Best Computer Game..

[ncpcov]

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Chuckie Egg from the Acorn Electron
Gauntlet 2 (Elf is about to die....)
Couldn't pick one above the other - one from my first computer, one from when I was old enough to get out to the arcades (when they had games in not fruit machines)

[darren]

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Chuckie Egg from the Acorn Electron
Gauntlet 2 (Elf is about to die....)
Couldn't pick one above the other - one from my first computer, one from when I was old enough to get out to the arcades (when they had games in not fruit machines)

what old consoles had u mate and have you still got them.
had u the spectrum or old nintendo consoles.

[ncpcov]

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what old consoles had u mate and have you still got them.
had u the spectrum or old nintendo consoles.

Hi mate
I had in order -
Acorn Electron
Sega Master System
Super Nintendo
Playstation
PS2

dont have any of those - but recently I have bought the following
Xbox 360
Xbox
Playstation
Sega Megadrive
So I can play retro games again - just building up my collection of games - I also want a SNES - but wiill wait for that.
Outrun on the megadrive is my next target

[battyrat]

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For the spectrum Atic-Atac rates high and I was very good at this game,amazingly simple idea but attractive graphics and smooth movement,and real fun to play.Avalon was another good game,quite advanced graphics for the spectrum,and it was quite a large maze type game.Spent hours playing it and eventually completed it.Astro clone was another game like Avalon,but a lot harder.

[Finnthedude]

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Speccy - Lunar Jetman. Far superior to Jetpac IMO. I spent SOO much time on this game.
Master System - Fantasy Zone.
Mega Drive - D&D, Warriors of The Eternal Sun. Hours and hours spent on this game.
Saturn - Guardian Heroes. Just recently been released on Xbox live and so obviously I bought it.
Playstation - Final Fantasy VII. Epic game - 3 CD's! Aeris's death still a complete shock.
Xbox - Halo 2.
Xbox 360 - Oblivion and probably Skyrim when I can afford it.

Cheers,
Finnthedude.

[darren]

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For the spectrum Atic-Atac rates high and I was very good at this game,amazingly simple idea but attractive graphics and smooth movement,and real fun to play.Avalon was another good game,quite advanced graphics for the spectrum,and it was quite a large maze type game.Spent hours playing it and eventually completed it.Astro clone was another game like Avalon,but a lot harder.

atic atac is very good.
just played it recently on my spccy.
was surprised how good it is.


other good ones are knightshade,alien 8 which i just love and underwurlde all 4 where released by ULTIMATE hich is known as RARE.

[battyrat]

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Atic atac seems to be one of those games that has not been released since.Pity as it was very addictive.This was the game that wore out my old speccy's poor ole rubber q.w.e.r.t.y keys.Never liked joysticks as they seldom worked very well.

[DemonEyeX]

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Never liked joysticks as they seldom worked very well.

I went through a crazy amount of Kempston joystick interfaces.
They broke if you so much as breathed on them.
From then on I stuck with the keys.
Q - Up
A - Down
O - Left
P - Right
Spacebar - Fire.

Unless of course you wasn't allowed to define your own keys.
I used to hate that.

[darren]

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Atic atac seems to be one of those games that has not been released since.Pity as it was very addictive.This was the game that wore out my old speccy's poor ole rubber q.w.e.r.t.y keys.Never liked joysticks as they seldom worked very well.

in all fairness i had no probs wirth the joysticks.
mine lasted a long time.

yes i have atic atac and yes its very addictive.

[darren]

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i agree with all u say.

jet set willy is fantastic and its super addictive tough if u want to get every item.

ive got it for the spectrum.

I can tell it is really addictive. I used to hate joysticks but I'd rather use it than those of letters!

[DemonEyeX]

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jet set willy is fantastic and its super addictive tough if u want to get every item.

However, a bug in the game actually makes it impossible to complete (without cheating).

[darren]

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However, a bug in the game actually makes it impossible to complete (without cheating).

oh i never knew that.
so its addictive and impossible to complete without a cheat.
still a superb game though.

[darren]

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i think there is a cheat for it or is it the jsw 2 where you can on the load screen the white scree where u can do something for infinite lives.
but if you get caught in the right way during the game you have to start again as you keep dying but can never move.

However, a bug in the game actually makes it impossible to complete (without cheating).

[Moondog]

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(IMO) The best computer game of it's day would have to be King's Bounty. Absolutely awesome game. If you've never played it.. Why not?!

funnily enough i was a huge fan of RPGs back in the day, especially Megadrive (aka Genesis) RPGs and i played basically all of them except King's Bounty lol, my faves from the Megadrive were

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun
Rings of Power
Might & Magic 2: Gates to Another World
Shining Force
Shining Force 2 (this being my fave game from the 16-bit era, and its where my avatar comes from)

but absolute fave game of all time would be Final Fantasy VII

[darren]

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never had a megadruve so i dont know these games ar all.
only heard of the F.F game out of those.

ine rpg i never played and wanted to was secret of man.

i know the japanese loved there rpg games.

funnily enough i was a huge fan of RPGs back in the day, especially Megadrive (aka Genesis) RPGs and i played basically all of them except King's Bounty lol, my faves from the Megadrive were

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun
Rings of Power
Might & Magic 2: Gates to Another World
Shining Force
Shining Force 2 (this being my fave game from the 16-bit era, and its where my avatar comes from)

but absolute fave game of all time would be Final Fantasy VII