Taipan, Loderunner, Strip poker for the Apple IIe. Yeah....many a full summer's day, evening, next day, next evening, etc... spent on all of those. Taipan was a favorite...until the battle segments became ridiculous. "Bad Joss. You have been attacked by 116 pirates. You will be here until next Tuesday trading interminable broadsides....oh....and we stole all the Opium out of your warehouse."
one of the first computer games i played was wolfenstein spear of destiny, i thought it was quite fun then again i was pretty young haha oh and battletoads and the avengers on sega anyone?
The other game I'll add is Tecmo Bowl (which was awesome compared to any previous football game), and its successor, Super Tecmo Bowl. STB is one of the greatest games on the planet; I also have Sega Genesis version as well (Super Tecmo Bowl III).
ah man I used to waste soooo much time playing tecmo bowl and super tecmo bowl!!!
Ive got a working NES with those games aswell as Punch-out!!
may have to wipe the dust off of it this weekend!!!!
Pitfall on Atari. Best game ever as a kid. There is kind of a tie for best / worst ever for me, effin Battletoads. Played that game for ages, never beat it. Honestly the hardest game I've ever played.
I agree, battletoads was one of the biggest pain in the ass games back in the day. Me and my cousin used to play on his Amiga system it was good fun. Had Wayne Gretzky hockey, the great giana sisters or something like that, rick dangerous.
Winter Olympics on the Commodore 64. Or was it summer. Whichever it was, I miss the simplicity.
Also, I wish my mom didn't toss the old Intelivision.
There was a whole series of those: Summer Games I and II, Winter Games, California Games (with haki sack!) and World Games. They were all oustanding with great game play.
I had the Atari VCS (which they then renamed the Atari 2600). I got really good at Missile Command. It was like the arcade, but only had one launcher point instead of 3. Yeah, PacMan sucked on the Atari.
Then I got a C64. And hours upon hours of typing the compute code from books or magazines in, then saving them to cassette tapes.
When 5 1/4" disks came along, finally much better games were available.
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Summer Games, Winter Games, Summer Games 2, World Games, Pit Stop, PitStop 2, Racing Destruction Set, Bards Tale and many more. I also did my school computer assignments on it, then would goof off in class.
When everyone got a NES my dad found a C64 and two boxes full of games for it so we got that instead. There were a lot of GREAT games for that system. Now that I have a emulator dedicated computer hooked up to our big screen I should really find a quality C64 emulator and grab all the roms.
One of my favorite games is Sim City. I wasted way to much time playing that game.
I also remember back when I had a C64 and playing California Games (surfing, BMX etc) and Ultimate Wizard. That game was so cool because you could create your own levels then play them.
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Tutankhamen was one of my favorite arcade games - sidescroller where you zapped through mummies and jackals and the like to get to the next level. As I've mentioned before, ROBOTRON was another classic, along with Asteroids and Space Invaders.
We had an Intellvision (and the II when it came out) and I probably played about a billion games of Astrosmash, which was the game that came with it. Burger Time was another good one on that console, and for the ultimate stoner party experience:
Skiing, with Dark Side of the Moon playing loudly in the background as you try to hit every flag on the way down the slalom.
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Oregon Trail and Odell lake absolutely rule. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who would write swear words randomly on the tombstones in Oregon Trail to let fellow classmates unsuspectingly find. I also remember one time some kid in my class pissed me off, so I played the game using his name, died and wrote "Ms Morris (my 3rd grade teacher) is a biotch" on the tombstone. Buddy totally got in crap.
Played Colecovision at my grandparents when I was younger...mousetrap, pit stop, Zaxxon, the smurfs and the cabbage patch kids are some that come to mind. I downloaded an emulator for some of those a few years back, and I wish I hadn't. All of these games I played when I was 4 and thought were awesome really, really sucked.
