Old skool Games, List your favs, (screenshots welcomed)

I also feel bad.. bull frog games..

populous,
theme park
theme hosptial

also roller coaster tycoon was great and my gf still plays it now, most nights in fact.
 
Bruce Lee was the first game I was hooked on when I was a kid.

Then I discovered arcade games and spent a million 10p (Yes when arcade games were 10p a go!!) playing Double Dragon, Robocop and Silkworm.

Then I got an Amiga and played Kick Off 1/2, Speedball and various D&D role playing games to death...

Happy days :D
 
My first computer was a Mac, so my first games were mostly Marathon based.

Marathon I,II and III were awesome, as was Damage Incorporated.

http://www.paranoidproductions.com/damage/

At the same time I played Duke 3D, and every shareware game you could get on the magazine CDs :P

Amusing that a Mac brought me into PC gaming ;)
 
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 3
Nintendo World Cup
Duck Hunt
Tetris
Megaman 1 & 2
Bionic Commando
Monkey Island (The Secret, LeChucks Revenge & The Curse)
Full Throttle
Maniac Mansion
Day Of The Tenticle
Zak McKracken & The Alien Mind Benders
Indiana Jones : The Last Crusade
Indiana Jones : The Fate Of Atlantis
Sam & Max : Hit The Road
Leisure Suit Larry 1-7
Corridor 7
Wolfenstien
Doom
Unreal
Quake 1 & 2
Half-Life
Unreal Tornament
Unreal 2
Deus Ex
System Shock 1 & 2
Burn Cycle
Syndicate
CANNON FODDER
Command & Conquer(Tiberian Dawn)
Red Alert
X-Wing
Tie Fighter
Star Wars Supremacy
Little Big Adventure 1&2
Transport Tycoon
Duke Nukem
Double Dragon
Splatter House 1&2
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Free Ski
Battlezone (2D)
Battlezone (3D)
Pong
Breakout
Baldurs Gate (1 & 2 {w} Expansions)
Screamer
The Nomad Soul
Soldier Of Fortune...


...and the list goes on & on & on &... you get the idea.
 
ssharp59 said:
I also feel bad.. bull frog games..

populous,
theme park
theme hosptial

also roller coaster tycoon was great and my gf still plays it now, most nights in fact.
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I didn't count RCT, because I still play it, so it doesn't make the cut as "old skool", just old :D
 
Grim Fandango

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quite a list there..

does anybody remmber a game called 7th guest.. i remmber playing that up until the point you called hear a woman on her way to a climax and then the game just kinda cudnt be taken seriously any longer.

I also played a point and click based on a pepporani called animal.!
 
Where to begin.... so many great proper old skool games...

My computer games journey began on my Acorn Electron (this is of course not counting the Nintendo handhelds etc a partiuclart fave of mine being mario in the bottle factory).

The electron was a brilliant little thing and we (my brother and I) had some great games, highlights included:

Sphinx Adventure

A text adventure that saw you going round and round in circles. Your attempts to do anything at all were all too often thwarted by the computer

"drink potion" There is no potion...ARRRRGGHHH

Various rip offs of classic arcade games:
Snapper = Pac man
Hopper = Frogger
Arcadians = space invaders



Plan B:
You took control of a little robot who floated around and fired little arrow type lasers. you had to pick up keys and oil drums and avoid loads of other robots that were trying to kill you. Each screen represented an individual room and lead to other rooms. It seemed massive and was really hard but at the same time brilliant. Every time you managed to get to a new room it was like you'd discovered a whole new world. amazing stuff!!!

There was also a strange but brilliant game. It was very simple but super addictive and could be played with two players in coop action. Basically the screen was a level with walls. The walls were eletrified and killed you if you ran into them. You had to get from one side of the screen to the other. Simple enough except for the fact that there were loads of little enemies everywhere and you had to kill them all. I can't for the life of me remember the name of it sadly.

We then graduated to the Amiga (first an A500+ then an A1200) So many great games, some highlights:

Kick Off 2
Sensible Soccer & SWOS
Syndicate
Pinball Fantasies
Jaguar Xj220
Lotus Turbo Challenge 1, 2 & 3
Speedball 1 & 2
Brutal Sports Football
Ugh - you played a little cave man who piloted a flying taxi thing. You had to land near passengers and take them to the platform they wanted, simple but very addictive.

Pushover
Cannon Fodder
The Chaos Engine
Hired Guns
Lemmings - many varietys
Xenon 2 Mega Blast
Turrican 1 & 2

One where you controlled a rolling metal ball that had to avoid spikes etc. Special blocks made the ball float, or bounce etc- think it might have been called Chrome?

SWIV & Silkworm

Heimdal
Monkey Island
Beneath A Steel Sky

The list just goes on and on, there were so many new and brilliant ideas back then, which makes me rather sad when you just keep seeing rehashes/sequels all the time these days.
 
my dad made this game he called "train" or something like that, I love it. You had control of the switches to control the turns at certain points and you had to get the train over certain things or something, not entirely sure. The problems arrive when you hit a switch from the wrong direction when it's not connected to your bit of track due to there being about 5 trains running around.

Still yet to convert it from z-80 asm to anything usable, but was good fun :D
 
Apologies for the slightly random feel to my list :

Exile (BBC Micro - my mate had one)
Chuckie Egg
Jet Set Willy
F18 Interceptor (Amiga)
Gauntlet (Arcade :p)
Skate or die
Knightlore
Sensible Soccer
Legend of Zelda
etc etc.

Those are some of the ones that just popped into my head when i saw this thread.
 
You can't beat a bit of Snake Pit on the Vic-20, as well as Metagalactic Llamas: Battle at the Edge of Time.

I used to love Sabre Wulf and Star Quake from my early days on the Speccy too. Back when Saturday morning kids programs used to have game chart run-downs. I seem to recall Sabre Wulf being up there forever.
 
valve90210 said:
Plan B:
You took control of a little robot who floated around and fired little arrow type lasers. you had to pick up keys and oil drums and avoid loads of other robots that were trying to kill you. Each screen represented an individual room and lead to other rooms. It seemed massive and was really hard but at the same time brilliant. Every time you managed to get to a new room it was like you'd discovered a whole new world. amazing stuff!!!

There was also a strange but brilliant game. It was very simple but super addictive and could be played with two players in coop action. Basically the screen was a level with walls. The walls were eletrified and killed you if you ran into them. You had to get from one side of the screen to the other. Simple enough except for the fact that there were loads of little enemies everywhere and you had to kill them all. I can't for the life of me remember the name of it sadly.
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It wasn't Escape from the planet of the robot monsters?



M.
 
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