How did i miss this post and not know about oolite! Fixed that now - hello old friend, goodbye weekend.

lol I forgot all about that thread that i made back on 09, i just tried to update it with the retrogames remake link i added on here, alas it is such an old post it wont let me/

Playstation 1 and Formula 1.

Totally addictive, and explains a lot about where I have ended up today

Murray Walker:

"Oh my word! What's happened? It's Hill! He's into the barriers!

Oh dear oh dear!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7c6E9-n3VM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=KqJVl41xPB0

Happy Birthday

ZX Spectrum.

its 30 today.

actually it was yesterday but i forgot to post

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mixed-signals-10000051/the-zx-spectrum-birthday-memories-10025956/

Any one ever played command and conquer red alert link up with 2 TVs&ps1 in same room facing away from each other?

Best fun i ever had gaming.

FF7 a close 2nd

^^ Love C&C

Played online a bit but there are some very very good players and being defeated like that hurts

Yes Johnny, great multiplayer Game.
Used to play it on PC over a dial-up modem with my a good mate who is sadly no longer with us.
This was Mid 1990s before broadband. You dialed their phone from game and they answered from game. Worked really well apart from no one could phone you for hours

My mate Paul could never beat me, but one mega long game he really did have me surrounded and beat all ends up and was on course for his first victory. So as a last resort I sneaked Tanya right round ouside of Map and couldn't believe he had left only a couple of guards at his base. He was so engrossed in destroying my base and finaly beating me, he never noticed his base was being destroyed by a Solitary Tanya. I couldn't stop laughing after the game when he called me afterwards "ow the f-in ell did you win that you @##tard. He refused to play me again. Still makes me laugh

Happy Days eh

Strategy on a console?! I couldnt imagine a less enjoyable gaming experience

Not got round to reading it yet however I have signed up to this. It is free and may be of interest to some here

http://www.theretrogamesnews.com/

Yes I remember the fun of lugging the old CRT tv's to other people's houses.

Ross

A well timed article by El Reg:
8 Bit Classics

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sega-Megadrive-Ultimate-Handheld-Fighter/dp/B0058NRA70


I'm going to get myself one of these for my holiday!

Got rechargable battery back, headphone jack and sd card slot to add your own roms, which appear to be free to download now they aren't for sale and are about 20 yrs old.

Ross

cracking link, that is my bedtime reading sorted for tonight

I loved playing Duke Nuke'em 3D linked on serial. I wouldn't actually call it retro gaming though. That's just 13 years ago. Retro gaming = asteroids. My favourite was moon lander.

Have to add though - didn't get our first computer until around 1998 when I bought a monster Pentium 133 with 128 MB of RAM and a Miro DC30 video editing card with a gigantic RAID-0 2 x 20GB stripe set - that was in times when regular harddrives were 1 GB or so. Crazy stuff.

Pfffft

How about an Amstrad PC1512 with No HDD and a single 5 1/4" FDD that ran dos and word

Then a few years later my first 'proper' PC was a stonking 486 DX (yes with the built in maths co-processor), a massive 4mb ram and gigantic 40Mb HDD.

Beat that fatboy

As for retro gaming, my first favourite home game was gorf on the Vic-20, that had 3.5k ram until i added a 16 k expansion pack!

The spectrum 48k with rubber keys was a beast by comparison, jetpac, jetset will, manic miner, blimey what a blast!

You're all such youngsters. When I were but a lad, if we wanted a computer, we damn well *built* one.

The youth of today, don't know they're born...

And have you not just done that with your car too

Well, you kind of get into the habit...

I remember our subtitling computer at school had a disk drive the size of a coupe wheel + tyre with 8 platters or so. 2MB!

Where was his base defence? The old telsa coils would have sorted out the tanya

Whats your opinion on the new versions of the game? I think they have ruined it by going too futuristic with too much bad actors playing out movie story lines.

I'm playing RA:3 again at the moment, it's great fun but very short ! Each campaign is only about 5 maps.

I've never really like the Tiberium Sun games, apart from the first C+C game. That was just epic, but then they started introducing, as you say, daft futuristic units like hover tanks, and walkers etc.

Generals was a welcome and original boost to the series and i'm looking forward to the sequel which should be out pretty soon.

Also there it nothing more pissing off than having to do a non-base building level.

luckily RA:3 doesnt seem to have any of those, but i remember them being all over the place in the earlier games.

Did anyone else have the 3DO like me? I've not seen it on any of your lists... it was ahead of its time (well thats what I thought at the time).



Some classic titles been mentioned which has brought back some very fond memories.

It wasn't that long ago, me and the mates all got together for a retro game night (about 4 years ago) where we got the SNES, N64 and PS1 out for a blast, Needless to say the night revolved around Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.

I had a 3DO.

There was a really good football game for it but that was about it!!

Ross

Look at the bad boy that I just dug out of the loft. I've got a videomaster superscore!

Wow!

My god! I know it must have been the dog's knackers at the time, but pong is grim.

That gun is probably illegal now

Is the Nintendo Scope the biggest 'light gun' ever ?

My mate had that! I remember his mum giving me a rollocking because i left it on and drained the batteries. Was a bit naff as i recall, always thought the mega drive one looked better and you could detach parts.
It was a beast, a bit like a full sized RPG!!

I had that, Ill never forgive my dad for trading it in a couple of years ago for a crap game

I still have my old megadrive light gun scope!!

It was quality. The SNES one was crap!!!

Ross