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Unreleased arcade shoot em up found
 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-08 18:21 [#02491154]
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i love stuff like this


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2016-01-10 14:02 [#02491208]
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looks dope,
gotta have another shot at air busters too.
what are your fav+ mame roms, flake?



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-10 16:39 [#02491213]
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im playing alot of R-type 2 at the moment
Battle bakraid unlimited is my favourite arcade Shumup
i love all the classics, outrun, robotron, defender, pacman,
final fight, star wars arcade, space harrier etc etc.. very
much a nostalgia thing, not many games hold up to the test
of time, as a majority of arcade games are coin
munchers and its hard to beat them without using loads of
credits which i find less fun, still there are some absolute
classics out there




 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-10 19:45 [#02491221]
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Does anyone else really miss the atmosphere of arcades the
sights the sounds, the music, one of main reasons i like
electronic music is cos of good game soundtracks


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-10 21:52 [#02491222]
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that looks (but more colourful) like xenon 2 my fave game
for the st

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yes i love arcades, all the different jingles out of sync
with each other, bleeps and cash clatering. and if your
lucky a sea view out side with chips and seagulls and sea
salt up the nostrils.

salamander ...outrun...gauntlet...star wars : )


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-10 22:23 [#02491226]
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yeah my brother had xenon on the ST the first one where
there was a little video in the corner with the guy with
shades on

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I had xenon 2 on the gameboy but it wasnt very good

i loved speedball 2 and chaos engine, bitmap brothers games
always meant high quality gaming

I think i spent most of the early 90s watching my brother
play elite 2 after he brought it home from university

what other ST games do you like?


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-10 22:28 [#02491227]
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joy of sticks channel:)

i had xenon also could never complete either game.

defender of the crown was good fun...not shoot em up just a
strategy game.



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-10 22:31 [#02491228]
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yes had defender of the crown great graphics/atmos for a mid
80s game


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-10 22:33 [#02491229]
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might load it up in STEEM emulator tomorrow evening and have
a go for old times sake


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-10 22:38 [#02491231]
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havent used steem in ages. that was fun.

i did so for defend of the crown ..I find bristol
/Gloucester area as home castle...is far easier to win.

i want an arcade machine like that circuit board thing you
posted. lol

i want an arcade at a beach that is free for everyone to
use. with star wars outrun and shoot em ups and stuff.

and princess ilea in her metal bikini as my assistant.



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-10 22:41 [#02491232]
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I will test you strategy

LAZY_TITLE

americans always have the best crap


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-10 22:50 [#02491233]
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awesome, shall watch when im tucked up in bed later on.
lol.



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-10 22:50 [#02491234]
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amazing still


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-10 22:51 [#02491235]
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im just tucked in now, i was ordered to bed


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-11 02:07 [#02491237]
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cool museum vid... i only knew a hand full of the games.

how the hek they afford to keep it all running?, so much
electricity.

i was gonna post that very star wars game, i saw it on joy
of sticks channel

he just posted it yesterday or the Atari ST
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offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-11 15:26 [#02491258]
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little green desktop, nice channel


 

offline EVOL from a long time ago on 2016-01-15 23:58 [#02491376]
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that's great! have you tried this?


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2016-01-16 00:15 [#02491377]
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defender of the crown, love completing it, never could as a
kid

only won the joust about twice out of five hundred times


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-16 02:49 [#02491382]
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yeah joust is near impossible. i only won 'accidentally'
about twice also, in hundreds of attempts. i can complete
the game from the Gloucester area as home castle.


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-16 02:51 [#02491383]
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not tried that game yet Mr EVOL. looks very cool, like
xenon.


 

offline big from lsg on 2016-01-16 09:12 [#02491387]
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i thought the swords fighting at the castle was hard.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-16 16:07 [#02491394]
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ive been meaning to try the raiden games gog

you can get them for your pc at GOG.com i love gog.com


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-16 16:08 [#02491395]
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you can also get defender of the crown on there if you dont
feel like emulating it


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-16 17:32 [#02491396]
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l' b, i usually win with sir Geoffrey long sword. Hold
down defense and only occasionally stab with your sword when
the computer player drops his defense.

it would be cool to have multi player.

we could all have a castle ....and play over t' 'nets.



 

offline freqy on 2016-01-16 17:33 [#02491397]
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im sure the Atari st sounded better : /

gog doftc


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-16 17:54 [#02491398]
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LAZY_TITLE

atari st disc here, its were i get all old games from


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-16 17:57 [#02491399]
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amiga usually had best game music cos of superior sound
chip, Atari St was obviously more popular with musicians
because of inbuilt midi ports, but in game music was often
inferior to amiga, not all games though


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-16 18:34 [#02491401]
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are these actual st files that need to be put to a floppy?

do these require special software to do that?or is this a
steem thing? i forgot , long time since i did games. too
much stuff to do, errgg : 9

I fancy a few goes though.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-16 19:14 [#02491402]
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they are disk image files i think, you can deffo use them
for steem but i think you also might be able to stick em on
a physical floppy and use em that way, i'll just check


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-16 19:19 [#02491403]
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just checked, the .st files can actually be converted to
proper atari disk image format, with a program called
st2disk, i'll have a look around the internet for it


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-16 19:23 [#02491404]
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apparently this program can create real disk images from .st
format on a real Atari ST, i dont have one anyone so i cant
check unfortunately


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-16 19:52 [#02491405]
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id do better on steem as i dont have monitor/ tv for my st.
: p

have found steem so shall try it out when back on my windows
pc.

; )



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-16 20:54 [#02491406]
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Steem is pretty good as emulators go i like the simple
interface

cheers


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2016-01-17 09:15 [#02491409]
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xenon 2 must have been my absolute favourite,
the deep sea/alien/space theme,
buying upgrades from the predator style alien.
i remember playing this on my bleepy commodore pc
and only finishing it due to the massive slowdowns due to
the laser upgrades in later levels :)
that magic moment when youre finally able to insert the
third disk for the first time...


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2016-01-17 09:34 [#02491410]
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apart from that played a lot of puzzlers and adventures back
then. Swap (which is worth a look if you havetn played, it
aged well), Sokoban, Arkanoid (Breakout),
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (couldnt get enough of the
bleepy indy melody and crawling along the train intro)

There practically are no arcades in germany at all,
because of some stupid laws.
So coin operating was only possible on holidays in the
netherlands, italy and france. arcades and vacation is a
magic combination. like freqy said, seagulls, sea breeze and
sweet sounds :) :)


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-17 12:12 [#02491411]
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for some reason i was aware that graphical adventure games
were really big in Germany, i think i read it in a magazine
once, i love them as well.

what i found odd was that the home computer market never
matured to the same degree as the UK, in the UK it was
absolutely massive seemed like everyone was developing
computer games in the 80's. perhaps im misinformed and it
was a big thing, but Germany has the reputation for being
technologically bang up to date, very surprised there were
no arcades allowed, perhaps thats the reason because
everyone in the UK tried to do their own home conversions of
arcade games like pacman, space invaders and thats where
they gained their programming skills



 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2016-01-17 13:03 [#02491412]
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there's a hacked version of defender of the crown with the
joust and nightraid parts hacked so you always win


 

offline umbroman3 from United Kingdom on 2016-01-17 13:04 [#02491413]
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and there's a bug where you can attack castles without
owning any catapults


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-17 20:12 [#02491418]
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Final victory !

Sir Geoffrey longsword is King : )

i initially had steem on at 64 mhz, the jousting and
catapults were like 30 times quicker, it would have been
easier to create new multiverse. 8mhz was needed.



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-17 20:31 [#02491420]
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my brother got a 28mhz board flitted to his ST a few years
after he got it you should have seen how fast street fighter
2 was, completely ruined his ST after a while


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-17 20:42 [#02491421]
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tested his reflexes tho. : )

Im on linux on wine emulate windows on steem so i think my
latency is a bit high. super sprint was not as much fun.
but nice to hear the music.



 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-17 20:47 [#02491422]
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it was like adhd simulator

have you had a go at xenon 2 yet?

carrier command was another one of my faves but the bastard
enemy carrier cheated


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-17 23:00 [#02491423]
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not yet as i dont have a joy pad thing.

and my pc is in the other room, as i control it through a
wall to shut the thing up, lets me run fans fast. id need an
extension lead for a joypad. and i have latency on
linux..have to get it working on windows too me finks.

.xenon2 will hav e to wait a couple o weeks :t too busy at
pres to set it up : (

but i shall hav a go...never completed that game, i think i
got to the end.


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-17 23:02 [#02491424]
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..end master, but if i remember if one fails, one hath's to
go back to the beginning, its like the worst computer game
feeling, as the end level is so far away.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-17 23:04 [#02491425]
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i'll have a go tomorrow evening and let you know what i
think

talking of joysticks

I had the transparent blue one with shiny silver chrome
plastic finish


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-17 23:04 [#02491426]
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LAZY_TITLE amiga vs st


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-17 23:05 [#02491427]
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target=_blank>i remember the theme tune well



 

offline freqy on 2016-01-17 23:08 [#02491428]
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coooool : P


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2016-01-17 23:10 [#02491429]
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john carpenter assault on Precinct 13


 

offline freqy on 2016-01-17 23:11 [#02491430]
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i used to have that j0ystick red/blk. : )


 


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