Houchens Head
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Just downloading Lemmings and Microsoft Golf from above link. Two old favourites of mine.
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chiefdave
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Got Lemmings on my iPad, still fun. Amazes more that more old games aren't ported over to iOS and Android. Can't be a difficult or expensive job and it seems easy money. Loads of people would pay a couple of quid for games they remember from years ago,
shmmeee
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Suspect a lot of them are abandon ware or the IP is owned by someone like EA, or the source code is lost.
Agreed though, so many games that would work well on mobile or something. Though they’ll probably do what they did with The Settlers and make it some shitty micro transaction game.
Skybluefaz
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So many old games were about making a jump, or mechanics that would really test your hand eye coordination. The thought of trying to play those games with mobile controls gives me anxiety!
Skybluefaz
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Paperboy and Double Dragon were my favorites as a youth. Even though the C64 port of Double Dragon was shite.
oscillatewildly
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Never been a gamer - never interested. Music and football was my obsession throughout pre and teenage years. Altho.....
Christmas 1975 or 1976 produced what I think was the best present I (and my brother) ever received. We got one of those (pong?) console tv games. The most rudimentary of technology - 'Football, tennis and squash'. Two 'bats', a square 'ball' and three speed settings - all made possible on 14" B&W portable.
It obsessed us for hours, daily. Weeks turned into months and then one spring day we rediscovered the football behind the garden shed and never played it again.
Christmas 1975 or 1976 produced what I think was the best present I (and my brother) ever received. We got one of those (pong?) console tv games. The most rudimentary of technology - 'Football, tennis and squash'. Two 'bats', a square 'ball' and three speed settings - all made possible on 14" B&W portable.
It obsessed us for hours, daily. Weeks turned into months and then one spring day we rediscovered the football behind the garden shed and never played it again.
shmmeee
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Anyone else try and play adult games as a kid?
My Dad used to bring back disks full of knockoff games from someone at work for the Amiga, he never checked them first so I ended up aged about 10 with Leisure Suit Larry and Strip Poker. Couldn’t win a hand in poker so never saw pixelated boobs, and remember the way they stopped you accessing Leisure Suit Larry was asking you questions only an adult would know like “who wrote to be or not to be” and as it was pre Internet I couldn’t get past that either.
I do remember aged about 10 when a mate found a cheat in Dynamite Dux on the Atari ST to make the rabbits nude though:
Kids today don’t know they’re born.
My Dad used to bring back disks full of knockoff games from someone at work for the Amiga, he never checked them first so I ended up aged about 10 with Leisure Suit Larry and Strip Poker. Couldn’t win a hand in poker so never saw pixelated boobs, and remember the way they stopped you accessing Leisure Suit Larry was asking you questions only an adult would know like “who wrote to be or not to be” and as it was pre Internet I couldn’t get past that either.
I do remember aged about 10 when a mate found a cheat in Dynamite Dux on the Atari ST to make the rabbits nude though:
Kids today don’t know they’re born.
Terry_dactyl
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Started off with a Commodore 64 and remember destroying joysticks playing Daley Thompson’s Decathlon.
Got an AtariSTE, used to love Elite, Kick-Off 2, Sensible Soccer etc etc
Used to love a karate game...yi ar Kung fu, way of the exploding fist, Kung-fu master.
Got an AtariSTE, used to love Elite, Kick-Off 2, Sensible Soccer etc etc
Used to love a karate game...yi ar Kung fu, way of the exploding fist, Kung-fu master.
shmmeee
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Loved the old point and click games. Simon the Sorcerer and Discworld were great too. Beneath a Steel Sky just got a sequel not sure if it’s any good.
Frostie
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Love the first couple, played them again in first Lockdown actually. Lost their way a bit when they went 3D imo.
Frostie
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Ha ha, yeah! That decathlon game was solid! Literally waggling joystick with all your might for him to move half a centimetre!
One of my all time faves...
no_loyalty
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You couldn't beat a bit of Treasure Island Dizzy.
Houchens Head
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Anyone remember "Zool"? It was a platform game from the early 90's. Played it for hours and it really annoyed the hell out of me, but I wouldn't give up trying. Eventually, I did give in and never played it again.
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no_loyalty
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I broke my Spectrum 48k playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon.
Terry_dactyl
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Ghostbusters!Ha ha, yeah! That decathlon game was solid! Literally waggling joystick with all your might for him to move half a centimetre!
One of my all time faves...
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Never got past that Stay Puft man jumping across that doorway!
Terry_dactyl
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Think we moved on to summer games, winter games etc. Would take about an hour to load the last event on the tape.
Houchens Head
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Frogger! Say no more!
Frostie
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Was bloody difficult & if you failed that was it, game over, after hours to get there!
Did you know it got a fan made remake some years ago? You can download it for free.
Still absolutely quality but with sharpened up graphics etc.
Free Windows remake of GhostBusters
I ain't afraid of no ghost! This remake of the 1984 classic by Activison resembles the original very much. Beware of the mellow man!
www.classic-retro-games.com
Terry_dactyl
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Did not know that! I’ll check it out..Was bloody difficult & if you failed that was it, game over, after hours to get there!
Did you know it got a fan made remake some years ago? You can download it for free.
Still absolutely quality but with sharpened up graphics etc.
Free Windows remake of GhostBusters
I ain't afraid of no ghost! This remake of the 1984 classic by Activison resembles the original very much. Beware of the mellow man!
Skybluefaz
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I had that, I thought it was incredible at the time.Ha ha, yeah! That decathlon game was solid! Literally waggling joystick with all your might for him to move half a centimetre!
One of my all time faves...
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rondog1973
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No. No. Nope!
Kick off 2 on the Amiga remains the greatest football game ever to see light of day on a PC.
rondog1973
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Terry_dactyl
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Here’s a debate I haven’t had for 30 years! Yes. You’re right Kick off 2 rules!!!
Adge
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Summer games and winter games were absolute belters! Choose your country and listen to all the national anthems.
A couple of years later-Hyper Sports, press the breath button at the wrong time while swimming and nearly drown!
Terry_dactyl
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Hyper-Sports!!! The swimming was great once you got the hang of it. Was that the one which also had clay pigeon shooting, the vault etc?Summer games and winter games were absolute belters! Choose your country and listen to all the national anthems.
A couple of years later-Hyper Sports, press the breath button at the wrong time while swimming and nearly drown!
Id forgotten about the national anthems. Those games took bloody ages!
There was also World Games which I think had diving from Acapulco and sumo...and possibly bull fighting?
Adge
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Always liked the dry humour in it, although looking back I think some of it could well be considered racist now. That bloody goat! Played the whole series 1-5 and Steel Sky (not the new one).
Tend to play P&C games at Xmas with my sister. Quite liked the Last Crown (still waiting for the sequel) and Dark Fall by Jonathan Boakes and also played Barrow Hill games which I didn't realise were made by his husband Matt Clark until a year of so ago.
Would love to play Scratches as it's highly thought of but some sort of legal dispute means it's unavailable. Another with a massively overdue sequel. I feel I ought to try Myst as well as it seems highly thought of.
