Video Game Industry Embraces Retro Classics

Newhouse News ^ | 8/14/04 | Laura DeMarco

[dc27]

Don't forget Joust.

[dc27]

Yes. You flew around on a prehistoric bird jousting the bad guys.

[Nowhere Man]

Even though you were just a square and the dragons looked like ducks this was the best game ever

Don't forget the bat either, just when you get the Golden Chalice, the dang bat steals it and leaves you with a live red dragon. B-) The best adventure game written in 4K ever. ;)

[Nowhere Man]

I adored "Haunted House."

Another cool game. I liked it when you get "scared to death" your eyes spun around. Also when the ghosts and bats were around, you saw lightning flash and heard the wind howl. There was a third party game featuring Frankenstein where you had to stop Dr. Frankenstein from makingt his monster and when you failed, you saw it "coming at you" on the TV screen, it was kind of eerie and scary if you ask me.

[MplsSteve]

I loved Tempest as an arcade video game.

I blew entirely way too much money playing it back in the early 80's.

[Jasper]

'BallBlazer' and 'Rescue on Fractalus' for the Atari XE.

[qam1]

Don't forget the bat either, just when you get the Golden Chalice, the dang bat steals it and leaves you with a live red dragon. B-) The best adventure game written in 4K ever. ;)

Actually the coolest thing about the game is if you were eaten by a dragon the game didn't just shut down, Instead you were just stuck there in it's belly left to struggle futilely, If you waited long enough the bat could come by and fly you all over the place.

[ClearBlueSky]

Only video game I could ever play was the original Star Wars. The one with the X-wings flying above and into the Death Star.
Lousy 3-d depth perception prevents me from even trying the new stuff.
Think they'll bring back that X-wing game?

[DouglasKC]

My parents bought the home edition of "Pong" sometime in 1974 or 1975. It was so cool until we saw "Atari 2600" in the Meijer's store. I remember being fascinated watching the little airplanes on the tv screen and being able to shoot at each other's planes! Wow...my parents ended up buying that for Christmas soon after and I thought it was great.

[Nowhere Man]

Actually the coolest thing about the game is if you were eaten by a dragon the game didn't just shut down, Instead you were just stuck there in it's belly left to struggle futilely, If you waited long enough the bat could come by and fly you all over the place.

That was the neatest. Also, you can "control" the bat as you flew around in the dragon's belly. It wasn't total control, but you can put enough "pull" in the joystick to make the bat fly in a different direction, speed up, slow down, and so on.

I also like in Combat! where you tank spins when you are hit and every onces in a while, when you get hit, your tank flies all over the screen.

[DouglasKC]

MAME Best thing since sliced bread.

That is great. I downloaded it a while back and got addicted all over again to the classic video games I played in the arcades. They are the exact same games...Joust was...well...Joust! Pacman is Pacman...drat...now I have to play again.

[nopardons]

We have Intelevison and EVERY game ever made for it.

Though it was a Christmas present for our daughter, my husband and I enjoyed playing with it even more than she did.And yes,I sometimes still DO play with it. :-)

And I LOVED the King's Quest series for the early computer.

[Giddyupgo]

Ooooh....I loved Q-Bert, and Dig-Dug. My favorite was on Metroid.

[asgardshill]

5 cd's chuck full of MAME ROM's here. p2p is the place to get them.

I got mine from a Usenet newsgroup. But p2p is a great source as well.

What I REALLY want to go along with all those ROMs is one of these.

[Bacon Man]

Yo Bacon . . . Zak McCracken ping!

Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders! Ahh the good old days. :)

Although I probably spent a solid year game time in the 1st Wizardry so I'm with ya yo.

[Sirloin]

I loved Sinistar, Joust, Defender, etc....basically all the Williams games from that era. I probably spent 80% of the money I would get for my birthdays on video games. The other 20% was spent on pinball!

Ah, memories.

[Fifth Business]

It's part turn-based part real-time. You play out the strategic parts on a world map with not time restrictions, then switch to another map to fight the battles in real time (although you can pause).

Interesting. Sounds similar to the old game Centurion.

[luigi]

We never did Link. Was it Nintendo 64?

Actually, there's at least one version of Zelda (Link is the "hero") for every Nintendo game system. As a matter of fact, it's possible to play the original Zelda, Zelda 2, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Zelda Majora's Mask, and Zelda Wind Waker, all on the Gamecube. I think that the only version that was originally made for a game console that isn't available for Gamecube is Zelda--A Link to the Past, which was originally for Super Nintendo, and it's available for the Game Boy Advance.