My gaming techie history

DogHorse

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

GENETOS

exup

c00kiemonster wrote: »

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

vyle

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

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

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 -

Millionaire

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

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



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.....

turbobob

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

cit_k wrote: »

I know the feeling



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.

ktownkid

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