tommers said:good god. you think you know somebody.
don't make me start typing again.
One for the ancient videogamers out there...
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EastEnder said:See a doctor. Now.
I don't know what's wrong with you, but it's bad, real bad.....
I just always found it quite frustrating to play. You started off, left the first space station, tried to dock in the next one and got blown up by police before you got a chance.
Kanda
Diving wanker
OK, cheers. Got it. 
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
If you were a bit rubbish, yes....RenegadeDog said:I just always found it quite frustrating to play. You started off, left the first space station, tried to dock in the next one and got blown up by police before you got a chance.
It was a game of skill, cunning, guile, patience & perseverance.
Only the best ever became ELITE.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
RenegadeDog said:Stunt Car Racer was teh bollocks.
.
It was excellent. Me and a mate used to take our Atari STs round each others house - you could play Stunt Car head two head with a serial cable
My mate had Revs on his BBC B with an analogue joystick way way before PS2s.
Kanda
Diving wanker
Anyone remember Racing Destruction set???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_Destruction_Set
Spent hours fucking around with it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_Destruction_Set
Spent hours fucking around with it
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
RenegadeDog said:I just always found it quite frustrating to play. You started off, left the first space station, tried to dock in the next one and got blown up by police before you got a chance.
well no wonder you didn't like it.
you weren't supposed to shoot the peaceful traders.
well, not unless you wanted the police after you.
go back.
try it again.
come back in about five years when you've got bored of it.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
BassJunkie said:
When I first found out Wilcox (commando and airwolf spec programmer) did airwolf I said "aw man, I spent hours on that and would get to the end but never quite made it". Wilcox said " oh yeah, sorry about that, I never quite fished it, there is a bug and an invisible wall, it's impossible".
Anus.
RenegadeDog said:This is one of those games I always wanted to play but never got round to.
You might want to try the sequel, Sentinel Returns. You can download it from there. It's very weird.
Structaural said:It was excellent. Me and a mate used to take our Atari STs round each others house - you could play Stunt Car head two head with a serial cable
My mate had Revs on his BBC B with an analogue joystick way way before PS2s.
I always wanted to do that but didn't know anyone organised enough to actually do it...
tommers said:
I always found the police came after me no matter what I did
sinky said:
Cheers, I'll check it out.
On a different note, weren't games so much harder back then? E.g. Manic Miner, my mate got it for the Speccy when we were about 8, I went to his house at 14 and he was still trying to complete it. 20 simple screens, yet so challenging.
The hardest game ever was Shadow of the Beast 2. Impossible even with teh cheat.
The hardest game ever was Shadow of the Beast 2. Impossible even with teh cheat.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Kanda said:Anyone remember Racing Destruction set???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_Destruction_Set
Spent hours fucking around with it
I remember building a track with a really long straight that ended in a steep ramp, setting the gravity to 'lunar' and racing the F1 car up it at full tilt and watching a car fly
RD - did you regularly crash into the space stations? That would get the Vipers out after you too, y'know.
So, all you Elites out there...what ship did you upgrade your Cobra MkII to when you got the chance?
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
There was another Graftgold game that involved moving a little beastie up platfoms on a revolving 3d tower...anyone?
sinky said:I used to play New Zealand Story on the Amiga years ago. I tried it recently and I couldn't get past the first few screens. My superhuman reflexes (and saint like patience) have deserted me
Yes.
Quality game
kyser_soze said:
Yes
kyser_soze said:
Nebulus
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
That's the fella
A lot of these old games are dos only and it's a real faff trying to get them to run
Structaural
in Chatsubo
kyser_soze said:I remember building a track with a really long straight that ended in a steep ramp, setting the gravity to 'lunar' and racing the F1 car up it at full tilt and watching a car fly
RD - did you regularly crash into the space stations? That would get the Vipers out after you too, y'know.
So, all you Elites out there...what ship did you upgrade your Cobra MkII to when you got the chance?
There was no MkII only a MkI and MkIII - design faults in the MkII prototype meant it had to be abandoned.
(nah I'm not that geeky - I was just reading those Bell pages)
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
Structaural said:There was no MkII only a MkI and MkIII - design faults in the MkII prototype meant it had to be abandoned.
(nah I'm not that geeky - I was just reading those Bell pages)
and you couldn't upgrade your ship in elite.
only in frontier.
I also liked the early 3d-ish RPGs like Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. Fucking scary they were.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Ummm...you could BUY other ships in Elite on the C64, don't know about the Beeb version.
Incidentally, since you could purchase different lasers, galactic hyperdrives etc you quite clearly COULD upgrade your bog standard MKIII0) to something better...
Incidentally, since you could purchase different lasers, galactic hyperdrives etc you quite clearly COULD upgrade your bog standard MKIII
0) to something better...
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
The Beeb version was the definitive version, bar none.kyser_soze said:Ummm...you could BUY other ships in Elite on the C64, don't know about the Beeb version.
Incidentally, since you could purchase different lasers, galactic hyperdrives etc you quite clearly COULD upgrade your bog standard MKIII
The C64 was only used by delinquent truants, destined to a life of petty crime, these days most likely to be found on remand for arson.
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