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  • DogHorse
    DogHorse Posts: 41 Forumite
    davester wrote: »
    Back when I had an Amiga 500+ yep the Simpson box, with lemmings ,simpsons, Deluxe paint 3 and Captain Planet. I used to love playing f18 interceptor, the only aircraft you could fly backwards. If you still have it , take off get quiet high and then press 0 for no thrust then the - key untill the thrust value is max reverse. The f18 stalls and then falls foward but the thrust takes it up to the 35000 feet. Then I used to max thrust with afterburners and try and break 900mph barrier. Sweet lol
    Also anyone remember Magic Pocket, which first appeared on TV as a phone in saying left right jump shoot. And had Betty Boo music as the intro music.

    I had a A500+ with the Simpsons and Lemmings pack it was awesome, had a CD32 afterwards as well with the SX1 expansion Diggers and Body Blows where sure fire favourites.

    If your feeling nostalgic have a look at this little game its free and plays like a back catalogue of classics

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  • exup
    exup Posts: 1,235 Forumite
    Commodore Vic20
    Commodore 64
    Commodore +4
    Amiga 1200
    Amiga CD32
    PS1
    PS2
    PS3

    Oh and I also owned a Gamecube which was just for playing mario kart:o

    Fave games from the commodore range was Meglomania, Desert strike, manic miner, Sensible soccer and the awesome Cannon Fodder + many others:cool:

    Fave from PS are Burnout, Call of Duty, Gran Turismo and Destruction Derby + many others:cool:

    very similar list to mine
    ZX81 - best game - 3D monster maze
    Commodore 64/128 - Elite
    Amiga A500 - Swords of Twilight / Frontier (Elite II)
    Amiga CD32 - Frontier
    PSX - Doom / Gran Tourismo
    PS2 - Rock Band
    PS3 - (dunno yet - just got it)
    and of course a couple PC's - Battlefield 2 / Cal of Duty (NOT Modern Warfare 2) / GTLegends / IL2 Sturmovik
    Don't try to teach a pig to sing - it wastes your time and annoys the pig
  • vyle
    vyle Posts: 2,379 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    exup wrote: »
    very similar list to mine
    ZX81 - best game - 3D monster maze
    Commodore 64/128 - Elite
    Amiga A500 - Swords of Twilight / Frontier (Elite II)
    Amiga CD32 - Frontier
    PSX - Doom / Gran Tourismo
    PS2 - Rock Band
    PS3 - (dunno yet - just got it)
    and of course a couple PC's - Battlefield 2 / Cal of Duty (NOT Modern Warfare 2) / GTLegends / IL2 Sturmovik

    I dont think i could ever nail down a favourite PS2 game. So many are just epic.

    I remember loving jetpac on the specrtum, but nothing else ever took my fancy... could be because my cousin only had 5 games for it, though.
  • ktownkid
    ktownkid Posts: 62 Forumite
    Mate had an Atari, remember playing Pitfall, Indy Jones and Empire Strikes back.
    Then he had a Commodore 64, we always argued which was better, I had the Speccy.

    Spectrum 48k-Rubber buttons, Manic Miner, JetPac, Bugaboo, Full Guy etc.. Monty mole had abug in it so you could jump into the back ground. Had a Ghetto Blaster with a double tape deck, say I taped all the games. Band Air cassette with games on it. Best game was Bruce Lee. Boss Joystick, had a interface that spoke when you pressed the keys. Hated R type loading error.

    Brother had a Mega drive-Sonic & Mortal Kombat & Fifa

    Amiga 500- I had the Simpson pack, best game was Another World and Syndicate. Had so many games, most were copies.

    PS1-Fifa and Tomb raider

    Have a Wii now, but I dont really game anymore, its not like it used to be. Sound old, only 34.
  • exup
    exup Posts: 1,235 Forumite
    edited 11 January 2010 at 10:18PM
    ktownkid wrote: »
    Mate had an Atari, remember playing Pitfall, Indy Jones and Empire Strikes back.
    Then he had a Commodore 64, we always argued which was better, I had the Speccy.

    Spectrum 48k-Rubber buttons, Manic Miner, JetPac, Bugaboo, Full Guy etc.. Monty mole had abug in it so you could jump into the back ground. Had a Ghetto Blaster with a double tape deck, say I taped all the games. Band Air cassette with games on it. Best game was Bruce Lee. Boss Joystick, had a interface that spoke when you pressed the keys. Hated R type loading error.

    Brother had a Mega drive-Sonic & Mortal Kombat & Fifa

    Amiga 500- I had the Simpson pack, best game was Another World and Syndicate. Had so many games, most were copies.

    PS1-Fifa and Tomb raider

    Have a Wii now, but I dont really game anymore, its not like it used to be. Sound old, only 34.

    Bruce Lee was excellent - especially if you joined in as the green Yamo and beat the snot out of the ninja - damned funny -
    Don't try to teach a pig to sing - it wastes your time and annoys the pig
  • Millionaire
    Millionaire Posts: 3,748 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I have personally owned the following,

    Commodore 64
    Megadrive
    Gameboy Colour
    Playstation
    Dreamcast
    Playstation 2
    Playstation 3
    PSP

    However I had/have regular access to

    Gameboy
    N64
    SNES
    Xbox 360
    Wii
    DS
  • cit_k
    cit_k Posts: 24,812 Forumite
    PROLIANT wrote: »

    2006: This is when it went out of control, More PC's, more Homebrew jobs, Servers, Networks........I had to nip it in the bud, my house was beginning resemble a data centre minus the fancy do-dahs and air--con.

    I know the feeling

    2gsq4k5.jpg

    That is the server cabinet just for the cctv..... (pc based dvr, standalone dvr, 2 ups, gigabit switch, etc etc).

    Im not looking forward to the day I have to move it, talk about heavy.....
    [greenhighlight]but it matters when the most senior politician in the land is happy to use language and examples that are simply not true.
    [/greenhighlight][redtitle]
    The impact of this is to stigmatise people on benefits,
    and we should be deeply worried about that
    [/redtitle](house of lords debate, talking about Cameron)
  • turbobob
    turbobob Posts: 1,500 Forumite
    My list is:

    BBC Model B (was my Dads business computer at the time!)
    Atari 800XL (great machine, became tricky to get games for IIRC)
    Spectrum 48k (swapped the Atari for it)
    Atari ST
    Amiga 500+
    Megadrive
    SNES
    PC (never been heavily into PC gaming but have always had a few games)
    PS1
    PS2
    Nintendo DS
    Xbox 360

    I've got emulators for most of the older systems now. Reading this thread has given me an urge to go and load up Back to Skool on the Speccy emulator :)
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    cit_k wrote: »
    I know the feeling

    2gsq4k5.jpg

    That is the server cabinet just for the cctv..... (pc based dvr, standalone dvr, 2 ups, gigabit switch, etc etc).

    Im not looking forward to the day I have to move it, talk about heavy.....
    You have got a rack! nice set up. ;)
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  • re: Bruce lee
    We used to team up and kick the !!!!! out of the Ninja. The C64 version was a lot better.
    Loved GhostBuster too, can you remember the speech on it when you got slimed or caught the ghost. It couldnt cope with the speech so mumbled, me and my mates still laugh at this.
    Whats a good emulator? need to reminis

    Amiga:Also did anyone have star wars, were someone has dubbed there voice on the game? so funny.Berty Basset, Kaboom Kaboom, Luke you !!!!!!. Looked for this everywhere, can not find it.

    Also the best soundtracks on games are:
    3 Magic pockets
    2 Cannon Fodder- War, never been so much fun
    1 Xenon 2 -the megablast

    Mega low mania- C C why not eh! french acsent
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