Playstation 2 or X-box Vote

[Nick M]

*goes off to sulk about feeling old*  

[Bananaman]

Atari  

Uncanny just what i thought when i saw this thread.  

*goes off to sulk about feeling old*  

Theres older people on this BB           at least we had computer games to play with.

My personal fave wa Asteroides where you had a little pointy Spaceship and you flew around zapping rocks breaking them up into smaller rocks till they were all gone, whilest dodging the fying saucers & it was mono-colour.

Andy

[Nick M]

I looked into buying a proper arcade type Asteroids game (if you recall the table top ones you used to see in pubs years ago).  But they wanted something ridiculous like GBP300 for it !!!  And it was knackered - it worked but was scruffy.

[Niff Teedell]

     .........mmmmm, original Boulder Dash on Commodore 64..........      

[westy]

a while back I obtained an emulator called MAIM that plays the original Arcade machine ROMs.  It came with 2953 games from 1975 (gunfight) through to 1999.  As your using the original ROM's you even have to press a key to put a coin in!  

Used to sit on the train into work playing them much to the amusement of my fellow passengers

[Blatman]

I have Asteroids and Centipede (as well as one or two others) on my PC. Made by a company called Hasbro Interactive (who's web site appears to be down), either under licence or as a joint venture with Atari.

It's pretty good, in a nostalgic, re-live your childhood sort of way.

There is some info here.............

[samcooke]

For those of us of a younger generation, I've recently got an Amiga emulator called UAE for my PC and have been playing Super Hang-On and Lotus Challenge (1, 2 and 3! and Jaguar XJ220 - The Game (! at 1200 times the original speed.

Not easy.

And Monkey Island 2 is superb (and still funny) without swapping between 12 disks every two minutes and Lesiure Suit Larry rocks and Frontier: Elite 2 is still enthralling and Microprose Grand Prix is still the best F1 game (honest) and Sensible Soccer is still the best footy game, not to mention Populous and The Settlers and Lemmings and Worms and...

I could go on but I sense I've lost you all...

You can keep your poxy X-Box, give me an Amiga anyday.

Aaah. They just don't make nostalgia like they used to.

[Quentin Willson]

You can keep your poxy X-Box, give me an Amiga anyday.

…….get hold of a copy of “Stunt Car Challenge” for the Amiga. Hard as f*ck, but when you mastered it, the sense of driving was superb. In fact I’ve just come over all misty eyed……….

[samcooke]

Oooo. Nicely thought Quento.

I reckon I've got it in the loft somewhere. Big exhausts coming out of the bonnet IIRC. Just used to crash it all the time by flying off the edge of the track.

I'm gonna dig it out tonight...

[Hanslow]

Sam,

If you want it for UAE, I think I have it (along with another 2-300 or so games) on a CD somewhere and I can email you it if you want.

Not tonight though cos I'm off out for a works do bevvie

Which I will be continuing tomorrow lunchtime

You might get it tonight or tomorrow if you want it, but I make no excuses for my ability to type or if I send you the wrong file!

Steve

[westy]

Where do I start!

Stunt car racer was the first reason I had to create a serial link cable (or was it parallel?) so we could have a multiplayer game Wasn’t that also the starting blocks for Geoff Crammonds fetish for creating quality car simulators (apart from Revs in the BBC Micro days)?  He then went on to creating the Grand Prix series of games which I spent far too many an hour on.  Either way I will have to hunt on Kazaa lite and download an emulator to play it, ohhhh those were the days.  I sold my Amiga when I started on PC’s for the lowly sum of £250 to a friend with a few hundred games in the end, maybe I should of kept it after all

The lotus series was also quality. I can remember the excitement at getting above 180mph for the first time before being hit by those nasty white cars.  Believe it was on the first basic track down the hill if memory serves me right?

The Mrs and I still enjoy the monkey island series and have all of the PC conversion originals, but either way I cant use the skelton arm with that.  (in joke to the people that think I have lost it

If anyone has any links for the Amiga emulator stuff please let me know

[Thor, God of Thunder]

I sold my Amiga when I started on PC’s for the lowly sum of £250 to a friend with a few hundred games in the end, maybe I should of kept it after all

......in Oxford Amiga's are the next big thing so we kept them

 .......and our Commodore 64's

  .......and our Vic 20's

    .....and our Oric's

[samcooke]

Westy,

Good lad.  

Homepage is http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/

The UAE itself is free and PD so no worries there but you need an image of an original Kickstart ROM which are still copyrighted so aren't freely available - If you need to discuss this legal issue more I can email you  

The whole thing is easy to set up and run, only thing is PC drives can't read amiga disks so if you want to run floppy games you need a disk image (ADF) There's plenty available to download legally at places like http://www.back2roots.org.

You can run it on it's own screen or in a window like this:

(That's an 800 x 600 pic shrunk so it doesn't mess with the board layout)

It can break a bit but I'm sure it's Windoze, not the Amiga    

Geoff Crammond is a personal hero of mine, and yes, I still have a BBC B+ with a copy of revs. Last played it about 5 years ago, don't dare now in case it turns out it's crap and ruins my memories...

I still have my A1200 too. It'll be worth a mint in a few years, you mark my words. I counted my little blue floppy disks a while ago, can't remember if it was 760 or 780...

Hanslow - would love to get a copy of the whole CD. Let me know what you need + if it's possible to sort it  

[westy]

Thanks for the link I will look into that.  

The memory of all the classic games is flooding back to me now. Especially Speedball 2 , sensible soccer , kick off 2 , falcon .  Those were the days when you could swap games through the post with a simple piece of magic tape to make the stamps reusable

[Bob Green]

Hi NickM

I had an Atari once which was great fun.  To show my age, I started with one of those tennis jobbies that had a cursor bouncing across a black and white screen!