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Retro Games...enough to shake a stick at!

Autoschediastic

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Posted December 3, 2011 at 1:17AM

Fantastic as sad as it may seem i watched all this, some decent knowledge in it too as to why we call various words in computing what we do...i really loved the video and he flashback of all the games...haven't we come far?

1984 Video here

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Armchair

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Posted December 3, 2011 at 11:14AM

1984........ My favourite year for gaming. All of the best (imo) arcade games had been released by then. I bought my first proper games machine (Spectrum). All my mates owned various 8-bit computers. Good times.

One of the games featured on that clip is my all time favourite. 'Galaxian'. Not the abysmal home computer version shown there (which I actually bought back int he day, unfortunately), though, but the arcade game proper.

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robgf

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Posted December 3, 2011 at 11:56AM

Armchair

There is a very good freeware Galaxians version called Retro Galaxy. It's not exactly the same as the original, but it plays very well, not something that can be said of most Galaxaian clones. The creators website no longer hosts it, but you can find it here:

Retro Galaxy

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rdave13

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Posted December 3, 2011 at 10:29PM

They were state of the art then but absolute rubbish. Some things are better left alone to the annals of history.

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robgf

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Posted December 4, 2011 at 9:41AM

rdave13 "They were state of the art then but absolute rubbish. Some things are better left alone to the annals of history."

Isn't that true of most things though. I always laugh when our local motoring fan extols the virtues of British motorbikes and how they were the best in the world, better than Jap cr*p. I point out, that at the time, we couldn't wait to swap our slow unreliable Brit bikes, for fast reliable Jap bikes.

But that doesn't stop me looking with longing at the classic bikes in a local shop, rose tinted glasses and all that.

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Armchair

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Posted December 4, 2011 at 10:27AM

robgf

Cheers, but I'll stick with the original.

rdave13

I agree that most old games are best left in the past. Some are well worth playing, though. There are a handful of arcade games, and a few old computer games that imo are still as fresh and exciting to play as they were back in the day (mostly 'limited lives' 2D shooters, in my case).

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