Games that will bring the fun back

[Wombat]

Fire up a copy of MAME, and get some ROMs. The original Star Wars, Spy Hunter, Discs of Tron, tons of things that stole all my quarters growing up.

[Indiana]

I forgot one of the really good ones: ghosts&goblins... (Surely forgot other great ones as well, but those are the ones that come to my mind now)
However I'd like to disagree on the Shadow of the Beast part. While it had stunning gfx at that time it's gameplay was only mediocre at best.

[Indiana]

Originally posted by Wombat
Fire up a copy of MAME, and get some ROMs. The original Star Wars, Spy Hunter, Discs of Tron, tons of things that stole all my quarters growing up.

Yes, MAME is great. Unfortunately MAME-GL didn't work with Matrox' nonsufficient try of an OpenGL ICD for the G400 (it works with both, ATI and NVidia, hell even the 3DFx MiniGL does seem to work )

I really hope the rumors are correct that they finally hired a professional team for the OpenGL on the Parhelia...

[Jon P. Inghram]

Originally posted by Indiana
However I'd like to disagree on the Shadow of the Beast part. While it had stunning gfx at that time it's gameplay was only mediocre at best.

What are you saying?!? Who cares about gameplay when you've got pretty parallax scrolling and stuff!

[Indiana]

(Yes, the parallax-scrolling was really neat by then...)

BTW, have you ever seen Microcosm on the CD32? It can hold itself against even newer PlayStation titles if you only rate the gfx. Unfortunately gameplay really sucks (it was by Psygnosis as well...)

[KvHagedorn]

Fire up a copy of MAME, and get some ROMs.

I didn't really care for that movie. Something about loudmouthed, pushy feminist matriarchs singing show tunes just turns my stomach.. but hey, to each his own!

[Jon P. Inghram]

Never got the chance to play with the CD32 much. Psygnosis really was good at making awful games with awfully pretty graphics... :-) Hired Guns wasn't that bad of a game though... it was a blast to play multiplayer. My two brothers and I beat the game like that, three way split screen.

[az]

Space Taxi on the c64
Summer, Winter...games
North&South
Lemmings
Syndicate on the Amiga

AZ