Atari 2600 as a kid. Asteroids and Smurfs rocked my tender years
Commodore 64 this was where I started my gaming. Mostly terrible games but The Double, Track and Field, Impossible Mission took a lot of my time as did Hacker and The Hobbit. I had another game where you ran 400m or 1500m. Really dull, crap graphics but I just couldn’t stop playing it! Good times
Game Gear (with Master System converter) best handheld console ever! Pissed all over the game boy but just didn’t have enough games! Should have been Epic
ps1-5 - have had them all. Ps1 playing F1 Grand Prix alongside my mates killed days of our lives as did Final Fantasy 7 before my save corrupted after 70 hours.
I did download an emulator on my laptop a while ago but the games I got were just dreadful. They didn’t last long.
sometimes maybe it’s best to leave the memory and not try to rekindle days gone by
Atari 2600 as a kid. Asteroids and Smurfs rocked my tender years
Commodore 64 this was where I started my gaming. Mostly terrible games but The Double, Track and Field, Impossible Mission took a lot of my time as did Hacker and The Hobbit. I had another game where you ran 400m or 1500m. Really dull, crap graphics but I just couldn’t stop playing it! Good times
Game Gear (with Master System converter) best handheld console ever! Pissed all over the game boy but just didn’t have enough games! Should have been Epic
ps1-5 - have had them all. Ps1 playing F1 Grand Prix alongside my mates killed days of our lives as did Final Fantasy 7 before my save corrupted after 70 hours.
I did download an emulator on my laptop a while ago but the games I got were just dreadful. They didn’t last long.
sometimes maybe it’s best to leave the memory and not try to rekindle days gone by
Used to love playing games as a kid but fell out of love a long time ago now.
Elite on the Acorn Electron/BBC B was brilliant.
Had a Spectrum +3 for about 18m and played Operation Wolf and Afterburner relentlessly before we traded it in for the newly released Commodore Amiga. Kick Off 2, Sensible Soccer and Championship Manager before the Eidos split was standard, along with Jimmy White's Snooker (think it was Archer McLane, McLean or something like that!). Speedball 2 was good. Microprose Grand Prix was really good and spent houes playing that.
I had a PS2 and a Xbox360 (Brian Lara's Cricket and Tony Hawks 2 got a lot of time through Uni) but sold my 360 when I realised I needed to exercise after 6 of living alone and never played games since. Used to love playing Guitar Hero Metallica and think thats the one game I could just pick up and play now given half a chance.
My brother has owned every single console ever released and still plays every day now.
+1 for Sonic 2 on MegaDrive, that's king of the retro games for me. Such a good soundtrack - fairly regularly will be humming a tune mindlessly, then realise it's Chemical Plant Zone/Casino Night Zone/etc.
I had a Commodore Amiga 500. My dad bought it for me second hand off his mate. It came with a box of about 100 floppy disks containing various pirated copies of games bought from a market stall in Redditch. Shortly after we after purchased it we upgraded it to a hypersonic fast 1 mega byte of RAM and a second external floppy disk drive. The girls were all very impressed when I used to tell them about my pimped up Amiga.
Many many hours were spent trying to figure out how to play games with no instructions and no YouTube walk through videos. A great problem solving challenge for a young boy,
In the days when teenagers had to get there porn from random hedges the copy of “strip poker” that inexplicably wasn’t separated from from the rest of the games by my Dad was quite thrilling for young Master Exiled. Those 16bit graphics were surprisingly effective. Innocent times.
Of the games I spent my own pocket money on, Syndicate was a good one, Mortal Kombat was mindlessly violent, and Monkey Island was a genre defining classic spread across 12 disks (that second disk drive really came into its own!).
However, the one that really consumed copious amounts of my spare time, and a good deal of time that, in hindsight, probably would’ve been better for long term life prospects if I’d spent it doing something else, was Sensible World of Soccer. The Mega Drive and SNES may have been the cool systems choice for mid 90s gamers, and part of my ungrateful young self may have been annoyed my Dad was a bit cheap so I had to go to mates’ houses to play Sonic or Earthworm Jim or Street Fighter 2, but they didn’t have SWOS.
SWOS, in my opinion, relative to the technology available at the time and the standard of competitor titles, is the greatest football video game ever. To have an extraordinarily fast, fun, and playable football game engine coupled with a career manager mode that utilised an enormous database of pretty much every professional club in the world (you could start your career in Latvia or El Salvador!) was 15 to 20 years ahead of its time. In fact I don’t think even the modern FIFA titles can match the depth of the player and club databases of this game (albeit the realism of the game play has moved on somewhat). The game was so huge you could even play as some obscure team called Charlton Athletic, complete with real player names of legends like Leaburn, Whyte, and O’Connell. How exciting it was to my young self to lead Charlton to Premier League and European glory over and over again. Perhaps even more than 16 bit images of loose women who were surprisingly bad at Poker.
I started with a ZX Spectrum and then a C64. Have never had a games console - always gone down the PC route.
Spent many hours/days playing Jet Set Willy, Chequered Flag and the original Football Manager, and typing in line after line of code from various magazines and books for the computer to do something 'amazing' only for it to fail every goddamn time! Daley Thompson's Decathlon was the cause of many broken joysticks in the 80s.
Recall it coming up to Christmas 1986 when I wanted a new PC game but not wait for the big day, and although we'd never bought each other a present before, or since, a mate and I went to the computer shop opposite West Wickham swimming baths and I bought him a skateboard game called 720 and he got me Paperboy (they cost a tenner each which was about five times what we'd usually pay for one not having much money) so we wouldn't get a bollocking for wasting so much money on our own computer game.
I have built a few retro cabinets using raspberry pi 3s running retropie. However I have downladed retroarch for my laptop and can play all the old games for the arcade and home systems using a Xbox USB controller on that. Of the arcade games, I like the old ones like Space Invaders and Carnival as well as Galaxians and Lunar rescue. I also like a bit of Out Run. It is always nice playing the SNES games and I enjoy playing the Mega Drive Sensible Soccer. A bit of the arcade Crazy taxi isn't bad either.
I understand the Raspberry PI 4, overclocked with a cooling fan can run pinball programmes although only to one screen. The information/score screen appears in the top left hand corner in the flat view. I am looking into this still, but am sorely tempted to build one.
Good thread! I seem to be more interested in games that connect to my past than new games.
Every time Another World is released on a platform I own, I buy it and play it through. Been doing that for years now! 4Currently working through the Mario 3D games on the Switch which has been mildly diverting. Tetris Effect is a stunning remake of a classic game that I play a hell of a lot.
I had a Commodore Amiga 500. My dad bought it for me second hand off his mate. It came with a box of about 100 floppy disks containing various pirated copies of games bought from a market stall in Redditch. Shortly after we after purchased it we upgraded it to a hypersonic fast 1 mega byte of RAM and a second external floppy disk drive. The girls were all very impressed when I used to tell them about my pimped up Amiga.
Many many hours were spent trying to figure out how to play games with no instructions and no YouTube walk through videos. A great problem solving challenge for a young boy,
In the days when teenagers had to get there porn from random hedges the copy of “strip poker” that inexplicably wasn’t separated from from the rest of the games by my Dad was quite thrilling for young Master Exiled. Those 16bit graphics were surprisingly effective. Innocent times.
Of the games I spent my own pocket money on, Syndicate was a good one, Mortal Kombat was mindlessly violent, and Monkey Island was a genre defining classic spread across 12 disks (that second disk drive really came into its own!).
However, the one that really consumed copious amounts of my spare time, and a good deal of time that, in hindsight, probably would’ve been better for long term life prospects if I’d spent it doing something else, was Sensible World of Soccer. The Mega Drive and SNES may have been the cool systems choice for mid 90s gamers, and part of my ungrateful young self may have been annoyed my Dad was a bit cheap so I had to go to mates’ houses to play Sonic or Earthworm Jim or Street Fighter 2, but they didn’t have SWOS.
SWOS, in my opinion, relative to the technology available at the time and the standard of competitor titles, is the greatest football video game ever. To have an extraordinarily fast, fun, and playable football game engine coupled with a career manager mode that utilised an enormous database of pretty much every professional club in the world (you could start your career in Latvia or El Salvador!) was 15 to 20 years ahead of its time. In fact I don’t think even the modern FIFA titles can match the depth of the player and club databases of this game (albeit the realism of the game play has moved on somewhat). The game was so huge you could even play as some obscure team called Charlton Athletic, complete with real player names of legends like Leaburn, Whyte, and O’Connell. How exciting it was to my young self to lead Charlton to Premier League and European glory over and over again. Perhaps even more than 16 bit images of loose women who were surprisingly bad at Poker.
I still have my old Oric-1 boxed up somewhere. Also had Atari, all the ZX’s, N64 etc etc.
Funny enough, I’m 3 months into an 8 month house redevelopment. I sold my old PS4 a few years ago, but the new redevelopment will have a dedicated Games room for myself and my Son. Not sure on either PlayStation 5 or the Xbox (had both in the past) for when we move back in at Easter.
Love reading this thread, brought back some happy memories 😉
Used to love alex the kid and the original super mario series, mario kart on nintendo, many nights when i was at my dads for the weekend just staying up playing it whilst they all drank had music, good times! love Mario Kart even now when either my younger brothers or nephews have played it.
Golden axe was my go-to arcade game. Had it on the mega drive but could never complete it
Yep i used to play this alot with cousins, years back i bought the mega drive games thing on PS3? (could be 2) and played it for a bit with my sister again and still enjoyed it, streets of rage too, some proper classics in the mega drive era.
My brother loves Golden Axe. He played it on one of the cabinets we made and could keep putting (virtual) money in so was able to complete it. It has a decent ending where the screen shows an arcade and the Golden Axe cabinet exploding and all the characters in the game coming out and running off.
Old Championship Manager/Football Manager games are my thing - much more simple than the current game so don't need to plough hours into training, tactics, media etc, can complete a season in an evening.
cm0102 and FM08 are the best for me.
There's even a website where they data update current players into the cm0102 format, it's great.
@North Lower Neil where did you download those from mate? Was addicted to champ Manager in the mid 90s. Would love to get an an old skool version from somewhere.
1) Barry McGuigans boxing on the Amstrad 2) Geoff Crammands F1 Grand Prix on Amiga 3) Premier Manager with Wycombe Wanderers on the Amiga 4) Alex Kidd the Lost Stars on Master System 5) Micky Mouse Castle of Illusion on Mega Drive 6) Starfox on SNES 7) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - Amiga / PC 8) Speedball - Amiga 9) ISS on PS1 - Nigeria best team with pure pace 10) Yi Ah Kung Fu - Amstrad
Still have a SNES and occasionally play it. My main one growing up was the Mega Drive. Brother sold it without me knowing so i was gutted. The other which he also sold (due to a drug habit) was something I think would be worth a fair bit now. It was a 1970s taito arcade table.
Still have a SNES and occasionally play it. My main one growing up was the Mega Drive. Brother sold it without me knowing so i was gutted. The other which he also sold (due to a drug habit) was something I think would be worth a fair bit now. It was a 1970s taito arcade table.
Yes, they can go for quite a lot if working and in good condition. I have made a couple of retro cabinets using a raspberry pi 3 as a base. I can also play most arcade games and older console games like snes and megadrive using my laptop and a programme called retroarch. Happy to help/advise if anybody wants to do similar.
Still have a SNES and occasionally play it. My main one growing up was the Mega Drive. Brother sold it without me knowing so i was gutted. The other which he also sold (due to a drug habit) was something I think would be worth a fair bit now. It was a 1970s taito arcade table.
Get one of these, comes with Mega Drive, SNES, Gameboy etc games. Had every Mega Drive game I had on the console.
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Still got the master system, still works apart from the light gun, used to chuck it on every now and then.
The main games being: Golden Axe, G-lock, Sonic the hedgehog 2 and Operation wolf.
Sonic 2 was the one though.
this was where I started my gaming. Mostly terrible games but The Double, Track and Field, Impossible Mission took a lot of my time as did Hacker and The Hobbit. I had another game where you ran 400m or 1500m. Really dull, crap graphics but I just couldn’t stop playing it! Good times
Game Gear (with Master System converter)
best handheld console ever! Pissed all over the game boy but just didn’t have enough games! Should have been Epic
ps1-5 - have had them all. Ps1 playing F1 Grand Prix alongside my mates killed days of our lives as did Final Fantasy 7 before my save corrupted after 70 hours.
sometimes maybe it’s best to leave the memory and not try to rekindle days gone by
Elite on the Acorn Electron/BBC B was brilliant.
Had a Spectrum +3 for about 18m and played Operation Wolf and Afterburner relentlessly before we traded it in for the newly released Commodore Amiga. Kick Off 2, Sensible Soccer and Championship Manager before the Eidos split was standard, along with Jimmy White's Snooker (think it was Archer McLane, McLean or something like that!). Speedball 2 was good. Microprose Grand Prix was really good and spent houes playing that.
I had a PS2 and a Xbox360 (Brian Lara's Cricket and Tony Hawks 2 got a lot of time through Uni) but sold my 360 when I realised I needed to exercise after 6 of living alone and never played games since. Used to love playing Guitar Hero Metallica and think thats the one game I could just pick up and play now given half a chance.
My brother has owned every single console ever released and still plays every day now.
Many many hours were spent trying to figure out how to play games with no instructions and no YouTube walk through videos. A great problem solving challenge for a young boy,
In the days when teenagers had to get there porn from random hedges the copy of “strip poker” that inexplicably wasn’t separated from from the rest of the games by my Dad was quite thrilling for young Master Exiled. Those 16bit graphics were surprisingly effective. Innocent times.
Of the games I spent my own pocket money on, Syndicate was a good one, Mortal Kombat was mindlessly violent, and Monkey Island was a genre defining classic spread across 12 disks (that second disk drive really came into its own!).
However, the one that really consumed copious amounts of my spare time, and a good deal of time that, in hindsight, probably would’ve been better for
long term life prospects if I’d spent it doing something else, was Sensible World of Soccer. The Mega Drive and SNES may have been the cool systems choice for mid 90s gamers, and part of my ungrateful young self may have been annoyed my Dad was a bit cheap so I had to go to mates’ houses to play Sonic or Earthworm Jim or Street Fighter 2, but they didn’t have SWOS.
SWOS, in my opinion, relative to the technology available at the time and the standard of competitor titles, is the greatest football video game ever. To have an extraordinarily fast, fun, and playable football game engine coupled with a career manager mode that utilised an enormous database of pretty much every professional club in the world (you could start your career in Latvia or El Salvador!) was 15 to 20 years ahead of its time. In fact I don’t think even the modern FIFA titles can match the depth of the player and club databases of this game (albeit the realism of the game play has moved on somewhat). The game was so huge you could even play as some obscure team called Charlton Athletic, complete with real player names of legends like Leaburn, Whyte, and O’Connell. How exciting it was to my young self to lead Charlton to Premier League and European glory over and over again. Perhaps even more than 16 bit images of loose women who were surprisingly bad at Poker.
Recall it coming up to Christmas 1986 when I wanted a new PC game but not wait for the big day, and although we'd never bought each other a present before, or since, a mate and I went to the computer shop opposite West Wickham swimming baths and I bought him a skateboard game called 720 and he got me Paperboy (they cost a tenner each which was about five times what we'd usually pay for one not having much money) so we wouldn't get a bollocking for wasting so much money on our own computer game.
If anybody wants some advice, I am happy to help.
Every time Another World is released on a platform I own, I buy it and play it through. Been doing that for years now! 4Currently working through the Mario 3D games on the Switch which has been mildly diverting. Tetris Effect is a stunning remake of a classic game that I play a hell of a lot.
There's a new Goldeneye coming to Switch soon.
Love reading this thread, brought back some happy memories 😉
1) Barry McGuigans boxing on the Amstrad
2) Geoff Crammands F1 Grand Prix on Amiga
3) Premier Manager with Wycombe Wanderers on the Amiga
4) Alex Kidd the Lost Stars on Master System
5) Micky Mouse Castle of Illusion on Mega Drive
6) Starfox on SNES
7) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - Amiga / PC
8) Speedball - Amiga
9) ISS on PS1 - Nigeria best team with pure pace
10) Yi Ah Kung Fu - Amstrad
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0019tp4/bbc-proms-2022-gaming-music-at-the-proms
It's great, nice bit of nostalgia. The radio station is the best part.
I kind of wish they did a modern next gen version of this game.
Keep the simplicity of the story line, just update the graphics, improve the detail and style of a modern ps4 game
Saw this today, brought back some memories!
The other which he also sold (due to a drug habit) was something I think would be worth a fair bit now. It was a 1970s taito arcade table.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anbernic-Handheld-Console-console-Support/dp/B08W9ND5D5/ref=sr_1_8?crid=3IPC67U5SPMAJ&keywords=pap+kiii+plus&qid=1683746878&sprefix=pap+kiii+plu,aps,75&sr=8-8&th=1