Retro Games

[Azkatro]

Anyone mentioned Elite? I spent a good deal of time playing that game. First on the C64 and then Amiga.

I got hooked on the PC version of Elite Plus with awesome VGA graphics. I, Commander Jamieson, was inexorably drawn to planets which were listed as anarchies, and would invariably get overwhelmed by space pirates.

Flashback was pretty cool, but did anybody else get into Prince of Persia?

 

[bulldog]

Flashback was pretty cool, but did anybody else get into Prince of Persia?

Oooh yeah, one of the first games I can remember finishing more than once, awesome fun.

 

[Apey]

Soliel - an old sega megadrive RPG, it was awesome.

 

[Joker's Wild]

Cannon Fodder

God I spent hours on that little gem

 

[Crippler]

Phantasy Star on Sega Master System is the best RPG game i have ever played.

 

[tokerShark]

i had an amiga 500, kings quest , maniac mansion , space quest , monkey island , police quest , the original test drive , california games ,were just a few of the games i played and loved when i was young.

 

[Iafeta]

Test Drive: Duel
The Cycles
Indianapolis 500
Police Quest series
Quest for Glory series
Leisure Suit Larry series
Kings Quest series
Black Cauldron
...I loved the old Sierra games
Railroad Tycoon
Takedown Wrestling
Centurion Defender of Rome
Theme Park
Battle of Britain

So many of those games had so many cheap flaws that unintentionally ended up being great cheats. On Railroad Tycoon you could keep building Powerplants with money you didn't have and you'd send the company into so much debt that it turned black as in you literally had the cash, on Theme Park when you negotiated with unions you'd budge a little bit on a wage increase and then drag your negotiation back and have the unions eventually accept a decrease in pay and in Battle of Britain you'd pick a German bomber, go do a bombing mission, but instead of going to Britain, start turning back and hit the gunners window to gun down anyone and everyone, parachute halfway back across the English Channel and get a massive score and an official medal of honour, and in Indianapolis 500 from memory you could make your car invincible, turn around and destroy the others in head on crashes and then go around and win the race.

Either way, those games were all rippers, and a lot of them were good ones to compare and compete against my brother.

 

[oneeyedeaglesman]

i had an amiga 500, kings quest , maniac mansion , space quest , monkey island , police quest , the original test drive , california games ,were just a few of the games i played and loved when i was young.

Yes and heros quest amoung others.Makes me feel old.

 

[Azkatro]

Test Drive: Duel
The Cycles
Indianapolis 500
Police Quest series
Quest for Glory series
Leisure Suit Larry series
Kings Quest series
Black Cauldron
...I loved the old Sierra games
Railroad Tycoon
Takedown Wrestling
Centurion Defender of Rome
Theme Park
Battle of Britain

So many of those games had so many cheap flaws that unintentionally ended up being great cheats. On Railroad Tycoon you could keep building Powerplants with money you didn't have and you'd send the company into so much debt that it turned black as in you literally had the cash, on Theme Park when you negotiated with unions you'd budge a little bit on a wage increase and then drag your negotiation back and have the unions eventually accept a decrease in pay and in Battle of Britain you'd pick a German bomber, go do a bombing mission, but instead of going to Britain, start turning back and hit the gunners window to gun down anyone and everyone, parachute halfway back across the English Channel and get a massive score and an official medal of honour, and in Indianapolis 500 from memory you could make your car invincible, turn around and destroy the others in head on crashes and then go around and win the race.

Either way, those games were all rippers, and a lot of them were good ones to compare and compete against my brother.

Another example of hilarious old game glitches ... Street Rod. Buy a 2dr Chevy Styleline for a pittance, take out the engine and transmission, sell it for $30,000 and the buyer replies "You must be crazy! I'll take it!"

 

[abpanther]

Cannon Fodder

God I spent hours on that little gem

Oh yeah , I loved that game, can't imagine how many rouns of ammo I wasted in that game....

 

[IanG]

Jack Attack on the old Commodore 16

 

[abpanther]

Spent plenty of hours on this beauty.

"Pick a Weapon"

 

[Nuke]

Ah, Another World! I'd forgotten about that one. I don't think I ever finished it before upgrading my computer (which now unfortunately means I can't play that game). I used to enjoy that one! There was another game I got about the same time (again which I never got to finish) called 'Operation Stealth'. It was a James Bond-esque game.

... and in Indianapolis 500 from memory you could make your car invincible, turn around and destroy the others in head on crashes and then go around and win the race.

I can't tell you the amount of hours I have spent in my lifetime doing this in Indianapolis500! Even as recent as earlier this year when I managed to get the game to work on my computer again, I found myself doing this. Not to win the race, but just for the head-on crashes! The best crashes, however, were the massive ones that took out half the cars in the race!

In the 10 lap race, you couldn't crash, so you could basically go apesh*t on all the other cars and take 'em out!

My favourite crash, was when I was doing the tactic you mentioned. I'd taken all the cars out except one who was on his last lap. We both came into the straight (at opposite ends) and I took him on perfectly head on. I stopped him just shy of the finish line, which allowed me to zoom around the track and claim victory!

 

[bulldog]

I'm starting to mist up, so many memories.

I remember I used to have 2 dud disks for Indy 500 on the Amiga, 1 had read errors straight after you put the disk in, the other one had errors after loading for about 15 seconds, so we'd have one person standing by with disk in hand and then as quickly as possible eject it and slap the other one in and it would load fine.

I have to bring up Pirates as well, probably spent more time on that game across the C64 and Amiga than I care to remember.

 

[abpanther]

Remember Shadow of the Beast on Amiga?


Classic...

 

[Azkatro]

This thread needs more screen shots ... maybe a bit of guess the game stuff would go down well.

 

[Mr Saab]

Another example of hilarious old game glitches ... Street Rod. Buy a 2dr Chevy Styleline for a pittance, take out the engine and transmission, sell it for $30,000 and the buyer replies "You must be crazy! I'll take it!"

That game was a classic.

 

[Mr Saab]

 

[bulldog]

maybe a bit of guess the game stuff would go down well.

I know the first one is Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe, loved that game, 2nd one is Commander Keen, no idea on the last 2.

Shadow of the Beast, I still remember that intro, classic.

 

[Azkatro]

Wanna drink? Don't drink and drive, bub!

And...

*CRUNCH* .. You just lost your transmission, klutz!