Retro Computer games

[Thundershot]

Hi all,
Whilst digging in the loft, for me old Smurfs, I came across this box of delights..

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Remember when computer games came on old style tape cassette & took decades to load...

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..& your folks would tell ya that £9.99 was too expensive, so you ended up getting a £2.99 budget game by Mastertronic?

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Well any ways, I recall picking this gem of a game up from a remainders bin @ Woolworth's in York during a day trip..

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..not sure of how clear this photo's come out, but hopefully you can read the instructions O.K...

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...& of-course there are some screen shots on the packaging to show off the state of the art graphics (other systems may vary)!

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& just to prove that bad film licensed game are not a new phenomena

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Hope this brings back some memories, T'shot

[Monkfish]

Yeah, brings back loads of memories.

Kikstart was great, spent hours shaving hundredths of a second off course times.

Funny how I've only just noticed the missing 'c', presumably to avoid copyright issues with the telly program that it heavily riffed off.

[Jimbobx]

That was a great little retro trip, Thundershot. I had most of those but I never had the Action Force game. I shall have to look into a C64 emulator.

[The Kraken Wakes]

posh kid with your c64! I had a c16, got one set up in my den upstairs,lots of mastertronic games but no real blockbusters for the c16. did eventually get a spectrum afterthe amstrad buyout and used to love getting ocean gamesin those big cardboard boxes and large cassette cases...

[Thundershot]

Does your C16 still work then TKW?
I haven't tried out my C64 since I put it back in it's box & into the loft all them years ago....I remember reading some place that if you don't play or wind tapes (both music & video) backward & forward every so often that the magnetic info' bleeds degrading the tape becomes useless & unplayable (how true this is I don't know) but I guess all these games are knackered & wouldn't play now anyway. @ least the packaging's in good condition & is nice to look at.

GhostBusters was my 1st computer game.

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This may of been a budget rip-off of After Burner, but it played & looked a lot better, if the enemy (N.A.T.O) airspace got too hostile you could drop a nuke, limited supply of only 3 available during the game if I remember correctly..

Another budget label, Code Masters.

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[The Kraken Wakes]

yup the c16 is imn full working order, ive bought quite a few games frlm ebay and assumed most wojldnt wotrk as they will deterioratd if not read for z long time but allare in full working order and i spend a lot of time plsying on it...

[Thundershot]

Cool so maybe they would work after all?

I fired up the old N64 last month, to keep the cart's memory batteries charged up, but the games were almost unplayable on a modern widescreen Hi-Def telly...I had to borrow the old school (emergency) portable t.v. from under stairs.

[Thundershot]

Hi Monkfish ..the game, I'm sure, featured the telly shows theme tune, even if it wasn't an official B.B.C. tie in

Dougie Lampkin, what a superb name & bike skills

[Chopper]

I have too much retro computers and consoles to list. Probably around 50 machines I'd guess, Atari 600XL to TT030, C64 to A1200/CD32(SX1), 2600's, Dreamcast, Saturn, Jaguar, Lynx, Portfolio, N64's, Gaystation, Gamecube, Xbox, Genesis, Flashback and probably a few more I've forgotten about. I have boxes and boxes of software too.

Kickstart is a cracker, I have that for the Atari 800XL, bitch to play tho. Nice collection, T'shot.

Once a good game, always a good game.....

[Monkfish]

Mine was on the 800XL too. A bloody nightmare to find games for, having to scrape the money for trips to the big city to peruse a vast selection of about 5 games in stock, the same number of games that my C64 owning mates would go through in a week through their dodgy tape-copying scams.

But that left more time for programming, so it wasn't all bad.

T-shot, those links are great! I loved Kickstart as a kid. Just wasn't the same trying to do the same thing with a Raleigh Grifter and a tipped-over dustbin.