A wander down Memory lane (Lotsa pics 56k warning)

Spoonfan · Post by **Spoonfan** » 08 Sep 2006 04:31 am

I wanna play too!

Candy Arse · Post by **Candy Arse** » 08 Sep 2006 06:28 am

I can't resist any longer!

I could be here all weekend in a thread like this. So many classic 2D games still look and play as good as ever, whilst 3D tends to age really badly.

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 08 Sep 2006 09:44 am

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 08 Sep 2006 09:56 am

First game I ever played:

Second game I ever played:

That Christmas was awesome!!!

First console game (I had the Master System version):

Second console game:

That Christmas was a close runner-up

The game(s) that really got me into gaming:

and:

Great memories, however:

mech wrote:Thanks for the reminder about how awesome games are now

Can't argue with that

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 08 Sep 2006 12:08 pm

This one's for you, lestat!

guttermouth · Post by **guttermouth** » 08 Sep 2006 02:21 pm

ObSoLeTe · Post by **ObSoLeTe** » 08 Sep 2006 04:07 pm

so many great memories to be had

Grimey · Post by **Grimey** » 08 Sep 2006 04:16 pm

I think I still have Astrowars at my mums house. I used to have a game similar called Caveman or something. You had to steal eggs from a dinosaur or something.

Candy Arse · Post by **Candy Arse** » 08 Sep 2006 06:35 pm

That's the MegaDrive version, which I know you didn't play selfish! The SNES version was a pale imitation.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » 08 Sep 2006 11:38 pm

I loved Crusader! Recently I downloaded the entire NES library and a partial SMS library. Right now I am playing through the Wonderboy games (heaven!) Still looking for a copy of Psycho Fox though, loved that game to death.

Madmya · Post by **Madmya** » 08 Sep 2006 11:57 pm

Because NiGHTS did not get the justice it deserves:

Fuck fortune city.

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 09 Sep 2006 05:16 pm

the snes version was a totally different game candy, and was a piece of shit
the md version was, on the other hand, fucking awesome

just because i didn't own it didn't mean i didn't get to play a fucking shitload of it
and that boomerang is easily in my top 5 controllers

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 09 Sep 2006 05:31 pm

earthworm jim 1 and 2 are the only old games I enjoy playing today, even old sonic is a bit boring because i've played it so much and it isn't near as interesting as EWJ.

EWJ 1 & 2 are amazingly stylish, and the humour is right up my alley, I mean the character himself is brilliant... a worm in a special suit, and he's animated brilliantly, the striding superhero run for example.
and I love how his suit pulls him out and uses him as a whip.

The music makes the game even funnier, classical music is such a contrast but works so well. and andy asteroids is just hilarious.

and the humour!
professor monkey for a head, absolute gold!
and those cows... "well done".
the game show when you're a salamanda

GROOVY!

Gamma · Post by **Gamma** » 09 Sep 2006 06:55 pm

Jim's Now A Blind Cave Salamander is undoubtedly the funniest thing I've ever seen in a videogame. I still remember the first time I played it... The combination of becoming a blind cave salamander for apparently no reason and the first movement from the Moonlight Sonata was just too much, all I could do was let Jim sink to the bottom of the screen as I pissed myself laughing. The effect of the screen warping when you went too close to the seedy villi was genuinely freaky. Exploding sheep, pinball bumpers and the absurd gameshow at the end; playing that level has gone down as one of my favourite gaming experiences of all time.

Candy Arse · Post by **Candy Arse** » 09 Sep 2006 07:33 pm

selfish wrote:the snes version was a totally different game candy, and was a piece of shit
the md version was, on the other hand, fucking awesome

just because i didn't own it didn't mean i didn't get to play a fucking shitload of it
and that boomerang is easily in my top 5 controllers

I suppose 5 minutes on a non-Nintendo console for you would be considered a shitload.

Shaneus · Post by **Shaneus** » 09 Sep 2006 08:09 pm

EWJ1 is my equal top platformer (on the MD, which I think had an extra level over the SNES one) with:

Misly · Post by **Misly** » 10 Sep 2006 08:28 am

Earthworm Jim brought me so much joy

After selfish, Jizzy McLobber and Gamma reminded me of Earthworm Jim, I just had to hunt up some more pics.

Oh those poor puppies.........

Other random memories:

Shaneus · Post by **Shaneus** » 10 Sep 2006 12:17 pm

IMO, EWJ2 didn't hold a candle to the first one... I just thought it tried to be too diverse with minigames and such, whereas the first one was just the right combination of platformer, racer and bunjee-jumping

ObSoLeTe · Post by **ObSoLeTe** » 10 Sep 2006 05:40 pm

final fantasy mystic quest and the legend of zelda a link to the past are just some of old favs

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 10 Sep 2006 06:16 pm

candy you have no idea what you're talking about
i played that game every day for a while

Ekin · Post by **Ekin** » 10 Sep 2006 10:25 pm

I cant think of the mega drive without thinking TECHNOSOFT shooters.

Awesome music in all technosoft games.

WoW reference: Tier one might set modeled off this guy

Also:

Segagaga final boss with Thunderforce 6 music (from the cancelled DC version). Just awesome.

Segagaga again, pre boss intro. A familiar theme plays near the end. Go SEGA!

t0mby · Post by **t0mby** » 10 Sep 2006 10:44 pm

Misly wrote:

I can remember when I saw this advertised on telly. Straight down to the shop but left empty handed because the game was over $200!!! One of two games I know of on the Megadrive that cost over 2-spot. The other was SF2Turbo.

mech · Post by **mech** » 10 Sep 2006 10:53 pm

That's insane... although you were in New Zealand, and man they fucked up 16-bit gaming there. I know because I had to live there right when the SNES was getting into its groove in Australia and I had one and couldn't get any bloody games for it in NZ.

t0mby · Post by **t0mby** » 11 Sep 2006 12:44 am

Yeah man, I hear ya. Afaik the Snes wasn't widely known in NZ till atleast halfway through its life even then I think it was pimped on Shortland Street as one of the characters Xmas present (The Super Mario Worlds bundle). The only time I saw games for it was in a video rental store in my town, other than that I never saw any games for for sale in retail until the time the 3DO was out and I discovered two stores, Gamezone on Symonds Street (Now GPstore) and Gamesman in Mt Wellington. They were like luxury stores compared to whatelse was around IE: Before gaming was taken seriously as a form of entertainment.

Shaneus · Post by **Shaneus** » 11 Sep 2006 12:47 am

I remember when SF2CE came out here too... my brother bought it, for... umm... I think it was around $160AUD. Fucking expensive, but sooo worth it.