Oldies rule!

[Skybird]

Sometime this winter - I finally managed to get Speedball 2 working on my XP-rig. Got myself an 80s-style arcade joystick (digital :lol: ), a Competition Pro, and was fine beating up those little fellas while getting as much points for that like for scoring a "goal"...

Next, I got dungeon Master Java installed, and became almost sentimental listening to the very same oh so well-known sounds... tap-tap... rumble-rumble.... huich!... crank-crank :lol:

And yesterday I found Empire DeLuxe, which I only knew from Amiga days as the original Empire. Spend half the night and all day with it...

What oldie is next, Pacman...? Carrier command...!? Anyone knows if it could be picked up somehwere?

I also tried Faery Tale Adventure, but the PC version looked and sounded so ugly that I gave up immediately...

[JSLTIGER]

Anybody else remember Leisure Suit Larry? Or the Lemmings?

[The Avon Lady]

Digger. :rock:

[Torplexed]

Got an arcade pack a few years ago. Asteriods, Missle Command, Battlezone, Centipede, and Tempest.

Missle Command was my old fave. However, there is not as much on the line since you don't have to feed the computer a quarter everytime you play.

[Gizzmoe]

Good old times... <sigh> :) Racing Destruction Kit, M.U.L.E., Impossible Mission, Space Taxi, Seven Cities of Gold, Bruce Lee, Pitfall, Choplifter, Castle Wolfenstein, Archon, Paradroid (:rock:), Lode Runner, Spy vs. Spy.

[Oberon]

COMMANDER KEEN!!!

Or Wings of Fury on my Dads old computer, trying to figure out how to land on that carrier and usually ploughing at full speed into the deck.
Good days.

[Skybird]

Eevery couple of years I watch my old VHS copy of "Wargames" - just to listen to the background sounds from that arcade hall... :lol: thazt sound brings back memoeires (although as a boy I was too shy and also had no money to go there and waste some coins... Pool and Taifun came later).

Plenty of that arcade stuff can be found legally here:
<Edit: See my comments below JCC>

and old PC and Amiga games:
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[STEED]

I still got a Sega Meger Drive and still works ok :up:

[gdogghenrikson]

the 8-Bit Nintendo!

[Rotary Crewman]

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Excellent source for legal abandonware.

Wings of Fury was a favorite of mine. Also, Knights Of The Sky. Used to always help the lads on the ground by bombing a few trench positions. Could never find the Red Baron though :roll:

[Oberon]

the 8-Bit Nintendo!

The Original Super Mario Brothers....I think my Dad used to play that more than I did, I'd come home from school and find him trying to get through one of the end of zone castles :)

[sonar732]

Be carefull on that post Rotary Crewman. I might suggest looking at the Mame emulator at http://www.mame.net/

[tycho102]

Or Wings of Fury on my Dads old computer, trying to figure out how to land on that carrier and usually ploughing at full speed into the deck.
Good days.

I recently played that on an Apple //e emulator (WinApple, I think). Worked really outstanding. Even found a cheat for it that I didn't know existed (infinite planes, I believe).

Quite a few of the emulators have come a long ways, not to mention processing power. The C64 and Amiga, Atari 800, SNES, NES, Atari 2600/5200/7200, Mame. Just about anything you remember can be found, if not the exact version you played, another console's version of it.

And a lot of them have not lost their appeal. Destroyer is still neat. Rescue Raiders, Airheart, Captain Goodnight, Conan, Bruce Lee, Defender of the Crown, Arctic Fox, Elite, Skyfox, Infiltrator, Beach-Head.

There's also SCUMM for all of the Lucasarts games. You can play Sam 'n Max will all the sound effects, Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle.



Tooooooooooooooo many games that need re-playin'. Not enough hours in the day. :ping:

[Skybird]

Tycho,

Where have you seen Arctic Fox? Would make a nice "first tank sim ever" in the tanksim-forum.

There was also a scrolling action tank shooter in satellite view, name was Firepower. I bought it back then cause I thought it were the conversion of the hex-cosim of the same name, late 80s.

[Rotary Crewman]

Be carefull on that post Rotary Crewman. I might suggest looking at the Mame emulator at http://www.mame.net/

I'm confused what happened to the link i posted...why do i need to be careful? :-?

[John Channing]

Be carefull on that post Rotary Crewman. I might suggest looking at the Mame emulator at http://www.mame.net/

I'm confused what happened to the link i posted...why do i need to be careful? :-?

Well... I'm glad you asked.

The whole area of "abandonware" is a grey one at best. Many people confuse the term "abandonware" with public domaine. Abandonware is simply software that is no longer supported by the original publishers (a lot of whom no longer exist). But... that does not mean that it is legal to put it up on a website for free download.

Several of the titles on all three of the sites still exist under copyrite, so they could not be considered as available in the public domaine.

As this site has a long standing policy against the illegal downloading of software AND could be liable for post links to downlads I made the decision to edit the links.

JCC

[Skybird]

J.C.,

Okay, I knew those rules from the FAQ, but I wasn't aware of that sites that offer so-called abandonware in public and on "official" websites eventually may have a legality issue. Sorry if I touched a sensitive issue.

I'm glad to report that the two that I listed, DM Java and Empire DL,are confirmed to be free and legal downloads on their dedicated websites, while Speedball2 has been bought on CD via ebay.

[Torplexed]

I remember burning through all of SSI's "General" games. Panzer General, Allied General, Fantasy General, and Star General. Not the most realistic operational games ever devised (hated the way planes hung in the air) but at the time the SVGA graphics were the crispest I'd ever seen. :cool:

http://www.pcplayer.de/bilder/aktuell/specials/pg/p2.jpg

Actually, Fantasy General was one of the better games of that genre at the time. Star General....well...was probably one General game too many.

[Rotary Crewman]

Cheers for clearing that up John. Wont happen again!

Panzer General was superb, never managed to do very well on it, but i always had a damn good go at it

[Iceman]

Walka..Walka...Walka....my kids love this site. :)You sank my battleship lol.. ;)

http://www.ultimatearcade.com/

[Dowly]

Wings of Fury, Spy vs. Spy, Carrier Command and Speedball-- the best games in the world! :yep:

[STEED]

Cheers for clearing that up John. Wont happen again!

Panzer General was superb, never managed to do very well on it, but i always had a damn good go at it


What about Pazer General 2 thats a good old game :up: