[robertostallioni]

Beach Head



Jet Set Willy



Sabre Wolf

[Carnage]

And who could forget Elite. I wasted so many hours on this:



I remember buying those code books for my Spectrum, spending hours putting them only to go and play and the whole thing fuck up because either I (or the book) had forgotten one character. 

I also smashed the shit out of many a keyboard on this

[Drewski Rootbitch]

Just downloaded a retro version of Target Renegade......it's shit.
The memory is far better than the reality in this case,
anyhoo, back to Left 4 Dead.

[Bubba]

I'm sure there as a pic of "Chuckie Egg" in this topic before - classic game

[Fiend]

Despite being a fairly keen gamer in the last decade, the earliest game I got into when I got my own PC was Quake, completely addicted to that and still play it to this day.

[Tris]

One of the old simple but appealing games on the Atari, Joust:

[Tris]

Another simple game that I liked (but from a few years later), Bubble Bobble:

[dave]

Despite being a fairly keen gamer in the last decade, the earliest game I got into when I got my own PC was Quake, completely addicted to that and still play it to this day.

word, at uni we found a computer room in the basement of the maths dept that for some reason had a dozen PCs all with quake installed on them. you could all connect to ongoing multiplayer games and shit, just drop in, fuck someone up for a bit then fuck off again - ace.

[Tris]

The first game from the arcade that sticks in my mind was Operation Wolf (think it was the machine gun that did it for me, the A-Team was a big hit at the time)

[ChrisC]

Repton was class on the Acorn Electron / BBC  Fucking nails for a young kid, never did complete any of them, and from reading that wikipedia page due to a coding cock up one of them wasn't even completable anyway.



Prince of Persia - I've got this on my PS3 now, downloaded from the Playstation Store for about 3 quid.  It doesn't really stretch the hardware in the same way as MW2, but it's still classic.  I think for the pc version on our old 386 you could type "prince megahit"and you went into cheat mode where you could add extra time / health and stuff.

EDIT - Amazing, a flash port of the entire Repton series, Hopper and Chuckie egg.  That's my day sorted. If anyone asks, its research (I work at a games company).

[dave]

shit I forgot about repton, i had one of those series on the acorn. awesome.

[Tris]

Despite being a fairly keen gamer in the last decade, the earliest game I got into when I got my own PC was Quake, completely addicted to that and still play it to this day.

True - a classic game (loved the dark/evil feel of it). When I first got a PC after the Amstrad, one of my original favourite games was Xenon 2:

[dave]

FFFFUUUUUCCCCKKK, xenon 2 was awesome! shit i'm going to have to try and get these games again. I installed wolfenstein 3D the other night - its a bit of a flashback being asked if you're using PC speaker or a "soundblaster".

Been playing chuckie egg on that flash thing linked above. I reminded me how annoying it was that you can't climb a ladder unless you're exactly lines up on it.

[Plattsy]

Lots of the games mentioned can be played here.

http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/

Including the already mentioned IK+, Bubble Bobble, Prince of Persia and Frogger. Other notable ones for me at least are Rick Dangerous and Ghost n Goblins

Manic Miner

http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/

More here including supercar2 and turrican 1

http://www.easyretro.com/en/online-games

Speedball2 online!

http://www.speedball2.com/

Fantasy world Dizzy and the yolk folk

http://www.miniclip.md/downloads/Adventure-Downloads/Dizzy-Fantasy-World/download_4/EN

[Zods Beard]

Jim's early post was the biz, Turrican 2, get in. Harrier Attack on the CPC 464 was a bag of dirt, the only game on this or any system worth playing was Laser Squad, awesome, and still the biz. Get me my Marsec Auto Gun.

http://lasersquad.org/

[robertostallioni]

 
I spent wasted many months playing harrier attack on the 464. Time which would have been much better spent reading Jackson/Livingstone role-play books or thumbing the lingerie section of mothers catologues.

[Bubba]

Anyone remember Battlezone? Wireframe tank battles. Top notch.

My game of abuse when I was skiving school in the back-rooms of Hereford chippies was "Moon Cresta" - used to be able to play this for hours on one 10p coin

[robertostallioni]

Before my time 

[Eddies]

I spent wasted many months playing harrier attack on the 464. Time which would have been much better spent reading Jackson/Livingstone role-play books or thumbing the lingerie section of mothers catologues.

lol youve pretty much summed up my early teens there 

[fatdoc]

right,

bear with me on this.

I've got 30 yrs of nostalgia burning away inside me:

 - what are now called isometric 3-D games.. you know an open room with 2 side removed.. is THE biggest gaming achievement of my life, Batman on amstrad. It took me months, and months. No lives for the 1st third, no saves at all. Whole bit from beginning to end took 6 hrs gameplay... fuckin nails hard... tears many times.

When i finished it the comedown was horrific, at that stage in my life I realised there is nothing ever worth pinning all your hopes and dreams on - for all always comes crashing down. Probably explains a lot really...


The sequel was head over heels, piss in comparison, only took me a few months... oh, such a shallow experience, I felt cheated.

[Zods Beard]

Yeah, Batman was solid, never got close on that. I thought Head over Heels was the same, kudos for thinking it piss. Ever play Knight Lore?

[underground]

Despite being a fairly keen gamer in the last decade, the earliest game I got into when I got my own PC was Quake, completely addicted to that and still play it to this day.

True - a classic game (loved the dark/evil feel of it). When I first got a PC after the Amstrad, one of my original favourite games was Xenon 2:

Brilliant - Bomb the Bass soundtrack too - I seem to recall it being the first ever track Radio 1 played in '3d stereo' or something...

[SA Chris]

Anyone remember Battlezone? Wireframe tank battles. Top notch.

My game of abuse when I was skiving school in the back-rooms of Hereford chippies was "Moon Cresta" - used to be able to play this for hours on one 10p coin

Yes and yes. Another great wireframe game was lunar lander, and of course asteroids.

used to love moon cresta, defender, juno first and scramble all from a similar era.

Xenon 2 reminds me  of Xevious

[Bubba]

Of course! Asteroids - still playable now though Geometry Wars has it beat I guess.

Defender - incredible and revolutionary game; at the time was gobsmacking...but it's sheer difficulty and unforgiving nature meant it wasn't a good investment of my lunch-money 10p pieces

<edit - an amusing review of the XBLA port of Defender here>

[soapy]

text adventure, ho-hum..