How old skool are you?

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Everyone remembers that Commodore invented the world and that the 16+4 / 64 + Amiga, was the triple crown of computing...

however, can you remember 5 Commodore 16+4 games?

heres my effort

League Challenge
Prospector Pete
Fire Ant
Treasure Island


argh.... i remember the maths racing car game, where you had to get the sum right to dodge the rock - name failed, i failed

Commodore 4 Lyfe'
 
mehuk said:
Everyone remembers that Commodore invented the world and that the 16+4 / 64 + Amiga, was the triple crown of computing...

however, can you remember 5 Commodore 16+4 games?

heres my effort

League Challenge
Prospector Pete
Fire Ant
Treasure Island


argh.... i remember the maths racing car game, where you had to get the sum right to dodge the rock - name failed, i failed

Commodore 4 Lyfe'
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Nah the speccy was the birth of uk games industry lol, Cant remember much of the C16 but i had a Vic20 lol
 
mehuk said:
Everyone remembers that Commodore invented the world and that the 16+4 / 64 + Amiga, was the triple crown of computing...

however, can you remember 5 Commodore 16+4 games?

heres my effort

League Challenge
Prospector Pete
Fire Ant
Treasure Island


argh.... i remember the maths racing car game, where you had to get the sum right to dodge the rock - name failed, i failed

Commodore 4 Lyfe'
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How can 4 computers be the triple crown? There was lots of games on the +4 that were incompatible with the commodore 16 and vice versa.

I dont think naming those makes you old skool though, anyone who had a commodore 16 or plus 4 was treated like a gypsy around my area, if you didnt own a C64, you were outcasted.
 
The amstrad cpc464 was better in every department than the C64 and the speccy.

5 games from the greatest steam powered computer ever:

Bionic commando (so muddy on the c64 you couldnt see what was going on at all in some instances)
Dizzy.
Ghost busters
Ghouls and ghosts.
War of the wizards.

Thats 5, want any more awsomeness?
 
Proper old school = My list of owned computer
ZX81
Dragon 32
Tandy TRS-80 with 5.25" floppy disk drive ( that thing was so fast compared to tape loading ! )
Commodore 64 ( First game I saw on a C64 was Beach Head blew me away ! )
BBC B ( Elite & Zalaga clone of Galaga )
BBC Master with Intel PC Emu board, Torch floppy disk unit, a 5.25" floppy disk drive with a Z80 which allowed the BBC to use CP/M software.
Above 2 networked together.
Acorn Archimedes A4000 ( Chocks Away ! Loved that game )
Commodore Amiga 500
Then started building my own PC's 286, then 386 ect ect
 
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I remember my AtariST.

Soldier.
James Pond.

I remember a few others but can't for the life of me match up names to games haha. Theres one where you have to go inside some castle or something and another racing game with notches around the side of the screen to show car damage haha.

Memories. :D
 
I asked for a BBC Micro for my christmas one year, and was presented with a Tandy TRS-80, it was brutal.

I got the BBC the next year, after that i got a rubber keyed speccy, Commodore 64 (1985, my dad likes to wheel out the video of me opening it at family gatherings for embarassment), Atari St, Amiga, before starting on the consoles, master system, megadrive, snes (jap import), cdi, 3do, saturn, psx (both imports), and every console since then, the only thing i have missed is the virtual boy and pc engine, both which im trying to grab.
 
joey
mr puniverse
icicle works
exorcist
mayhem

i must have been 3 or 4 years old when i had one of these :D

mehuk said:
argh.... i remember the maths racing car game, where you had to get the sum right to dodge the rock - name failed, i failed
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number chaser?
 
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atpbx said:
The amstrad cpc464 was better in every department than the C64 and the speccy.
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The spectrum was the start of it all tbh. The Darling brothers who later became Codemasters who were famous for their Sim series titles. Konami for their arcade conversions, Ocean for their sheer quality games and so forth. I mean, who remembers Target Renegade? Forget Double Dragon!

Yeah the Amstrad hammered every 8 bit machine around. Hell Gryzor looked like a 16 bit game back then it was that good. Target Renegade was awesome. I started off on the Amstrad playing those Roland on the Ropes/Caves/etc style games, which came free with my 464. Iirc the whole computer was £399 from Dixons!

The C64 did better the CPC in the music department though. Iirc it had a custom soundchip for games use that the CPC could never match.
 
I'm probably as old school as it gets, as my first console was the Atari 2600 way back in 1980 or so. Had the Vic 20, Commodore 64, then went on from there. God they were fun times :D
 
My first computer was an Acorn Electron. Also had an Atari STE a few years later. Computer I used at school initially was an Archimedes and then we got some Mac Classics (I think).
 
Davey_Pitch said:
I'm probably as old school as it gets, as my first console was the Atari 2600 way back in 1980 or so. Had the Vic 20, Commodore 64, then went on from there. God they were fun times :D
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The 2600 rocked :) Those joysticks could stand the test of time I tell ya!

I went from:
Atari 2600
Amstrad PC1512 (think that was the model)
Amstrad CPC464
Amstrad CPC6128 (ahoy thar diskdrive tech!)
PC Engine (best console ever imo, aside from NeoGeo)
Atari ST (upgraded to the max)

Then I moved to PC's and PC gaming.
 
As far as proper home computers go I started out on a ZX81 but had some crazy colecovision or Atari thing when I was even younger.
 
I had an Analytical Engine back in the day... Oh what fun I used to have with that. Why is this in the Console section anyway, when it's talking about computers. 14 posts and nobody's even mentioned having an MB Vectrex console yet.
 
GarethDW said:
I had an Analytical Engine back in the day... Oh what fun I used to have with that. Why is this in the Console section anyway, when it's talking about computers. 14 posts and nobody's even mentioned having an MB Vectrex console yet.
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I had a Vectrex, it ruled.

Minestorm was awesome.
 
my first was a speccy 48k :)..

I can't remember which I had after this either my MSX or C64, both were ace... Gauntlet and who dares wins on the MSX and classics like turrican and Dizzy on the C64

Use magic to hurt death hahah
 
The_morrell said:
my first was a speccy 48k :)..

I can't remember which I had after this either my MSX or C64, both were ace... Gauntlet and who dares wins on the MSX and classics like turrican and Dizzy on the C64
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Yay someone else who had an MSX, I had two :p The Konami cartridge based games were excellent! :)
 
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