Computer Games New and Old

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

There was a game I played on my kids' Sega Genesis, called "Zombies Ate My Neighbors". This is one of the very best games I have ever played. I didn't just play it once, I played it many times, mainly because it took lots of tries to beat it, and it was a lot of fun, even if you got killed. I am proud to say I have beaten the game, and all of its zombies, werewolves, Draculas, evil clones, giant ants, stinging plants, behemoth killer worms, chainsaw murderers, giant stomping toddlers, and the rest of the damn things that the game threw at me, three times. (Admittedly, that's probably just 3 wins vs. 100 losses, because the game ain't easy.)

If you still have an old Sega Genesis box that works, I strongly recommend that you go out and buy this game. You will love it. It's truly fun to play.

Once again, This is one of the best games I have ever played, and you need to play and beat it too, before the Grim Reaper comes knocking on your door, and takes you to a place for all eternity that has NO video games to play.

p.s. If you don't have a Sega Genesis box, you can probably pick one up on eBay for a song. I say get the Sega Genesis box, if you don't have one, and buy "Zombies Ate My Neighbors". (The game probably won't cost a Hell of a lot either). The game will give you hours of fun, and I anticipate that everyone, who plays it, will thank me for turning them on to a game they love. By-the-way, the Sega Genesis will play a lot of other old games, that you might like, which can also be picked up very cheaply. It's not a bad game platform to own.

p.p.s I don't think the game was ever released in a format that could be played on a personal computer.

THIS IS A STRONG CLOUDY RECOMMENDATION...! ! !

Here are some links that show video of actual game play:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut9oWWI0mWM (The beginning, and you have a long way to go...!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDp6P_I7q2g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeq5s0bt ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2RJIdq ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um4cg0T5 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5CHhy5A ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dapELS90 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ73gT2C ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzYl48VM ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLJXeieh ... re=related (The end, and you're a WINNER...!)

Tiamat · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:45 am

Cloudy wrote:

Here is my list of obvious ones, which everybody knows and played:

"Asteroids"
"Pack-Man"
"Space Invaders"
"Break out"
"Centipede"
"Dig Dug"
"Donkey Kong"
"Frogger"
"Missile Command"
"Q Bert"

Here is my list of more obscure ones that I loved to play:

"Elevator Action"
"Ikari Warriors" (Might have just played this on a 5 1/4" floppy.)
"Galaxian" (Perhaps not so obscure, but one of my favorites)
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
"1942"

I loved all those games and even today, Elevator Action and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are two of the most played games on my MAME emulator. Elevator Action was such a simple but so fun game. Start at the top of the building and search rooms, progressively working towards getting to your car at the bottom. But after about the 3rd time, it starts to get really hard. Enemies who normally miss their shots start becoming very accurate.

I always loved the arcade versions to all three Star Wars movies too. They're a little hard to play on mame with a keyboard because of the way the controller was configured though. Also Circa 1990 was a game-show themed game called Smash TV where you got certain weapons and could collect cash and prizes but floods of people would enter the room and you had to keep them at bay with your weapons.

Great times

--Tony

Tiamat · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:48 am

Cloudy wrote:

There was a game I played on my kids' Sega Genesis, called "Zombies Ate My Neighbors". This is one of the very best games I have ever played. I didn't just play it once, I played it many times, mainly because it took lots of tries to beat it, and it was a lot of fun, even if you got killed. I am proud to say I have beaten the game, and all of its zombies, werewolves, Draculas, evil clones, giant ants, stinging plants, behemoth killer worms, chainsaw murders, giant stomping toddlers, and the rest of the damn things that the game threw at me, three times. (Admittedly, that's probably just 3 wins vs. 100 loses, because the game ain't easy.)

If you still have an old Sega Genesis box that works, I strongly recommend that you go out and buy this game. You will love it. It's truly fun to play.

Once again, This is one of the best games I have ever played, and you need to play and beat it too, before the Grim Reaper comes knocking on your door, and takes you to a place for all eternity that has NO videod games to play.

p.s. If you don't have a Sega Genesis box, you can probably pick one up on eBay for a song. I say get the Sega Genesis box, if you don't have one, and buy "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" (which probably won't cost a Hell of a lot either). The game will give you hours of fun, and I anticipate that everyone, who plays it, will thank me for turning them on to a game they love. By-the-way, the Sega Genesis will play a lot of other old games, that you might like, and can be picked up very cheaply. It's not a bad game platform to own.

p.p.s I don't think the game was ever released in a format that could be played on a personal computer.

THIS IS A STRONG CLOUDY RECOMMENDATION...! ! !

I remember this game. I think it came out in the early 90's. maybe '92 or '93 but that's a guess. Sadly I never had a Sega Genesis so I never played this one but sounded right up my alley as far as games go.

Dante · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:26 am

Cloudy wrote:

I remember what you said about "The Seventh Guest" the first time you told me about it. (At least I think so.) If my failing memory serves me right, I believe you told me that it was so real that it was frighening to play it. Immediately, I decided that's my kind of game, and I went out and bought it. Sadly, it would not play on the operating system I had at the time. (Proibably XP) So I have yet been able to experience the terror and fright of "The Seventh Guest". I've still got it, and I'm hoping that someday, somehow, I will get that sucker fired up, and find out how terrifying and difficult it is.

The Seventh Guest is so old (I believe it was the first big game on CD - back in 1993), that it doesn't run on new operating systems. They are in the works on getting it re-released so it can run on newer computers. In order to run it, you have to go through a LOT of gyrations. When you play it on the iPad, for instance, the code is so old that the parts that were based on processor clocks (I used to run it on a 25 megahertz computer!) go REALLLLLLY fast, destroying the atmosphere completely.

It's a game to play by yourself, in the dark, with the speakers up. The atmosphere is 90% of it. Granted, playing it again, parts of it haven't aged so well, but for it being 20 years old, it is quite incredible.

Unfortunately, in the new version for iPad they removed three of the best puzzles in the game (they are working on getting them back in), including the most fiendishly hard "puzzle" ever put into a video game, IMO (the microscope puzzle/game).

By the way, the music is possibly the best part. The Fat Man did an amazing job on it.

This was a good example -- for 1993 this was absolutely incredible. BTW, have his CDs, just as good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rV1_1SMaSU By the way, don't watch the video past 1:15, as it will ruin parts of the game

scar · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:57 pm **Posts:** 2218

Dante wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

I remember what you said about "The Seventh Guest" the first time you told me about it. (At least I think so.) If my failing memory serves me right, I believe you told me that it was so real that it was frighening to play it. Immediately, I decided that's my kind of game, and I went out and bought it. Sadly, it would not play on the operating system I had at the time. (Proibably XP) So I have yet been able to experience the terror and fright of "The Seventh Guest". I've still got it, and I'm hoping that someday, somehow, I will get that sucker fired up, and find out how terrifying and difficult it is.

The Seventh Guest is so old (I believe it was the first big game on CD - back in 1993), that it doesn't run on new operating systems. They are in the works on getting it re-released so it can run on newer computers. In order to run it, you have to go through a LOT of gyrations. When you play it on the iPad, for instance, the code is so old that the parts that were based on processor clocks (I used to run it on a 25 megahertz computer!) go REALLLLLLY fast, destroying the atmosphere completely.

It's a game to play by yourself, in the dark, with the speakers up. The atmosphere is 90% of it. Granted, playing it again, parts of it haven't aged so well, but for it being 20 years old, it is quite incredible.

Unfortunately, in the new version for iPad they removed three of the best puzzles in the game (they are working on getting them back in), including the most fiendishly hard "puzzle" ever put into a video game, IMO (the microscope puzzle/game).

By the way, the music is possibly the best part. The Fat Man did an amazing job on it.

This was a good example -- for 1993 this was absolutely incredible. BTW, have his CDs, just as good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rV1_1SMaSU By the way, don't watch the video past 1:15, as it will ruin parts of the game

Dante, that link is really boring, since my work computer doesn't have speakers

MiniYoda · **Joined:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:55 pm **Posts:** 733

Cloudy wrote:

There was a game I played on my kids' Sega Genesis, called "Zombies Ate My Neighbors". This is one of the very best games I have ever played. I didn't just play it once, I played it many times, mainly because it took lots of tries to beat it, and it was a lot of fun, even if you got killed. I am proud to say I have beaten the game, and all of its zombies, werewolves, Draculas, evil clones, giant ants, stinging plants, behemoth killer worms, chainsaw murders, giant stomping toddlers, and the rest of the damn things that the game threw at me, three times. (Admittedly, that's probably just 3 wins vs. 100 loses, because the game ain't easy.)

If you still have an old Sega Genesis box that works, I strongly recommend that you go out and buy this game. You will love it. It's truly fun to play.

Once again, This is one of the best games I have ever played, and you need to play and beat it too, before the Grim Reaper comes knocking on your door, and takes you to a place for all eternity that has NO videod games to play.

p.s. If you don't have a Sega Genesis box, you can probably pick one up on eBay for a song. I say get the Sega Genesis box, if you don't have one, and buy "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" (which probably won't cost a Hell of a lot either). The game will give you hours of fun, and I anticipate that everyone, who plays it, will thank me for turning them on to a game they love. By-the-way, the Sega Genesis will play a lot of other old games, that you might like, and can be picked up very cheaply. It's not a bad game platform to own.

p.p.s I don't think the game was ever released in a format that could be played on a personal computer.

THIS IS A STRONG CLOUDY RECOMMENDATION...! ! !

While it might not be on the PC format, there is a Sega emulator and that probably would allow the game to run on your PC.

pengwn · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:27 pm

Cloudy wrote:

pengwn wrote:

My favourite vintage game is easily Ultima V. A world to explore, spells to cast, puzzles to solve, dungeons to loot, monsters to bash, a king to rescue . . . pretty much a classic RPG. Nice, crisp graphics, too -- by 1987's standards. It's a nice bonus to still have the book and cloth map that came with the Atari ST version

"Ultimate V" sounds good go me. I'd like to get it, however, when you say it's a vintage game from 1987, I've got a feeling that it won't run on Windows 7. I already have boxes of old computer games in my basement waiting for me to find some way to rescue them from the dust and cobwebs, so they can once again dance proudly across the monitor, and tantalize me like they did in years gone by. I would hate to have to put "Ultimate V" down there with all the rest to gather dust and cobwebs.

If there is a way to make this game run on Windows 7 please let me know.

Thanks.

I still run XP, so I don't know if this will work for you on your shiny newfangled OS, but I use the DOSBox emulator, and it works like a charm for my old games

http://www.dosbox.com/
Click the FAQ or message me for help getting it running smoothly, if you choose to go that route. I could also send you the files for Ultima V if you want to give that a go

EDIT: I took at look a PQ. I can't devote much time to it at work, obviously, but it's certainly made my to do list for the weekend! Thanks!!

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Tiamat wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

Here is my list of obvious arcade games, which everybody knows and played:

"Asteroids"
"Pack-Man"
"Space Invaders"
"Break out"
"Centipede"
"Dig Dug"
"Donkey Kong"
"Frogger"
"Missile Command"
"Q Bert"

Here is my list of more obscure ones that I loved to play:

"Elevator Action"
"Ikari Warriors" (Might have just played this on a 5 1/4" floppy.)
"Galaxian" (Perhaps not so obscure, but one of my favorites)
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
"1942"

I loved all those games and even today, Elevator Action and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are two of the most played games on my MAME emulator. Elevator Action was such a simple but so fun game. Start at the top of the building and search rooms, progressively working towards getting to your car at the bottom. But after about the 3rd time, it starts to get really hard. Enemies who normally miss their shots start becoming very accurate.

I always loved the arcade versions to all three Star Wars movies too. They're a little hard to play on mame with a keyboard because of the way the controller was configured though. Also Circa 1990 was a game-show themed game called Smash TV where you got certain weapons and could collect cash and prizes but floods of people would enter the room and you had to keep them at bay with your weapons.

Great times

--Tony

Thank goodness, I am not alone on the what I would consider as relatively obscure arcade games of the past, that were fun to play. I'm glad you also liked "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Elevator Action". I don't think I ever played any of the "Star Wars" arcade games, though I can vaugely remember a game, with having to fly down through channels on a "Death Star" type thing, evading or shooting down the bad guys, and dropping a bomb at the right spot. If that was a "Star Wars" game, I was no good at it, and moved over to something else to play. I know for sure that I never played a game-show themed game called "Smash". Heck, I probably wouldn't have been any good at that one either.

I'm surprised that you never played "1942". It was a great game, where you bombed ships and fortifications, shot down enemy bombers, dog fought with enemy fighters, and probably some stuff that I can't remember. It was an up scrolling game, and I think it (or something like it) was available for the Sega Genesis platform.

p.s. I believe that there were additional "1942" type arcade games, which were very similar. Pretty sure there was one called "1944", and some others, but the only one I ever played was "1942".

Dante · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:15 pm

Cloudy wrote:

I'm surprised that you never played "1942". It was a great game, where you bombed ships and fortifications, shot down enemy bombers, dog fought with enemy fighters, and probably some stuff that I can't remember. It was an up scrolling game, and I think it (or something like it) was available for the Sega Genesis platform.

p.s. I believe that there were additional "1942" type arcade games, which were very similar. Pretty sure there was one called "1944", and some others, but the only one I ever played was "1942".

You can still play 1942, 1943, etc. on the Arcade game at Bungalow Joes.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Tiamat wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

There was a game I played on my kids' Sega Genesis, called "Zombies Ate My Neighbors". This is one of the very best games I have ever played. I didn't just play it once, I played it many times, mainly because it took lots of tries to beat it, and it was a lot of fun, even if you got killed. I am proud to say I have beaten the game, and all of its zombies, werewolves, Draculas, evil clones, giant ants, stinging plants, behemoth killer worms, chainsaw murders, giant stomping toddlers, and the rest of the damn things that the game threw at me, three times. (Admittedly, that's probably just 3 wins vs. 100 loses, because the game ain't easy.)

If you still have an old Sega Genesis box that works, I strongly recommend that you go out and buy this game. You will love it. It's truly fun to play.

Once again, This is one of the best games I have ever played, and you need to play and beat it too, before the Grim Reaper comes knocking on your door, and takes you to a place for all eternity that has NO videod games to play.

p.s. If you don't have a Sega Genesis box, you can probably pick one up on eBay for a song. I say get the Sega Genesis box, if you don't have one, and buy "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" (which probably won't cost a Hell of a lot either). The game will give you hours of fun, and I anticipate that everyone, who plays it, will thank me for turning them on to a game they love. By-the-way, the Sega Genesis will play a lot of other old games, that you might like, and can be picked up very cheaply. It's not a bad game platform to own.

p.p.s I don't think the game was ever released in a format that could be played on a personal computer.

THIS IS A STRONG CLOUDY RECOMMENDATION...! ! !

I remember this game. I think it came out in the early 90's. maybe '92 or '93 but that's a guess. Sadly I never had a Sega Genesis so I never played this one but sounded right up my alley as far as games go.

Hell, just go on eBay and buy a Sega Genesis platform. It probably won't cost you but a few bucks, and the "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" game will probably cost less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks. I will be very surprised, if you don't love the game. Go for it...!

When you get it, let me know, and I will give you some tips, if you ever need them. (Don't believe there is any walkthrough for the game. I think there are too many variables for a straight-line walkthrough to work.)

p.s. You will also have a computer game platform, that can play a lot of other games.

zog741 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:37 pm

Cloudy wrote:

I know for sure that I never played a game-show themed game called "Smash". Heck, I probably wouldn't have been any good at that one either.

Actually, the game was called Smash TV. I recall that at the very end, the ultimate monster that you faced was the game show host himself.

You asked about Tempest on a prior post. It was a game that had three controls: a Fire and a Super Zapper button on the left, and a spinner control on the right. You could start at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9. The levels each had different shapes (at least up to level 16; after that the shapes repeated, but the colors changed.

-- RWM

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Dante wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

I'm surprised that you never played "1942". It was a great game, where you bombed ships and fortifications, shot down enemy bombers, dog fought with enemy fighters, and probably some stuff that I can't remember. It was an up scrolling game, and I think it (or something like it) was available for the Sega Genesis platform.

p.s. I believe that there were additional "1942" type arcade games, which were very similar. Pretty sure there was one called "1944", and some others, but the only one I ever played was "1942".

You can still play 1942, 1943, etc. on the Arcade game at Bungalow Joes.

Here's a link a video that shows some "1942" game play:

Here's a link to some video of the arcade game, "1942"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FXaw4Ev7Gw

Here's a link to some video of the arcade game, "1942"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FXaw4Ev7Gw

You've got to be kidding me... I can't believe it...! You're joking, right? Where the Hell did they ever come up with these games? Assuming, you are serious, I guess I'll have to break into my piggy bank, scoop up a bunch of quarters, and head over to Bungalow Joes.

Thanks for the tip.

p.s. Still got a feeling that you are just joshing me.

Dante · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:07 pm

Cloudy wrote:

Dante wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

I'm surprised that you never played "1942". It was a great game, where you bombed ships and fortifications, shot down enemy bombers, dog fought with enemy fighters, and probably some stuff that I can't remember. It was an up scrolling game, and I think it (or something like it) was available for the Sega Genesis platform.

p.s. I believe that there were additional "1942" type arcade games, which were very similar. Pretty sure there was one called "1944", and some others, but the only one I ever played was "1942".

You can still play 1942, 1943, etc. on the Arcade game at Bungalow Joes.

You've got to be kidding me... I can't believe it...! You're joking, right? Where the Hell did they ever come up with these games? Assuming, you are serious, I guess I'll have to break into my piggy bank, scoop up a bunch of quarters, and head over to Bungalow Joes.

Thanks for the tip.

p.s. Still got a feeling that you are just joshing me.

Nope, not kidding. They have an arcade game with about 100 games on it.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Nope, not kidding. They have an arcade game with about 100 games on it.[/quote]
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wow...! I guess I will have to smash my piggy bank, grab those quarters, and get my butt over to Bungalow Joes.

Hmm, if this machine has about 100 games on it, there is a pretty good possibility that it might even have more games from the past that I would like to try one more time. I'll need to check it out.

p.s. Does this machine take quarters?

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Dante wrote:

You can still play 1942, 1943, etc. on the Arcade game at Bungalow Joes.

You've got to be kidding me... I can't believe it...! You're joking, right? Where the Hell did they ever come up with these games? Assuming, you are serious, I guess I'll have to break into my piggy bank, scoop up a bunch of quarters, and head over to Bungalow Joes.

Thanks for the tip.

p.s. Still got a feeling that you are just joshing me.[/quote]

Nope, not kidding. They have an arcade game with about 100 games on it.[/quote]

Wow...! I guess I will have to smash my piggy bank, grab those quarters, and get my butt over to Bungalow Joes.

Hmm, if this machine has about 100 games on it, there is a pretty good possibility that it might even have more games from the past that I would like to try one more time. I'll need to check it out.

p.s. Does this machine take quarters?

Dante · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:19 pm

Cloudy wrote:

p.s. Does this machine take quarters?

Let me save you some quarters.
[url]
http://nintendo8.com/genre/flight/[/url]

Tiamat · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 12:10 am

Cloudy wrote:

I'm surprised that you never played "1942". It was a great game, where you bombed ships and fortifications, shot down enemy bombers, dog fought with enemy fighters, and probably some stuff that I can't remember. It was an up scrolling game, and I think it (or something like it) was available for the Sega Genesis platform.

p.s. I believe that there were additional "1942" type arcade games, which were very similar. Pretty sure there was one called "1944", and some others, but the only one I ever played was "1942".

You can still play 1942, 1943, etc. on the Arcade game at Bungalow Joes.

Sounds like a converted MAME cabinet. These things are super cool and fun to have around.

--Tony

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Dante wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

p.s. Does this machine take quarters?

Let me save you some quarters.
[url]
http://nintendo8.com/genre/flight/[/url]

Thanks, DANTE, I tried the link to the web site you gave us, and sure enough, "1942" was up there. I clicked on "1942', and it told me to click on the the box to play it. The box was blank. I clicked there repeatedly nonetheless. My clicking was to no avail, nothing happened.

I think you gave me a good link, and I'm worried that I have a problem with my computer.

Maybe, some other folks, who are on this thread might try your link, and let us know, if they got "1942" to play for them or not.

Thanks again.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

zog741 wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

I know for sure that I never played a game-show themed game called "Smash". Heck, I probably wouldn't have been any good at that one either.

Actually, the game was called Smash TV. I recall that at the very end, the ultimate monster that you faced was the game show host himself.

You asked about Tempest on a prior post. It was a game that had three controls: a Fire and a Super Zapper button on the left, and a spinner control on the right. You could start at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9. The levels each had different shapes (at least up to level 16; after that the shapes repeated, but the colors changed.

-- RWM

They sound like good games, but I never played them. Maybe DANTE can figure out we can play them today.

(Hell, I think I might be putting too much pressure on DANTE.)

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Here are my next ten games to play, that I think are pretty good, if you can get them to work on your computer:

1 - "Bruce Lee" (A great early DOS game) (You might be able to find it online.)
2 - "Commander Keen" (Another great DOS game)
3 - "Marble Madness" (Yep, another old DOS game) (I never was able to finish this game, though I got close several times.)
4 - "Castle Wolfenstein" (The 1st original "Castle Wolfenstein" game, and Yep, it's another early DOS game.) (There were many follow up games to the original.)
5 - "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (Surprise, it should play on your computer today.)
6 - "Martian Gothic" (One of my favorite games of all time.) (You need to go to their web site, and download a patch, to finish the game. It runs on Windows XP just fine, but I think it has problems with Windows 7.)
7 - "The Nancy Drew series of games" I think there are 21 of them now, and I'm sure there are more coming. Don't shun them, because they sound like they are for sissies. They are actually very good games, that are fairly challenging, but if you're good, you can finish them without having to resort to a walkthrough.)
8 - "Sherlock Holmes, Another Bow" (Yep, another old DOS game.) (I never could finish this game.)
9 - "Castle Adventure" (One of the earliest DOS games, but if you can find it on line, it's really good.)
10 - "Runaway: A Road Adventure" (Neat game in style of the "Monkey Island" series.) (Another one that should run on your modern computer with no problem.)

(Dang, I'm still waiting for someone else to put their ten recommendations up here. Not asking for your idea of the top ten best games of all time. I'm just waiting for ten games that you have played, that you think were pretty good. Better hurry up before CLOUDY lists them all.)

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Tiamat wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

I'm surprised that you never played "1942". It was a great game, where you bombed ships and fortifications, shot down enemy bombers, dog fought with enemy fighters, and probably some stuff that I can't remember. It was an up scrolling game, and I think it (or something like it) was available for the Sega Genesis platform.

p.s. I believe that there were additional "1942" type arcade games, which were very similar. Pretty sure there was one called "1944", and some others, but the only one I ever played was "1942".

You can still play 1942, 1943, etc. on the Arcade game at Bungalow Joes.

Sounds like a converted MAME cabinet. These things are super cool and fun to have around.

--Tony

I don't know what a converted MAME cabinet is, but I'm guessing you do, and if it let's you play "1942", I say, GO FOR IT! You will like the game.

MiniYoda · **Joined:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:55 pm **Posts:** 733

Cloudy wrote:

Sounds like a converted MAME cabinet. These things are super cool and fun to have around.

--Tony

I don't know what a converted MAME cabinet is, but I'm guessing you do, and if it let's you play "1942", I say, GO FOR IT! You will like the game.[/quote]

Cloudy, I'll try to explain MAME. It stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Based on info from WiKipedia, an Italan dude wrote computer software to emulate computer chips on an arcade machine's circuit board. Then he downloaded the software part of other chips, and with a little hocus pocus magic (or so it will seem), he was able to play an arcade game (I think the first one was Pengo) on his computer, using the keyboard for button/joystick controls. Since then, many people around the world have contributed code to emulate more chips, CPUs, and other hardware, and have uploaded game code ("ROMS"). MAME can emulate over 4,500 different arcade machines, although many of the newer ones are not functional yet.

Some people, including me, took an old arcade cabinet and added MAME instead. What I did was took a non-functional Joust cabinet and ripped out the CRT monitor, circuit boards and control panel. I then mounted a 22" PC monitor where the CRT was. I took a computer, installed MAME, downloaded the ROMS and got that part running. With the help of my brother in law, I built a four-player control panel using arcade-style buttons and joysticks you can buy on the 'net, and wired it to the computer using a keyboard controller board. When all was said and done, I had an up-right cabinet where I could play any arcade game from pre-Space Invader days to games so new I hadn't seen them in arcade parlors. I even went so far as to add emulating software for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, a few other consoles as old as the Atari 2600, and some others I never tested.

There are sites out there where you can buy pre-built MAME cabinets, or plans to build-your-own, but it just the cabinet. you need to know people (like me) who has the MAME software and ROMS. I wish I could get my cabinet down from my mother's condo. With a little work, I could be playing 1942 again

Tiamat · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:23 pm

Cloudy wrote:

Here are my next ten games to play, that I think are pretty good, if you can get them to work on your computer:

1 - "Bruce Lee" (A great early DOS game) (You might be able to find it online.)
2 - "Commander Keen" (Another great DOS game)
3 - "Marble Madness" (Yep, another old DOS game) (I never was able to finish this game, though I got close several times.)
4 - "Castle Wolfenstein" (The 1st original "Castle Wolfenstein" game, and Yep, it's another early DOS game.) (There were many follow up games to the original.)
5 - "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (Surprise, it should play on your computer today.)
6 - "Martian Gothic" (One of my favorite games of all time.) (You need to go to their web site, and download a patch, to finish the game. It runs on Windows XP just fine, but I think it has problems with Windows 7.)
7 - "The Nancy Drew series of games" There are a bunch of them now. Don't shun them, because they sound like they are for sissies. They are actually very good games, that are fairly challenging, but if you're good, you can finish them without resorting to a walkthrough.)
8 - "Sherlock Holmes, Another Bow" (Yep, another old DOS game.) (I never could finnish this game.)
9 - "Castle Adventure" (One of the earliest DOS games, but if you can find it on line, it's really good.)
10 - "Runaway: A Road Adventure" (Neat game in style of the "Monkey Island" series.)

(Dang, I'm still waiting for someone else to put their ten recommendations up here. Not asking for your idea of the top ten best games of all time. I'm just waiting for ten games that you have played, that you think were pretty good. Better hurry up before CLOUDY lists them all.)

Marble Madness was a really cool game but one I was really never good at. I loved games that used a track ball though and one of my other favorite games was one made by Atari called Crystal Castles. It was a 3d pac-man type game where you were a bear evading all these enemies to pick up these gems laying about. The game cabinet was so cool though and the track ball glowed red.

I've always been a big fan of first person shooter type games too, from the original wolfenstein through Doom to many games out on PS3 now. The orginal wolfenstein and doom were so fun to play on the PC back in the day though.

--Tony

Dante · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:36 pm

Tiamat wrote:

Marble Madness was a really cool game but one I was really never good at. I loved games that used a track ball though and one of my other favorite games was one made by Atari called Crystal Castles. It was a 3d pac-man type game where you were a bear evading all these enemies to pick up these gems laying about. The game cabinet was so cool though and the track ball glowed red.

Marble Madness was awesome on Commodore 64. Q-Bert was a great one, too.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

MiniYoda wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

There was a game I played on my kids' Sega Genesis, called "Zombies Ate My Neighbors". This is one of the very best games I have ever played. I didn't just play it once, I played it many times, mainly because it took lots of tries to beat it, and it was a lot of fun, even if you got killed. I am proud to say I have beaten the game, and all of its zombies, werewolves, Draculas, evil clones, giant ants, stinging plants, behemoth killer worms, chainsaw murders, giant stomping toddlers, and the rest of the damn things that the game threw at me, three times. (Admittedly, that's probably just 3 wins vs. 100 loses, because the game ain't easy.)

If you still have an old Sega Genesis box that works, I strongly recommend that you go out and buy this game. You will love it. It's truly fun to play.

Once again, This is one of the best games I have ever played, and you need to play and beat it too, before the Grim Reaper comes knocking on your door, and takes you to a place for all eternity that has NO videod games to play.

p.s. If you don't have a Sega Genesis box, you can probably pick one up on eBay for a song. I say get the Sega Genesis box, if you don't have one, and buy "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" (which probably won't cost a Hell of a lot either). The game will give you hours of fun, and I anticipate that everyone, who plays it, will thank me for turning them on to a game they love. By-the-way, the Sega Genesis will play a lot of other old games, that you might like, and can be picked up very cheaply. It's not a bad game platform to own.

p.p.s I don't think the game was ever released in a format that could be played on a personal computer.

THIS IS A STRONG CLOUDY RECOMMENDATION...! ! !

While it might not be on the PC format, there is a Sega emulator and that probably would allow the game to run on your PC.

Assuming I can find that Sega emulator, load it onto my computer, and figure out how to make it work, how do I plug that Sega Genesis cartridge into my PC...?

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