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by gordon » Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:01 pm
Dragon's Lair. The cassette version. *sigh*
Also: The Prince, a Firebird budget game. It was so bad I took it back and exchanged it for Thrust. Which was rather good.
After that, it was that Five Star compilation, which had Spindizzy on it.
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by monkey010101 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:37 am
Dragons Lair was a very frustrating experience I found. In both loading and playing.
The Five Star Compilation was great though if iirc. Struggling to remember what else was on there though. Wasn't Scarabeaus on that?
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by gordon » Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:51 am
Yep. Spindizzy, Scarabaeus, Batalyx, Zoids and Equinox. I persevered with Zoids because of the music, and Equinox was fine once you worked out what to do (the instructions were crap).
Scarabaeus and Spindizzy were ace, though.
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by Ant » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:55 am
gordon wrote: I persevered with Zoids because of the music...
I wanted to like Zoids, really. It just looked so cool and the music was amazing ... but the difficulty ... Arrgh! Rage building just thinking about it!
"Isn't this where ... we came in?"
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by gordon » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:56 am
Ayuh. You'll get no argument from me.
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by monkey010101 » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:49 pm
I remember wanting to like Zoids and not really getting it, then pretending that I did get it so not to look stupid to my friends.
Equinox rings a bell. I'll have to look that up.
Scarabaeus was excellent, although I tried to play it the other day and could for the life of me remember what you had to do!
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by bent » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:44 pm
My first was Skramble (guess it was spelled like that) on VIC-20. Got it before I got my ViC-20 computer in -83. It was a great game
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by Iain » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:03 pm
I bought some games before I even got my C128 as well, bit mad really but at least I could play them on my mate's C64 and I kept a couple unopened to play on Christmas day when I actually got my C128 (though it was DOA! :`-( )
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by omega120 » Tue May 13, 2008 10:36 am
I think my first game I bought was Hunchback still like to dabble with it today a real classic.
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by Auntie Slag » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:58 pm
Yeah, Hunchback II for me.
Followed by Super Cycle and Bruce Lee I think. And David Crane's Decathlon (what a joystick breaker), quite possibly started me on the road to sadism.
Great days.
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by monkey010101 » Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:25 pm
Other early games were,
Dancing Monster
Archon
Quo Vardis (Did anyone ever win the prize?)
Karateka
Indiana Jones in the Lost KIngdom
Valhalla
luzagodom
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by luzagodom » Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:45 am
My first game is Super Marry
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by Lloyd Mangram » Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:01 pm
luzagodom wrote: My first game is Super Marry
Yes, but your brain is divorced.
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by Iain » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:14 pm
Hey Lloyd, stop insulting our new "users". There's not too many of them these days!