Your favorite "Old School" video game

[Superman=#54]

Personally my favorite was Street Fighter I and II Turbo. Every kid from the block would go to my best friend's house and we would have Street Fighter tournaments.

I always like the green guy, forgot what his name was. It was cool when you shocked people by biting them. Its a good thing Marv Alberts did not have that power!

[Leonidas]

Galaga

[MrBug708]

Tecmo Super Bowl 3, Final Edition

Super Bases Loaded 2

Sunset Riders

Secret of Mana

[RPI-Fan]

Super Tennis, Uniracers, and Super Bases Loaded 2.

[VPI97]

10 Yard Fight

[Ben E Lou]

Intellivision Baseball. Hands down.

[Craptacular]

I used to play these arcade games religiously:

A.P.B. - "I sure could use a donut"
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gauntlet (the original) - "Valkyrie shot the food!"

I'm going to attempt to get at least 1 or 2 of these at auction after we move in to our house.

[ScottVib]

Pitfall

[Anrhydeddu]

Galaga

[cmp]

Tecmo Super Bowl

[SplitPersonality1]

My favorites:

Asteroids
Donkey Kong
Elevator Action
Missle Command - caused many a sore wrist (damn Trac-ball)
:sigh: Ms. Pac-Man - and yes I caught lots of crap for playing it
Defender
Pole Position - "Prepare to Qualify"
Spyhunter
Track & Field
Mr. Do
Dig Dug
Sinistar - "I hunger"

lots and lots of wasted quarters :)

[edited] Your favorite "Old School" video game:

Oops. If I had to pick just one, it would be Mr. Do. So stupid, yet so blasted addicting.

[Blade]

I was absolutely hooked on an Intellivision game named Utopia...that was the beginning of my love for Civilization type games!

[Fritz]

Pong

[John Galt]

Arch Rivals

[Celeval]

Galaga
Baseball Stars
Bard's Tale

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by MrBug708
Tecmo Super Bowl 3, Final EditionThat's OLD SCHOOL to you??? Youngster.

[33sherman]

Does anyone remember a 'cartoon' game(like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace) called Cliifhanger? I think it was based on a French cartoon. I think I put twenty dollars into it in one day. I haven't seen the game since probably 1985.

[condors]

for old school have to go with atari 2600 combat

[EagleFan]

Intellivision Baseball
Atari Track n Field
Pitfall

Head to Head Baseball, if you want to go with the handheld electronic games.

[Neuqua]

I loved Streets of Rage and also the Ninja Turtle games.

[Coffee Warlord]

Old School: Tecmo Super Bowl

Older School: Contra

"Holy Shit I'm Old" School: Missile Command

[Grego]

Asteroids, without a doubt.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by EagleFan
Head to Head Baseball, if you want to go with the handheld electronic games. Oooh! Forgot about those. My brother and I had MANY fierce battles in H2H Football.

[MrBug708]

Originally posted by SkyDog
That's OLD SCHOOL to you??? Youngster.


Seeing as how it's the only one I liked, ya

[Easy Mac]

Baseball Simulator 1.000
Tecmo Super Bowl
Duck Hunt
Movie Mogul (Original w/ Sisey Spacek and Peter O'Toole)
Castlevania
Wolfenstein 3D

[Subby]

My favorite arcade game was Tempest. I am trying to decide if there has ever been a cooler game made since then...

No.

[JAG]

Tough choices, but let's give some mention to Gauntlet (Warrior, is about to die), Adventure on the Atari 2600, RBI Baseball on Nintendo (favorite Nintendo game of all time), Empire and Empire Deluxe (still playing ED), Madden '92 or so, Double Dragon in the arcade, and finally Missle Command for the 2600.

Speaking of which, about a month ago I played Missle Command in the arcade for the first time in umpteen years. I got schooled...I can't believe how much I suck now at it.

Oh, if anyone can recall a kung fu type game where you eventually had to fight Bruce Lee and would fight people called Star (she threw throwing stars at you), Pole (swung a big pole at you), etc..., remind me the name of that game. That was a fun one too.

[cthomer5000]

Tecmo Super Bowl

B.C.'s Quest For Tires

[digamma]

Baseball on the 2600. 3 on 3 game mode.

[Blade]

Does anyone remember an old computer game called Twilight 2000? I loved the character creation for it, but I could never find it again...which made me think that it never existed and was only in my mind!

[Coffee Warlord]

Yep. It was based on the pen and paper RPG of the same name, actually. Brutal game.

[grdawg]

Originally posted by JAG
Oh, if anyone can recall a kung fu type game where you eventually had to fight Bruce Lee and would fight people called Star (she threw throwing stars at you), Pole (swung a big pole at you), etc..., remind me the name of that game. That was a fun one too.

Wasn't that called Kung Fu Champion or something to that affect? I loved that game.

[Sublime]

Mike Tyson's Punchout!

[thesloppy]

Originally posted by JAG

Oh, if anyone can recall a kung fu type game where you eventually had to fight Bruce Lee and would fight people called Star (she threw throwing stars at you), Pole (swung a big pole at you), etc..., remind me the name of that game. That was a fun one too.

YIE AR KUNG-FU

[MJ4H]

no its yie ar kung fu. that game rules

my old school faves:

gyruss
baseball stars
ghosts and goblins
and sure, yie ar kung fu

EDIT: THESLOPPY BEAT ME TO IT

and with a bit more punch, too :)

[SplitPersonality1]

Gyruss and Tempest - forgot about those. Anybody ever make it to Earth (in Gyruss). The furthest I ever got was Mars. That was a very long game and the fact that I had to pee probably contributed to my demise.

It's tough to play a videogame when you really have to go.

[thesloppy]

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/P/rPengo.jpg

[Bad-example]

Baseball Stars
Contra

[JAG]

Thanks, Yie Ar Kung Fu...hm, guess I never looked at the name as it doesn't sound familiar. :) Fun fun game though.

[Blade]

Originally posted by Coffee Warlord
Yep. It was based on the pen and paper RPG of the same name, actually. Brutal game.

Heh, I don't think I actually managed to play much of the game itself...the character creation was too much fun!

Plus, I didn't have a computer at that time, so I could only goof around with it at a friend's place.

[Buzzbee]

Originally posted by SplitPersonality1
My favorites:

Asteroids
Donkey Kong
Elevator Action
Missle Command - caused many a sore wrist (damn Trac-ball)
:sigh: Ms. Pac-Man - and yes I caught lots of crap for playing it
Defender
Pole Position - "Prepare to Qualify"
Spyhunter
Track & Field
Mr. Do
Dig Dug
Sinistar - "I hunger"

lots and lots of wasted quarters :)

[edited] Your favorite "Old School" video game:

Oops. If I had to pick just one, it would be Mr. Do. So stupid, yet so blasted addicting.

I think you were me when I was young. Maybe I am your other personality. That list is eerily similar to mine.

Subtractions from Split's list:
Sinistar
Mr. Do
Spyhunter
Elevator Action

Additions to SPlit's list:
Turbo
TRON
Centipede
Space Invaders

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Intellivision Baseball. Hands down.

Our house was robbed when we were on vacation up nort der hey in da woods when I was young. They took a camera, a wheelbarrow, a few miscellaneous things ... and my Intellivision with the Baseball game in it. :(

Originally posted by EagleFan and ScottVib
Pitfall

That game kicked ass.

I should also give a nomination for Winter Games and Summer Games I/II on the Commodore. I never had one, but I was always at my friend's house playing those games.

[The_herd]

Tecmo Super Bowl-1st pro football game on NES to have real players and keep stats.

RBI Baseball-a true classic, nothing more fun than playing Mets vs. Red Sox.

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!-still have memories of staying up late during summer break trying to get past Sandman and Super Macho Man to get to Tyson.

[ice4277]

After Burner
Rampage
Some baseball game that I played when I was about five but don't remember the name
A hockey game that was basically one on one plus a goalie, I think the name may have been Hat-trick?
Any of the Epyx games for the C-64
The original Hardball!
4th and Inches
Commando

And the list could keep going...

[sabotai]

4th and Inches
Mail Order Monsters
Summer Games I & II
Shogun

The C64 was so awesome...

[33sherman]

(C64)

Micro League Baseball
(with gm/stat disk so I didn't have to keep stats in a notebook)

[QuikSand]

My list of quarter-op games is a long one - never had any really deep love affairs, but I did know where to find certain games around the towns near me (a bar here, a bowling alley there, at the mall, etc)

Asteroids Deluxe -liked the shields better than hyperspace
Star Castle - with the colored film on the screen over the vector graphics - gold!
Omega Race - I still play this on an emulator from time to time
Gorf - I loved the idea of a multi-staged game
Galaga - everything I wanted Galaxian to be, and more
Robotron 2004 - two-joystick action, but remarkably intuitive to control
Gauntlet - loved the voice-overs, spent a lot of $ on this in college
Joust - imaginative concept, well-defined game

Those are some that come to mind. I'd probably rate Galaga as my all-time favorite, though.

[fflix]

contra, double dragon 1 & 2, double dribble, blades of steel, basewars, starcontrol

[BreizhManu]

Pirates (C64)

[Marmel]

Arkanoid
Donkey Kong
Paperboy
Terminator 2 pinball (a bit more recent)
Kid Niki

[finkenst]

Ah,, Video games.. The life of a misspent youth...

Pacman.. the original..
robotron
defender
the baseball game with the spring loaded joysticks
Quarterback / John Elway's Team Quarterback
Karate Champ
Dig Dug
Crystal Castles
Gauntlet
Tron
Q*bert

Donkey Kong
Pole Position
Bump n Jump

An Apple/PC Game: Decathlon

Cyberball..


Ahh, the glory of growing up one block from a video arcade in early life.. and later living within 10 minutes of a putt-putt Golf 'n Games..

--f

[SteelerFan448]

Tecmo Bowl, Blades of Steel, Super Mario I and III...geez, there are so many from Nintendo, then a bunch more I could name from Sega. Though I love the new graphics on games, there is still something about those old ones that make them great.

[Philliesfan980]

favorite old school video games have to be:

Ninja Giaden,
Double Dragon 3
Tecmo Bowl
Lakers VS. Celtics

just a few off the top of my head

[Maple Leafs]

Ring King
TWA Wrestling
World Series Baseball
Wrestlefest
Golden Axe

[tucker342]

Tecmo Bowl

[Vince]

Decathalon was great, so was Utopia.

My favorites, though, were on an old Atari (I don't even know if it was 2600 or not), called Safecracker, Dreadnaught, and Dungeons & Dragons. The Dungeons and Dragons game was great...you'd be going through this maze with a stick figure, and you'd only be able to see a few 'feet' in front of you. You could, however, hear monsters outside of your sight...and if you heard the Dragon's noise, look out :)

[Jets80]

Baseball Stars.

[cuervo72]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Intellivision Baseball. Hands down.

I used to play both controllers against myself when bored :D

Along those lines:
Astrosmash
Advanced D&D (regular and Treasure of Tarmin)
Mission X
Microsurgeon
Football, Hockey, basketball, auto racing, horse racing
Utopia
Tron Deadly Disks
Bump 'N Jump
Lock 'N' Chase

C64:
Street Sports Basketball, Baseball, Football
Sporttime Ice Hockey
MicroLeague Baseball (GMO, Box Score) - Now I have the emulator!!!! :)
Summer/Winter Games
Defender of the Crown
Rocket Ranger
Lords of Conquest
4th and Inches (and expansion/GM disk)
Skate or Die
Impossible Mission (though I couldn't get very far)
Samantha Fox's Strip Poker :D

Nintendo (too many to list):
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Ice Climbers :D
Trojan
Commando
Baseball Simulator 2000
Final Fantasy
Mega Man
Metroid
Tetris
Tecmo
Blades of Steel
Nintendo Ice Hockey

PC
Civ I, II
Alpha Centauri
Imperialism
Colonization

And all the games I've bought recently but haven't played..... ;)

[CamEdwards]

I was scarred for life when I moved to Ridgewood, NJ at the age of 8. The town had an actual law banning kids under the age of 16 from playing arcade games.

For two years, the only game I played was a German version of Pac-Man at a little diner in Hackensack that we'd go to every few weeks.

When we moved back to Oklahoma, the first trip to the mall was like stepping into heaven. Dig Dug, Defender, Joust, Elevator Action... I loved them all.

Another "Old School" story. I was playing APB when it first came out, had my quarters lined up on top of the game, when this little shit comes walking up with his dad. After I died, his dad told me to get out of the way so his son could play. You don't argue with a grown up when you're 11 years old, so I had to watch as this little punk took over and hogged the game for damn near half an hour.

It probably wouldn't even stick with me, except the kid was Danny Cooksey, who was the little white kid added to Diff'rent Strokes in an attempt to prolong the life of the show.

Damn you, Danny Cooksey. Damn you straight to hell.

[ColtCrazy]

Asteroids
Centipede
Dig Dug
Pac Man & Ms. Pac Man (had the record on Ms. Pac-Man at the local Pizza King for years....what a sad little town I grew up in)
Mission Impossible "Kill him my robots"
Techmo Super Bowl (any edition was addictive)

[ice4277]

Originally posted by CamEdwards
For two years, the only game I played was a German version of Pac-Man

I don't even want to know...

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by CamEdwards


Another "Old School" story. I was playing APB when it first came out, had my quarters lined up on top of the game, when this little shit comes walking up with his dad. After I died, his dad told me to get out of the way so his son could play. You don't argue with a grown up when you're 11 years old, so I had to watch as this little punk took over and hogged the game for damn near half an hour.


You should have strangled him.

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by cuervo72
Sporttime Ice Hockey
God bless the Sporttime folks... where have you gone, Ed Ringler?

[cuervo72]

I can't believe I forgot two of my all-time favorites....Maniac Mansion and Zak McKraken.

Those two and the Street Sports series had fantastic music as well.

[Killebrew]

Phoenix - the table version.

[Fritz]

http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/vectrex/

I don't know if anyone else had one of these, but I liked it better than atari.

[TLK]

I remember buying a game at Toys R' US. You used your baseball cards, and the games provided a scoreboard and gameboard. There was also a chart and it had two sides, one for if your guy hit over .300 and one for under .300. I spent many nights playing it, to the point where I had notepads filled with stats. Anybody remember the name?

[sabotai]

Do you remember what system it was on?

[Laddin]

Recently I've been playing a lot of these:

Arcade

Time Pilot
Elevator Action
Rolling Thunder
Rush N' Attack
Yie Are Kung-fu

NES

Baseball Stars
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Bionic Commando

Atari

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Sega Master System

Zillion

[TLK]

Originally posted by sabotai
Do you remember what system it was on?

It was a board game.... should of mentioned that earlier...

[ColtCrazy]

My uncle bought me a game system called an Odyssey. It was pretty cool. Had a built in keyboard and the games, while few and far between, were pretty good. The football game even had a full team (unlike the 3-on-3 Atari at the time)

[heybrad]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Intellivision Baseball. Hands down.
My brother and I got so good at this game that we would frequently have 20 innings battles waiting for the one perfect hit that was hard enough and perfectly placed where the pitcher, shortstop or centerfielder couldnt touch it and it made it to the wall and disappeared for a homerun. Anything hit anywhere else was pretty much a guaranteed out.

I also saw mention of Utopia. Those interested may want to check out this site:

www.intellivisionlives.com

I downloaded Utopia from there and had an hour of fun with it.

[Buzzbee]

Hey...Brad. :rolleyes:

[cuervo72]

Originally posted by heybrad
My brother and I got so good at this game that we would frequently have 20 innings battles waiting for the one perfect hit that was hard enough and perfectly placed where the pitcher, shortstop or centerfielder couldnt touch it and it made it to the wall and disappeared for a homerun. Anything hit anywhere else was pretty much a guaranteed out.

I also saw mention of Utopia. Those interested may want to check out this site:

www.intellivisionlives.com

I downloaded Utopia from there and had an hour of fun with it.

http://www.intvfunhouse.com/games/ is a good reference site, with a good number of screenshots.

[Ben E Lou]

Aw man. I didn't mention Astrosmash. I DL'ed from the intellivisionlives site and played up to Level 6. Screeny:

http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/astrosmash.JPG

Why is a game that simple STILL fun to me???

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally posted by Superman=#54
Personally my favorite was Street Fighter I and II Turbo. Every kid from the block would go to my best friend's house and we would have Street Fighter tournaments.
I always like the green guy, forgot what his name was. It was cool when you shocked people by biting them. Its a good thing Marv Alberts did not have that power!

I loved Street Fighter II, played it to death (one of the few arcade games I could complete in the arcade on a single play).

The Green chap was (if I remember right) Blanka - my favourite part of the game was the varied endings you got from completing it with different characters, that and the fact that every character (apart from Honda*) was well balanced.

*If you played as Chunli and did the kick with her then Honda couldn't jump over it, so it was impossible to bear Chun-li with Honda against anyone who'd played much**.
** Yes I know its extremely sad that I remember this much about a game I haven't played in over 10 years :D

[Marc Vaughan]

Oh and as far as old favourites go, apart from SFII - Lords of Midnight has to be up there ...

I still think that there are very few strategy war games which get across the character and personalities of generals as well as that game did (you had to recruit each army general by approaching him with another of your generals - some would only join if approached by likeminded people, others just hated you etc.).

I played this game waaaaay too much and remember getting to the stage where I'd let the computer take over everything but one keep - then attempt to fight my way out (ala Lord of the Rings seige (at least in my teenage mind ;) ).

A very very good game :D

[tucker342]

NBA Jam

[tucker342]

dola-

I don't know if that is old school enough though...

[ice4277]

Originally posted by tucker342
dola-

I don't know if that is old school enough though...

I would have to say that the original definitely is.

[Daimyo]

There was a game before NBA Jam with the exact same concept but without real NBA players that I think would count as old school, but unfortunately I can't remember its name. NBA Jam isn't even 10 years old though... (although i guess what qualifies as old school depends on your age).

Probably my first favorite video game was Chopper Command on the Atari. I guess it was the exact same concept as the much more popular Defender, but CC seemed to play a lot smoother and was overall more fun IMO.

I also remember having a lot of fun playing "Karateka" at school on the old Apple II's.

[33sherman]

Speaking of old Apple II games, anyone remember Choplifter? Or Kabul Spy?

[tucker rocky]

I picked up a gem today.

Capcom Classics Collection.

It has some old favorites as follows:

1942
1943
1943 Kai
Bionic Commando
Commando
Final Fight
Ghosts n Goblins
Ghouls n Ghosts
Legendary Wings
Mercs
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II: Champion Edition
Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting
Super Ghouls n Ghosts

and a few others that don't look familar.

I started playing some old favs like Mercs and Ghosts n Goblins.
Needless to say, it has become addicting again.

Yes, I can remember dropping a bunch of quarters in these games.