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Kickin’ it old skool: 8bit to 16bit

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Started by andys gibson sg (James Harris) in Chit-Chat

C’mon guys admit it, before the Playstations, Wii’s, Xbox’s etc what was it that you used to own/play?
Lets talk about those tacky cartridges and games of yesterday.

I think I started with the Master System… anyone had one of them? Or older even? :)

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:26

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Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

I started on a Binatone and graduated to Atari computers.

Favourite games were:
Space Invaders
Pac Man
Donkey Kong
Dig Dug
Pole Position

hey we even upgraded to fancy ass floppy disk drive (back in the days when it was spelt with a “k”) so we could get Decathlon. - Lots of blisters in the palm from having to waggle the joystick repeatedl…oh for fuck’s sake guys, who is that sniggering at the back there…?!

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:33

#2

caffeinebomb (Caffeine Bomb) wrote:

um, me. sorry

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:37

#3

g (My Shade Will Comfort you) wrote:

I started with a snes and megadrive, then it was playstation.

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:38

#4

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

So you didnt go to the wild side of the Commodore 64 or the mighty Amiga then?

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:38

#5

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

…or Sinclair ZX Spectrum, maybe the Amstrad :)

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:41

#6

g (My Shade Will Comfort you) wrote:

but before my time, we have a vextrek that i used to play when I was younger though.

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:46

#7

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

Why isn’t the Vextrek on youtube? :(

Here was one of my fave Spectrum games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy4bxy3cL90

:)

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:48

#8

Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:

second menton of Way of the Exploding Fist on the WoM in a week! YAY!

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:51

#9

Gav wrote:

In order:
ZX Spectrum 48k (dads)
Atari 2600
ZX Spectrum 128k
Sega Megadrive
Sega MegaCD
GameGear
Gameboy
SNES
First PC
Playstation 1
Dreamcast
Playstation 2
Xbox 1
Gamecube
Xbox 360
PSP
Nintendo DS

I think that is them all - but I might have missed one or two

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:51

#10

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

Gav, you didn’t have a Master System…?!?!
What kind of a monster are you?! lol ;)

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:53

#11

Gav wrote:

Hehe - never did. They were out when I was at primary school really - and at that age I figure my parents thought I should just make do with the Spectrum (it had a build in tape deck!!).

Plus - cartridges were expensive (bout £30-£40 back then) where a premium Specy/Amstrad/Amiga game was about £12

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:55

#12

Gav wrote:

So my £3 a week pocket money would afford me one a month or so ;)

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:55

#13

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

Not this game, this came out for a tenner and was a blast back then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDhNz0NeYw

I love that all this “retro” gamming has come back again. Probably with help from this dude as well - AVGN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tU61Nyv1w

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 16:57

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drummerbecca (Becca) wrote:

andys gibson sg wrote:

So you didnt go to the wild side of the Commodore 64 or the mighty Amiga then?

andys gibson sg wrote:

…or Sinclair ZX Spectrum, maybe the Amstrad :)

I actually had all of these at some stage as a kid. Then moved onto Megadrive II, then Nintendo 64. I’ve never owned anything newer than that.

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 17:22 in reply to an earlier post

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Auto_Surgery (Andy) wrote:

I started of with a Master Systems as well!

I think my console career goes something like

Master System
Game Gear
Gameboy
Mega Drive
SNES
Mega CD
PC
Playstation
Gameboy Advance
xbox 360
psp

I’m not really into gaming like I used be but your can’t beat a bit of retro gaming, I played Alex the kid a while back as my flat mate has a Master System but it just wasn’t the same

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 17:23

#16

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

Wasn’t Alex Kid a built-in game?

Didn’t anyone have ‘Golvellius’ on the Master System? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN0JrM6y58U

Try and post links to the games you had :)

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 17:27

#17

EclipseDeLarge wrote:

andys gibson sg wrote:

Not this game, this came out for a tenner and was a blast back then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDhNz0NeYw

I loved that Ninja game back in the day.. I never got past the boulder level.

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 17:50 in reply to an earlier post

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andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

Ninja was hard. Did you ever play Transport? That was a tenner also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kzmHCYnSQg

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 17:55

#19

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

…sorry TRANSBOT :)

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 17:56

#20

glen wrote:

do any of you play ROMs on emulators?

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 18:39

#21

EclipseDeLarge wrote:

Nah never played Transbot but did play Alex Kidd.. was so young though I can hardly remember any of these. I remember playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nheydzx59hU this though, I think it was the only “old” game I ever completed! I vaguely remember playing Lion King and a Star Wars game where you drove about in the desert speeder!

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 18:41

#22

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

glen wrote:

do any of you play ROMs on emulators?

I think I have the Mega Drive, SNES and N64 on those :)

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 19:10 in reply to an earlier post

#23

vagabond wrote:

i had and still have a functioning Commodore 64, complete with mouse, 9pin-printer, GEOS software etc. etc.
fun times! my brother and me still play on it once a month or so.

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 19:12

#24

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

Anyone still got the original Game Boy? I had a Game Gear but it died on my ass :(

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 19:16

#25

Squall wrote:

Acorn Electron, NES, SNES, N64, PS1,PS2

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 19:26

#26

andys gibson sg (James Harris) wrote:

Acorn? man thats going back a few years.

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 19:32

#27

Squall wrote:

Indeed. i had it when i were teeeny :p

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 19:59

#28

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

I had an Acorn Electron, too. Never did finish Sphinx Adventure. :(

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 20:05

#29

g (My Shade Will Comfort you) wrote:

Acorns were a favourite of the schools I went to.

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 20:13

#30

Gav wrote:

glen wrote:

do any of you play ROMs on emulators?

Yeah - I’ve got a hacked Xbox1 with Snes and Genesis emulators on.

I kinda look back with rose tinted glasses - when you actually play them again its never the same.

Posted on Thu, 12 March 2009 at 20:49 in reply to an earlier post

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