Retro Gaming General Gaming Golden Threads

[Random Guy]

C64 - Turrican because it expanded in both x and y direction. Open game of its time.
C64 - Last Ninja 1 or 2 cant remember. Sneaking around was great fun.
C64 - Bubble Bobble. Exact copy of the arcade game I put so many coins into in the arcade.
C64 - Microprose Soccer (particularly side 2 which was indoor and was a hoot in 2 player mode)

There is one other I can't remember the name of and would be grateful if someone can name it. It involved a simple space ship and scrolling was vertical in both directions. Really simple graphics even for the C64. Very physics based. Launch carefully with just enough thrust to not hit the cave top, and then thrust gently down to a box you had to winch. Gravity brought you down but if you allowed no control of descent, you crashed. That box changed your balance and thrust angles as you brought it back up. Quite a challenge at the time. Sunk many hours into it.

 

[Son Of Jack]

There is one other I can't remember the name of and would be grateful if someone can name it. It involved a simple space ship and scrolling was vertical in both directions. Really simple graphics even for the C64. Very physics based. Launch carefully with just enough thrust to not hit the cave top, and then thrust gently down to a box you had to winch. Gravity brought you down but if you allowed no control of descent, you crashed. That box changed your balance and thrust angles as you brought it back up. Quite a challenge at the time. Sunk many hours into it.

Think that one was just called Thrust.

 

[Random Guy]

Think that one was just called Thrust.

Just looked at YouTube and that's it. The physics were very realistic and I loved it.

 

[Geezer]

Gunstar Heroes is the best game on the Megadrive and I'll fight anyone that says otherwise.

 

[Snoops]

Shinobi (I was particularity good at getting the "High score" in this game, not using shurikens or ninja magic!)

Bad Dudes
R-Type
Double Dragon
Golden Axe

 

[Snoops]

Was chatting away with a mate tonight about games. Discussing some of the latest releases like F1 2020, PGA 2K21 and Project Cars 3 and our minds started drifting back to their equivalents from years ago. Microprose Grand Prix (I'm sure that was on the Commodore Amiga), Leaderboard (golf game on the Amiga) and TOCA Touring Cars (PS1)

 

[Micro Dave]

I was mainly sports games I played, aside from the odd one like Dizzy or Cannon Fodder.

Sensible World of Soccer, Speedball 2, Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk, Championship Manager 97-98 and PGA European Tour were amongst my early favourites.

 

[Ginger Ted]

The original Elite was amazing, spent so many hours on that, running narcotics to dangerous worlds and getting bigger and better ships. Saved up to get a docking computer as the number of times I crashed into the station trying to dock was unbelievable!

Manic Miner
Greedy Gulch
Tir Na Nog
Bugaboo
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Bard's Tale
Bomb Jack
Ghosts & Goblins
Marble Madness
Barbarian, The Ultimate Warrior
Arkanoid
Summer Games
Defender of the Crown
Lemmings

I can remember the above games I had for my spectrum, Bards Tale was completely amazing.

When I was 8, we had one of these at home - the TRS-80 by the Tandy Corporation



Used to order books that contained the code to write into the computer to get a game! I spent hours typing in code, line by line and then at the end of it, it didn't work because I'd made a mistake somewhere. They didn't have great compilers back then, had to go back through line by line. You never knew if the game would be any good either and had to invest hours into finding out.

There was a great text-based adventure in a pyramid I remember and a very basic grand prix game.

 

[Micro Dave]

The original Elite was amazing, spent so many hours on that, running narcotics to dangerous worlds and getting bigger and better ships. Saved up to get a docking computer as the number of times I crashed into the station trying to dock was unbelievable!

Manic Miner
Greedy Gulch
Tir Na Nog
Bugaboo
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Bard's Tale
Bomb Jack
Ghosts & Goblins
Marble Madness
Barbarian, The Ultimate Warrior
Arkanoid
Summer Games
Defender of the Crown
Lemmings

I can remember the above games I had for my spectrum, Bards Tale was completely amazing.

When I was 8, we had one of these at home - the TRS-80 by the Tandy Corporation

View attachment 2636

Used to order books that contained the code to write into the computer to get a game! I spent hours typing in code, line by line and then at the end of it, it didn't work because I'd made a mistake somewhere. They didn't have great compilers back then, had to go back through line by line. You never knew if the game would be any good either and had to invest hours into finding out.

There was a great text-based adventure in a pyramid I remember and a very basic grand prix game.

My sister and I used to take great delight watching my father play Defender of the Crown. The music was great and we in particular used to love the Robin Hood segment where you'd raid a city with that awful sword fighting.