Platostotal's retro gaming reviews

[platostotal]

'Mario Golf'-N64, Nintendo score a hole in one(sorry) with this sublime game of golf. Cute graphics and wickedly good gameplay(when you get the hang of it) put this near the top of the N64 pile(golf is unusually popular on consoles, my mate said it was because you could play it in a... mellow state of mind ahem) but for whatever reason this is pure class.

[platostotal]

'Yoshi's Story'-N64, I remember seeing this on sale for £54.99 when it came out, things like that can kill a games appeal dead. But just look at it, It'll bring a smile no problem, and if you have nippers running about the place they will love watching you play this. And wait till you hear the sounds. Stuff like the way the fruit goes round the screen as you collect it, and the colour based bash-em gameplay all add to the fun. One of the last great N64 games.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by platostotal

'Super Ghouls and Ghosts'-Snes, Every serious gamer of the time will have fond memories of this beaut of Capcom perfection, or should that be hard as f**k perfection. It is seriously hard, but what a game. A real sense of achievement when you finish a level, you need the reactions of a cyborg to survive the later levels. And what other game let's you run around in your underpants when hit. You just have to have a go on this(it can be found on Capcom compilation discs nowadays)

GHOSTS 'N' GOBLINS as it was originally known-I completed this on a ZX Spectrum when I was a pup-and yeah it was bloody hard!

Anyone remember THE TERMINATOR on the Sega Master System?

[platostotal]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

GHOSTS 'N' GOBLINS as it was originally known-I completed this on a ZX Spectrum when I was a pup-and yeah it was bloody hard!

Anyone remember THE TERMINATOR on the Sega Master System?

Had a Speccy myself, nowadays punters moan about tiny glitches, how would they cope with tape loading errors? I once played 'Head over Heels' for a good 4 hours straight, 'Goblins' was indeed a toughie, but 'Ghouls' is just insane. I had a 128k speccy(think of the power) then I saw the Amiga/ST and a round of 'Stunt car racer' with 6 mates brought the 8bit days to an end...

[oaxaca]

Originally Posted by platostotal

Had a Speccy myself, nowadays punters moan about tiny glitches, how would they cope with tape loading errors? I once played 'Head over Heels' for a good 4 hours straight, 'Goblins' was indeed a toughie, but 'Ghouls' is just insane. I had a 128k speccy(think of the power) then I saw the Amiga/ST and a round of 'Stunt car racer' with 6 mates brought the 8bit days to an end...

Hehe, I used to love my Amiga 600! It seemed to bridge the gap between a console and a PC. Back in those days a owning a PC would have been like winning the lottery. I remember seeing some sort of Star Wars 1st person shooter demo for the PC in some independant PC shop and the graphics were incredible, I think that must have been my first FPS experience

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

I tell the kids they don't know how lucky they've got it these days!

The look on their faces when I tell them that you had to wait twenty minutes to load a game from a cassette recorder!

They've never even seen an audio cassette!


First computer I had was an Acorn Electron-The poor man's BBC Micro,which were a bloody fortune!

[Beyond72]

Originally Posted by platostotal

Had a Speccy myself, nowadays punters moan about tiny glitches, how would they cope with tape loading errors? I once played 'Head over Heels' for a good 4 hours straight, 'Goblins' was indeed a toughie, but 'Ghouls' is just insane. I had a 128k speccy(think of the power) then I saw the Amiga/ST and a round of 'Stunt car racer' with 6 mates brought the 8bit days to an end...

Games are so much easier now, there was no room for error back then, one wrongly timed move or button press meant game over.

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

I tell the kids they don't know how lucky they've got it these days!

The look on their faces when I tell them that you had to wait twenty minutes to load a game from a cassette recorder!

My nephew told me off when I recounted how I sold my C64 and a ton of games when I discovered girls - "Wait...you sold your C64!!?"

His ambition is make a retro game everyone will want to play.



Bless his oddball ways, must take after his uncle.

(He loves Italian horror/b-movies too, with no input from me, although I had a field day showing him my DVD collection last time he came round.)

[Baseball Fury]

This is my collection of stuff (there's also about 150, erm, 'borrowed' PS1 games as well, because some of the prices for classic titles is silly money. I'll get them eventually though! I'll post up some thoughts when I'm not bed-ridden . Also, I haven't included any current gen (360/ps3/WII) stuff in the library shots.

[oaxaca]

You've got all the classics there!! I had so much fun playing Duck Tails on the NES not to mention Castle of Illusion, Altered Beast, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, TazMania, Urban Strike and Desert Strike on the mega drive...


I remember my dad coming up with this great way to allow me to play US genesis games on my megadrive, all he did was file the sides of the cartridge slot away so that the larger genesis cartridges fitted it and it actually worked!

[platostotal]

Originally Posted by oaxaca

You've got all the classics there!! I had so much fun playing Duck Tails on the NES not to mention Castle of Illusion, Altered Beast, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, TazMania, Urban Strike and Desert Strike on the mega drive...


I remember my dad coming up with this great way to allow me to play US genesis games on my megadrive, all he did was file the sides of the cartridge slot away so that the larger genesis cartridges fitted it and it actually worked!

Yep, did a not so subtle fix myself, tried something like it on my snes, no luck tho.