games from your youth

i found my old master system today and dug it out and played alex the kid in wonder world and it got me thinking about all the old games i used to play when i was a kid california games ( loved the surfing and skate boarding) road rash (bikes and violence what more could a kid want) and mortal combat ( lots of gore caused a stir when i baught this home at first)
my question to you what games do you remeber from your youth and why?
and the other question wtf are games from back then so much ****ing harder than todays games
rioter

Hi Rioter,

The games you quoted are very much the same games I've played back then.
I still can remember the evenings where me and my buddy played Mortal Kombat on an 486 , with splitscreen.
Also Doom was a great game to play, between 2 pc's with a nul-modem cable, great time we've had there.

Indeed the games now aren't what they 've used to be, that's one of the reasons I don't play a lot anymore.

Greetz,

Hi,

Wow!!! I could remember so many that i can barely name them:

From Spectrum: Ghosts n' Goblins, Ghouls n' Ghosts, Sir Fred, School Daze, Back to Skool, Starqueake, Lords of Chaos, Myth, ATV Simulator, Trapdoor, Gremlins, etc., etc., etc....

...and from PC: yes... DOOM (of course) and the unforgettables old graphic adventures... yeah!!! :D

And, you are right, old games were harder than today ones... but i prefer it that way. Today games are really easy, too easy!!! You always beat them and without tricks, maybe some walkthroughs sometimes but NEVER tricks the first time i beat them.

Bye.

DKRR

The game I remember best was the old Super Mario Bros. from my old NES clone. Then there was contra which kicked major ass. On the PC, I remember the Commander Keen games (anyone got a copy of those lying around?) and Wolf3D very fondly. Roadrash is still one of my very favourite games. Then came the SNES and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Top Gear. Wow... all those old memories.
Cheers,
cgkanchi

On my Commodore: Double Dragon, Outrun, Karate something, Frogger, and some thousand others...
The first games I've played on PC were Commander Keen and Outrun again, I think...

Don't forget Bubble and Bobble, The Great Giana Sisters and BoulderDash

C64's rule!!!

Back in the early to mid eighties I played Ultima I-IV, Wizardry I-III, and the Zork's all straight through on my apple ][+.

Well mine are a LOT more recent but....
Ninja Turtles, Mortal Combat, Super Mario Bros, Sonic, and a few others that I can't remember. Then towards 5th grade I started to play Star Craft, Half-Life, and a few others. I did/do remember playing emulators of old atari and arcade games, now those are FUN.

i don't know 'bout you but if i close my eyes i can literally fly through most of the levels in doom, quake, duke nukem and other games... i remember the exact layout, the monsters, and secrets...

it's funny what human mind will remember. i remember all that but i will forget a persons name in 5 minutes

Ow I still play many of them oldies... There are thousenths... the ones I pleyed most recently:
prince of percia, pong, stunt run, micromachines, little big adventure, pool, test driver, mortal combat, ghosts n' goblins, space invaders, frogger, double dragon...
There are many more on my old atari...

You want really old?
HEHEHEHE the original Metriod for super nintendo and zelda for reg. nintendo! And for PC: the original versions of TRON, pong, frogger and hugo house of horror.

To me modern games are now super easy....
The only time I am ever truely challenged is when im playing agianst other peaple online.

like some of you mine are more recent, i loved duck hunt, that was an awsome game, and of course super marios brothers, but i also remember the atari and there was this game on there.....cant remember the name but you had a gun at the bottom of the screen and all these little alien lookin guys would come down from the top and you had to shoot all of them before they reached you, cant remember the name but that was a great game.

California Games was the best

I also liked to play
Outrun
Frogger
Into the Eagle's nest
Boulder Dash
Prince of Persia
Wolfenstein
Off course Pacman
I loved doubling Bubble and Bobble
Also the old mario brothers games.
Sim city.
Civilisation
Nowadays I rarely play games on my computer.
Some PSX(2) though

I seem to remember Excite Bike, that was one of my favorites along with Contra on Nintendo
In the realm of PC games I remember the old sierra Quest for Glory series. That was the best, back on my Tandy 386. :)

hrm.. pong, mario brothers, tetris, excite bike, punch out, teenage mutant ninja turtles, jeopardy, wheel of fortune, zelda!

I am afraid I had an old Amstrad CPC464 (with colour monitor and built in tape drive :) )

My favorite game on that had to be Spy Vs. Spy, nobody has mentioned that one yet, either it was a really bad game and I am sad, or people have overlooked it :)

Apart from that I have to agree with several other NES, Super Mario, it was just out of this world at that time.

mine would be Contra.. me and my cousin always played that game on nintendo.. i still remember the cheats for 30 lives.. hehehe and what else.. Chip n' Dale.. and Ninja Turtles. those all are nintendo. and i also played GODS on a 386 i think..

Dungeons & dragons : Knights of Krynn.... on the old 486...
Floor 13
Leisure Suit Larry 1

*sigh*

Atari all the way baby!


Asteroids, Defender, Yars Revenge, Space Invaders, Bowling, Boxing, Basketball and so many more... I loved them all.. and then of course the NES, but i mean the ATARI was the sh*t, it was and still is the greatest system around. I went into a video game store the other day and asked for either an Atari or an NES and the guy started laughing.. He has a waiting list of over 100 names of people looking for those systems... They were the greatest. no doubt.

i remember playing pitfall on the atari .. i never had an atari so every time i played that game i got so excited heh ...... also playing super mario bros. on the NES (nintendo entertainment system).. my favourite game so far was Mario 64 .. however i really wanna try the lord of the rings game that just came out a little while ago

i love zelda: ocarina of time for the nintendo 64 also and an arcade game called raven ( i think that is its name )

being old and computer illiterate to a year or so ago my first game was asteroids-at the arcade- i still download a version once in awhile

We never had a video game system at home so I had to go to a friends house and play Yar's Revenge....awesome. Other than that, we'd just go outside and throw lawn darts up in the air and then avoid them on their way down!

i also remeber a pc game called stunt and jones life in the fast lane
my oh my those games were fun games these days have seem to lost replaybilty in favor of graphics and technical ****
rioter

Yeah, lov 'em all. Cherryroms.com <<good place or Snes roms an Emulators.

If we are talking about the old one's the first game I ever played was on an 8086 system, it was a "graphical" Star Trek game. The Quadrant was laid out and you could go to any sector, You were an E, Klingons a K, stars an asterisk and Bases a B. To move 1 sector you would put in 1 (N,S,E,W) or you could move part of a sector by using decimals. Then you could shoot by figuring angles to the target.

My favorite old time games, well Zelda was definitely one of them. My favorite games though were on the old Intellivision system. There was Dreadnaught, D and D, and Island Wars. Then came out the most addictive game I have ever played (until I started into MMORPG's) on the NES- Nobunaga's Ambition. It had everything, village management, army building, tactics, and a difficult but eventually attainable goal. The first time I beat the game I had been playing it for almost 30 hours straight. I could barely focus on the T.V.

However I do still play games and think there are many good ones out there. I love Deus Ex, it is not as difficult as some of the old ones but it is great fun. Also Myst and Riven were graphical grand children of the early text adventures and I think did them proud. Aside from a few standouts most FPS's have added little to Doom but eye candy. I like eye candy but the basic game play is still much the same and the game is based on dynamics not plot. Maybe that is why I like Deus Ex, it's plot was intriguing to me and you can sneak many missions (I don't but you could if you wanted to). The only FPS's that have extended the genre seem to do so through on-line play. Here I point to Half-Life with its many mods. Happily it demonstates that most innovation comes from talented amateurs (Counter Strike and dozens more) which are then immulated by professionals.

BTW I use the same nick on-line playing CS and Anarchy Online (for my main) as I do here. So if you ever find yourself shooting me there make sure to say hi.

Hey,

You can play all these golden oldies on emulation software available for the p.c

I have tonnes of these emulators and games. I am not sure of the laws on these things but if anyone wants copies let me know.

E.G Sega master system, Sega Mega Drive (Genesis), Nintendo (NES,SNES)

I have also got just about every game available for each.

mail me.

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My old favorites were as follows:

Nintendo: Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Rygar and Final Fantasy
PC: Bards Tale 3, Kings Quest Series, Quest for Glory series (Hero's Quest) and Starflight 1 and 2

hmmmmm *thinks* i can still remember playing Adventure on the old Atari 2600 now thats an old one LOL gotta love having a square for a character ;-)
i also liked Zelda, Metroid hmmmmm im trying to remeber some other retro games of my youth but im still waking up LOL so i'll just leave it at that im sure theres alot more but the coffee hasnt kicked in yet LOL :\

Dahvid: The new lord of the rings game is pretty good. Well worth the money.

DaRK-RaiDeR i played many of the games u did... but back to skool on the specy was a classic, and haven't played it since i was a little nippa but i used to love that game.

http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/backtoskool.htm

Ru$kb0y (Bak in the 80's )...

I was a huge fan of lucasarts' graphic adventure games: Monkey Island 1 and 2, Indy and the fate of atlantis, sam and max, etc. There aren't many games now that i like as much as those...

I was also a huge fan of zelda, contra, mario bros for NES.

Excite bike, 720, super mario 2, ninja turtles. God those were good games.

In middle school all we cared about was street fighter. Then mortal combat came along. I didn't like it as much though.

I remember when I was around 10 or 11 all I cared about was getting a power glove. begged and begged and finally got it for christmas. IT SUCKED. didn't work for crap. ended up just wearing it and using the regular control pad it had.

hi ppl !
i loved the ninja turtles on game boy and genesis ... played them soo often
later with the first pc we rocked summer games and winter games!!! (still unbeatable)
then ofcourse wolfenstein with all its patches ... and for sure we tried doom : )
loved Leisure Suite Larry 1-x .... gonna make a bootdisk for my dc with this game ^^
all sierra games kind of roc ... indiana jones ...
of coure the Keen series and ... hmhmhm ....erik the vikinger were really kewl

its really sad when i look at the games they are releasing these days .... : (
those classics wont be beaten any more ... the less possibilitys for graphics and mhz they had .. the more creative they workd


greetz

My first games were on my sinclair spectrum many many years ago. I remember the game rommel, barbarian, invaders. Then on commodore games like commandos, california games, international karate 1, 2, and +. Also games like pitstop 1. Then when msdos came out, i played leisure suit larry 1, space quest, police quest, DOT (day of the tentacle --awesome game) ;) Until the win times came up such as C&C, warcraft, xfiles, etc...... Now i only play PS2 games since i dont have a win box anymore.

Cheers.

I was major video game fanatic as a kid. Hmmm, what do I remember playing?

Super Mario Bros., The Legend Of Zelda, Ninja Gaiden series (those cut scenes were so l33t)...

The on the 386 I loved the Ultima series. I played them all night long. Ultima 6 and Martian Dreams.... Wolfenstein was cool too.

The memories...

*sniff*