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Throwback Thursday: 1980s video games edition (1 Viewer)

I'll throw in some games for the Commodore 64 here.

My favorites:

Impossible Mission - Best game on the C64. Each game was slightly different with robots acting differently. Huge replay value.

Raid Over Moscow - Very fun game.

Karateka - Great game, I still remember the first time I finally got to the end only to get killed by the girl. Man I was pissed.

Montezuma's Revenge - Tons of fun playing this one, each level got harder and harder with more blackout screens. Played this one a lot.

Bruce Lee - Liked this one a lot.

Beachhead I & II - All the different sections had their own unique games. Great fun

Summer Games I & II - Spent a lot of time on these.

Winter Games - Hot Dog event was cool.

GhostBusters - Well done adaptation from a movie. Fun to play

Zork I,II, III - Really challenging, always a fan of the text adventures since the Colossal Cave Adventure - XYZZY.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
dutch said:
Parrothead said:
Intellivision baseball- where the players looked like little mushrooms
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Atari football where it was 3-on-3 and the players looked like something from monsters inc. We had a rule that you couldn't go "through" the tv screen as when a defensive player was at the edge of the screen they could pop out on the other side just by standing there making it easy to tackle a runner who had gotten ahead of the field. That rule and it's inability to be enforced led to many a live action punchout between me and my brother. :rant:
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Is this the game you're talking about?
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:D That's the one. I can still see my brother in a headlock after he "cheated" by going through the screen. Of course, he got back at me for doing the same stuff by throwing the joy stick at my forehead. Good times, good times...

 
WhatDoIKnow said:
Bruce Dickinson said:
That one guy said:
Contra

/thread
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A college friend of mine has a T-shirt that says:

UP, UP,

DOWN, DOWN,

LEFT, RIGHT,

LEFT, RIGHT,

B,A,

START

With no other explanation or fanfare.
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And a lot of us knew what that meant. Pre-internet.
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Damn. Hadn't thought about that. But you're right. It was someone's older brother who heard from a friend at school who learned it from their cousin in other city, or some other preposterous chain.

 
17seconds said:
I played the living #### out of Ultima IV one summer. I think I had all 7 characters way into level 8, which requires maybe 5hrs of play a day for 2 months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeu838QpoE

"please place the towne disk into drive 1"

JFC :lmao:
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Love the Ultima Series on the C-64. I kept burning out my 1541 Disk Drive. I would take them back to Sears because they were under warranty still and the guy there was finally like, "You know these things aren't meant to be played with 10 hours a day!!"

Being born in 1969--I ended up right in the sweet spot of retro gaming. I know we have discussed this before here, but I remember getting my Atari 2600 and playing it on an old Sears B&W tv that had a remote that had two buttons that clicked when you pushed them.

Like the OP, I remember taking a picture of my screen for Grand Prix--I believe the time was like under one minute or something for the patch.

My brother literally bought every single game that would come out on the 2600. I remember I would call every single store, every week looking for Indy 500--it came with special race paddles. He had a ton of games--all with the manuals in the boxes. I remember like 10 years ago he got rid of them all for next to nothing. I was just sick.

I have bought pretty much every system that comes out over the years and I have them in their boxes still--along with the games and manuals in their boxes. Sure I am missing some of the more eclectic launches such as the Atari Jaguar and I really, really want to get a Colecovision (had one and I just don't know where it went), but they are nice to have and collect.

I need to build a MAME machine once I get done with my new PC build.

 
Courtjester said:
17seconds said:
I played the living #### out of Ultima IV one summer. I think I had all 7 characters way into level 8, which requires maybe 5hrs of play a day for 2 months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeu838QpoE

"please place the towne disk into drive 1"

JFC :lmao:
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I need to build a MAME machine once I get done with my new PC build.
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To do it on the cheap I'd recommend getting a Raspberry Pi and using RetroPie. That's what I use.

On that system I've come to realize how incredibly easy the Atari game Adventure really is. My 6yo daughter solved/finished it in about 30mins, and she's not really into video games.

 
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Courtjester said:
17seconds said:
I played the living #### out of Ultima IV one summer. I think I had all 7 characters way into level 8, which requires maybe 5hrs of play a day for 2 months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeu838QpoE

"please place the towne disk into drive 1"

JFC :lmao:
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Love the Ultima Series on the C-64. I kept burning out my 1541 Disk Drive. I would take them back to Sears because they were under warranty still and the guy there was finally like, "You know these things aren't meant to be played with 10 hours a day!!"

Being born in 1969--I ended up right in the sweet spot of retro gaming. I know we have discussed this before here, but I remember getting my Atari 2600 and playing it on an old Sears B&W tv that had a remote that had two buttons that clicked when you pushed them.

Like the OP, I remember taking a picture of my screen for Grand Prix--I believe the time was like under one minute or something for the patch.

My brother literally bought every single game that would come out on the 2600. I remember I would call every single store, every week looking for Indy 500--it came with special race paddles. He had a ton of games--all with the manuals in the boxes. I remember like 10 years ago he got rid of them all for next to nothing. I was just sick.

I have bought pretty much every system that comes out over the years and I have them in their boxes still--along with the games and manuals in their boxes. Sure I am missing some of the more eclectic launches such as the Atari Jaguar and I really, really want to get a Colecovision (had one and I just don't know where it went), but they are nice to have and collect.

I need to build a MAME machine once I get done with my new PC build.
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1969'er here too.

I have 2 colecovisions :bag: Guy I worked with wanted to get rid of all his stuff and gave me it all. Numerous Atari 2600 and coleco cartridges, the atari 2600 adapter, the super action controllers (man those were horrible)

(if you want one, I could send it to you, I don't need 2. I could include controllers etc that I have duplicates of. I'd like to see someone get it that would appreciate it.)

My C64 still works as far as I know except the power supply went and I need a new one.

I fondly recall the time we hacked one of those text adventures and changed all the names to people we knew and all kinds of sexual encounters etc.

That's how I learned how code.. :lmao:

 
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Metroid, Zelda and good ole SMb1 took a lot of my hours.

Punchout, RBi Baseball 3 and Contra were also mainstay NES games for me. Arcade I loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade during our school roller skating nights.

 
one of my arcade faves, Heavy Barrel.

when I got all the pieces and the narrator screamed "HEAVYYYYYYYYYYY BARRELLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!" I knew for the next several seconds, I was about to seriously #### #### up.

 
Arcade:

- Off Road

- Spy Hunter

- APB

- anything pinball was my go to.

Nintendo / Sega Master System:

- Phantasy Star

- Final Fantasy

- Zelda and Zelda II

- Lode Runner

Gameboy:

- Tetris (I really should find my Gameboy and play. Greatest game ever, still have the original game that came packaged)

 
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Arcade

Spy Hunter

Zaxxon

Robotron

Defender

Intellivision

B-17 Bomber with voice modulator

I am old enough to remember when my dad brought home Odyssey. Stuck overlays on your screen that were held on by the static electricity the screen put out when the TV was on and played really dumb games

 
Missile Command. No matter how many times I played it I couldn't improve. Same with Centipede. Stunk at both of those games.

 
Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple IIe. Used to get chill bumps every time an SS would make his presence known.

I also spent too much time playing a bunch of text games by EAMON.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
Yes, I took a photo of the TV screen the first time I finished under 28.20 on Game 3 of Activision Skiing so I could join the Activision Ski Team.

Enjoyed that accolade so much, I took the screenshot of my first 10K+ Decathlon for my Activision Decathlon Gold Medal.
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I remember beating pitfall, I had been working at it forever. Took a picture of the screen. When I got the pictures back, all I got was a photo of the tv with a huge white reflection of the flash on it.

 
Lehigh98 said:
There was a wierd little Nontendo arcade game called "Arm Wresting" that was a conversion kit for Super Punch Out. Only saw it at an arcade down the Jersey Shore. Liked it enough that I looked on eBay and found a complete conversion kit and bought it in the late 90's, still in the original Nintendo shipping box.

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

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6921
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I remember that game. During the arm wrestling match with the masked opponent you could pull a move that would rip off his mask and it would be Bald Bull underneath.
 
JHuber77 said:
Cant believe nobody mentioned Double Dragon yet.
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Freshman year of high school I would go to the mall after school but before basketball practice and play this game with a buddy on the team. One day we were late to practice because we were so caught up in finishing it. Coach was not pleased.
 
Asteroids with the keypad so you could customize your game

Ms. Pacman with super speed

Galaxian

Battlezone

Berserk

Burgertime

Centipede

Millipede

Crossbow

Robotron

Mach 3

Frontline

Tron

Pole Position

Stargate

Dragon's Lair

Space Ace

Cliff Hanger

Badlands

Thayer's Quest

Karate Champ

Kung Fu Master

Ikari Warriors

Xevious

Rolling Thunder

Rastan

1942

Paperboy

APB

720

Toobin'

Rampage

Black Tiger

Outrun

Xenophobia

Journey Escape on Atari

Zaxxon on ColecoVision

Gateway to Apshai on Commodore 64

 
shuke said:
Bruce Dickinson said:
Yes, I took a photo of the TV screen the first time I finished under 28.20 on Game 3 of Activision Skiing so I could join the Activision Ski Team.

Enjoyed that accolade so much, I took the screenshot of my first 10K+ Decathlon for my Activision Decathlon Gold Medal.
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I remember beating pitfall, I had been working at it forever. Took a picture of the screen. When I got the pictures back, all I got was a photo of the tv with a huge white reflection of the flash on it.
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Oooooooooof.

 
Had the Apple II+

Ultima IV - my favorite

Choplifter

Castle Wolfenstein

Karateka

Sneakers

Summer Games

Decathlon

 
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