Retro toys and other nonsense. what was your fave?

[Mango99]

Great game/toy I used to have was called Crossfire. A game where you had to shoot metal ballbearings at an air-hockey type disk thing and score in the opponents goal. Excellent 

Toys these days seem so much more advanced. Here's one I bought yesterday - a golf simulator lol - it won't arrive until June though.

I also had a 48k Spectrum. Many an evening spent playing Daley Thompson's. I was more a fan of the OPOPOPOPOPOP method than the NMNMNMNMNM one though. Whilst repeating the phrase 'readybrek, readybrek, readybrek, readybrek, readbrek' I was able to clear quite a height on the Pole Vault (it's all about timing you see )

Jet Set Willy and Chuckie Egg were other favourites.

[Sheriff Fatman]

Just dug up a screenshot - I'm having flashbacks to the torture of the 1500m!



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[Tractor]

Ive been through all the computers like a lot of you on here, and agree Manic Minor was probably the best platform game ever, qbert was a classic too.
I used to like a game called Simon Says, four coloured buttons light and beep ina random pattern and allyou have to do is repeat it back, easy! apart from the fact it gets faster and faster each go!
So many things....those were the days.

ps-did anyone get into the monkey island adventure games on the Amiga??

re-daley Thompson, i found on the old rubber keyed Speccy a golf ball worked wonders.

[Claw75]

Oooh - that inspired me to find a pic of my favourite game:



The site I found this on has a download - wonder if it come complete with spooky 'music'?

[Sheriff Fatman]

The two retro games which I have the most favourable memories of are Elite, on which I lost countless hours of my life as a teenager on various formats, and World Games on the Commodore 64 which was an awesome multiplayer game assuming you could cope with the download time between events.

Apparently, Elite 4 is supposed to be in production but I'll believe it when I see it.  The original on the BBC was so far ahead of its time its untrue!

Sheriff

[Nakor]

Now a great Lady from Blonde ruined my life with these link's last time this type of thread did the rounds.

For Claw and others, Manic Miner.

http://www.sausagenet.com/computing/zx_manic_miner.asp

Jet Set willy, Jet Pac etc etc

http://retrospec.sgn.net/games.php

And basically all the others.

http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/

Don't blame me blame Heid.

Share and Enjoy.

(Disclaimer:- Jet Set Willy will and can ruin your life)

[Mango99]

ps-did anyone get into the monkey island adventure games on the Amiga??

Yes, I played number 1 and 2. Great games

Has anyone played Gitaroo Man? It's a fairly new game (well 3 or 4 years old) for the PS2, that I bought for a friends daughter, but ended up playing it all the time myself! Most fun game ever I think!

Also, those dance mat things are a great laugh, especially after a few beers

[RED-DOG]

Alex Kid on master system, Awesome!!

[Poppet7]

I had a commodore thingy (I was 9/10 at the time so I can't remember it well) but my favourite toy was my sega megadrive! I would spend all day and night on it and my favourite games were Toejam and Earl, Sonic the Hedgehog, Flicky, Lemmings and Bubsy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_Jam_&_Earl

[Nakor]

For those that owned the C64 - this site is amazing !

http://c64s.com/toplist/more/

Best version I can find of Daley Thompson's

http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/spectrum/daley.asp

[bolt pp]

shinobi on the master system!!! serious game

and the bikes one but i cant remember what it was called.

[I, Zimbra]

I had Shinobi as well; it was great upgrading him to the gun,  only to fall all the way back down to crappy slow shuriken things if you got killed just once (weep)

[Hawkeye1976]

Someone must of had:

TIN CAN ALLY

What a game?

And my fav ZX game was Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner.

Steve

[Mango99]

shinobi on the master system!!! serious game

and the bikes one but i cant remember what it was called.

Hang On?

[Bongo]

I had shinobi - great game, I almost mastered it! Could do every level without losing a life but the boss of the 3rd world (the one that was a block  of 4x4 spinning crab things you had to shoot really quickly).

Monkey Island was great too, great story and funny to boot.

I used to go round my mate's house after school and play toejam and earl, another great game especially two player.

California games too.

For all Daley Thompson game fans you should try track and field on the playstation - basically the same game.

It keeps track of the records in each event and who did it so it can get a bit competitive (much like anything can when you involve a group of men and alcohol. We even had a competition based on a jug of water at uni).