Retro Gaming

RichMTB
RichMTB Posts: 599
edited March 2010 in The Crudcatcher
I've downloaded Mame 32 and been playing a load of old arcade games with Donkey Kong at the top of the list.

Anyone else a fan of games that are almost as old as they are?
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  • lawman
    lawman Posts: 6,868
    yer im a pretty religious player of pokemon games :oops: altho i was about 10 when they came out :lol:
  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    Lol.

    I go back to the Days of R-type and paperboy...

    But i do sometimes load up mame and mash a few StreetFighter games for fun
  • BigStu2
    BigStu2 Posts: 794
    I can still remember seeing Pong for the first time :shock:
    .........all
    ...at........work
    fun..................&
    ..no.............no
    .....is......play
  • RichMTB
    RichMTB Posts: 599
    I'm actually thinking about splashing out on one of these and I've got an old desktop that is more than capable of running the emulators I could build a dedicated arcade machine![/url]
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    BigStu2 wrote:
    I can still remember seeing Pong for the first time :shock:
    Just had to google pong...
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  • RichMTB
    RichMTB Posts: 599
    What amazes me is how hard most of the older games are...

    ...or maybe i'm just shoot!
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  • BigStu2
    BigStu2 Posts: 794
    Just had to google pong...

    :lol::lol: Ha Ha Ha Ha :lol::lol:Ha Ha Ha Hmm My god I must be old :cry:
    .........all
    ...at........work
    fun..................&
    ..no.............no
    .....is......play
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,650
    Rtype
    Rastan (barbarian game)
    Double Dragon
    Robocop
    Paperboy
    Afterburner

    Just a few games that I used to play on the way home from school early-mid 80s

    Good times ;)
  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    Yup I occasionally have a fling with Megadrive & Amiga emulators and pretend I'm a slack yoof all over again.

    I had a PS2 at one point and none of the games were as good as Sensible Soccer.

    Liking the humungous joystick affair. What would Mrs_Si say though?
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Still got one of these in the loft:

    1stinterstatepong.jpg

    Pong was IT in the 70s.
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  • llamafarmer
    llamafarmer Posts: 1,848
    Sensible Soccer

    End of thread
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  • _Ferret_
    _Ferret_ Posts: 660
    Pong
    Frogger
    Golden Axe
    Turrican
    sensible soccer (obviously!)
    Street fighter
    final fight

    If you know any of these you are offically old! Congrats, you also know what real gaming is!
    The older games were much harder - 3 lives then game over! no continues, nothing, you started from scratch with nowt, can you imagine how many kids would put down the control pad nowadays if it was still like that?

    (My favorite game of all time though - metal gear solid on PS1 - Simply sublime)
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  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    I had Chaos going a while back, that was ace. And came free on a covertape :lol:
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  • Tel39
    Tel39 Posts: 243
    Defender..... How bloody hard was that! Spent the whole holiday at Pontins 1982 playing Asteroids..... dad can I have another 10p :lol:

    For playability I would say Sensible Soccer.... Nothing comes close IMO
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  • butcher of bakersfield
    butcher of bakersfield Posts: 1,233
    RichMTB wrote:
    What amazes me is how hard most of the older games are...

    I set up an Acorn Electron emulator o my PC a while back with the aim of getting through Citadel. Despite 20 years of looking forward to basking in the glory, having the full map, and a cheat for infinite lives as opposed to the original 3, I still couldn't do it :oops:
  • El Capitano
    El Capitano Posts: 6,400
    Elite on the Commodore 64.

    Currently playing TR3. I prefer the older games, where the emphasis was on the gameplay rather than the quality of the graphics...
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    edited March 2010
    This for me is the greatest video game of all time. If I can get a mint arcade cabinet for reasonable money I will certainly buy one.

    tempest.jpg

    Handily enough is a decent Playstation version from mid 90s called TempestX that is the game most often loaded up into my PS2. I have been playing this game for approaching 30 years and still love it.
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    If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    For my Christmas 2008, my friend bought me a Mega Drive with Lemmings and Micro Machines as my Mum sold mine whilst I was at uni (she had a LOT of explaining to do there!). I love my friend.

    I remember my old ZX Spectrum (I had 2, one with plastic keys, and one with rubber keys!) Having to find the right place on the tape to play the game you wanted seems such a strange concept now, but the games were amazing. Paperboy, pacman, thunderbids.

    _Ferret_ Oi! I'm not old, though I do remember most of those games :oops:
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  • Goomba Fletch
    Goomba Fletch Posts: 221
    Frontier: Elite 2 was awesome on my Amiga, found I could get a remake of Arkanoid for my iPhone too now!

    Cannon Fodder was brill, Sensible Soccer is still the best footie game ever. For cooperative play the Chaos Engine was badass too.
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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    Exactly what Goomba said.

    Love frontier, there working on the new one or have been for the last 5 years or so...
  • rml380z
    rml380z Posts: 244
    I dread to think how much I spent playing X-Wing Fighter; http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/q107-arcade-x-wing-fighter-sale/
  • bobs bikes
    bobs bikes Posts: 589
    i had an atari 65xe!!
    best game i ever had was called mercinary. played that for hours on end. worst part was it took hours to load off the tape.
    i googled it the other day, and it was such a small file i clicked on it, and immediatly turned 12 again!

    god my atari must have been slow! :lol:
  • *AL*
    *AL* Posts: 1,114
    thekickingmule wrote:
    I remember my old ZX Spectrum (I had 2, one with plastic keys, and one with rubber keys!) Having to find the right place on the tape to play the game you wanted seems such a strange concept now, but the games were amazing. Paperboy, pacman, thunderbids.

    You'll love THIS :wink:

    ALL the old favourites are there.
  • thekickingmule
    thekickingmule Posts: 7,957
    *AL* wrote:
    thekickingmule wrote:
    I remember my old ZX Spectrum (I had 2, one with plastic keys, and one with rubber keys!) Having to find the right place on the tape to play the game you wanted seems such a strange concept now, but the games were amazing. Paperboy, pacman, thunderbids.

    You'll love THIS :wink:

    ALL the old favourites are there.
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  • Thewaylander
    Thewaylander Posts: 8,593
    i date back to the zx 81 for those of you in the know ;p
  • yoohoo999
    yoohoo999 Posts: 940
    These aren't that old!

    I've got Granny's Garden running on an emulator. That game basically was the catalyst for Doom. ;)

    Seriously though, Granny's Garden was amazing.
  • AndyBeast
    AndyBeast Posts: 179
    *AL* wrote:
    thekickingmule wrote:
    I remember my old ZX Spectrum (I had 2, one with plastic keys, and one with rubber keys!) Having to find the right place on the tape to play the game you wanted seems such a strange concept now, but the games were amazing. Paperboy, pacman, thunderbids.

    You'll love THIS :wink:

    ALL the old favourites are there.

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Dungeon Master was ace - I actually made a couple of my own dungeons!
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  • rogue pieman
    rogue pieman Posts: 77
    AndyBeast wrote:
    *AL* wrote:

    You'll love THIS :wink:

    ALL the old favourites are there.

    Oh god, there goes the rest of my life!!

    +1

    I forgot how addictive Chuckie Egg was. Thanks for nowt.
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