Retro Games

To be fair didn’t have a clue what I was doing that’s why I always tried to program from magazines.
Would sit there for ever listening to that loading noise to then get the fatal green crash.
Not any wise now TBF.

 

I spent ages playing Doom and Quake on my first PC, in the late 90s. Ahh the old Windows 95 & 98 machines ehh lol.

 

My one and only computer game I've ever played, and loved it to bits ... Titanic. Adventure out of Time.
From the 1990s.
And I've just, last night, found an upgraded version of it to play on my Windows 10 laptop.
At the time Windows XP was as far as it would go !

 

Crash magazine, I think it was called, had a program in each edition, and usually a correction to one of the lines from the program in the previous issue!! Line 454 should have said Poke 12 instead of Poke 2.

Arseholes.

 

Crash was the Spectrum magazine. The Commodore equivalent was Zzap 64 and the Amstrad one was called Amtix.

Never had a Spectrum, but I would read the others from cover to cover and obsess over the reviews, in particular. Saturdays would then be spent at The Computer Store or Microbyte in Wakefield trying to make pocket money purchases as effective as possible. Happy days.

Commodore 64 BASIC was wildly different from the ones derived from BBC Micros, which most other systems used. Peek and Poke were the main commands in the programme listings (usually a hack within a game).

 

I can remember as a kid going into the market, possibly upstairs, in Wakefield and choosing a c64 game with my pocket money. They were unreliable those cassettes and took forever to load but good memories

 

This has the potential to be the best ever thread on here btw.

I remember playing Olympic Gold on maybe the MegaDrive. Maybe Atlanta 96 Olymipcs. Smashing 7 bells out of A and B to get my man running, then pressing up when it was a hurdle.

The 90s were great.

 

The Acorn Electron was quite limited for games but some of them were proper classics which weren't released on the Spectrum, C64 etc. I'd completely forgotten about the Repton series but they were excellent games. Ditto Rubble Trouble if you recall that? And of course Elite originated on the BBC. The Electron wasn't really powerful enough to run it though. I only played Elite during the holidays when my dad was allowed to bring a BBC Master home from work, complete with disc drive!

 

I used to go to The Computer store in Wakey as well, which used to be upstairs, and it was a big place then.
Their main stock was cassette games for the Commodore & Spectrum & Amstrad, and they usually cost between £1.99 - £3.99.
That was a lot of money in those days lol, so you had to choose wisely with your pocket money.

 

No worries! The Colt Steele course is honestly really good as a starting point for loads of data science or basic programming knowledge anyway, and I fully recommend it even if you're not going to use it to make a game! Just don't pay the "full" price (although even at that I think it's probably worth it) - register and they'll offer you something around the ~£18 mark eventually.

 

This and Duke Nukem 3D!!!!!

 

Spy v spy
Daredevil dennis
Citidel

championship manager 94
Premier manager

Emlyn Hughes international soccer
sensible Soccer

international super star soccer which I think turned into pro evolution soccer

sim city
Theme park

soccer 97



a few good uns there

 

Me and @Merde Tete spent hours and hours on it as kids

absolute class

Quite often broke out into a fist fight

I’m amazed that my two sons play fifa in separate rooms against their mates online

the beauty of playing your brother / friends was being able to mercilessly take the piss out of them when you were 3/0 up and playing ole football

then sprinting off at 90 mins to avoid a shoe in

 

Some great calls here. Fifa 94 was a bit of a game changer after the success of EA ice hockey

Not sure what the kids of today would make of this given subsequent iterations !

 

Speedball- great call


Road rash was another leftfield one but absolutely brilliant

 

Haha I had this.

 

We've got a few Raspberry Pi's at work loaded with around 3000 games - absolutely brilliant. Take them and show the kids sometimes in clubs - they are never impressed with the graphics but love them when they get over that barrier. Make a version of Space Invaders and Pong with them using a language called Scratch - they always enjoy those lessons

 

Wolfenstein
Medal of Honour

 

I have one with a Disk Drive and a 32K ram extension

 

I like watching the you tube vids which look back on this sort of thing, and its amazing how video games have evolved since the early days.
I remember being dead excited on christmas day '77, when I/we got the Atari Activision thing with the paddle type controllers for the game Pong lol.
Awww, what memories!.