Class Games of the Speccy/C64 era

[Section_31]

I actually had an Atari XE back in the day, and used to love this game I had called Henry's House.

 

Prince Henry had been shrunk and had to fend for himself in Buckingham Palace, while negotiating various traps like moving slippers and running taps, it was far more fun than it sounded!

 

 

 

Honurable mentions for:

 

Joe Blade, sideways shoot em up.

 

 

And Spy Vs Spy

 

Two player trap-setting heaven!

 

[coop]

Striker and Head over Heels used to get plenty of play on speccy and Striker once again and Flimbo's Quest on the C64 were my fav games.

[Furmedge]

Harrier Attack

 

 

Way of the Exploding Fist

 

 

Daley Thompson's Decathalon

 

[hamstrung]

Impossible Mission

 

 

Kick Start II

 

 

International Soccer

 

 

Winter Games

 

[Croque Monsieur]

Pole Position 2:

 

 

The Last Ninja:

 

 

Gauntlet:

 

[kopitegaz]

Jet Pac

 

Back2Skool

 

The Hobbit (E, S, You see a troll, N, N, (shit, its following me) N, W, W. You have been eaten by a Troll)

 

Match Day

 

Spy Hunter

 

Chuckie Egg

 

3D Deathchase

 

Ant Attack

[Section_31]

Fucking hell Gauntlet is a great shout, that was some multi-player genius right there, must have played that for about eight hours straight once with my uncle. Class times.

[Kopite]

 

Man this takes me back to my 16th birthday in 1984. I got this for my birthday. It was ace, it had speech.

 

And this:

 

 

And I used to play this all the time when I first got my Spectrum (in 1982)

 

 

This was called "Orbiter", "Defender" on the Spectrum. Memories.

[Kopite]

Attack of the Mutant Camels.

 

Revenge of the Mutant Camels.

 

The programmer of both games was a guy called Jeff Minter.

 

Jeff Minter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

I remember one of my schoolfriends used to ring him up and have a chat. I think Jeff was a bit of a hippy.

 

Love this bit:

 

Minter went on to develop a number of classic games, all written in assembly language, for the later home computers (such as the Commodore 64, Atari 400/800 and Atari ST) which were marketed mainly by word of mouth and by the odd magazine advertisement. These games included: Gridrunner, Matrix: Gridrunner 2, Hellgate, Hover Bovver, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, Return of the Mutant Camels, Laser Zone, Mama Llama, Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time, Sheep in Space, Voidrunner, and Iridis Alpha.

 

Now that is a title for a game.

[dirty_sanchez]

I had one of his games on my PC called Llamatron. He was a mentalist. It was a superb game though.

 

I had an Amstrad CPC 464 (with Disk drive and 64K RAM upgrade)

 

Seymour Goes To Hollywood:

[sh#t waffle]

Jeff Minter is still developing, and he's still a mentalist. Some great games on this thread. Always thought that spy vs spy was almost the best game ever. Unfortunately you could just look at your opponent's half of the telly to see what he was doing. I actually remember sticking some card to the tv in an attempt to rectify it. Would be ace if they did an online version on xbox live or something.

[Thants]

I'm still a massive Starquake fan.

 

 

wwooooaaaahhhhh

Starquake - The Map

thats mental.

[philyhamann]

MASSIVE 2 MEG GAME, I shit bigger games than that.

 

[Guest TK-421]

Citadel on the BBC Micro, awesome.

[sh#t waffle]

I loved Chuckie Egg on the Acorn Electron and Elite on the BBc too.

[dirty_sanchez]

Oh snap!

 

You are playing Chuckie Egg Flash at Gameheads.co.uk

[Thants]

Those fucking lifts

[RedKnight]

Does anybody remember Repton?

[RedKnight]

Toobin' (can't find a C64 screenshot)

 

[philyhamann]

Does anyone remember a game where you were a park ranger and had to clean up bits of litter, save people from the river and that was about it?

[Section_31]

Decision in the Desert. Awesome, the level of gameplay involved was quality, even things like terrain, historical events and night and day played a part in it. Hours moved in real-time too.

 

13 notes it cost me though from Bits and Bytes, in the mid 80s when most games were about 2.99. Fucking hell.

 

 

Edited November 29, 2008 by Section_31

[hamstrung]

Chase HQ

 

 

California Games

 

[Kopite]

This is the first game I ever bought on the ZX Spectrum.

 

[gumps]

Sorry cant post pics but Atic Atac and Knight Lore (but they did overuse the engine a bit in the later years).

 

Lords of Midnight. I remember the first time I won a campaign, it was in the middle of the night Saturday/early Sunday morning. Just didn't realise the time and kept going for "just 1 more turn....". That game really sucked me in atmosphere wise.

 

looking back at these old games just confirms the theory that gameplay is what counts and it isn't all to do with HD graphics and stuff. What they used to be able to do with 48K ......jsut think 48K!!!. The modern games must be around the 20Mb mark. Amazing!!!!

[Section_31]

Sorry cant post pics but Atic Atac and Knight Lore (but they did overuse the engine a bit in the later years).

 

Lords of Midnight. I remember the first time I won a campaign, it was in the middle of the night Saturday/early Sunday morning. Just didn't realise the time and kept going for "just 1 more turn....". That game really sucked me in atmosphere wise.

 

looking back at these old games just confirms the theory that gameplay is what counts and it isn't all to do with HD graphics and stuff. What they used to be able to do with 48K ......jsut think 48K!!!. The modern games must be around the 20Mb mark. Amazing!!!!

 

At the risk of sounding like an old cunt, absolutely spot on!