Class Games of the Speccy/C64 era

[Uncle_Meat]

 

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

 

 

 

Bits & Bytes. Fuck me, that takes me back. That was the one in Old Swan, used to be a tatty shop on Prescot Road before they moved into the bus shelter that is now the Netto on the corner of Green Lane.

 

He used to sell copies as well. Never bought one off him myself but I know he used to make the odd few quid from it. I went halves on Jet Set Willy with a mate of mine from there. The money we saved going halves we probably spent using up the film on his Mams Polaroid camera trying to get a decent pic of the colour-code copy protection card that came with it. I think we ended up doing it the long-winded way, writing down all the colour combinations on the back page of an exercise book.

 

 

 

That one.

[Section_31]

The one I was thinking of was in Central Station Meat, was that the same bloke? They had a robocop arcade machine in there as I remember.

[Guest TK-421]

Does anybody remember Repton?

 

Yeah man, Repton and Repton 2 - classics.

 

Think Repton was the first BBC game to use speech.

[Thants]

 

 

 

That one.

 

Jesus. I love that. Something my head had thought would never see again.

[kopitegaz]

The one I was thinking of was in Central Station Meat, was that the same bloke? They had a robocop arcade machine in there as I remember.

 

I had a Bits and Bytes discount card.

[George Costanza]

Some class games mentioned.

 

Daley thompson

Chucky egg

 

Emyln Hughes International soccer was ace

Can't believe Paper Boy hasn't been mentioned

Soccer Boss on the Spectrum was fucking ace too

 

Slight later but Sensible soccer for the Commodore Amiga has to be one of the best games ever

[hamstrung]

Soccer Boss was ace on the commodore too.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Footballer of the year 1 and 2 were great games. Kenny Dalglish Football Manager, all the Dizzy Games, manic miner, The Hobbit, Trapdoor. I had a Spectrum +3 with disk drive and I remember their were only about 14 games available on disk. Got a game called Nomad free with the computer, which cost £129.99 in 1987 or 88. Madness. Bit and Bytes was the shop every computer user used to flock too. Ace times.

[Malarkey]

Oh snap!

 

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

 

This has to be the gayest post ever.

[dirty_sanchez]

Nope, this is.

 

[Bourbon]

Chase HQ

Retrograde

Barbarian

[john23liverpool]

Dizzy was amazing

 

and my favourite was GOLDEN AXE!!!

[ted tucker]

 

Bruce Lee

 

 

Knight Lore

 

 

Gunfright

 

 

Moon Alert

[Unrighteous]

I use to rock Q-bert on my Commodore 64!!

[Kopite]

 

Bruce Lee

 

 

Knight Lore

 

 

Gunfright

 

 

Moon Alert

 

Repped for the memories. I had Yie Ar King Fu on the C64.

 

Anyone remember Hungry Horace on the Spectrum?

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

Zaxxon fukin awesome game.

 

Elite stole my youth

 

Paradroid quite a complicated game for beginners

 

The daddy "operation wolf"

 

Last of all a footie management game called "The Boss" used to load the game up, break into the program with the runstop button and find the input line for my starting cash amount, change my money to £100000000000000000000000 and then run the game.

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

just found this beauty and has most of the games mentioned in java format so no need to emulate.

 

c64s.com - play Commodore 64 games online (no download required)

[hamstrung]

Wasn't it called "Soccer Boss"?

 

McCaffrey used to score loads.

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

Wasn't it called "Soccer Boss"?

 

McCaffrey used to score loads.

 

Im playing it now and the mighty Mintoff/Cuthbert partnership is paying dividends and ive just beat a team called Tow Low? in the 1st round of the cup!

[hamstrung]

On that website or elsewhere?

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

yes on that website, im totally hooked now. just been playing dictator and im still useless at it! great site though and well worth a butchers, only problem is that you dont what keys to press for some games. just about to play pitstop if its possible to. If you look under strategy you will find "the boss".

[hamstrung]

I can't see it on there

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

yes on that website, im totally hooked now. just been playing dictator and im still useless at it! great site though and well worth a butchers, only problem is that you dont what keys to press for some games. just about to play pitstop if its possible to. If you look under strategy you will find "the boss".

 

in case you missed previous reply strategy>the boss

[Duncan Clench]

Bollocks! Ghostbusters keeps crashing on me! Brings back a lot of memories though that site.

[Strontium]

This is pretty cool. Complete BBC Micro B/Acorn Electron game archive you can play in browser.

https://bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php