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Favourite old-school computer games

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Way too many to mention, I have 6500 arcade games LOL. Here’s a few.


Old-school arcade games

Moon cresta
Moon patrol
Crazy balloon
Ghost and Goblins - No.1 favourite
Defender
Gauntlet
Phoenix
Astro Wars
Yie Ar Kung Fu


Home Computer (ST and Amiga)

Barbarian , both versions
Bubblebobble
Wizball
Commando
Dungeon Master
Defender of the Crown
Jack the Nipper ( Speccy)
3 weeks in paradise (Speccy)
All Sierra Quest games.
Leisure Suit Larry
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Dark Side (1988)
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Great shout. I used to have a massive poster of that in my wall and played it for hours on my Amstrad 464, when I was 8.

Total eclipse was similar.

Also for me the main ones are

Syndicate - on my brothers Amiga. My god this game was ahead of its time. 4 cyborgs at your control, murdering everything in sight. Think isometric deux ex.

Cannon fodder - similar to syndicate but more comical and Army based

Monkey island / grim fandango / beneath a steel sky / broken sword etc. I love a good point and click

Populous - first ‘god’ game that I remember playing.

B17 Flying Fortress - amazing simulator

Desert strike - bossing iraqi’s in an apache helo. Class until you crashed and Sadam tortured you by dipping you in a steel oil drum.

Final fantasy 7 (PlayStation). The scale of this thing still blows my mind. Light years ahead of anything at the time.

North and south. Amiga game based on the civil war. Was a bit like risk but with added side games.

There are so many to be honest.
 
I'll always remember writing the code for a version of Space Invaders using machine code for the Apple II back in the late 70s early 80s.

It was about then that I decided that computer programming was far too tedious to be a way of earning a living.
 
tugglesf239 said:
Great shout. I used to have a massive poster of that in my wall and played it for hours on my Amstrad 464, when I was 8.

Total eclipse was similar.

Also for me the main ones are

Syndicate - on my brothers Amiga. My god this game was ahead of its time. 4 cyborgs at your control, murdering everything in sight. Think isometric deux ex.

Cannon fodder - similar to syndicate but more comical and Army based

Monkey island / grim fandango / beneath a steel sky / broken sword etc. I love a good point and click

Populous - first ‘god’ game that I remember playing.

B17 Flying Fortress - amazing simulator

Desert strike - bossing iraqi’s in an apache helo. Class until you crashed and Sadam tortured you by dipping you in a steel oil drum.

Final fantasy 7 (PlayStation). The scale of this thing still blows my mind. Light years ahead of anything at the time.

North and south. Amiga game based on the civil war. Was a bit like risk but with added side games.

There are so many to be honest.
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We had it at work - loaded from cassettes I think - minimal graphics - so we didn't have the 'dashboard' surround for some reason - we had to work out from nothing what we were doing and had to do...
 
Slime said:
Geoff Crammond's Formula 1 Grand Prix, the original one from a million years ago.
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Oh yes! A technical masterpiece. I played a lot of Indianapolis 500 too.

Reminds me of another I missed out from my list.

- Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker
 
I wrote a great text adventure game based around my school in 1982. Every time they tried to delete it, it would re-create itself at midnight thanks to an early program I had created. It drove the computer teacher up the wall when it re-appeared every morning. It was also truly disgusting in what you could do to some of the teachers using some of the equipment in the school ;-)
 
I used to enjoy manic minor on the spectrum. What I didn’t enjoy was waiting for them to load via the tape recorder, especially big games that took ages to load and would crash near the end.
 
Monkey Island and Broken sword series top my list.

I had a PS original, dabbled in it but don’t remember living on it. Destruction Derby 2, Crash B and Gran turisomo stood out. I did play a fair bit of Pokémon back on the game boy colours.

Roll forward a bit and TW06 with its epic course designer, IL2 Sturmovic series and CounterStrike Source dominated my free time in my early 20s.

Prior to university I was too busy running around playing rugby to bother much with games.
 
Settlers 2 was the best in the series. They milked the franchise after that but that’s true of everything successful.

I preferred Powermonger, although it wasn’t as good a game I just enjoyed watching the little men run around collecting resources and floating in coracles.
 
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