Fruit Machine Chat

Did anyone ever have one of these? I thought they were brilliant! Games were well designed - the constraints of the machine meant everything had to be thought out carefully, unlike 'wasteful' depthless games of today.

Been playing some classics on the emulator -

Head over Heels
Uridium
BoulderDash
Turrican II

I've spent nearly £2k on a laptop, and find myself mainly playing emulated C64 16-colour games! lol...

Yeah, the videogames industry has gone to shit these days as far as originality is concerned. And yes, you're right, it is the fault of the more advanced hardware. Previously we have to be so much more inventive, so much more abstract because the hardware was rubbish, that the gameplay often emerged from just that!

These days everything has to be photorealistic, which means every game looks and plays very similar... I get depressed working on them sometimes.

However! Things like Xbox Live Arcade are helping redress the balance. Good simple games that don't rely on pushing eight billion bump-mapped volumetricaly lit polys a second... And they're remaking Sensible Soccer too!

lol - my neighbour bought a C64 when they first went on the market, and he was the talk of the town.

I remained loyal to my Speccy (48k with rubber keys) and remember spending hours looking at the game cassettes on sale in Woolworths, Boots, WHSmith and berating the displays whenever a C64 game got mixed up with the Spectrum range.

The C64 games were usually £3.99 and the Speccy games £1.99 (or £2.99 while still new) if I remember correctly.

Quite a contrast nowadays when you can't get much for less than £40 a throw in the very same shops.

Yep, my mate had a speccy (ZX - rubber keys!)

Since I was about 6 (20 years ago) I've got through:

- Atari XL
- Commodore 64
- Sega Megadrive
- Atari Lynx
- Amiga 500+
- Sega Saturn
- Playstation 1
- Nintendo 64
- Game Boy Advance
- X-Box
- PC

Used to play games every minute I could. Over the last 5 or 6 years thoug I've pretyy much given up on gaming (except for emulated oldies, and had a soft spot for the Max Payne series and GTA: VC)

Ahh nostalgia. I'm 20 now, and had a few of those oldies.

ZX Spectrum
Commodore 64
Amiga

My fave game has to be Monkey Island I, where you have to learn to be a pirate with 3 trials. The insults in the sword fighting were awesome!


Matt

20?! Christ, you make me feel old. You weren't even alive when the Speccy first came out!

Manic Miner... now there was a game to waste hours of your life on...

[quote="Weyland"]And they're remaking Sensible Soccer too! ]

I've played a demo of SS on the XBox and it's not looking too good.

If you want an addictive, playable, simple football game, get Olympic Soccer/Soccer 97 (the sequel) for PS1 - it's BRILLIANT. It has the best game commentary too - by Alan Green.

Mattb wrote:Ahh nostalgia. I'm 20 now, and had a few of those oldies.

ZX Spectrum
Commodore 64
Amiga

My fave game has to be Monkey Island I, where you have to learn to be a pirate with 3 trials. The insults in the sword fighting were awesome!


Matt

Completed that just a few weeks ago

Heh - the LucasArts games were good (I finished Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - took ages to work out some of the bits!)

Manic Miner was also a classic platformer!

Nostalgia is fantastic, even if it isn't what it used to be.

I remember my tape loading Commadore 64 well, although it was basically a keyboard plugged in to the mains and a tv, with a tape player attached. It was so slow! My favourite games were Rambo and a Micro-Machines type racer. At the same time my uncle got a pc with a game that was amazing at the time: you controlled a spaceship that moved up or down the screen with the arrow keys and you could fire using the spacebar. It had dot-matrix style graphics all in green but I still though it was amazing.

Then I played Streets of Rage for the first time when I was eight on a cutting edge, top spec mega drive

Demmerz wrote:Nostalgia is fantastic, even if it isn't what it used to be.

If any of you fancy recreating the magic of Micro-Machines, there is a 4 player game called Mashed that is very similar (and very addictive).

Was I the only person to have an Amstrad CPC464?

Streets of Rage

That was a top game! The music was also brilliant! SoR II was my personal fave!

Was I the only person to have an Amstrad CPC464?

Another chum of mine had one of these, we played Castle Master for days on this!

Technically it was just Streets II :P

Demmerz - Was it called Virus?

Used to love the C64, used to go and watch telly for 30mins while it loaded! Was a pain when it didn't load correctly and you had just wasted 30mins though.

If anyone wants to play amiga emulators i have the roms and some sites where you can get good games, will post the sites later when im home.

Anyone got a psp? Also playing emu's on that, all the sega classics.


I used to have in this order,

Atari something? Played cartridges which stuck in the middle
C64
Amiga 500
Gameboy
Sega Megadrive 2
Playstation
Playstation 2
XBox
PSP

Yes, Virus seems to ring a bell!