Who here remembers The Last Ninja? A great game, for its day, with excellent music, especially on my C64/128.
I just found a fansite: http://lastninja.lemon64.com/
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Who here remembers The Last Ninja? A great game, for its day, with excellent music, especially on my C64/128.
I just found a fansite: http://lastninja.lemon64.com/
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Ah yes! I forgot about that one! Played it on the good ol' Spectrum. I remember it looked so much better on the C64 because it had more colourful graphics. Very hard game it was too.Originally Posted by Condottiere
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Original Doom and Warcraft I... 'nuff said.
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Asteroids on the Atari. Legendary! Pacman and Adventure ruled also. My childhood was lost to that thing. :P
A little more recent than that was Chrono Trigger and FF4 on the SNES. FF4 got me hooked on RPGs.
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Fields of Glory on the Amiga was a great stratergy game based on the Waterloo campaign for the Napoleonic War. I believe they even brought it over to PC. Tower Assault was a good two player blast too.
Probably because I was too young to enjoy the earlier consoles, but my favourite had to be the Sega Megadrive/Genesis. Goldenaxe, Streets of Rage, Mortal Combat, Brian Lara Cricket (the best ever cricket game), Sonic 2. It even had Zero Wing - and everyone loves Zero Wing. Sonic 2 PvP has to be one of the most tense games ever, one mistake could spell anger, swearing and nipple crippling. Me and a mate played it the other day - I've never heard so much swearing at a TV (except during THAT Portugal game).
Cowardice is to run from the fear;
Bravery is not to never feel the fear.
Bravery is to be terrified as hell;
But to hold the line anyway.
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Ultima: II played on my Apple 2+ back in 1984. Man, did I waste a lot of hours on that one...
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Oh the memories, the memories...
Did no-one else grow up on a diet of Joust ? Play for endless hours trying to get to a higher level on River Raid than their older brother, who always seemed to be better at it than me?
Did we not love the simple minded traps and treasures of Montezuma's revenge in all it's incarnations? Did not Loadrunner give us endless hours of puzzle-solving platform fun, digging holes to fill with enemies, then falling down them ourselves?
Have we all forgotten Choplifter ? Which was way ahead of it's time, I mean, this thing had tree's that actually seemed to move! Your helicopter had a carry limit!
Oh for my mis-spent youth, playing computer games that seemed like magic, only to discover there was such a thing as a console that did nothing but play games....
Mariocart on the snes, marioworld, bomberman (though it was better on the megadrive, gotta love those little dinosaurs), and the none-stop kill-frenzy of Smash-TV, not to mention lemmings on the gameboy, that still has me even now.
Why, it wasn;t untill a good 5 years later that I got a real PC and got into XCom: Terror from the deep, Colonisation, civilisation (the original), magic carpet, command and conquer (though for years I only had the demo). Why even fallout could be considered retro these days, but I still hold it dear to my heart.
Since then of course I became a full on gamer, playing everything I could, but at the moment MTW still has me hooked every moment of every day...
I was trying to find some help in the ancient military journals of General Tacticus, who's intelligent campaigning had been so successful that he'd lent his very name to the detailed prosecution of martial endeavour, and had actually found a section headed "What To Do If One Army Occupies A Well-Fortified And Superior Ground And The Other Does Not", but since the first sentence read "Endeavour to be the one inside" I'd rather lost heart.
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