I remember one of my first video games was Captain Tsubasa on the NES, too bad I couldn't understand shit because it was in japanese :P
I liked it though, it was like a football RPG, as far as I remember, maybe I have no idea what the game is about, it was a long time ago. I don't know if it the game itself was good, when I was a kid I liked anything with flashy colors.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8570i_80Fc I had it, was awesome!
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Gotta love the endless running animation!
Wait, I think I had the sequel now that I think about it....
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I remember that on a gameplay idk how i ended with a guy that could score even on my side of the field, his stats were super overpower xDD I dont know if was because i copied bad the ultra large code that was the "save game"
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I learned how to read japanese for this :p It was my favorite game.
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I don't remember that one, but I certainly think football RPGs are a great idea!
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What a cool concept! I'm gettin' some inspirational genre-melting waves from this one.
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I remember Head over Heels. There was also a pretty good Batman game built on the same engine..
Faithful remakes of both can be found on http://retrospec.sgn.net
An old favorite of mine is MageSlayer, an early title by Raven software. Playing like a top-down mix of Gauntlet and Quake, it's not too complicated but well-designed levels and solid mechanics make it a lot of fun.
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I remember the Batman game. MageSlayer is a new one on me, which is surprising as Brom is one of my favourite artists and I'd have thought I'd have at least been attracted to the cover. But that said I think I was mostly drunk through 1997...
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Wow, i didn't know about retrospec -- pretty amazing stuff. Thanks for introing that!
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I do remember it, it just doesn't hold much nostalgia for me.
It being a more of a prototype open-world game makes it noteworthy, but it ended up a bit clunky and a it boring for me.
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I LOVE pretty much the entire roster of Raven's games.
I really really miss Heretic 2 - and that needed a sequel.
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I remember playing one of the Hexen or Heretic games on my first gaming PC - but I realised after making this topic some months ago I actually have no idea which one...
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Oh, this game sounds awesome :)
I don't realyl have forgotten gems, accidentally or not I played with relatively (or completely) well-known games - Diablo 1, Pharaoh, Caesar 3, Re-Volt, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (the favourite of the series) - maybe Captain Claw and Jurassic Park Operation Genesis are more niche games and interesting for someone.
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Good old C64 times... :3
Spy vs. Spy
Bubble Bobble
Ghostbusters
(check pics below)
when i learned the ABC in school my father began to teach me how to use some C64 commands + fast loader... together with my uncle he had two full boxes with floppy disks... i had alot to discover over the next years and the listed games are some i realy enjoyed and played several times... :)
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These are not the versions I played (NES), but I own the first two and rented the third once or twice. Spy vs. Spy is a great two player game.
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i had to play Spy vs. Spy alone... and to be honest i didnt understood much... i had to learn all the games on my own without knowing englisch... i was 6 yrs old... :P
but i still remember that one time i reached the end and won against black spy... :D
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Those were all great! Ghostbusters was especially good for a movie tie-in, and I loved Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands although I mostly played them on my Atari ST.
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hmm, thinking about it i have to say "you are right"... Ghostbusters was a realy good game that is based on a movie, pretty rare...
funfact: i played the game before i watched the movie... :D
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Most movie tie-ins back then were just cheap buggy generic platformers. It's been a long time since I played it but I recall that Ghostbusters had management and strategy elements as you tried to make enough money to stay in business and keep panic down across the city, there were fun mini-games where you drove across the city and actually caught ghosts and there was a fairly unbalanced endgame element where the marshmallow man came and flattened everything. It was a really ambitious title for the time and had great sound and graphics.
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i don't remember that i finished the game because of what u said "a fairly unbalanced endgame"...
now i want this game as HD remaster... :D
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I don't remember anybody actually completing the game, but I'm sure any kind of HD remaster would have some sort of DLC weapons that allowed you to actually beat the final stage...
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Great choices, I had those on Apple IIe / NES. The Ghostbusters game in particular was such an interesting conceptual take and not just some boring money-grab reskinned platformer kinda thing.
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like i said to "heavenairsixes"...
yes that game was realy awesome... upgrading the car, the citymap, ghosthunting etc... pretty much to do in such an old game... :)
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The game that most people seem to not know: Tzar. I've spent many hours watching my cousin playing it because I didn't have PC at that time I~voI
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The first three games I've played in my life and kept in good memory which seem to be forgotten or overshadowed by the all to well known classics:
(C64) Bubble Bobble
Ridiculous fun with a friend and an awesome soundtrack.
(C64) Fire Ant
Arcade platformer that back then looked to me like it was sent from heaven - in reality kinda meh, but still a nice early childhood memory.
(DOS) Dune II
Being a commercial success back in the day, it's the predecessor of almost every modern RTS.
There are way more awesome games I can't either recall by name or have simply forgotten over the years... quite amazing to think about what video games have become and how they evolved since then.
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I played Bubble Bobble and Dune II, but Fire Ant is a new one on me!
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That joystick looks a bit weird, too much silver for the period imo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickShot
Quickshot 1 was good, the Quickshot 2 Turbo was a wonderful Joystick.
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i didn't find a better picture on the fly, I remember the ones my older brother had being blueish transparent. He also had a QuickShot 1 when I remember correctly, but didn't let me play with it... I think he feared I'd break it ;D.
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The Konix Speedking was my favourite joystick of the era!
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I started with an Atari 2600, Amstrad CPC464 and Commodore Amiga 500... and I have a very nice memories playing on these when I was a child... I remember some games like Cannon Fodder, Darkseed or HeroQuest....
I know I can play them again with an emulator, but I'm so lazy to do it, and I have a lot of games on steam and very few time to play...
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It took me a while, but now I remember that I owned the Atari ST version of Cannon Fodder and it was a great game! It was a bit short but very memorable. And I know exactly what you mean about too many games and not enough time...
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Wonderboy, Bombjack, Ghosts'n Goblins, Ghostbusters and Ninja on C64. I don't really miss them though, or consider them to be very good games anymore.
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my nostalgia doesn't go as far back as most others mine are fallout 1 and the elder scrolls daggerfall
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There is remake of this awesome game, it was made in 2003, it was nice as well :)
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A few people have mentioned it, I may look it into it!
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http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-links.php?link=hoh
(not ref. link, just abb for head over heels)
whole webpage contains huge amount of awesome remakes.
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Several people have posted the link - but all are appreciated!
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One of the earliest PC games I remember playing and I still enjoy to this day is Torin's Passage. It's a Sierra point and click adventure, not too much to say :)
Before I got into PC games I was raised on the NES, SNES, and N64. I am currently playing Dust: An Elysian Tail and it really reminds me of the SNES side scrolling platformers. It's a metroidvania brawler style game where you can level up your player and gain new abilities that lets you go back and get to new areas that you couldn't before. I really like the art, characters, voice acting, leveling, story, exploring, everything. It's one of the best games I have played in a long time.
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When I was a kid, I had an Apple IIe with an amber monochrome monitor, then at some point upgraded to Apple IIc with the tiny green monochrome monitor, and eventually to a color monitor! Color was amazing...
One of my favorite games was Julius Erving vs Larry Bird One on One basketball. You could dunk and break the backboard and a janitor would come out to sweep. :P
I also played Law of the West a lot!
Loads of text adventures. I can't even begin to name them all.
I also liked the Wizardry and Ultima series, and the original Castle Wolfenstein. Sierra games were always a big hit.
And of course the educational games like Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego and that game where you manage a lemonade stand.
I learned programming on those computers, starting with LOGO, then BASIC and Pascal. There used to be magazines with code listings, and I would type in like 30 pages of code and then you could run the program. If you were lucky and didn't make any typos, it might even actually work.
I made a lot of text adventure games. I'm sure they were awful, but it was so much fun!
Around age 11 or so I moved on to the IBM PC (clone) arena and never went back. My first one was a 4MHz XT clone with no hard drive, just two 360KB floppy drives (one for programs, one for data). My first hard drive was 10 megabytes. I thought "Wow, this is so huge I'll never be able to fill it up!"
The good old days. :)
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I used to love good text adventures, there were some really good UK companies making them like Magnetic Scrolls and Level 9 which I think overshadowed the Sierra stuff over here. And I played through all the Ultima series and later I got the Wizardry games in a cheap RPG compilation and enjoyed them!
I remember programming in BASIC. There actually used to be magazines about when I got my first computer that were full of games that you could type in - I wouldn't have imagined buying humble bundles and downloading games! The only game I made myself was a primitive rogue-like that I wrote to demonstrate two-dimensional arrays for school coursework.
My first hard drive was for my Atari ST and was also 10MB - I did manage to fill it though! My first PC was a 486 DX-2/66 and I think it had a 120MB HD.
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Man I remember those games really well, great blast from the past!
One of my favorite games was Julius Erving vs Larry Bird One on One basketball. You could dunk and break the backboard and a janitor would come out to sweep. :P
The robot janitor that came out to clean up always freaked me out for some reason. I always loved those little easter eggs in games, but sometimes they seemed so unnatural to the regular gameplay they gave me the willies since I was a pretty imaginative and impressionable kid... like I stumbled upon some magic world that I wasn't supposed to see... like it was revealing part of The Neverending Story or something and the game was sucking me into its world.
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Oh, I really love that nostalgia talk about what games we loved and played back in childhood years! Like seriously, it brings so many good memories, so huge thanks for sharing yours!
My first gaming system was a ZX Spectrum. Don't remember how old I was when my dad bought it to me.. it probably was the end of 80s or the very beginning of the 90s, so I was around 10 years old I guess. Got a NES after that, then my first PC, then XBox360.
The interesting thing though, all of my best gaming memories do come from PC games. When I hear people discuss the original Elite game or the Laser Squad from Spectrum, or the Mario and Castlevania from NES it all leaves me cold. But when it comes to PC... oh boy! The very first Civilisation game! First Command & Conquer, Dune 2, and later Red Alert! Sierra and Lucas Arts point and click adventure games: Monkey Island, Space Quest, Full Throttle! Original Doom and its sequel with the Final Doom expansion packs (still play it to this day regularly. Doom still has a very alive and active community)! And Quake (the first one of course, it's ONLY the first one!), and Duke Nukem 3d, and original Deus Ex, and the first two Thief games (Thief: the Dark Project and Thief 2: the Metal Age are the games that I replay every few years. They too still have an active community that produces new maps and missions to play!) PC is where all my best gaming memories are.
As for the Head over Heels, it's interesting that I actually found this game in the middle of the 00s when I stumbled on free modern remake of it made by the fan(s) of original game. And yes, I tried it, and as far as I remember it's really a good game. If you are interested, here's a link to it: http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/. Sadly, as I'm currently on mobile, I can't check if the game is actually playable on the modern hardware. Because even this retro remake is now a reasonably old game, being released in 2004 or something. But hey, it has more than 8 colours and it is free! :)
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You should be about my age because my best gaming memories are just about the almost the same games!
Fond memories...
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If you are in your mid-thirties, then we're indeed of the same age :)
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I guess I'm probably about the same age as you then! To be honest my happiest memories of the 8-bit era were of playing games with my friends rather than the games themselves. My earliest memories of great games were probably from the 16-bit era on my Atari ST and then later my PC. Doom was an obsession when it was first released - I wouldn't carry a tower PC to a friends house to play LAN for anything else!
That said though, Laser Squad was really good!
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I guess I'm probably about the same age as you then!
It looks like there are quite a few of "old timers" folk around here. Somehow, I'm surprised and happy about that fact! :)
Doom was an obsession when it was first released - I wouldn't carry a tower PC to a friends house to play LAN for anything else!
Online multiplayer started for me in the second half of the 90s at the Internet Cafes with Quake 2. We also played a lot of Worms in hot-seat mode at each other houses. As for the Doom, for me it is still an obsession. It's amazing how many different things, how much fun this game can actually offer!
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I'm not sure what the first game I played online multiplayer was - it may have been Starcraft. But certainly Doom I know we used to have LAN parties at my friends house, physically taking our desktop computers there. And later we used to go to the local college to play multiplayer in the computer room even though only one of my friends was a student there. We had to come up with increasingly elaborate schemes to get past the security guard sitting in the main entrance without valid student ID badges...
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Amazing game for its time and even now it has some long lasting qualities that stood the test of time. The original on the ZX Spectrum was quite a programming feat from the "landscaping" system to managing to store the size of the world into its memory, practically 32K bytes! There were barely few bytes left to squeeze the loader in and if you lost/won, you had to either load the game again from tape or a saved one as there wasn't even space to hold the "new game" data..
Brilliant game too and I hope the PC version does well and keeps reminding us of such great games..
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bump
dragon ball z ultimate battle 22 for psx. oh, the memories...
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So last time I posted a discussion people voted for trains without crap puzzles. But it felt boring to just say 'here are the games' and I felt there should be some sort of a theme. And then I had to go to my moms house and recover some of my childhood crap from the loft because of insulating work. And it inspired me to add a discussion about video game nostalgia.
This game that I found is an absolute classic that deserves to be remembered. It's called 'Head over Heels' and is an isometric puzzle platformer. The player controls two dog-like creatures with unique abilities. Head can jump and glide and can acquire a weapon that shoots doughnuts and paralyses enemies. Heels can run quickly and can acquire a bag that lets him pick up and carry objects. The two characters can also combine into a single entity. The game features several hundred interlinked puzzle rooms featuring moving platforms, lava floors, enemies, pressure plates and diverse traps, triggers, projectiles, etc. Many of the puzzles required significant lateral thinking.
In hindsight many of the games puzzles were surprisingly similar to those found in Portal, but the game had an added level of complexity in that the puzzle rooms were non-linear (quite aside from the fact that in control of two characters you were basically playing Portal co-operative testing by yourself). Some rooms could only be negotiated by Head or Heels individually while other rooms required them to work together, so working out the routes and paths that allowed them to come together at the right times was an ordeal in itself. Plus, despite its complexity, this was still a hardcore 8-bit platformer with no saves and three lives. It was an obsession for many UK gamers for some time...
Anybody else feel like sharing any forgotten games? Or just happy gaming memories?
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