First game

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

ahhhhh that's the one, thanks, that was annoying me all last night

[spoodie]

ahhhhh that's the one, thanks, that was annoying me all last night

That's why I waited until this morning to post a reply. Mention VCRs again and you'll get another one

How about Quartet? I loved that one despite it being infuriatingly hard by today's standards. Them were the days, etc.

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Them were the days, etc.

indeed

I can't begin to describe how utterly fucking awesome and playable this game was http://www.mobygames.com/game/sega-mast ... rnia-games

Use a VCR, they am teh bestest

[Dog Pants]

Them were the days, etc.

indeed

I can't begin to describe how utterly fucking awesome and playable this game was http://www.mobygames.com/game/sega-mast ... rnia-games

Use a VCR, they am teh bestest

California Games. I loved that on the C64, it had loading music and everything

[spoodie]

Them were the days, etc.

indeed

I can't begin to describe how utterly fucking awesome and playable this game was http://www.mobygames.com/game/sega-mast ... rnia-games

Use a VCR, they am teh bestest

California Games. I loved that on the C64, it had loading music and everything

It was great on the Lynx too, I didn't play it on anything else.

there was a game on the spectrum which involved protecting a flower in the middle of the screen from coloured bugs by squirting them with the same colour bug spray

[amblin]

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[TezzRexx]

Them were the days, etc.

indeed

I can't begin to describe how utterly fucking awesome and playable this game was http://www.mobygames.com/game/sega-mast ... rnia-games

Use a VCR, they am teh bestest

California Games. I loved that on the C64, it had loading music and everything

I played it on the NES :D Such a hard game, but class none the less.

[FatherJack]

there was a game on the spectrum which involved protecting a flower in the middle of the screen from coloured bugs by squirting them with the same colour bug spray

I remember that one! Probably the one of worst US Gold releases.

[TezzRexx]

there was a game on the spectrum which involved protecting a flower in the middle of the screen from coloured bugs by squirting them with the same colour bug spray

I remember that one! Probably the one of worst US Gold releases.

Flashback was the best! :D

[Dog Pants]

there was a game on the spectrum which involved protecting a flower in the middle of the screen from coloured bugs by squirting them with the same colour bug spray

I remember that one! Probably the one of worst US Gold releases.

Flashback was the best! :D

This ^

[spoodie]

there was a game on the spectrum which involved protecting a flower in the middle of the screen from coloured bugs by squirting them with the same colour bug spray

I remember that one! Probably the one of worst US Gold releases.

I think it was actually Ultimate who released it, from a bit of a search on google. Pssst was name of the game I was describing.

[Lee]

hmmmm, first game i played was a mickey mouse game where you started off in a place with loads of doors and each one was a different level, cant remember its name.
I played it on my cousins megadrive since my parents were against me having any form of games until i was about 8 when i got a pentium 133 with 32mb ram and some form of graphics card with tomb raider, little big adventure 2 and a couple of other games preinstalled. lba2 is still one of my favourite games :D

[spoodie]

hmmmm, first game i played was a mickey mouse game where you started off in a place with loads of doors and each one was a different level, cant remember its name.

This is probably Castle of Illusion; a Disney game that was actually good.

[Stoat]

Sounds like it, yes. Castle of Illusion came with my Mega Drive, and was thus my first game.
My first bought game was Sonic The Hedgehog, which still rocks today.

[FatherJack]

there was a game on the spectrum which involved protecting a flower in the middle of the screen from coloured bugs by squirting them with the same colour bug spray

I remember that one! Probably the one of worst US Gold releases.

I think it was actually Ultimate who released it, from a bit of a search on google. Pssst was name of the game I was describing.

Oh, I knew it was Pssst! straight away but didn't want to spoil it in case someone was trying to guess it - what I meant to say was that is was probably one of the worst of the Ultimate Play The Game releases, next to greats like Sabre Wulf, Atic Atac, Knight Lore, Jetpac/Man and Trans AM.
US Gold later bought their name and released a best-of compendium which included all of these. Bit or crossed-wires time-spazzing on my part there.

[FatherJack]

Last C64 game I bought was Death Knights of Krynn - I'd rediscovered my C64 after a few years "socialising" and had played Champions of Krynn a lot with my college housemates, controlling a different character each and a half-decent conversion of the arcade game Hard Driving - the party gaming atmosphere is what brought me back into it after foolishly thinking I had grown out of it.
I think this aspect of games is what made the PS so popular years later - I remember in particular one afternoon at my sister's, with her and our Mum (!) screaming with laughter at my pitiful attempts to evade the cops in Driver's escape mode.
Back in the C64 days I'd recently got Hunchback as a pressie, but we had to go and stay at a family friend's house, took the '64 - but they only had one telly! After much sulking and grumping during "nice walks in the country" and visiting "nice shopping centres" (shit ones without any arcades) they let me hook it up. Despite it only being me at the controls - all eight of us played that game. It took a while, but we completed it - something I was never able to do again.

Started work and had money. First system I bought myself was the Sega MegaDrive (I'd totally missed out on anything in-between, Atari ST, Amiga, Master System, NES). I paid £250 for it, as I had the (not very) genius idea of buying it on HP from the GUS catalogue. 250 notes was expensive even when it first came out (1990), but this was when it shipped with Sonic (1991/2) and the price in shops was around £150.
Bearing in mind I hadn't seen the near-perfect arcade conversions on the Amiga, I thought Sonic was the most amazing game I'd ever played - like an arcade machine, but in the home (which of course, it was - the hardware was almost the same as in the arcades at the time)
I also bought a joystick (thinking those silly gamepads would never catch on), Batman Returns (not very good), Golden Axe II (completed at the very first sitting), a freezer for my girlfriend and a microwave for my Mum. (All from GUS)

Needless to say, saddled with debt, most subsequent games were either second-hand purchases or weekend rentals. This was in the days before Blockbuster and Game came along and obliterated everything - and rental/second-hand game areas were springing up in every little video shop and garage-cum-Happy-Shopper. I got some absolutely cracking games for that system, and a few crappy ones - so I realistically remember them more fondly. I really couldn't spend long playing Quo Vadis or Valhalla now, despite at the time actually having dreams about them, but I could easily waste a few hours playing Shining horse or Micro Machines.

Anyway, I've bored you enough.

[killslay]

Last C64 game I bought was Death Knights of Krynn - I'd rediscovered my C64 after a few years "socialising" and had played Champions of Krynn a lot with my college housemates, controlling a different character each and a half-decent conversion of the arcade game Hard Driving - the party gaming atmosphere is what brought me back into it after foolishly thinking I had grown out of it.
I think this aspect of games is what made the PS so popular years later - I remember in particular one afternoon at my sister's, with her and our Mum (!) screaming with laughter at my pitiful attempts to evade the cops in Driver's escape mode.
Back in the C64 days I'd recently got Hunchback as a pressie, but we had to go and stay at a family friend's house, took the '64 - but they only had one telly! After much sulking and grumping during "nice walks in the country" and visiting "nice shopping centres" (shit ones without any arcades) they let me hook it up. Despite it only being me at the controls - all eight of us played that game. It took a while, but we completed it - something I was never able to do again.

Started work and had money. First system I bought myself was the Sega MegaDrive (I'd totally missed out on anything in-between, Atari ST, Amiga, Master System, NES). I paid £250 for it, as I had the (not very) genius idea of buying it on HP from the GUS catalogue. 250 notes was expensive even when it first came out (1990), but this was when it shipped with Sonic (1991/2) and the price in shops was around £150.
Bearing in mind I hadn't seen the near-perfect arcade conversions on the Amiga, I thought Sonic was the most amazing game I'd ever played - like an arcade machine, but in the home (which of course, it was - the hardware was almost the same as in the arcades at the time)
I also bought a joystick (thinking those silly gamepads would never catch on), Batman Forever (not very good), Golden Axe II (completed at the very first sitting), a freezer for my girlfriend and a microwave for my Mum. (All from GUS)

Needless to say, saddled with debt, most subsequent games were either second-hand purchases or weekend rentals. This was in the days before Blockbuster and Game came along and obliterated everything - and rental/second-hand game areas were springing up in every little video shop and garage-cum-Happy-Shopper. I got some absolutely cracking games for that system, and a few crappy ones - so I realistically remember them more fondly. I really couldn't spend long playing Quo Vadis or Valhalla now, despite at the time actually having dreams about them, but I could easily waste a few hours playing Shining horse or Micro Machines.

Anyway, I've bored you enough.

longest post ever?

[Dog Pants]

Last C64 game I bought was Death Knights of Krynn ...

Blimey, I had something to say at the beginning of that but I've forgotten what it was. Anyhow, I'm giving you the Skink.




Oh yeah, Bomberman. Fantastic party game. Had me and my mates and all my mate's family playing.

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Micro machines on the Mega Drive!!!!

Awesomeness with the mates

[Sol]

Ah yes, that was an exellent game :D