This is not a Commodore 64

[sirwiggum]

Is it not possible to get all these games on a phone these days?
The oldest games console about the house was the playstation 1 which was used and fitted with 'the chip'

idont know about getting them for a fone
but theres plenty floating about for pc
ihad thems on a cd once with an Emulator ithink igot them off mininova.org
theres snes games and Emulators on there too,

Emulators all over the net. Lot of systems, even as recent as N64s / Dreamcasts.

[highlander]

There's PS1 and PS2 emulators, NES/SNES emulators, Master System/Megadrive emulators, Gameboy/GBA/Nintendo DS emulators, Gamecube emulators, MSX emulators, X-Box emulators, Mac emulators, C=16/64/128 emulators, Amiga emulators, Amstrad emulators, BBC Micro emulators, Atari emulators, arcade machine emulators (MAME is excellent), fruit machine emulators...

Hell, you can even get an emulator for ENIAC and for the Enigma machine.

I loved the Commodore 64 because it was so versatile; it was a really modern computer, even back in the 80s - you could do so many different things with it.

And Elite was definitely one of the best games ever made - real pioneering stuff. When I moved on to the Amiga from the C=64, back in 1991, I made sure I got Elite for it. I then went on and bought Elite 2: Frontier, which consumed a huge amount of my time for years afterwards.

Nowadays, I game on PC and Playstation 3. We've got a Wii as well, but most Wii games are sh*t, and it almost never gets used. I still fire up my C=64 and Amiga emulators and play games from many years ago because they're still good games. Programmers back then had a lot of real talent, developing complex games for systems with very small amounts of memory and storage space. Gives you a real appreciation for their work.

[eoin27]

really showing my age here but when I was a kid (8-11) we had a NES! Kid Icarus, Super Mario Bros (1,2 and 3), Mega Man, Duck Hunt. Some laugh from that machine

[sirwiggum]

Had a NES too.

Had

Commodore 64
NES
Master System
Mega Drive
Sister had the SNES
PS1
N64

And the consoles I still have:

N64 (a different one from above, picked up cheap from market)
Dreamcast (picked up as a cheap games machine during university, did well seeing out the cold winter nights in St Andrews )
PS2 (bit of a graduation present)
Xbox 360 (bought when GTA4 came out as I had every one up until then)

Plus too many PCs including a home-built AMD powered beast, several laptops and netbook all of various specs and working order, a Mac Mini G4 and a Mac Classic II

[FarmerPug]

i had a ps2 the last game i played was gta vice city it was a great game, you could handbrake cars all day long.

[sirwiggum]

i had a ps2 the last game i played was gta vice city it was a great game, you could handbrake cars all day long.

Most of the GTA series are like that

Vice City Stories was the same city but with new missions, was worth it especially as it was only £20 new.

[FarmerPug]

ah yes the psp version.
The engine noises were great, and there was a noticeable difference in FWD and RWD cars.

[sirwiggum]

ah yes the psp version.
The engine noises were great, and there was a noticeable difference in FWD and RWD cars.

They used the PS2 game engine, so Liberty City and Vice City stories that I bought were the PS2 versions.

GTA4 has noticable handling between different types of car.

[FarmerPug]

driver was never a sucessful game, it was ok if you just wanted to rake the cars round the place.

[sirwiggum]

Driver was great back in the day. Pre-GTA3.

Enjoyed the hidden Newcastle track too!

For the Dreamcast "Super Runabout" was a fun wee psuedo-GTA game. Not quite full sandbox but passed a couple of hours.

[lozz]

ionly play on the Grand teft autos,
how comes they used A Polish chap in that ?
never couid work that out,

its supposed to be based in america ffs where Rock star on Drugs,

Driver was a Good game ithinks

[sirwiggum]

tukk er jerrbbs

Nico was from an unnamed country in Eastern Europe.

Eastern Europe != (NOT EQUAL TO) Poland.



They try and change the character types in each game, so the addons had a biker and an assistant to a nightclub owner.

[lozz]

tukk er jerrbbs

Nico was from an unnamed country in Eastern Europe.

Eastern Europe != (NOT EQUAL TO) Poland.



They try and change the character types in each game, so the addons had a biker and an assistant to a nightclub owner.

ialways asumed he was a pole he talks like my nextdoor neighbour and hes a pole,

icarnt translate tukk er jerrbbs what is that when its at home ?

[sirwiggum]

Obscure reference to South Park that no-one gets

The characterisation in the GTA series is as good as many movies.

[DiscoPol]

Nico was from an unnamed country in Eastern Europe.

Eastern Europe != (NOT EQUAL TO) Poland.

I will have you know we are classed as Central Europe now
(Albeit the eastern side of it )