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Retro Games

Discussion in 'Computers/Gadgets' started by Dub13, Feb 5, 2008.

  1. Dub13

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    What old games did you like...I have a few but to start does anybody remember Kick Off...?it was the only (i think) top down football game.It was absolutely class and I played it for years.I used to play this as far back as the Amiga and the Atari ST back in the early 90s.
     
  2. sean

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    That Kick Off was a top class game mate, though it was some noise trying to dribble down the wing with the noise coming off the ball, sounding like a basketball bouncing all the ways down the pitch!

    Have to say I was a big fan of Micro Machines myself.
     
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    Yea kick off had some strange features,as the new games come out I used to think how realistic it looked....looking back on a few screen shots not it the graphs was crap but we did not no any better.

    Times were simpler.
     
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    only remember sonic and mario in the early 90s dont recall any thing before that besides my crappy spectrum computer
     
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    I used to love Shinobi (one of the proudest days when I managed to finish that one:))
    I remember a jet fighter or helicopter one that you could sit in (an the arcade near where I used to live Afterburner I think it was called.
    There was a war one called 1945 or some year
    I even remember the original street fighter
    The first console I got wa sthe atari 2600 before that I used to play my cousins Spectum Sinclair (ages loadin those casettes )
     
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    Shinobi, Out Run, Afterburner, Chase HQ, Bubble Bobble, Operation Wolf, Strider all classics I used to play in the local snooker hall.
    Remember waiting a half hour for a game to load on commodore 64
     
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    For the PC it has to be Sensible Soccer.

    On the Megadrive it was Street Fighter 2 Special Championship Edition..I got it on import for about 100 punts at the time.... I had it about 3 months before anyone (Every time they show Matt Le Tissier two brilliant goals for Southampton against Newcastle ?? its on the advertising hoarding).

    Honourable mentions for Micro Machines, Mario Kart and FIFA 95 (Overheads from 40 yards out). another that sticks out is Duck Hunt!!!
     
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    awesome, remember my brother geting it the day it came out on PAL for about 70 punts crazy price. also had to buy pricy six button joypads. me and my bro became surgeons at that game. Now, we're shite again :)
     
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    Kickoff was great, hours of my life wasted on that....And the greatest soccer game of all time, sensible soccer
     
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    Anybody remember F-19 Stealth Fighter What a game,many many hours I spent playing that it was cutting edge stuff at the time.
     
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    Had an early atari but can't remember the name, one after the 2600, had missle command on it. But remember getting the first sensible soccer with the atari st and been blown away by it. What a game! One button and joystick!! Other ones North & South, Football Manager, Cabal was another classic.
     
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    Yeah, had to get special pads, I had one with a autofire option, great for Eddie Honda and Blanka special moves.

    I got the 15th annivary edition for PS2 for a tenner three years ago, still take it out now and again.

    Yoga Fire :D:D:D
     

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