View Full Version : Young, carefree and single.....
Though I was only 7.
How life has changed since I last played this:
ftp://downloads.codemasters.com/etoy/TreasureIslandDizzy.exe
A screenshot for those not at one with the home computers of 1980-odd and their whirry, scratchy noises.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Treasure_Island_Dizzy.png
For those of you using Linux, this is worth installing WINE for.
Just do it!
funny, i was just about to start a "favorate old skool computer game from the 80's 90's"
pac land (not man)
bomber jack
kickstart
Great minds think alike eh?
The amount of time I must have spent looking for PC emulators for the Amstrad, and playing things like:
Fantasy World Dizzy
Treasure Island Dizzy
Feud
Andy Capp
Semour Goes to Hollywood
Quick Draw Mcgraw
Dangermouse
Harrier Attack
Harvey Headbanger
Fruit Machine
...and something I can never remember the name of where you were a builder and had to pick stuff up and solve puzzles.
...the list will go on. I had more than 250 tapes, my memory is rubbish now.
Tell you what my ultimate goal is though, the BBC Micro and a game called "The Magic Telephone"
Right, I'm off to the internet.
DanAbnormal
22-07-08, 12:47 PM
Awesome! I loved Dizzy. Also ATV, Jet Set Willy, Manic Miner etc. :smt035
I've got heaps of emulators on my PC. Got a great Amiga emulator, mega-drive, Snes and also N64 one. All great games back in the day.
link no work
Works for me?
Don't copy and paste it, its been cut down.
Try here:
http://www.codemasters.co.uk/downloads/getdownload.php?downloadid=17409
Great minds think alike eh?
The amount of time I must have spent looking for PC emulators for the Amstrad, and playing things like:
Fantasy World Dizzy
Treasure Island Dizzy
Feud
Andy Capp
Semour Goes to Hollywood
Quick Draw Mcgraw
Dangermouse
Harrier Attack
Harvey Headbanger
Fruit Machine
...and something I can never remember the name of where you were a builder and had to pick stuff up and solve puzzles.
...the list will go on. I had more than 250 tapes, my memory is rubbish now.
Tell you what my ultimate goal is though, the BBC Micro and a game called "The Magic Telephone"
Right, I'm off to the internet.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BBC-MICRO-COMPUTER-JOYSTICKS-GAMES-MANUALS-JOB-LOT_W0QQitemZ130240355799QQihZ003QQcategoryZ50217Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Drew Carey
22-07-08, 12:54 PM
Pipe and slippers anyone? :D
Bang goes the rest of my afternoon.
More blasts from the past that had pride of place in my drawers were:
Buggy Boy:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Buggybjr.png
Chase HQ:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Chase_HQ.png
Double Dragon!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Double_Dragon_II_for_NES_screenshot.png
Harrier Attack:
http://www.durellgames.com/harrierattackii/media/harrier-attack-screenshot.jpg
--Has a windows version!
http://www.durellgames.com/harrierattackii/download.shtml
And this, does not need a name for it were simply, amazing:
http://www.ythcal.de/beetle/CPC/Paperboy%28e%29.png
Ahhh, I feel much better now for letting that out.
Pipe and slippers anyone? :D
Isn't it worrying?
Back then 48k was quite sufficient, thanks very much. Floppy disk? Megabytes? I don't think so.
I learned to program BASIC on a 464, when I was 6! Here I am now....err...still programming :confused:
got it now
but dunno how to play?
i die if i get wet, but theres nowhere else to go
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BBC-MICRO-COMPUTER-JOYSTICKS-GAMES-MANUALS-JOB-LOT_W0QQitemZ130240355799QQihZ003QQcategoryZ50217Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Possibly the best piece of advertising I've seen at eBay for a bit:
"ALSO IT WORKS WHICH IS ALWAYS A BONUS "
got it now
but dunno how to play?
i die if i get wet, but theres nowhere else to go
LEFT MAN, LEFT!
Z and X is left/right, up arrow jumps, Enter picks stuff up. You can only carry three things, you drop the oldest one first.
been left, pick up old chest?
lol.......... i think i got it
dizzy tis a bit too retro for my liking
dizzy tis a bit too retro for my liking
Blasphemy!
You will play it and you will like it!
Try harder.
custard
22-07-08, 01:16 PM
ahem....
ELITE?!!!?????!!!!
more of a master system/megadrive fan my self
wonderboy
ahem....
ELITE?!!!?????!!!!
Yes, Elite was good, but not my cup of tea
more of a master system/megadrive fan my self
wonderboy
Yes, Wonderboy! That was a CPC game too, though I think its advent was on the Megadrive?
custard
22-07-08, 01:22 PM
i thought it was awesome and i dont think any game of its ilk has come close since.
used to spend hours playing armageddon and jet pac on the Speccy 48k. now means i can bend the top of my index finger whilst keeping the rest straight... gotta love those rubber keys.
i got a megadrive off ebay a while back with a master system converter, played it for a bit then forgot about it
only got a few games
shinobi
double dragon
wonderboy 2 and 3
off to ebay to look for some more games
I regret selling my CPC464, but it was massive, what with its huge 15" bespoke monitor (no, you couldn't use a telly cos the monitor supplied the keyboard with power. Cunning eh?)
I used to love playing Robin Hood on my Spectrum 48k. Ah the memories....
Putting a cassette in to the tape player and watching the pretty colours on the screen, with everything crossed hoping it would load up.
I made the giant leap to a Master System after that (still got it in full working order). Favourite games were Alex the Kidd and California Games. And Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.
I used to love Pang on the Amiga 500 too.
Favourite games were Alex the Kidd and California Games.
classics
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1094067827-06.png
Colin The Cleaner for Spectrum. What every kid wants, a game to play that involves cleaning up, whilst avoiding cleaning of bedroom :)
Ceri JC
22-07-08, 02:49 PM
Oooh, so many.
I loved the Dizzy games. Elite was just incredible, so much better/deeper than most other things of its time. I still regularly play Bomb Jack and 15 years on, bomberman is still hugely entertaining in 5 player multiplayer.
Ceri JC
22-07-08, 02:52 PM
i got a megadrive off ebay a while back with a master system converter, played it for a bit then forgot about it
only got a few games
shinobi
double dragon
wonderboy 2 and 3
off to ebay to look for some more games
Cash generator is pretty good (and reasonably priced) for Megadrive games. I've got bloody loads of the things from when I was a student and couldn't afford new PS Ones games so bought old second hand megadrive games instead. I must have about 35 games in total. Even got the menacer light gun for it- that is quality with The Terminator arcade game! :cool:
the menacer light gun for it-
Which reminds me Duck Hunt on the SNES!
Tell you what my ultimate goal is though, the BBC Micro and a game called "The Magic Telephone"
I think I remember that one.
Anyone remember a a game where one character sat on the top of the other one? I had it on my Spectrum, I also got a runners up price in a comp. first time with a spectrum game, from the makers USGold I think.
Simple days.... Lords of Midnight anyone?
Look hee a bit of retro reading for you -
Crash... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRASH_(magazine))
Ceri JC
22-07-08, 03:25 PM
I think I remember that one.
Anyone remember a a game where one character sat on the top of the other one? I had it on my Spectrum, I also got a runners up price in a comp. first time with a spectrum game, from the makers USGold I think.
Simple days.... Lords of Midnight anyone?
"Head over Heels", that isommetric 3d one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Over_Heels_(game)
Yep thats the one... It was great fun...
yay
i just got wonder boy for the master system for 50p off eblah
Q: Do you reckon that in (say) another 20 years time we'll look back to 2008 and think
"aww, look at us with our primative internet forum. Them's were the days"
Whatever it may be technologically replaced by, the org will live on, I'm sure.
Nah, when the bottom falls out of the economy and everything goes bye bye due to the fuel drying up we will be living in caves and missing those days. Telling our grand-children wondrous stories of cities of light, and picture boxes.
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