Retro gaming

[Roll Deep]

Joy of joys. I've got my old Super Nintendo up and running and shall be playing Zelda until my eyes bleed. Now all I have to do is to wait for my little brother to come round and sort it so I can play all my old P.C games on my laptop, can't wait!

I'll be in late 90's heaven. Terminal Velocity, Rebel Assault, Lands of Lore, Wipeout, Ridge Racer etc etc...

I mention the above because I cannot stand todays games with their life-like graphics and absurd gameplay. Far too complicated for a saturday stoner like me. Blowing the dust from the Zelda cartridge brought all those memories and frustrations flooding back.

So, if you're like me and fancy a bit of Crash Bandicoot over yer Call of Duty, then have a sniff about this link.

http://www.retro-games.co.uk/

[woofmarkthedog]

I like "Hide the sausage"

It's a great game, where you stick your coc.....Erm...

Anyway.....

Is that on there ?

W**F

[KalamityKel]

Wow I really must have missed the 90s!

[Roll Deep]

I bet you were one of the army of halfwits who stayed up all night trying to cheat Lara Crofts kit off, weren't you Woof.

[giggirl]

I played Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider on PS. Seems like a lifetime ago.

[KalamityKel]

I threw my ps out with crash bandicoot only last year :-s am I really THAT out of touch!

[brum]

Asteroids was my personal favourite.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I love my retro gaming, and there is some truth in RD's disdain for modern epics

BUT

Having played games since 79 or so, I'm pretty certain that this generation has provided the best gaming days of those 30 odd years, so I'm not going to get too nostalgic

But for hardcore retro fun a genuine Missile Command cabinet is hard to beat

[ruffers]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> But for hardcore retro fun a genuine Missile

> Command cabinet is hard to beat

True, although Defender manages it.

[Roll Deep]

"Having played games since 79 or so"

Bloody 'ell, what were you playing, Connect4 3D or shadow chess?

[woofmarkthedog]

Roll Deep Wrote:

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> I bet you were one of the army of halfwits who

> stayed up all night trying to cheat Lara Crofts

> kit off, weren't you Woof.

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Well...

There was a move on "Tomb Raider" where you could get Laura down on all fours and view her from behin.....I mean that angle

You know, as in "virtually" but the weird thing (as if that wasn't weird enough already ) was she went all transparent

I wonder if the "Double-doves" had any thing to do with my perception in the 90's

Certainly OK now though, not in the least bit affected by that.......no

Sorry what was the question again ?

W**F

[Roll Deep]

Jesus wept Woof, I bet you even rubbed one out over Mario Kart.

[RosieH]

Ah Zelda Zelda Zelda - was only thinking about Link this morning - how I miss him and his little ocarina so.

I had to give away my Nintendo 64 to the kids' ward at the hospital because I was regularly staying up until 4 in the morning on a work night trying to get just one more song. I can still picture the ghosts on the farm and the underwater fountain kingdom and my beautiful horse...

But back in the day, you couldn't beat a bit of Attic Attack on the spectrum, and I'm pretty fucking brilliant at pacman

[giggirl]

Did anyone play Final Fantasy?

[SeanMacGabhann]

presumably you mean FF VII giggirl? to the end... and then so did LadyMac

[bon3yard]

I've been crying tears of blood trying to get further than Vanilla Dome 3 on Super Mario World on the Snes recently. Anyone remember when you only had a finite number of chances to conquer a level(s)? I cant believe how difficult this bloody game is(was). Arrggghh.

[mockney piers]

Wipeout as retro gaming. Dear god I must be older than I thought.

Try this for some proper old school: http://www.zxspectrum.net/

[mockney piers]

Snes super mario world is gaming gold by the way. Close to perfection!!

As was zelda on the snes thinking about it.

Much as ocarina blew me away and the gamecu e one looked great, I think I've finally had enough of playing the same game over and over again. I'd ask nintendo to innovate or let it rest on its laurels.

[*Bob*]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Try this for some proper old school:

> http://www.zxspectrum.net/

1. KEYBOARD

2. KEMPSTON

3. CURSOR

4. SINCLAIR

I'm welling up!

[SeanMacGabhann]

indeed *Bob*

I wondered back then if anyone could afford the Kempston option - twas always keyboard for me. Which was no use for Knightlore I can tell you

[*Bob*]

I had some sort-of QuickShot joystick - one that came with three interchangeable 'sticks' - one of which was shaped exactly like the gearstick from the Austin Princess*.

[mockney piers]

I was a BBC owner, but all my mates had zx81/speccy/commodore 64 (apart from poor rich stuck with his vic 20).

Of course they all had Kempstons, terribly middle class you know. Plus the keyboard would only last 3 minutes of Daley thompson's decathlon without the kempston.

[*Bob*]

Find if hard to believe they were still producing Speccie games as late as 1992!

I suppose if I look through the years and lists of games, the point at which I don't recognise any must have been the point when my brother lent me his post office paying-in book - which meant I could get served in the pub (well.. 'a pub' anyway).

And thus ended* a happy period of a darkened bedroom, excessive masturbation and computer gaming.

*briefly

[Roll Deep]

I can just picture the barricade of tinned food and toilet paper blocking your parents access to your bedroom, *Bob*.

[karter]

I was a great user of commodore and knew a good erm few haks, I still have my commodore 64 in it's original box, a big box full of games, most original, and some joysticks, if anybody wants to make me an offer i can't refuse. :)