I love basically any Commodore 64 game. Tony LaRussa's Ultimate Baseball was by far the best game ever created.
― Otis Wheeler, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― masonic boom, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bombjack on the Speccy was good as well.
― DavidM, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
It's a statement see - a little guy trapped in a maze, being chased by his own ghosts, eating pills to try and advance himself...
I often get laughed at for having a superduper computer and using it to play pac-man but hey, it's the only videogame I ever really related to...
― Paul Strange, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Actually, I like that game so much because the "wakka-wakka" noise isn't nearly as annoying as the Pacman one, plus the maze changes every few boards and it was one of the few games I was really DECENT at. (Still only made it to the fourth maze once, but OH how studly I felt on that day.)
I would LOVE to own a Ms Pacman cabinet.
― Dan Perry, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― -- Mike Hanley, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― james e l, Friday, 15 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― K-reg, Saturday, 16 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― JM, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I also really enjoyed Tomb Raider in a before-she-was-famous kind of way. It may be a tired commercial cliche now, but back in 1996 it was a brilliantly executed innovation.
But my favourite game is Broken Sword, the first one. It was really the swan song of the old school point and click adventures, hasty sequel excepted, and with its reliance on character and wit may well endure far longer than its technically impressive contemporaries.
― Magnus, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bill
― Bill, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kim, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Closely followed by SNES Mario Kart.
I played Elite almost nonstop for 6 months when it came out, but I can't really fathom the appeal of the sequels.
Oh, and I love a good old game of Pac-Man even though it has probably the most riduclously steep difficulty curve ever.
Gaming platforms? Vic-20, C-64, Amiga, Gameboy, SNES, (very rarely I will use my PC, but mostly to play on emulators), N64, and this week I bought a Gameboy Advance - for which someone is releasing a Spectrum emulator very soon!
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally C, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Steven James, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
seriously tho , gotta be Rogue Spear
― Scott, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Arcade: Return of the Jedi, Crazy Climber, NBA Jam, Cisco Heat
PC: Fifa 99, Half-Life, Quake2, Civilization2 (maybe the most addictive game ever)
Console stuff: Soul Calibur
― Omar, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― canObiz, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
SPOILER SPACE FOR THOSE TRYING TO LIVE PRODUCTIVE LIVES
While not technically a "video" game, Nethack, a freeware computer game, is the. most. addictive. game ever. It alone is responsible for my gpa going into a corner and shooting itself in the head. See rec.games.roguelike.nethack for a taste of how evil a game utterly lacking in graphics and real-time action can be.
Don't say I didn't warn
― felicity, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
there R being big shout outs to:
Mr Driller, Shenmue II, Maken X, MSR and Urban Chaos on dreamcast
Sonic, Another World/Flashback, General chaos and the strike games on Megadrive,
Castlevania, Mario Kart, Alien 3, Exinox and Starwing on Snes
more later kiddies!
― I R gaming guru, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Trevor, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Nethack is indeed lifesuckingly addictive. Here is a photo of me and my best friend:
+---+ ¦·@·f ¦··(¦ ¦···¦ +-·-+
― Rebecca, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Tom, you silly goose. Why would any bright young ten-year-old buy cartridges when they can download emulators and bootlegged ROMs from the 'net for free?
Games for the Atari 2600 I've played for long periods of time in my adulthood: Demon Attack, Megamania, Space Invaders, Pitfall, Adventure, some Snoopy-related thing whose name escapes me at the moment.
Retro Arcade Games I've played for long periods of time in my adulthood: Rally X, Tron, Xevious and Qix.
― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― james, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
runners-up: SNES Mario Kart, Street Fighter II Turbo, Goldeneye, Wing Commander II, the original Space Quest, Thief. Mario 64 and the Zelda game were also very impressive. Now it seems I've 'grown up,' I'd rather download music online .. actually, I just haven't found very many involving storylines.
― Dare, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
*I know, it's just a dumb ol' chest./end geek
― h@hh (felicity's gpa, killed by a mindflayer), Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I wish there was a new Ultima Underworld with pet cats in. It'd be so good if you could tame one of the snow leopards or the trilkhai from UWII. I didn't like killing the snow leopards. At least I got to help the trilkhai by going on a mission for them. Maybe I might pick up the motivation to finish my bezier curves project if I convince myself that I can use it to make a cat for a 3d rpg...
― felix, the tame kitten, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― reb the valkyrie (and felix the tame large cat), Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
VALKYRIE . . . YOUR LIFE FORCE IS RUNNING OUT . . .
― B!of coffee, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
or, is it?
― Chris, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Aha! Depends on the wicked, wicked RNG.
― felicity, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
etc etc etc...
― never a valkyrie to miss an obvious and unfunny "joke", Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Footie games rock.
― Omar, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― felicity, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Vinnie, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
http://natural-metrics.freeserve.co.uk/impact!
― Stuart Woodward, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
by the way, those lucky people in europe, is anybody playing shenmue 2 for dc? how is it? i'm not going to succumb to xbox to play it.
― ernest, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― David H, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Philips P2000: Ancalagon (A dutch translation of Rogue) Philips P2000: PacMan (but not a clone of the 'real' pacman, this one was better, with bigger levels and more features) Commodore 64: H.E.R.O. Commodore 64: Labyrinth Commodore 64: Blue Max Atari Lynx: Xenophobe Atari Lynx: Chip's Challenge Amiga: Leisure Suit Larry I Amiga: Kings Quest I Amiga: The Secret of Monkey Island (I & II) Amiga: Flashback Amiga: Pinball Fantasies Amiga: Speedball II Amiga: Zool Amiga: Eye of the Beholder (I & II) PC: Command & Conquer PC: Day of the Tentacle PC: Operation Flashpoint N64: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time N64: Donkey Kong 64 N64: GoldenEye N64: Perfect Dark N64: 1080 Snowboarding N64: Mario 64 GBC: Tetris GBC: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX GBA: Advance Wars GBA: Golden Sun GBA: Sonic Advance GBA: Mario Kart: Super Circuit GBA: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon PS2: SSX Tricky PS2: Jak & Daxter PS2: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
Current favourites: Golden Sun (Gameboy Advance), Rez (Playstation 2)
― Napole0n, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― baldie, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― haloist, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jean, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― davidh(owie), Wednesday, 10 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― CThomas, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ess Kay, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Vib-Ribbon - currently there is a potential BLACK MARKET SWAP going on in trendy London town with Vib-Ribbon swapsies for Pokémon Snap and accompanying N64.
AND SOON I SHALL BE ENTERING THE REALM OF PS2!!! I won't be getting Timesplitters though, that's too bloody difficult! I just can't get the hang of Doom style perspective. I shout "where am I how do I turn round where are you" "I am standing behind you" "oh hang on a bit whilst I try to turn round, oh no I am stuck against a well" - you don't have that kind of nonsense with Chuckie Egg.
I just finished the Pokémon trading card game btw, it certainly didn't take me very long and I wouldn't have said that my deck was invincible.
― Sarah, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alan T, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel --, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Other games which should not be missed - Ocarina of Time, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Wonderboy in Monster Land, Rescue (on the old Speccy), Tetris on Gameboy (or Ltris for unix), Zelda III, Serious Sam, Wizball, The Two Towers (on MUD, ha ha). and finally for comic value - 'Benny Hills madcap chase'.
― Fozhack, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Scott, Saturday, 12 October 2002 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lek Dukagjin, Saturday, 12 October 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
River City Ransom.
― TIM@KFC.EDU, Saturday, 12 October 2002 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mbosa, Sunday, 13 October 2002 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
I want to try out Everquest, Starcraft, Civ II, Counterstrike, GTA3 because I've heard all of these are insanely addictive.
Favorite standup arcade game ever: Karate Champ!!!
― Aaron A., Sunday, 13 October 2002 18:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 13 October 2002 18:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Sunday, 13 October 2002 19:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 13 October 2002 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Commadore 64: ULTIMATE WIZARD, Trolls and Tribulations,
Mac: Willy Beamish, Space Quest, other sierra games
2 or more player games: Doom 2, Warcraft 2, Quake, Descent, loads of shareware games (Beam Wars, Puyo Poyu, Galactic Frontiers, Spaceward Ho!, Robosport, all the Spectre games)
― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 October 2002 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 October 2002 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 October 2002 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 13 October 2002 21:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
actually i think it was his friend that was working on the alien x-ray glasses stuff. i think his friend's name was ian. i think his name was conrad. i think i need to get laid real soon.
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 13 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
I loved it too, but my Amiga owning friend used to moan about the star player system, and the fact that you could just press the 'shoot' button and it would do the goalscoring for you. I agreed that it was more satisfying to score on the Amiga. You had to work every angle.
My other favourite games:
Spectrum: Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy, Match Point (still fantastically playable, with great intuitive controls), Gauntlet (spectacularly quick and always underrated. I've got the emulated arcade version on my PC now, as well as the Spectrum one, and its the latter that is most fun to play).
Megadrive: Sonic 1 & 2, the Shinobi games, NHL hockey.
Playstation 2: I just bought one of these a week ago - continuing my habit of buying the populist platform over the more technically advanced one (Spectrum vs C64; Megadrive vs SNES; PS2 vs X-box and Gamecube). Only have two games so far. This is Football 2003, which I bought because I love football games and didn't want to get Pro Evolution now when the sequel is coming out in a couple of weeks. It's decent if simplistic game, but I'm still aware when I'm playing it that I would have wet my pants when I was 9 to know I would one day have games that were this much more advanced than Match Day. The other game I have is Gran Turismo 3, which knocks me out. The graphics are pretty much indistinguishable from TV. Last Tuesday, I'm ashamed to say, I played it for 17 hours straight.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 14 October 2002 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 October 2002 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Try this site: PacMan
― Lek Dukagjin, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link