blimey, you make me feel old

I was going to suggest that you go on ebay and pick yourself up an Amstrad CPC464 with a couple of hundred games for £20....but to be honest, if you're used to modern computers, you'd hate it on soooo many levels. ie.

1. waiting for 20 minutes to see if a game has loaded. If not, rewind, adjust volume by a millimetre and try again. Some days I spent 5 or 6 hours trying to get my favourite games to load - and then play them for half an hour.

2. sound consists of *blip*, *beeep*, *ppppoooo*, *paaah*, *ppeeeuuuw*, *pppcosh* and thats about it

3. graphics had 2-64 colours, 2 being the most common, but 64 on some big budget high end games

4. save game? naah you won't be wanting that!! save game is for wusses.

and so on and so forth

I preferred the arcades as they were though - there was only one of each type of game usually - one shooting game (Operation Wolf usually), one dual player beat-em-up (Double Dragon), one big budget wow-I've-never-seen-that-before-but-it-costs-a-pound-a-go-so-I-won't-bother (afterburner or dragons lair), one four player adventure (Gauntlet) and then a variety of space games, such as the original Star Wars vector based game, which was ace

loved Operation Wolf! magnificent 2 player IF you could get a partner who was any good.

What about "Superfrog"? I played that a few years ago on an emulator (and even more years ago on a family friends' Amiga). Classic.

i remember i got flamed for doing a nostalgia thread... hmm...

no matter, i still enjoy playing the classics... system shock 2, Deus Ex, Ultimate Doom, Space invaders...

But there is nothing that compares to pinball. a true experience that cant be emulated.
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Vi

I still remember the original Sim City. I loved and still love the original Final Fantasy. Those two come to mind.

"Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived."

I re-installed Half-Life recently
Oh good time of joy!

Edited by - Wizard on 7/23/2004 7:58:13 AM

hmmmmmmm, Classics.

When speaking of classics, one can hardly go around the first Super Mario land for the Game boy, I spent hours and hours on it, and completed the game multiple times, or that old cheeser, Duck Hunt with a light gun... I must have hit countless Ducks as a nipper. well, but before that, I think I played numerous hours on the old MSX me dad had, Castlevania, and countless games I can't even remember, in those days, would you have asked me if I had a PC, I would have asked you if that thing was edible, and what sauce I had to take with it for it to taste good.

Vi - I hear that! Remember my "Classic Gaming" thread? *Sigh*

to be trated differently to the others... maybe its cos of our love of ginger beer?

I gotta bring up another classic. Final Fantasy VII. Here in aus, it was the first we got our grimy little mitts on and it still spins in my PS2. soooo much wasted time, soooo much inspriration.... *sigh*
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Vi

Viator, go back a little older, Final Fantasy 3 the US version, with rosa, Ceciel the black knight, Kane the dragoon and so on. A very good game.

I got a bad memory, farthest back I can remember was Command & Conquer. That was, what, 1995? Twas a good game that.

I remember playing Populus II at around the same time i was playing Syndicate. Now that was a fun game.

Dune 2 and Jazz Jackrabbit.
Those games are SOOOOOOOO addictive, blasting the crap out of helpless turtles with a flame cannon, ahhhhh, good times....

Commander Keen anyone?

I used to play the Descent series, before it was Descent Freespace and finally Freespace 2