Childhood memories

[Stormtrooper37]

And yet we tolerated it black ops2 takes about 30 seconds to load on the ps3 and that now seems a long time.

Didn't Facebook and eBay go down last week and it made the news?

ebay has been down again most of today

 

[Stormtrooper37]

My nephew used to grunt impatiently when he had to wait more than 30 seconds on any of his ps3 games, so I hooked up my old 128k Spectrum and loaded up Jet Set Willy, still my fave Speccy game.
After the endless wait for it to load he was appalled, both from the wait and the game itself and of course it crashed soon after. He still can't believe that's what we had to put up with.

I remember when Jet Set Willy first came out and me and my cousin were like wow :lol:

Kids don't know they are born with computer games today, but I have a soft spot for the old unreliable early computer games
Jet Set Willy
Atic Atac
Sabre Wulf
Hungry Horrace - first game I ever played on a home computer in 1982
Scuba Dive
Lode Runner

 

[Fishtalk]

Jet Set Willy, what a game. I would often stay up all night playing it in my room on my black and white portable telly, armed with the infinite lives poke and a map of the mansion. Often the game would crash or I would fall into a room, thus dying repeatedly and forcing me to start over.

I never did collect all the items, and I later found out the game had a bug that made it impossible to complete, but it didn't matter - I loved that game and those all night sessions were some of the happiest times of my high school years.

 

[x-pack]

Games were actually hard then as well! Ghosts & Goblins (or was it Ghouls & Ghosts) - freakin hard!

 

[Section 8]

Can play a load of classics here. Including ghosts and goblins.


http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/

 

[naughtyjedi]

black and white television..
getting up to change channels
caravan holidays
typing your games in from a magazine and waiting a month for the error to be corrected
Incredible Hulk TV series
british wrestling on ITV
pipkins
John Craven
Tucker Jenkins
Look in
Star Fleet
Jason of Star Command
99p footballs
the fear of Nuclear war

 

[Stormtrooper37]

Games were actually hard then as well! Ghosts & Goblins (or was it Ghouls & Ghosts) - freakin hard!

Think it was both Barry.

One of my favourite games was Myth for the C64, but I could never get passed the frustratingly difficult Egyptian level.

 

[x-pack]

Games were actually hard then as well! Ghosts & Goblins (or was it Ghouls & Ghosts) - freakin hard!

Think it was both Barry.

One of my favourite games was Myth for the C64, but I could never get passed the frustratingly difficult Egyptian level.

Had a go at IK+ on that emulator page above. Seem to have lost all ability to play these basic games. Never even got one hit in!

 

[Fishtalk]

It's the same for me with Gauntlet. Back in the Eighties I could play it single player in my local pub for ages on a single credit, but when I play it now I'm dead within minutes.
Maybe I'm just too old.

 

[db94]

Spectrum 48

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tape loading error

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I loved my Spectrum. Remember paying £29 to get mine upgraded to a proper keyboard instead of the rubber keys - thought it looked amazing

All the classics -
Hungry Horace, Horace and the spiders and Horace goes skiing
Way of the exploding fist
Jet Pac
Trans AM
3D Tanks
Gremlins adventure game
Space Raiders
There was a motorbike game, think it was 3D death race, where you sped through a forest shooting other bikers - for me it was a speeder bike flying through Endor

The absolute joy of getting a Kempston joystick - version 2 with a fire button on top and a trigger as well

 

[Stormtrooper37]

It's the same for me with Gauntlet. Back in the Eighties I could play it single player in my local pub for ages on a single credit, but when I play it now I'm dead within minutes.
Maybe I'm just too old.

Gauntlet!!!

How could I forget that classic game, I went into absolute panic when 'Death Character' appeared on the screen!

 

[x-pack]

Gauntlet was one of the first computer games I ever played. Loved it. Had Gauntlet 3D on the PS1. That was ok

 

[Fishtalk]

It's a fantastic game, and one of the first to use digitised speech (Wizard needs food....badly). I currently play it on Midway arcade origins on Xbox 360, but the best version is Gauntlet 4 on the Sega Megadrive, you get the original game plus 3 variations, all very playable.

 

[x-pack]

Is there anything like that on the PS3? Some games you play them now and they really are pants, but Gaunlet was and always will be a great, playable game 8)

 

[Fishtalk]

Yeah, Midway arcade origins is available on PS3, 30 classic arcade games including Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2, Defender, Joust, Spyhunter, Rampage and more. And you're quite right, some games now seem very lame. (I do love Defender though, the sounds and gameplay take me right back to my local arcade, circa 1980).

 

[Stuart Skinner]

It's a fantastic game, and one of the first to use digitised speech (Wizard needs food....badly). I currently play it on Midway arcade origins on Xbox 360, but the best version is Gauntlet 4 on the Sega Megadrive, you get the original game plus 3 variations, all very playable.

Totally agree - Gauntlet 4 on the Mega Drive is a great shout, many wasted hours of life with that little pleasure

 

[x-pack]

Yeah, Midway arcade origins is available on PS3, 30 classic arcade games including Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2, Defender, Joust, Spyhunter, Rampage and more. And you're quite right, some games now seem very lame. (I do love Defender though, the sounds and gameplay take me right back to my local arcade, circa 1980).

I'm not sure what it is about some old games. They just seem unplayable now :? It's as though kids in the 80's had lightning fast reflexes or sommat.

 

[cracatilla]

Did anyone ever do the Coca Cola Soccer Skills badges?

 

[Stuart Skinner]

Did anyone ever do the Coca Cola Soccer Skills badges?

Yes indeed, mind is very sketchy about them now but still have my badges etc somewhere stored away

 

[x-pack]

Did anyone ever do the Coca Cola Soccer Skills badges?

Yes indeed, mind is very sketchy about them now but still have my badges etc somewhere stored away

You could earn Coca Cola badges doing gymnastics at our school. Being rubbish at gym I got none