I started playing NES Turtles again last year but couldn't get past finding the Technodrome. Not the easiest of games. I'm still playing most of these today, especially the 8-bit and 16-bit ones Spectrum: Double Dragon, Fantasy Land Dizzy, RoboCop, Batman, HyperSports, Mickie Master System: Gangster Town, Hang On, Safari Hunt, Snail Maze, Rescue Mission NES: Batman (amazing game), Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Castlevania, Punch Out SNES: Super Castlevania, Pilot Wings, Sim City, Super Soccer, Desert Strike, Kevin Keegan's Player Manager Arcade: Turtles, The Simpsons, Terminator 2, Aliens, RoboCop PC: Championship Manager 96/97, Sim City 2000, Theme Park, Worms, X Com: Terror From The Deep, Blackthorne PS1 / PS2: Fifa 99, The Getaway, WWF Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain, Buffy The Vampire Slayer
It was very tricky in a number of ways, and required a lot of learning from failure. Figuring out the best route at the airport, for instance, and the same for looking for the Technodrome (the correct manhole is usually the one to the south-west). Otherwise you'd just get torn up. Was convinced it was impossible to complete as a kid, but I managed it at some point or other (when much older), and have done it a bunch of times since. It truly is impossible unless you exploit the scrolling/enemies spawning system in the technodrome, or you're just walking into a shitstorm that you'll never survive.
My first console was a mega drive and we had Altered beast Spiderman Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story Sonic and Knuckles Ecco The Dolphin My main memories came from when I got an N64 aged 8 in 1998. So essentially these defined my younger years Banjo kazooie Diddy kong racing Mario 64 Lylat wars Super smash bros Goldeneye Oh to be young! I did have a ps1 with spyro and tomb raider but I played the N64 a lot more. Instant loading cartridges oof how good was that. Now I need to install a 10gig day one update for a game
Megadrive: Sonic and Streets of Rage PS1: Crash Team Racing, Spyro PS2: Fifa, James Bond Nightfire, Wipeout Fusion, Need for Speed Xbox 360: cod4 & mw2 Cant remember but there were plenty more
Combat (Atari VCS) Defender (Atari VCS) Super Maro Bros. (NES) Double Dragon (NES) Castlevania (NES) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Konami Arcade) Street Fighter (Capcom Arcade) Golden Axe (Sega Arcade) Street Fighter II (Capcom Arcade and SNES) Super Mario World (SNES) Super Mario Kart (SNES) Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) Donkey Kong Country (SNES) Starwing (SNES) Virtua Fighter (Sega Arcade) Grand Theft Auto (PC) Command and Conquer (PC) Monkey Island (PC) Age of Empires (PC) Tekken (Namco Arcade and Playstation) Smackdown! (Playstation) Tomb Raider (Playstation) Resident Evil (Playstation) Pokemon Red/Blue (Gameboy) Dark Forces 2 (PC) Goldeneye (N64) Tekken Tag Tournament (Namco Arcade and PS2) Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS2) SOCOM 2 (PS2) Shogun: Total War
A lot of the same games appearing on these lists! If I had to say my teenage years though there was really one influence from me being 16 (2006) and that was World of Warcraft
Pirates! - Amgia Championship/Football Manager - PC COD - PS2,PS3,PS4 These are the games Ive probably played most in my life, so not necessarily youth, but most overall hours.
Arcade Bubble Bobble Double Dragon Nemesis/Gradius R-Type Hyper Sports Street Fighter & Street Fighter 2 Space Harrier Outrun Wardener Wonder boy Wonderboy in Monster Land Spectrum 48/128 Jet Set Willy Manic Miner Treasure Island Dizzy Sabre Wulf Underwurld Knightlore Attic Attack Chucky Egg Target Renegade Amiga Gods Moon stone James Pond 2 - Robocod Z-Out The Last Ninja Probably missed loads off those lists
When it was too wet to be kicking a tennis ball around outside, matchbox rugby (evolution from shove halfpenny), 3 card brag, corridor cricket and (mainly out of school) subbuteo.
The little umpire bloke standing their repeatedly shouting 'FOUL, FOUL' whilst doing that weird arm movement was so annoying
My first experience of Championship Manager was what hooked me. I think it was the 93/94 season. Also used to love a WW1 flying game called Wings which was also part of my Amiga collection. And not forgetting Lemmings of course
Loads of them! I was 9 in 1992 and I got a NES for Christmas. All the Mario games, Zelda were my main ones. My bro had an Amiga 500 and before that an MSX where he programmed his own games. There was this mag with code in it and you could make your own games. I was young so can't remember any games but I remember him just coding away while pretending to study for his O-Levels. When he left for college I got the Amiga as a hand me down and cracked on with Premier Manager, had a laugh changing the players names to weird shit and putting cheat codes in. Worms played with my mates a lot and of course Sensible World of Soccer. Great game, great times. The 90s were class.
Mega Drive.........loved Sonic, think every one did and also had this ice hockey game ( cannot remember the name of it ) and would play it all the time. Arcade - Donkey Kong and Space Invaders were good. The best game ever though was Track and Field. Atari ST - Had a football managers game and i must have won the old divsion one title a hundred years on the run. Would buy a world class player for £ 500,000. Oh happy days.
Being ancient I'd say the original Space Invaders and my personal favourites These were before home computers and consoles were the norm. As for computers. First I owned was a Speccy 48k, had all the common games i.e. Jet Set Willy, etc Then moved on to Amigas, which imo were the very best home computers for the era, the games were endless and its where the original Championship Manager first appeared. Along with classics like Formula One Grand Prix, Civilization, Age of Empires, The Settlers, Sim City, etc...spent many a 16/20 sessions wasting my life away on my Amiga 1200
Before consoles there was the' Las Vegas arcade ' I used to live in that fuc king place ,I'd ensure I retained the top score on defender and then have a bacon butty in the Taxi rank office with the rest of us scally's ......Good times fella.
