Games/consoles/arcades of your youth?

[DefTrap]

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)

Sometimes these work in compatibility mode - right click on start

[The Martian]

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)

Sometimes these work in compatibility mode - right click on start

I'll give it a try

[MingtheMerciless]

Spectrum; Jet Pack, Jet Set Willy and Elite
Atari 800XL; Miner 2049er, Joust (god I wasted whole days on that)
Amiga; Frontier, Another World.

PC; Command and Conquer, all versions.

PS2; SSX Tricky, Grand Theft

PS3; Black, SSX, Last of Us and Grand Theft.

[Mr Moofo]

I am that old that the choice was Space Invaders or Asteriods ...

[The Martian]

Spectrum; Jet Pack, Jet Set Willy and Elite
Atari 800XL; Miner 2049er, Joust (god I wasted whole days on that)
Amiga; Frontier, Another World.

PC; Command and Conquer, all versions.

PS2; SSX Tricky, Grand Theft

PS3; Black, SSX, Last of Us and Grand Theft.

SSX tricky in my top 5 games ever

[Didge]

Mega Drive - Resident Evil

[KungFooBob]

Mega Drive - Resident Evil

Are you sure it was Megadrive and not the original Playstation?

[bevvo]

I am that old that the choice was Space Invaders or Asteriods ...

Me too almost. There was Pacman and Scrambler.

I gave up when it started costing more than 10p a go.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The original god's eye view GTA.

The superbike was basically unridable, but it did have the little radio controlled cars which blow up.

[Nidge]

[Supermofo]

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

During A levels I'd often start a session of that at about 10pm and play through till 4 in the morning with a mate, taking a mission each in turn.

We still do similar now I'll go over to his and play Darkest Dungeon whilst getting shitfaced and eating pizza. Anything slow/turned paced so my beer addled brain can keep up with the (very un) random number generator.

I play my PS4 loads still. I don't really watch TV and spend all day with the family so often bugger off to play the PS all night.

[slowsider]

You'll all need a hat for that

[Zimbo]

Doom2 and Duke Nukem on the PC, Combat Flight Sim in the early 90s (why are there no decent combat flight sim games any more??). I spent a lot of time in the late 80s on an early AI game called Lounge Suit Larry I recall, before that it was arcades, Asteroids, Frogger etc as a spotty yoof.

[KungFooBob]

Leisure Suit Larry was a soft porn point and click adventure game!

[Kneerly Down]

ZX81: Mazogs and the thing where you are in a maze with a TRex

3D Monster Maze


I played that a lot, but spent more time coding games than playing them back then.
I did a Missile Command knock-off that got published in Dragon User (Dragon 32) that I got £30 for.

I didn't even own a Dragon 32 so had to write it at home and then nip round a friends' house to type it in to see if it worked.

Acorn Electron - Asteriods (not 3D asteroid...that was rubbish) * had to cycle 60 miles each way to get to use the Electron at my uncle's house.
BBC Micro - Elite * see above (also, Circopoly, my very own knock-off of Monopoly but played on a circular board as I found that easier to code)

Vic 20 - Jelly Monsters - Pac-Man, but not Pac-Man as the people who did the cartridge only had the rights to Pac-Man in Japan - Atari had USA & Europe
C64 - mostly Rabbit Software titles as they were based at the back of the local computer shop (Cream Computers in Harrow) until the difficult times hit and the owner went to the woods to hang himself.

Amiga - various bike and car racing games, but soon after I had discovered girls and my days/nights of playing games were at an end.

[Kneerly Down]

Oh my word, just remembered this.


Stalag 1
I used to play it quite a bit. You were in charge of stopping PoWs escaping a Nazi camp.
You had to collapse tunnels and set German Shepherd Dogs on the PoWs.

There was a TV news article outraged about it, some years after the Amiga was released and Rabbit had bitten the dust itself.

[Docca]

I play my PS4 loads still. I don't really watch TV and spend all day with the family so often bugger off to play the PS all night.

That’s me too.

I’ll add GTA and SSX- also just started having fun with Soul Calibre VI with my eldest

[Didge]

Mega Drive - Resident Evil

Are you sure it was Megadrive and not the original Playstation?

You are correct. I must have had a brain fart. Of course it was the original PlayStation. I had a Megadrive before that, and it sort of stuck in me head.

[Bwana]

Pong.

There's a good reason I had a tan as a yoot.

[weeksy]

I did notice after seeing this thread yesterday that you can buy Sensible World of Soccer on the Xbox one !!!! £7.99.... Got to be an absolute bargain ! I may invest later today