Remember back when.....

[DutchBoy]

Originally Posted by jwbbud

I still have Leisure suit Larry

I saw the other day on Direct2Drive that they have the whole series (minus the latest one -- it sucked) available for something like 20 bucks. If I get an extra 20 bucks lying around, I might buy it.

Dunno if anyone remembers this or not, but it was a gem considering it was made in 1989 -- awesome stuff!

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you can find this one all over the place and it runs really great in DosBOX.

[crackinhedz]

oh the days and months spent on this one!

[sj001]

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

oh the days and months spent on this one!

I remember a friend and I spent almost $100 bucks one weekend playing this game... the same thing happened years later when Street Fighter II came out. The good ole' days.

[DutchBoy]

I remember Double Dragon -- though again, I lived overseas and couldn't really afford to play games much.

When I finally got back stateside, this was my catnip

[phlydude]

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

phlydude, did you ever play Thunder Castle?

nope

I played Lock N Chase (no Pac Man on Intellivision)
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bl...ion2.html#lock

[phlydude]

remember this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Dudes

[phlydude]

Anyone play this one:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_City_Ransom

[tron3]

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

Oh man, I was so addicted to that. Normally, I would wake up on a school morning and get ready and go. After the first night of PitFall I woke up saying "I have to play PitFall" Played a few minutes and went to school. I NEVER stopped to play a game before school in my life before that.

Originally Posted by sj001

I loved all of these games mentioned in this thread, played almost all of them.

Anyone remember this one?




The game used to scare the crap out of me, when that Sinistar character came screaming onto the screen.

It still scares the crap out of me. I have many of these games on my PC emulated. Haven't played in years though. But now they cracked down on making sure you can't get the arcade roms.

[dadkins]

Lifeforce and Metroid(NES).

[MATTYBLU2]

i remember when my dad bought us atari 2400 series and we got pacman, asteroids, space invaders and missle command, WOW did we play for hours and hours
my friends dad had bought the system as well with about 20 games and we had the time of our lives back then. those were the good old days

then i was pretty addicted to n64 james bond games with other friends playing. so we would play so much they would get sick and throw up from the motion of the game. gross, but we had a great time playing

[ScarredLungs]

Originally Posted by danay82

Alot of great games mentioned so far. I loved Zelda, Track and Field, 3D Running Man Games (came with card board 3D glasses).

One of the best things I've done was Mod my old Xbox, put in a bigger hard drive, now I play all old school games from mulitple platforms with out having 6 of them scattered everywhere.

My all time favorite game, esspecially on 2 player has to be Contra!







Loved that game

Agreed! What a great game that was. Would it not be great if companies had this same quality of games today. Today's games rarely seem to have the "magic" that the older games have!

[owa]

Ti 99/4A: Pirate Adventure, Ti Invaders

Atari 5200: Centipede, Defender, Pole Position, Space Invaders, Super Breakout

PC: King's Quest, Space Quest, Mean 18 Golf, 4th and Inches, Battlezone, One on One: Dr. J vs Bird and One on One: Jordan vs Bird

Pong was the first one though and everyone spent hours and hours playing that. Kind of amazing when you think about it. Something so simple but so addictive.

[Beta Man]

Up,Up,Down,Down,L,R,L,R A,B Select, Start? was that it?

[DutchBoy]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

Up,Up,Down,Down,L,R,L,R A,B Select, Start? was that it?

B, A --

[Beta Man]

Originally Posted by DutchBoy

B, A --

Ahhhh yes... I remember my roommate freshman year of college had a regular Nintendo, and we played Mike Tyson's punch out..... the good ol' days before testing and complex designs were implemented, bringing forth the birth of "Nintendo Thumb"

[Bigdog]

Anyone here remember Cobra Command, was based of the dungeons and dragons game engine which had those cartoon like graphics? Spent hundreds of dollars on that game in arcades, and bought it for the sega cd which had about 4 games released including that one, before sega forgot they made it.

[phlydude]

The list was long...you might have just jumped on too late!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mega-CD_games

[Musashi]

Double Dragon and River City Ransom were great. You gotta play the GBA versions too.

Originally Posted by alan2308

Ah yes, the "Konami Code." It worked on a lot of their games.

For me, its all about Sonic Jam on my trusty Sega Saturn. Sonic 1,2,3, and Sonic & Knuckles all on one CD.

I remember seeing that but I didn't pick it up. Now I'm kinda glad I didn't since we have Sonic Mega Collection.

I do believe this thread started with discussion of Zelda, and I have I got something to add to that:

Who here has played Zelda Classic (http://www.zeldaclassic.com/? This little program, which is perfectly legal according to the site, will provide a never-ending supply of revisions on Zelda 1. Some of them really make you think beyond the old rules of the game.

I managed to finish the Demo Quest EX, which is obscenely difficult compared to the old game, and at parts poorly designed (accursed Wind Wizards), but for the most part a good game.

I still have my age-old collection of games from all times. My sig has the link to the master-list.

[jkwest]

[jkwest]