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[Big_G123]

Yeah. I remember that game well.

You had to collect scrolls and stuff. The graphics on that game was mind blowing at the time.

The other games on the cartridge if I remember were International Soccer, Klax, and Freddy's Big Top 'O' Fun...I think.

tes thats the one big top i thought was good too

if going onto consols did not have 1 till the ps1 then ps2 and then which i have now the x-box when the nes/megadrive where around i still had my amiga 500+ wish i still had this found a few games for this the other week but went and spilt something over computer and never worked again but still managed to sell to someone for £50 a few years back!!

[jayroller]

My first one was a spectrum 128k+2 (the gray one with the tape deck built in) i got it about 1985/6 from currys. We (me and dad) queued for hours to get it and we got 10 games with currys inlay cards in can't remember what they all were but i do remember getting Nifty Lifty and Snooker. spent hours playing nifty lifty a simple game (which was good cos i was only 4/5 at the time) you had to go across the screen and back dodging the lifts as you went.

I had Daley Thompson's Decathlon on the 464 and must have broke about 3 joysticks.

yes daley thompson as a lot to answer for i went through about 3 or 4 joysticks

Then after the speccy I got a master system (2 i think it was, small black and with the reset button) Alex Kidd was great and of course you cant own a sega without having a copy of Sonic.

Then at christmas came the mega drive (a complete surprise as i'd been pestering my parents all year for it and they told me no chance we cannot afford it). This came with a 3 in 1 game (Streets of rage, Golden axe and shinobi i think)

Eventually i ended up swapping this for a SNES with the disk drive (forgot what it was called) got hundreds of games for it. I got addicted to a game called bombliss (a tetris clone where you at to position bombs on the line to blow away the pieces)

Then onto ps1 then ps2 now i have a modded xbox

[jamesb99_1999]

I had... wait for it.

ZX80
ZX81
Vic 20
Oric
BBC/ Acorn Electron
Dragon
Spectrum 16
Amstrad CPC464
Commodore 16
Commodore 64
Atari 65XL/ 800
Spectrum 48K
Spectrum 128K
Sinclair QL
Archimedes
Atari ST 520/1000
Amiga

Then it's all been PCs

Had game systems below

Coleco
Intellivision
Atari (Still got with 4 games)
Nes
Snes
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Saturn
Playstation
Atari Lynx
Gameboy/ Colour/ Advance and SP


Anybody had any that aren't on my list???

cheers

James

[Dr DX]

I had... wait for it.

ZX80
ZX81
Vic 20
Oric
BBC/ Acorn Electron
Dragon
Spectrum 16
Amstrad CPC464
Commodore 16
Commodore 64
Atari 65XL/ 800
Spectrum 48K
Spectrum 128K
Sinclair QL
Archimedes
Atari ST 520/1000
Amiga

Then it's all been PCs

Had game systems below

Coleco
Intellivision
Atari (Still got with 4 games)
Nes
Snes
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Saturn
Playstation
Atari Lynx
Gameboy/ Colour/ Advance and SP


Anybody had any that aren't on my list???

cheers

James

i had from spectrem down in computers and all consoles unfortantly now i only have dreamcast with no games they were all good wish i still had them

[jamesb99_1999]

i wish i'd kept them... i never had the dreamcast but my housemate did.. and my kids have gamecube and xbox.

[fistandantilus]

well I have had these machines

speccy 48k (rubber key job)
speccy 12k (the original with the heat sink on the right hand edge)
master system I
megadrive I (hk pal import)
snes
saturn
n64
then been pc ever since. for games such as warcraft, diablo, age of empires/mythology nothing comes close to the pc

[ross]

my list

nes
amiga
gameboy
snes
playstation
n64
ps2
xbox
dreamcast
i think in that order anyway cant realy remember

[ady]

I had... wait for it.

ZX80
ZX81
Vic 20
Oric
BBC/ Acorn Electron
Dragon
Spectrum 16
Amstrad CPC464
Commodore 16
Commodore 64
Atari 65XL/ 800
Spectrum 48K
Spectrum 128K
Sinclair QL
Archimedes
Atari ST 520/1000
Amiga

Then it's all been PCs

Had game systems below

Coleco
Intellivision
Atari (Still got with 4 games)
Nes
Snes
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Saturn
Playstation
Atari Lynx
Gameboy/ Colour/ Advance and SP


Anybody had any that aren't on my list???

cheers

James

I had a Texas instruments 'thing'....came from the shop whatever it was before it was called Comets.

[captainhaddock]

I had an acetronic mpu1000/2000 console late 70s I think, not many carts were available though,it was also known as radofin.also I had a ti99/4a home computer,with speech synthesiser,extended basic,etc.

[bennie22]

Feud - a classic, there was a way to kill Leonoric in about three minutes flat with the zombie spell - does anyone know what I'm going on about? Probably someone DOES on this forum. You never know.
Heike's Herb Garden. Toadflax.

Oh yes i remember that one, i've still got it somewhere, must try it one day and see if it still all works! I remember Super Zaxxon, Crystal Raider, Action Biker as some of my favorites.

I still remember standing in Boots, trying to decide whether to buy Kickstart or Vegas Jackpot for £1.99, and guess what (surprise!) i bought the fruit machine game!

[eddiec]

Let's see........

vic 20/c-64 - grid-runner, matrix blaster, attack of the mutant camels....
(met llama man jeff minter - worked in ye olde computer store in the
'first home computer boom'

....boulderdash, impossible mission, bards tale (loved that room of
4 * 99 berserkers if you didn't wear the robes)

[hated that commodore 1541 floppy drive. gawd]

bbc a/b - elite!!!

star raider & defender on the atari 400/800

c-64/spectrum - atic atac. sweet game.

anyone remember vectrex? intellivision? [cringe] cbm-pet?

[mazooma]

On the speccy

sabre wulf, knight lore, the incredibly hard lunar jetman, starquake, wizards lair, atic atac, manic miner, jet set willy with its great attic bug, alien8, maziacs( a very poor clone of the brilliant zx81 original "mazogs" , cookie, pssst

i could go on for ages if i could actually remember half the games i used to have for the good old speccy

ps had a sharp mz80a, plugged in in recently ,


it went on fire. HHhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm


nb lunar jetman was never as hard as 3d defender on the zx81

[jay2]

anyone remember vectrex?

Ahhh yes,i loved this baby.
Put cart in,put colour overlay on screen and hey presto.
Some good games for this,minestorm (asteroids clone)really worked due to the vectors,and my mum loved clean sweep.

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[RB]

Okay in my Oh so Distant Past...

Commodore Pet, Commodore vic20,Commodore c16,C16+4, Commodore 64,Amiga 1000, amiga 500,600,1200,Cd32
BBc B, Acorn Electron, Acorn Archimedes
Sinclair:- zx80,zx81,Spectrum 16,48,128,+2,+3,Sinclair Ql, One per desk
AMstrad cpc464,6128,Mega PC,PCW512
Atari 800,ST,STe
Apple IIe, Mac,Power PC
Memotech MTX512
Oric Atmos
Intel Aquarius
Dragon 32
Intelligent Business machines: 8086,8088,186,286,386,486

Consoles,atari Vcs, Intellivision,Colecovision,atari7800,ps1,ps2,dreamcast,mega drive,mega cd,Lynx,Jaguar,Nes,Snes,Game Gear,Xbox,Gamecube

All these are now Boxed, Sealed in vacum bags in the Loft awaiting Antiques Roadshow. and im still buying whenever something new or interesting turns up at booties, like a set of boxed addon microdrives for the Spectrum 128, and an Interface 1 for 5 quid at Barnsley Secondhand Market.

[ploggy]

I still remember standing in Boots, trying to decide whether to buy Kickstart or Vegas Jackpot for £1.99, and guess what (surprise!) i bought the fruit machine game!

There was a cheat of sorts for Vegas Jackpot to get 4 nudges and £20 for the Pears on the first credit.

You had to load up the game like normal, then reset it straight away. Once you got back to the start screen you typed in Sys8192.

It would go back to the beginning of the game and give you 4 nudges on the first credit everytime.

[jamesb99_1999]

Okay in my Oh so Distant Past...

Commodore Pet, Commodore vic20,Commodore c16,C16+4, Commodore 64,Amiga 1000, amiga 500,600,1200,Cd32
BBc B, Acorn Electron, Acorn Archimedes
Sinclair:- zx80,zx81,Spectrum 16,48,128,+2,+3,Sinclair Ql, One per desk
AMstrad cpc464,6128,Mega PC,PCW512
Atari 800,ST,STe
Apple IIe, Mac,Power PC
Memotech MTX512
Oric Atmos
Intel Aquarius
Dragon 32
Intelligent Business machines: 8086,8088,186,286,386,486

Consoles,atari Vcs, Intellivision,Colecovision,atari7800,ps1,ps2,dreamcast,mega drive,mega cd,Lynx,Jaguar,Nes,Snes,Game Gear,Xbox,Gamecube

All these are now Boxed, Sealed in vacum bags in the Loft awaiting Antiques Roadshow. and im still buying whenever something new or interesting turns up at booties, like a set of boxed addon microdrives for the Spectrum 128, and an Interface 1 for 5 quid at Barnsley Secondhand Market.

God I wish that I had kept all mine, you are really lucky.. I only have a few of them left..

on £1.99 games.... Someone I know is a salesman for Codemasters (lucky guys).. And I used to write games as good as them at the time.. Just never sold any of them.. Wish my dad had been in marketing..

The markup was phenomenal - £10 a game on a mass reproduction tape.. They made a fortunate..

James

[unclechicken]

The best game ever for the ZX Spectrum was Chaos:Battle Of Wizards

The first ever game to have 8 players on it, and all in 48k!

Aahh, those were the days, and another game I used to play a lot was They Stole A Million, planning burglaries on shops and stuff, that was great too, and Colony, a robot growing mushrooms on a planet whilst trying to kill the bugs eating your mushrooms.

[Jimmy_mac]

only bit of retro gear i own is this one, bought it off some guy called cabbage or babbage or summat back in 1943, it aint great for playing half life 2 to be fair, graphics are a bit shoddy

[RB]

http://img273.imageshack.us/img273/1131/babbage19jc.jpg[/img]

Cool...almost as much processing power as my Casio Wrist watch....

[Gazeyre1966]

Lol...@ JimmyMac and RB.

Here's a list of games I used to have I can remember.

Atari Console - Adventure, Bowling, Space Invaders, Combat, Pac-Man, Missile Command, Breakout.

Vic 20 - Arcadian, Cosmic Cruncher (cartridge), Football Manager (Who hasn't played that), Blitz, Manic Miner, Concentration, Omega Race (Cartridge), Mysterious Island + Loads of Llamasoft games including Revenge of the Mutant Camels, surely the best title for a game ever!!!

There were tons more but my memory fails me.