Some of us grew up in a golden age of computor gaming - favs!?

[Cernunnos]

Loved Dungeon Master & its additional add ons on the Amega. Then the missus really loved playing black lamp, it was fun,if a bit two dimentional for me.

Falcon can't be beaten even now as far as flight sims go

There used to be a very good Ferrari F1 game years ago I played on my A600

 

[GB72]

Daley Thomsons Decathlon on the ZX Spectrum !!!!!


Classic

Great game but wrecked more than one joystick.

Can I add Mario Kart and Streetfighter II on the SNES as these were constantly on in my house at Uni

 

[SS2]

This is surely the greatest topic of all time!

I was weaned on the ZX81, spectrum, BBC, followed by the classic arcade games (and pinball!) and recognise most of the classics mentioned above.

There are some pretty good emulators out there; these are downloadable bits of software (free) which allow you to play a lot of the classic arcade games on your PC. E.g. Asteroids, Space Invaders, Defender, Scramble, Mission Command, Gauntlet). Do a search for MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator).

I've spent 17 years making a living from writing software but never managed much in the games department apart from a dodgy Tetris clone and a roulette wheel emulator. The latter was great: you could stick on any bets, then say how many times to repeat the bets (or just to keep going until you told it to stop). If you stuck on, say $10,000 of bets and then went to be and let it run repeatly all night, when you got up in the morning you'd be down by a trillion dollars or so, thus proving you can't beat the house in the long run.

Have I started rambling and gone off-topic ? If so I apologise but thank you all for contributing to the greatest topic ever...

 

[nomadpaul]

I'm not sure it was available as a computer game but our local video rental shop - when the Ferguson Videostar ruled the world - had an arcade game called (i think anyway) ' Crazy Balloon' where you had to steer a swinging hot air balloon around various levels of obstacles . How i loved that game

 

[TonyN]

I have just found a game that is a classic in waiting, becomes so addictive, sorry have not got a link but just goole 'free games stunt pilot'

 

[toonarmy]

Why would you use a joystick for Daley Thompson? That's what the rubber keys on a ZX Spectrum were built for!

Pole Position, Track 'n' Field, Yie-ar Kung Fu all Spectrum faves.

A Binatone 15-in-1 Atari rip-off saw many an hour of use.

Dizzy, Fifa 95, NHL all Mega-drive games that sawplenty of abuse (how good was causing a fight in NHL and then knocing the bloke out?! 'Swingers' got that spot-on)

And recently, after many years' absence, I have returned to gaming with the PSP (custom firmware of course!) and am currently very much enjoying Virtua Tennis 3, Everybody's Golf 2 and Tiger Woods 08.

But the first time I got my Spectrum that Christmas morning and loaded up Jetpac will still be my fondest gaming memory.

 

[GB72]

I always managed to get better times on Decathlon using the old Kempston Joystick.

Did anyone else have an Intellivision. I had one instead of the Atari and used to play golf on that with my dad and grandad (families used to play on these things together decades before the Wii was even thought of)

Agree on the NHL fights but preferred Speedball II for violent sporting action.

 

[cm_qs]

Ah! the Atari 2600 family games console. ( complete with joystick and paddle controllers)

Me and my two brothers used to while away the hours playing Combat and Super Breakout and Yar's Revenge and Pitfall on our 12 inch black and white portable with the twisty tuning dial.
Playing it on a B&W telly was frankly a waste of the cutting edge 16 colour graphics.

Happy days!!

 

[Basher]

Afraid to say we never really embraced the computer technology when I lived with my parents.

Got a C64 when I got married!!! God, were the tape machines slow to load or what? Still had hours of fun on it.
Progressed to a Sega Megadrive a few years later - Sonic rocked!

Bought our first PC ooohhh, years ago now. A bag o $hite Packard Bell from PC World. You know the sort, greta big tower with bugger all in it.
Got a few games loaded onto it and it was as slow as hell due to the drive being full!
Redline Racer was a good game which came with the bundle.

Have to say, Pinball is good when you're completely bored!

 

[andiritchie]

micheal jacksons moonwalker and california games superb gamimg going further back pele football on the atari 2600

 

[Cernunnos]

I'd f me forgotten about guantlet... thanks for reminding me

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Relive your youth....
http://www.xmixdrix.com/manicminer/
I've loaded it and it's like going back in time.

 

[GB72]

I'd f me forgotten about guantlet... thanks for reminding me

Agreed, Gauntlet was what dragged me down the local arcade with my mates, that and Outrun.

 

[cm_qs]

The ultimate arcade game for me was always - Star Wars. Dodgy wireframe animation but bags of atmosphere. Who wouldn't enjoy screaming along the Death Star trench and "using the force"

Shoot the Towers!!

On the subject of dodgy wireframe animation , what about Battlezone - where you had to put your head in some ludicrous goggle contraption whilst pretending to be a tank driver.

 

[BunkerMentality123]

Chuckie Egg was a particular fave of mine, plus Frogger and also Galaxians!!!!

Hours wasted but great fun, also liked Donkey Kong.

I remember when my dad brought home an orange console thing, with twisty buttons to play Pong for the first time, we thought we were in heaven.

Oh the seventies, great memories of my sister and I perched in front of the TV. After a while the controllers got dirty and yr "player" started wobbling about making it virtually impossible.

Happy days!!