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Old 21-10-2012, 22:55   #101
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Doom & Sensible Soccer were big for me.

As was the DOS game "Willy the Worm" in the mid-80s. Loved that game when I was a kid.

King's Quest is worth a mention too from childhood, an early great RPG (before RPG meant hit points, xp and turn based combat!)
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Old 22-10-2012, 01:40   #102
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1 - Planescape: Torment
2 - Baldur's Gate series
3 - Icewind Dale series
4 - Deus Ex
5 - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
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Old 22-10-2012, 17:52   #103
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1 - Elite
2 - UFO - Enemy Unkown
3 - Byte-Bitten
4 - Jet Pack
5 - Knightlore
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Old 22-10-2012, 19:28   #104
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84 was when i got the old rubber keyed genius engine and along with daley thompson and kototoni wilf ..... but also the magic of

BRUCE LEE and MATCH POINT
MATCH DAY
GILLIGANS GOLD
LORDS OF MIDNIGHT
and OLYMPIC CHALLENGE (a glorious wee athletics game)

and then 1985 .....

the great ACTION BIKER (played that for HOURS!)
COMMANDO
CYCLONE
THE NEVER ENDING STORY (IN THAT DOUBLE CASSETTE BOX!)
NONTERRAQUEAOUS
ROCK 'N' WRESTLE
RUN FOR GOLD

and then 1986 (the last of my childhood )

180!
BATMAN
DAN DARE
THE GREAT ESCAPE
KNIGHT TYME
LEADERBOARD
SPACE HARRIER
SPORT OF KINGS
THEATRE EUROPE
THE TRANSFORMERS

oh, did you want five?


never mind then .....

i played a LOT of spectrum games
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Old 22-10-2012, 21:40   #105
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#1 Building Dens
#2 Riding Bike
#3 War (Na-Na-Na-Na! Normally Brits vs Japs)
#4 Knock and Run
#5 Kick the Can
Showing my age ?
Me too
  • Building Dens in haybarns & underground
  • Riding Bike ( often hands-free)
  • Climbing Trees & swinging from branches
  • Shooting with an Air Rifle/Pistol in the garden
  • Playing 'Roundup' with the long-suffering cattle in a local field
Good times, good times
No such thing as computer games back then.
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Old 22-10-2012, 21:42   #106
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1. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
2. Final Fantasy IX
3. Tomb Raider 2
4. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
5. Heart of Darkness

I could list so many more. But these were all superb.
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Old 26-10-2012, 01:13   #107
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Jet Set Willy
Manic Miner
Dizzy 1-TUCA
Diizzy 2-TID
Dizzy 3- FWD

All on the spectrum.
I remember the dizzy's had them opn the Amstrad though my favourite was probably fast food which was a pac man like game stll good fun though another favourite of mine wsa probably harrier attack
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Old 26-10-2012, 10:30   #108
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Doom & Sensible Soccer were big for me.

As was the DOS game "Willy the Worm" in the mid-80s. Loved that game when I was a kid.

King's Quest is worth a mention too from childhood, an early great RPG (before RPG meant hit points, xp and turn based combat!)
I like RPG's so I thought I'd check this out. Only downloaded it and played a for about 2 mins. I found a door and loved that you could choose to knock, examine for a description of it or shout to see if you got a responce.

Have you played any of the later ones? Are they any good or is it a case of the usual, they reuined it with the later games?
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Old 26-10-2012, 15:34   #109
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Have you played any of the later ones? Are they any good or is it a case of the usual, they ruined it with the later games?
Played them all, I think.

I was about 5 when the first one came out for DOS, so it was a family game for us, something we'd work through together. The second, third, fourth and even fifth were all great, showing improvements in graphics, size and complexity as they went along - I remember the excitement of the next KQ coming out each time! Never a disappointment.

6 onwards I don't think I carried on with, but I can vouch for certainly 2, 3 and 4 as being great games.

The first one I've seen completed in about 20 minutes (when you know what you're doing) but they get much longer and more complicated as you go along.
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Old 27-10-2012, 02:17   #110
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Played them all, I think.

I was about 5 when the first one came out for DOS, so it was a family game for us, something we'd work through together. The second, third, fourth and even fifth were all great, showing improvements in graphics, size and complexity as they went along - I remember the excitement of the next KQ coming out each time! Never a disappointment.

6 onwards I don't think I carried on with, but I can vouch for certainly 2, 3 and 4 as being great games.

The first one I've seen completed in about 20 minutes (when you know what you're doing) but they get much longer and more complicated as you go along.
I'll have a better look at them soon. I haven't looked too much into it and not sure if you're interested but I saw somewhere when I googled the game that there is one coming out next year.

Playing that brief couple of means brought back memories of playing a game called The Realm Online. It's still going to this day with 2D graphics, point and click movement and very basic specs.
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Old 27-10-2012, 03:44   #111
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1. Super Mario All-stars
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Old 27-10-2012, 04:13   #112
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2 Leaderboard Golf
3. Raid over Bungling Bay
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Old 27-10-2012, 23:11   #113
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Rayman Gold (PC)
RollerCoaster Tycoon (PC)
Super Mario Land (Game Boy)
Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow (Game Boy)
Super Mario Allstars (SNES) - used to play it at my friend's house
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Old 02-11-2012, 15:16   #114
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robo cop versus terminater!

street fighter 2.

donkey kong-snes.
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Old 03-11-2012, 01:50   #115
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Going on games from my school days, it would either be Atari VCS/2600 games or early arcade classics. So: -

1. Gorf (Arcade)
2. Galaga (Arcade)
3. Miniature Golf (Atari 2600)
4. Super Breakout (Atari 2600)
5. Berzerk (Arcade)
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Old 03-11-2012, 11:02   #116
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Old 04-11-2012, 03:45   #117
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In chronological order:
1. Ingersoll rand's version of pong (six games; tennis (one or two bats), squash (one or two bats one wall)l, and shooting 50 or 100 shots
2. Space invaders
3. Superman
4. Frogger
5. Pele's soccer
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Old 06-11-2012, 15:50   #118
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1. Pokemon Red (Gameboy)
2. Simon the Sorcerer (1 and 2)
3. GTA 3 (PS2)
4. Spyro the Dragon (PS1)
5. Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast)
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