Classic Pre-90s Arcade/Computer/PC/Console/Electronic Games - Share Your Memories!

[superberkut]

PS2 reissues are among the best mediums of reviving these games...

I particularly remember Pole Position by Namco, 1942 and 1943: Battle of Midway, and Sky Kid as such games. Back when my father owned a classic Nintendo 64, I have had fond memories of Super Sprint and Bart Simpson vs. the World (or something like that).

Of course, I didn't know how to change gears in the Pole Position car, and I always managed to throw every Super Sprint race I entered, then the arrival of GT1 changed my life. I did get absurdly far in 1942, however.

 

[FoolKiller]

If you liked 1942 then this may interest you.

1942 gets an HD makeover for XBLA and PSN.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/858/858836p1.html

The link has a trailer and a boss fight gameplay video.

 

[Beerz]

Wow, this sure brings back some sweet memories...

I'm sure that I'm forgetting a few, but the ones I played the most (on my 48K Spectrum, which I still have) were:

Jumping Jack - my first game ever, it was awesome... back in those days of course.

Formula One - I always had some sort of mechanical failure when one of my cars was leading the race, but was awesomelly accurate at the pitstops. Oh, the engine roar... Many, many hours with some friends playing this. 👍

(wow, did it really look this bad?... )
Match Day - All the excitement of football on your TV, couldn't be any better. You could change team's names (which I did every time I loaded the game). How cool was that?

Atic Atac - I loved this; it was kinda creepy at the time, and it was fun memorizing every single room, what was in each room and where did each door go. The chicken on the right kept losing its meat as we were dying, pretty cool.

Commando - The ultimate 3D feeling on warfare. Machineguns, grenades, mayhem, you name it. This game had it all.


And a few more that I really, really enjoyed:

Green Beret - super coolness in motion

3 Weeks In Paradise (funniest thing ever)

The Way of The Exploding Fist - at the time, the guys fighting felt like motion-capture 60fps nowadays

Operation Wolf - Great shoot-em-up

Saboteur - Stealth ninja action by the loads, extreme precision on every move was the key

Enduro Racer - the Motorstorm back then

Chase HQ - I always found this way better than OutRun


At the same time or a little later, I would sneak up on to the arcade parlour with some coins I managed to pop off of mum's wallet (without her knowledge, of course) and have a go on the meanest machines that arrived. I checked almost daily to see if any new one had arrived.

Those were the days...

 

[FoolKiller]

(wow, did it really look this bad?... )

At least you have a round ball and facial features. Heck, you even have the amazing technical wonder of clothes. This is the first basketball game I ever played on the Atari.

And this is what passed as baseball.

 

[Beerz]

The first image isn't showing, but...

And this is what passed as baseball.

...^that was much worse than MD on a bad day.


Speaking of which, I found a youtube vid of the game, it sure was fun seeing it in motion after over 20 years.
Watching the first 2mins of the vid is enough to get the perception of how it was. I had forgotten that the players mixed colors when too close to each other, and the ball was almost always in the air.

 

[FoolKiller]

The first image isn't showing, but...

Here's a vid.

Speaking of which, I found a youtube vid of the game, it sure was fun seeing it in motion after over 20 years.

Yeah that seems to be early NES graphics quality or C64 quality, using systems I used as a comparison. Atari was earlier.

And here is one of my all-time favorite Atari games.

Stampede



It's the ultra-realistic sound quality that sells the games.

 

[Duke]

I used to play a lot of Rescue Raiders. My armored columns were unstoppable, even if my chopper piloting was not what it could have been.

 

[superberkut]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/858/858836p1.html

Weird but awesome! Thanks! This gives a good amount of credibility to the original game, even if it was a federal crime to play outside of the Americas.

 

[Slick Rick]

I remember playing these games on my ooollddd skool Apple Mac. To boot up you had two floppy disks and had to switch between the two every minute Ahh memories

Mr EE

Lemmings

There was also a rubbish flight simulator game represented simply by black and white lines but the best was a football manager game where you didnt even get to see the game or anything, just read the commentary!!

 

[FoolKiller]

I remember playing these games on my ooollddd skool Apple Mac. To boot up you had two floppy disks and had to switch between the two every minute Ahh memories

Lemmings

Thre is already an HD update to Lemmings on PSN. 👍