I'm out of the mainstream games side of things these days. In interactive tv, but thats about as difficult as games these days

 

Found it. It was called "Rescue on Fractalus". I was also getting a bit mixed up with "Star Raiders", which was very addictive.

 

LOL Chris (The_Gza) - and thanks for that!

Interesting thread guys

 

aaah all nostalgic now, they dont make em like they used to

 

any you guys got any experience with blitz basic 2d/3d??? When I get some time away from cutting code for boring business apps Im gonna take a look:

www.blitzcoder.com

 

Hi guys, I'm a new owner and pick up my 02 car on Thursday. I work for the Bitmap Brothers anyone remember Speedball 2, Xenon, Magic Pockets, Gods, Chaos Engine etc?

We are just doing an all new Xbox version of Speedball...

 

I really enjoyed Speedball 2 and Chaos Engine!

Look forward to the xbox version - need a beta tester??

 

Yeah in about 10 months

 

hi ed,

hey I remember chaos engine, cool or what! was just struggling to get it running under an amiga emulator only last week.

Gary

 

Uridium - Fantastic game!

What about Paradroid?!

I remember Rescue of Fractulus... could be really, really annoying!

 

hi all does any one remember turbo out run on the speccy. mick.

 

Any money in PHP Boxer? - Been pottering with it and mySQL for the last couple of months .

Gamm.

 

"Old classic" on the Spectrum....

[img]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-adverts/g/GazzasSuperSoccer.jpg[/img]

Gazza Link

I'm sure the link above has the wrong screenshot (birds-eye view). I remember this game on my mate's Spectrum because it was soooo unplayable (but funny!). The middle 3rd of the pitch was sideways scrolling but as soon as you got into either the first or last 3rd it became a front on static view. Which meant you may still be running sideways from the middle 3rd as you entered the front on view, highly confusing if you wanted a decent match!

Ho-hum back to work....

[Edited by Cat42 - 11/13/2002 1:33:15 PM]

 

Does anyone here remember this game for the BBC?

'Granny's Garden'

It was the first computer game i ever played(and completed!) (I was about 6!)

awesome! you can still download it and run it with a BBC emulator.

 

[Edited by DazV - 11/13/2002 3:57:32 PM]

 

Daz,

OMG. That brings back some memories.

 

Me too (sniff)

 

anyone got a zx80 or a jupiter ace?

seen em go on ebay for anywhere between £100-£300!!!!

Gary

 

Can you get emulator and roms for this stuff?

 

Nimbus,

you can get emulators for just about anything you care to mention: zx80/81/spectrum, vic20/c64/c16/plus4/amiga, atari 400/800/2600/ST/STE, BBC a/b/electron you name it, how do I know? cos Im one of the sad muppets who still play the old stuff!

 

s'OK I've found some

 

Click here Nimbus

Here !!! for games (dont unzip)

[Edited by Big Goon - 11/13/2002 6:09:58 PM]

 

All im going to say is Andrew Braybrook was a god when i was a teenager

 

PT - he was also a major geek, which jamjar glasses if I remember right!

 

Me and my mate used to spend countless hours playing football manager on the spectrum.

Also used to take great delight going into Lasky's and typing in

cls sys(1024)

which would lock the computer. Then we'd wait and watch people start typing, see nothing happen, look worried, have a look around and then walk off very quickly.... many amusing afternoon in Brighton before hitting the arcades.

Dave

 

lol.. you just reminded be about something..

Our trick for the shops was to write a small basic program on the Commodore 64 to pause for about 30 seconds.. then play random sounds... of course you turned the volume up full and then ran the program and walked away... class!

 

Or the Spectrum one... Poke 16384, ??? something anyway, locked up the program so no-one could break into it.

Well funny, especially when run with "Hello World" or worse...

 

EdCase - SPEEDBALL.. excellent - are you not doing it for anyother platforms?

BoxerFlat4 - gee I remember leaderboard on the speccy and F117A on the Amiga... well done..

Hmm.. commandos was cool on the speccy, never did get into Elite...another classic was something like 'Deathrace 2000' where you were on a bike trying to drive at speed through trees n stuff.. hhmmm...

Some I've owned in the past that I though were good are..

Manic Miner / Operation Wolf - Spectrum 48/128
Wings on the Amiga (trying to remember other games.. but can't... used to use AMOS after i moved from a 500 to a B2000).
Bonk on the PC Engine...
Lords Of Midnight on the TurboGraphix Duo
Street Fighter Turbo(and Hyper)/Zelda/Mario Kart on the SNES
Fatal Fury / Art Of Fighting on the NeoGeo
Sega Rally on the Saturn
Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast
Final Fantasy 9 / GT on the PSX
Xtreme G 3 / Mario 64 / Super Mario Kart on the N64
MGS 2 / Teken Tag (3) / TimeSplitters 2 on PS2
Super Mario Sunshine / TimeSplitters 2 on GameCube

I missed loads but having trouble remembering!.. oh damn.. just realised where all my money has gone in the past... Rss!

 

Game Remakes Site!

Atari 2600 VCS: Adventure

[Edited by DazV - 11/15/2002 9:16:26 PM]

 

Best games (IMO) for:

VIC20 - Gorf
ZX48 - Jetpac
C64 - Kong
Amiga - Batty/North & South/Blood Money/SuperCars2(to name a few)
SNES - Zelda
PS1 - Street Fighter 2
N64 - Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
PS2 - GT3

Bring on Zelda for the GameCube