[fatdoc]

back in the zone (kids now finished homework on the "puter)

battlezone... god yeah.

and soo much more..

just to pull it all together..

what games post sonic ( excpt the first tombraider, the first Doom and the first Halo) actually made your heart skip after the first level??

go on...

list them....

[Carnage]

The first Resident Evil blew me away. I'd never played anything so scary.

[SA Chris]

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

Oh I sucked major ass at it, still loved tryinign though.

And on the wireframe front, how about Tempest? And just remembered Qix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix ?

[SA Chris]

The first Resident Evil blew me away. I'd never played anything so scary.

i only recall it from PS1. Was it around before then?

[fatdoc]

Gorf . Defender & battlezone for the arcade

beating house of the dead also a highlight

speedball 2 on the mega was classs. Turican 2 also a special event

ps1: the hogs of war... Simply brilliant. Still play it

RE never did for me until it became less stayed.

[slackline]

Spent hours walking back and forth playing various Dizzy games.  Attic Attack and some others I forget also consumed a large amount of time.

Think my parents still have my old 128k in the loft along with tons of games, I wonder if I can install Linux on it 

EDIT : I'm sure you probably know this, but you can get emulators to run old OS's and play all these old games.  Info on Spectrum emulators and copies of games are available from Spectrum Magic

[Jim]

That James Bond game on the N64 was absolute classic.
Resident evil was partly to blame for me not doing anything at uni (mostly dope related tho).
Me and my mate used to play a lot of double dragon 2 on his SNES when we were proper kids

[Tris]

Resident evil was partly to blame for me not doing anything at uni (mostly dope related tho).

me and a few mates spent 18 hours solid playing 1 single track on Wipeout which came on a demo cd for the PS1 in Uni. This was mainly due to a big stash of narcotics. When you are completely off your tits, controlling a spaceship at about 300 miles an hour is feckin amazin!! (oh and the soundtrack was ace too!)

[Tris]

I've been waiting fucking ages for Super Mario Kart from the SNES to appear on the Wii Virtual Console - it's the only bloody reason I bought the Wii. They've had it in Japan since like May and it's just been released in the states, no bastard Europe release yet!! IMO it's the best Mario Kart game ever released. I have been playing Pilot Wings though 

[SA Chris]

Is it too soon to start getting nostalgic about games from mid last decade?

[Tris]

Is it too soon to start getting nostalgic about games from mid last decade?

I didn't realise nostalgia had minimum time limits?

Super Mario Kart is at least 15 years old, almost half my age. Pilot Wings must be pushing on 20 years. They came out before Quake did and that's viewed as a gaming classic.

They don't have be made of wire frames or have limited graphics to be nostalgic in my eyes.

[Tris]

What about the old text based games like 'The Hobbit'? Classics? Or just plain annoying?

[slackline]

What about the old text based games like 'The Hobbit'? Classics? Or just plain annoying?

Annoying with that particular keyboard mapping.

[Jaspersharpe]

They were well annoying. I usually spent about twenty minutes getting it to do precisely fuck all before sacking it off and playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon or somesuch.

[Plattsy]

What about the old text based games like 'The Hobbit'? Classics? Or just plain annoying?

SHIT. Like Jas says you spend forever doing nothing and then a little caption appeared telling me "Time passes" or something. Reight good that.

[dave]

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[Durbs]

The text-based Hitch-hikers Guide was epic...

Horace Goes Skiing (Spectrum)
NHLPA '93 (Megadrive)
All Dizzy games - ever (Including Kwik Snax)
Oiginal Prince of Persia.

Hmmm, happy times

[GCW]

I used to find it ironic that in Horace goes Skiing it was the ficking Ambulances that always ran you over.   

[Jaspersharpe]

Ironic and very annoying.

It's here by the way........

http://www.zxspectrum.net/

NO MONEY NO SKI!

[slackline]

I can't think of anything I'd rather be run over by (and I've tried a few now), providing they stop and tend to you of course.

[superfurrymonkey]

Cadaver on the Atari ST that I still have.
Has to be the most enjoyable game I've ever played.

[soapy]

..and for anyone who used to play rogue on unix

[Eddies]

Arkanoid. Classic bat and ball action:
http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/21603/Arkanoid.html

And this new game thats got me totally hooked!
www.canabalt.com