Well I've been shaped (sorry to the gunner in my Challenger Tank on Al Basrah . . . right in the middle of a fire-fight mind you!), so i've had to resort to the beers, listening to MCR, doing up a quote for a new computer (in the off chance mine gets nicked!) and playing solitaire. While in a mad card shuffling frenzy it suddenly dawned on me:

 

How totally awesome was the old game Syndicate? I remember playing that thing to deth and working out the best weapons combo for my cyborgs being 4 miniguns and 2 gauss guns! The graphics were pretty cool for the time as well as the character animation (especially the poor civis after they happen to walk through your gauss rounds coming out the other side as little burning skeletons before falling to the ground), the sequal Syndicate Wars was pretty cool, iirc it added another dimension to the game by allowing you to shoot out windows etc and i *think* rotate the camera view. Still think the best mission was the one you had to rescue a doctor and as it was such a big level (by then standards) you'd end up resorting to killing everything on the map for fun (except the afore mentioned doctor). Good times (o:

 

Any of you have a good game you like to think about every then and now?

Bart Simpson vs The Space Mutants.

 

My first Video Game ever. Ran it on our first PC, a Nimrod-486.

 

Good times.

I've lost track of how many times I've played FF7 & FFT, my two favourite games ever... absolutely amazing. You just don't get that sort of replayability these days... I remember FF7 was bought in the days where EA was still just another fish in the sea, my old Nascar game was done by EA Sports ["It's in the game" in creepy child whisper] and that's about it.

 

Consumers are way too absorbed by marketing hype and pretty graphics these days, you only have to watch Yahtzee rant and realize he speaks the truth [for the most part when he's not exaggerating] to know that the focus has gone far, far away from actual gameplay and into the realm of 'how pretty can I make this look?'. Things like Timeshift are examples of gems in the sea of proverbial poopie IMO, although after about 45 minutes it got a little repetitive as well... but that beats most games of late by a considerable margin. Also, multiplayer, consoles or pirating, those are your choices Devs... take note [Edit: Although the consoles & pirating will merge eventually as modchips for current gen consoles become more mainstream]

 

Edit again for this gold:

 

And you're left with a game experience that could be recreated by walking down a wide road in the middle of nowhere stopping every five steps to crack yourself in the eye with a hammer... and the road is a million miles long... and the hammer is made of wank.

 

Edited September 15, 200816 yr by Husker

RA1 back in the day was and still is in my opinion the best little strategy game in the C&C franchise.

 

Before that I dont remember much.. paper boy maybe? lol

'Fortress of Nazrod' on the Vectrex... that and Scramble. Both fiendishly addictive in seeing how many times you could clock it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again all time best game was DigDug !!!!!

DigDug was cool, but only for the Popcorn theme song.

 

Growing up, my favourite games were the Sierra series and the re-playability factor resulted from playing them again to score all the potential points. 2 points for 'using phone' etc.

 

These days, since I much prefer MP games, retro gaming to me would be reinstalling BF1942 and Desert Combat. That game is the bomb.

Just thinking about it this morning, i remember playing Flashback (remember having to look through the manual/rule book looking for the symbols so you could match the one on the screen to actually play?) and loving the animation of the dude firing his hand gun and seeing the muzzle flash and empty casings fly out of it. Good times (o:

 

Also just for larfs was Moonstone, very cool game for the day (the finishing decapitation move was very gory!)

 

And also the original and the best, the one that brought RTS into the world of all of us, Dune II!! I've still got the sequal, Dune 2000 lying around here that will actually run on XP, doesn't have the eyecandy or the smart AI of some of the games today but is still good fun.

 

Speaking of AI, anyone else played Dark Reign? I remember that having a great sound track and 'smart' AI by the days standards where it would actually prob your base looking for a weakness. Once it found it it would attack, if you fended it off it would go back to probing. Very cool game but alas i cant get it to run on XP (i'm SURE theres a way to do it tho...) so i cant relive the heady days of harvesting water )o:

Syndicate and Syndicate Wars were the bees knees!!! They were some of the bestest games ever.

 

Playing Die Hard and having to change the floppies constantly was also cool.

 

Also when I was young, a friend and I used to play Asteroids on the old Atari which had the monitor in-built to the console.

when i get capped, it usually means its time i went to bed.(50gb quota)

I dont think Im as old as some of you guys, so I missed a lot of those gems. My gaming started on the Sega Master System. (Actually the first console I played was an Atari with Space Invaders... Yeah!). Games like Double Dragon, Two Crude Dudes, Bubble Bobble, Alex Kidd.

 

Personal favourite include the Strike series (Desert Strike, Jungle Strike etc.) I think thats why im such a rotorhead now lol. OOOh and Sonic. Who could forget Sonic.

 

Did anyone ever play Abe's Oddessey or Abe's Exodus? Best. Platformers. Ever. Me and my brother spent the best part of 12 hours one saturday playing abes exodus till I got a migraine and mum yelled at us to get outside before we turned into the fat kid from Hey Dad.

 

EDIT: Oh and Yahtzee Croshaw is THE BEST EVER _ if you havent heard his stuff, go to the link in Psyrus' post - you wont be dissapointed.

Edited September 16, 200816 yr by Haydn_

Yup remember Abes Oddessey (loved getting him to fart in front of his 'groupies' (o; ), still think Flashback was the best platform but thats just mo (o:

 

Bubble Bobble was freakin sick as a 34 day binge!!! Rainbow Island was pretty cool too, I've got an old arcade box at home (sans game unfortunately) that i'm trying to find a game card of either:

Bubble Bobble

Rainbow Island

Wonder Boy

 

OOOOO Wonderboy!!! Crazy little kid in diper running around thowing hammers at stuff!!! One word, seven letters!!!!

 

I also liked F15 Strike Eagle III, found it very frustrating for the first few weeks as i always seemed to run out of fuel before i'd even gotten half way to my first target . . . rtfm'd an found out i had full afterburner going so that would do it. Liked Commanche and Longbow. Some of the Jane's series games were pretty darn cool (ATF, Fleet Commander, IAF etc). For some good old school dogfighting tho, you cant go past Chuck Yeager Air Combat. THAT was fun, graphics were crap but the game play rocked!

GoldernEye64

 

and Perfect Dark aswell

cant go past paperboy on snes and alex the kid on sega!

 

also who can forget SONIC the hedghog 1 2 and 3!

 

 

but i had one called battle cannons and it was jus 2 cannons on either side of 2d platform map. in the middle was some sort of hill that u had to blast thru to attack the other cannon!!! this was the first WORMS game i thinks! well the concept was the same, jus no worms. my brother and i had hours of fun trying to bomb each other....!

Deus Ex

 

nuf said

Deus Ex

 

nuf said

 

thats ure contribtuion to Retro gaming? How old are you, 15?

 

 

Deus Ex rocked though. I must finish that one day. I'll add it to the list...

One of the first games I played on our first IBM PC.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Cat_(video_game)

 

 

The guy playing the vid sucks a little bit. Each window had different mini-game. As you moved on, there would be a dog running around on the ground that you had to use the bins to avoid. The cheese stage in the video, you could use the holes to move about in the cheese, I think you pressed Alt.

Anyone ever played scorched earth now that was fun

First game I ever played was Cyrus on arcade I had an old old console no Idea with the paddles with turn dials it had like a dodgy tennis, racing car game ect. first handheld was a ridgy didge PacMAn, then I had donkey kong and original mario bros, nintendo hand helds before a C-64

House bout this one? Little Computer People?

 

I remember another one called something like Albert's House or Malcolm's House where your a little midget (Borrower size) trying to navigate through various rooms in this house, pretty sweet game in the day (o:

Thought that i would add to the mayhem that is gaming nostalgia.

 

Too many to mention. But I played this one to death - amiga f18 interceptor

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O1Wes7Othk

 

Back when the amiga was my world...it was capable of primitive 3d graphics and utilised a nice sound chip with 8bit stereo sound. Better than some of the beepy **** that came out on the 486s later on... it sounded f**king great on tannoy stereos...

 

You want to see some cool ****, watch the clip. And remember this is 1988 on a home desktop...my childhood was a beautiful thing

Soz double post

Edited September 16, 200816 yr by Hambang101

first game I played on my first computer was....International Soccer that was on a cartage that came with my Commodore 64

 

http://www.c64-wiki.de/images/f/fc/InternationalSoccer_Animation.gif

 

http://www.c64-wiki.de/images/6/63/International_Soccer_Game2.png

 

the the first war like game was commando

http://www.eibmoz.dk/mamecabinet/commando.jpg

 

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/hDAhixO2t5w/default.jpg

Edited September 16, 200816 yr by Pudgeinabowl

Also just for larfs was Moonstone, very cool game for the day (the finishing decapitation move was very gory!)

Moonstone rocked!

 

I remember all the old games named so far... I wish I didn't as that means I won't be to see the games in 50+ years time.

GoldernEye64

 

and Perfect Dark aswell

 

Not quite retro but awesome nevertheless. I remember attempting all the co-op challenges with one of my friends in Perfect Dark. Such good fun. Best shoot 'em up's of all time IMO.

Barbarian on C-64, did anyone ever clock ghostbusters?