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I had a really really old computer, was rubbish to be honest all it had was games and a few other bits. No start bar etc going back before windows 3.1. Sadly it got thrown out. Now that was a about 6 years ago. Just come a cross a old video of one of the games I use to play but without the name of the computer im stuck, so im hoping if I post some of the games you guys may have a idea?

Jill of the jungle,
Space invaders,
Star Trek,
One game where you shoot everything when you a 2 lined ship! :shrug:
Typing Tutor,
Route Planner,

There others but my mind is blank. If you haven't got a clue and you think im crazy how about posting some really old games you use to play? :thumbs:
 
Something on the C64, I cant remember the name of it. It had a robot in it. Useful, I know :D
 
It was probably an Amiga or BBC micro, they were rather popular machines :)
 
Really old.... (well, early 80's)

Cylon - BBC
Imogen - BBC
Elite - BBC
Manic Miner - BBC
Sink the Bismarck - BBC

Kind of old....

Gauntlet - Amiga 500
Rainbow Islands - Amiga 500
Shinobi - Master System
All the Dizzy games - Amiga
Wings of Fury - Amiga
R-Type - Amiga
New Zealand Story - Amiga
Golden Axe - Mega Drive
 
Im not as old as some of you lot :p but one game I still play is Transport Tycoon, although I play the updated version, OpenTTD. I think it was an old MS-dos game? Been playing it for years now.

James
 
Nope still cant find it :( Didn't have a mouse if that's helps :( It was a great big massive thing lol

Its great to see the old games still remembered even if I wasnt alive when most of them where out :lol:
 
Never ending story, where you just typed in words. Go South, Open door etc:etc: no bloody graphics, but Hey!! you drew the picture in your mind which made it even better
 
BBC Model B - Revs
BBC Model B with Tube - Elite :)
Amiga 500 - Can't remember which games.

I was taking to Cowaski a few months ago about the Beeb and Elite, he pointed me towards Oolite and many an hour has been wasted since ;)
 
Ah, the Vic 20, lol. 3 hours to load a game via tape and then it probably wouldn't work anyway.
Can't remember the name of the game, but there were tall buildings you bombed as the little plane flew across the screen.

My favourite game though is tetris.

L
 
whiteflyer said:
BBC Model B - Revs
BBC Model B with Tube - Elite :)
Amiga 500 - Can't remember which games.

I was taking to Cowaski a few months ago about the Beeb and Elite, he pointed me towards Oolite and many an hour has been wasted since ;)
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I love you :thumbs: :love:
My girlfriend hates you :cuckoo::nuts:
 
The star wars game on the mega drive :love:



OHHHH AND TAZ MANIA ON THE MASTER SYSTEM :D

I remember them... we had both :D
 
cannon fodder

win
 
For the Spectrum - Penetrator - you'd never call a game that now!
For the VIC20 - Nightcrawler - manic.
For the C64/128 - Bugaboo.
For DOS - DOOM - bad day at work - kill everything.
 
Betty said:
Something on the C64, I cant remember the name of it. It had a robot in it. Useful, I know :D
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Paradroid?Great game, as was Uridum.

Elite was the business. As was the whole Ultimate range: JetPac, Underworld, TranzAM, AtticAttack.
 
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Elite on the BBC still rates as one of the best games I've ever played :)
 
Colossal Adventure for C64, can anyone find where to play that online? :D
 
Headless Lois said:
Ah, the Vic 20, lol. 3 hours to load a game via tape and then it probably wouldn't work anyway.
Can't remember the name of the game, but there were tall buildings you bombed as the little plane flew across the screen.
L
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Blitz. What a game, as long as the load worked correctly from the tape :D
 
Cobol......................I know, not a game but Its where I was this time 30yrs ago(ish):exit:
 
Can't believe nobody's mentioned Lemmings yet!
 
Elite - BBC / ST / PC
Midwinter / Midwinter 2 - ST
Populous - ST
Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix series - ST / PC
Dungeon Master - ST
Ultima Underworld series - PC
Geoff Crammonds Stunt Car Racer - ST
Falcon 3.0 - ST/PC
Civilisation - ST/PC
 
Saw an ad on telly for some programme coming to BBC4 and the kid was playing Manic Miner on a Spectrum.
Boy, does that take back memories.

Spectrum 48k - a lot of the games were soooooooo basic bt sooooooooo adictive at the same time.
 
I vaguely remember a TV tennis game, with a white ball bouncing across the screen between a couple of moveable bats, and something my brother in law had on his computer around 1989. I think you had to type in instructions and it let you proceed if they were correct. Dull, and a complete waste of time.

My kids had a couple of games when they were younger, but never got interested.
 
Ooo...ooo....can I join in???

Speccy 48K

Target Renegade
Freddy Hardest
Match Day
Trans Am
Jet Pac
Attic Attack
Dizzy (the 1st one)
Contact Sam Cruise
Spy Vs Spy
Back 2 Skool
Commando
Football Manager 3
Ant Attack
Great Escape
Horace And The Spiders
Hobbit

C64
Slapfight
Silkworm
erm....probably some others

SNES/Megadrive/Amiga/Early PC etc

Speedball 2
SWOS
Turrican 2
Magic Pockets
Alone In The Dark
X Wing
Wolfenstein 3D
Leisure Suit Larry
The Secret Of Monkey Island 2
Mickey Mouse & Castle Of Illusions
Altered Beast
Shinobi
Double Dragon
R Type
MarioKart
Snake Rattle And Roll
 
Adamski said:
Blitz. What a game, as long as the load worked correctly from the tape :D
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that was it, loved it. And frogger.

OK, so did anyone else have the programming magazine - think it covered Vic20, BBCs, a variety. You could type in 6 pages of code in order to TRY and get a helicopter to fly across the screen or similar, and just get errors.
Next month's issue would then have the corrections 'oh, sorry, 376 lines in that should've been PEEK not POKE'. :lol:

L
 
There's so many old school games that I used to love playing.

But my Amiga 500 days was:
Canon Fodder
James Pond 2: Codename Robocod (could play that for days on end!)
Tanks (least I think that's what it was called) Used to play it with my Dad all day long.
Zak McKracken & the Alien Mindbenders
Impossible Mission

My SNES days has to be Mario Kart.

Had a GameBoy as well, dug it out the loft the other week & still & always will love playing the game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

The loads of other games that I used to play like Football Manager on my old Amstrad. Or round a friends on his Spectrum but I can't really remember all the names!
 
Headless Lois said:
that was it, loved it. And frogger.

OK, so did anyone else have the programming magazine - think it covered Vic20, BBCs, a variety. You could type in 6 pages of code in order to TRY and get a helicopter to fly across the screen or similar, and just get errors.
Next month's issue would then have the corrections 'oh, sorry, 376 lines in that should've been PEEK not POKE'. :lol:

L
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It was called Input and my dad used to buy it for us (even though I was only about 6 years old!!??) - I think it used to cover the Dragon computer system too. The scenario that you described happened far too many times for me, so I ended up only doing the 20 line programs that allowed you to create pretty patterns!! :(
 
cod 2 or am I not old enough to play with you guys

on a more actually old not DOOM kicked duke nukems ass
 
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