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Post by 50 Fiddy on Jun 21, 2019 21:27:58 GMT -8
This was my favorite system when it first came out but eventually the PS2 became my go to system since it had the Gran Turismo series. I remember being super excited whenever a game based on a comic book character was announce and then being let down by the horrible game play once it came out. I've played the Batman games on the PS3, but my old ass is getting too slow when it comes to some of these newer games.
I can't believe some of the prices people are paying for the old SNES/Genesis games. Luckily I still have most of the games I had since I was younger, but I wish I had thought about buying them up when Gamestop was getting out of the cartridge business for CD/DVDs.
The systems I still have are:
Commodore 64 including the 1541 disc drive
Sega Genesis including a Multi-Game Hunter
Super NES including Super Wild Card
Sega Saturn (1 regular system and 1 system with switches that allowed for burned games to be played)
Dreamcast (2 systems)
3DO (2 systems - a Panasonic and a GoldStar?)
Xbox (3 systems - all with larger drives to play retro games)
PS2
Xbox 360 (4 units - 2 died due to RRD)
Wii (modded to play retro games)
N64 including a Z64 unit
Plus various handheld systems
Anyone else a collector of old gaming systems?
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Post by Bats on Jun 22, 2019 1:37:42 GMT -8
When I was a lad, the Commodore 64 was loaded via tape deck. |
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Post by 50 Fiddy on Jun 22, 2019 3:51:59 GMT -8
I still have my tape drive. I think the only games I had for that were educational games.
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Post by Bats on Jun 22, 2019 11:06:06 GMT -8
I remember waiting 5-10 minutes for some games to load. I particularly liked Ghostbusters on the C64. Of course, I didn't have a C64. I had a BBC model B. Great for basic programming and education, with some good games, but on the whole not a great games machine.
Ever heard of the ZX Spectrum 48k? It was the biggest rival to the C64 in Britain. I have no idea why because the graphics and sound were terrible, the keyboard was very unplayable, and it looked like an oversized calculator. There was a multitude of games for it, including versions of the most popular games at the time (Gauntlet, Ghost 'n Goblins, Alien 8 etc) but all the on screen objects were monotone because the computer wasn't up to mixed colours. It also only had a one channel speaker so there was only ever one sound at a time (mainly just beeps). It did have one great game, however. Laser Squad...
Two player, turn-based game. Each player has a team of soldiers and each soldier has a pre-set number of action points (walk, aim, shoot etc). Once the APs are used up, that soldier can't move any more. Once all soldiers' APs are used up, it's the next players turn. We used to play that for hours  |
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Post by 50 Fiddy on Jun 22, 2019 17:42:09 GMT -8
Ghost Busters was a fun game. I was in awe when the game actually said "Ghost Busters" because I was so used low quality sound effects. My friends and I would cut class to play Summer and Winter Games. Another game I played a lot was Hardball.
I remember hearing about the Spectrum but didn't know anything about it. I was just excited to have a C64.
I have some of the C64 games on my Xbox and some of them are still pretty fun.
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Post by Bats on Jun 23, 2019 1:09:26 GMT -8
My fav game from the 80s was Elite...
Very basic graphics but highly playable. You make money by trading between planets and earn a little on the side as a bounty hunter. More money means better equipment. The higher the kill score, the higher your rank. The aim is to get to "Elite". The game carries on for as long as you wish to play... or get killed. Of course, if you save the game regularly, you probably wouldn't "die".
A few years ago I found a version on line that was retro engineered for the PC. I played it until I got to Elite. I gets a bit boring after that. |
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Post by 50 Fiddy on Jun 23, 2019 5:20:21 GMT -8
That's a pretty good looking game for something from the 80s.
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Post by Bats on Jun 23, 2019 9:01:51 GMT -8
That's a pretty good looking game for something from the 80s. 1984 to be precise. The C64 version was (of course) the best, seconded by the original BBC disc version. The latter loaded with every dock or hyperjump. It was a bit of pain even in those days. The tape version was very limited in comparison but required no further loading.
It's legacy continues today...
link
It's far more advance but essentially the same concept.
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Post by Stu on Jun 23, 2019 9:12:22 GMT -8
This was my favorite system when it first came out but eventually the PS2 became my go to system since it had the Gran Turismo series. I remember being super excited whenever a game based on a comic book character was announce and then being let down by the horrible game play once it came out. I've played the Batman games on the PS3, but my old ass is getting too slow when it comes to some of these newer games. I can't believe some of the prices people are paying for the old SNES/Genesis games. Luckily I still have most of the games I had since I was younger, but I wish I had thought about buying them up when Gamestop was getting out of the cartridge business for CD/DVDs. The systems I still have are: Commodore 64 including the 1541 disc drive Sega Genesis including a Multi-Game Hunter Super NES including Super Wild Card Sega Saturn (1 regular system and 1 system with switches that allowed for burned games to be played) Dreamcast (2 systems) 3DO (2 systems - a Panasonic and a GoldStar?) Xbox (3 systems - all with larger drives to play retro games) PS2 Xbox 360 (4 units - 2 died due to RRD) Wii (modded to play retro games) N64 including a Z64 unit Plus various handheld systems Anyone else a collector of old gaming systems? Where's the Intellivision?  |
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Post by 50 Fiddy on Jun 23, 2019 10:19:41 GMT -8
I never got the Intellivision. My friend had it and we would play the one game he had on his system after school. Their game library couldn't complete with the C64's library of games.
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