billythekid wrote: I got the a500+ for my combined birthday/christmas which i believe was the biggest single piece of plastic by area ever constructed by man. also, just to extend the area required to house the thing, there was a big long piece of kit at the back that required to be plugged in to the aerial out port, then the co ax cable to the telly. Was it the tv emulator or something? cant remember the name.... |
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Nexus_6 6,168 posts
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simiankid 659 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNobody mentioned Exile yet? It had physics. In 1991! -
RNX-Lanky 275 posts
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Registered 13 years agoNexus 6 wrote:
billythekid wrote:
It Came From the Desert
I had the A500 which I upgraded from a half, to a whole megabyte of RAM!
I got the a500+ for my combined birthday/christmas which i believe was the biggest single piece of plastic by area ever constructed by man.
also, just to extend the area required to house the thing, there was a big long piece of kit at the back that required to be plugged in to the aerial out port, then the co ax cable to the telly. Was it the tv emulator or something? cant remember the name....
haha, so true! I have to at least get mine out tonight to look at it....Might even give it a quick huggle for old times sake.
I know what you mean about the kit, no idea what - i thought it was just the simple aeriel signal helper-type-thing ? -
billythekid 12,595 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIt was the RF adaptor so you could output to a normal tv. -
Nexus_6 6,168 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThat's the badger! jings, we traded my 500+ in when i upgraded to the 1200. Would love to have them both now. 
to think how far i personally have come, from playing with my brother's ZX81 on a black and white portable telly in the bedroom, to my whizz bang PS3 on a 40" LCD at HD resolution in my own lounge.
happy days one and all -
RNX-Lanky 275 posts
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Registered 13 years agohere here Nexus!
Is it possible to even use an Amiga on a 32" HD ? Just thinking how bad Scart is, makes me shudder at how bad RF would be.... -
Nexus_6 6,168 posts
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Registered 17 years agoits a fair point - i think you would need to invest in at most a 20" crt to get the best out of the thing today!
on another point, i do believe the amiga and games of the previous generation to it had some of the most intriguing title ever. So much more exciting than most today.
Have a look through any games list and see what i mean. Usually though, the game didnt quite live up to the title promises.... -
OnlyMe 3,135 posts
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Registered 18 years agoNexus 6 wrote:
There was a great racing game called 'Zoom' or something. The feeling of speed was immense, and tyre damage was optional and you could go to the pits to fix it.
You're probably thinking of Vroom? http://hol.abime.net/1598
Which was pure excellence, and had an incredible sense of speed.
The Chaos Engine
Alien Breed
Project X
Shadow of the Beast 3 (which had fantastic gameplay, actually)
Sensible World of Soccer
Kick Off 2
PGA European Tour
Nick Faldo's Championship Golf
Sensible Golf
Cannon Fodder
Mega Lo Mania
Civilization
Colonization
Deuterous
James Pond 2 - Codename: Robocod
James Pond 3 - Operation Starfish
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (gameplay is weak, but the whole game's just hilariously funny)
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Cruise for a Corpse
Operation Stealth
Police Quest 1 and 2
Leisure Suit Larry 1-3
Twintris
Apidya
Ruff'n'Tumble
Lotus series
Supercars 1 and 2
Formula One Grand Prix
Beneath a Steel Sky (15 disks!)
Willy Beamish
Monkey Island 1 and 2
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Legend of Kyrandia
Pinball Dreams
Pinball Fantasies
Pinball Illusioins
Slamtilt
Xtreme Racing (if you have an acceleration card)
Lure of the Temptress
Crystal Dragon
Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2
Oil Imperium
Take'em Out
Alcatraz
North and South
Arabian Nights (the platformer)
Gods
Magic Pockets
Speedball 2
Moonstone
Superfrog
Overdrive
Turbo Trax
Nitro
Test Drive series
Theme Park
Giana Sisters
Zool 1 and 2
Switchblade II
Rick Dangerous 1 and 2
Humans series
Lemmings series
Hunter
Hybris
SWIV
IK+
Fightin' Spirit
Shadow Fighter (made by those who made Gekido on the PS1)
WarZone (Ikari Warriors clone)
In Shadow of Time
Indy Heat
Impossible Mission 2025 (it includes the original Impossible Mission if you don't like the sequel)
Ishar series
Jaguar XJ220
Putty (or Silly Putty if you like)
Winter Olympics - Lillehammer '94
Sim City
Populous 1 and 2
Genesia
Sim Earth
Sim Life
Railroad Tycoon
Pirates! (best version of them all!)
Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2
Skidmarks series
Arcade Pool
Arcade Snooker
Qwak
Powermonger
Premier Manager series
Player Manager
Prehistorik
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ApocalypseA 110 posts
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RNX-Lanky 275 posts
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Registered 13 years agoThe problem is orginality - they had the chance to create new things constantly, which in this day and age its hard to do as its all "been done before" in some way or form. Games like ICO are good and everything, but why someone hasnt made a game like Silly Putty, Brutal Football, or even an updated version of Syndicate is totally beyond me. (Syndicate on the ps1 was actually quite good) -
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Registered 14 years agoTurrican II......
.......that is all -
RNX-Lanky 275 posts
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Registered 13 years agoIK + !!!!! I cant believe I havnt said Premier Manager either, I spent far far far too long on the first one - 2 and 3 were not as good unfortunately. -
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Registered 16 years agoPANZA KICKBOXING!
Can't believe I nearly forgot that one. -
Nexus_6 6,168 posts
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Registered 17 years agoOnlyMe wrote:
Nexus 6 wrote:
There was a great racing game called 'Zoom' or something. The feeling of speed was immense, and tyre damage was optional and you could go to the pits to fix it.
You're probably thinking of Vroom? http://hol.abime.net/1598
Which was pure excellence, and had an incredible sense of speed.
yep, thats the one right there - even the screenshot shown is my memory of it, down the pit straight!
thanks.
The skidmarks games as well, while being humorously title were brill. -
RNX-Lanky 275 posts
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Registered 13 years agoWhat games had the most disks? I remember Streetfighter having at least 7. Load up game..change disc. Intro banner...change disc. Choose mode...change disc. CHoose fighter...change disc.
It wasnt pretty. -
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Registered 15 years agoDan Dare 2D platform game, a bit Mission Impossible but he had a torch. How flippin neat was that? [ApocA not allowed to answer] -
ApocalypseA 110 posts
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Registered 13 years agothose where the days... -
coastal 5,432 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'll say it again: Ports of Call.
The two german guys that built it apparently suffered so much from piracy they hardly received a penny or a deutschmark. Now they're building a new pc 3d one (have for a while tbh) and should receive their pennies this time round in euros. -
Cappy 14,393 posts
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Registered 16 years agoLeChuck's Revenge was 12 disks. I wouldn't want to have played that without a hard drive. I bet Fate of Atlantis was pretty hefty too, I can't remember how many disks it was though. -
RNX-Lanky 275 posts
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Registered 13 years agoThats the second time someone has said a game I dont know, and its starting to worry me! Ports of call...? *googles it* -
billythekid 12,595 posts
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Registered 16 years agoRNX-Lanky wrote:
What games had the most disks? I remember Streetfighter having at least 7. Load up game..change disc. Intro banner...change disc. Choose mode...change disc. CHoose fighter...change disc.
It wasnt pretty.
Monkey Island 2 came on 11 floppies! -
RNX-Lanky 275 posts
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Registered 13 years agohaha, thats shocking - although were the disc changes as frequent as SF ? -
Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years ago11 floppies... what's scary is that's about 16mb... ! -
OnlyMe 3,135 posts
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Registered 18 years agoRNX-Lanky wrote:
What games had the most disks? I remember Streetfighter having at least 7. Load up game..change disc. Intro banner...change disc. Choose mode...change disc. CHoose fighter...change disc.
It wasnt pretty.
According to HOL, it's this: http://hol.abime.net/112
19 disks, for an obscure, adult, german game from 1995.
But for some more known titles, Beneath a Steel Sky came on 15 disks, while Rise of the Robots AGA came on 13 disks. -
simiankid 659 posts
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Registered 20 years agobillythekid wrote:
RNX-Lanky wrote:
What games had the most disks? I remember Streetfighter having at least 7. Load up game..change disc. Intro banner...change disc. Choose mode...change disc. CHoose fighter...change disc.
It wasnt pretty.
Monkey Island 2 came on 11 floppies!
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nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThose were the days. When instruction books were instruction books. Proper phone book sized beasts. -
OnlyMe 3,135 posts
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Registered 18 years agoLutz wrote:
11 floppies... what's scary is that's about 16mb... !
You'd think, but the Amiga format floppies had 880k space on them. Which means approcimately 9,5 mb if you filled all the disks to the brim. -
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Registered 13 years agoAlcatraz is a great game -
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Registered 13 years agohaha, I remember Greg Normans Golf manual being the size of my actual house. -
My favourite for the manual was the first Midwinter. Not only did you get the main manual (with profiles of all the characters), but a novel and a pad of paper maps for you to... actually, I'm not sure what they were for, but having them was nice.
Frontier was also good, with its star chart and that.
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