Commodore 64 Plug'n'Play TV 30in1 classic games joystick £4.99 In store at Woolworths

Gorf123

bobdauilda wrote: »

Nobody has mentioned 'Elite' yet!!! First out on the BBC and then I had it for my Ammy CPC464 spent days nay months trading in space to get to that status!!! Another clone of it was Interdictor Pilot which was less well known and nobody on here bar me probably knew of it!!...

I remember "Interdictor Pilot"! Quite hard to get used to when you're used to the roll/climb method of turning in Elite. It's quite "two dimensional" and not a patch on its predecessor - I have many fond memories of laughing at all my Lacoste-wearing neighbours who bought a docking computer as soon as they could afford one. Actually, I even laughed at anyone who couldn't dock first time at full speed.

On the subject of retro gaming joystick consoles: Why pay a fiver when you can pay nothing at all? (This is a moneysaving forum after all.) There are plenty of remakes around of classic BBC, C64 and spectrum games. Look at ovine.net, particularly their page for Cholo, a game that was way ahead of its time, and has now hooked my seven-year-old son 21 years after its original release. Even Elite has a re-engineered version, the official site is down but the remake can be downloaded from plenty of other locations. One of the two Elite authors still maintains a page of the various ROM images for the game, as well as instructions on how to emulate them on a PC and how to slow down a modern PC anough so that these antiquities can be used.

What I can't understand is why these remakes need so much memory. Cholo is 12½MB while the original could fit in ½% of that space! EliteTNK takes up seven times more space than the original. You'd think that considering a lot of the work is now handled by the graphics driver or DirectX, these programs would actually get smaller.

Musky72

I fondly recall playing 'Kickstart' on the C64 years ago, what a game !! I go back further than the C64 days, back to the ZX80, ZX81 and VIC20......happy days, waiting 5 minutes for the game to load and then getting bored after 20 mins !!

Do you remember the game 'loading' a picture prior to actually loading the game, what was the point in that, I am sure that kids would rather get the game loaded faster than waiting for a glitchy low res image to appear to keep you 'amused'.

Good old days, I may take a look at the joystick, looks like fun !

Cheers

Musky
Isle of Man

wickyb

bluesxman wrote: »

Sounds like trailblazer.

No - it's Bounder

feesh

tescobootsmad wrote: »

Manic Miner was a cool game but I'm sure I had it on the C64, anyone else know if this is still available??

I had one which sounded similar on my C64, it was called Panic and I was completely addicted to it (that and Hunchback).

I remember one year someone bought me a programming book from Marks and Spencers, with loads of games in it which I was very excited about!

Spent HOURS typing each one in. And not a single one of them worked! I was only 7 and I got really upset! :rotfl:

Cartboy52

This has taken me back!

My favorite games used to be Paperboy, Spy Hunter, Park Patrol & The Last V8 (that one had talking in it! Fantastic!!)

Being a massive B-52's fan, I was a Commodore kid (Rock Lobster was etched into the circuit board on the Amiga 500)!

Many a weekend spent re-alligning the heads on the tape drive, trying to get games to load.....:rotfl:

Niggy_2

Ahhhh....tape head demagnetisation and re-aligning.... how long did I to spend doing that!!!!..... Shift/Runstop!!....syntax error!!.... & did anyone else lose their "press play on tape" message - I think because they'd unplugged their datasette whilst the machine was switched on???

Spy Hunter - great game - top music - "Theme from Peter Gunn"

Talking about loading screens - I used to have a game called Night Racer which was an OK £1.99/£2.99-tape-from-the-newsagents game that had a space invaders clone to play whilst it loaded -theyre were a few others like that but I cant remember them now. Night racer also had that fleetwood Mac tune that used to be on Formula one as the in-game music.

[Deleted User]

Anybody managed to get one of these from woolworths?

Sent my other half into Big W here in Newport but she couldnt find...

Saeed

i could not find any in leeds

gingercheapskate

No joy in Norwich either and they couldn't find it on the computer system either.....

tin

Niggy wrote: »

Talking about loading screens - I used to have a game called Night Racer which was an OK £1.99/£2.99-tape-from-the-newsagents game that had a space invaders clone to play whilst it loaded -theyre were a few others like that but I cant remember them now.

Invade-a-load!!!! Forgot about that. Trailblazer had it as well, but we used to stop the tape so we could play invade-a-load instead hahhah!!:beer: