Games of yesteryear

[Despot of the English]

Lets move the clock back to those games you enjoyed years ago. What were your favourites? And on what gaming machine? I would post this in the Arena but not everyone can post there.

I'll go right back to 1985 and the Acorn Electron . Best game for that by far was Elite. Classic game and incredible it could run on a 32k computer.

Next up Target Renegade on the Spectrum 128k+2 (so-called because it had a tape-recorder built into it.) Great game for up to two players as they battle against mobsters. You could also pick up a variety of weapons to help you bludgeon your enemies to death: a hammer and a snooker cue spring to mind.

On the Atari ST 512k it was Elite. Similar to the Acorn Electron version but more spaceships and they were at least coloured in so they looked solid.

On the Amiga there were two great, great games: Hired Guns and Frontier. You could play with up to four of your mates with Hired Guns although you had to watch out for friendly fire. It was the first FPS I played, the graphics were great with the weapons and foes to match. Disappointing climax to the game though. That really let it down.

Frontier was just the best game ever. Excellent graphics and gameplay and the fact that if you were bored with your spaceship you could just sell it and buy a new one: perhaps a 2500 tonne freighter with up to four lasers and more shields on it than a space station? You could also be one of many things: a bounty hunter, a smuggler, a trader, a pirate, a miner, or a transporter (you could pick people up from space stations and take them from A to B for a fee) and work for the Federation or the Empire. If you underwent missions successfully with either one, such as assassinating someone, taking a photo of an outpost somewhere, or destroying it with a nuclear missile, you could rise up the ranks.

[Fragony]

MSX2, I have spend massive amounts of time with metal gear 1 and 2, but the best was SD-Snatcher.

And everything nintendo releases

[Louis VI the Fat]

A fellow Acorn user!

I used to have a BBC micro, played Elite to death on it. I got myself a good emulator a few weeks ago, and played all those old mid-80s games again.

They're still the best.

[Despot of the English]

A fellow Acorn user!

I used to have a BBC micro, played Elite to death on it. I got myself a good emulator a few weeks ago, and played all those old mid-80s games again.

They're still the best.

Wahey! I was wanting to play Frontier but it had issues with Windows XP .

I forgot to mention Lords of the Realm on the Amiga!

[Tricky Lady]

One of the first games I really played for months (errr, actually years is more accurate ) was Colonization...
Before that I played Pirates! on Amiga at a friend's place or Boulderdash.

[eadeater]

Ahhh, the good old days! There are too many to mention in my opinion, but here are some of my favourites (all on PC - I'm not a fan of consoles):

Dune 2
X-Com: Enemy Unknown & X-Com: Terror from the Deep (I love the cheesy names)
WarPath (doubt anyone has even heard of this)
Digger (doubt anyone has heard of this either)
Syndicate
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Goblins 2 (didn't like 1 or 3)
Battle Bugs

Hmmm, can't think of any at the moment but I'm sure there are plenty.

[Angadil]

I loved a really ancient game called The Art of War. Real time strategy (minus the resource gathering, to me mostly a plus), before the term was invented. Great gameplay, IMO, some depth to it.

[CherryDanish]

Harpoon (486 PC) and leisure suit larry (XT PC).

They got me hooked on gaming.

[Lucius Lucullus]

Pirates!
Har har, avast landlubbers, shiver me timbers.

or what really got me into the computer wargaming genre: Civilization, and later on: No Greater Glory.