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Retro Gamers Out there? 12:29 - Feb 27 with 24108 viewsToast_R

Remember Elite from the early 80s?
Spent many hours with my brother playing this game.


This revamped version is the stuff wet dreams were made of back then. Sadly with a new born I've no chance of experiencing it, and my PC is too sh*te.

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 12:50 - Feb 27 with 11657 viewstinhead

the original was a masterpiece.

Not sure how relevant this will be now as EVE online has been going for 10 years and is a fantastic MMORPG...

I've played EVE for 6 years and wouldn't swap to Elite just for nostalgia.

Puny God!

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 13:39 - Feb 27 with 11621 viewsMetallica_Hoop

I had this version.





AMAZING game along with Powermonger.





Probably wont play the new one as World of Tanks is enough for me... and Skyrim

Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:01 - Feb 27 with 11587 viewsLblock

Elite was addictive - I used to love it.

Retro "arcade" games were superb
I started off getting addicted to playing Space Invaders and PacMan in Magnum Force Records and continued this on with Gorph, Lunar Lander, Asteroids, Moon Crester and Track & Field

Many happy hours spent on my own (as I had no friends) playing Defender on the ATARI along with Centipede, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Chuckie Egg and countless others at home. I really wish I'd kept my consoles in top notch order as they'd be classics now. The tapes did used to wear out quick though.

i looked into buying a proper old school table top arcade game for an office fit out area as we had a retro break out space but the only pucker ones I could find were over £3k!!!

Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:07 - Feb 27 with 11586 viewsCroydonCaptJack

I used to love Defender.
I keep looking for a phone App for it but to no avail.
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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:13 - Feb 27 with 11573 viewsLblock

A game I loved was a sit in one at the arcades based on Star Wars -- I think it may actually been called Star Wars, how novel !!!

The 80's and early 90's video games where just brilliant - but then wasnt everything back then?

Ahhhh... nostalgia... it aint what it used to be

Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:19 - Feb 27 with 11570 viewspaulparker

this one was the bollox

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/b

And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles Brian Moore

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:26 - Feb 27 with 11550 viewsPommyhoop


and

The simple clean bright lines of Atari..

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:27 - Feb 27 with 11544 viewsLblock

Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:19 - Feb 27 by paulparker

this one was the bollox

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/b


BOOM!

What a classic! Was that called Street Fighter or something?
We had one in our Magaluff hotel in 88 called Naughty Boy but was exactly the same

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:29 - Feb 27 with 11547 viewsPommyhoop

Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:19 - Feb 27 by paulparker

this one was the bollox

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/b


HaRGH Hargh Hargh Hargh
Thats how that big fella used to laugh when he killed you.
Loved that game ..

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:31 - Feb 27 with 11541 viewsPommyhoop

Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:27 - Feb 27 by Lblock

BOOM!

What a classic! Was that called Street Fighter or something?
We had one in our Magaluff hotel in 88 called Naughty Boy but was exactly the same


No Street Fighter was ages after.This little classic was Kung Fu Master.

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:34 - Feb 27 with 11538 viewsPommyhoop

Who remembers spinning the ten piece bit so the machine thought it was a 50 and gave you 3 credits instead of half a credit.?

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:36 - Feb 27 with 11531 viewsLblock

Didn't you have a clocking wire Pomm?

Christ if you got caught with one of those in Magnum you were taking your life in your own hands!

Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:38 - Feb 27 with 11532 viewsPommyhoop

Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:36 - Feb 27 by Lblock

Didn't you have a clocking wire Pomm?

Christ if you got caught with one of those in Magnum you were taking your life in your own hands!


clocking wires were for fruity's..
Knew some experts at that ....Fast runners they were too..

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:48 - Feb 27 with 11521 viewspaulparker

Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:29 - Feb 27 by Pommyhoop

HaRGH Hargh Hargh Hargh
Thats how that big fella used to laugh when he killed you.
Loved that game ..


That's the one Pom !!
you had to save the Bird who had been kidnapped by the big boss and at the end of each level you had to beat up the top boy who was there as well as deal with flying midgets trying to knife you

Lblock its called Kung fu master I think

god the money I wasted on that thing

And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles Brian Moore

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:48 - Feb 27 with 11516 viewsToast_R

Kung Fu Master was great fun but really hard in the Arcade, completed it on my Amstrad CPC!!! That and as already mentioned, Star Wars Arcade (Atari Star Wars). Remember a family holiday to Westward-Ho down in Devon where in the foyer to the clubhouse they had that very machine. 10p x2 to play, a fair bit of wedge for kids back then. My mum fed my brother and I a pound a day so we could go play that to death. If you could get through to the the third wave and the strafe attack on the Death Star, you to the dreaded Towers....

The Bollocks



Anyone remember Phoenix?
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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:51 - Feb 27 with 11511 viewsLblock

Phoenix was another one that was the nuts!

Really annoying bleeps and a really fast alien shoot em up

Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:52 - Feb 27 with 11512 viewsPommyhoop

Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:48 - Feb 27 by Toast_R

Kung Fu Master was great fun but really hard in the Arcade, completed it on my Amstrad CPC!!! That and as already mentioned, Star Wars Arcade (Atari Star Wars). Remember a family holiday to Westward-Ho down in Devon where in the foyer to the clubhouse they had that very machine. 10p x2 to play, a fair bit of wedge for kids back then. My mum fed my brother and I a pound a day so we could go play that to death. If you could get through to the the third wave and the strafe attack on the Death Star, you to the dreaded Towers....

The Bollocks



Anyone remember Phoenix?


Christ Toast I would've saved you a fortune if I was down there with you..
Spin to win. One 10p spun with a calloused thumb equalled 3 credits.
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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:53 - Feb 27 with 11507 viewspaulparker

Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:48 - Feb 27 by Toast_R

Kung Fu Master was great fun but really hard in the Arcade, completed it on my Amstrad CPC!!! That and as already mentioned, Star Wars Arcade (Atari Star Wars). Remember a family holiday to Westward-Ho down in Devon where in the foyer to the clubhouse they had that very machine. 10p x2 to play, a fair bit of wedge for kids back then. My mum fed my brother and I a pound a day so we could go play that to death. If you could get through to the the third wave and the strafe attack on the Death Star, you to the dreaded Towers....

The Bollocks



Anyone remember Phoenix?


we must be nearer the same age Toast as I recall phoenix and the star wars arcade game
do you remember Double Dragon & Renegade ??

And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles Brian Moore

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:54 - Feb 27 with 11500 viewsToast_R

No one ever taught me hacks of that magnitude.]

Worth noting, the size of the old 10p coins back then, used to way your bemuda's down a bit!
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Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:59 - Feb 27 with 11490 viewsLblock

Retro Gamers Out there? on 14:54 - Feb 27 by Toast_R

No one ever taught me hacks of that magnitude.]

Worth noting, the size of the old 10p coins back then, used to way your bemuda's down a bit!


Two inch washers used to work on some of them as well.

Proper handy when your uncle was a plumber!

Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 15:00 - Feb 27 with 11494 viewspaulparker

Talking of Arcade games on summer holidays , anyone remember this ??

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/4

it was the hardest thing ever to get past 2 levels , no way could you dodge the million bullets flying everywhere

oh and Toast you should have invested in one of these, its every young boys summer holiday coin holder


And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles Brian Moore

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 15:04 - Feb 27 with 11493 viewsPommyhoop

Anyone remember this crap game.

Crazy Balloon.
They had one in the shop where we'd wait for the bus for school.
My mate was a master at it.I could'nt see the point.No space ships ,no tanks or no mortal kombat ..No point.

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 15:11 - Feb 27 with 11478 viewssimmo

What was the one where you started as a weedy man and by the end of the level if you got the power ups you turned into a wolf and fcked shit up? My grandad had that machine in his pub and I was addicted to it.

EDIT: Found it! Altered Beast. Amazing game!



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ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead

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Retro Gamers Out there? on 15:20 - Feb 27 with 11466 viewsFredManRave

Two screen shots of two classics already mentioned;



and my personal favourite as well (I can hear it now!);



And another one I've just found from way back when, "MISSILE COMMAND";


I've got the Power.
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Retro Gamers Out there? on 15:22 - Feb 27 with 11459 viewskropotkin41

No table, no dice? That's not even gaming!!


‘morbid curiosity about where this is all going’

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