagent twice a day for this magazine! For nostalgia, check it out on: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/

Trev

Amiga:
Kick-off / Player Manager
Fantasy World Dizzy
Treasure Island Dizzy

Spectrum:
Paperboy
Horace goes Skiing
Horace and the spider


just some of the delights not mentioned above :P

Baz_

elite

Asuka

8-bit Amstrad CPC!!

And yes, Elite beat em all.

A

DrunkLeprachaun

Ah, the days when I bought games not expecting to complete them(although, that could be because I was like 3).
I had me a nes with:
Solstice
Solar Jetman
Smash TV
Some Jackie Chan game
Mario 1 & 3(I don't lioke 2)
Zelda
Duck Hunt
and plenty others. They were great. I wished I hadn't sold it. *sniff.

LoGiE

C64
Turrican 1-2
rainbow islands
bubble bobble
Giana sisters
Ghouls 'n' ghosts
wonderboy
ice palace
ikari warriors

Amiga
Frontier: Elite
Hired Guns
Sabre Team
Cannon Fodder
Dyna Blaster
Alien Breed 1-2
Sensible soccer

* All classics! i found most of the amiga stuff in a shoe box in the atic two monthes ago and the amiga's around somewhere. I'd plug it in but loading times might drive me insane

Nintendo:
Mario 1/3 (2 sucked monkey nutz)
Zelda was quite elite.
Dunt Hunt was a blast

There was this other shooting one, but i cant remeber the name of it. It was one where you had to use the gun to kill these bandits in the wild west. Man that kept me entertained for hours on end. *sigh*

EL_Diablo

I usually spent most of my time playing IK+, speedball, Leisuresuit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards, (all on the atari st) and there was one game where you drove along in a red car and your mission was to catch various people and you could stand up and shoot at them and the odd time you got a rocket launcher or summit from a helicopter. anyone know the name of it?? oh yeah and navy seals and hudson hawk too

DiscoStu

the game you looking for is chase hq. does anyone remember carrier command? it was this cool 3d action stratagy game where u controlled an aircraft carrier but you could also hop into the planes and taks and fly and drive em. damn was it good(remade last year and released as hostile waters). how about powerdrome? and incredibly difficult futuristic racing game(wipeout was based on it). how about head over heels on the amstrad cpc464? i think its time to get monolithitic here, bump and jump on the atari 2600. i loved that game. what else can i think of? so many memories, the bards tale with its solar powered wizards qix on the atari 800xl my first ever game, dragons breath the music in that is so haunting and it was only music from the atari sts "yammy" chip, bubble bobble in the arcade damn that was years ago, mercenary 3 and those pulvin mines on dion damn you pc bill! lemmings was another one of my favourites. fiendish freddy's on that cartridge that came with the c64, kid icarus on the nes and the two zeldas and batman on the nes that game was feckin great.

its a shame all you young uns' will never get to play these games on their original systems. the horribly incomfortable joystick of the atari 2600, the pointed corners of the master system and nes joypads, the constanly grimy keybord of the c64, the rubber keyboard of the sinclair spectrum, the horrible pinky colour that was all you seemed to get from a cga 286 pc, the tiny black and white srceen of the mac............ christ im only 20 i need to get a life bad