"Shall we play a game?": ONLY For Old Skool fans of the BBC Micro and its games back catalogue

[CMDR Mr. Boombastic]

"Shall we play a game?": ONLY For Old Skool fans of the BBC Micro and its games back catalogue

WARNING: If you are a fan of the BBC Micro and do not want to spend hours wasting some hours playing old BBC Micro B games then leave now and close the door behind you.

"Shall we play a game?"

Spoiler

[video=youtube_share;KXzNo0vR_dU]https://youtu.be/KXzNo0vR_dU[/video]

SECOND WARNING: Still want to indulge in some BBC BASIC programming or play some classics (there's a choice of at least a 1000...maybe double that)?

Then you can take a long trip down memory lane with this amazing Javascript BBC emulator:
http://bbc.godbolt.org/

To play classic games like Arcadians, Defender, Frak, Frogger, Meteors,Repton click on 'Discs' --> 'From STH archive' --> tick 'Autoboot' and then choose your game.
Although some games where you cannot change the keys maybe difficult to play, especially ones with symbols due to the differing keyboard layouts.

The author of JSBeeb mentions some of the Elite key settings in a Frontier forum post from 2014:
In-browser Elite emulator

Anyway an amazing job to get the BBC B/Master working in Javascript. The author even has a YouTube presentation and definitely deserves some views & thumbs up for it especially as if you are like me and grew up with the BBC Micro:

Spoiler

[video=youtube_share;37jyHQT7fXQ]https://youtu.be/37jyHQT7fXQ[/video]

Enjoy but don't blame me if you wake up in a few days wondering where your life has gone. That's your own fault for not heeding my warnings.

 

[Sir.Tj]

As this has nothing to do with ED I've moved it to our Off Topic Area.

 

[Dagless]

I could definitely play Repton again and maybe Styker's Run, but one I really remember was The Sentinel. That was one surreal game and it scared the plants off me as a child. I don't think it ever got much love though.

Tell me this isn't one of the weirdest concepts for a computer game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_%28video_game%29

 

[Barking_Mad]

I could definitely play Repton again and maybe Styker's Run, but one I really remember was The Sentinel. That was one surreal game and it scared the plants off me as a child. I don't think it ever got much love though.

Tell me this isn't one of the weirdest concepts for a computer game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(video_game)

Loved that game - should definately re-make it. Would be perfect on a tablet or smart phone.

Repton 3 had a map designer. Quite innovative at the time. Spent loads of time making them for my brother to play!