Retro Gamer forum

Bit of thread necromancy here eh? ;) First computer I had was a Sord M5 which I was donated by my auntie when my cousins had given up on it , it wasn't a great computer but had a brilliant manual (taught myself BASIC with it ;)) , my first proper gaming computer though was an Atari 800xl (great mach...

The C64 version was a pretty decent stab at a conversion , but the SMS version is probably one of the best reasons to actually HAVE an SMS(that and its sequel Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap) .
The Megadrive one was Wonderboy in Monster World by the way ,

thevulture wrote:Looks like i`m late to the party here, Loads of you good folk nominated things that sprang to mind.But, cue shock horror No mention of:

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Draconus.

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Draconus was great but it was a full price game originally .(one of Zepplins first I think)

Abrakebabra , heh , never actually eaten there sober , although the chip bagguettes are lovely. Anyway , theres always lino ritchie . http://www.linoritchie.ie ( a shop selling linoleum and carpets), but only on floors , if you're looking for something fitted for when you're dancing on the ceiling y...

I >think< I still had the atari 8 bit at the time , so from memory I got a copy of Gnome Ranger and ha! Cassette 50 (and I'd more fun breaking the games and tweaking the amount of lives etc in them actually) , may have got some more stuff as well (think I got a hi fi between myself and my brother)

Don't, please, get me started. I just do not get it. Sure I understand licensing issues, translation issues, copyright, etc., but why is Europe so utterly dumped upon with this kind of thing? Sony promised, as seem to recall, that there would be 100 PS1 games up on PSN by Christmas. Well here we ar...

Hey , I always love reading the Feedback thread , it's always chockful of righteous indignation and I always find that entertaining: Regarding the christmas cover , I couldn't give a fiddlers , maybe because the games mags I read back then didn't really do them , and I'm a bit of a scrooge when it c...

Gauntlet , no question! You cant beat it for 4 player fun with a few mates.
It's a pity the DS remake is in limbo at the moment though..

Being on a forum full of Speccy fans who claim every arcade conversion was better on their ZX, oh wait ;) (>cough< I liked chakan on the megadrive by the way) I'm a Spectrum fan but I'd happily concede that there was no arcade conversion at all that was at its best on the machine. There are still a...

Zybex on the Atari 8bit (it had a release on the c64 and spectrum as well) For the atari it was probably the best horizontal shooter on the system , and one of the few "modern ones" i.e. powerups and bosses etc. It looked fantastic , sounded great and had an ingenious control system.It would have be...

Being on a forum full of Speccy fans who claim every arcade conversion was better on their ZX, oh wait
(>cough< I liked chakan on the megadrive by the way)

More forum members that haven't posted for quite a while: .. dr bob ....l heya, I had a baby daughter (well my wife did ,I helped) at the start of the year ,she's taking most of our time ,(she's fantastic though!) I had to knock the retro stuff on the head for a bit . Also we'd moved into smaller a...

The larger Easons (Large newsagents chain in Ireland , Uk equivilent would be WHSmiths I guess.)in Dublin stock it , so if theres one remotely near you it may be worth seeing of they can have a copy sent down each month for you. I'd the same reasons for not subbing myself , its not the magazines fau...

a..t the risk of a thread hijack , that is pretty cool , I'd known of mmc/sd card based cartridge devices , but that seems to be a hell of a lot better. It is a pretty pricey though compared to the xe1541 cable though (which is about €15 or so on ebay. It is more expensive yes, but you don't need...

markopoloman wrote:B5 back in the lead - where it should stay.

...boo:(