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Post by stuinedgeley on Jan 3, 2014 2:01:23 GMT
happy to help.
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Post by stuinedgeley on Jan 3, 2014 2:42:12 GMT
you can also find for those who remember it.......an emulator for the bbc- b !
and yes you can play that game "kingdom" that you played in school circa 1980-81 when primary schools were given a bbc-b computer.
the first computer to have function keys - they were orange lol
I don't know if there are sites for commodore64 or Atari ST or amiga etc but I imagine so.
as well as my spectrum I also have a mega drive II with games such as fifa 96 and sonic the hedgehog ( 1991 original game) brian lara cricket, and others ( mortal kombat i think as well) all still working.
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2014 2:49:48 GMT
My Dad tells me of the BBC-B and how bad it was, even at the time!
I only have him to go off on this though!
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Post by gazz on Jan 3, 2014 2:52:28 GMT
Brian Lara on the MD is class, superb game for its time. I remember the old BBC Micro, but do you remember the old Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80, Stu? Now that was ancient!
Acorn Electron replaced the tired old BBC Micro if I remember correctly.
Cracking info regarding the Speccy games, mate. Speaking of ZX Spectrum emus, try looking for Spectaculator, I have a sh*t load of ROMs and that plays them all, including game saves. You reminded me of Daley Thompson's Decathlon, now that was a keyboard killer that game!
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Post by gazz on Jan 3, 2014 2:57:49 GMT
My Dad tells me of the BBC-B and how bad it was, even at the time! I only have him to go off on this though! The BBC Micro was an ok machine in its day as I recall, it just got really old really fast thanks to Sir Clive and his peers. Some came with a colour monitor, others with the standard green screen, the colour ones were good. I think the poor performance of the BBC was probably the lack of proper gaming support once the Speccy started to gather pace. Pole Position was a game I used to play on that in Computer Studies in school, whenever the teacher went for a smoke/drink/whatever. Here is a site for BBC games, as you can see, they were pretty decent: www.bbcmicrogames.com/ |
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Post by dudleyhatter on Jan 3, 2014 3:04:39 GMT
Phoenix
Track and field
Looks like he hit the tree Jim ( golf on the mega drive!)
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2014 3:06:27 GMT
Again going back to my Dad, he was a big fan of Track and Field, apparently it gave him blisters on blisters!
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Post by gazz on Jan 3, 2014 3:14:06 GMT
Aside from the BBC Micro, here is another PC I used in school, the 'mighty' Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80:  You don't know you're born, Fudgie!  |
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2014 3:31:35 GMT
You guys can keep your old keyboard computers that take about 10 minutes just to load the title screen and I'll continue playing the Xbox, Playstation, PC etc.? Sound good, Gazza  Not my fault technology had caught up by the time I was born!!  |
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 3, 2014 9:55:16 GMT
"up until your early 20's" is a bit limiting fudge! that takes me just about to purchasing my megadrive!
prior to that we'd had one of those systems that had effectively 10 versions of 'pong', but slightly reconfigured and called football, basketball etc. a few handhelds - i had 'invader from space' and grandstand's version of 'scramble'. we saved up for a second hand ZX81 with reasonable 'asteroids' and 'galaxians' plus a couple of text adventures; and then sold that and put the money towards our christmas present, a 48k spectrum with kempston joystick and 'pssst' and some 'donkey kong' clone. later, 'matchday' and 'matchday 2', 'football manager', 'ant attack', 'hypersports', 'manic miner', 'attic atac', 'sabre wulf', 'underwurlde', 'knight lore', 'uridium', versions of 'r-type', 'spy hunter' and the classic 'elite'. 'pyjamarama', 'lords of midnight', along with various things i liked but can't remember the name of. i remember 'ping pong' now you mention it stu. it boasted about its synthesized speech! quite a good game, but 'frankie goes to hollywood' was a random mess.
the thing with the speccy was that as many games as i owned, i had at least as many or more 'taped'. considering that some games seemed to ship almost broken, or hyped themselves but then were just a mess (stuff like 'jack and the beanstalk' springs to mind), i had no guilt about doing it whatsoever. in the end i suspect i played several hundred speccy games.
i was 22 when i bought my megadrive, so i'm about to time out for this game! i bought a pack with NHL and Madden bundled with it. i loved the former (and later versions) and couldn't be bothered with the latter. 'megalomania' was another early purchase that i played all the way through, as was 'another world'. had a couple of hundred megadrive titles overall - kept trading them and when the original playstation came out, i traded about 80 megadrive games against it and got it free with an extra controller, a memory card, and i think 4 games including 'battle arena toshinden' and 'wipeout'.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jan 3, 2014 9:57:05 GMT
At least you didn't start that post with 'back in my day' We had to put up with betting on raindrops running down the windows !!! That's when the inside of the glass wasn't frozen over.  |
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 3, 2014 10:14:54 GMT
quoits was it lennie? ball and stick?!?
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jan 3, 2014 10:17:18 GMT
Couldn't afford a stick and the ball was made of an old sock wrapped in grease-proof paper with second hand sellotape.  The King made us shoots arrows every Sunday just in case the vikings raided ! |
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 3, 2014 11:03:37 GMT
making games up and making do and mend with the items around you was a great thing about childhood imagination. one wonders whether it is being lost in branded 'must haves' nowadays.
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Post by gazz on Jan 3, 2014 11:56:17 GMT
Megadrive Madden games are still the best in my opinion.
I know what you mean about the taping of games, ars, had my fingers burned a few times myself early on, so thought "f*** it!", and got hold of a game copier 'Copycat' I think it was called. Then the programmers got onto the piracy and developed the faster loading code for games like 'Matchday', but it wasn't long before someone was able to get around that too!
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