Retro Gaming Memories Thread!

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

I have just been playing the old Mega Drive game Jungle Stirke and its still brilliant beyond words :D bit hard to get used to using my keyboard to do things rarther then a Mega Drive joypad but damned if this aint possibly the best game every made!

[Guest Dave7g]

Get yourself a pc joypad, they are cheap as chips in gamestop.

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

When I go into town on Thursday I think I will pop into a few game shops and get the cheapest pad I can find, working out a nice system that is working for me now though with my keyboard

[dsrchris 190]

I popped to the arcade on Teignmouth Pier last year, and out the back I very nearly wet myself with delight. They had an "old school" arcade that had loads of stuff including:

 

Afterburner (in the cool cabinet where you sit in the cockpit and it moves around as you're flying)

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles 4-Player

The Simpsons 4-Player

Double Dragon

Pac-Land

WWF Wrestlefest

Mortal Kombat

Streetfighter 2

NES multigame arcade thingy (basically an NES in a cabinet, and you paid 10p for 15 minutes play time on any of a huge list of games)

Punchout (with the handles so you had to "swing" your punches)

Sonic Blastman

 

And a whole heap of other stuff I can't recall, but remember giggling like an 11 year old girl at a Take That concert at. That was a day well spent. £20 lasted me a good few hours. Awesome, awesome day.

 

In fact, I might see if I can go see what they've got still while I'm down that way next week...

[Guest MojoPogo]

I remember playing Wrestlefest in the arcade, and being absolutely awestruck by the huge, chunky sprites and digitised speech used for the specials. Brilliant line up too. "Gorilla Press".......ah, the memories.....also, did anybody play Another World (fantastic game) on the Amiga and spend the whole time finding out all the different ways to die?

[Guest A.C.]

I rarely play new games nowadays; Retro Gamer's my favourite magazine by a long ways.

 

I used to play via emulators on the PC/Mac but I got an R4 card for my DS not so long ago and I've got full sets of NES, GameBoy and ZX Spectrum games already loaded up.

[Guest MojoPogo]

My friend and I were talking about free roaming games, the first one i can remember playing was Midwinter on the Amiga. It was awesome, anyone remember it?

[Guest A.C.]

Never played Midwinter - I had an Atari ST at the time and very little money - but it was all over the magazines. Everybody raved about it for seemingly a good couple of years.

 

On the ST one of my fav's was Flood. It was a puzzle/platformer where you played a little green blobby fella and the levels would slowly fill with water if I remember correctly.

[Guest Inno]

Hunter was a free roaming game too, wasn't it?

[Guest big pau hoolinator]

blowing on the cartridges when they didnt work was the best bit about retro gaming

[Guest John Hancock]

Blowing in cartridges fixes everything.

[dsrchris 190]

Anyone remember unirally on the SNES? That was a damn fine game. Really simple, but the half pipe levels where you had to pull off tricks were amazing.

[Guest Da Showstoppa]

TMNT The Arcade Game

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The Simpsons Arcade (this needs to be on XBox Live)

 

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European Club Soccer - Megadrive

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FIFA International Soccer - Megadrive

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Powerstone - Dreamcast

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Daytona USA (I bought a Saturn for this game! )

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Goldeneye N64

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And I just remembered this: Star Wars: Masters Of Teras Kasi PSX

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Edited August 3, 2009 by Da Showstoppa

[Guest MojoPogo]

Zombies Ate My Neighbours, SNES, my favourite SNES game of all time. It was simply brilliant.

[Guest Jaycey Baby]

You can get the Simpsons beat-'em-up on MAME. Obviously not quite as good as you remember it being :)

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

Zombies Ate My Neighbours, SNES, my favourite SNES game of all time. It was simply brilliant.

Funny you should mention that game just yesterday afternoon I downloaded the Mega Drive version rom of it :lol

[etz 78]

California Games was immense fun

 

Space/Kings/Police Quest series, as well as Master of Orion, Warcraft/Starcraft, Age of Empires were all awesome

 

Mortal Kombat was fun

 

FF7 literally made me the gamer I am today (it was my 1st real RPG)

 

Wolfenstein and Doom are Legend, as is Hexen.

 

Oh, and the Counterstike 1.6 mod for Half Life was hours of fun ...speaking of which, Half Life was brilliant.

Edited August 4, 2009 by etz

[Guest Hanahbananabob]

LOL i found my gameboy colour the other day and played Pokemon Pinball for ages....ahhh what a game!

[Guest MojoPogo]

I enjoyed Killer Instinct as well. Managing to pull off a hyper combo was very satisfying indeed.

[Guest Nemesis Enforcer]

NBA Jam TE is still the best Basketball game I have ever played. So many Mega Drive games have just never been improved on for me which is really strange when you think how so vastly more powerful consoles are these days