Metropol

have great memories of playing street figher 2 on the snes around my mates house on rainy wintery days when we were supposed to be at school.

other games i have fond memories of include:

• sonic 1,2,3,sonic and knuckles, sonic cd (sega md/cd)
  lemmings and lemmings 2: the tribes (amiga)
  cannon fodder (amiga)
  mayhem in monsterland (one of fabbest commodore 64 games ever made, fantastic considering the technical limitations of the c64) http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A ... FID%3D1625 seriously grab an emulator and play it.
  robocod 1 & 2 were a great laugh (i had these on the megadrive)
  wiz and liz
  starfox on the snes
  mario kart on the snes
  roadrash II
  streets of rage II: fantastic, so much replay value
  donkey kong country on the snes - got a bit tedious and frustrating at points but a great game.
  mario kart on the snes and nintendo 64 (both great)
  aladdin on the megadrive looked fantastic at the time
  earthworm jim

like a couple of posters, after the 16 bit era i lost interest in gaming, i actually have a wii and that's great fun because it's something you do with a few friends with a couple of cans of beer. i can't see why anybody would want to sit in their bedroom roaming around a brown landscape shooting things, it's just so boring. it was fun with doom, but it's all the same.

Hunt The Wumpus
Alpiner
and of course... Parsec!

Must disagree with Scrooge and Netzien here, as I think Worms 3D is fab. With certain maps, water becomes a problem and reduces playability; but there are some great pre-built maps for which that is much less of a problem. And flying Super Sheep in 3D is FUN FUN FUN. I do agree of course that Worms 2D was great, but it is a lot more fun aiming a 3D rocket launcher with 3D wind than a simple 2-way trajectory (direction in addition to angle and force).

If you enjoyed Monkey Island, you should definitely play Grim Fandango which is similar in concept.

I'm glad someone has mentioned Street Fighter: I loved that game. Down-Diag-Right-A! Shoryuken!!! I have also just remembered the Legend of Zelda, which was quite seriously worthwhile.

I meant to add all of these games run in Vista perfectly well with no emluation/VPC/anything.

My first ever games console was a Nintendo Entertainment System, which took fecking great big cartridges the size of dinner plates. Duck Hunt and Super Mario were favourites on that, as well as Donkey Kong and Mario Golf. Saw a NES in a second-hand shop the other day, going for £25! Or should that be NOT going...


Alex Kidd on Sega Master System

I also had a Sega Master System, Mega Drive and Game Gear (which I had long before GameBoy Color came out). I think it was the Master System that, when no cartridge was inserted, you'd be able to play Alex Kidd, which I was never any good at, always use to get frustrated that the character wouldn't jump when you wanted it to. Hours of fun throwing the control on the floor and storming off. Sonic was always the favourite on the Sega consoles though, I recently got Sonic Mega Collection for the PS2, so I can still play some of the old sonic games.


Panasonic Real 3DO

I was later given a Panasonic Real 3DO and a bunch of games, including Flashback and Theme Park. I found Flashback just impossible, it was one of those games where you'd wander around waiting for something to happen, and it just wouldn't. Theme Park was totally addictive, and still is, only on the DS these days!


Flashback on Panasonic Real 3DO

At the minute I'm back with Nintendo, using the Wii and the DS. I think I still have all my old consoles up in the loft, I doubt they'd work now though. Whatever they bring out now and however flash the graphics are, you still just cannot beat the good old games of the 80s and 90s.

nwtv2003 wrote:I couldn't agree more, it was simple, just point the gun at the TV and aim, when I was 7 years old we had hours and hours of fun from it. I was having a discussion about this with one of my mates the other day and he said pretty much the same, so I guess its fondly remembered. Shame they can't do a new version for Wii...

I've seen some of these old games on the Wii shopping channel, and I think I saw Duck Hunt on there as well, so might be worth checking that out. A new version would be fab though.

I'm glad Mayhem in Monsterland has been mentioned - I remember eagerly sending off for it out of a C64 mag in 1993 (not in shops!) and playing it solidly for months. I remember my Amiga days with most fondness with gems such as Superfrog, Alien Breed and Cannon Fodder. Also used to do DTP on it making catalogues and flyers, ordering disks of games and tech demos from PD libraries.

I've been gaming since 1989 or feels like I have, and I can't say I will ever stop!

I have had (and still have most of these) -

Many Spectrums (horrid build quality on the amstrad models)
Two C64's
VIC-20
Plus 4
Amiga 500 (disks have succumbed to mould sadly)
Megadrive and 32x (First played Doom on a 32x, good times back in 99, late to the game here!)
PS1
PS2
XBOX and XBOX 360
Game Boy Advance and a DS
And a 2006 gaming PC (outdated now)

stu wrote: Amiga 500 (disks have succumbed to mould sadly)

Did you play Oscar?

No, that's about the only platformer I never had! Some faves were Mr. Nutz, Kid Chaos and Assassin.

Lee wrote:My first ever games console was a Nintendo Entertainment System, which took fecking great big cartridges the size of dinner plates. Duck Hunt and Super Mario were favourites on that, as well as Donkey Kong and Mario Golf. Saw a NES in a second-hand shop the other day, going for £25! Or should that be NOT going...

That's bloody expensive!! In 2001 I got a boxed NES, with free game, for two quid at a bootsale.

Fond memories of the Amiga too, I used to have hours of fun with the Steven Hawking-ish text-to-speech program. I got 'Outrun' for it for my sixth birthday, awesome game.

Rayman on the original PlayStation.

What a game.

I loved paperboy. About the only game i was shit hot at.

Ant wrote:Rayman on the original PlayStation.

What a game.

Ditto on the Atari Jaguar - that and Tempest 2000. Just this week managed to get Rayman 1 (for PC) with the correct hack to run it on XP with music and all - heaven!

Still playing Rayman 2 and 3 as well (spot a pattern...?)

Also love going back for the occasional spell on Sabre Wulf and Knight Lore on the old Spectrum emulator, as well as Ant Attack. I'm sure games were more addictive back in the 80s. (Yep, got a Shockwave version PacMan on my N95 - nabbed off a web site - just to while away the time).

EDIT: Forgot to mention one of my all time favourites that I've not been able to play in (ten) years - Evolution Dino Dudes. Brilliant.