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BrandonIT · Jun 06, 2005, 07:29 PM // 19:29

I remember Epyx's 'Games' series.

Summer Games
Winter Games
California Games
California Games II

All the Olympic events. On the C64, we would use the Atari joystick. You had to bang that sucker left and right to build up any speed in long-jump. I broke many Atari joysticks in my time...

California Games though was the best. Half-pipe BMX, surfing, it was awesome. California Games II added the ability to skateboard down an aqueduct doing the half-pipe. Then you could slam your guy against a tunnel and get a nice blood smear on the wall...

And for those NES folks, I remember the Power Pad. It was like the DDR pads of today. The best part was trying to beat the computer at the hundred yard dash. You could have one person stand on the front set of points, and then another stand on the back, and you could both jog in place and it would count as one person. Alternatively, you could just get on all fours and slap the pads with your hands (which can move MUCH faster than your feet).

Rbp-7-(Ooz) · Jun 06, 2005, 08:52 PM // 20:52

forgot one of my cars....

Vengeance · Jun 07, 2005, 03:40 PM // 15:40

OK ... so I take a couple of days off to move ... and SEE what I miss?

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Originally Posted by Auntie I

Not to brag or anything but I still have the first floppy that ever came with PC Gamer. The Magazines are gone but I just can't throw out a floppy!

Marry me ... WHOOPS ... I already proposed to Rbp-7 ... but I love you more Auntie ... wow, did anyone else just hear banjos?

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Originally Posted by Yojinj

I remember when Wolfenstein 3D came out in 92.

Played it on my dads work computer ^^. Good ol dos times

A time where savegames were still considered as a "feature" and not as standard lol.

Show me a game of our time that still gets such rewards

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Originally Posted by Arbel

Ooooh, Wolfenstein...brings back memeories...of my mom yelling to stop playing when she found out what it was all about.

Wolfenstein ... with the first loading screen where you picked your sound card ... beautiful ... it's amazing when you look back at just how many games were DIRECTLY influenced by this ... plus, you gotta keep in mind that this was one of the first big games by the whiz kid, John Carmack ... can't understand what the hell he's talking about ... but man do I love how his physics engines work ...

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Originally Posted by Syno

PC - XWvTF, SWG, GW, Quake, the first one, with music by Trent Reznor, and the whole Descent series, especially Descent2, music by Skinny Puppy and Type O Negative. Ah what good memories...

DESCENT!!! I used to have an old Gravis Joystick ... called the Phoenix ... the thing was MASSIVE ...with like an extra arm off the side and 24 buttons altogether ... I remember going through all the configs to try and get to play Descent just right ... and I still ended up upside down about 90% of the time ...

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Originally Posted by d4nowar

if you are talking about real games in this thread... Duke nukem(i loved the strip joint), mario for the nes, zelda for the nes, zelda for the gameboy, exitebike, tetris for gameboy, tmnt for gameboy. my grandpa always brought his big gray gameboy with him when he came to visit, and i thought it was the coolest thing in the WORLD. so he finally gave it to me and i was happy. i thought i lost it for awhile so i bought another one, with killer instinct with it. ah street fighter!!!! my cousin knew the cheat to both play as the same character and we always chose blanka and he chose the stretchy fire guy( i don't remember the name. i never remember the name). we all thought it was the coolest thing EVER.

DUKE ... NUKEM ... first time a game ever made me laugh out loud ... 'Shake it Baby!' ... and I think the fighter you're reffering to is Street Fighter, not Killer Instinct ... Blanka and Dhalsim are OLD SCHOOL SF2 chars ... man ... I can't tell you how many quarters I used to drop into the local SF2 machine ... I know I failed exactly ONE class in High School because of it ...

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Originally Posted by BrandonIT

I remember Epyx's 'Games' series.

Summer Games
Winter Games
California Games
California Games II

All the Olympic events. On the C64, we would use the Atari joystick. You had to bang that sucker left and right to build up any speed in long-jump. I broke many Atari joysticks in my time...

California Games though was the best. Half-pipe BMX, surfing, it was awesome. California Games II added the ability to skateboard down an aqueduct doing the half-pipe. Then you could slam your guy against a tunnel and get a nice blood smear on the wall...

California Games ... AGGRO MAN!!! Man ... as good as those games were ... they were the quickest way to destroy your joystick ... plus most of the guys I knew liked to put the joystick in their lap and then work it furiously .... *ahem ahem* ... wow ... there's an image ...

Cross Blade · Jun 07, 2005, 07:09 PM // 19:09

the only game system we ever had was the Atari 2600. I loved the Combat game with the tanks and planes. a friend had an Intelavision a little later then I seemed to always have at least 1 friend that had a system. mostly NES. then a friend got a TSR(Trash) 80that we played Star Trek on. the first computer that I owned wasnt till I got a Pintum 200Mzs(at the time was the best on the market, then 2 months later the P2 came out and mine was opsuleat(sp)...LOL) and am only on my 3rd computer now(and first really good one) and only got it about a year ago.

secretsmg · Jun 07, 2005, 08:42 PM // 20:42

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. MY life for elementary school weekends

Shamblemonkee · Jun 08, 2005, 12:19 PM // 12:19

First game ever: Harrier Attack on an Amstrad 64k.
First game ever completed: Double Dragon on the Amstrad 64.

Current Favourites: Burnout 3, Guildwars.

After the Amstrad I (mis)spent alot of afternoons around a friends playing Street Fighter (Chun Li for great justice!) on his SNES. Then came Sonic on Megadrive. After that we got our first PC and the rest as they say is history:

Warcraft
C&C
Diablo
NASCAR
TIE Fighter
Quake

I now have an xbox, pc and dusty ps2 (or the dvd machine as i call it

)

Halflife
SW:g (my first mmo)

Vengeance · Jun 08, 2005, 01:38 PM // 13:38

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Originally Posted by Shamblemonkee

First game ever: Harrier Attack on an Amstrad 64k.
First game ever completed: Double Dragon on the Amstrad 64.

Current Favourites: Burnout 3, Guildwars.

After the Amstrad I (mis)spent alot of afternoons around a friends playing Street Fighter (Chun Li for great justice!) on his SNES. Then came Sonic on Megadrive. After that we got our first PC and the rest as they say is history:

Warcraft
C&C
Diablo
NASCAR
TIE Fighter
Quake

I now have an xbox, pc and dusty ps2 (or the dvd machine as i call it

)

Halflife
SW:g (my first mmo)

Double Dragon ... yet another classic ... the sound of that engine revving as the garage door opens ... revealing ... the Double Dragons! I still remember being all pissy when they played around with the controls for the second one ... like how you had to team up with the other person to pull off that huge spinning kick ... I never had anyone nice to play with who would be willing to team up and do that ... no one ever played with me ...

However you bring up an interesting point Shamble ... how many other people have inadvertantly converted either their X-Box or PS2 into a dedicated DVD Player? I know that my PS2 was moved into my computer room and hooked up to the TV ... originally so I could play games in there ... but it ended up being just a player ... anyone else?

Spirit Firefly · Jun 08, 2005, 01:43 PM // 13:43

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Originally Posted by Yojinj

If this was a reply to my sentence

Then you are greatly mistaken. For my taste the game got overrated alot.

hence the rewards?

I never said it was good

BrandonIT · Jun 08, 2005, 06:48 PM // 18:48

I LOVED Double Dragon. I even have a videotape I made of myself beating it. (Ran the console through the VCR to TV) Just wanted to show everyone else how to beat the big ending.

Oh man, now I gotta go home and watch it.

I'd keep trying to do the jump kick on someone at the wrong time, they'd duck, and I'd go right off the edge...

My PS2 has also migrated to my upstairs bedroom. It's not a primary DVD player yet, but it does act as a secondary DVD player if I need one.

Madjik · Jun 08, 2005, 07:02 PM // 19:02

Sega Master System was my first. I never liked it much (although i'll admit alex the kid gave mario a run for his money), as my dad just bought it to stop me from asking him to buy me a nintendo (NES).

That didnt work out too well for him though, he ended up buying me a Nintendo a few years later, he was too late though, since the sega genesis and SNES were out then. I actually wanted the genesis.

So lo and behold dad comes home with a genesis. For him. I wasnt allowed to even breath on it. By the time he gave it to me the sega saturn was already out and I much preferred that. He wouldnt buy it but i was old enough to make money then so I bought it myself instead, then came , gameboy color, nintendo 64, playstation, dreamcast, playstation2, gamecube, gameboy adv, and finally the PC. I havent been happier since I finally created a PC that could play 99% of whats availiable to gamers and my console gaming has dropped to nil.

Might get an xbox 360 or a nintendo revolution in the future when thier out but that depends on how many games are released that are actually GOOD. my home made computer's better atm

Vengeance · Jun 08, 2005, 07:06 PM // 19:06

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Originally Posted by Madjik

So lo and behold dad comes home with a genesis. For him.

Might be a silly question but have you been allowed to touch any of those other systems yet? Or does your father's cruel streak continue to this day?

The IOU · Jun 08, 2005, 07:09 PM // 19:09

I almost forgot about school gaming. Oregon Trail!!

http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/otrail.shtml

Probably one of the first shooting games I played. Plus it was the school that had the game!

Madjik · Jun 08, 2005, 07:18 PM // 19:18

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Originally Posted by Vengeance

Might be a silly question but have you been allowed to touch any of those other systems yet? Or does your father's cruel streak continue to this day?

actually of all those systems, my father only bought the SMS, NES and Genesis, I spent my own money on the rest. My games my rules

He dropped out of gaming when he gave me his genesis, he doesnt play much anymore and what he does play he plays on HIS PC (which coincidentally, he built). SO yea, i dont have that problem anymore....and he's much better at buying stuff for me then when I was young. I think he feels guilty about it rofl.

EDIT:: in response to your post below me vengeance, tell me about it, he's getting me a 17' flat panel monitor with an 8ms response time for my birthday. I've been overwhelmed ever since. Aug 13th is too far away now

Vengeance · Jun 08, 2005, 07:24 PM // 19:24

Ahhhh ... the guilty gamer parent ... truly if you can find one of these and mold it to your own twisted machavellian purposes they are a wonder to behold ... well played Madjik ... well played indeed!

d4nowar · Jun 09, 2005, 05:00 AM // 05:00

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Originally Posted by Vengeance

DUKE ... NUKEM ... first time a game ever made me laugh out loud ... 'Shake it Baby!' ... and I think the fighter you're reffering to is Street Fighter, not Killer Instinct ... Blanka and Dhalsim are OLD SCHOOL SF2 chars ... man ... I can't tell you how many quarters I used to drop into the local SF2 machine ... I know I failed exactly ONE class in High School because of it ...

no, my post was just REALLY random. i talked about killer instinct and then that reminded me of street fighter, so i started talking about that.

my cousin pwned hardcore with dhalsim, while we were still messing around with blanka. and then when we would switch to dhalsim, he would own us with blanka. it was crazy.

anyone else still play total annihilation?