Poll Suggestion: Face-Off: Crowd-Combat Fighting Games

Sorry, forgot Athena. Loved the game. Played through several times. ;D https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0185892/

thank you for your suggestions, I also played Ghosts and goblins and Green Beret at arcades (Spielhallen/Flipperhallen). I never heard of Athena before, but its graphics reminded me of another arcade video game called Wonder Boy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2161454/mediaindex/

Yay! I played Wonderboy on vacation in Italy when I was around 12 to 15 years of age. Over the time I entered a large ammount of my stepfathers money into the acarde-game-machines on a camping centre. I also liked Mrs. Pac-Man. Wonderboy was a little like Athena. But Athena also got vertically into caves, or underwater, ... etc. It was about fighting monsters with each club, sword, armor, whatever one could find. I played that on the C64 with simple sprite graphics. It had a very dull version of an organ play by J.S.Bach as soundtrack, somehow awfully nice! Still like it, on nostalgic reasons. ;D

The Bach tune was in the underwater parts. Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cvD5xBx1z0

I loved the Turrican games, all of them! Turrican II playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFtLGDywZlg

When I see the Turrican video, I feel playing that game myself. It was such an intense feeling, because it was thrilling fast for an Amiga game and the oponents were fast. And I remember when I climbed secret levels ... one wrong step and then went the whole way again to get the one-up. ;D Did you have the soundtracks of games by e.g. the group Press Play on Tape? Or Instant Remedy? They covered soundtracks by Chris Huelsbeck and other C64 and Amiga musicians. Search for it on youtube. Press Play On Tape - Homecomputer (With tunes like Ghost'N'Goblins, Monty on the run, Master of magic, Zoids, Thrust, The Last Ninja, Commando, etc. Or e.g. Instant Remedy - GHOST'N'Goblins (trance version). ;D

I'ii check this out. At that time I was playing a ZX Spectrum. https://www.nme.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Spectrum-ZX-Peter-Macdiarmid-2000x1270-1-1392x884.jpg

You can buy a mini ZX Spectrum right now. I bought a mini C64 and a mini Amiga 500 last years. They are designed for use with USB-Devices. And I can load down old .lha files. They mostly work properly. They only do now work, when the keyboard is needed, because the keyboard the computers have is faked. I didn't try it with a USB keyboard, but maybe then the other files would also work propely. Another way is to download emulators like WinUAE and others. But then it becomes complicated. That's on advanced level. ;) Played Turrican yesterday, after downloading it. I must admit that I had several problems using the controller, becaused I'm addicted to joystick or mouse play. Also played International Karate +, which was great fun, yesterday. :D

At that time, 1985, the AMIGA was the computer of the rich kids 😃 Before that I played with a TRS80 monochrome phosphor green screen computer: https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/images/2013-05-06-new-old-model4.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ftkld6W3EI&ab_channel=TerryStewart

You can find the mini ZX Spectrum at: h.t.t.p.s. : / / retrogames . biz / products There is also a VIC20 from Commodore, just minimalized with fake keyboard, but funktionable to play games with.

Then I was a rich kid ... no, not really. ;))) I was just fanatic about it and tried many things to get those machines. It was good, because we were able to interchange games at the school yard. Cracked games. ... uhum ... ;) We copied them with no bad conscience. Today I wouldn't do that. But it was also the time when 320x200 pixel games were banned in Germany, because someone was shot on screen. In 320x200 pixels! ... Really ??? :D !!!

I'll watch these videos. Like such stuff. It still was agolden time, somehow. Thanks for the links. :D

I reckon that not the resolution itself was banned but the violence and "hakenkreuz" images. Good times, when the graphics on the cover of the Kompaktkassetten-Klapphuellen were 1000 times better than the graphics of the video game itself...

How many time I bought the original game and felt "reingelegt"!

Me, too! ;) The Hakenkreuz (Swastica) is still forbidden in Germany. You can dare 3 years jail for showing it! Maybe first you just get a complaint and must pay some fine after the court of law decided. It could be that you have to pay a fine first. But if you go on bringing up that behavior, they lock you up! Germany is very restrictibe about Nazi-shibboleths and -slogans. It's that far that they have forbidden combinations on number plates of cars. Combinations like SS are forbidden. No distric office will allow you such a sign. Nazi-devotion still is a very serious thing to talk about in Germany. If you would do the Hitler salute, you'd also risk jail. It's better not to deal with. Just for awareness-training it is allowed to talk about the Hitler-salute. If you use it to greet someone ... jail. You can talk the whole time about what happened there at that time in Germany, with salutes and so on , but only for awareness and from the perspective of the victims. And yes, I also felt reingelegt, by some of the covers. It's like trash videos in the vieotheque in the 1980s. The cover were pretending thing that looked absolutely tempting awesome.Then you've put in the tape and the magic was gone ... at least in the first 3rd of the tape. ;) Same for video games. They knew how to trigger us being curious about. :D

I've written "Hakenkreuz" without the quotation marks. Sorry for that!

I don't know how to write without being marked private, when it comes to that subject. The bot destroys each comment, there is no way to talk about it. So it gets forgotten. And then history repeats! :(

I still can read the email version.

Atleast that. ;)

I was watching Turrican 2 1991, one level is a copy of this level from 1990 https://youtu.be/__lvF2m40_U?si=9KWClH-tv4Dh3epX&t=224

Yes, they look approximately the same.

This is the classic example of those games: Gryzor . I was totally impressed by the cover: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/games-adverts/g/Gryzor(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).jpg but the gameplay was a complete letdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT5sZxc0R3s&ab_channel=WorldofLongplays

The 4 color graphic is very nostalgic. Did the Spectrum already have sprites? I guess - and don't nail me - the C64 had 8 free useable 64x64 sprites in up to 8 colors. Games like Ghost'N'Goblins used that sprites. I guess each shooter used them.

No, "color clash" was a problem, but nobody cared about it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PI6GwKVAeY&ab_channel=Sharopolis