Who here loves some of the old skool games?

Frogger was awesome... so simply but so addictively fun... and the old mario's were great.

I ABSOLUTELY adored my old sega master system with games like alex the kidd and sonic the hedgehog who wouldn't?

There there were even further back the old BBC's with games like granny's garden and Dinosaur Discovery!

Aaaaaahh... So nice to play some of the older simpler games...

What are your favourite old skool games?

Hey there! I love those old school games!
I used to play loads of addictive games in school! And I still play some of them occasionally!
Here's the list : (In PC Games - I never liked the gameboy very much)

1. Dave - The Original DOS Game (Imagine, just ONE exe file!!!)
2. Doom & Doom II (Great Action, I used cheats! )
3. Duke 3D (Man, this was HOT! )
4. Sky Roads (All 30 tracks) This wasn't addictive, was it?

I still have all these games on my hard disk, so if anyone wants them, let me know!

-Omkar Ekbote

I am an old school gamer as well. I had some good times back in the day with video games, lot's of memories. Here are some of my favorite titles.

1- The Legend of Zeld: A Link to the Past
2- Super Mario Brothers 3
3- Doom II
4- Puzzle Fighter
5- Final Fantasy III & VII

Those are just now off the top of my head, there's more.

Oh god... granny's garden! my search came to an end a few months ago when I found the rom, and played it through to its end on beebem. I wish I could find two games I played on the acorn archimedes though...

Time Detectives : The Victorians

and

The Crystal Rainforest

Mediafork... you must be from the UK too then? and around my age. Don't you emulate those old games?

Almost collapsed when I saw the BBC micro emulator had been ported to the psp. Granny's garden works I didn't know about that dinosaur game though I'll have a look for that.

I love old-school games for a lot of different reasons. The main one being that the later-generation consoles (i.e. from Dreamcast and N64 up) make me dizzy. It has something to do with the graphics. The XBox isn't too bad, but I still have to take a break about ever 15-30 minutes. (Very frustrating when you're in the middle of a Grand Theft Auto mission, or when you're trying to pass a stage in Blood Omen 2).

Some of my favorite older games include:

Tetris (both the first NES version and the Tetris 2 sequel).

Pretty much every Mario Bros. game made before N64 - although Mario 64 was a pretty neat title too. I could never quite get the hang of that though *grins* I'm such a bad gamer. Oh, well.

The first Zelda game was pretty sweet, as was "A Link to the Past" for SNES.

Oh, and Klax. Can't forget that one.

The three Ninja Turtles games made for the NES were sweet. My brothers and I would play together to try and beat the games, but we never managed to get *quite* that far. Oh, well - we still had fun playing together. When we weren't yelling at each other for losing lives, anyway *snickers*

I still play most of these titles via emulators.

I'm 33 years old and I have nothing but love for old school games. Nowadays if a game controller has more than 2 buttons on it I can't make it go. It's pathetic. I have some younger friends who all have XBox and PS2 and when I go over to their house and play I feel like Grampa Simpson. I'll break down my old school faves by console:

Atari 2600
- Adventure
- Warlords
- Pressure Cooker (semi-obscure Activision Title where you made burgers)
- Ghost Manor (XonoX double-ender, baby!)

Sega Master System
- Alex Kidd in Miracle World
- Wonder Boy

Intellivision
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Dang... I gotta go download some EMULATORS!

I can't believe that noone has mentioned (or I didn't see them mention) Punch-Out! If you ever had a NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), you should know this game! You begin as a new boxer fighting a guy named Glass Joe, who is extremely easy to beat. After that guy you fight characters like Von Kaiser, Piston Honda, King Hippo, Don Flamenco, Great Tiger. Bald Bull, Mr. Sandman, Soda Popinski, Super Macho Man and finally Mike Tyson. The most memorable part of Punchout would probably be when you are fighting King Hippo and you need to hit him in the belly button and he makes that funny face. If anyone would like to look at a pretty decent fan site, you can Click Here.

Anther NES game that I did not see mentioned was Allstars Baseball, or Baseball Allstars. I can't remember the name but that was an awesome game as well.

Don't ask me why, but I have played a (tv) game called duckhunt REALLY much

i dont know if anyone will remember, but what about FA-18 Interceptor on the Amiga Commodore? that was a great game, you even got a little wheel that you had to spin around to get the flight code. also on the amiga, the old version of sim city, it would have been version 2 maybe.

Name:yeah

doom
street fighter to
alex the kid
commander keen
the wild bunch (Amstrad)
kung fu fighter (Amstrad)
double dragon (master system)
california games (master system)

Im a gamer of the nineties (although we got the amstrad as it was gonna get chucked). Most of my favs are of the ps/n64 generation tho.


-yeah