My favorite,although not a game, was Flight Simulator,now acquired by our computer god Mr.Microsoft.It is still the same program today using many of the original airfields.vor's and ndb's.Amazing what could be done with 39k of free ram.I was a bit upmarket with an external disk drive that held about 180K.The earlier tape machine would take 10 mins.or more to load a program but the drive would do it in maybe 1 min.I did some animations and titles for video editing as the machine had a Pal tv output as S video(ie. luminance and chrominance separated) and my video machine was S.The titles were written in Basic,but I am afraid that I have not progressed beyond that.
Commodore 64!!!
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I remember typing in programs from a magazine and then the thing wouldn't run because I probably typed something wrong!
25 years ago I used to play Elite on the C64, all the time. My 8-year-old son is now playing the clone of the original BBC version on my laptop!
manic miner and jet set willy are legends (spectrum)
other classics i can remember
skool daze
back to skool
jack the nipper 1 n 2
frogger
every ones a wally
commando
rambo
horace goes ski"ing
ghost n goblins
ghouls n ghosts
The great space race
space invaders
asteroids
i also remeber treasure island n fire ant for commodore 16 never did escape long john silver at end :O(
had commodore 64 but cant remeber wat i had 4 it........
neva add atari s.t but ad the amiga 500 then 500+ then the 1200
other classics i can remember
skool daze
back to skool
jack the nipper 1 n 2
frogger
every ones a wally
commando
rambo
horace goes ski"ing
ghost n goblins
ghouls n ghosts
The great space race
space invaders
asteroids
i also remeber treasure island n fire ant for commodore 16 never did escape long john silver at end :O(
had commodore 64 but cant remeber wat i had 4 it........
neva add atari s.t but ad the amiga 500 then 500+ then the 1200
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do you remember on the helicoptor level on rambo if you put another joypad in and pulled down on one and pressed up on the other it gave you turbo boost making fly over the entire level
on montey on the run if you typed i want to cheat instead of your name it would come up with yes um boss and you couldnt die but if you fell between two of the raised platforms you couldnt jump out so had to end the game , you could also put a code in to get the sinclair c5 wheneve r you wanted it instead of walking lol
on ghost and ghouls if you shot the first headstone repeatedly for 60 seconds or somthing it made you invincable
when it came to copying games if we couldnt get our hands on a twin tape system we used to hold a microphone to the speaker and recorded it on another system and if you just got the record level right and everyone kept quiet they usualy worked lol
on montey on the run if you typed i want to cheat instead of your name it would come up with yes um boss and you couldnt die but if you fell between two of the raised platforms you couldnt jump out so had to end the game , you could also put a code in to get the sinclair c5 wheneve r you wanted it instead of walking lol
on ghost and ghouls if you shot the first headstone repeatedly for 60 seconds or somthing it made you invincable
when it came to copying games if we couldnt get our hands on a twin tape system we used to hold a microphone to the speaker and recorded it on another system and if you just got the record level right and everyone kept quiet they usualy worked lol
on the early models if you leftthem on too long the rubber keys melted lol