Favourite Computer Game As A Kid

And, if you're as old as me, what was your computer?

I first had a Amstrad CPC 464 then had a Commodore64.

Favourite game was probably Last Ninja 2. That stands out the most.

I had a Sega Megadrive me! 

Used to love Sonic.  None stop.  All day.

But then I got a PS1 and bought Final Fantasy 8.  I still have it, & I have still NOT completed it.  I've loved the game for years and I don't want to finish it! 

It's my favorite game of all time.  Based on story line and not the graphics! 

I had one of them Atari VCS things with the minty controllers.

Remember Donkey Kong on it and something about Tutankhamen.

Had a 48k Sinclair Spectrum, then the 128k one with the built in tape - remember Football Manager fondly.





Then moved on to the Amiga 500+ in 1991 and the exciting world of Lemmings and Lotus Turbo Challenge



Then I got an Amiga 1200 - which I remember was £399 (a fortune back then - and still now I suppose).



My favourites on here were Project X and this is where the whole Championship Manager (now FM) began.



After being a computer nerd I was a bit late getting in to consoles and missed the Master System, SNES thing, although I did play on a mates MegaDrive.

Since then at about the time I was becoming a student and banks start throwing money at you - I had a PlayStation (Tomb Raider), PlayStation 2 (Metal Gear Solid, Grand Theft Auto, Pro Evo), Nintendo 64 (GoldenEye - Super Mario 64), Sega Dreamcast (Waste of money) and now a PlayStation 3. I've got a PSP too but don't use it much.

I am such a geek.

We're all geeks amongst men JD!

Those Amiga's were ace!!! I remember I used to go to Bits And Bytes right by central station in town (remember that shop?) and it was cassete tape games everywhere - heaven! But they used to have demos up on this screem of Amiga games and they were the best!!
Oh, and City Software on Lime st? Remember that shop?

Anyway, Yie Ar Kung Fu




Dragon Ninja



Last Ninja 2





Double Dragon

Elite for the C64...never got the Elite status but I loved the game...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(computer_game)

i'm going to go for the classics here.prince of persia (the original version)  and the doom series (1 and 2) for the pc.
as for consoles- contra, double dragon, mario, street fighter :p

Was quite in to Frontier: Elite II on the Amiga.

Yeah RK I remember Bits and Bytes and definitely that one on Lime Street - fairly sure it used to be about £15 for a Spectrum game... Made me all reminiscent now.  Need to go on eBay!

Yeah, I'm sure they used to have a bargain section in the middle of the shop floor and the games were about a fiver?

Gonna have a look on Ebay myself to see how much the C64's are going for. Still got loads of games in the loft! 

Just had a look.  Speccys going for about £15

Around twenty quid with postage for C64. So...very...tempted....

Rampage was a brilliant game which kept me occupied for ages!





Upon finding these pics, I found a newer version which I might buy for a laugh!



Then there's the best game I've ever played! Final Fantasy 7! I still haven't finished it yet (similarto your reason Court, I simply don't want to!)







Love it!

First computer was a Sinclair ZX81,
Technical Specifications: (taken directly from the Operating Supplement)

    * Depth: 167 mm (6.32 in)
    * Height: 40 mm (1.57 in)
    * Weight: 350 grams (12.15 oz)
    * CPU: Z80Z at 3.25 MHz
    * ROM: Containing 8k BASIC interpreter
    * RAM: 1K byte internal, externally expandable to 16K bytes
Display:
    24 lines x 32 characters (text)
    64 x 44 pixels in graphics mode


then an Apple II.....

then the old trusty Commodore 64 with the walk thru games, no graphics...
I can still remember looking in total AWE the first time I saw a colour screen at the University on an excursion...
and getting excited when I upgraded my hard drive to 10meg and ram from 4 to 8meg, ah the power...
most of the games I had were downloaded from a buliten board (pre world wide web, no graphcs)
but I digress....

the best game without a doubt would have to be Doom (the original)
this was just so far ahead of anything else for its generation,
the first "First person shooter" game,
first with "3D Graphic's"etc etc....
first with "multiplayer networking" etc etc....

I still have my first copy of it on "10 inch floppy disks" (but cant get a 10 inch floppy drive anywhere...)
as well as the " 5 1/4 inch" version....


so, to sum up my distracted waffle, DOOM....!!

Elite for the C64...never got the Elite status but I loved the game...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(computer_game)

One of my Fav games of all time,spent at least 12 months of my life just to complete the game

WOOO earth worm jim for the PC. Maybe the best game ever in terms of pure randomness

I had a Sega Megadrive me! 

Used to love Sonic.  None stop.  All day.

But then I got a PS1 and bought Final Fantasy 8.  I still have it, & I have still NOT completed it.  I've loved the game for years and I don't want to finish it! 

It's my favorite game of all time.  Based on story line and not the graphics! 

Oh yes, still got my sega mega drive stashed in the attic, sonic the hedgehog was great. And then sonic 2 came out with his lil partner Tails.

Noticed on another thread people ralking about their old computers and comsoles, so I thought I'd give this thread a bump for people who hadn't seen it!

For me, the first computer I had was a Spectrum 48K, and it's still the one I probably had the most fun out of! The games (on cassette - easy to copy!) were often utterly insane and completely impossible. Great ones were of course Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Rainbow Isla, nds, SKooldaze, Dynamite Dan, all the Dizzy games, all the Monty Mole games... Here's a link to the top 100 games ever for the Speccy, for those who want to reminice :

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ystop100.html

After that, had a Commodore Amiga A500+ or something like that! After the Speccy this was like having an arcade machine in your living room! Full colour, proper sound, "quick loading" disks, and (grat stuff!) still easy to copy games! Loads of brill games there too: Blood Money, Speedball 2, Kick Off 2, Sensible Soccer, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Alien Breed, Flashback, Syndicate... Top 100 here:

http://www.warblade.as/feature01.html

Then had a Playstation 1 and 2, too many great games to list, though a big up to the Resident Evil saga of games, still going strong, and the Final Fantasy saga too! CRK is right, FF7 is one of the best games EVER!

Now I've got the Nintendo Wii, and it's alright I suppose!

Sensible Soccer was superb.  I bought one of those arcade sticks that you just plug in to your tele with it on and it was superb.

Cannon Fodder was another Amiga favourite of mine.

Tekken 3, my first game on PS1, loved it.

And ovcourse the might of FIFA......99

Shinobi was probably my favourite when I had a Megadrive. Probably because it as a bit easier than the C64 version!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n64OP7e5JdE

Championship Manager 4. Was addicted to it.

Fifa 97 as well with the indoor games.

Smackdown! 1 was a classic at the time, I've gone off wrestling since (thankfully) but that game was boss. Graphics absoloutely awful looking back.

Smackdown! 1 was a classic at the time, I've gone off wrestling since (thankfully) but that game was boss. Graphics absoloutely awful looking back.

i loved that game, thats why i have got every single one since

Tekken 3, my first game on PS1, loved it.

That game kicked arse so much! I was the one on it, I used to go King and use the never ending grapple combo. Once you landed that it was game over!

Smackdown! 1 was a classic at the time, I've gone off wrestling since (thankfully) but that game was boss. Graphics absoloutely awful looking back.

Oh the fun I had with that game! I thought WWF RAW  and WWF Attitude were good so you can imagine how made up I was with that!

Smackdown! 2 was the best! Hell in the Cell matches!

That game kicked arse so much! I was the one on it, I used to go King and use the never ending grapple combo. Once you landed that it was game over!

Oh the fun I had with that game! I thought WWF RAW  and WWF Attitude were good so you can imagine how made up I was with that!

Smackdown! 2 was the best! Hell in the Cell matches!

I actually loved playing as gun, the little dino dude who had the most ultimate move of all time..... can you remember what that was CRK

I actually loved playing as gun, the little dino dude who had the most ultimate move of all time..... can you remember what that was CRK

Gon with the wind?



What a f*cking legend!

Smackdown! 2 was the best! Hell in the Cell matches!

The first Smackdown for ps2 was sh*te, absoloutely sh*te, 3 matches and the season was over Best smackdown in my opinion was number 2 as well, there was so many things to unlock, plus you could fight as Vince.

I've had every smackdown game since as well Mags, gonna get me nan to buy me the latest one from crimbo. I don't watch wrestling anymore so won't know half the people on it, but it's tradition now

The first Smackdown for ps2 was sh*te, absoloutely sh*te, 3 matches and the season was over Best smackdown in my opinion was number 2 as well, there was so many things to unlock, plus you could fight as Vince.

I've had every smackdown game since as well Mags, gonna get me nan to buy me the latest one from crimbo. I don't watch wrestling anymore so won't know half the people on it, but it's tradition now

Wrestlings gone sh*te but the games are always good! The latest one isn't too bad either, bit more fiddly though. Shouldn't complicate them too much!

Favourite wrestler on the games CRK? I loved the Dudley Boyz, they were just class. Rikishi was another of me faves, took him to world champ on a few occasions

i love playing as AJ Styles and Samoa Joe on TNA: iMPACT! the game is only worth buying though for the ultimate x!

on the smackdown games though the utter legends that are The Rock, Stone Cold, Shawn Michaels, Jeff and Matt Hardy, CM Punk, Rey Mysterio, Edge, Christian and The UnderTaker.

last and not least, even though he retired, the limosine riding, jet flying, kiss stealing, wheelin dealin, son of a gun, wooooooooooooooooo 'The Nature Boy' woooooooooooooooooooo Dirtiest player in the game wooooooooooo 16 time world champion woooooooooooooooooooooo Ric Flair


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOO!!!

Favourite wrestler on the games CRK? I loved the Dudley Boyz, they were just class. Rikishi was another of me faves, took him to world champ on a few occasions

I always made my own. A big 7ft monster, who would do top rope moves as well!

Out of the other wrestlers though, it had to be Kane! What a monster he was! Wasn't happy when they took his mask off though. Silly idea that! For a more well rounded fight though, The Rock was always a winner!

PS - Winning 11 and Dynasty Warriors
Nintendo Wii - Mario Kart
PC - Red Alert, Age of Empires and Transport Tycoon

I always, ALWAYS pick Randy Orton or my own created guys, i hear the new TNA game is crap :S.

I want a new Tekken, with every character from all the old ones (including Gun )

I always, ALWAYS pick Randy Orton or my own created guys, I hear the new TNA game is crap :S.

I want a new Tekken, with every character from all the old ones (including Gun )

it is i was looking forward to it, badly, they promised the world and delivered wales, nice at first, slowly grows painfully repetitive.

RKO to end all games is a must

Street Fighter.

One of my favorite videos. [Watch the ending]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7hkwbKmBM&feature=related

Street Fighter.

One of my favorite videos. [Watch the ending]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7hkwbKmBM&feature=related

I can't beleive that many people turned up to watch a game of Street Fighter!

One of mine was Manic Miner on the Sinclair Spectum - Anybody remember it?

One of mine was Manic Miner on the Sinclair Spectum - Anybody remember it?

Me! But my post isn't on the first page anymore!

 

 

Mortal Combat on the old sega megadrive.

Mortal Combat on the old sega megadrive.

Hated the old Mega Drive pad with fighting games. Having to press start to switch between punch and kick!

Class Mortal Kombat though!

Has to be Knights of the Sky, by Micrprose on the Amiga.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-cJmj-64J4

Then AMIGA F-15 Strike Eagle II by Microprose, nothing much has changed looking at the Baddies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZX2JmNubXI

Loved them all, Grand Prix, Gunship 2000

Actually I was not a Kid!! I had a mortgage at the time

^^^^^^

Great stuff!

The only computer game i can say that i have really played is Golden Eye on the n64.

chuckie egg
manic miner
monty mole
full throttle

football director speccy

centipede, bomber (scramble), firebird, luner lander    all at the arcade

he he.... those were the days when you used to need your imagination to simulate what the graphics were in your own mind

Hooray, someone finally mentioned Chuckie Egg on the speccie, loved that as well as Paperboy, Space Raiders, and some of ocean's games like Robocop, only problem being it took years to load them up. Also anyone remember the olympics game, twatting your keys on your keyboard dead hard. Also as well as Footie manager, don't forget Emlyn Hughes's International Soccer.

Remember Italia 90 on the master system, boss pens!

On the Megadrive, I used to love the Desert Strike series of games, In an apache helicopter twatting the sh*t out of Iraqi's in the original, then moving on to defeat russians, terrorists and all sorts.

Anyone remember the footie game on the arcades, was either countries or European teams such as Milan and Madrid! Also loved Shadow Fighterm or something like that on the arcade. And also the Wrestling Royal Rumble arcade game, I once spent 2 hours playing it in Hastings and won the f**ker.

Also anyone remember the olympics game, twatting your keys on your keyboard dead hard.

Anyone remember the footie game on the arcades, was either countries or European teams such as Milan and Madrid! Also loved Shadow Fighterm or something like that on the arcade. And also the Wrestling Royal Rumble arcade game, I once spent 2 hours playing it in Hastings and won the f**ker.

I remember I had an olyimpic type one for my commodore 64 called Daily Thompsons Decathlon  That was made by Ocean - they made some boss games them.

And the shop by our school used to have two arcade machines in it. One of them was Shadow Warriors!! Is that the one you mean? Loved that game! Used to nearly be a fight every morning trying to get on the arcade machine and you would nearly always be late for school. Happy days!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VEylPAsm8d4

I used to always play Sonic the Hedgehog. I mean non-stop here, days on end.

I can hear the rings in my head now! *dring! dring! dring!*

And then there was Golden Axe and Streets of Rage, boss games!

Also anyone remember the olympics game, twatting your keys on your keyboard dead hard.

Yep - I remember there were two or three keys on my keyboard that stopped working completely after a while! Lucky most games had the "redefine keys" option else I'd have been buggered! All that because of the bloody 100m! And wasn't the 110m hurdles difficult? Just get a bit of speed up and then you had to hit another sodding key to jump, I couldn't do it at all!

I remember I had an olyimpic type one for my commodore 64 called Daily Thompsons Decathlon  That was made by Ocean - they made some boss games them.

Ocean were the ones who made the same game on the Speccy I think! There were loads of good games producers that have disappeared since... 

I used to always play Sonic the Hedgehog. I mean non-stop here, days on end.

I can hear the rings in my head now! *dring! dring! dring!*

And then there was Golden Axe and Streets of Rage, boss games!

Streets Of Rage! That rings a bell. Didn't there used be women fighters attacking you with leather gear on in that game?

Yep - I remember there were two or three keys on my keyboard that stopped working completely after a while! Lucky most games had the "redefine keys" option else I'd have been buggered! All that because of the bloody 100m! And wasn't the 110m hurdles difficult? Just get a bit of speed up and then you had to hit another sodding key to jump, I couldn't do it at all!

Ocean were the ones who made the same game on the Speccy I think! There were loads of good games producers that have disappeared since... 

Yeah that's right mate. I had a C64 and one of my mates had a Speccy and we had a good few of the same games on Ocean.

And it was those 100 metres that done some of the keys in!! 

Always enjoyed Tomb Raider because when I was younger it was the PSOne that was the main thing out.
Completed the fiirst 3, then got bored of it

just remembered Pokemon! i was the best ever at pokemon blue and yellow, no one has an arguement

I remember I had an olyimpic type one for my commodore 64 called Daily Thompsons Decathlon  That was made by Ocean - they made some boss games them.

 One of them was Shadow Warriors!! Is that the one you mean?

Yes!! Daley Thompsons Decathlon was the game I was thinking of - and you're probably right about Shadow Warriors! Think i first played that arcade on holiday in Spain when I was about 14 in some French bar we used to go to - and have a few sneaky shorts of pernod with kiwi fruit - used to love that drink!!

first computer was a zx spectrum and used to play kick start and paper boy and there was a bryan robson world cup or somthing like that i remember the long waiting times for it to load and that noise still got them in a box in the attic may dig it out to punish the kids

first computer was a zx spectrum and used to play kick start and paper boy and there was a bryan robson world cup or somthing like that i remember the long waiting times for it to load and that noise still got them in a box in the attic may dig it out to punish the kids

Just for you.

And remember how sensitive the volume had to be on the tape deck as well.

Boy I feel old...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pYryKa3CQTE

And out of interest....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GJykX4s9MtQ

I'm sure this loads faster on a Spectrum than it does on my PC.

That's bloody fast. Where do I get one?

That's bloody fast. Where do I get one?

Lofts everywhere.

 

Love that vid mate, takes me back to my youth!

What a sound, waiting for a game to load!

ah dont you just miss the good old days all that waitin all that noise only for error to pop up at 98%

I absolutely adored KICK OFF by Anco on the Amiga.
I played it til my hands blistered!
Couldn't get enough of it.

I absolutely adored KICK OFF by Anco on the Amiga.
I played it til my hands blistered!
Couldn't get enough of it.

I had Kick Off 2, don't know if it was the same? It was brilliant, played it for hours!

The keepers were almost impossible to beat though, sometimes when they dived to save the ball they finished near the corner flag! 

I remember Kick Off 2 being quite good as well but yes, the keepers were tough to beat. I had the bending outswinging shot in Kick Off downpat, and would bury any keeper. Hell of a lot of fun. I think they released a part 3 called Goal, but with horizontal view. Wasn't as good as the others.

Brings back memories of Microprose Soccer. Not a good game by any stretch of the imagination but had funny moments like banana kicks bending back all the way back past your body and sound effects like thunder and loud slide tackles! Hilarious.

I used to have a amstrad cpc464 which was awesome.

Best game? - Fifa International Soccer, running away from the ref so he couldn't book you haha

FF7 is up there too.

Oh and Tomb Raider 2 for the "nude" cheat? HA HA

My favourite computer was my Amiga 600, which still own as well as an Amiga 500, and an Amiga 1200. I am a collector these days but still use my 1200 most days!!! I can just see it now, a forum Sensible Soccer competition at my place. I will supply the Amiga, Joysticks, Pizzas and Booze.... anyone interested??? Haha, that would be a good laugh. And when everyone is pretty much bevvied we could have some 4 player Lotus 2 !!!

Hoohoo, you might regret making that offer Don mate! It would be carnage

Still have fifa 95 and the monaco gp on sega megadrive

Oh and I had a C64 with a tape deck. Shudder

Still have fifa 95 and the monaco gp on sega megadrive

No worries I have Fifa and Super Monaco on the Amiga, although Fifa is not much good, Sensible is the best and then Kick Off 2 or Goal!

Hoohoo, you might regret making that offer Don mate! It would be carnage

Nah it would be great. It would be a bumper Pizza order for Shalimar mate. We could do a Sensible Comp FA Cup style if we had enough people haha. Id get to beat you at something other than Pool then haha

Oh good bump this!

For the original Playstation, one of my favs was Die Hard Trilogy - brilliant that was As well as Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped.

On the PC i used to play the original Age of Empires relentlessly, and then Age of Empires 2 when it came out. And, i still do - bought AOE 2 for my Macbook when i got it

I still had my Amiga when my younger brother got his Playstation for christmas. It could have been 1995?? I enjoyed playing Tekken? and Destruction Derby. I was never a console fan really. I never had a SNES or Megadrive etc, always computers from the C64, Atari STE and Amiga! Ive got Die Hard 2 on the Amiga, its a shoot em up !! But when it came to shoot em ups I was addicted to Turrican II.

Just remembered my college addiction. Red Alert! What a game

Final Fantasy VII for me. All day. Nothing's changed.

Street Fighter.

One of my favorite videos. [Watch the ending]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7hkwbKmBM&feature=related

Bumspki on this post.

"It's madness!!! Unadulterated madness!!!!!"

Just remembered my college addiction. Red Alert! What a game

Same! Still have it at home. Can't understand Red Alert 3, though. Don't know which weapons and units are good.
Also, bigV stated. Age of Empires. Always fancied war-type of games. What a waste though, that War of the Ring wasn't suitable for my PC.

Also have Transport Tycoon right now. Something similar to Zoo Tycoon or Seaworld Tycoon. What was that game call again? Sim City? I rememebered playing Sim Hospital, Sim Park and Sim Town.

And of course, Pokemon Red on the game boy and Digimon World on the Playstation One.

Just remembered my college addiction. Red Alert! What a game

Red Alert Retaliation was beyond epic!

Ha ha , i remember way back in the day , me next door neighbour had a Commodore 64 . you would load the tape into it and while you were waitin for it to load you could go for a ride to the shops or have a kick around , only to come back to an error message at 98 or 99 % .

My first system was an Atari . I remember games like River Raid (1&2) , California Games , Pele's Soccer , Pitfall , Time Pilot , Track n Field and the likes . Wow i feel old

Same! Still have it at home. Can't understand Red Alert 3, though. Don't know which weapons and units are good.
Also, bigV stated. Age of Empires. Always fancied war-type of games. What a waste though, that War of the Ring wasn't suitable for my PC.

Also have Transport Tycoon right now. Something similar to Zoo Tycoon or Seaworld Tycoon. What was that game call again? Sim City? I rememebered playing Sim Hospital, Sim Park and Sim Town.

And of course, Pokemon Red on the game boy and Digimon World on the Playstation One.

I still play Transport Tycoon, Theme Hospital and Sim City now.

Also lets not forget Rollercoaster Tycoon.

Crash Bandicoot FTW.

Got to be Donkey Kong on SNES

First game I spent any siginificant time on was probably Manic Miner on the Spectrum 48k.
I then got an Amiga 500+ and loved Sensible World of Soccer.

Ha ha , i remember way back in the day , me next door neighbour had a Commodore 64 . you would load the tape into it and while you were waitin for it to load you could go for a ride to the shops or have a kick around , only to come back to an error message at 98 or 99 % .

It was the same on the early Sinclair Spectrums. On the game Double Dragon, you had to load the game using the tape player, stop it at just the right time then load each level. If you failed to stop the tape quick enough on any level, it was impossible to load any further so that was it, game over!