Old Computer Games

[RacerX]

Following up on the Atari thread below..
I grew up through the early years of computer/console games. When I think back there I remember some great games that still are a lot of fun. In some ways they are better than a lot of the games available on todays high fallutin' consoles.

Anyway, I'd be interested to hear your top few games available only on obsolete equipment.

Heres mine:

Micro Machines (Sega) - the premier party game.
Defender of the Crown (Commodore 64)
Raid on Bungling Bay (Commodore 64)
TV Sports Basket Ball (PC)
Street Racer (PC)

 

[Stucey]

TV Sports Basketball, brought to you by' Gummable Granny Chow'.

That was a great game!!

 

[Stucey]

How about Starblazer, or Frogger on the Apple IIe, now those were games.

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

aw no now u make me feel like going and playing the ancient Nintendo again hehe

well i remember one of the first games i had on an old commodore computer which was called Marble Madness. Very weird game but i later bought it on Nintendo as well so it can't have been to bad.

Also there is this old one i am playing on Nintendo at the moment called ice climber and i think the game is actually older than i am. Takes for ever to add the scores up and its general movement across the screen is very slow.

The worst game i had was stupid Ninja Turtles on Nintendo god that was a rubbish game.

Best old time favorite would have to be Mario who can go past the lil dude and his companion Luigi.

Seeing as everyone has passed most of the Mario games by now though i am loving playing Rollerball at the moment. It's this pinball game on Nintendo that still kicks ass even 10 years later

 

[jefffff34]

frogger

speaking of FROGGER, has anyone seen that Seinfeld episode where George buys the Frogger machine, that is quality!!!

 

[daddy_4_eyes]

If you want free old computer games, visit this websiteold games search engine

Most old favourites can be found here.

 

[PC28]

I saw this thread, and had to say something...

I went out on the weekend and put a deposit on an old table arcade space invaders game. You know, like the old frogger one, one person on each side, 20c in the slot.

I only put a deposit on it, because it doesn't work!! They're fixing it up for me, and if they can't, then i get my money back!!

 

[coxon]

yeppp... thanks to arcade machine emulators, we can play these on the pc...

some of my fav. arcade games, i've downloaded and play often.. love them!!

these include:

elevator action
altered beast
shinobi
r-type
bad dudes vs ninja (damn, cant remember title again)
ghosts & goblins
rainbow islands (favourite game)
bubble bobble
1942, 1943

 

[Briedis]

I had the trusty old Commodore 64. Legendary machine!

The best games were:

Choplifter
Intl. Soccer
Pitfall
Winter Games

When you think back, it was amazing what they did with only 64K of memory hey....

 

[Briedis]

Originally posted by coxon
yeppp... thanks to arcade machine emulators, we can play these on the pc...

Hey coxon...can you tell me where I can get a Commodore64 emulator.

 

[powerboi]

Willow Pattern (Amstrad CPC464)

a great adventure epic my brother and I spent many hours on!

 

[coxon]

Originally posted by Briedis


Hey coxon...can you tell me where I can get a Commodore64 emulator.

i heard the one of the most popular c64 emulators is ccs64..
u can download from the following site..
then, u'll need some Roms (the games) to run...
i think there are links for that on the following site


http://www.ccs64.com/

 

[Briedis]

Originally posted by coxon


i heard the one of the most popular c64 emulators is ccs64..
u can download from the following site..
then, u'll need some Roms (the games) to run...
i think there are links for that on the following site


http://www.ccs64.com/

Yeah, I just found that site....thanks for that anyway!

If anyone else wants C64 games, the site to go to is :

www.c64.com

It literally has hundreds of c64 games....

 

[RacerX]

Originally posted by Briedis


Yeah, I just found that site....thanks for that anyway!

If anyone else wants C64 games, the site to go to is :

www.c64.com

It literally has hundreds of c64 games....

Thats a great site. Brings back alot of memories...

load"$",8 and all that

 

[BomberBoy]

Ahhh some of my favourite PC games...

Duke Nukem 2d.... This is from about 92-93 i believe, but it was great, and much better than that 3D crap nowadaysss....

And of course, the game that introduced #D games, Wolfenstein 3D... What better that shooting german nazis?

ACHHTTUNNGGG!!!

Love that game

 

[Mr Ripper]

Lemmings!

 

[jod23]

Used to love playing the following.

Pirates
Altered Beast
Bubble Bobble
1942
Double Dragon
Royal Rumble? or Wrestlemania? it was an arcade game with Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan and a few other wrestlers...awesome game
Leaderboard
Operation Wolf
POW
Road Rash the original
Skitchin'

Some classics there.

Can you actually play Commodore 64 games for free over the net??

 

[jod23]

This is all i get when i go to www.c64.com

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't create a new thread (errno 35). If you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug in lib.inc on line 11

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't create a new thread (errno 35). If you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug in lib.inc on line 187

Warning: MySQL: A link to the server could not be established in lib.inc on line 187

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't create a new thread (errno 35). If you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug in lib.inc on line 187

Warning: MySQL: A link to the server could not be established in lib.inc on line 187

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in lib.inc on line 222

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't create a new thread (errno 35). If you are not out of available memory, you can consult the manual for a possible OS-dependent bug in lib.inc on line 187

Warning: MySQL: A link to the server could not be established in lib.inc on line 187

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at lib.inc:11) in lib.inc on line 261


It goes on and on ... you get the picture. Is it doing it to everyone else or just me

 

[Dan26]

I LOVED TV Sports basketball!!!

I played the 24 game season, in it's entirity, 8 times, and won the championship 7 times.

Bloody Cinemaware was always tough to beat though. Gunner Garner and Air Albright ! lol

I changed the name of the teams to footy teams, complete with player name changes too. That was a great game

An another one... Bubble Bobble!

 

[Bluey]

Have a look at www.theunderdogs.org

Heaps of old computer games.

 

[Dan26]

Speaking of Bubble Bobble....does anyoe know where one can obtain the tune? That was as addictive as theme music gets for a video game!

 

[jod23]

Bluey, Dan, could either of you go to www.c64.com and see if it works for you?

Im checking out that other site now Bluey.

 

[NakedDeadGuy]

When I was but a lad of 15 I moved 700km away from home, living in a caravan park coz I could walk to my work from there. I never would have gotten through those lonely times without the small pinny room they had there, with the one and only MOON PATROL! That was a tune that still goes round my head Dan
A few years later I had an Intellivision, some games I remember from that were Dracula (you had to bite a certain number of people and get back to the cemetary by dawn), Pitfall, Dungeons and Dragons, and the baseball one was a pearler.

 

[Bluey]

c64.com doesn't work for me.

 

[Mobbs]

I use the VICE emulator for C64 games.

Worked better for me than ccs.

Always loved Quo Vadis, Twin Kingdom Valley, Jumpman Jnr.