Back in the early days I couldn't get enough of Moon Patrol on the Atari 2600. Later I became addicted to Turrican 2 on the C64, Mario Kart on the SNES and Privateer on PC.
Fuck yes. Alex Kidd in Miracle World. Which to this day I'm convinced is impossible.
Also this thread makes me feel old. People are saying Pokemon was a childhood game? Shit, I was learning the perils of cheap cider when Pokemania hit the UK.
Edit: I just looked Alex Kidd up on Gamefaqs and apparently it is possible.
Dah dah dun dun, dah dah dun dun, dee dee dum dum, dah dah dumdum DUM etc
Clearly the person playing in this picture is doing it WRONG.
Gauntlet II, which I had on the Atari ST, was created to make brothers fight.
Red Warrior is IT. Blue Wizard is IT. Red Warrior is IT. Blue Wizard is IT. GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME. Red Warrior is IT. ARGH.
Blue Wizard shot the food. Red Warrior is about to die.
Me and my brother terrorised each other the entire of the time we would play this game (was was rarely very long, it tended to give us a huge error around level 20 due to the system overheating I think). We'd steal each other's stuff, intentionally get each other killed so we could loot the corpses, shoot each other's food, pass each other the IT monster and so on.
BUT IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. Mainly because you couldn't actually permanently die as long as your 'friend' was still alive and we couldn't DIRECTLY hurt each other.
And when we got dynablaster and the 4 player adaptor that came with it? Carnage.
Red Warrior is IT. Yellow Elf is IT. Blue Wizard is IT. Green Valkyrie is IT.
Buck Rogers on the Coleco Adam. Adventure on the 2600. King's Quest on the XT.
Perhaps most of all...
Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception (a little-known Westwood title.) It was such a huge experience for me as a kid. It was just... thrilling. The story and character development / progression seemed amazing, as was gathering a party of comrades (and the occasional traitor,) outfitting them, and then exploring a world under foreign occupation while collecting, salvaging, and upgrading mechs. The animations and sounds were pretty great at the time, too.
The aforementioned Alex Kidd, and Sonic the Hedgehog on the Master System. I got both games as pack ins (Alex Kidd built into the console, Sonic as a cart), and even when I had other games they were always the pair I would come back to, time after time. Of the two, Sonic was probably the finer, an opinion which is probably helped by the fact that I could actually beat it. (With all six emeralds, natch. I still remember all their locations!)
Also on the Master System, Wonder Boy III. For an 8-bit, the graphics were gorgeous, and the gameplay top-notch. Plenty of equipment to unlock and play with, deep levels, and six (count 'em) forms your character transformed into.
I was a child of the SNES Super FX era. For some reason my parents dropped a second-hand SNES into my hands when I was about 7, and Starfox became the first game I ever laid eyes on. It seized my mind and possessed my brain for years to come.
Damn, that just reminded me of one of my favourites, I think it was called Harrier Attack on the Amstrad. If I'm looking for pure nostalgia, it'd be something from those days, I guess like Tau Ceti, Dizzy, Jet Set Willy, The Sentinel, Chase HQ, Turrican.. so many awesome games.
I think Elite would have to be my first choice, though.
There were a couple educational games I really loved but can't remember their names for the life of me.
The first was a spelling-type platformer game. The second was a math-game where you controlled a detective guy with a high collar throughout a school and an angry TV thing would duel you with math equations.
If anyone can tell me the names of these games from my abysmal descriptions I'd be overjoyed as I'd love to procure them again somehow for nostalgia reasons.
There were a couple educational games I really loved but can't remember their names for the life of me.
The first was a spelling-type platformer game. The second was a math-game where you controlled a detective guy with a high collar throughout a school and an angry TV thing would duel you with math equations.
If anyone can tell me the names of these games from my abysmal descriptions I'd be overjoyed as I'd love to procure them again somehow for nostalgia reasons.
Yes!
The math one was OutNumbered!
There was another one we had on our school computer called Midnight Rescue!
EDIT: Oh god, and Treasure Mountain! I love you, Learning Company. I had forgotten about these.
Also this thread makes me feel old. People are saying Pokemon was a childhood game? Shit, I was learning the perils of cheap cider when Pokemania hit the UK.
Seriously, Pokeman what? You still are a kid if this is your childhood memory.
Oldest one first, for the Intellivision. God DAMN you crapped your pants when you met the giant monsters, playing at the age of 5 or something. This was before Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and Lands of Lore, but just as good!
A bit older now, about 7 I think, but still crapped my pants the first time I saw this. The cool thing was that the game wasn't a horror game, and the box didn't advertise this animated sequence in any way, so when you got it, in a flight sim, it was so unexpected you fell off your chair.
And here we're about 9 and get blown away metaphorically for the first time. A game where you have to be the good guy and do good stuff. A game that's not about rescuing a princess and slaying the dragon. It's a game where the ultimate goal is to read a book. Mindblowing. Literally (ok, I'll stop now)!
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Heard the proposition that RIAA and MPAA should join forces and form "Music And Film Industry Association"?
And here we're about 9 and get blown away metaphorically for the first time. A game where you have to be the good guy and do good stuff. A game that's not about rescuing a princess and slaying the dragon. It's a game where the ultimate goal is to read a book. Mindblowing. Literally (ok, I'll stop now)!
There are ways to cheat EVERYTHING about Ultima IV. Basically you do all the bad stuff FIRST and then you repair your reputation by overpaying a blind old lady who sells magical reagents.
About 5 minutes after buying her ENTIRE STOCK for about 5 gold.
Atari 5200. Pitfall 2. I was sure that I had managed to get to a second world in that game, but for the life of me I couldn't do it again. When I finally figured out that you had to get all of the big treasure items first before getting the monkey, it was a glorious moment.
Also this thread makes me feel old. People are saying Pokemon was a childhood game? Shit, I was learning the perils of cheap cider when Pokemania hit the UK.
Seriously, Pokeman what? You still are a kid if this is your childhood memory.
It is of course possible that we're just old farts now. PK Red / Blue came out in what, 99?
Nearly ten years ago.
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Also this thread makes me feel old. People are saying Pokemon was a childhood game? Shit, I was learning the perils of cheap cider when Pokemania hit the UK.
Seriously, Pokeman what? You still are a kid if this is your childhood memory.
You realize it was 10 years ago, right? Unless everyone started playing video games when they were very young, I wouldn't say that's accurate.
For me my favorite game (Super Punch-Out) became my favorite in 1997 when I was 9 years old. To me that's a childhood memory.
Also this thread makes me feel old. People are saying Pokemon was a childhood game? Shit, I was learning the perils of cheap cider when Pokemania hit the UK.
Seriously, Pokeman what? You still are a kid if this is your childhood memory.
It is of course possible that we're just old farts now. PK Red / Blue came out in what, 99?
Also this thread makes me feel old. People are saying Pokemon was a childhood game? Shit, I was learning the perils of cheap cider when Pokemania hit the UK.
Seriously, Pokeman what? You still are a kid if this is your childhood memory.
It is of course possible that we're just old farts now. PK Red / Blue came out in what, 99?
Nearly ten years ago.
Damn. Now I do feel old.
Funny side story: A friend of my in-laws and their 11 year old daughter came over from London a few weeks back. I brought over SMG to their house so the little one would have something to play while she was here. While she was browsing the channels, she stumbled across the legend of Zelda and Super Metroid. I asked if she had ever played either of them...she said no. She also was stunned to see SMB3, since she had only heard about that, never played it.
Suffice it to say that she spend almost an entire week playing the original Zelda, according to her mother. She also sank hours upon hours into SMB3. It warmed my heart to know that she was getting to play the classics, but at the same time, it made me feel really old, since those games are older than she is.
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That was my second game after the combination cartridge with Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. Sometimes my dad would play with me, but he'd always walk to the right and I had to explain to him that you have to walk to the left to progress through the level.
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That was my second game after the combination cartridge with Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. Sometimes my dad would play with me, but he'd always walk to the right and I had to explain to him that you have to walk to the left to progress through the level.
Back then my whole life was dedicated to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
You want co-op?
I present you the most awesome game ever. TMNT: Turtles in Time
The Technodrome was frustating because we sucked at the grabs and Shredder took forever, we eventually nailed them and it became awesome.
Damn, I need to replay this again.
Back then my whole life was dedicated to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
You want co-op?
I present you the most awesome game ever. TMNT: Turtles in Time
The Technodrome was frustating because we sucked at the grabs and Shredder took forever, we eventually nailed them and it became awesome.
Damn, I need to replay this again.
There were a couple educational games I really loved but can't remember their names for the life of me.
The first was a spelling-type platformer game. The second was a math-game where you controlled a detective guy with a high collar throughout a school and an angry TV thing would duel you with math equations.
If anyone can tell me the names of these games from my abysmal descriptions I'd be overjoyed as I'd love to procure them again somehow for nostalgia reasons.
Yes!
The math one was OutNumbered!
There was another one we had on our school computer called Midnight Rescue!
EDIT: Oh god, and Treasure Mountain! I love you, Learning Company. I had forgotten about these.
Gizmos and Gadgets was the best, I'll have you know. :x
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Also this thread makes me feel old. People are saying Pokemon was a childhood game? Shit, I was learning the perils of cheap cider when Pokemania hit the UK.
Edit: I just looked Alex Kidd up on Gamefaqs and apparently it is possible.
Dah dah dun dun, dah dah dun dun, dee dee dum dum, dah dah dumdum DUM etc
Clearly the person playing in this picture is doing it WRONG.
Gauntlet II, which I had on the Atari ST, was created to make brothers fight.
Red Warrior is IT. Blue Wizard is IT. Red Warrior is IT. Blue Wizard is IT. GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME. Red Warrior is IT. ARGH.
Blue Wizard shot the food. Red Warrior is about to die.
Me and my brother terrorised each other the entire of the time we would play this game (was was rarely very long, it tended to give us a huge error around level 20 due to the system overheating I think). We'd steal each other's stuff, intentionally get each other killed so we could loot the corpses, shoot each other's food, pass each other the IT monster and so on.
BUT IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. Mainly because you couldn't actually permanently die as long as your 'friend' was still alive and we couldn't DIRECTLY hurt each other.
And when we got dynablaster and the 4 player adaptor that came with it? Carnage.
Red Warrior is IT. Yellow Elf is IT. Blue Wizard is IT. Green Valkyrie is IT.
Buck Rogers on the Coleco Adam. Adventure on the 2600. King's Quest on the XT.
Perhaps most of all...
Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception (a little-known Westwood title.) It was such a huge experience for me as a kid. It was just... thrilling. The story and character development / progression seemed amazing, as was gathering a party of comrades (and the occasional traitor,) outfitting them, and then exploring a world under foreign occupation while collecting, salvaging, and upgrading mechs. The animations and sounds were pretty great at the time, too.
Also on the Master System, Wonder Boy III. For an 8-bit, the graphics were gorgeous, and the gameplay top-notch. Plenty of equipment to unlock and play with, deep levels, and six (count 'em) forms your character transformed into.
I was a child of the SNES Super FX era. For some reason my parents dropped a second-hand SNES into my hands when I was about 7, and Starfox became the first game I ever laid eyes on. It seized my mind and possessed my brain for years to come.
wow, same here on both counts. Yoshi's Island was like a window into another world... no other game was as enchanting.
And Kirby SS set me up for years of disappointment with subsequent kirby games.
Both of these games, plus:
Yeah bitches!
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This was my game, hands down. It only took me eleven years to beat...
and mentiones go to the following:
Had the sound test on all the time, just listening to the plinky electronic soundtrack, completed it on live arcade the other day and got all misty.
How I loved this game, and that intro, again great use of 8bit sound.
The best one.
And metal slug in the arcades. So awesome. Though I keep dying all the time.
Damn, that just reminded me of one of my favourites, I think it was called Harrier Attack on the Amstrad. If I'm looking for pure nostalgia, it'd be something from those days, I guess like Tau Ceti, Dizzy, Jet Set Willy, The Sentinel, Chase HQ, Turrican.. so many awesome games.
I think Elite would have to be my first choice, though.
Pshaw, no 99 rare candies trick!
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I'm at work and can't see what this video is, but I guarantee it is at least wrong for me.
This is my childhood:
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
Real... really?
I seem to recall doing it.
Though that might have been blue. Or red. Don't have green.
Take that, Bulbasaur.
The first was a spelling-type platformer game. The second was a math-game where you controlled a detective guy with a high collar throughout a school and an angry TV thing would duel you with math equations.
If anyone can tell me the names of these games from my abysmal descriptions I'd be overjoyed as I'd love to procure them again somehow for nostalgia reasons.
Yes!
The math one was OutNumbered!
There was another one we had on our school computer called Midnight Rescue!
EDIT: Oh god, and Treasure Mountain! I love you, Learning Company. I had forgotten about these.
Computer games in schools has gone a long way.
Now we have Starcraft. :P
I was a bit of a masochist back then.
Seriously, Pokeman what? You still are a kid if this is your childhood memory.
Hey now, we also had MathBlaster!
Oldest one first, for the Intellivision. God DAMN you crapped your pants when you met the giant monsters, playing at the age of 5 or something. This was before Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and Lands of Lore, but just as good!
A bit older now, about 7 I think, but still crapped my pants the first time I saw this. The cool thing was that the game wasn't a horror game, and the box didn't advertise this animated sequence in any way, so when you got it, in a flight sim, it was so unexpected you fell off your chair.
And here we're about 9 and get blown away metaphorically for the first time. A game where you have to be the good guy and do good stuff. A game that's not about rescuing a princess and slaying the dragon. It's a game where the ultimate goal is to read a book. Mindblowing. Literally (ok, I'll stop now)!
There are ways to cheat EVERYTHING about Ultima IV. Basically you do all the bad stuff FIRST and then you repair your reputation by overpaying a blind old lady who sells magical reagents.
About 5 minutes after buying her ENTIRE STOCK for about 5 gold.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
It is of course possible that we're just old farts now. PK Red / Blue came out in what, 99?
Nearly ten years ago.
Oh dude, seeing that reminded me of Double Dribble!
*DOUBLE DRIBBLE* BADUM DADUM DADUUUUUM!
You realize it was 10 years ago, right? Unless everyone started playing video games when they were very young, I wouldn't say that's accurate.
For me my favorite game (Super Punch-Out) became my favorite in 1997 when I was 9 years old. To me that's a childhood memory.
98, in NA.
Damn. Now I do feel old.
Funny side story: A friend of my in-laws and their 11 year old daughter came over from London a few weeks back. I brought over SMG to their house so the little one would have something to play while she was here. While she was browsing the channels, she stumbled across the legend of Zelda and Super Metroid. I asked if she had ever played either of them...she said no. She also was stunned to see SMB3, since she had only heard about that, never played it.
Suffice it to say that she spend almost an entire week playing the original Zelda, according to her mother. She also sank hours upon hours into SMB3. It warmed my heart to know that she was getting to play the classics, but at the same time, it made me feel really old, since those games are older than she is.
I feel really old.
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That was my second game after the combination cartridge with Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. Sometimes my dad would play with me, but he'd always walk to the right and I had to explain to him that you have to walk to the left to progress through the level.
The bosses laughter still haunts me
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That might be because Pokémon Green was Japan only.
You want co-op?
I present you the most awesome game ever.
TMNT: Turtles in Time
The Technodrome was frustating because we sucked at the grabs and Shredder took forever, we eventually nailed them and it became awesome.
Damn, I need to replay this again.
Donatello for life.
Yes, we like mobygames too.
Gizmos and Gadgets was the best, I'll have you know. :x