Vintage Video/Computer games

[DoubleEagle]

Just read another thread about Road Rash and it got me thinking of an old Commodore 64 game called 'Racing Destruction Set'.  Loved it.  You got to design your own track with either pavement, dirt, or ice for the surface, there were oil slicks and you got to choose your vehicle too.  Everything from a 4x4 truck to a dirt-bike to a Nascar to an F1 race-car...

Good times...

Oh, and the video game 'RAMPAGE'...  many $$$ worth of quarters spent on that one.  'Joust' too...  That is until the local video game hang-out (Putt-Putt Golf & Games in Farmington, MI) got the 'Hard-Drivin' game...  Got kicked out of there once for 'abusing the game'.  I was powershifting the video-game....   

Ok, enough about me....  NEXT!

If I could find a good working example of " Hard Drivin' " I think I'd loose my mind. +10 to the tenth power on the Adrenalin factor.            Dolph 

[somegirl]

I occasionally played Asteroids, PacMan, Galaga in the arcade when I was a kid.  At home we had a Heathkit computer so I wrote my own games for the most part. (Need a geek smiley )

[x136]

Yeah I think selling children would be easier on me 

I had a few of the Metal Slug games.

Nice. That was a fun series.

I have made a few Mame cabinet so if and when you decide to make one you can email me and I can tell you about what I did. You can go the all PC route way which in my opinion the games don't look as good or go with a Jpac and a real arcade monitor with some graphics cards.

Back when I first started looking into this, large, high-quality CRTs were easily available. Maybe not the most authentic look, but very usable. Now that CRTs are gone and an LCD would be horrible for such duty, the arcade monitor seems to be the best plan. In a quick look around the internets, it seems that things have gotten a lot easier over the years, with video cards that can handle arcade monitors easily, and arcade monitors that don't have to be hacked to work with a computer. The JPAC looks pretty brilliant, as well. Interesting.

I occasionally played Asteroids, PacMan, Galaga in the arcade when I was a kid.

The great things about those three games, and a lot of the games of that era in general is that they're still a lot of fun. Games seem to have lost that quality along the way at some point.

[factorPlayer]

I blew two weeks' worth of allowance in one afternoon when Sega's Afterburner showed up in the local arcade...

[the_Journeyman]

Just read another thread about Road Rash and it got me thinking of an old Commodore 64 game called 'Racing Destruction Set'.  Loved it.  You got to design your own track with either pavement, dirt, or ice for the surface, there were oil slicks and you got to choose your vehicle too.  Everything from a 4x4 truck to a dirt-bike to a Nascar to an F1 race-car...

Sounds a lot like a game I used to have back in the days of DOS.  It was called "Stunt Driver"  Make your own track with all kinds of different elements.  It had an F1 car, an LM-200, a couple rally cars, a few of the supercars of the day and the like.  It was awesome.

I have an emulator on my computer so I can still play Super Mario Bros and Zelda too!

JM

[Speedbag]

My favorite from the college days was Xybots. I'd love to have one of those in the basement.

[corey]

1942

& Galaga was one of my faves as well.

i prefered '43.
awesome games.

[GAAN]

Does anyone remember the bombing game?

I loved this game and cannot find it on any of the emulators?

it was a coin-op and you flew from left to right in a little WWII plane and dropped bombs on a big ass ship below

any one remember?




edit: I've been drinking

[Fresh Pants]

Does anyone remember the bombing game?

I loved this game and cannot find it on any of the emulators?

it was a coin-op and you flew from left to right in a little WWII plane and dropped bombs on a big ass ship below

any one remember?




edit: I've been drinking

The B-17 one?

[GAAN]

The B-17 one?

I dunno

All I know is that you bombed this big battleship that was the full length of the bottom of the screen

and every hit it removed a block of ship until you hit water

and then it sank...i think

[x136]

Sounds a lot like a game I used to have back in the days of DOS.  It was called "Stunt Driver"  Make your own track with all kinds of different elements.  It had an F1 car, an LM-200, a couple rally cars, a few of the supercars of the day and the like.  It was awesome.

Ah, not only did I find that one available for download, but I found the one I posted about earlier: Stunts. It runs well under the DOSBox emulator. Nifty.

Does anyone remember the bombing game?

I loved this game and cannot find it on any of the emulators?

it was a coin-op and you flew from left to right in a little WWII plane and dropped bombs on a big ass ship below

Kind of sounds like Canyon Bomber for the 2600, except, as you'd guess from the title, you're bombing a canyon (for some reason) instead of a ship.

[A.duc.H.duc.]

Stew, I knew you grew up in the Detroit area, but Farmington?

That's where I grew up. I went to that putt putt all the time. Got grounded once for walking down there without telling anyone.

[Duck-Stew]

Stew, I knew you grew up in the Detroit area, but Farmington?

That's where I grew up. I went to that putt putt all the time. Got grounded once for walking down there without telling anyone.

Yup...  Farm-town, MI.    I didn't get grounded for riding my bike down there w/o telling anyone but I did get a STERN talking to and my bike taken away for a week...

[Duck-Stew]

Oh shit. 

I just 'Googled' Racing Destruction Set and found a version that will play on a PC.  make the beast with two backs....there goes whatever free-time I had left. 

This time though...I'll be drunk when I'm racing! 

[ab]

LHX Attack Helicopter ( back in the DOS days.  That hooked me up to computer's around 90 )