A couple of greats from the SNES. They dont make em like they used to .

http://www.awooga.org/images/08zbfehz59d4gohs4xnp.jpg (http://www.awooga.org/)

http://www.awooga.org/images/s8vww4op96eg93lggj9.jpg (http://www.awooga.org/)

I don't understand what this "new games suck compared to old ones" is about. There's many games with good gameplay, coupled with semi-realistic graphics, what more could you want? Simple, 2d levels that only allow you to move forward, A is for punch, B is for kick?

By the way, the old zelda games feel really lame when you play them now. Maybe with the exception of the n64 zelda games.

Nah not at all. New games are good but all the great ideas all started from these early 90s and late 90s games.

I was so addicted to frontier elite2 when I was 14. I had the 1st but the sequel was amazing. Man I played it solid for a year! Never done that before with a game nor since. If only they made an up to date version, hard since elite3 Braben fall out he doesn't want to bother and always spents ages on a game so by time it comes out it's out of date. You just cant spend 4 years on a game these days. I looked forward to x3 thinkin it had promise but it fell flat on is face compared to frontier elite 2.

Boulder Dash all the way!!! You actually had to use brain for that, I apologize...

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee11/wiicovers/Castlevania.jpg

Best series ever!!

Those games are new to me, how about these old school ones:

http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08214/starwars846.png (http://xs.to)

http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08214/tron0000717.png (http://xs.to)

http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08214/bombjack940.png (http://xs.to)

couple of others i liked. Chronotrigger was a quality rpg. One of the better ones for snes.

http://www.awooga.org/images/y5kfx5thvjde6fgafdk.jpg (http://www.awooga.org/)

Goldeneye just a outstanding fps. It's probably the best i've ever played.

http://www.awooga.org/images/x9eap1w0a8tjjqoiksw.jpg (http://www.awooga.org/)

Super Metroid, Doom, Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem 3D. Uh, Descent, RotT and a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment.

Those games are new to me, how about these old school ones:

http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08214/starwars846.png (http://xs.to)

http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08214/tron0000717.png (http://xs.to)

http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08214/bombjack940.png (http://xs.to)

holy fuck tron

final fantsey mystic quest

X-Com series.

Incidentally a lot of these are free now if you get an emulator like Dos-Box. Google search them; you might be surprised.

yeah I found elite, elite 2 and 3rd one (trash) with all kinds of improvements but it looks too trashy these days and is repetitive and shallow by todays standards. I have a few dosbox games and mame too.

holy fuck tron

Yeah, MAME32 baby. It's one of those emulators. I have about 250 of these old games, original arcade ROMs, you even have to press a button to enter a quarter! Most of them are '80s, though, not '90s.

Intelligent cube
Wipeout XL
Samurai Showdown
Sengoku
Super Mario World
Gradius III


<----undefeatable Street Fighter II player (mainly arcade)

I enjoyed Ninja, on the Sega Master System.

Was Abe's Oddysey from the 90s?

A couple of greats from the SNES. They dont make em like they used to .
My favorite was Gallaga.
http://www.geocities.jp/f_tamakoku/famicon/database/1985_picture/1985_01/85_gallaga.gif
The great thing is, that while my kids can kick my ass at Halo 1, 2, and 3; I can still kick their asses at Gallaga.

i always liked the old games because back in the day you had to have gameplay. not like now where it seems the only thing that matters to the creaters is how pretty everything looks.

My favorite was Gallaga.
http://www.geocities.jp/f_tamakoku/famicon/database/1985_picture/1985_01/85_gallaga.gif
The great thing is, that while my kids can kick my ass at Halo 1, 2, and 3; I can still kick their asses at Galaga.

Old schoolers know about trying to get the most out of a quarter LOL.
I miss the 80s/early 90s. You don't see nearly as many arcade machines around nowadays as back then (besides "Golden Tee" at random bars).

I went to a movie theater a few months ago, and they had a retro styled arcade machine which featured Galaga + a few other classics. It was 75 cents to play!

Anyone every play a PD game on ST/amiga/pc called grav2. I LOVED that game but cannot find it on any abandonware site. It was pure pixel perfect good physics rotate and thrust. Now I would still play that.

Omega Race! I had to type in the program from a book for the Commodore Vic20, and upload the game from a cassette tape every time.

A couple of greats from the SNES. They dont make em like they used to .

http://www.awooga.org/images/08zbfehz59d4gohs4xnp.jpg (http://www.awooga.org/)

http://www.awooga.org/images/s8vww4op96eg93lggj9.jpg (http://www.awooga.org/)

Oh man, seeing those two games nearly gave me an orgasm.

I can't remember how many times I've beaten those games over the years.

I don't miss the days of waiting for my cassettes to load on my dragon32 or spectrum48. I thought they were amazing at the time hahaha what a fool. I spent days typing in code to make games which basically ended up as a load of crap boxes, I though they were great (a space invaders one I got from a book was actually quite good at the time).

My st wasn't bad since I loaded disks into ram drive (I added a load of mem upgrades, had to solder the aries upgrades in back then) so was quick access. Floppies were not to slow though unlike cassette, I could never afford a zip drive :(

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa93/chriscombs_2007/IM002500.jpg

BESTEST GAME EVER!!!!!

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http://ben.bacchus.com.au/vpcblog/images/ufo4.PNG

I loved this game. The first from the x-com series.

Please, just refer to my avatar! :-) (Super Metroid!) The best Super Nintendo Game... right up there with Zelda a Link to the Past.

Whats funny is, I thought that after a while of having not played the Super Nintendo that some of my hand eye coordination skills would have diminished.... and none such thing has happened. I guess even when I'm an old man I'll still be pro at those games, what a waste of time lol

Xcom I still play now and then.

My Fav:

http://www.classicgamingpresents.com/catalog/images/starcontrol21.jpg

http://www.vidgames.com/ps/screens/wipeout7.jpg

Baby's got an atom bomb
A motherfucking atom bomb
Twenty two megaton
You've never seen so much fun

X-Com series.

Yes Yes Yes YES!

I still have it on my pooter today and it still gets the occasional play - in fact I was playing it last night.

You do know that Xcom EU, Xcom TFTD, and Xcom Apocalypse are now available as abaondoware (i.e. freedownload) and all run native on XP ?


Greatest arcade game of all time:

Defender - no fucking contest

Even Apoc? Geez. *stares forlornly at purchased disk*

I want to play it on mine but have a) no time and b) my bloody graphics card is so fast it jumps everywhere. :(

PS: nice sig, BTW - I heard about that group the other day. Cheeky. Need their CD.

Even Apoc? Geez. *stares forlornly at purchased disk*

I want to play it on mine but have a) no time and b) my bloody graphics card is so fast it jumps everywhere. :(


Go to http://www.abandonia.com - and get a dos emulator like dosbox - dosbox allows you to compensate for running it on newer faster hardware.

If you are still having probs - maybe an older dos native version might help:

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=2428

There's oodles of other classic games on those two sites if you are into that sort of thing

for other techie tips if you still have problems, go to the forums on www.xcomufo.com

I got dosbox but it's still hugely fast. I'm trying to find a "slowage" program; saw something about some mod in a forum once. Man, I really wish they'd add more in that series. Can't tell me there wouldn't be a big return on that. They did Defender, didn't they? But I heard it sucked.

I got dosbox but it's still hugely fast. I'm trying to find a "slowage" program; saw something about some mod in a forum once. Man, I really wish they'd add more in that series. Can't tell me there wouldn't be a big return on that. They did Defender, didn't they? But I heard it sucked.

I'm sure there is a way to reduce virtual cpu cycles in dosbox - been ages since I used it tho so cant remember.

I think there's another app called Smoke which can be used to slowdown old dos apps.

There were some fairly recent XCOM sequels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Aftermath

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Aftershock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Afterlight

Not played them - or even seen them yet - but I heard they were rubbish

Yeah! I think Smoke the one. Hmmm...maybe I should give that a crack. Thanks for the tip!

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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2006/06/MutantFootball1.png
http://digibutter.nerr.biz/templates/sleek/images/folder_locked_big.gif

Xcom I still play now and then.

My Fav:

http://www.classicgamingpresents.com/catalog/images/starcontrol21.jpg

You know starcon is abandonware these days

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/143/Star+Control+1.html

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/144/Star+Control+2.html

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/822/Star+Control+3.html

There is only one futuristic sports game that was ever worth a toss - but that turned out to be one of the greatest games of all time.


http://www.hand-ball.org/en/software/software/juegos/speedball.jpg

http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/06/speedball2HD.jpg

couple of others i liked. Chronotrigger was a quality rpg. One of the better ones for snes.

ChronoTrigger, I beat it twice :p and 007 is one of my best 2.

Descent II, best of the series from my view.

http://image.versiontracker.com/scrnsht/43126/146938/115d2x_ss.jpg

Croc: Legend of Gobbos

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Croc_Legend_of_the_Gobbos.jpg

Love this game...

http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/1/197001/croc_screen002.jpg

MDK: Murder Death Kill, the sort of sci-fi mac game that made me a man, it has so much fear involved in it and adventure and different way of traveling through these air tunnels...its amazing. You can play it for free too, here:

http://www.cdaccess.com/jpg/shared/front/large/mdk.jpg

http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/346/MDK%20(Murder%20Death%20Kill)_4.jpg

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/346/MDK+-+Murder+Death+Kill.html

I really recommend everyone to give this game a try.

I got MDK off abandonia a year or so ago - I liked it but never quite figured out what it was supposed to be about, I prefer something a little more immersive than "run around and shoot stuff"

I got MDK off abandonia a year or so ago - I liked it but never quite figured out what it was supposed to be about, I prefer something a little more immersive than "run around and shoot stuff"

I played the game when I was still 13 and it was sure an experience for me...I came from Russia, the most games I got there were all 2D "catch the mouse" :p and "tanks" games. And here I was immersed in this 3D environment.

I think I must have found pussy about that time...yet I remember....80's Games rule...
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:VqUWHtx_bBjx3M:http://www.virginmedia.com/microsites/games/slideshow/iconsofgaming/img_1.jpg
http://www.spectrum.8bit.pl/spectrum/zx-livebox/games/JetSetWilly/game.png
http://blog.yibble.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/spectrum_1.jpg
They were indestructable you could whack them, smack them,jump on them and they would still work....I wonder if any users of the ZX 80 are about (that was 'en peu' before my time)

MDK the sequel was far better than the original

MDK the sequel was far better than the original

yeah but since it costs money I never got to play it.

The greatest arcade game Ever Invented in the History of Man, Chapter 3....Ever Ever Part 2...
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/harrier.jpg

Akira.


All Hail the director.

http://www.gotterdammerung.org/film/kurosawa-akira/kurosawa-akira.jpg

Quality tastes good...

The greatest arcade game Ever Invented in the History of Man, Chapter 3....Ever Ever Part 2...
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/harrier.jpg

Is that for snes? got a rom :cool:?

The greatest arcade game Ever Invented in the History of Man, Chapter 3....Ever Ever Part 2...
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/harrier.jpg

If you've got Mame, I've got the ROM

I got dosbox but it's still hugely fast. I'm trying to find a "slowage" program; saw something about some mod in a forum once. Man, I really wish they'd add more in that series. Can't tell me there wouldn't be a big return on that. They did Defender, didn't they? But I heard it sucked.

I don't know if any of this will solve your problem, but I managed to run the dos version of apoc on a pretty new machine by following all this:

http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/xcom_apoc/how_to_get_xcom_apoc_running_under_winxp.html

Best of luck with it Geoff.

There is only one futuristic sports game that was ever worth a toss - but that turned out to be one of the greatest games of all time.


http://www.hand-ball.org/en/software/software/juegos/speedball.jpg

http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/06/speedball2HD.jpg

Thanks - now I have to get my amiga working again to play it. I hope you're happy for changing my entire weekend plans :p

Monkey Island - http://www.4colorrebellion.com/media/pics/jul/monkey_island.jpg

http://www.pixfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/super-soccer-cover.jpg

First football game I played. Absolutely loved it.
I still remember attempting to play a full 90 minute match against my brother, didn't even finish the first half - but if I recall correctly, I was winning. :cool:

http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Super_Soccer_SNES_ScreenShot3.gif

Thanks - now I have to get my amiga working again to play it. I hope you're happy for changing my entire weekend plans :p

You could always run it off an Emu - the megadrive/genesis verion is identical in every way to the amiga version - get one of the genesis emu's like Genecyst and then hunt down a ROM. then you can play it on yer PC

There's also a fairly recent GBA version, but - while its a good conversion - its not absolutely faithful - so the gameplay just isn't the same

Thanks - now I have to get my amiga working again to play it. I hope you're happy for changing my entire weekend plans :p

I'm too fucking nice - but for a fellow speedballer......

ROM:

http://www.romnation.net/srv/download/rom/52232/genesis2/Speed-Ball-2-Brutal-Deluxe-E.html

Emus:

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/7/genesis/genecyst-vx-xx-for-DOS.html

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/4/genesis/gens-v2-11.html

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/70/genesis/Gens-v2-14-for-Windows.html

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/6/genesis/xega-v0-10-for-windows.html

Monkey Island - http://www.4colorrebellion.com/media/pics/jul/monkey_island.jpg

That was a fun ass game!

http://digibutter.nerr.biz/templates/sleek/images/folder_locked_big.gif

Reminds me of M.U.D.S(this game was the ultimate sleeper...)

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/458/M.U.D.S.+-+Mean+Ugly+Dirty+Sport.html

http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/458/MUDS_8.png

http://www.awooga.org/images/c2gj9tyo7hs3fmdckvg.png (http://www.awooga.org/)

This game i prefered over Resident Evil. Both quality games but i this was the only game of the survival horror genre to have me hooked from start to finish.

...Gabriel Knight anyone?

I'm too fucking nice - but for a fellow speedballer......

ROM:

http://www.romnation.net/srv/download/rom/52232/genesis2/Speed-Ball-2-Brutal-Deluxe-E.html

Emus:

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/7/genesis/genecyst-vx-xx-for-DOS.html

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/4/genesis/gens-v2-11.html

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/70/genesis/Gens-v2-14-for-Windows.html

http://www.romnation.net/srv/emulators/6/genesis/xega-v0-10-for-windows.html

My friend, you are a god among men.

That was a fun ass game!

Personally I think the 3rd one was best, but I love the original. :)

Bomb Jack, elevator action, pacman,1942, any MUD, Heroes 2 - heaps more from my mispent youth ( mispent pocket money too)

Aces over Europe.

Jill of the jungle
Hover
Mario 64
Star fox
Banjo and kazooie
Diddy kong racing
Tomb radder
BC racers
Pokemon red/blue

Ha. I remember Jill.

http://banditosbanditosbanditos.typepad.com/weblog/WindowsLiveWriter/system%20shock%202.jpg
http://www.absolute-playstation.com/gp2a/mdk2_lr_4.jpg

a)

I only had a sega and a nintendo, so, nothing special. Also, the playstation was durring the 90s.

Streets of Rage II.
Mortal Kombat 2.
Mortal Kombat 3.

That's about all I can remember.

b)

Star Ocean II
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VII
Mortal Kombat IV

That's all I remember.

http://www.vgboxart.com/boxes/PSX/7416_metal_gear_solid-v2.png

Metal Gear Solid; easily the best of the series IMO (haven't played the 4th one mind you).

http://www.pspgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/300px-tomb_raider_1_box.jpg

And Tomb Raider; also the best in the series IMO

"Ah yes, Metal Gear!"

Twisted Metal 2