Carmageddon wasn't bad, graphics were good for the time, but in my opinion let down by a very weak physics engine - there was too much float in the jumps and it became more like pinball than a driving game.
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Carmageddon wasn't bad, graphics were good for the time, but in my opinion let down by a very weak physics engine - there was too much float in the jumps and it became more like pinball than a driving game.
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I'm happy to say twas Elite that originally caught my eye, along with Populous. I do find it quite funny that both have being revived via Kickstarter in recent times. Other than that I played Chuckie Egg, Xenon, Speedball, Sensible Soccer, Barbarian and Football manager. Then I sold my soul for the sega megadrive and sullied myself with Sonic the Hedgehog (I feel sick even admitting it), John Maddens American Football etc etc.
In order:
Space Invaders
Pac-Man
Spy Hunter (C64)
Gauntlet (C64)
Elite
Geoff Crammond's Formula One
Frontier Elite II
UFO Enemy Unknown
Then I took a break from computer games for several years, but eventually got a PC
X-Beyond The Frontier
X2 The Threat
Frontier First Encounters
Oolite
X3 Terran Conflict
Sims 3
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
All these games impressed me and I spent many days and weeks and months playing each of them
Space Invaders
Pac-Man
Spy Hunter (C64)
Gauntlet (C64)
Elite
Geoff Crammond's Formula One
Frontier Elite II
UFO Enemy Unknown
Then I took a break from computer games for several years, but eventually got a PC
X-Beyond The Frontier
X2 The Threat
Frontier First Encounters
Oolite
X3 Terran Conflict
Sims 3
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
All these games impressed me and I spent many days and weeks and months playing each of them
Probably it wasn't so much a problem with the physics engine itself, but more that they set the floatiness (and skiddiness) of the cars for childish fun, rather than aiming to make a decent racing game. The way the cars handled, there was no point trying to get lap times or anything, so that left smashing into other cars and 'cunning stunts'. The whole thing was pretty absurdist. Essentially, if you tried to play the game the 'correct' way by racing, you were playing the game wrong.
I seem to remember that some of the power-ups actually made the car handle a lot better. There was one called 'Solid Granite Car!' that added a tonne of mass to your vehicle. Conversely, there was a power-up called 'Pinball Mode' that really did make the cars act like pinballs.
They're actually rebooting the franchice, having run a Kickstarter, so it will be interesting to see how that goes.
Gauntlet was here in the arcades till y2000 at least. Amazing. It had first female controllable character in a videogame (not Chun Li from Streetfighter....)
Though I hated it never had an ending.
Gauntlet II is on Playstation store and supports online multiplayer. But I never saw anyone in lobby to play with
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Burn Cycle on a Phillips CDI
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
PHILIPS CDI !!! So your the one that bought it
Battlefront
Remembered another one I used spend hours and hours in multiplayer on.
Star Wars Battlefront
There seems to be a new version coming too..
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Cmo-...top_uri=/watch?v=Cmo-YYoHnGs&feature=youtu.be
Remembered another one I used spend hours and hours in multiplayer on.
Star Wars Battlefront
There seems to be a new version coming too..
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Cmo-...top_uri=/watch?v=Cmo-YYoHnGs&feature=youtu.be
Burn Cycle on a Phillips CDI
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
That was Called Aviator written By Geoff Crammond who also wrote REVS who went onto write Formula One on PC etc
First game to get me totally hooked was De Ja Vu 2 on the PC. My first introduction to a point and click adventure and with a decent story line it keep me playing for months. Never did complete it but I see it is abandonware now so may have another go.
Syndicate is another I look back on misty eyed. To be honest I think it was the chance to kill innocent civilians rather than the scripted bad guys that got my youthful bloodlust going. The original GTA was similar, getting the Guranga bonus for running over a complete line of Krishna's.
Syndicate is another I look back on misty eyed. To be honest I think it was the chance to kill innocent civilians rather than the scripted bad guys that got my youthful bloodlust going. The original GTA was similar, getting the Guranga bonus for running over a complete line of Krishna's.
Ah, a great game dev. Wonder what he is upto these days? Loved Stunt Car Racer on the Miggy
Elite+ (I missed out on the original)
Civilization 1. Civ 2 too, but not so much the later incarnations.
Privateer 1 - a flawed attempt to bring Elite's freeform trading/combat into the Wing Commander universe. I lost days in there despite its limitations.
X-wing vs. Tie-Fighter (X-wing was good but playing for the Empire was wonderful). I was especially impressed by the way those games captured the look, feel and sound of the original films - even the way your x-wing "bobbed" a little like a cork on the waves when at low speed, and the screaming of the Tie-fighters.
Civilization 1. Civ 2 too, but not so much the later incarnations.
Privateer 1 - a flawed attempt to bring Elite's freeform trading/combat into the Wing Commander universe. I lost days in there despite its limitations.
X-wing vs. Tie-Fighter (X-wing was good but playing for the Empire was wonderful). I was especially impressed by the way those games captured the look, feel and sound of the original films - even the way your x-wing "bobbed" a little like a cork on the waves when at low speed, and the screaming of the Tie-fighters.
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To be Honest Elite on the BBC B disc drive version got me hard into games i was what you call a Elite Junkie i asked "Is Elite Available on this Computer" if the answer was no i wasn't interested. I played Elite on many different computers in the time but the BBC B always has that special moment for me, wow moments on the BBC Master, PC, Speccie, C64,and many more
Elite + ... Amiga
Elite 2 ... Amiga and PC
Knights of the Sky ... Amiga (World War 1 Flight Sim)
Epic ... Amiga (Spaceship Fighter Sim)
Elite3 ... PC
X-Beyond the frontier ... PC
X-Tension ... PC
X-2 ... PC (I was a Alpha and Beta tester for this back in the day.. 2001 the first x-con, great days)
X-3 ... PC
World Of Warcraft ... PC (played for many years now had the wow factor at the beginning but now its faded somewhat)
i've played many MMO's in my time and been a beta tester for a few but none really stood out for me examples like Conan, starTrek, Champians
Elite + ... Amiga
Elite 2 ... Amiga and PC
Knights of the Sky ... Amiga (World War 1 Flight Sim)
Epic ... Amiga (Spaceship Fighter Sim)
Elite3 ... PC
X-Beyond the frontier ... PC
X-Tension ... PC
X-2 ... PC (I was a Alpha and Beta tester for this back in the day.. 2001 the first x-con, great days)
X-3 ... PC
World Of Warcraft ... PC (played for many years now had the wow factor at the beginning but now its faded somewhat)
i've played many MMO's in my time and been a beta tester for a few but none really stood out for me examples like Conan, starTrek, Champians
oh, sweet topic.
a buddy invited me to his house to see F-18 Interceptor on his Amiga 500.
I was working on a 3D graphic accelerator at work, and was knocked over to see how much was done on so little silicon.
...on a machine that had basically the same microprocessor as the expensive workstation my company was building.
really, I should have seen the writing on the wall at that moment - the time when expensive, specialized computers would be replaced by cheap & plentiful PCs.
the workstation company doesn't exist anymore, and the machine i'm posting from does circles around any edge-of-the-art machine I had possessed then.
still, mightly thankful to be alive during gaming's Golden Age.
there are more games that profoundly affected me, but i'll keep it to this for now
a buddy invited me to his house to see F-18 Interceptor on his Amiga 500.
I was working on a 3D graphic accelerator at work, and was knocked over to see how much was done on so little silicon.
...on a machine that had basically the same microprocessor as the expensive workstation my company was building.
really, I should have seen the writing on the wall at that moment - the time when expensive, specialized computers would be replaced by cheap & plentiful PCs.
the workstation company doesn't exist anymore, and the machine i'm posting from does circles around any edge-of-the-art machine I had possessed then.
still, mightly thankful to be alive during gaming's Golden Age.
there are more games that profoundly affected me, but i'll keep it to this for now
Atari 2600 (wood panel front) - River Raid - the old thing still works, and we still play it every Christmas.
Spectrum: (1) Elite (obviously); (2) Bard's Tale (don't shoot me down in flames - I am sure EA were not too evil back then); (3) Turbo Esprit - in an age where none of us could drive, we used to do the practice drive and see who could drive the best lol;
SNES - Rock and Roll Racing, Another World
PC - Quake II - again, a good uni distraction (we downloaded the patches to have player skins like Darth Vader, Beavis and Butthead etc.) AND Redneck Rampage - soooo funny listening to a bunch of hicks run around burping and being windy, blowing each other up...
PS 1 - Tenchu. HOURS of stealthy fun at uni.
Spectrum: (1) Elite (obviously); (2) Bard's Tale (don't shoot me down in flames - I am sure EA were not too evil back then); (3) Turbo Esprit - in an age where none of us could drive, we used to do the practice drive and see who could drive the best lol;
SNES - Rock and Roll Racing, Another World
PC - Quake II - again, a good uni distraction (we downloaded the patches to have player skins like Darth Vader, Beavis and Butthead etc.) AND Redneck Rampage - soooo funny listening to a bunch of hicks run around burping and being windy, blowing each other up...
PS 1 - Tenchu. HOURS of stealthy fun at uni.