Old school gaming - 16bits or less

jaggeh

elite
elite II frontier
carrier command
ik+
warlords
mercenary
starglider

The_Bullman

For the Mega Drive:

Jungle Strike-pure class. gaming took a long while to surpass this. For example i bought Nuclear strike for the pc a few year a go, but it just wasn't the same.

and Micro Machines 97(I think)- me and the brother had the best of duels doing the time trials. I think thats what got me into formula 1 racing. Shaving hundreds of second off the time, or more annoying getting the same time and not beating it. Also being able to design your own tracks rocked. I think that i made 4 or 5 impossible ones to do. only the best survived!!

Quality in gameplay there.

Kairo

Oh..and If anyone here completed Jet Set Willy..I'll personally award you with a trophy for perseverance.

Lemming

Commodore64:

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IK+
Last Ninja (1, 2, Remix, 3)
Star Trek (really Old "original series" one .. could start interstellar wars)
Navy Seals (Cartridge - based on the film)
Supremacy
Commando
Turrican 2
Wonderboy
the Dizzy games
Gianna Sisters
Creatures 1&2
Ghouls n'Ghosts
Bubble Bobble
New Zealand Story
Blue Max

(I'm gonna stop there cause I've over 600 c64 games and its getting too hard to name favourites - or remember them at any rate!! )

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by Lemming
Commodore64:

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IK+
Last Ninja (1, 2, Remix, 3)
(I'm gonna stop there cause I've over 600 c64 games and its getting too hard to name favourites - or remember them at any rate!! )

IK+ and Last Ninja games were wicked.....
Anyone remember Barbarian? Absolute class - choppin heads
What about green beret? Kung-Fu Master....timeless

Da Bounca

Anyone say Syndicate?
speedball?
Last ninja?

smoke.me.a.kipper

C64
Wizball - if you havnt played this download it and give it a go. i had it on the c64 but was never able to finish it, but when i downloaded it a few weeks ago i managed to defeat the beast!

OutRun - classic game. have the music from it as my ringtone! (how sad)

nes
mario 1 and 3 (mario 1 still ownz my pants)
zelda 1
Smash TV
Duck Hunt

snes
Mario World
StarFox
Street Fighter II
Zelda III
F-Zero
Mario Kart

megadrive
sonic 1,2,3
Desert Strike

pc
Lemmings - the origional
GoldenAxe
SimCity
Worms

Lemming

Originally posted by Dr. Loon


IK+ and Last Ninja games were wicked.....
Anyone remember Barbarian? Absolute class - choppin heads
What about green beret? Kung-Fu Master....timeless

Yup .. remember them all (and have them all!) Although Barbarian2 was better

Anyone remember "Rick Dangerous" ??

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by smak
C64
OutRun - classic game. have the music from it as my ringtone! (how sad)

Outrun... deadly.
Anyone remember continental circus - racing game...?
There was also Werewolf in London - or was it New York? London I think... it was brilliant

seamus

Omfg, all these games bringing back the memories. I almost want to get that A500 out and try get it going again (But it won't work )

Team17 had ownage on the Amiga. And a mate of mine's dad had a client who sold games, so every so often he'd come home with a boxful of about 20 obscure Amiga games for free.
1 of them was a speedball - type game except you were lizards and rhinos(I think) playing, and instead of just knocking people out, you punched their heads off and stuff. Scoring goals eventually never mattered Gods owned, as did Fuzzball - that game was rock hard. I d/l shufflepuck cafe the other day, and it's damn hard!!! I have no idea how I completed it all those years ago. I was too young 9-12 to enjoy elite, but I remember my bro loving it. Oh, the memories.....
The best was one Christmas morning, my bro had gotten the A500 pack with Shadow of the Beast, Back to the Future 2, Days of Thunder, and Night Breed. I remember the sound of my jaw dropping when I first saw the intro to Shadow of the Beast. It was absolutely spectacular :D

Thorbar

Elite would be my fav, did anyone play the sequel that some german company brought out recently? X:beyond the frontier, was a really ****e game.

Firefox

Yea, Elite was a favourite back then. I even remember somebody playing in on a BBC Micro. (Remember Those?)
I also remember sentinel on C64, that was a weird game.

Uphamizer

Paperboy on C64 is my best game of all time.
Desert and Urban strike on the megadrive where just as good

DeadBankClerk

paperboy on the C64 sucks...
the arcade version owns

Karl Hungus

SYNDICATE!

Quite easily the greatest game ever made.
Was years ahead of its time.

I could go on and on for ages talking about the game.

How you could re-do the missions in so many different ways, over and over again. They were all so open-ended.

Or playing the entire game again from the start just to see how you could research different weapons, and in time for certian missions.
Get the good old flame thrower researched quickly, and it would do you for ages!

And oh... That flamethower!
Squirt a bit of flame at someone, and they'd run around screaming for ages in a big ball of fire, before finaly crumbing down to a little frazzled skeleton.

T'was brilliant!

And there was none of that humanity rubbish going on it in...
A civilian gets in the way of your minigun? SO WHAT!? That's nobody's problem any more.
Problems with the police?
Fire a rocket into the station!

Need to get to the objective quicker?
Put a bullet through someone's windshield, and gun 'em in the back as they ran off, just so they don't come back as you're trying to steal their car.

Pedestrian crossing? Pff... It's a stolen car! You're not going to be bothered with a few dents and a bit of blood, of chunks of a body.

Cops coming after you then? Shoot the car a bit... It blows, taking out any cop near enough to the blast.
And the ones that aren't so near are shot up in flame, and run off screaming!

And what's this ****e about the mission ending when your objective is complete?
Not in Syndicate! No sir!
You ended the mission when you were GOOD AND READY to end it.
You could bugger off and loot all the corpses for any decent weaponary, or anything of use. And you could TAKE YOUR BLOODY TIME at it, too!


Like I said... I could go on for hours about how ****ing brilliant a game it was.

And nothing has EVER watched it since.

TinCool

I don't ever remember playing Syndicate on a C64, Spectrum, ST, BBC, Amstrad or Amiga. Old school my arse. Having said that it was a very good game, particularly syndicate wars.

Shinji

Syndicate came out on the SNES, which was a 16 bit console, and I *think* there was an Amiga version. I'll ask the guys on Monday.

DeadBankClerk

syndicate was primarily amiga and portet to the others afaik.


here's my list of A600 "backup" discs:

John Maddens (The orignal, no 'year')
Sensible Soccer
Sensible World Of Soccer
Chess Player 2150
Pinball Dreams
Delux Paint 3
Noddy
Advantage Tennis
Magic Pockets
World Class Rugby
Robocod
PGA Tour Golf
James Bond "Live and Let Die"
Street Fighter II - The World Warrior
North and South
Cannon Fodder
Toki
Lemmings
F-19 Stealth Fighter
Rainbow Islands
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challeng II
Xenon II - (Bomb the Base - Megablast - pwnage)

Lex_Diamonds

Originally posted by DeadBankClerk

Street Fighter II - The World Warrior

*shudder*

DeadBankClerk

Yeh there was one disk for the game, one for the backgorunds and two for the characters.


So if you changes characters and stages you could be swapping 3 disks between fights

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by TinCool
I don't ever remember playing Syndicate on a C64, Spectrum, ST, BBC, Amstrad or Amiga. Old school my arse. Having said that it was a very good game, particularly syndicate wars.

It was on the Amiga.

And Syndicate Wars was complete tripe in comparison.