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I recognise about 40% of those...most of the pre-doom ones like Magic Pockets and Zool I think I was too young to know WTF was going on. What was the premise for Magic Pockets? All I can remember is your character played pocket billiards a load and his weapon was delving deep and bringing out things that looked like spinning blackberries to me.

On magic pockets you chould charge up your pocket and use the spinning whirly things it releases to capture enemies. I completed magic pockets a few times, but Gods was possibly the hardest game ever, I dont remember ever getting past the second level!

The original Delta Force, I remember having to buy an AMD K2-400Mhz just to play it.

Is that last one California Games? I was a BMX legend on that

Magic pockets there wasnt that much too, great theme though.

Gods however, as Clockd says holy crap was that hard, good job I had the trainer and as a child I of course used it and just destroyed everything  :bowdown:


How good was Delta force though Clockd, at the time it was one of the first multiplayer games that really wowed me, just the size of the maps was insane, and looking out for that one pixel moving on screen!!  :cheers:

Oh and yes, California games is last!

If you only recognise 40% zpyder theres some stuff thats so good above it would still hold up today  :wub: simtower for example is just as good as it was back in the day :w00t:

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Quote from: Clockd 0NeOn magic pockets you chould charge up your pocket and use the spinning whirly things it releases to capture enemies. I completed magic pockets a few times, but Gods was possibly the hardest game ever, I dont remember ever getting past the second level!

Yeah, I remember that...but WHY?

I only remember 40% or so as I dont do sports games, and with the exception of Sim Ant and Sim Farm, I hate the Sim games.

Games I remember but arent on there (Commodore Amiga):

RoboCod
James Pond Olympics (I think thats what it was called)
F16-Interceptor (3D Wireframe graphics FTW! It had like 6 levels I think around the Golden Gate Bridge. I was chuffed when I could land on the aircraft carrier!)
Let Sleeping Gods Lie
Barbarian
Some spy game which no one could get very far on I think. It had an anti-piracy thing where at the start you had to use a paper decoder ring to figure out a code to continue and prove you owned the original game. I used to get caught/die at the airport.
Stunt Driver
There were 2 3D wireframe games that were "Escape from" and "Return to" RPG type games, but I cant remember what they were called.
EDIT: One was "Mercenary: Escape from Targ" Looks like I wasnt the only one that didnt know WTF was going on...

Lemmings isnt on there!
Navy Seals
Ooohhhh, Dungeon master:

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Quote from: Clockd 0NeOn magic pockets you chould charge up your pocket and use the spinning whirly things it releases to capture enemies. I completed magic pockets a few times, but Gods was possibly the hardest game ever, I dont remember ever getting past the second level!

Yeah, I remember that...but WHY?

I only remember 40% or so as I dont do sports games, and with the exception of Sim Ant and Sim Farm, I hate the Sim games.

Games I remember but arent on there (Commodore Amiga):

RoboCod
James Pond Olympics (I think thats what it was called)
F16-Interceptor (3D Wireframe graphics FTW! It had like 6 levels I think around the Golden Gate Bridge. I was chuffed when I could land on the aircraft carrier!)
Let Sleeping Gods Lie
Barbarian
Some spy game which no one could get very far on I think. It had an anti-piracy thing where at the start you had to use a paper decoder ring to figure out a code to continue and prove you owned the original game. I used to get caught/die at the airport.
Stunt Driver
There were 2 3D wireframe games that were "Escape from" and "Return to" RPG type games, but I cant remember what they were called.
EDIT: One was "Mercenary: Escape from Targ" Looks like I wasnt the only one that didnt know WTF was going on...
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Lemmings isnt on there!
Navy Seals
Ooohhhh, Dungeon master:
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I think it was F-18 Interceptor, and I couldnt get past the level where you had to drop the rescue thing.

Ah, close enough then!

And Wizball:
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Dungeon Master used to scare the crap out of me, being able to hear things a few moves away etc. I never got very far....part of me wants to play it now, as I have a feeling itll be easier!

I had an Atari Lynx with Warbirds (great 2 player dogfight action - you could hide in the clouds from your opponent!), Paperboy, California Games, Batman Returns and Shinobi, probably some others. Fantastic (big) handheld the Lynx 8-)

A few others from me:

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best 2D side scrolling beat em up ever. The musical (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVYx0OgWdbE) score (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX480gE3yls) was as groundbreaking as the rest of the game.

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who doesnt like tourniquetting and amuptating their own limbs with no painkillers? :lol:

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God knows how I used to beat him...

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Nearly forgot the hardest game of all time:
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God knows how I used to beat him...

Jesus he was hard, the whole title screen was ace though, it was like, CLICK ON SOMEONE; and you think to yourself, wow, so erm how do I know whos sh*t or good...

I always remember playing that game as one night I got VERY ill, I was playing shufflepuck, and thats the last thing I remember as I woke up in hospital!

Quote from: Clockd 0NeNearly forgot the hardest game of all time:
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There are videos of people 1cc (1 credit completing) that game, which is just alarming beyond all reason given how hard it is :gag:

Loving this thread so far, even more memories than the best games of the 90s/last decade thread, keep the screens coming  :wub:

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Some of the first games I ever played

edit - how could i forget... I wasted days of my childhood on this game

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I remember turtles...

2 more classics!
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This thread has made me download C&C:Gold edition and am trying to jump through hoops to install it...running XP virtual machine in Windows 7 to install it in win 95 compatibility mode as Win7 is 64bit ><

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GOLDENAXE! Genius... I used to spend my pocket money playing that in the local arcade.. Managed to complete it despite my meagre allowance.  :ptu:

Talking of Arcades.  Why are they all so sh*te nowadays?

The last ones I saw have 1 or 2 games, usually old ones, and usually dont work properly.  The rest of the space is taken up by gamblers, 2p machines, fluffy toy "dispensers" etc.

:(


Valley Centretainment near me have what could be an awesome 4up Mario Kart game, but it doesnt work properly.  And as long as people keep pumping in pounds, they arent going to pay to repair it.

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very 1st computer game I owned... I was about 7 & didnt have a clue, but it was the game to have
in them days, so my parents listened to the salesman

Quote from: soopahflyTalking of Arcades.  Why are they all so sh*te nowadays?

I agree, there used to be a quality arcade in my hometown of Hull with loads of multiplayer games. Now it may as well be a casino the amount of slot machines in there. From 80% arcade games to 20% games and 80% slot machines/coin-pushers.. Its a shame, but i think online gaming has killed the industry..

Ive always thought there would be a market for retro arcades, hire them out for corporate events and stuff. Real classic vintage chic, nice licensed bar on the premises, lots of neon lighting, no under 18s permitted, aimed at 20 somethings and 30 somethings who grew up playing the classics.

Quote from: Chris HIve always thought there would be a market for retro arcades, hire them out for corporate events and stuff. Real classic vintage chic, nice licensed bar on the premises, lots of neon lighting, no under 18s permitted, aimed at 20 somethings and 30 somethings who grew up playing the classics.

I like that idea... Why not go one step further and open a late night bar/arcade, with cheap as hell machines (10-20p credits) and pricey drinks (£2.85 a pint). Problem is you would need quite a large demographic and I cant see many women attending!

There used to be a place down portsmouth way, not sure if its still there, but it had vintage arcade machines...I mean vintage, they had to be converted to accept modern currency. That was always fun.

Id rather play goldenaxe than itbox anyday! :cheers:

OMG WINGS!!!!

Quote from: Chris HIve always thought there would be a market for retro arcades, hire them out for corporate events and stuff. Real classic vintage chic, nice licensed bar on the premises, lots of neon lighting, no under 18s permitted, aimed at 20 somethings and 30 somethings who grew up playing the classics.

Sausagefest.

Quote from: Chris HIve always thought there would be a market for retro arcades, hire them out for corporate events and stuff. Real classic vintage chic, nice licensed bar on the premises, lots of neon lighting, no under 18s permitted, aimed at 20 somethings and 30 somethings who grew up playing the classics.

mame?

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Quote from: Chris HIve always thought there would be a market for retro arcades, hire them out for corporate events and stuff. Real classic vintage chic, nice licensed bar on the premises, lots of neon lighting, no under 18s permitted, aimed at 20 somethings and 30 somethings who grew up playing the classics.

Sausagefest.

My better half disagrees.

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Quote from: soopahfly

Quote from: Chris HIve always thought there would be a market for retro arcades, hire them out for corporate events and stuff. Real classic vintage chic, nice licensed bar on the premises, lots of neon lighting, no under 18s permitted, aimed at 20 somethings and 30 somethings who grew up playing the classics.

Sausagefest.

My better half disagrees.

I can tell you now, it will be packed with emo/goth girls. I knew quite a few of them from my uni days and most of them were gamer girls. This kind of socialising/drinking/gaming place would appeal to them.

The only problem with that kind of place is the cleaning, alcohol makes a hell of a mess when it comes to floors, tables and in this case the arcade units. Would be nothing worse than sticky retro arcade machines.

Other than that it seems like a brilliant idea if you can keep it classy enough.

One hell of a thread  :ptu:

So many great games... and so so so many hours wasted.

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Alas arcades arent really that viable nowadays without the money made from fruit and quiz (AWP/SWP) even in huge ones in places like Skeg you have about a 90% fruit 10% arcade mix, and even then the arcade is mostly dancing stage type stuff.

If you want to play arcade games either get MAME, or source a cab and do it properly   -)


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Anyone got any suggestions on how to get C&C Gold running? Im getting "Cant set video mode" errors.

Ive got no idea, tried myself and have up


Ive got red alert 2 with the yuris revenge working tho, was a special download that works right away...... anyone who wants it pm me ;)

I never completed the first one, I think I got to like level 10 on GDI and not quite as far as NOD. Id quite like to play through them all from start to finish, its a shame that they copped out a bit on the anniversary release and made a pretty poor attempt at making it compatible with everyones systems.

EDIT:

Got it working now. I had to disable the Integration Features and hey presto its working.

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Carmageddon ftw, they so need a modern interpretation of it though!!

Jaimz :rock:

Used to love a bit of Space Harrier too:

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ooohhh syndicate :oD

Syndicate Wars, Cabal and Super Punch Out got my nuts tingling

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Sim City was a superb game, lost so many hours to that.

Quote from: Adrock on January 05, 2013, 20:58:10 PM
Sim City was a superb game, lost so many hours to that.

it still is. That and openttd still causes me to lose hours on the computer.

Sierra Police Quest

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Started a city today :)  will do some PQ tomorrow :D

I miss Sim Farm :D