Games/consoles/arcades of your youth?

[weeksy]

What wasted the most of your life back in the day?

Football manager was deffo one.
Sensible Soccer was a major obsession
Gauntlet arcade version deserves a massive shout
Yie ar Kung Fu

The hours we spent in games shops, looking at titles and mags instead of being at school.

But the winner overall for me was the UFO/XCOM series.

[KungFooBob]

This last week I've mostly playing the Gameboy version of Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening. I've completed it for the 2nd time in my life, about 30 years after I first completed it.

I've got a Gameboy emulator on a PSP and it works really well.

[Druid]

Lemmings

[Mr. Dazzle]

Worms Armageddon.

You can get it as a phone app now

[DefTrap]

Sensible soccer
Elite
Lords of the midnight

[KungFooBob]

Elite

Frontier Elite?

I played that to death, My Panther Clipper was the dogs!

[Docca]

Arcade:

Street Fighter/ Street Fighter 2
Championship Sprint ( 3 steering wheel racing game)
Altered Beasts
Mortal Kombat


PC

Ikari Warriors
Duke Nukem
Half Life
Half Life 2
Team Fortress Classic
Counter Strike

Console

GoldenEye
Fallout 3 and 4
Overwatch
Rainbow Six Seige
COD


Loads I’ve forgotten - but the above were/are the games I’ve spent most playing. Team Fortress Classic probably the most- European champ x2 ( in a clan).

Nowadays it’s PS4 ( soon to be 5 ) and the kids are of an age now where we can multiplayer.

[Mr. Dazzle]

GoldenEye

Oddjob is cheating.

[DefTrap]

Elite

Frontier Elite?

I played that to death, My Panther Clipper was the dogs!

Can't remember.
Trading narcotics! Getting zapped by space plod.

The most surprising thing for me that post uni I couldn't give a shit about computer games any more.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The most surprising thing for me that post uni I couldn't give a shit about computer games any more.

The placement students at our place love em....weirdly though they love watching YouTube vids of other people paying them more. I suppose its just like watching any sport though.

The thing which seems even odder to me is watching a "movie cut" of the main story of a game. So an hour or so long edited spectator playthrough of a game. Most of them just watch a video of the main plot then just play the online multiplayer bit.

[Couchy]

Console

Binatone pong
Phillips cartridge thing with tank attack
Atari 2600 space invaders and pole position
Mega drive sonic
NES mario kart
PlayStation gran turismo

Computers
ZX81 3D ant attack
Spectrum manic miner
BBC defender

We didn’t really have an arcade but on holidays it was asteroids I headed for.

I spent from age 10 till 18 or so then pretty much dropped computer games and haven’t got the urge back

[Mr Nozzle]

two horizontal bats moving up and down pinging a dot back & forth, plugged into the tv that had 3 channels.

[Skub]

Games consoles?

It was all Monopoly and Snakes & Ladders in my day.

[Cousin Jack]

Games consoles?

It was all Monopoly and Snakes & Ladders in my day.

Cribbage and Eucre in mine.

[Rockburner]

What wasted the most of your life back in the day?

Football manager was deffo one.
Sensible Soccer was a major obsession
Gauntlet arcade version deserves a massive shout
Yie ar Kung Fu

The hours we spent in games shops, looking at titles and mags instead of being at school.

But the winner overall for me was the UFO/XCOM series.

I still play X-com every now and then.

[harum-scarum]

OMG I'm feeling my age here. Late 70s we booked time on the University mainframe to play a game where you piloted a helicopter through an increasingly convoluted cave. In the pub the best they had was Pong. Then Space Invaders, then Asteroids Frogger Galaxians. The quantum leap was 1993 and Doom and the dawn of multiplayer gaming.

If I had all the hours I've wasted on computer gaming, I'd waste them on computer gaming

[maccecht]

Space invaders. Asteroid. 33 FD sqn champion at missile city 2 years running. 500000plus score.
Then blank for 30 years followed by a hand me down PS2 where I have been playing Medal of honour 1 for 5 years on and off but never finished it yet. Last time I looked at it was 2019.

[formula400]

I clocked up a lot of hours on final fantasy 7 and Halo. I was about 17 when it come out.

[weeksy]

I still play X-com every now and then.

I downloaded a hack copy last year and played through to the end. I also bought and played Terror From the Deep on i think it was Steam.

[The Martian]

I didn't have consoles or a computer as a kid, but when the PlayStation came out in my late teens I was all over it lol
Had an N64 too, some brilliant games on that.


I found my battlefield 2 disc recently and tried it on my (W10) laptop.. crashed it, twice. Anyone know how I can run it? (Was designed for XP)