****Who Remembers??****

Spellbound on the Speccy.
Silkworm on the C64.
1943 on the C64.
All the point click Lucasarts games, in particular Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

They're the stand out ones from before the PC revolution for me. :)
 
Eames said:
My earliest gaming memories are playing kickstart and a game called up n down on an atari.
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Kickstart 2 was absolutely amazing as it came with a course editor! I had it on CPC and used to make some quite evil courses. :D
 
PiKe said:
I preferred the 90's back when game play was king and graphics were an afterthought :D
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Somebodies wearing their rose tinted glasses! Graphics weren't an afterthought in the 90s. Are you forgetting all the arguments between sega, nintendo and amiga owners on how many colours their systems could display, or how many "bits" they have. Paying £60-70 for higher capacity cartridges or cartridges with add-on chips to enhance the polygon count.

That was the decade that spawned the the graphics card, first 3d accelerated consoles, the whole wave of FMV "games" like night-trap which were all about their graphics and absolutely devoid of gameplay. The 90's had entire consoles dedicated to "style over substance", such as the atari Jaguar and the Mega CD.
 
Just the sound of this takes me back, this was my first home game system (console 1978) Atari 2600. I think it came with a tank game, can't remember. But the first game I played to death at home, was Space Invaders (around 1979/80)..

 
jimbob27 said:
Somebodies wearing their rose tinted glasses! Graphics weren't an afterthought in the 90s. Are you forgetting all the arguments between sega, nintendo and amiga owners on how many colours their systems could display, or how many "bits" they have. Paying £60-70 for higher capacity cartridges or cartridges with add-on chips to enhance the polygon count.

That was the decade that spawned the the graphics card, first 3d accelerated consoles, the whole wave of FMV "games" like night-trap which were all about their graphics and absolutely devoid of gameplay. The 90's had entire consoles dedicated to "style over substance", such as the atari Jaguar and the Mega CD.
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1984 to early nineties was amazing, but to be honest, I really did love my US SNES when I got it - there were tonnes of games which, yes, had amazing graphics for the time but still had amazing gameplay. I can still spend ages playing Streetfighter II Turbo, Zelda 3 or Super Mario Kart, for example.

I can't think of many "modern" games that have as much replay value as a lot of the golden oldies. I still enjoy playing the Dizzy games. :eek:
 

Chaos Engine. Released in 1993.

Remember playing this on my Amiga as I was growing up and it's sequel. Probably the best game I've ever played.
 
I spent many an hour playing Captain Blood and to this day have absolutely no idea what you're supposed to do. :p


Beneath A Steel Sky and Star Trek 25th Anniversary was the reason I saved for a hard disk for my A1200.



And who can forget Starglider 2 and it's beyond awesome sountrack!

 
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PianoBasher said:
1984 to early nineties was amazing, but to be honest, I really did love my US SNES when I got it - there were tonnes of games which, yes, had amazing graphics for the time but still had amazing gameplay. I can still spend ages playing Streetfighter II Turbo, Zelda 3 or Super Mario Kart, for example.

I can't think of many "modern" games that have as much replay value as a lot of the golden oldies. I still enjoy playing the Dizzy games. :eek:
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Well personally I don't think things have changed a huge amount. Every era has a few games with great graphics and crappy gameplay. The one I remember the most was "rise of the robots". Pre-release we were told to expect another SF2 or Mortal Kombat, but when it came out it wasn't even remotely comparible to the good beat-em-ups of the day.

In the 90's we had titles with great graphics and gameplay like the ones you mentioned, but imo we have modern equivalents in games like Shogun 2, bf3 and Skyrim.
 
I hated this game, played it all time but I always ended up rage quitting :D

This one was also a favourite of mine

and this:

There are a few others also, the Amstrad CPC was were gaming all started for me, so I've a lot of fun memories as a kid with it :)

after the Amstrad came the Sega and this was an epic game for me
 
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