General / Off-Topic Who turned your head?

Mobius

Mobius
for me head turners were

Chequered Flag: spectrum
Driller: spectrum,
Shadowfire: Spectrum
Carrier Command: Atari ST
Demolition Derby: PS1
FF7: PS1
Gran Turismo PS1
SSX: PS2
Command and Conquer PC
Supreme Commander PC

oddly though there are some great games on the XBOX and PS3 none stand out as WOW! moments.

Elite was never a game that made me go WOW!, but it was a game I enjoyed.
the above games were the games that made be go WOW!
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
In fact, I am not a video game player. The only game I played for 2 to 4 years is Frontier Elite 2 with Atari ST. Otherwise I vaguely remember spending a few hours on the game "The Ark of captain blood" created by Exxos.The game was a huge success at its output and has won numerous awards. The game will be No. 1 in sales in France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan No. 5 and 6 in the United States.I also played the arcade game, "Breakout".
And Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Mario Tennis, on Nintendo 64. Formula 1 on Play Station 2. For all these games I was always marveled.
 

loststargirl

loststargirl
I totally adored and loved Bubble Bobble :p Thats my first experience with gaming.

Getting all fruit, ice cream and goodies :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inAAItNuFaE


My first 'serious' game was Elite (after playing Donald Duck's Playground and such..... :eek:)

Later Civilisation, UFO Enemy Unknown, Baldur's Gate kept me going for hours.

Best MMO I played was Age of Conan.
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
:cool: Lots of great games getting mentioned here. For me Defender was the first game a really got into. I spent ages in the arcades on that one. :eek:

After that, the Speccy. Memorable games for me were Chaos, Saracen, Williamsberg, Manic Miner and Elite (of course)

Later, on the Miggy, Zeewolf 1&2, Subwar 2050, Carrier Command, the Midwinter games and Syndicate were just some of the many wonderful titles the Miggy had.

Great days! :cool:
 

Cody

Cody
Aside from a mid-sixties arcade game (Periscope), it was Asteroids that first grabbed me. My local pub had a table-top version which was hugely popular at the time. After that, it was of course the original BBC Elite.
 

Bingo Brewster

Bingo Brewster
Burn Cycle on a Phillips CDI :cool:

There was also a flight sim on the BBC, where you flew a Spitfire against alien polygons, the frames had even less wires than Elite, but the flight characteristics, especially on take off and land were totally convincing. Cant remember the name though
 

Majere

Majere
Woah! I originally meant the next game on from Elite, the one that put the cassette back in the box but some great great games mentioned here.

So, to join in..

None can top Elite of course, first love is always the strongest.

In the Arcade it was probably R-type.

Hmm, on the Amiga there was Lemmings, Speedball 2, Settlers, Cannon Fodder and Sensi. Frontier as well of course. My I think I spent a lot of time playing games back then.

Shadow of the Beast probably convinced me to buy the Amiga but just from the intro, the game was not so great. In fact, it sucked.

PS1 I bought in the first week because of Wipeout. The soundtrack from that still resonates with me today. The original Resident Evil, although thinking back now the load times between each room were horrendous. Tomb Raider was great.

I never had a home PC but had some on a work laptop. Age of Empires kept me entertained, particularly in it's Star Wars dressing of Galactic Battlegrounds. Again, a designer where you could create your own scenarios was a boon and multi-player on a LAN was my best MP experience. Oh, and Worms, hilarious in multi-player.

to bring it up to date, keeping me going right now is Kerbal Space Program. Do NOT get this game if you value sleep!
 

Nicodemus

N
Hmmm lets see:

On the BBC B, apart from Elite there was;

Sabre Wulf from Ultimate Play the Game
Banjax from Robico
Twin kingdom valley (spent far too many hours on that game)

On the Atari ST it was Elite (but with fancier graphics and OMG!! Colour!)
Defender of the Crown
Dungeon Master
Gauntlet

First PC
The original Xcom
Civ 1
Tomb Raider

2nd PC
System Shock 2
Half Life
Baldurs Gate
Supremacy

3rd PC
Dark Age of Camelot
EvE Online
Alpha Centuri (Sid Meier Civesque game)

4th PC
World of Warcraft
Mass Effect 1&2
Civ 3 (I was a bit late to Civ 3 ;) )

5th PC
Sins of a Solar Empire
Portal 2

Those are the ones that stand out for me over the years and on various machines :D
 

Mobius

Mobius
Nicodemus said:
Hmmm lets see:

On the BBC B, apart from Elite there was;

Sabre Wulf from Ultimate Play the Game
Banjax from Robico
Twin kingdom valley (spent far too many hours on that game)

On the Atari ST it was Elite (but with fancier graphics and OMG!! Colour!)
Defender of the Crown
Dungeon Master
Gauntlet

First PC
The original Xcom
Civ 1
Tomb Raider

2nd PC
System Shock 2
Half Life
Baldurs Gate
Supremacy

3rd PC
Dark Age of Camelot
EvE Online
Alpha Centuri (Sid Meier Civesque game)

4th PC
World of Warcraft
Mass Effect 1&2
Civ 3 (I was a bit late to Civ 3 ;) )

5th PC
Sins of a Solar Empire
Portal 2

Those are the ones that stand out for me over the years and on various machines :D
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it comes across as a list of your favourite games, but out of those what made you say wow! this is a game changer.
i can see defender of the crown being one as that game i have fond memory's of, and why not portal 1 as the was a very original game.
 

Nicodemus

N
Mobius said:
it comes across as a list of your favourite games, but out of those what made you say wow! this is a game changer.
i can see defender of the crown being one as that game i have fond memory's of, and why not portal 1 as the was a very original game.
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Not many of those are actually my favourite games of their time. I've listed the games that made me go WOW! on the different architecture/OS of the time.

Defender of the Crown made me go WOW! because of the nature of the game. If you would compare the basic game play of the map conquest game to one of the Total War games of today you would see an uncanny likeness, what made it even better was the multiple mini games (Keep assault with catapults and defeating the Keep Lord with a sword fight) that were interlaced within the narrative. In general for it's time it was ahead of it's time and thus very well worthy of being a WOW! game.

As for Portal 1, I'll admit I never played it, I played Half Life a lot and marvelled at what they had done which is why it was listed as it took the FPS from a mindless shoot em up and made it a more compelling story. I listed Portal 2 because it was the first time I had played a Portal game and was blown away by the concept which is why it is a WOW! game and not the first.

Of that list I'd say that there are only perhaps 4 that are my favourites, and 3 of those are probably clustered towards the more recent machines than the past ones.
 

Mobius

Mobius
that has got to be the best post you have made my friend. informative and interesting.

Microprose's Gunship was an old favourite of mine on the Speccy. ah those were the days.
 

Slawkenbergius

Slawkenbergius
Carmageddon was a bit of a big one for me. The physics engine was really good for its time, and it actually had quite a sandbox element to it. My friends would come over to play, and we would explore the tracks for insane jumps, and have competitions to see who could splat the most pedestrians in one swoop, or within a minute, or whatever took our fancy. I'm a bit of a youth here, so I was only 13 when it came out, and still remember playing the demo for the first time.

I was too young for Elite to have a big impact from playing it myself, though I watched my brother playing whenever I was allowed. Used to love some of those other Speccy games, like Target Renegade, Green Beret, Operation Wolf, Rampage, and Gauntlet though.
 

Mobius

Mobius
Carmageddon a game I've heard so much about but never played. I imagine its one of those games that was simple on graphics yet full of playability.
 

Selezen

Selezen
jontycampbell said:
Gunship for Spectrum 48K/128K...
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WOW, Gunship! I loved Gunship. I still have a soft spot for the AH-64 Apache because of this game. Me and Martin used to sit and play this together for hours - We took turns being pilot and gunner (thus simulating the true two-seater nature of the chopper).

Good times. Good times.
 

graham.reeds

G
Mobius said:
that's not what the OP is asking, if it took you 10 years to think wow this game is a game changer then you have missed the point of the OP.
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Must of been a good game to him to play it for 10 years.

To add to my list: Bards Tale III and Civilisation. Played both of them obsessively when I was younger.

Civilisation doesn't need discussion as to why it was so great, but BT3 was amazing to me for the number of maps, areas and pace that culminated in the fight against 4 lots of 99 monks! Don't you just love arbitrary limits!?
 
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