I look donw the list on this section and see that no one has written anything about the old classic arcade games. I have a mame generator on my PC nad I love to play those classic arcade games. You cant beat the original Outrun.

Anyone here old enough to rember when the first arcade games came out, and also the Atari 2600 games consoles.

I never had an atari 2600 but I do know the games your talking about we used to have a small selection of the classics on the comp. My dad loved them he liked space invaders and pac man the best

The original "Asteroids"...10/10

then "Galaxian"

Ahh the happy times

Centipede on the amiga was the dogs, and I remember my old man bringing home the origional Pong that plugged into the telle and me and my brother loving the tennis made up of two dashes and a dot lol

haha! Pong! wasn't that the first game ever made or something like that? I always found it boring But then I'm a young 'un so I wouldn't understand you old foagies haha!

I got both them games I do play asteroids now and then awsome. love those classic vector garphics, another brill vector game, Star Wars remember that old sit down arcade game.

We were easily pleased in the 70's lol , 10 mins of pong then 10 mins on me space hopper and that was all the fun I could cope with in 1 day

well simple things please simple minds

Still got our orginal television games console in the attic, I'm going up there next week to have a look at what else is up there, pleae let me find that mint condition Thunderbirds 2 still in the box. (I Wish)

I got lots of old toys in the attic... but nothing collectable sadly, altho they said my old old gameboy could be worth somethin in the future... noin my luck probably not

I still have my SNES still boxed with about twenty games, all boxed in mint, under a dust cover. I'm about to retire my PS2 when I get a Wii, and put that in the attic. It'll be good to show the kids one day the games I grew up with, er hum... still growning up with. Shame that old tv game pong no longer works.

Not exactly how I remember this game. In 1975 my father brought this TV game, it had football, tennis which was more or less like Pong and a squash.

I remember playing multiplayer bomberman 2 on the snes with my kids when they were young, great fun. I think you needed a multitap for 4 player lol. The snes was the greatest console of them all.

wow bomberman! I had that as one of my first games on my first gameboy!

I loved pong! Cant remember what console i played it on but it was something my uncle had. Another console he had, also something i cant remember the name of, had games called B17 bomber and Burger Time

As for more recent games, i love Pac Man

For my gameboy, my first game was a collection of simple games, like bomber and tennis (pong) hockey (basically pong again lol) and games of the same nature... still have it and I play it on my advance sp

I found out what console i played B17 bomber on It was Matell Intellvision apparently


I cant remember what i played on the gameboy apart from Super Mario in black and white. Oh and tetris. I played that til it wore out

wow! you can tell it's from before I was born haha!

All my friends used to have things like snes and even before that an atari.. but i never remember having them, i was far too content playing with my ghostbusters car

But the first one I ever had was the sega megadrive with sonic I remember my dad was waiting outside of school on the friday with it, i wasnt expecting it at all

Then I got a gameboy at some point and it had the basic games which apart from mario and street fighter i wasnt keen on, and then came pokemon

Oh yea I memba when I was little I went on a friends one of them, needless to say I now hav sonic and knuckles collection on the comp

The little hedgehog was fun

I still play sonic, I'm totally obsessed. It's a hard game, the one on my comp, been working to finish it for 9 years and I've just made a breakthrough haha!

I loved Sonic when it came out, brought a megeadrive off a guy in work, loved it. I went game crazy, the best fighting game I have ever played even with todays modern games is Eternal Champions the characters and the moved were awsome. Then I brought Flashback, oh man.. that was the dogs.

A freind of mine had a SNES, and all he used to do was go on about how superior the graphics were, I avoided talking to him whenever I could, but in the end I got a SNES, didn't think much at first, until I went out and got Super Star Wars, OMG! I was totally blown away by the 3D levels. Still got my SNES boxed and hidden away. I got all the megadrive games on the PC fantastic, Earthworm JIm 'Oh Yeah'

Anyhow going back to the eighties, anyone remember those table top electronic games from Grandstand, I had Astro Wars, there were other games like Caveman and Scramble and I think Astro Wars still in the attic in working condition.

I remember the very first time I played Flashback I was blown away by it, the cut scenes look s*** now but I remember thinking at the time it was great. The movement and rolling and jumping took a bit of getting used to but once mastered was fantastic. The mega drive was fantastic but the snes always had that little bit more. When Donkey Kong Country came out it proved it, the mega drive would not have been able to manage that game. I vaguely remember the grandstand table top, but spent most of the eighties in the pub so I don't remember it that well

Flashback was one of the first games to use motion capture in order to move the characters, everyday occurance now in games, but back then truly revolutionary. Ws playing it the other day for donkey's years, cant rember how to get off the first level, DOH!

Frogger.

In the pub saturday nights at 10.30pm...the game?...kill the frog (nudge the bugger beating you)

love frogger great game

bloody hard though when you get past the third level

It was the beer that made it difficult. *hic

Yea I was never good at it but I enjoy it lol

I spent hour upon hour playing Super Smash TV aswell, this game was manic it was really hard in 2 player mode, 1 player was nigh on impossible but I loved this game. The mrs had to put up with me saying "i'll buy that for a dollar" all the time

never heard of it

I hours spent locked in my room playing with my ZX Spectrum.

Stop sniggering at the back.

Favourite games had to be Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy and Horace and the Spiders

Manic miner and jetset willy, now there are two classics

I dunno if I'veplayed manic miner or not... well ive defo heard of it at least

I'm afraid the likes of manic miner and Jet Set willy were several years before you were born.

If I could get all the money I spent on this tank game back....*sighs*

doesn't mean I haven't seen a renewed version like they did with pacman and space invaders e.t.c like I said i got a collection of old games once but we got rid of it

I remember that one HQ, looks shite now lol

Just a few of the games I used to put god know how many 10p coins into.

OMG! The starwars game!

I remember queues at that cockpit thing they used for that game. It may have been the first(?) arcade game to let you sit down and pretend you were in a cockpit.
Shoot up some Tie-fighters then down into that canyon dodging bridges and laser fire.

Loved it !

They made an Empire Strikes Back game as well, its really good to play. First you go up against the tie fighters like Star Wars, then you go up against AT AT's Brilliant. Haven't played that Star Wars game for a while, I'm addicted to commando at the mo, and Flashback.

Loved afterburner and shinobi

Does anyone remember Sin & Punishment, well unless you download it onto the Wii or been to Japan you might.

No never heard of it :S

It was basically i Space-invaders (where you dont move forwards only side-to-side). And you have a machine gun annd a sword. The boss fights were spectacular, you could face a copy of earth which was so hard to do!

And the game was so successful in japan but never released over here.

I have a sega mega-drive hooked up to the TV next to me. Was the first console i ever owned. To show how damn awesome it is i have an xbox 360, but its in a box under my stairs and hasn't seen the light of day since before christmas. The mega-drive however, has been used in the last week.

I never got a mega drive or any other console I was a deprived child

Had to get mine second hand from my friends cousin. I think my mum bought it from them for £40.

I sold my old Xbox today to a games exchange retailers. It wasn't a 360 but I had 10 decent games included in the package. Guess how much I got for it? Go on have a guess.


Too late.


I got thirty pounds for the lot. Thirty pounds. Thirty friggin' pounds. I couldn't believe it. It's not even enough to buy a decent game for a new console. You couldn't buy a third of a ticket for the Emirates to watch the Gooners for £30 . It's not enough to put my dogs in kennels for two days. It's not enough to................ I think you get the picture. I felt robbed and cheated even as I took the cash from the heartless, money swindling, scrooge-a-like ejit behind the counter.

It seems that pound for pound consoles and games depreciate even more than cars. And the British economy. And Leeds United. And my ability to stay awake after a curry and 5 pints of Stella.

I'll stop now.