GRcade Retro Gaming Chat

[Drunken_Master]

No, neither of those.

That surprises me, I'd have bet money on it being The Ninja Warriors.



Red Ninja, Blue Ninja, two players, side scroller.

Could it be Shadow Warriors?

[Mockmaster]

Nah, that's not it. Was there ever a version of Dragon Ninja that had re-skinned main characters?

I was sure the characters were red and blue because I used to play with my cousin and always wanted to be the blue ninja.

[Starquake]

Just found this zx spectrum nostalgia site, some memories in there:
http://zxds.raxoft.cz/games.html

[kommissarboris]

i always wanted Vigilante but could never find it for the amstrad

i had this though, which was pretty much the closest i could get to it...



another classic of my youth, in the sidescrolling beat em up, and when i say classic, i mean shite.

Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja



amstrad

[Drunken_Master]

Just found this zx spectrum nostalgia site, some memories in there:
http://zxds.raxoft.cz/games.html

I was a fan of the Amstrad CPC 464. It always got the shitty end of the stick in comparison to the C64 and Spectrum, but in the right hands it could piss on them both. Graphically, it was just as good as if not better than the C64. However, the C64 had built in abilities to handle games (scrolling) which the CPC 464 did not. So you'd get alot of flick screen games on the Amstrad.



Amstrad Renegade



c64 renegade



CPC 464 Gryzor



C64 gryzor

[kommissarboris]

I was a fan of the Amstrad CPC 464. It always got the shitty end of the stick in comparison to the C64 and Spectrum, but in the right hands it could piss on them both. Graphically, it was just as good as if not better than the C64. However, the C64 had built in abilities to handle games (scrolling) which the CPC 464 did not. So you'd get alot of flick screen games on the Amstrad.

i had to be a fan, it was all i had, if i'm honest i really wanted the C64 at the time, my friend had one and i loved paper boy and transformers on it.

regardless, i had some good times with my amstrad...

games that took very short load times were usually my favourite (about 10 minutes or less)











and the two most played games i had, because they were cartridge based and had no load times, Burning rubber (which i still play when waiting on the 360 or ps3 to update ) and robocop 2, which i don't own anymore

[TheTurnipKing]

i always wanted Vigilante but could never find it for the amstrad

i had this though, which was pretty much the closest i could get to it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBhPjCoWLA

Target Renegade. I loved that and it's prequel.


Man, that 128k music.

[kommissarboris]

target was the only one i had, i'm on ebay right now looking for the the others

wtf am i doing.

[Drunken_Master]

The 'posh' kid on our road had a GX4000. He was posh because he went to private school. He was only two doors down from us and was always in our house playing our Sega Megadrive. Christmas came, and he'd asked his mum for a Megadrive. He got a GX4000

Worst part was, we borrowed him our Megadrive in exchange for the GX4000. Just to try it out. Within a couple of minutes we realised it was cack. Tried to get our Megadrive back, but his mum always said he was out when we called round. Despite the fact we could hear him playing it in the back room.

[Mockmaster]

I was an Amstrad kid as well. Head Over Heels, Jet Set Willy, Batman, Gauntlet, 1942, Nomad, North Star.....

There is a great resource here:

http://www.cpcgamereviews.com/a/index.html




This was the scariest game ever, way back when.

[Starquake]

My mate had an Amstrad CPC 464. I used to like playing a game he had called something like Roland in Time??

[Mockmaster]

There were lots of Roland games.

?

[kommissarboris]

well the one i had was the Amstrad CPC64+

this one infact, i got it last year for my birthday as the original one i had my ma gave away in the early 90's when you could rent a PC, ahh the good old mid 90's of rent a PC, which unfortunately put an end to me ever getting an amiga



and heres a big strawberry floating box of cassette games i have for her...

[Drunken_Master]

You used to read Amstrad Action? I strawberry floating loved that magazine. I continued buying it after I'd moved on from the Amstrad.

[TheTurnipKing]

I was an Amstrad kid as well. Head Over Heels, Jet Set Willy, Batman, Gauntlet, 1942, Nomad, North Star.....

There is a great resource here:

http://www.cpcgamereviews.com/a/index.html




This was the scariest game ever, way back when.

The Spectrum version sure as hell wasn't. It was a confusing, dull clusterfuck.

The original Argus Press "Alien" game had crude as strawberry float visuals, but it was was way more terrifying.

[kommissarboris]

You used to read Amstrad Action? I strawberry floating loved that magazine. I continued buying it after I'd moved on from the Amstrad.

yeah brah, what ever console i owned i always bought the mag to go with it for free demos and such, until the internet arrived...

Amstrad action gave away full games too IIRC, and great demo's, i remember the hero quest demo, i went out and bought the game on the back of it, which was kinda fun but couldn't really live up to playing with real folk with the board game. That said the video game is literately the first 20 missions/quests from the board game quest book.

cool game though, i think i have space crusade too, last time i tried neither worked very well unfortunately.

[TheTurnipKing]

Argus Press "Alien" game

Not seen here: Terrifying crotch wiggle attack

[skarmachild]

Argus Press "Alien" game

Not seen here: Terrifying crotch wiggle attack

Seems familiar. Apart from Sega Master System and my neighbours having Super Mario 2 & 3 (loved more than Sonic) these are the games that I grew up on (SOFTWARE DISCS WITH LIKE 200 DOS GAMES):




- MY FAVOURITE


if you played these then <3 - this was everything i played as a kid (and more, monster bash, duke nukem 1&2, halloweenharry/aliencarnage etc

[SEP]

- MY FAVOURITE

Ah yes, No Hotlink was a stone-cold classic.

[skarmachild]

- MY FAVOURITE

Ah yes, No Hotlink was a stone-cold classic.

): Its Hocus Pocus.