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

[TheAristocrat]

Single hardest maneuver ....

Landing in Top Gun. (NES)

Oh crap. I just remembered this.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Tron

Got really good at this thanks to Joystik Magazine.

http://www.retroist.com/2015/06/25/how-about-some-1983-arcade-patterns-for-tron/

Hell yes...Joystik magazine. Loved it!

 

[Otis]

I can still recall exactly how the guy announced the name of the game when you first load up BLADES OF STEEL.

Same for DOUBLE DRIBBLE

 

[Reginald Cornsilks]

I can still recall exactly how the guy announced the name of the game when you first load up BLADES OF STEEL.

Same for DOUBLE DRIBBLE

"Double Dreeebull"

 

[ghostguy123]

This place just opened in Cincinnati (also in Columbus and Cleveland). You can't get in the door here.

I have been to a couple of these now. One in Orlando and one in Cleveland. They are cool. Lots of beer options is always nice. Games are free.

Could be a LOT better though. I guess just not a big enough market to actually have a large area with more TVs with all the games set up all over the place for nintendo, atari..........................

Still fun though, but the kinda fun where they may have trouble getting repeat customers.

 

[ghostguy123]

Single hardest maneuver ....

Landing in Top Gun. (NES)

Oh crap. I just remembered this.

I pulled that landing in a van on our way to Memphis in a tiny screen. yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also beat Mike Tyson in 4 different states on the way. Nerd me.

 

[Otis]

I can still recall exactly how the guy announced the name of the game when you first load up BLADES OF STEEL.

Same for DOUBLE DRIBBLE

"Double Dreeebull"

YES

 

[ghostguy123]

I can still recall exactly how the guy announced the name of the game when you first load up BLADES OF STEEL.

Same for DOUBLE DRIBBLE

"Double Dreeebull"

YES

JUMP ball

Nothing like the top corner 3. 99% good

 

[Otis]

I'm crashing at my aunt and uncle's beach house this weekend, and my cousins have their original NES hooked up in the family room. Combined with this thread, it's making me awful nostalgic.

If one want to get an NES, what's the best way these days? Buy something used on eBay? Some knock off that has all the billions of games already built in? Something in between?

TIA

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

The C64 was my first exposure to dynasty-style sports games. I had an ice hockey game that had a multi-season mode where the players aged: young players improved, peak players peaked, old players declined. Wasn't much of a hockey fan, but wow that game was like it was sent from the future.

I also dug International Team Sports. You would pick a country and choose players from an available talent pool within it, then go compete in an Olympics-style extravaganza: water polo, track relay, soccer, volleyball, a couple other events I don't recall.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

track and field with some creepy commentary

https://youtu.be/l_YOVBsgCwU?t=3m31s

The Kige Ramsey of classic video game reviews.

 

[cstu]

I'm crashing at my aunt and uncle's beach house this weekend, and my cousins have their original NES hooked up in the family room. Combined with this thread, it's making me awful nostalgic.

If one want to get an NES, what's the best way these days? Buy something used on eBay? Some knock off that has all the billions of games already built in? Something in between?

TIA

A modded Xbox 1 (the original one) with CoinOps Ignite emulator.

 

[SlaX]

Legend of Zelda 1986

I was (apparently/supposedly) the 8th dork in the US to pass this game. Still trying to find the 2-color Nintendo Power "newsletter" that said as much.

Nintendo Fun Club.

 

[SlaX]

I used to love the original Zelda. It was kind of this huge sprawling adventure that was way ahead of its time. The music was haunting. I played and best later Zeldas, but that first one was awesome.

Also trying to do the "hacks" in the original SMB and walking through the walls. Good times.

Getting Nintendo Power magazine in the mail.

The one thing I wonder if anyone remembers: I used to watch a video game show on TV early mornings. Must have been some time in the 80s. It was probably on at 6 or 7am. No idea what station. But kids would play and compete at video games and the prizes were obviously video game systems and bundles etc. Used to love that show and always was starry eyed about one day being on it. What was it called?

Starcade? Video Power?

edit: I see that this was answered. Sorry, I'm responding as I wonder through the thread.

 

[SlaX]

Contra

/thread

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.

And a lot of us knew what that meant. Pre-internet.

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.

Exactly. Pretty crazy how that spread just by word of mouth. And that we all still remember the code to this day. (The version I knew had you pressing SELECT four times before pressing START, but it still worked, I assume the same way ie 30 lives or something like that?)

Select is only required for 2 players. If you were solo, select was not needed.

 

[Brony]

Through MAME, I became reacquainted with Arch Rivals, the basketball game with punches. So stupid, but so good back in the day.

 

[SlaX]

Through MAME, I became reacquainted with Arch Rivals, the basketball game with punches. So stupid, but so good back in the day.

I used to play that in the arcade. It eventually earned an NBA license and became what we know of as NBA Jam, which we all know was awesome.

 

[ghostguy123]

The one thing i noticed about the knock off NES is that you cant use the original controllers. Otherwise its great.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

I preferred Pigskin 621 AD

 

[urbanhack]

Just walked by the Emporium Arcade (1 of 2 locations in Chicago), and it's freaking jam packed. ####### goldmine. Hipsters love their craft beer and arcade games.

 

[rick6668]

The C64 was my first exposure to dynasty-style sports games. I had an ice hockey game that had a multi-season mode where the players aged: young players improved, peak players peaked, old players declined. Wasn't much of a hockey fan, but wow that game was like it was sent from the future.

I also dug International Team Sports. You would pick a country and choose players from an available talent pool within it, then go compete in an Olympics-style extravaganza: water polo, track relay, soccer, volleyball, a couple other events I don't recall.

I had this game. Superstar Ice Hockey. This was an amazing game. Way ahead of it rime like you said. My cousin came over and thought this game was amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbh1H-UfmCE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstar_Ice_Hockey

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

The C64 was my first exposure to dynasty-style sports games. I had an ice hockey game that had a multi-season mode where the players aged: young players improved, peak players peaked, old players declined. Wasn't much of a hockey fan, but wow that game was like it was sent from the future.

I also dug International Team Sports. You would pick a country and choose players from an available talent pool within it, then go compete in an Olympics-style extravaganza: water polo, track relay, soccer, volleyball, a couple other events I don't recall.

I had this game. Superstar Ice Hockey. This was an amazing game. Way ahead of it rime like you said. My cousin came over and thought this game was amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbh1H-UfmCE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstar_Ice_Hockey

I'm sold.

 

[Jeremy]

Legend of Zelda 1986

I was (apparently/supposedly) the 8th dork in the US to pass this game. Still trying to find the 2-color Nintendo Power "newsletter" that said as much.

How the hell did you figure out the pattern when you were in the forest and had to go like up up left right down or something similar, and the screen just kept repeating itself until you got it right or exited. If that makes any sense. It's the part that made me quit the game until I found the pattern in one of those gamecheat magazines. Then again, I wasn't very patient when I was first playing that game. So I likely didn't try near as many times as I remember before throwing the controller at the screen and turning the game off.

One of the characters in the caves has the hint for that.

Its first appearance, in The Legend of Zelda, is as a simple-looking cross-section of dead Trees. However, once Link enters it, he finds that exiting the forest in any direction will cause him to simply appear back at the same spot. The only way to clear the forest is to follow a specific pattern through it. This special pattern is revealed when Link pays an Old Woman for information. She tells him that the proper directions to escape the forest are north, then west, then south, then west again.[5] Successfully navigating through the Lost Woods leads Link to the Graveyard.

A similar puzzle also appears in the Lost Hills of Death Mountain.

That graveyard was a great place to raise funds. Each screen had a ghost. If you knocked him down to one hit and then freed the others, you only needed to hit the original ghost one more time and they would all die and drop their treasure. Just had to be careful not to lose track of the "real" ghost.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Anyone had success installing/running C64 emulators on their computers?

 

[rick6668]

Anyone had success installing/running C64 emulators on their computers?

Had success in the past with CCS64. Haven't tried lately.

(Just looked and it was updated in 2013, Advantages over previous versions: Multiplay over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support.)

 

[TheAristocrat]

For those of you who don't know, Internet Archive gives you access to play old games through your browser on their site.

For example, here is The Oregon Trail.

 

[Willie Neslon]

Anyone remember Adventure on Atari? Played this weekend. Brings back memories.

http://my.ign.com/atari/adventure

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Legend of Zelda 1986

I was (apparently/supposedly) the 8th dork in the US to pass this game. Still trying to find the 2-color Nintendo Power "newsletter" that said as much.

How the hell did you figure out the pattern when you were in the forest and had to go like up up left right down or something similar, and the screen just kept repeating itself until you got it right or exited. If that makes any sense. It's the part that made me quit the game until I found the pattern in one of those gamecheat magazines. Then again, I wasn't very patient when I was first playing that game. So I likely didn't try near as many times as I remember before throwing the controller at the screen and turning the game off.

One of the characters in the caves has the hint for that.

Its first appearance, in The Legend of Zelda, is as a simple-looking cross-section of dead Trees. However, once Link enters it, he finds that exiting the forest in any direction will cause him to simply appear back at the same spot. The only way to clear the forest is to follow a specific pattern through it. This special pattern is revealed when Link pays an Old Woman for information. She tells him that the proper directions to escape the forest are north, then west, then south, then west again.[5] Successfully navigating through the Lost Woods leads Link to the Graveyard.

A similar puzzle also appears in the Lost Hills of Death Mountain.

That graveyard was a great place to raise funds. Each screen had a ghost. If you knocked him down to one hit and then freed the others, you only needed to hit the original ghost one more time and they would all die and drop their treasure. Just had to be careful not to lose track of the "real" ghost.

You hit the ghost until its 1 hit from death then keep it in place with the boomerang while you get as many ghosts out as allowed.

:nerd

 

[nirad3]

Legend of Zelda 1986

I was (apparently/supposedly) the 8th dork in the US to pass this game. Still trying to find the 2-color Nintendo Power "newsletter" that said as much.

Nintendo Fun Club.

Yesss... I would kill for back issues of this stuff.

 

[Mario Kart]

Legend of Zelda 1986

I was (apparently/supposedly) the 8th dork in the US to pass this game. Still trying to find the 2-color Nintendo Power "newsletter" that said as much.

Nintendo Fun Club.

Yesss... I would kill for back issues of this stuff.

I only have #5 and #6. Not in the best of shape but good. Then came Mario Nintendo Power.

 

[nirad3]

Legend of Zelda 1986

I was (apparently/supposedly) the 8th dork in the US to pass this game. Still trying to find the 2-color Nintendo Power "newsletter" that said as much.

Nintendo Fun Club.

Yesss... I would kill for back issues of this stuff.

I only have #5 and #6. Not in the best of shape but good. Then came Mario Nintendo Power.

Mind taking a look to see if either one mentions anything about Zelda?

I suppose I should use the Google to see if they've been made electronic somewhere.

Edit - scans are out there, not really indexed very well. Did come across #6 that lists a buddy of mine who had a high score on Excitebike.

Edit again - looks like these things are considered collectors items so finding scanned copies may be daunting... bleh.

 

[Mario Kart]

Legend of Zelda 1986

I was (apparently/supposedly) the 8th dork in the US to pass this game. Still trying to find the 2-color Nintendo Power "newsletter" that said as much.

Nintendo Fun Club.

Yesss... I would kill for back issues of this stuff.

I only have #5 and #6. Not in the best of shape but good. Then came Mario Nintendo Power.

Mind taking a look to see if either one mentions anything about Zelda?

I suppose I should use the Google to see if they've been made electronic somewhere.

Oops, I have #6 and #7. #6 the cover is all about Zelda II.

 

[nirad3]

I guess I did a writeup on Kid Icarus

 

[Lehigh98]

I know everyone loves NES Tecmo Bowl, but how many played the Arcade version?...

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10043

I only remember seeing it at a couple of places.

Franklin Mills Mall in Philly and somewhere down the shore I think.

 

[TakiToki]

Anyone remember Adventure on Atari? Played this weekend. Brings back memories.

http://my.ign.com/atari/adventure

Never heard of it.

 

[Jack White]

According to this video, Americans dropped 80 billion quarters into arcade games in 1981.

I contributed my fair share, and always after the obligatory pregame routine.

Among My Favorites in the 80s:

Donkey Kong

Joust

Robotron 2084

Jungle King

Tron

Tempest

Frogger

Asteroids

Defender

Centipede

If I had to pick just two games that I would still play today if I had them in the Man Cave, it would be Joust and Robotron.

 

[Willie Neslon]

Anyone remember Adventure on Atari? Played this weekend. Brings back memories.

http://my.ign.com/atari/adventure

Never heard of it.

The worst is when I have the sword and that thing eats me anyway.

 

[Franknbeans]

Intellivision hockey was the best. We called it thoompa for the sound it made when you checked someone. Bought the console a few years back at a yard sale. Still have about 40 titles.

 

[flapgreen]

Double Dragon

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Loved the Intellivision ads featuring George Plimpton. And another one.

Mattel must have owned the erudite Ivy League gamer demographic.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Intellivision B-17 Bomber with Voice Modulator (aka: Intellivoice)

Bandits...3 o'clock

 

[mozzy84]

three player super sprint in the acrade with the wheel and gas pedal was so fun.

 

[rick6668]

According to this video, Americans dropped 80 billion quarters into arcade games in 1981.

I contributed my fair share, and always after the obligatory pregame routine.

Among My Favorites in the 80s:

Donkey Kong

Joust

Robotron 2084

Jungle King

Tron

Tempest

Frogger

Asteroids

Defender

Centipede

If I had to pick just two games that I would still play today if I had them in the Man Cave, it would be Joust and Robotron.

You can get that in one machine:

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

 

[Jack White]

According to this video, Americans dropped 80 billion quarters into arcade games in 1981.

I contributed my fair share, and always after the obligatory pregame routine.

Among My Favorites in the 80s:

Donkey Kong

Joust

Robotron 2084

Jungle King

Tron

Tempest

Frogger

Asteroids

Defender

Centipede

If I had to pick just two games that I would still play today if I had them in the Man Cave, it would be Joust and Robotron.

You can get that in one machine:

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

Holy ####, that is awesome.

 

[dhockster]

Crazy Climber

Battlezone

For intellivison, Slam Dunk Basketball was awesome. You drafted, had a salary cap, and they had cool names of players: Professor Q (Dr. J), Larry Hawk (Larry Bird), Steve Cousy (Bob Cousy). The game format was ahead of its time, even though you were just playing with stick figures.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Not sure if it was mentioned, but Stargate (aka Defender II) was awesome and is actually superior to the original.

 

[urbanhack]

Not sure if it was mentioned, but Stargate (aka Defender II) was awesome and is actually superior to the original.

agreed.

 

[Bull Dozier]

I know everyone loves NES Tecmo Bowl, but how many played the Arcade version?...

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10043

I only remember seeing it at a couple of places.

Franklin Mills Mall in Philly and somewhere down the shore I think.

Played this at Circus Pizza at the Maplewood Mall (MN). It was not nearly as awesome, nor gave any inclining that the home version was going to be awesome.

 

[acarey50]

I guess I did a writeup on Kid Icarus

Looks like you were also in the "Mail Bag" giving kudos to Chuck and Richard.

 

[nirad3]

I guess I did a writeup on Kid Icarus

Looks like you were also in the "Mail Bag" giving kudos to Chuck and Richard.

Indeed.... me and my buddy would call pretty much every day. I think it was Chuck that we liked the best. We used to talk to him about hair bands like Whitesnake. One issue they published photos of these guys. Chuck had some sweet 80's hair.