Your Top 10 fave video/computer/arcade games

[blombluss]

Off the top of my head:

1) Stunt Car Racer (C64)
2) Doom (PC)
3) Midtown Madness 2 (PC)
4) Sensible World Of Soccer (Amiga)
5) Destruction Derby (PlayStation)
6) Montezuma's Revenge (C64)
7) Virtual Pool (PC)
8) GoldenEye (N64)
9) Rocket Ranger (Amiga)
10) IK+ (Amiga)

I thought I'd have more racing games in there, tbh.

[dng]

I got one of those mini ps1's a few years ago and it had destruction derby on there and itt turns out destruction derby is the very worst game ever made

[dng]

(i also loved it at the time for some reason it was one of the first games we had when we got an actual PC in 1994 or whenever, along with descent, which i also loved)

[dng]

but luckily i have never played descent ever again at any point so i'm never going to discover how terrible it really is

[vom]

I can only really think of five proper all-time favourites

Link's Awakening (Gameboy)
Spelunky (PC)
Chuckie Egg (BBC Micro)
SWOS 96-97 (PC)
Tetris (Gameboy)

then I guess I can throw in some more random / personal choices to fill it out

A Short Hike (Switch)
Dungeon Crawl (PC)
Vertigo (BBC Micro)
Do-Re-Mi Fantasy (SNES)
Return of the Obra-Dinn (Switch)

[endar]

Diablo
LttP
Actraiser
Robocop Speccy
KOTOR
Witcher 1
Fallout 3
Turrican 2
OutRun
Assetto Corsa

without trying to think too hard about it

[dng]

Trigs monkey game

[Bruce Sato]

In chronological order:

The Hobbit (text adventure)
Super Mario 3
Populous 2
Syndicate
Sid Meier's Colonization
Ocarina of Time / Majora's Mask
Goldeneye
GTA3 / Vice City (less bothered about San Andreas)
Civ 4
Mario Galaxy 1+2

Which is more than ten, but OoT / MM and GTA3 / Vice City occupy the same 'slots' as far as my brain is concerned, and I don't know how you tell the difference between Mario Galaxies anyway. Just missing out are Exile for the BBC Micro, Tetris, Klass of 99 (the Skool Daze PC remake), and Bully.

[blombluss]

Chuckie Egg (BBC Micro)

I've always had a soft spot for Chuckie Egg - the playing mechanics just feel 'right', and any time you die, it feels entirely your fault and 'fair'.

[blombluss]

Off the top of my head:

1) Stunt Car Racer (C64)
2) Doom (PC)
3) Midtown Madness 2 (PC)
4) Sensible World Of Soccer (Amiga)
5) Destruction Derby (PlayStation)
6) Montezuma's Revenge (C64)
7) Virtual Pool (PC)
8) GoldenEye (N64)
9) Rocket Ranger (Amiga)
10) IK+ (Amiga)

I thought I'd have more racing games in there, tbh.

Graaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh! I forgot about Leaderboard and Neo Turf Masters! So I'm rejigging ma list:

1) Stunt Car Racer (C64)
2) Doom (PC)
3) Leaderboard (C64)
4) Midtown Madness 2 (PC)
5) Sensible World Of Soccer (Amiga)
6) Destruction Derby (PlayStation)
7) Montezuma's Revenge (C64)
8) Virtual Pool (PC)
9) GoldenEye (N64)
10) Neo Turf Masters (Neo Geo)

[vom]

Chuckie Egg (BBC Micro)

I've always had a soft spot for Chuckie Egg - the playing mechanics just feel 'right', and any time you die, it feels entirely your fault and 'fair'.

indeed! the mechanics are surprisingly different depending on which version you play though. BBC and Amstrad are basically the same (and those are the versions I love), C64 and Spectrum are each very different in different ways

[endar]

i played chuckie egg on acorn electron and atari 800 or whatever number it was

they were both good too

[blombluss]

OutRun

Hopefully not on the C64!

In the arcades, it felt beautiful. I was crap at it, granted, but it felt beautiful.

[endar]

ofc

there are no good home conversions. Until Saturn at least

[dng]

if you're not sat in a big plastic pretend ferrari it's not outrun

[dng]

wait did outrun have the car or was it just a big seat i can't remember now

[dng]

even though i've been playing it all afternoon in the virtual arcade thing in fist of the north yakuza star

[endar]

there were at least 3 versions

stand-up

sit down car

sit down moving car

[dng]

i bet the moving car one cost an infinite amount of money to play (£1)

[dng]

i've never completed outrun and i presumably never will

[dng]

i hope the last level takes place on the moon

[endar]

i bet the moving car one cost an infinite amount of money to play (£1)

20p

[blombluss]

The Hobbit (text adventure)

I couldn't get into playing those type of adventure games on my own, but with my brother, however... we had a few evening sessions playing The Hobbit, and it was genuinely enthralling!

[The Robotic Anomaly]

Trigs monkey game

Yes

Also Starwing/Fox, Pilotwings, any Snes game

[The Robotic Anomaly]

They've got Outrun (sit down version) at Elephant and Castle and it's real great

[blombluss]

Someone ought to install Chuckie Egg on the Outrun sit down version cabinet. Or possibly on the G-LOC 360 cab.

[CandyDarling]

Here's the next best thing - a bootleg ZX Spectrum hardware-based Inspector Gadget game, which was produced as an arcade cabinet in early 90s Russia. Emulated in MAME!

http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_m ... _name=brod

And this is the original, a Melbourne House "joint"...

https://archive.org/details/zx_Inspecto ... urne_House

[dng]

excellent

[blombluss]

I love quirky/bonkers stuff like this.

[CandyDarling]

I also need to post this recent discovery that's now fully emulated on MAME as well...

CUBE QUEST

A combination of Laserdisc video backgrounds with early filled 3D models, from 1983! Has some excellent opening narration, which now feels like a parody of early 80s sci-fi. The only other non-vector 3D game at this point, I believe, was Atari's equally bizarre (and amazing) I-ROBOT, which beat the former to the punch (CQ came out in December 83, listed incorrectly in some places as 1984) - but Cube Quest and I-Robot both flopped due to the North American video games crash messing everything up.

(EDIT! Got it wrong. I-Robot in fact came out in June 1984, smack bang in the middle of the American video games crash.)

[dng]

Blimey, that cube things amazing and I love it

[blombluss]

Cube Quest is still cutting edge, as far as I'm concerned!