[Tris]

Inspired by dave talking about the dixons tape drive yesterday which got me thinking about the good old days and how it used to be..

I googled the Amstrad CPC 464 and the memories came flooding back of early gaming:

[Tris]

Atari joysticks

[Tris]

Manic miner

[lagerstarfish]

1k chess on ZX81

[Tris]

ZX+ only £179.95

[dave]

When we had an acorn electron running on a black & white telly we had the games you got with it, the best ones being "hopper" (a frogger clone) and "arcadians" :



I also remember by dad buying "electron user magazine" and sitting there for hours typing in the BASIC code they printed in the magazines to code your own games. They were invariably shit or didn't work properly when you made one single error in the thousands of lines of code. We must have been pretty flush one week when he forked out for "winter olympiad '88".

After than we had a string of 386s and 486s that my dad had at home for work running DOS. It was like a real revelation when we got windows 3.1! The best game back then was the amazing Wolfenstein 3D - cracking gameplay slaughtering robo nazis. classic.



also the original prince of persia was dynamite - probably the first (only?) game i ever bothered to compete without cheats:

[SA Chris]

I remember playing football manager on the Spectrum and waiting in anticipation as those shitty matchstick men score, missed and saved goals.

[Tris]

The best game back then was the amazing Wolfenstein 3D - cracking gameplay slaughtering robo nazis. classic.

absolutely class game!

also the original prince of persia was dynamite - probably the first (only?) game i ever bothered to compete without cheats:

I think this was the first game I got that came on these:

[Tris]

One of my faves on the Amstrad was Harrier Attack:

[Tris]

Someone has just told me that the original joysticks for the Atari were different (for pong apparently).

[dave]

I don't know why they don't make consoles with teak-effect trim anymore.

[Plattsy]

Not so long ago I was playing manic miner online. That first level is absolutely nails. Brought back memories of watching the tv screen going mental and the sound of the spectrum 48k loading the game which seemed to take forever. Even longer if the loading didn't work first time which meant rewinding the tape and starting again.

Also played a bit of JetPac online. Again it was nails.

[Jaspersharpe]

http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,8868.0.html

[dave]

dunno if this is of use to anyone, but I've just seen you can get wolfenstein 3D and DOOM for symbian S60 mobiles:

http://wolf3d-s60.sourceforge.net/

http://koti.mbnet.fi/mertama/index_new.html

get in.

[Tris]

dunno if this is of use to anyone, but I've just seen you can get wolfenstein 3D and DOOM for symbian S60 mobiles:

http://wolf3d-s60.sourceforge.net/

http://koti.mbnet.fi/mertama/index_new.html

get in.

Also here is a free version for java based phones (inc Blackberry):

For some reason they call the game Doom but it seems to be Wolfenstein 3D.

http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Games/Action/Doom-for-Java-22864.shtml

[SA Chris]

http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,8868.0.html

I did have a moment of deja vu when I started on about football manager.

[galpinos]

One of my faves on the Amstrad was Harrier Attack:

I had a CPC464 too. Harrier attack was awesome!

[Tris]

I had a CPC464 too. Harrier attack was awesome!

I think it was one of the quickest to load too.. I was reminded when Googling this morning that you could bomb your own ship when you took off.. genius

[Steve R]

also the original prince of persia was dynamite - probably the first (only?) game i ever bothered to compete without cheats:

I'm pretty sure this stands at the peak of computer games.  Completing it took me more than a decade from first trying it at a young age in black and white on an amstrad.  It stands as one of my life's greatest achievements.  Cheers for reminding me.

[Jim]

I coded my own game on the acorn electron, it was a driving game with 3 lanes and objects coming in the lanes that had to be avoided.
It didn't work properly and was black and white but I was made up with it. Infact I still am. I was pretty young at the time.

I used to play a lot of games on my comodore amega 64 when I was a yoot, it was the nuts at the time.
I used to play a lot of supercars 2 and speedball 2. They were fucking good games.
For some reason I can still remember the cheat for supercars 2: player 1:wonderland, player 2:the seers.
Weird
stunt car racer was also bon.... and lemmings....and turrican 2....   and pinball dreams....   and syndicate etc....
I used to write music on the amega as well under the name nomadic pavement. Them were the days

[Jim]

IK+, rainbow islands, mega lo mania, pang, the list is endless

[dave]

I think i still remember some of the cheats for doom. infact i've just played the first level of doom on the phone adn I sitll remember where all the secret areas are. shit i bet i've not clapped eyes on this game for the best part of 15 years. I bet i could give those autistic motherfucks a run for their money.

[robertostallioni]

Can you lick your own elbow?

[Eddies]

One of my faves on the Amstrad was Harrier Attack:

I had a CPC464 too. Harrier attack was awesome!

Same here, I only had a green monitor tho, none of that fancy colour shizzle!
Paperboy was also very good

[GCW]

Can you lick your own elbow?

This dude can!




Manic Minor and Spyhunter were quality.