80's forever!!!

[robinbloke]

This is turning into 80's nostalgia day, so it's time to present my all time favourite (and imho the best) arcade game ever ever ever!





The brilliant music, the way they wagged their little tails as they ran, the secret levels, the music, the popping bubbles, the bouncing, bubbling up, collecting letters, the evil baron - the music on forever infesting your mind!

Not to mention other wonderous 80's arcade games
Gauntlet : Elf needs food badly
Star Wars : Just the badgers nadgers

and so many many more... no gameplay these days, no duration with the posey new wave of arcade games - give me back bubble bobble!

I have it on MIME anyway...

And Rio by Duran Duran was on the radio on the way to the gym, yeah!

Comments

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

And the sequel, Rainbow Islands.

Hated gauntlet, though; the way you lost a life everytime you moves. Preferred a game called Shackled, which was similar, except you had to rescue prisoners as well.

Oh, my lovely little spectrum; how I miss you.

But the best game of all - PLEASE try and find a version that runs on PC: Chaos by Julian Gollop. A game for 1-8(!) players, it was a turn based game of magicians. You had % chances of conjuring animals based on the amount of law or chaos in the air (which you could also change with spells) but if you made it an illusion then it would always appear. But anyone could dispell illusion and your monster went poof. Oh, I'm getting excited just thinking about it. Wait here, I'll try and find a copy. *clunk, clunk, clunk*

Chaos!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

YES! Chaos!

Fret no longer my fine furry friend, for not only do I have a spectrum emulator, but I have a copy of chaos as well!

Another fan of the wonderous game!

Gooey blob, everywhere!!

Re: Chaos!

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Oh, you truly are a beardy man of the gods.

Magic Bow!

Re: Chaos!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I once intended to write a PC version of this... maybe I ought to try again...

Got email at home? I could zip it up for you...

Chaos 3
Chaos 3
Chaos 3
Red Dragon! RAAAAGGGHHH!

Re: Chaos!

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Me, too. Many happy hours sat in front of deluxe paint drawing sprites pixel by pixel whilst my mate Stephen worked on all the tricky bits.

Magic Wood!

1) Law 2
Doh!
2) Ogre
Doh!
3) Raise Dead.
Yeah!

Re: Chaos!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Magic wood was a top spell!

Re: Chaos!

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Don't click on the Mythosgames, link, though, or you get dodgy links.

*Agh, Disbelieve! Disbelieve!*

Re: Chaos!

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

STOP PRESS!!

http://www.retrospec.co.uk/dan/turmoil/

Someone's Already done it!

Re: Chaos!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Booshaka!!!

Well thats my evening tonight... what... no network option??

[uknc.livejournal.com]

Gauntlet was Ace...there was a machine ni Rotherham whcih was 2000 health for 20p, and we'd go there after school and play it for hours - until they threw us out most nights - for about Gauntlet was Ace...there was a machine ni Rotherham whcih was 2000 health for 20p, and we'd go there after school and play it for hours - until they threw us out most nights - for about £5 each...We made it to level 90-odd once, and they wouldn't let us carry on to 100, the bastards...

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Get MAME and relive your wasted youth once more; Valkaries life force can once again, run out.