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rk0r
May 23rd, 2012, 04:28 AM
What was your favourate computer game growing up ?

I found a game called silkworm that has to be one of the first games i remember being adicted to.. can anyone remember it ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkworm_%28video_game%29

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/Silkworm_Cover.jpg/250px-Silkworm_Cover.jpg

Lucradia
May 23rd, 2012, 05:24 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Velocity_%28video_game%29

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Escape-Velocity-title.png

Was installed on a SyQuest Disk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology), and played on Apple's MacOS 8~9. Before that? Math Mountain and Bolo.

I also played some Zeliard on a Zenith 386 I purchased in middle school.

zombifier25
May 23rd, 2012, 05:47 AM
I played too many PlayStation games too count. But Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped is pretty much burnt on my mind (I have tried the first 2 as well, but 3 is the best)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3e/Crash_Bandicoot_3_Warped_Original_Box_Art.jpg/252px-Crash_Bandicoot_3_Warped_Original_Box_Art.jpg

That and Twisted Metal 2:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/Twisted_Metal_2.jpg/252px-Twisted_Metal_2.jpg

If you used to own a PlayStation and don't know these games, then you're lying ;)

doorknob60
May 23rd, 2012, 06:24 AM
SNES games. Mainly Super Mario World, All-Stars, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country 1&2 :) I still play these games often, they are great!

georgelappies
May 23rd, 2012, 06:30 AM
For me it was countless hours at the local arcade popping coins into this:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/7253896802_070bca935f.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79382089@N03/7253896802/)
GhostsnGoblins_flyer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79382089@N03/7253896802/) by georgelappies (http://www.flickr.com/people/79382089@N03/), on Flickr

And then later on got myself the C64 version.

Hylas de Niall
May 23rd, 2012, 07:23 AM
What was your favourate computer game growing up ?

I found a game called silkworm that has to be one of the first games i remember being adicted to.. can anyone remember it ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkworm_%28video_game%29

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/Silkworm_Cover.jpg/250px-Silkworm_Cover.jpg

Yep! on Amiga and Atari ST ;)

My faves from then were 'Captain Blood', 'Xenon 2', 'Robocod', 'Magic Pockets', 'Yo! Joe' and 'R-Type'.

Happy days! ;)

Paqman
May 23rd, 2012, 07:40 AM
It was all about Sabre Wulf for me:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Sabre_wulf_title.gif

That and Jetpac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpac) on my Spectrum, or Paradroid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid) and North and South (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_%26_South_(video_game)) on my mate's C64.

Brimwylf
May 23rd, 2012, 08:17 AM
It was all about Sabre Wulf for me:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Sabre_wulf_title.gif

That and Jetpac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpac) on my Spectrum, or Paradroid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid) and North and South (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_%26_South_%28video_game%29) on my mate's C64.

Nice Spectrum picks mate. Jetpac was one of my favourites too, along with Atic Atac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiF0xdoYZog), Into the Eagle's nest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9dTPi7HZTk) and of course Canyon Warrior (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdskYNAf7I)

georgelappies, I still play it. Got the Gameboy Advance, SNES, Mega Drive and Master System variants.

I should point out that I'm a small retro games and consoles collecter with a small but nice collection of a few hundred games total, so I still play these games on the original machines every now and then :mrgreen:. Off the top of my head now, I'll just name a few
ANY Ghosts 'n Goblins
Metroid Fusion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xroqahxuGI) on Gameboy Advance
Gargoyle's Quest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw43qTd1xi4) on Gameboy
Gremlins II on Gameboy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA6iSuo16B0)and NES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCrjGQll62o)(huge fan of the movies too)
Ninja Gaiden III (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL2pLx8k0ZU) on the NES
Monster Hunter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPMpam78VqE) on PS2 (not sure if it qualifies as retro yet, but it's my absolute favourite PS2 game)
Final Fantasy I and II
+ a ton of Japanese only SNES and Gameboy games

I really can't list them all, I have dozens of favourites. I'll just come back to this thread when I play something.

mips
May 23rd, 2012, 10:08 AM
Shadow of the Beast
Xenon games
Operation Stealth
Future Wars
Ghost & Goblins, Ghouls & Ghosts
Xevious
R-Type
Turrican II
Wings
Monkey Island games
Loom
Lemmings
Skidmarks
Great Giana Sisters
Syndicate
Gods
Chaos Engine
Pinball Fantasies
Alien Breed
IK+
Speedball II
Stunt Car Racer
Flashback
Bubble Bobble
Indiana Jones games
New Zealand Story
Kick Off 2
Rainbow Islands
Prince of Persia
Rick Dangerous 2
Swiv
Golden Axe
James Pond
Defender of the Crown
Another World
Worms
Loki
Another World
Cruise for a corpse

The above are some Amiga games I remember. I also enjoy SNES & N64 games.

lisati
May 23rd, 2012, 10:17 AM
One I occasionally played back in the 1980s was Colossal Cave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure).

TheNessus
May 23rd, 2012, 10:44 AM
The Legend of Kyrandia

Star Control 1, 2, 3

Master of Orion 2

Gender Wars

Gene Wars

Phantasmagoria

Dungeon Keeper

Alone in the Dark

Magic Carpet

Zelda - Ocarina of Time on Super - Nintendo

(I'm not THAT old..)

Paqman
May 23rd, 2012, 10:49 AM
One I occasionally played back in the 1980s was Colossal Cave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure).

Believe that ones actually in the repos as part of bsdgames (apt:bsdgames).

I can't claim that kind of retro chops, but I do remember playing Santa Paravia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Paravia_en_Fiumaccio), Carmen Sandiego (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego) and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(computer_g ame)) on my school's Apple IIes.

Brimwylf
May 23rd, 2012, 11:20 AM
PS: I (still) play nethack almost daily, if that counts for anything.

Face-Ache
May 23rd, 2012, 11:26 AM
For me, it was Elite .... on an Amstrad CPC 464 with built-in tape-deck!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29

Awesome;
http://www.dosgamers.com/uploads/images/original/amstrad_cpc464.jpg

forrestcupp
May 23rd, 2012, 12:14 PM
The Magnovox Odyssey. When we finally gave it away, the kid asked where the cartridges were. We had to tell him it didn't have any. :)
http://jakemissing.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/odyssey1.jpg




Zelda - Ocarina of Time on Super - Nintendo

(I'm not THAT old..)
Maybe you are that old, and you're getting senile. That was a a Nintendo 64 game. ;)

na5h
May 23rd, 2012, 12:55 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Duke_Nukem_3D_Coverart.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Quake1cover.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Doom_cover_art.jpg


'nuff said!

Eddie Wilson
May 23rd, 2012, 02:25 PM
Space Taxi - C64
Robocop - Tandy CoCo 3
Zaxxon - Tandy CoCo 3
King's Quest 5 - PC

Still have most of my reto stuff but I do love emulators.
:guitar:

Merk42
May 23rd, 2012, 03:26 PM
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mips
May 23rd, 2012, 04:52 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Duke_Nukem_3D_Coverart.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Quake1cover.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Doom_cover_art.jpg


'nuff said!

Squire, that's not retro. That's like yesterday!

Hylas de Niall
May 23rd, 2012, 05:41 PM
Squire, that's not retro. That's like yesterday!

Agreed! LOL!

MisterGaribaldi
May 23rd, 2012, 06:24 PM
Thanks to folks in another thread here, I was successfully able to get this game up and running on my Lion-running MBP:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Full_Throttle_artwork.jpg

JDShu
May 23rd, 2012, 08:48 PM
I still go back to Megaman X every once in a while. Amazing series. Still rememeber how awesome the 3rd game was when you got to BE Zero, and in the 4th game when Zero becomes a player character in his own right with his own story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM

(note, 4 letter words, for those easily offended)

rk0r
May 23rd, 2012, 08:51 PM
For me it was countless hours at the local arcade popping coins into this:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/7253896802_070bca935f.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79382089@N03/7253896802/)
GhostsnGoblins_flyer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/79382089@N03/7253896802/) by georgelappies (http://www.flickr.com/people/79382089@N03/), on Flickr

And then later on got myself the C64 version.


I LOVED THIS GAME! thats bought back some memories that were lost! haha great!

weasel fierce
May 23rd, 2012, 10:50 PM
Just one?

XCOM of course. Best game ever made.

But the amiga had tons of great games... Turrican, Frontier, Alien Breed, Cannon Fodder, Project X, Banshee, Warlords etc etc etc

rk0r
May 23rd, 2012, 11:00 PM
Just one?

XCOM of course. Best game ever made.

But the amiga had tons of great games... Turrican, Frontier, Alien Breed, Cannon Fodder, Project X, Banshee, Warlords etc etc etc

Always wanted an amiga to play Cannon Fodder ..
I had to settle with looking at the computer mags of that time and looking at screen shots!

weasel fierce
May 23rd, 2012, 11:20 PM
Always wanted an amiga to play Cannon Fodder ..
I had to settle with looking at the computer mags of that time and looking at screen shots!

GOt my Amiga 1200 set up next to my PC :)

There is a DOS version of Cannon Fodder too, but it's missing the intro song.

rk0r
May 23rd, 2012, 11:26 PM
GOt my Amiga 1200 set up next to my PC :)

There is a DOS version of Cannon Fodder too, but it's missing the intro song.

Could use an emulator in this day and age, however there is nothing like using the real thing! I wonder how many people have a retro box like an amiga set up ready to rock today.. (not many i guess ) ?

kdane4
May 24th, 2012, 04:43 AM
arkanoid...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkanoid

Face-Ache
May 24th, 2012, 05:34 AM
I loved Arkanoid. The Nintendo DSi has a similar game called AlphaBounce, via the DSiWare Store, which is like 'Arkanoid on Speed'. It was awesome.

Anyway, as much as i enjoy reminiscing about stuff from my youth, i do find that i look back with what i call "nostalgia induced rose-coloured glasses". I only seem to remember the good things about what i liked, rather than cast an objective eye over them based on where i'm at today.

I recently revisited a couple of seminal games i was into as a kid; Elite (via Oolite), and the in-its-day awesome Tie Fighter from Lucas Arts (via DosBox). Sure, they're both classic games, each with a massive cult following, but neither game has aged particularly well.

If anything, it's made me realise just how hard we are on games these days. Our expectations seem to be much higher. I guess that's understandable, what with the massive advances we've seen in technology over the last couple of decades.

Still, it makes me want to look for the good points in todays games, rather than focus on the negatives. This has caused me to play, and very much enjoy, quite a number of modern games i've never really considered due to average reviews.

Anyway, enough waffling.

Anyone else find they suffer from 'nostalgia-induced rose-coloured glasses'? :)

na5h
May 24th, 2012, 06:31 AM
Squire, that's not retro. That's like yesterday!

Oh my, I guess I'm just too young...although the question was about "your favorite game growing up".

I also remember spending countless hours together with the original Game Boy...does that count?

Face-Ache
May 24th, 2012, 06:39 AM
Oh i don't think they were being serious, na5h, more lamenting the fact that they themselves are getting on in years. Right fellas? :)

If you're only 10 years old, there's no shame in your favourite game growing up being Pokemon. Not saying you are ......

Look i'll just stop now ....

rk0r
May 24th, 2012, 06:39 AM
Oh my, I guess I'm just too young...although the question was about "your favorite game growing up".

I also remember spending countless hours together with the original Game Boy...does that count?

yes.. i have one in my draw at work :D

Donkey kong! - great music.

Hylas de Niall
May 24th, 2012, 06:55 AM
lamenting the fact that they themselves are getting on in years. Right fellas? :)


Yep! Haha!

and i remember 'Buster & Monster Fun' comic like it was yesterday, too!

:lolflag:

Face-Ache
May 24th, 2012, 07:13 AM
Whizzer & Chips, Buster, and the one where my forum name came from... the Dandy :) I admit, i'm no spring-chicken either!

forrestcupp
May 24th, 2012, 01:04 PM
Always wanted an amiga to play Cannon Fodder ..
I had to settle with looking at the computer mags of that time and looking at screen shots!Me too. During my later C64 days, I used to look at the Amiga screenshots in magazines and dream about being able to have an Amiga. Their graphics were way ahead of their time.



Donkey kong! - great music.

Most of Shigeru Miyamoto's games have great music. My favorites are all of the Super Mario Bros songs & Ocarina of Time music. There were one or two songs in Super Mario Bros 2 that got on my nerves, though. And the original Zelda game had wretched background music that makes me not even want to play it.

Evil-Ernie
May 24th, 2012, 01:40 PM
Defender on the Atari2600. I used to play it for literally hours and at one point due to the horrible square joystick with the single fire button I managed to rub the skin off the base of my thumb and cause a nasty weeping wound!! :O

rk0r
May 24th, 2012, 07:42 PM
Me too. During my later C64 days, I used to look at the Amiga screenshots in magazines and dream about being able to have an Amiga. Their graphics were way ahead of their time.



Most of Shigeru Miyamoto's games have great music. My favorites are all of the Super Mario Bros songs & Ocarina of Time music. There were one or two songs in Super Mario Bros 2 that got on my nerves, though. And the original Zelda game had wretched background music that makes me not even want to play it.

I had a C64.. the brown one! - Memories of Paperboy and going completely red in the face with frustration towards the end of the level where there were ramps... frustrating.

Those computer mags always made me dream of having those bright and colourful games with amazing graphics.. Whoever had one of those consoles automatically became my best friend hahah.