Favourite Computer Game As A Kid

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.