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i love stuff like this |
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looks dope, gotta have another shot at air busters too. what are your fav+ mame roms, flake? |
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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 |
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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 |
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that looks (but more colourful) like xenon 2 my fave game for the st 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 : ) |
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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 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? |
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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. |
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yes had defender of the crown great graphics/atmos for a mid 80s game |
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might load it up in STEEM emulator tomorrow evening and have a go for old times sake |
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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. |
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I will test you strategy americans always have the best crap |
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awesome, shall watch when im tucked up in bed later on. lol. |
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im just tucked in now, i was ordered to bed |
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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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little green desktop, nice channel |
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that's great! have you tried this |
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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 |
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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. |
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not tried that game yet Mr EVOL. looks very cool, like xenon. |
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i thought the swords fighting at the castle was hard. |
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ive been meaning to try the raiden games you can get them for your pc at GOG.com i love gog.com |
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you can also get defender of the crown on there if you dont feel like emulating it |
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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. |
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im sure the Atari st sounded better : / |
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atari st disc here, its were i get all old games from |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. ; ) |
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Steem is pretty good as emulators go i like the simple interface cheers |
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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... |
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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 :) :) |
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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 |
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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 |
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and there's a bug where you can attack castles without owning any catapults |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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i'll have a go tomorrow evening and let you know what i think I had the transparent blue one with shiny silver chrome plastic finish |
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amiga vs st |
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target=_blank>i remember the theme tune well
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coooool : P |
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john carpenter assault on Precinct 13 |
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i used to have that j0ystick red/blk. : ) |
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