Following on from the "Elite" thread, anyone got any links to any computer games nostalgia sites? (Particularly from the BBC micro era...)

I don't really want to play any with an emulator, but some old screen shots would be nice.

Ahhh...
Elite
Chuckie Egg
Labyrinth
Monsters
Revs
Blagger
Manic Miner
Citadel
Jet Pac
Sabre Wulf
Way of the Exploding Fist

etc etc etc etc

 

I used to have the C64 emulator and played Exploding fist - 2 player - still rocks!!

Lost the emulator when my hard drive died

Neil
www.scoobyworld.co.uk

 

Anyone remember "Castle Quest" for the BBC. I never did finish it. Citadel was great

 

Anyone remember Mazogs (I think) for the zx81?

 

Hello

Are they REALLY great though?

I get the occasional need to remember computer games fondly (Shamus and Miner 2049er on the Atari 800 were two of my favourites), BUT if you actually get them out and play them (or download an emulator) they are really not that good.

But then my enthusiasm for games has disapeared slightly with my old age (33!).

Steve.

 

Steve - that's exactly why I'm not interested in trying to play any of them with an emulator.

Just after some screen shots for old times sake...

(LOL sounding really old now...)
(BTW - I'm 31 - is that old? )

 

I'm 34, thats getting old!!!!

the PS2 brings back all the excitement, mind you there was something about firing your home pc up, getting the tape recorder out, connecting it up, getting the volume right, and loading cassettes, with that annoying fax type data noise!!!

and then it all crashing with a "failed to load" type error after 20 painful, eager minutes!!!

the kids today, will probably bin it, but we all persevered!!!!

that must say something!!!

BB

 

there is a 256 colour pc version of manic miner, kicking around, dead easy to find do a search on google or something, pixel perfect and true to the original - fantastic!

Gary

 

You youngsters - 35 years old here, and until this year, had spent my entire working career writing computer games.

Mazogs, god I remember that one !

And yes, most old games aren't as good as you think. I should know, I wrote some of them !

 

Yup - sorry Rich, you're practically dead mate

 

I found a Syndicate CD at the weekend. What a game that was.

I love the Miniguns

 

Nothing too famous - golf game called Leaderboard (long time ago), and did the movie license game for Total Recall.

Wrote 16 games in all, last one on the XBox.

 

I think I had Leaderboard on the Spectrum? Or am I getting the names wrong?

 

Yep - that was the one.....

We had the 6502 binary from the Commodore 64 version, so we wrote a 6502 emulator for the Spectrum, plugged in the binary, and voila ! One working emulation of the C64.

I think I might of pushed the poor Spectrum too far on my follow up project, a 68000 Atari ST emulator on the Spectrum...

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Was one of the versions of Leaderboard just islands and water?

 

hey leaderboard great game, used to play links alot too, cant remember which one used to say "Looks like I hit the tree...jim" in some annoying american accent

Gary

 

One was - we knocked out a few versions, all we had to do was change the data. I seem to remember one the courses on the original was on water.

 

geez boxer bet that was fun, I remember doing 6502 assembler, with 8 bits its a nightmare, having high and low order bytes, two's complement for jump offsets etc. etc. all a long long time ago.

Gary

 

Yeah, well, here I am today, trying to get PHP working the way I want !

I was earning more money back then, as well....

 

Boxerflat4 did you work for Ocean then?

 

Yep - worked for (deep breath)...

Atari, Ocean, US Gold, Infogrames, Warthog, Psygnosis aka Sony, Microprose, blah blah blah...

run out of people who have realised what a work shy fop I am !

 

I spent a few years at Ocean as well. Probably know a lot of folk you know too...

 

Microprose - cool - the original Gunship

I think I read the other day Hasbro finally killed the name

 

Rob - My girlfriend now works for Acclaim, they're based in the old Ocean offices. I used to work there as well, back when it was Infogrames.

ChrisB - Yeah, I remember Gunship ! I did a couple of flight sims while I was there, until we all left for Psygnosis. What a career move that was....

 

Then there was F19 Stealth Fighter.

I've still got my Speccy stashed somewhere.

 

Did she work for Software Creations before Acclaim?

I got laid off from there when Acclaim fcuked err. took them over..

 

what about the Elite clone "Academy" on the Speccy - gr8 - anyone remember it?

 

Rob - Yeah, she started after Acclaim "acquired" them, although the story is alot more complicated then that....

Chris - I did F117A Stealth Fighter, Amiga version.

 

I know exactly how complicated it is!! I'm still very bitter about it! Worked there for 7 1/2 years.. day before pay day get a phone call while I'm out on business saying don't come back.. nice!

 

Rob, I've been there, done that as well. One reason why I got out of the industry, altough it looks like I'm going to be forced to return back to it.