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Retro Computer Gamers of the world unite!

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo

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If the words Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and BBC Micro mean anything to you, this is the place to remember them!

I myself owned a BBC Model B, which we got for Christmas in 1984. We had three games from Acornsoft with it: Monsters (which was hilarious), Meteors (an Asteroids knockoff) and Starship Command (my personal favourite - it had the Liberator and the Enterprise in it!). Eventually it led to my love for the lizard king Repton, which continues to this day.

All the other kids in my school had ZX Spectrums, and always sneered at our computers - probably due to the fact that they had Spectrums in our school too, although later they were changed to BBC Master 128s plus there was a PC also there. (I don't think anyone had a Commodore 64.) Secondary school had the more advanced Archimedes computers, which I always wanted to own before I turned PC.
 
Yeah, I've rediscovered retro BBC Micro gaming with the emulators and disk images. Even managed to get to level 14 in GalaForce (which I could never do before). :D

Even managed to try out a Speccy emulator a while back.
 
My grandfather had a C64 that I just loved playing. I think my favorite games were Bruce Lee, Karateka, and Ace of Aces--my introduction to air combat gaming, actually, which I still enjoy immensely.

I also used TRS-80s in elementary school. Not so good for gaming, though.

Let's not forget the Apple II series! Those broke me into adventure gaming. Troll Cave, Mystery House (I think?), and others.
 
Commodore Vic 20 and a little game called rockman........fantastic machine, it even had a port for cartridges but the only games there seemed to be for it in that form were text adventures, Dracula and The Hulk.
 
Does anybody remember ADAM by Coleco that was back in the mid 80's? That was my first home PC. And I still have it somewhere. It had computer games specifically made for it that came on cassettes, but it also would accept the old Colecovision cartridges. IIRC, I had a Star Trek game, and Q-Bert.
 
I still have my Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, and they both still work. Not got room to set them up permanently at the moment, but do get them out for a dabble every now and again.

Got a shedload of emulators too (NES, SNES, Megadrive, Arcade... etc) that I play on a lot. Even bought a proper arcade stick specially for them.
 
Does Mega Drive count as retro? Been playing that quite a bit. I can't get my NES to work though, just greyscreens :(
 
Got Bonk for my Turbographix.

My fav game on my C64 was The Hunt For Red October-still break it out for a bit of fun now and again.
 
I had a multitude of 8-bit machines back in the 80s. Much fun! I even used to write my own music on the C64...I occasionally load up the VICE C64 emulator for some old school gaming.
 
I had an Atari 1200 XL and so did a buddy of mine. We had numerous games on the old, large floppies that we would swap out. One of my favorites was Riddle of the Sphinx and the original text adventure game, Leisure suit Larry. We had Apple IIe computers, at out highschool, and we used to play a game called Fathoms 40 quite a bit.
 
Just discovered one of the old BBC Micro emulators. Have been playing one of the platform's very best shooters, Firetrack, all evening. Awesome music and the gameplay still holds up. :D

Also been playing the fantasy game Spellbinder, having just now reailsed that the music throughout the game is "Midnight Summer Dream" by The Stranglers. :lol:

Also tried the BBC Micro's speech capabilities with the Speech! program. Quite amusing to hear the old computer speak my name. :)
 
they had BBC Micro's at my priimary school. we used to play Chucky Egg and Space Pilot on it. i much preferred Space Pilot.

for those not in the know, Space Piot was a side-on flying game where you flew a fighter jet against WWI biplanes, then advanced to WWII Messerschmitts, Vietnam and helicopters the Falklands and Harriers and then flying saucers in the future. the WWI boss was a zeppelin, the Vietnam one was a Chinook.
 
I had an Atari 400 that I got for my 7th birthday, then an 800XE, then a 1200XL, and finally a 130XE that died shortly after I got married. So I bought another one off of Ebay, which still works. I also got the cable and software to connect it to my PC so I could back up the stuff I made and some of those old games I played when I was young, for use with emulators. :techman:

I also briefly had a Commodore 64C that my mom shoplifted from some store in Illinois, but she got nervous about having it in our apartment and fenced it.

One of my cousins had a Timex Sinclair, and several of my friends had Apple IIs. And I got my first PC - an Amstrad 8086 with a smokin' 10MHz Turbo mode - when I was 12.

Good times (except the 64C, of course). Good times. Man, I wish someone would remake and update Mail Order Monsters!

We did all sorts of wacky stuff with those machines, but my favorite "hack" out of all of that is still the half-power-off-then-back-on trick on the Atari 2600 that would glitch whatever game you had in. Pitfall Harry could fly, and the first room you went into in Swordquest Earthworld showed you the final screen from the game!
 
captcalhoun said:
they had BBC Micro's at my priimary school. we used to play Chucky Egg and Space Pilot on it. i much preferred Space Pilot.

for those not in the know, Space Piot was a side-on flying game where you flew a fighter jet against WWI biplanes, then advanced to WWII Messerschmitts, Vietnam and helicopters the Falklands and Harriers and then flying saucers in the future. the WWI boss was a zeppelin, the Vietnam one was a Chinook.
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Sounds like a Time Pilot clone. Not that that's a bad thing - some of those clones had cool stuff the originals never did.
 
USS_Triumphant said:
captcalhoun said:
they had BBC Micro's at my priimary school. we used to play Chucky Egg and Space Pilot on it. i much preferred Space Pilot.

for those not in the know, Space Piot was a side-on flying game where you flew a fighter jet against WWI biplanes, then advanced to WWII Messerschmitts, Vietnam and helicopters the Falklands and Harriers and then flying saucers in the future. the WWI boss was a zeppelin, the Vietnam one was a Chinook.
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Sounds like a Time Pilot clone. Not that that's a bad thing - some of those clones had cool stuff the originals never did.
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no, i thinkit was 'time pilot' and i got the name wrong. hey it's 20-some years...!
 
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