Pickle Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 Hmmm, I see Lemmings was early 90's, so I might be a couple of years out with my dates. And yes, there's a current day version, of course!*half term, wet day, bored* Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 typing instructions sounds more early-mid 80sdo you mean a lucasfilm game where you clicked on verbs/nouns to instruct the character? How "graphical" was it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 verrrry slow moving?Kings Quest maybe? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 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......!!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(1982_video_game) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750352 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 God, slow loading, soooo tedious. Was the cause of so many fights between me and my brother. Hobbit, nope, would have remembered that name. It's really bugging me! Google is not helping (although there are other people asking similar questions). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 List of Sierra games brings back memories, we had Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry. Getting closer. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickle Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 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 :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
katanita Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 I still have my BBC micro, though I don't remember Space Quest. It still worked last time I fired it up, but that was a long time ago. I wonder what I could usefully do with it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
damzel Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 I remember that game Pickle! I am struggling with the name but it might come to me. Loved leisure suit larry - so naughty. Think I still have all of the series somewhere Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Whilst we're doing childhood memories... Not a game, but the giant eagle thing made me think of this Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Wow, it turns out there was a new series last year starting where the 80s one left off. That's quite the gap!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_GoldAnyway sorry, back to old games. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Help-Ma-Boab Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 I had one of these. Loved it.. Space Raidershttps://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5047/5362843637_155748f7f5_z.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Oh my i remember that, height of portable gaming for at least another decade!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Adventure? or MUD ? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I think MUD was more of a genre wasn't it? aaah, telnet, when games were incomprehensible!!can this be a nostalgia thread then?I guess I probably kicked off with this doozy!!like i wouldn't have been winning 50-0, pah! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-e-dealer Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Mud was also a game. Hosted on BT Gold.http://mud.co.uk/richard/pcpsep87.htmIt was a a mug - multi user game My friend moderates on another one that is still going. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dopamine1979 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Not quite as old but anyone remember this game on the Spectrum?http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/4/44/20130614135449!Treasure_Island_Dizzy.png Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grabot Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 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!" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 happy dayshttp://www.repton3.co.uk/chuckieegg.aspxyou'll be happy to know chuckie egg is as good as ever with perfectly refined gameplay, something flabby but pretty games of today could learn from!!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 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 awfulhttp://www.retrogamesshop.com/product_info.php?language=en&info=p2048_transylvanian-tower--richard-shepherd-software--sinclair-zx-spectrum.html& Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 head over heels holds up pretty well, could do with moving a bit quicker, but otherwise pretty solid!loving the manual 'if your computer is fast enough, over 233 mhz..." Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/44805-computer-game-from-the-late-80s-help/#findComment-750839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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