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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 17:34 Edited at: 17th Aug 2005 17:38
Well I've been looking at some old games and though dude they were awesome, and the majority are free

Here is the website
http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php

Its got a lot on there, like Monkey Island (you have to buy) and Day of the tentacle (Yey Jeku! have to buy that one) but most of them are free, like Hook, Pushover etc.

Push over RULES!

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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 17:41
Bah, 7 cities of gold is ESA protected. And here I thought I was gonna be able to play it once again...

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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 17:47
Emulation is really the best way to get old games - especially on the Atari-ST and Amiga - pirate compilation disks can sometimes give a handfull of games for about 700kb.

Pushover comes highly recommended, but here's some of my favourite Atari-ST games:

Captive
Logical
Rainbow Islands
XenonII
Oids
Dungeon Master
Jimmy Whites Snooker
Vroom
Interface
Falcon

Steem is a great ST emulator, it's nice to have it running while your PC is busy because it is fairly performance friendly, and can sit in a little 320x200 window bothering nobody.

www.atari.st is about the best ST emu site you can get - I would'nt know of any amiga emu sites because the amiga is in fact the devil.


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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 17:50 Edited at: 17th Aug 2005 18:12
my favourites were (for the Amiga)

Pushover
Hook
Monkey Island
Prince of Persia
Lotus Challenge (sumfin like that)
Desert Strike
Theme Park
Gunship 2000 (sumfibn like that)
James pond
Gremlins

and well I can't remember the rest lol, there was some weird one that was in german, I think I saw a remake of it in the Puzzle comp, you had to draw lines to capture things if they touched you, you'd die

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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 18:00
Ohh, that's ancient mate - I remember playing a game like that on the C64, you had to use a trail thing to outline boxes and reveal the level, all without getting caught with an unfinished outline.

Damn addicting game idea but it makes me feel old playing it. The Amiga variant probably had nice level graphics to outline and reveal.


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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 18:09 Edited at: 17th Aug 2005 18:09
meh I know it, and I'm 16, so you shouldn't feel so old

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James pond was awesome, but its not on there, damn, thats one sweet game though

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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 20:45
great DOS classic game:
The 7th Guest

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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 21:02
never heard of it

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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 21:57
Commander Keen 4!
Prince of Persia!

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Posted: 17th Aug 2005 22:23
Quote: "Oids"


Agreed! One of the best games for Atari ST. I would like to add Star Raiders, Techno Cop, Dynamite Dux, and Stunt Track Racer to that list

Quote: " great DOS classic game:
The 7th Guest"


Double agreed! The very first video game to top 1GB, and was released on 2 CDs. I shelled out $90 for it when it came out, and I still play it The soundtrack was phenomenal.


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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 01:39 Edited at: 18th Aug 2005 01:48
haven't heard of most em lol, I guess I'll test some of em out!

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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 12:28
I love most of them! I remember some but many I never heard of so Im trying them out. One thing you notice in these games are the rich and engrosing storylines that many of todays games simply overlook or try to cover up with fancy graphics. Also these games seem far more challenging now than they used to - im telling you we've had it too easy in the last 10 years!!

Nice one seppuku!

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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 13:35
Awww retro heaven yesterday .

Got the big Pompey Pirates archive from atari.st yesterday, and also FrodoPalm - a C64 emulator for Palm handhelds. Frodo rocks, playing Miner2049er, Uridium and IK+ again was awesome. There's something fascinating about emulators on the Palm, the screen is square, so the extra space is used for a keyboard, so with a speccy emu you get a little spectrum keyboard - with Frodo you get a little 64 keyboard, heck you even have to press the tiny C= and Run/Stop key to load a game .

The Pompey collection is like 300+ ST games in 1 big 87mb download - there is an Automation collection somewhere too, but Pompey had the best menus by far. You should go check it out, I'll post a link if any ST emu fans want.

Funny how I've got like half a dozen XBox games that I haven't looked at, yet I'd rather play games from the 20 years ago!.


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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 13:47
Ahh for me it was the amstrad cpc 464, loved the dizzy series on that, robocop, batman (amiga version was the best), batman 3d (to this day i still play it) and head over heel (again still play it)

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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 13:59
Yeah, I love isometric games, especially Head Over Heels, but I had a soft spot for Batman too, like for a game concept it should not have worked - isometric batman puzzler?, pfft! - but it's great.

You should play through Head Over Heels, some of the best pixel work I've ever seen on the spectrum are in the second half of that game, the room decorations etc are great. There was another awesome iso game - Sweevo's World, which was cool because you could stack your items and hold a lot of stuff, a bit trickier than the Ocean isometric games, but unique.

The only iso game I got for Frodo was Spindizzy, I should really find more.


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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 14:16
I've never played Sweevo's World, should get that one. It sad but during the 80's early 90's UK did produce in my opinion such excellent games. You had Team 17 (Alien Breed), System 3 (Last ninja - excellent, only better now by Tenchu in terms of Ninja action and Shadow Warrior)Ocean (Robocop - outstanding), Probe Software (Excellent Alien 3 convertion), Bullfrog (Theme Hospital) and even RARE in the latter 90's.

I also had a soft spot for New Zealand Story, Chase HQ, Target Renegade (IMO better than Double Dragon).

Have you seen the remake for Head Over Heels - very good written in c and the allegro library: http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=hoh

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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 14:58
I've seen that but never downloaded it.

I loved the last ninja series, got all those for Frodo as well. Target renegade was a bit dissapointing on the 64, compared to the Speccy version at least - I remember being quite stunned by speccy TR, just the way it starts up in that multi-storey carpark and you go down each level doing flying-kicks to those bikers . Double Dragon was pretty good on speccy too - quite close to the arcade original. DD on the 64 stank - everyone had a pixel wide strip missing on their belts. which just made it look like a joke.

One other vital speccy game for iso fans is Highway Encounter. It's like a little group of daleks trying to get a probe thing along this road, but it's like 1 long level - very strategic and compelling but damn it's difficult.

The uk still produces the best games - the GTA games are produced in Scotland - you must recognise those awesome bridges in San Andreas, that's the Forth road and rail bridges lovingly recreated. Here's one for you though - Britain made the worlds first solid 3D game on a home computer, titled 'I of the Mask' it was a weird puzzle type game, but it was made by a little British firm . And.... arguably the first home computer RPG game was made in Britain too, Black Crystal by Carnell Software was listed as the first in a magazine article I read a while ago. He was incidently the guy who got me interested in making videogames (his parents were our neighbor).


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Ok, i have dredged the memory and here are my favourites from the glorious age of dos. In order of mightiness:

First Encounters (Sequel to frontier I think)
Syndicate Wars
Doom
Archimedean dynasty
Gunship 2000
GP2 (Best F1 game ever)
Settlers2 (Cant remember if this was Amiga or dos)
Descent
Lamatron

Not many of these mentioned on the site but lets hear it for doom, mother of 90% of the modern games industry.

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Don't we all?


Frontier was great, it was one my dad always played
My first doom like game was Quake, so I never did doom until I got it for my Nokia 3650
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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 17:39
First and foremost

Continuum aka Alpha Waves-Greatest puzzle game of all time plzkthx

and then all the Zorks especially return to zork..."Want some rye, course ya do"

all the Commander Keens...

Hugos Adventure...

Some other ones were cool...

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ZOOL!!!

How could I forget zool, that game rules!!!!!!!!!!

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Hey, I know we both enjoy the same DOS game, but I'm already taken--- sorry

CattleRuster - Did you get the 7th Guest when it first came out, the one with the VHS with the making of the game? It was a great inside look at Trilobyte


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Posted: 18th Aug 2005 23:19
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He's mine thats why

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Quote: "and then all the Zorks especially return to zork..."Want some rye, course ya do""


My Mom still says that after playing Return to Zork so long ago.

When we got that game we had a 2x CD drive. The guy in the crystal ball always cut out and stuttered while he said "Hey, hey, I need a new battery."... we thought it was normal... till the first person talked that didn't need new batteries. Playing it now with a good CD drive just doesn't sound right.
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 03:35
I'm gonna have to say that you'll get true classics here:
http://www.dosgames.com

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Quote: "Hey, I know we both enjoy the same DOS game, but I'm already taken--- sorry "


as am I

Quote: "Did you get the 7th Guest when it first came out, the one with the VHS with the making of the game? It was a great inside look at Trilobyte "


yes and absotively

I'll be in touch soon about something.

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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 12:57
@Anime cool thanks, maybe I can find James Pond on here

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