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Post by Stan Butler on Aug 24, 2006 20:50:59 GMT
I've only just realised that it's now 20 years since I got my 1st computer (games console), the Commodore 64. It was the latest model at the time (1986). Also around at the same time was the Spectrum 48 and an Amstrad one, which was shit because the on screen graphics were green. AND! I've still got it. In my attic, in good working order too with lots of games (most of them from the £1.99 range!), but also some that I paid top price for at the time, £9.99 from John Menzies! Classics like... 'Daley Thompson's Decathlon' 'Bombjack' 'Ghost n Goblins' 'Paperboy' 'Out Run'(with bonus cassette soundtrack! [oh aye!]) (LOOK AT THE GRAPHICS ON THAT.... SUPERB!!!) 'Clumsy Colin : Action Biker and, (as George Lassard) would say "MANY MANY MANY more....." ;D
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Aug 24, 2006 22:51:16 GMT
Ghosts N' Goblins was TOP on C64... as were: Paradroid Jet Set Willy Tir Na Nog Knightlore Ant Attack Oh... there were loads. But before I had a 64, I had a Speccy... mainly monochrome stuff, but some good games on there too - best was 'Head Over Heels' (which I also had for C64) And... before that... I had another comp. that came out the same time as a Speccy and was in competition... but died a death: The "Oric 1" So what was it? Well, a 48K disaster... the cassettes had either a 'slow' or a 'fast' load depending on which side... you were looking at 35 mins. plus loading time either way! It was shite... the only thing it did was give an audible sound of onomatopaeic words you'd type in... from this list: Zap Ping Shoot Explode Might sound crap... but to type e-x-p-l-o-d-e and then hear a 'ka-boom' noise was impressive at the time! Anyhow... that aside, Speccy and C64 - loads of good cheap games out there too such as the 'Dizzy' series and the 'Spellbound' ones. I also loved the 'Gauntlet' style games plus clones. I had a Speccy emulator for PC at one time, but no longer sadly... I played a few with that, including the great "Footballer Of The Year" game! Ah those were the days... waiting to load... no 234 button joypads/rotating camera angles/drawn out cut scenes... just cheesy music and simple graphics! N.
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Aug 24, 2006 22:56:56 GMT
Here... found this - an online Speccy Emulator! Nothing to download - jjust click and go! www.spectrum.lovely.net/Has the GREATEST GAME EVER there too - Jet Set Willy! N.
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Post by Stan Butler on Aug 25, 2006 11:59:49 GMT
'CHUCKIE EGG' was another of my favourites. (especially when you set it to speed #6!) 'MAD DOCTOR' - Basically a Frankenstein game, where you had to get pieces of the villagers corpses to create your own creature! I enjoyed going round slaughtering the entire population [of about 20!] TAPPER - You serve people drinks! (that was it, but very addictive!)
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Aug 26, 2006 23:06:44 GMT
Tapper was a blinder!
Similar one was "Mikie" - you ever play that? Had "Hard Days Night" as tune - excellent comp. version of it too!
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Post by Stan Butler on Aug 27, 2006 13:01:16 GMT
I don't remember 'Mikie'! Do you remember the very camp loading music on the U.S. Gold games? Usually 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' or the American Anthem! Or 'Melbourne House' games, where you had to rewind a bit of the tape if the border went white when it was loading! ROCK N' WRESTLE!
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Aug 28, 2006 11:42:00 GMT
;D
Rewind?
Tape?
Oh they don't know they're born now!
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Post by funkdooby on Sept 2, 2006 20:26:34 GMT
Blimey, that takes me back. Them were the days. Etc ;D I can remember a great C64 game I used to love - it involved a caveman - but I can't bring to mind what it was called
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Sept 2, 2006 20:53:36 GMT
Not "BC's Quest For Tires" by any chance?
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Post by Master Shake on Sept 4, 2006 20:25:25 GMT
I was a spectrum fan back in the 80s - and even into the 90s when I got a second hand +2. I really thought I was someone back then coz the +2 actually had it's own tape recorder. My favourite games back then were Chase HQ and RockStar Ate My Hamster, probably one of the first God/Tycoon games where through a series of still image screens you managed a rock band. I ran the gamut of the Spectrum, all the way from the first 48k upto the 128k +2 - the only ones I didn't own were the first and last, the original rubber-key version and the floppy disk +3. But, even before I had a spectrum, I had the Sinclair predecessor to the Spectrum, the ZX81. This thing had a whole 2k of memory ;D upgradeable to 16k (I had the 16k memopak), and I didn't have a tape deck back then, I actually had to key in programs manually - games from computer magazines, other programs from the HUGE manual that came with it - and I loved it. I was seven years old and I taught myself Sinclair BASIC using that manual. It's thanks to that little thing (a modern mobile phone has more juice) that I'm the lovable computer geek I am today. I never did have a C64 though...I think at some point I had a C16 - similar, but the case colours were reversed - until it's power supply went bad. I bought a cheapie replacement off Wigan Market, plugged it in, and...well, the BANG and smell of burnt plastic told me my days of Commodre gaming were over.
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Post by Stan Butler on Sept 4, 2006 20:33:33 GMT
I've still got my C64 and it still works! I have 'Rockstar Ate My Hamster' I used to like that one myself. Spent hours on it creating a band, but I don't think you could ever save the progress? if you could, it never worked when you tried to re-load it later, so you had to start again!
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Post by Master Shake on Sept 4, 2006 20:38:30 GMT
You're right Speilberg, I don't recall ever being able to save....wow, that pic takes me back. The INCREDIBLE C64 graphics are the same as the INCREDIBLE Speccy graphics.
But back in the 80s they WERE incredible.
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Post by Stan Butler on Sept 4, 2006 20:48:23 GMT
Do you remember the 'Adventure' games? The ones where you just typed commands into the game. You usually got the same message everytime you tried to do anything. "CAN'T DO THAT YET""TURN LEFT""CAN'T DO THAT YET""TURN RIGHT THEN""CAN'T DO THAT YET""GO AND F*CK YOURSELF THEN""CAN'T DO THAT YET"That sort of thing. Very annyoing and cack! I bought the 'INCREDIBLE HULK' game thinking it would be dead good, but it turned out to be one of them! "GET ANGRY" "CAN'T DO THAT YET"OFF SWITCH
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Post by Master Shake on Sept 4, 2006 20:59:17 GMT
Yeah I had two that I remember...one was the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. At the time I knew NOTHING about it, just thought it was a game in it's own right. Seemed whenever I played it though, I got this far: And no matter what command I typed in after that, all that happened was that I got squashed by a bulldozer. The other was a Sherlock Holmes game. Now I think about it, this one actually reprimaned you for swearing if you typed a swear word in. So naturally, getting thoroughly p*ssed off with the game I would entertain myself by swearing at it as creatively as I could and seeing what it came up with in return.
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Post by Lieutenant Columbo on Sept 4, 2006 22:00:32 GMT
"Rockstar" is summat you CANNOT get anywhere for PC... not on emulator, nowt!
Tried for ages - but never found due to copyright issues!
Pity really - I fancy a do!
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