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1) Shinobi
2) Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja
3) Double Dragon
4) Zynaps
5) R-Type

A top 5's a tough one. Maybe for each computer i owned...

Double Dragon takes me back. punch kick punch kick, funny screaming noise when you died. Amusing fat bold bosses. Crazy stuff.

Top 5 will take some thinking for me.

hmm....

despite my apparent nerdiness, I didn't own a games console until I was about 10 or something so that rules me out of retro gaming, i think.

nevertheless...

zelda: a link to the past
cm97/98
goldeneye (four way multiplayer was awesome)
quake2 (online, of course)

i can't think of a fifth.

I only had a Spectrum, so for me (in no particular order):

1) Daley Thompson's Decathlon
2) Manic Miner
3) Chuckie Egg
4) Matchday II
5) Skool Daze

Atari st

Pirates
Fantasy World Dizzy
Treasure Island Dizzy
Magicland Dizzy
The Human Torch And The Thing

NES

Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Bros
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Wrestlemania
Jack Nicklaus' Major Championship Golf

SNES

The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past
Secret Of Mana
Super Mario World
Streetfighter II: Turbo
Mario Kart

I guess the snes era can be classed as retro nowadays. I still think of retro as being space invaders

damn! I forgot World cup striker on the snes and pga tour golf.

Sensible Soccer
Outrun
Super Mario
Sonic the Hedgehog
Zelda

i've been playing tetris for the last hour  8)

191 lines i think i could get on the gameboy before going blind

Worms on a mobile phone. Probably not top 5 but a great "thing to do" while stood outside the office 'avin a faaag.

Just over 4000 is mine (really just over. it was like 4001 or something). I'm stupidly good at tetris. The Gamecube I got for a tenner from my mate has a gameboy player on it. Haven't got used to using a gamecube controller yet though.

Stops getting faster after 300 lines so it's more a test of endurance than anything else.

Oids on the Atari St was one I forgot. That was Super Ace.

On the BBC apart from chuckie egg there was Space Adventure which was fun, Dare Devil Dennis which was genius and a few others which I'll have to think about. That was a long time ago and I was well little.

in no particular order

bubble bobble
impossible mission
kick off 2
gauntlet
frak

Over 4000??? Now that sounds like a challenge. I have a week off work with not alot to do :D

it took me many hours. If you can break past the 300 line barrier then it's do able.

I havent played the gameboy version for about 10 yrs i reckon, so if i can find it then maybe... 4000 though!!?? Fuck!

match day 2 (spectrum + 2)
kick off 2 (amiga)
mike tysons punch out (nes)
renegade (spectrum)
yie ar kung-fu (bbc micro)

might as well add GRANNY'S GARDEN on the bbc micro too for anyone who went to primary school in the early to mid 80's

my favourite memory of retro gaming was one night waiting 55 minutes for the evil dead game to load...there was a count down on the screen and no word of a lie with just 4 seconds remaining (my sister and me eyes fixed on the screen ) there was a flash of lightning from the storm brewing outside and the whole street went out with a power cut.

was fucking gutted.

even more so when we loaded it the next day and it was shite :-))(

hehe, the brilliance of cassette games.

Super Mario Bros. 3 is the best game ever invented. FACT!!!

1 and 2 were better

Ah the old primary school BBC's....I remember a game on them at school. It was called hide and squeak or summat like that, you had to find a mouse that was hidden somewhere in a house.

sensible world of soccer
dizzy

that's all i needed as a youth

kick off > sensible

zaxxon was quite a cool shoot-em-up on the c64, liked raid over moscow and beach head as well.

No the original sensible was immense, a real game of skill as if you tried running with the ball and changing direction you would always lose it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-HAotth9Mk

I had the Amstrad 128k and it was much better than this from memory!!

Used to play a fair bit of the ST conversion of ikari warriors as well. Top stuff, especially 2 player.

I still get the old consoles out now and play, my fav games are:

Mario Bros 3 - NES
Mario Bros 1 - NES (You can complete it in under 10 mins!!)
California Games - NES
Mario Kart - SNES
Bomberman - SNES
Street Fighter II Turbo - SNES
Micro Machines - Mega Drive
Goldeneye - N64 (Multiplayer was class)

no, no, no and no

3 was the best followed by 1, 2 was shite and wasnt even a proper Mario game.

oh my, aceness

the music in mario 2 was ace  :P



my favourite music in a game ever is turrican 2 on the amiga, just brilliant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciJzETKkXiY

great game too

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVkmcTjYfEg

bubble bobble is another ace one. Good 2 player with a mate and all... Desperately trying to grab the umbrella which would make you skip loads of levels was ace.

Rainbow Island was also mint.

If we're classing Goldeneye as retro then we have to count Mario 64. It being the best of all the mario games.

anyone know if it is possible to open .dsk files?

Rainbow island is fucking awsome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2PHs4OdjfY
My youth was spent playing Monkey Island, Champ Manager and sensible world of soccer!
I loved my Amiga 500 like you would not believe!

Anyone know any sites where i can download retro games? The underdogs seems a bit fucked at the mo (full of pop ups!)

MY 5

Matchday 2
Leaderboard Golf
Bubble Bobble
Gauntlet
Jet Set Willy

I'm guessing .dsk is a disk image of an old game you just downloaded? If it's for an old type of computer then an emulator for that machine should be able to run it.

Double Dragon!!

That was an awesome game.

I used to play that religiously.

1) Super Mario Bros 2

2) Double Dragon

3) Mario Kart

4) Street Fighter 2

5) Alex Kid in Miracle World

I browse the underdogs forums for time to time. underdogs - the bird who owns the site, has pretty much left it for nearly a year and a half now. Think she still pays the bills to keep it going but is too busy with political stuff in her native Thailand to actively update it.

I would say try Abandonia but that seems to be playing up too. Sketchy.

Searching the forums of retroremakes.com will probably throw up some remakes of most good old games.

God i forgot how much i used to enjoy this game...

Many times i put homework off for this

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/786/786923/double-dragon-20070509053011275.jpg

cheers ben! the undedogs used to be ace but its pretty shit now! Im trying to find a download for sensible world of soccer again!

I miss a time where games were more about hitting the zone with the joystick and pulling off a sublime set of manoeuvres just to keep on going to see the next level. Dieing and then playing through it all again, but better so you'll have more lives/health when you face the bit which you defeated you. Not like now where it's all about scraping through to the next save point.

Saying that, if you want to play a retro-style game (which does have save points) then you can't go much wrong with Cave Story. http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/

Crazy fun platformer

I agree. Though mario world took the royal piss of the whole series up til then. Mario 64!!! Oh my word. near perfection

just found this

http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/s

website where you can download the soundtracks to all your favourite games over the years

 :wink:

I'm gonna buy a NES off E Bay and hunt high and low for Double Dragon.

I must play it again before i die  :D

get double dragon II mate or download a nes emulator on pc

weird i was just playing the orignal arcade version of double dragon on xbox 360. its on their free arcade online service

Just buy yourself a cheap PC controller from somewhere and then use emulators to play all the old games you want. Most NES roms are smaller than an average Stunners World Cup page to download.

I'll link people up if you can't find what you need. Google search should do the trick though.

find me a snes controller to usb converter ben.

failing that a cheap decent pad.

my snes melted last weekend.

You can download emulators with all the games ever released for the consoles as one file. For eg. 5 snes emulators plus 758 game roms. I had nes, snes, gameboy, master system, megadrive emulators with every release... Also i bought a usb adaptor and just use a ps2 pad to play the games. I lost all of them though on my old pc :cry:

http://www.torrentspy.com/search

just type in emulators

if you can get hold of an old xbox pad, an old usb cable you don't need, some scissors and some sort of sellotape then you can convert it yourself.

http://www.fury-tech.com/en/Guides/Xbox-Controller-PC-Conversion-Mod

Tis what I did and although it's not the best of gamepads, it's not too bad. The rumble works and it's got enough buttons to keep you sorted for all your emulation needs. Up to N64 and PS is about as far as I go. You need a monster computer to do ps2.

Otherwise search yourself you lazy cunt.

I downloaded that the other day, aceness.  8)

In no particular order:

Rampage
Tetris
Lemmings
Sensible Soccer (the original)
Point Blank (its a retro re-release on the ps1 but I'm counting it)


There are probably countless more I played on the Atari and the Amstrad CPC that I have forgotten about

Know what I just remembered? Fucking Arkanoid. That's a mint game.

someone help me find sensible soccer!

if you want sensible world of soccer then I'm sure the cd image is about on tinternet somewhere. There was a thread about it several months back

Microprose Soccer
Emilyn Hughes Soccer
Super Mario world
Leisure Suit Larry 1
Paperboy

This would probably change each time I do a list though, as I keep remembering others.

i was addicted to paper boy as a child.

top 5 games thos...will have to have a think about that one.

If you get a Wii, you can pay and download all the old classics that you already own! Brilliant!

1) Moonstone
2) Skidmarks
3) Kick Off
4) Rainbow Islands
5) International Karate +

I also have fond memories of James Pond and Sensi Soccer.

I remember buying pirate versions of all Amiga Games down the market at Greenbridge, £2 per disk i think it was. Monkey island was actually cheaper to buy the proper copy because it had 12 disks.

I remember the day my old man bought me my Amiga, happy 11th bday that was, it cost £500!

I think most of them have been mentioned, but my most played games over the years

1. Kick Off 2 (I hate to think the weeks spent playing this)
2. Ineternational Soccer (c64 cartridge, no loading - yippee)
3. IK+ (sweaty hands slip off joystick - nobody will get that reference!)
4. Double Dragon
5. commando

Others:

jet set willy, horace goes skiing, manic miner, spy vs spy, Nemesis (c64), missile command, sooooo many....too many to list

cant think of a top five but here are some old favs of mine

horace and the spiders-zx spectrum
street fighter-snes
sonic the hedgehog-mega drive
toki-fleet street arcade
mario bros-nes
dare devil dennis-bbc micro
kick off-amiga

http://nintendo8.com/toplist/


ohhhhhhhh yes

awsome!

Bubble Bobble
Rainbow Island
Sensi Soccer
Football Manager (the original management game)
Ian Botham's Test Match - a technical game that seemed to involve just tapping the space bar

The original Railway Tycoon on the old Amiga 1200 was ace. Virtual Pool was another good one on the amiga. I also had a footie game for the Amiga but can't for the life of me remember what it was called, but I do know Accy Stanley were on the game.

After the Amiga I had a Master System II with Alex the Kid built in, what a game!! I had Terminator v Robocop for the Master System II.

For pure old school footie manager game it has to be Champ Manager 94 where you have to enter the results from a certain page of the manual to be able to load the game.

Perfect Dark (N64)
International Superstar Soccer (Super Nintendo)
Goldeneye (N64)
Super Mario (Super Nintendo/Gameboy)
Some crazy Atari game which i can't remember the name too.........was amazing  8) - Anyone ever have/still have an Atari? I still have mine  :mrgreen: Amazing game system

if you still have yours why cant you remember the name of the game? :?

Becuase i havent played it in years!? It's up in the attic somewhere, must find it.

http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/

WARNING! Some of you may cream your pants!

Got to be:

1, The Last Ninja -- it was the fucking dogs and no mistake
2, Bubble Bobble -- great, brilliant game
3, R-Type -- How many times did I break joysticks in rage with this game?
4, Sensible Soccer -- Got a t-shirt of the game on now, nuff said
5, Xenon 2: Megablast -- On the Atari ST. One of the best shoot 'em ups ever (http://www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk/our-games/past/xenon2.htm)

the last ninja fucking good, i remember the graphics being so good

http://www.thegamesofmylife.com/wp-content/lastninja21.png

robocop was bloody good on the spectrum too from what i remember (the photofit level)

spy vs spy (could never figure that game out )

shadow of the beast 2 (i would play it on the amiga just to watch the intro )

oooh, R Type was a cracker.

super off road on a 086 pc 5 1/4 floppy - used to fight with my brothers over whose go it was. And super mario on the gameboy - completing it twice in a row so you could go through super quick with 99 lives  - trying to go through as many times as you could before the batteries ran out.

also - micro machines on the PS1 - still way too quick when you're pissed and can't remember the tracks.

An atari what? old skool, computer or jaguar.

Also Super Mario on the Snes and Gameboy are different games.

I stuggle with Goldeneye being retro, but perfect dark is pushing it. I know it's the same system but it was released this decade.

Deus Ex was released the same year as Perfect Dark and it scares me to think of that as retro. Brilliant game though. Deus Ex was released a year before 9/11 yet interestingly the whole plot line is about an American government setting up disasters to claim greater power. They just set it 30 years to far into the future.

mate that's an amazing site

downloaded discworld and just trying to sort getting sound out of it with the dos programme but my word this will give me hours of fun

thanks

no worries! quality site innit!

I reckon I'd have a good shout at completing that from memory. That site's download seems a bit small though. I'm guessing it doesn't include the speech. Which would be the best part.

I'll think about sorting out a CD rip if I can find my copy and Sonic and Whits don't mind me posting it.

Terry Pratchett agreed to allow ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/) to support it and possibly let people download it for free. Think they've hit a dead end getting hold of the source code though.

Yes do it Ben. Discworld's a great game. I don't have the original anymore just the sequel.

I'll look for it tomorrow. The voice credits would make you watch a tv show, yet alone play a computer game.

Thats a great site thanks, even has Pirates one of my childhood favourites

Discworld voice cast includes...

Eric Idle
Jon Pertwee (must have been one of the last things he died, RIP)
Tony Robinson
Rob Brydon

I need to find it now.

Yeah its genius. So much effort put into that script. Have you ever played the later Discworlds... umm... think theres one called Discworld Noir. I havent played it. Just wandering what its like. Also the Broken Sword series I remember being damn good

discworld is indeed brilliant! i might have a blast on it tommorow!

Had Discwolrd Noir and lost it. It's more serious, but story and puzzle wise possible one of the greatest adventure games ever. You play the detective and use clues you've jotted down in you notepad to interact with characters. It works quite well.

It does fuck up Vimes' character a bit, but it's forgiveable, just

I'd like to get hold of it again to be fair. It's pretty good.

I've definitely got Discworld II, I played through it not so long ago. You can do an ace thing with a stone circle where Rincewind has a conversation with himself from the first Discworld game.

I just remember them being insanely hard in places. But then again, a mate who was well into the books seemed to piss the game. I don't know if that would actually help matters.

Simon the Sorcerer was another ace one. Fuck knows who did the speech (for the PC versions), but it was pretty fun. Both 1 and 2.

I think I can definitely find them. I'm still unsure where discworld could be. It might be quicker to find a decent download and share it with you.

Yeah that'll be cool. I'm guessing it'll have to be run using a windows 95 emulator type thing.

I found this torrent...

http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/726880/Discworld_1_Dosbox_App_Works_Perfectly

try this site

http://www.cdosabandonware.com/

looks like a good bet if you're ok setting up dosbox. Can be a bit of a mission but there are enough guides around. I'd check that it's the latest version of DosBox they're putting in with the download. The newer one (0.70) is stupidly faster than the older ones.

I'm going to look for my proper cd copy, otherwise I'll download this.

cool. I had dosbox recently as i wanted to play FW Dizzy. It took awhile to initially work out and was a bit of a headfuck... i'd rather get cd rip i think. I'll have a look a bit further afield tomorrow

Right.

Adventure game wise, I can probably cd image, both simon the sorcerers and discworld II.

If you want some instant speech enhanced adventure game action then Beneath a Steal Sky has been released as freeware. You can get it and download stuff which will play it in windows at http://www.scummvm.org/.

And to be fair Beneath a Steal Sky is pretty good. I bought it for a tenner back in the day.

Cool. i'll check it out.

You'll probably need to use dosbox even with a proper cd image. Windows XP is terrible with old Dos Games.

My mate has a really good program to run old games... I'll have to find out what it is.

it's probably dosbox, it's that or the vdmsound thing which tricks windows into understanding the sound card.

That ScummVM I linked you to is brilliant for playing simon the sorcerer, monkey island , beneath a steal sky (which you can download for free.) Hasn't got Discworls support yet.

It was Chris Barrie off of Red Dwarf.

anywho, here's mine in no particular order:

Civilisation

Frontier Elite II

UFO: Enemy Unknown - still play this now - i have it on my PPC (www.freeppcware.com)

Harrier Attack

The original football manager on the amstrad CPC464

It's Dosbox mate - i'll give you a quick tutorial next time i'm over.

BTW Beneath a steel sky is awesome!!!!! I first got in for a tenner on a compilation called power, corruption and lies and it included Dune II and Frontier Elite II

BRILLIANT!

Nerd alert!  :D

sorry mate but this is the greatest thead ever! (volume 4) and i nearly missed it. tuttut, will have to check general discussion more regularly.

you need the net back fulltime mate... missing this could've ruined your year ;) i'll be over yours shortly

I got in for a fiver back in the day. It is indeed ace.

super mario - Nintendo NES

http://www.drinkorswim.org/bat.htm

ace  8)

mine would be

1 - manic miner
2- jet pac
3 - jet set willy
4 - underworld
5 - soul blade