The first time I saw the graphics (Ice breaking scene) in Karate Kid Part 2 on an Atari ST. oO
I remember seeing reviews and ads for Head over Heels in some english mags my dad would sometimes bring. There were quite a lot of isometric games at that time.
Remember Ocean, U.S Gold, Infogrames, Epyx?
wow :)
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A fun game that i remember playing a lot was Roller coaster Tycoon. I have not replayed it at all recently, so Im not sure if it still holds up well, but hopefully I can win one of the many RT2 giveaways, or buy it myself if I save up enough before the bundle ends.
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Good luck, and at least I gave you another chance!
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Hey, I know that game) Of course I had a pirated version - getting licensed copy in my country back that was nearly impossible.
That was a nice game, but kinda hard, I never finished it.
Well, most of my good childhood memories is about spectrum games too.
I liked a Dizzy series - it was something like point'n'click games, only you can't point and can't click, because there is no mouse)))
Also there was a great game called Thanatos - a dragon simulator! Really good game, I even played it recently using spectrum emulator software. It's still great)
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I never got into the Dizzy games for some reason, but I remember them being really popular! I hadn't heard of Thanatos before - that looks awesome!
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Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Urban Strike, Zero Tolerance, Flashback: The quest for Identity, Jurassic Park, Streets of Rage 1-3, C&C Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Warcraft 2: Tides of Darknesss, StarCraft + Brood Wars, Dune: The Battle for Arrakis, Quackshot Duck: Starring Donald Duck, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist, Sunset Riders, Sonic, Earthworm Jim, Tom and Jerry, Paladin, Tiny Toons: Busters Hidden Treasure, Doom Troopers: Mutant Chronicles, Mario, Golden Axe 1-2, The Flintsones, Cossacks, Ghostbusters, Ignition, Bonkers, The Sims 1-2, Doom, Total Annihilation, Commandos: Behind the Call of Duty, Age of Empires 2, The Adventures of Batman and Robin, Call of Duty 1-3, Pursuit Force, Battletoads, Mortal Kombat 3, GTA III, GTA Vice City + both stories and San Andreas, Paragon, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Dragon fable, The Godfather, Field Commander, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Road Rash 2-3, Robocop 3, Arcanum: Of SteamWorks and Magicka, State of War, Dead Head Fred, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, CS 1.6., Battlefield Heroes, Battleforge, Need For Speed 1-3 + Wanted and Carbon, Silent Hill Origins, Killzone: Liberation, Chilli Con Carnage, Burnout Legends, Flatout 1-2, Epic Duel, Sift Heads series, Stick War, The Last Stand 1-2, Dead Frontier Outbreak series, KRUSH kill and Destroy Xtreme, Delta Force Land Warrior, Obscure The Aftermath and much, much more I have powerful nostalgia for, played all these or atleast saw or watched them a little bit way back from as a young little kid, to teenager, all of them are damn great games and still would recommend them.
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Some great games there! Desert Strike and it's sequels are ones that stand out to me that haven't been mentioned by anyone else - probably the most deep and strategic shoot-em-ups I've ever played!
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Some??? Their all great man :) !!! The Strike games stand out? I can see why. Arcadic, difficult shooter, strategically approaching, world saving missions in a chopper game made by EA when they were great, I so want modern sequel's or proper remakes. So you played them? Glad to hear such good words on it from you,personaly never finished either, more like dipped my feet, but I did watch the later two finished b y relatives. Either way, love the Strike games, can't get enough of Urban Strike's theme music = http://youtu.be/Iknefj-NY3I 208 likes and still no dislikes :) did you play the PC version? It had awesome cutscenes that I wish I had seen when I first played = http://youtu.be/VvD6_3FYiNY so awesome that fans funnily remade it = http://youtu.be/js9wnybOIoc
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Lots of great games, I was just trying to pick something that hadn't been discussed elsewhere!
I played through Desert Strike on SNES - a friend loaned me a copy and I tried it out and it was just one of those games where I sat and played it until I realised it was turning dawn. It was really easy to get into, the graphics and sound were great for the times, the shoot-em-up element of the game was fun and the puzzle/strategy element of the game was really addictive - it was really hard to walk away from a level without completing it.
I played a few of the later games on different platforms but I hadn't realised there were so many until I googled the series after your post!
Out of the other games that you mentioned I really enjoyed playing through Starcraft, the Warcraft games before it was an MMO, the Golden Axe games, Arcanum and others! I gave up on Battletoads as that was too hard. I loved GTA 1+2 and was obsessed with GTA III when it came out - I hadn't long moved into my first place of my own and I pinned a huge sheet of cardboard to the wall of my front room behind the TV and drew a map of the city and all the short cuts and important locations on it in colour coded marker pens!
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I keep watching retro shows on youtube lately. I think I feel kind of nostalgic.
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I was even looking for prices. I wanted to build a raspberry pie 3 based retro console.
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Wow, realy? That would be awesome :) emulators don't do it for you huh?
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Yes, but I wanna build something... And the idea of a separate small box that you connect to the TV, with a couple of controllers for a reasonable price, it seems like fun.
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Ah I see you wanna go back to your roots with console gaming we all did when we were kids, I betcha. Well I hope you get what you want, sure sounds pricey, I actualy not too long ago on YouTube discovered that some company is buying rights to old games, unfinished and cancelled games, and finishing them, publishing them on their new console to allow us playing old games, don't remember details but they make box copies. Maybe you're after that.
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Not bad for 1986. and still quite playable today.
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I feeling young here ... the oldest game I remember is probably Commander Keen 4 : Secret of the Oracle. Remember watching my Dad playing together with my sister and letting us "help" him with button presses ... aww those kids-day-memories
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Bump! For me a game that was amazing to play at my best friend's house was this one:
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Spent ages looking for a vintage rpg I played as a teen. Finally discovered it under a different name (the name I knew was Legend). Four Crystals of Trazere is one I recommend to al interested in classic rpgsl
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The Legend of Dragoon for PSX, still to this day my favourite game of all time.
No matter how many times I re-play it, it still makes me feel the same way I felt when I was just a kid without a worry in the world.
No matter how much people talk bad about it, to me that game is magical.
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Not familiar with that game but it sounds similar to Solstice, which I played on the NES long ago. I actually thought about it recently and was like "I should play that again" lol. Definitely a game that offered a bit of a different formula than most games of that era.
There was also a later sequel for the SNES called Equinox
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I hadn't heard of those before, but the wikipedia page describes them as being influenced by Knight Lore which was the first example of the isometric engine used in Head over Heels. So probably yes, very similar - and thanks for bringing up something I'd missed!
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Had to necro this, because check this out:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/345480/Lumo/
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I don't think I'm as old as you guys, or maybe I wasn't into gaming enough. My very first game was Super Mario Land for the Gameboy... other earliest memories I had fun playing are Disney Hercules, South Park (shooting snowballs) and Perfect Dark.
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Great giveaways man! I think one of my favorite memories is when my dad and I first got our PS2, without a memory card. We realized it too late into playing a lego star wars game, so we just finished it in one playthrough, then bought a memory card the next day and played the game again.
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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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