What were your favourite games on the early computer systems such as comedore 64 spectrum etc?

Question

II have been inspired by another askers question about comadore 64.
So come on lets hear about your favourite old games.

I liked "Bruce lee" "the Hobbit" and on later computer systems "Guild of Thieves" and "Monkey Island"

Anyone remember these and others?

Oh yes manic miner - I'd forgotton about him.

Skool daze - loved that one, but I could never Knock that damn shield of the wall with my catapult!!

Answer 1

I had a Spectrum, and amongst my favourite were;

Popeye
Pyjamarama
Green Beret
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Beach Head
Magicland Dizzy
Treasure Island Dizzy
Robocop
Wheelie
Daley Thompson's Decathlon

I don't know whether it was because I was only new to games when I had that, but I hardly ever finished Spectrum games! I can always finish modern games, but I think those games had a proper challenge in them to make up for the lack of graphics etc.

Check this link out for instantly playable Spectrum games, including Skool Daze!

http://www.zxspectrum.net/

Answer 2

How can anyone not mention Skool Daze & Bak 2 Skool?
Jetpac, Manic Miner, Lords Of Midnight were all favourites of mine. The Hobbit was ok, but I hated Lord & Bored of the Rings.
Oh and Paperboy was good in it's time.
As was Bomb Jack & Chuckie Egg.
And who could forget the Dizzy & Magic Knight (Finders Keepers, Spellbound, Stormbringer) series'.
Halcyon days indeed... *wallows in nostalgia*

I still play them occasionally thanks to downloading a Spectrum Emulator for the PC too!

Answer 3

Didn't have a C64, but on the Spectrum it was Skool Daze and Journeys End. I remember how slow the games were to load too and as they were on cassette tape could crash easily too! LOL All that waiting for nothing.

If you want to go even further back I used to have an Atari too, which used cartridges. Fave games for that were Space Invaders, Frogger, Pack Man and River Raid. I think the Atari was better because of the game format being on cartridge, loaded straight away and didn't crash! :)

Answer 4

On the Spectrum it was Ghost & Goblins and Manic Miner, on the Nintendo it would be Valda another game I loved to play wich I think was on the Spectrum was Bobble Bubble, I've got a version that run on my computer although since I've gone over to useing XP I've not tried to load it onto my computer yet.

Answer 5

My mate had this karate game on the Amiga. If you typed in certain things while the game was playing you could get some interesting side effects, like typing in the word "w'ank" would cause a message to appear saying "sweaty hands slip off joystick". You could also make the combatants' trousers fall down mid-fight and get told off for using the word "f'uck". I can't remember what it was called.

Answer 6

Hi there,
Here I got Bobble Puzzle for free: http://bit.ly/1BDADps

it's a perfectly working link, no scam !
The two main advantages of Bobble Puzzle are its size since it does not take up too much disk space, and also, its gameplay.
It's a really nice game.

Answer 7

I remember playing the commodore 64 well. It had a couple of good games but my favourite has to be Midnight Resistance. That was a really good game. Great graphics for its time and great scenario

Answer 8

Wizball, Return of the Ninja 2, Defender of the crown

Answer 9

You can't beat Flimbo's Quest on the Comedore 64, it was the first addictive platform game!

Answer 10

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Spectrum: Cobra, Ghosts n Goblins, Sir Fred, Spy Hunter, StarQuake, Jetpac, Knight Lore, Trans Am, Sabre Wulf, Rodland, Rainbow Islands and the ones I had published by a couple of companies :) No they weren't classics but I did get paid.

C64: Nemesis (didn't have one so didn't play many games)

Off to start a question on which was the better machine, hoping for some good arguments :)

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