Favorite Game made before 1985 or extremely rare games.

[mats.hogberg]

Breakout, Donkey Kong, and that vector graphics game I can't remember its name - the controller was a wheel with a heavy flywheel, "you" swished around the perimeter of a "tunnel" where different baddies zoomed up along the "walls" towards you - Tempest! Just because I was a killer at that - People used to say I should join the Air Force
But then, a real pinball table beats every arcade video game.

/Mats

[smearbrick1]

Moon Patrol
Battlezone
- Both for Atari 2600

Cat and Mouse - For Texas Instruments computer (I was 8 years old).

[yoda313]

Hello,

There was a matterhorn climbing game for the old Texas Instrument cartridge system that you hooked up to a tv. I can't remember the name. There was also a racing game for it. Oh yeah some typing programs too :P

Kevin

[yoda313]

Hello,

Anyone remember this game where it was a standalone unit racer game??? It had the controller and a screen behind it. There was a car on it that moved in an arc and the tracks moved behind it.

Boy I can't remember what it was called.

There were also the stand alone pacman games that looked like a mini arcade. Maybe a foot high unit.

Those were some fun games....

Remember strollin bowlin??? It was a windup bowling ball that walked into the pins! (non video game).

Kevin

[vitualis]

Not sure about the year, but I fond memories of the following games:

Space Invader
Star Wars
Alley Cat (recently found a copy on an old archived floppy disc!)
Angband

Regards.

[neomaine]

Just to add mine in as well:

- Dungeon (on PDP 11/70), afterwards known as ZorkI/II/III.
- Tempest (arcade), Always had this yahoo with the initials of ALM that would always beat my high score around town. Never met up with him.
- Q-Bert (arcade). Played one game (same quarter) for over 6 hours.

Then:

- Wing Commander series (PC) ('85 ish ?).
- Level 42 (PC) spent many hours enjoying this one on my first 8086 (4Mhz) with dual floppies. Upgraded to a 5meg hard drive for $300.

[Doramius]

Anybody else here wonder if you went to mexico and dug up the E.T. cartridges buried there to play, would some of them still work?

[Guest]

I remember Tutenkamen

[Guest]

Anybody else here wonder if you went to mexico and dug up the E.T. cartridges buried there to play, would some of them still work?

what was the deal with that again?

[Heywould3]

robotron.. but i liked Asteroids and missile command.. i have all those games (roms) and i like to play all those mentioned more than the high price4d 3d games .. MAME is a wonderful thing lol

[Doramius]

E.T. Had just been a huge box office hit earlier in the year, so Universal Hollywood wanted a huge marketing item to kids for Christmas, The idea was presented to the game makers about 6 weeks before it's release. 8 weeks before Christmas and hyped up already for marketing. The game programmers told them it normally takes a minimum of 1 year to make a decent game. Hollywood pushed and offered an obscene amount of money to have it done in time. I heard they made somewhere between 200-250 million copies of the game. By February they were receiving returns Left & Right. By April it was the largest item return Hollywood or the Gaming Industry had even seen (or would ever be seen to this day). They couldn't give them away. So they purchased space for a landfill in Mexico, several trucks, and some bulldozers and they buried the cartridges. From the counted figures around 150,000 cartridges had survived from being buried, and the game still sucks........BAAAAAD! I think my parents have one stored with a bunch of old gaming consoles in a closet somewhere.

[sacajaweeda]

[Faustus]

Don't remember the exact date but Populous is one of the best games ever. They should remake it today, they don't need to change a thing. Just bump up the graphics give me mouse control and let me go.

[lordsmurf]

Pong
Smurfs
Galaga

[VCDHunter]

Don't remember the exact date but Populous is one of the best games ever. They should remake it today, they don't need to change a thing. Just bump up the graphics give me mouse control and let me go.

I'll second that motion

[Hardcoreruss]

I was playing this a few weeks ago on my xbox, kept getting my ass kicked.

[jimmalenko]

I don't know whether it was pre-1985 or not, but I was always partial to Double Dragon (arcade version).

[DereX888]

Wing Commander
Harpoon
Double Dragon
Zork
Pong

but except for Pong Im not sure were they pre-85...

EDIT:
I forgot Asteroids and Missile Command, but not on a PC; I had them on some japanese-make handheld playthings with tiny LED screen when I was lil kid LOL that was so cool back then... both had tiny lil' joystick on the left side, and they looked like sort of pads for PS2 nowaday

[lordsmurf]

I don't know whether it was pre-1985 or not, but I was always partial to Double Dragon (arcade version).

No. 1987.
http://www.classicgaming.com/doubledragon/rdd1arc.htm

One of my all-time favorites too.

[sacajaweeda]

I remember all those old arcade games as they came out. I was born in 1970 and grew up in the 70s & 80s down the street from two different arcades, an arcade/pool hall and less than a mile from the 'cool' arcade over at the local mall. Kids these days with their Nintendos & Xboxes don't have any idea what it was like back then. That was a good time to be a kid.

[Capmaster]

Tank.

[sacajaweeda]

Robotron

[sacajaweeda]

Gyruss was another of my favs.

[yoda313]

I remember all those old arcade games as they came out. I was born in 1970 and grew up in the 70s & 80s down the street from two different arcades, an arcade/pool hall and less than a mile from the 'cool' arcade over at the local mall. Kids these days with their Nintendos & Xboxes don't have any idea what it was like back then. That was a good time to be a kid.

Hello,

I was 78 so I know the nintendo 8 bit VERY WELL Though I had some experience with the atari's.

I love the old games. But I also love the new stuff. Games have come SO FAR! I mean going from pong to doom 3!! Talk about light years difference!

Kevin

[Doramius]

Dragon's Layer The Arcade Version. With dual Monitors so the crowd could watch. There was also some holographic 3d Segs arcade game that was like a cross of Sci-Fi and Western I remember. Didn't play it much because it required 3 quarters in the early to mid 80's. nobody wanted to pay more than 1 quarter, unless it was a really GOOOD game. I played it once or twice though. Kind of a quick draw game.

[Faustus]

Dragon's Layer The Arcade Version. With dual Monitors so the crowd could watch. There was also some holographic 3d Segs arcade game that was like a cross of Sci-Fi and Western I remember. Didn't play it much because it required 3 quarters in the early to mid 80's. nobody wanted to pay more than 1 quarter, unless it was a really GOOOD game. I played it once or twice though. Kind of a quick draw game.

I remember both. Actually the Sega 3d one had a second Fighting game with it but it was almost never used in arcades because it sucked even more then the hologram cowboy. I dumped a ton of quarters into it though.

When Dragons Lair came out I wanted to play so bad, but could never get the money or the line was always to long, and yeah I remember the double screen arcade days.

[Doramius]

I have the PC version of Dragon's Layer/Dragon's Layer II/Space Ace. All 3 are great and I remember vividly playing all in the arcade. I also remember SNES version of Dragon's Layer. I was disappointed at the time that it wasn't like the arcade version, but I really enjoyed playing the game anyway. wouldn't mind having it again.

[Faustus]

Yeah the SNES version sucked. I had a version for the PC that was very old, but for some reason some of the "stages" where not in it. Oh well it was a floppy disk came so what could I expect.

They also have Dragons Lair for your DVD player out there.

[Doramius]

The DVD plyer version is fun, but some remotes and players aren't as quick to respond. That was one of the top quality graphic games and they didn't put it in a console because they couldn't make the technology small enough at the time to hold it, if I remember correctly. I think that's why they had the alternate version for SNES. Most of the game is realtime movie. There was a sequence of joystick movements and button presses to get to the next movie sequence. If you didn't do it right or fast enough, it went to a default movie of death. If you did it correctly, it went to the next progression. On top of that, each time a new game was started, only the first few scenes were identical. The middle segments were shuffled around so you didn't have the same order, thus making it harder to play. That game was really ahead of it's time. It's still a fun game to play now and the graphics are still great.

[mats.hogberg]

I'm not that sure about Dragons lair being a game at all, more of an interactive movie (at best):
Watch sequence, wiggle joystick according to arrows to get to the next part, watch sequence &c. Graphics 10, playability 0. Or perhaps it's because at the time, I was with the Atari camp, and Dragons lair was only released for Amiga...

/Mats