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"Of all time!!!!?????? which is the best retro game????"

out of all the retro games the main 3 computer game consols are sega, nintendo and ofcourse the all mighty amiga. now out of these which do you think has had the best retro game ever made?????

DOOM. Or Wolfenstein 3D. Just unlocked that by completing Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Excellent Bonus.

Moon Cresta, Manic Miner, XJ220 (Amiga) many many more, just got a ZX81, spectrum will be next on the list.

I couldn't really choose a favourite, but here's a few to think about :

syndicate - original game (amiga/PC)
emerald mine (amiga)
frontier (amiga/PC)
tie fighter (PC)
day of the tentacle (PC)
indiana jones and the fate of atlantis (amiga/PC)
lotus esprit turbo (spectrum)
lotus esprit turbo challenge 1,2 and 3(amiga)
cannon fodder (amiga)
escape from the planet of the robot monsters (amiga)
carrier command (various formats)
midwinter (amiga)
hired guns (amiga)
badlands (amiga)
cabal (amiga)
stunt car racer (amiga)
robocod (amiga)
ikari warriors (amiga)
fernandez must die (amiga)

noticing some sort of pattern? yes I'm an amiga freak ...

saboteur (spectrum)
deathchase (spectrum)
mooncresta (spectrum)
jet set willy 1+2 (spectrum)
manic miner (spectrum)
atic atac (spectrum)
sir fred (spectrum)
roller coaster (spectrum)

and a spectrum geek .....

contra 3 (snes)
flashback (various formats)
super mario world (snes)
mario allstars (snes)
stunt race fx (snes)

the snes wasn't without its charms ....

streets of rage 1+2 (megadrive)
sonic 1+2 (megadrive)
can't be assed thinking of any more

sideshow buzz wrote:
> I'd go with tetris because
> 1. its old
> 2. It sold a 'beep' load of gameboys because of it
> 3. its caused many dreams of countless falling blocks the world over
> 4. the music seamingly has been seared into my brain
> 5. last but most important it has simplistic yet extremely addictive
> gameplay

All true. And its on my Ericsson T65. How cool is that?

Best retro game was Dick Tracy on the Spectrum. I got so addicted I had to go and see a therapist about it.

Hooplah wrote:

> For example; If the next Pro Evo footy game was a 2D, top down
> vertical scrolling affair, ala Kick Off or Sensible Soccer, then it
> would be Retro. Sensible soccer is not a Retro game - it is a classic
> game. Just as a Silver Ghost is a Classic car, rather than a Retro
> one. If RR were to make a car based on the Silver now.... I think I've
> laboured the point enough.
>

So if you were using a current PC to play games from systems from years gone by, wouldn't that be retro gaming...?

I did actually see a copy of it about 2 years ago in electronics boutique but they don't sell it anymore and the last time i went to virgin i didn't see it but i wasn't looking for it that day.

Silent Assassin wrote:
> Beneath a Steel Sky was fantastic and i've been trying to find a copy
> for years to relive those old days but with no luck.

I tihnk they still sell it, for a fiver or something, on Virgins budget label?... You should be able to find it hidden somewhere in 'Games' budget shelves?

Altenratly, you can always grab it from Underdogs...

www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=114

vorderman wrote:
> I remember LCP, (on c64), it had rave reveiws, cos on disk he actually
> grew and did date densitive things, on tape it was very broring, cos
> everytime you loaded it, it started a fresh life.

That was becuase the game was supposed to be played via Floppy rather than tape...

On floppy everytime you exited the game, it saved you LCP stats, health and suchlike... If you let the little guy die, whenever you tried to boot the disk it would come up with an R.I.P screen :)

Beneath a Steel Sky was fantastic and i've been trying to find a copy for years to relive those old days but with no luck.

Actually Hooplah, that's a good list there.

Crazy Comets and Mega Apocalypse, were insanely frenetic, so simple and addcitive and demanding, always giving a slither of a chance to stay alive, leaving you cursing, after losing a life.