I remember on the old V8Thunder forums (before they were hacked) we had a great, nostalgic thread going about retro games. Let's try and get that going again.

Off the top of my head, my favourite games of all time have been:

Amiga
Civilization
Microprose Formula One Grand Prix
Microprose Golf
Kick Off 2
Railroad Tycoon

PC
Colin McRae Rally 2.0
NASCAR Racing 2003

PlayStation
SSX Tricky
WipeOut 2097

Amiga

Sensible Soccer ( much better than Kick off 2 !!)
Champ Manager 94

PC

NR2003 .. the best & most played game for me
LFS
MOHAA
Quake 3 Arena

Dreamcast

Shenmue
Ferarri F355
Virtua Tennis
MSR

N64

Goldeneye ( one of my all time fav games)
Mario Kart 64
Fzero

all top 4 player games

Gamecube

Mario Kart Double Dash
Timesplitters 2

PS2

TRD2
Nascar Racing 06 TTC
F1 05

Wished I had an Amiga back then...

PC:
Wilkanoid(free brakeout game)
Battlefield1942
GTA Vice City(very cool music, cars to dream of and you can load your own mp3 to be played when driving around in a Lamborghini. Only, but big disadvantage is that you can´t drive with a wheel!)
Richard Burns
Nascar Racing 2003

Others:
Episode 1 - pinball, click on pic!


Theater Of Magic - pinball


Gorgar - pinball (only played it for a day when I was 12, wonderful... first talking pb machine!)


Asteroids - arcade
Defender - arcade
Frogger - arcade
Donkey Kong - arcade

Tried my brothers Xbox and Fifa(something) was fun when having a beer or two...

Neil_LCFC wrote

Sensible Soccer ( much better than Kick off 2 !!)

Oh, don't get me started! While Sensible Soccer was fun for a while (several minutes) and the presentation of the game was a lot more slick and professional, as a game it had so little depth. You could only play one way, and games degenerated into just slide tackles and divign headers.

Kick Off 2, on the other hand, allowed you to play with your own style of play as it allowed so much more control over your players and passes. Many a happy afternoon spent playing this game with my friends.

Am tempted from time to time to pick up a cheap Amiga off eBay so I can play it again. Best football game ever. No question.

Player Manager was great, did anyone play that?

Sensi vs KO2, tough call, I think Sensi edges it as you can see enough of the pitch to actually pass the ball to one of your own players more than 20 yards away, KO aklways seemed a bit of a kick it and hope type of affar.

I've got Sensi WOS on the PC still, and I think you can download an Amiga version for the PC from the Underdogs site.

Other than that, here's a quick list of a few of my faves:

AT2600

Combat
Space Invaders

Spectrum

Lunar Jetman
Lords of Midnight
Doomdarks Revenge
Stonkers
Ant Attack
Sabre Wulf
Elite
The Hobbit
Chequered Flag

CBM64

Revs
Forbidden Forest
Paralax
Decathlon
Uridium
Hovver Bovver

Amstrad CPC

Arnhem
Desert Rats
Vulcan
Sorcery

Amiga

Starglider
GP series
Populous

PC

Total War series


more to follow when I get time and my brain works better.

Some short descriptions, would be nice, of the top games... so many I never heard of!

And what is Amstrad CPC, CBM64, and Spectrum? AT2600 I can guess is early Atari, since the Space Invaders is an early game, which I liked a lot!

You never heard of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum? 48k Z80 processor, 3.5Mhz (lol) with 8k screen RAM. 1982 onwards.

Amstrad CPC 6128, 128k RAM (but you could only address 64k at a time due to it also being 9 bit Z80 runing at 3Mhz), late 1980s

Commodore 64, 64 k 6502 CPU, running at 1 Mhz (lol lol) circa 1982, you could only use about 32k of it's RAM due to the custom chips.

Spectrum: http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://koti.mbnet.fi/~oju/retro/SpectrumGood.jpg&imgrefurl=http://koti.mbnet.fi/~oju/retro/ZXSpectrum_fi.html&h=530&w=1024&sz=88&tbnid=OxK21lIJZS4J:&tbnh=77&tbnw=150&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspectrum%2Bzx%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

Amstrad CPC6128:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pawel.tpi.pl/amstrad6128.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pawel.tpi.pl/amstrad6128.html&h=450&w=600&sz=21&tbnid=srgaiGIdBbEJ:&tbnh=99&tbnw=133&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Damstrad%2Bcpc6128%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

CBM64

http://www.commodore.ca/gallery/hardware/commodore_64_compendium.jpg

Actually if you type the games into google you will find screen shots and descriptions, I'm too lazy to do them all!

I might if I get time later.

Wow!

http://www.monroeworld.com/forbiddenforest/

Crap gfx, even for those days, but the music!

I remember playing that one Halloween and being too scare to walk home in the dark!

Had sensi & SWOS on Amiga & KO2 & Goal but the Sensi games were always more fun as you could plan attacks by being able to se where your men are. I still play Sensi now & again on Snes or Megadrive emulators on PC,It's actually possible via Gens to play eachother online at Sensi Via Gens (megadrive emulator).
I've still got me old Amiga A600 in the Attic round me mums plus loads of games.Used to quite like Jaguar XJ220 for racing games oh & Vroom.

Okey, okey... the commodore I know a little about we had a Vic64 in the family around 82, I think.

And then I had a 486 25Hz back in 92...

Amstrad looks cool floppy built in keyboard!

You mean Vic 20 Peter?

The Amstrad was OK, first computer I bought with a disc drive as the Spectrum never had one and the CBM was stupidly expensive in this country, £400 ish for the base unit, £350 or so for the disc drive. I got my Amstrad with monitor and built in 3 inch drive for under £400, the discs cost about £5 each though and held less than 200k on them!

I bought a CBM 64 second hand in 1987 with monitor and disc drive for just over £100 which was a bargain, but the Amiga came out about then so I blew £400 on one of those (or was it more) later the same year.

You like pinball then Peter? There was a good one on the Amiga but I forget the name...........

Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies were the ones I remember. Excellent games, with great graphics and funky music.

Yeah thats right! I was never a big fan of pinball but they were good games if you liked that kind of thing!

Maybe it was vic20, or maybe I mix something together... The one we had was a commodore, then there was a lot of general talking of/referring to the vic later on... the "stoneage" machine!

The Amiga was quite expensive back then!

Yeah, a good pinball machine is a good pinball machine! And think arcade games/environment are more "mystic" than pc... probably because you don´t own them and there´s more room for longing and expectations... And since one pay for playing there´s a another dimension of trying to get better... or to get a free game. Pc on the other hand has it own qualities! Playing pinball occasionally when there is one to play.

Tried some pc-pinball that was very nice looking but boring too play... maybe there are some new titles out there!?

Most underrated console ever is the Dreamcast some of the games on it still look as good as anything that's ever come out on PS2 or XBOX.

What titles are you thinking of Neil?

Dreamcast - MSR (Metropolis Street Racing) - awesome!

I've still got the Dreamcast somewhere, Virtua Tennis 2k2 was good as well.

Don´t know the console but it´s possible that it was Atari... Table tennis "ping pong" was the game, black/white... just two paddles on each side of a white line, one could screw the ball a bit... nothing else then the speed went up gradually. I guess Virtua Tennis is somewhat more complex!?

No Peter Dreamcast was only a few years ago.. Sonic Adventure 2 Looks awesome still as does Virtua Tennis & Shenmue.
Jet Grind Radio aswell great console shame so many ppl licked sony's ass !!

Flag To Flag champ car game superp plus Le Mans 24 hrs Ferrari F355 I've downloaded most rof these off the net free & enjoyed them recently absolutely awesome ! still look as good as any PS2 game now

AlanS wrote

Am tempted from time to time to pick up a cheap Amiga off eBay so I can play it again.

Or you could look into getting an emulator set-up. Neil's the expert on this subject. Anyway, here are my picks:

Spectrum

Dizzy 1
Out Run
Pacman
Skool Daze (Txt spk even existed back then! )
Spindizzy

Master System II

Alex Kidd in Miracle World (A brilliant game)
Sonic the Hedgehog

Amiga

Microprose Formula One Grand Prix (The game I spent more time than any other playing)
Sensible World of Soccer

PS1

Colin McRae Rally
Colin McRae Rally 2

Gamecube

Timesplitters 2

PC

Football Manager 2005
GTR
NASCAR Racing 2003