Classic Games
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@Paekakboyz said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Nepia my man!! that was our first console. Loved the 'pacman' knock off. haha lets just use exactly the same design but use spiders. $5 on a game of plane battle bro, holy shit my brother and I sunk a lot of time on that!
I went down a rabbit hole a couple of years ago to find out what the system was - because it's actually 1970s tech released in NZ in the 80s, and because of the import restrictions then it couldn't be imported as it's actual product name. Imagine if the PS4 had to be called something completely different in NZ?
It was a clone of this IIRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC_4000
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Nepia family friends had this...oddly, now that I look back, I musta been a shade too young at the time (~12) to realise that the fact they had a 12 year old daughter, a 14 yr old daughter and 16yr twins was a better reason to visit....
Yeah, when there's family friends when you're young there's that cross over point from just hanging out and playing to these are girls and they're hot.
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@Nepia I think it was when they moved to Perth a year or so later I cottoned onto the fact they were hot and I missed my shot (cos I had one!!)...although from what I have heard, one of the daughters went completely off the rails, prostitution, drugs etc....
this was my first console
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Nepia I think it was when they moved to Perth a year or so later I cottoned onto the fact they were hot and I missed my shot (cos I had one!!)...although from what I have heard, one of the daughters went completely off the rails, prostitution, drugs etc....
this was my first console
You may have dodged a bullet on that one then.
Oh, you had one of the fancy ones after deregulation - I didn't own another one until the PS1.
But I used to hire the Master System from the video store and go crazy once a month.
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@Nepia she was one of the twins, so was outta my league anyway at that age haha
Me and my mates had some all night sessions playing Alex The Kid!
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Nepia she was one of the twins, so was outta my league anyway at that age haha
Me and my mates had some all night sessions playing Alex The Kid!
Never heard of Alex the Kid actually.
I think the Sega Saturn used to have Red Alert so I used to practice my tactics before playing my mates on computer - but that was probably mid 90s, just before the PS1 came out I guess.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Nepia she was one of the twins, so was outta my league anyway at that age haha
Me and my mates had some all night sessions playing Alex The Kid!
Was that the blatant Mario Brothers rip-off?
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@Kruse dont think so, but TBH no idea....plenty of games were similar back then.
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Kruse dont think so, but TBH no idea....plenty of games were similar back then.
Yeah - remember that... definitely a Mario Bros rip-off. But yeah, to be fair, not much imagination in the industry back in that day.
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Now that this has become a distinct thread... on the topic the mod has named, not console games, but C64...
- Commando - remember being able to "clock" that about 6 times in a single game
- Midnight Resistance - was THE game when I was 10 or so
- Airwolf
- Choplifter
Then along came the Amiga, and...
- F/A 18 Interceptor
- Pirates
- Syndicate
And I have no idea of anybody who ever actually paid for a legal version of any of those.
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@Duluth said in Classic Games:
My favourite from the 2600 days
https://www.playretrogames.com/7443-beamrider
Atari 2600: Beamrider : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
Click here to view the manual to this game. Beamrider is a scrolling shooter designed for the Intellivision by Activision programmer David Rolfe, which was...
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Alex the Kid was the nuts. Still remember the music
First "console" was one of these bad boys. Playing Tomb of Tarabash. On a fucking tape
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Did anyone used to play Battle Isle in the early 90s?
We'd sneak off from school to my mates place (whose Dad was the guidance counsellor at school) and play two on two at lunch time. Two on two meant for of us would sit around the tiny computer whispering away to out teammate as we go.
Was a cracking game.
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@Nepia said in Classic Games:
Did anyone used to play Battle Isle in the early 90s?
We'd sneak off from school to my mates place (whose Dad was the guidance counsellor at school) and play two on two at lunch time. Two on two meant for of us would sit around the tiny computer whispering away to out teammate as we go.
Was a cracking game.
Amiga 500? Hell of a game if its the one I'm thinking of.
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@Rembrandt said in Classic Games:
@Nepia said in Classic Games:
Did anyone used to play Battle Isle in the early 90s?
We'd sneak off from school to my mates place (whose Dad was the guidance counsellor at school) and play two on two at lunch time. Two on two meant for of us would sit around the tiny computer whispering away to out teammate as we go.
Was a cracking game.
Amiga 500? Hell of a game if its the one I'm thinking of.
Yeah, turned based with split screens.
Another turn based game that I love (but falls out of the classic period) is Combat Mission.
You pick they battlefield, then pick the configuration/men/weaponry etc that you want in the battle and your opponent does the same, then you input your moves and it's all on.
It's fairly realistic in that you can use MG's to suppress squads and negatively impact their morale etc. One major issue with it is that if you get certain buildings first you can control things so I'd always select at least one truck or APC to get a squad to strategic points as quick as possible.
Edit: In the Afrika Corps version you can play as NZ.
