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Looking into Minecraft for my son has brought back memories of hours spent as a teen playing a game on the very first computer we got. Would have been around 1988/89, and for the life of me I can't remember what it was called.


What I remember is that you controlled the actions of the (male) character by typing basic instructions - open manhole cover, look inside, turn right etc etc. And bizarrely at one point you got picked up by a giant eagle type bird and carried to a nest at the top of a rocky outcrop. I'm pretty sure this was real, and not a teenage experimentation type hallucination...


Can anyone remember what this was? I figure a few of you in the room are the right age/demographic ;)


I also spent hours playing Lemmings, must look to see if there's a current day version.

No, you actually typed in instructions, albeit basic ones. I don't remember using the mouse at all. I remember it being pretty cool in terms of graphics, for the time. And it did tend to be pretty slow. Memory tells me that it was loaded on the PC, but also required a floppy disk to be in the drive chugging away every now and then.


It could have been older, I'm basing it on when we actually got a computer.


Kings Quest looks similar, but the name doesn't ring any bells.

i was going to say king's quest.


The hobbit perhaps? You definitely get picked up by an easgle in that.


I used to have to threaten my old beeb to load that game, then after 40 minutes of failed attempts it'd load and my brother typed 'attack gandalf' and you had to load it again when you died!! grrr......!!!

I think it may have been Space Quest - a looking through screen shots and the sight of two muscly women wearing (not much) latex while poor old Roger Wilco is strapped to a chair has triggered memories. Figure my Mum didn't ever check the appropriateness of our games :)

nope, don't think i ever played the dizzy games.


lets see, classics would be the manics and jet sets i guess, ant attack? horace, sabre wulf probably lots of others.


On the beeb there was obviously revs, aviator and the still influential elite.

I spent a crazy amount of time on Chuckie Egg and i have fond memories of this little gem, though i doubt it'd play so well in this day and age


 

There's some PC reboots of some of my favourite childhood Spectrum games here http://retrospec.sgn.net/index.php?link=finished . "Head Over Heels" in particular is a game I loved and it looks lovely in its updated form. I'm scared to play it though. Don't want to taint my childhood memories with: "Urghh this is rubbish, back to Titanfall!"

The big speccy classics get mentioned a lot and I played pretty much all of them. But one game you don't hear so much about, but which I completed and spent waaaay too much time on was the truly awful


http://www.retrogamesshop.com/product_info.php?language=en&info=p2048_transylvanian-tower--richard-shepherd-software--sinclair-zx-spectrum.html&

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