subversplat
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Smoky said:Yeah, one of these
I used to have one, the games that came with it were quite good actually.
Flimbo's quest, Microprose soccer and the almighty Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun
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Failed consoles of yesteryear (pre-Playstation)
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subversplat
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Yes it did, in both versions (the ugly beige box and the Amiga style case).Smoky said:
Structaural
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Dask said:
I remember being fully prepared to buy the PC Engine purely because I could get one of the best versions of R-Type on it. As it is I got a second hand SNES with disk drive and 400 games off a mate of a mate. And R-type wasn't so bad on it. Kicked arse that little machine. I still miss NBA Jam.
Doctor Carrot
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That's superb, I can't remember what games I had, I only had the games that came with it and one or 2 more but I can't remember what they were.
Microprose soccer was boss, i'm really reminiscing over it now, it was always fun to hammer Oman, I worked out that you from kick off you could move the ball 3 times (including the kick off itself) and the ball would be in the back of the net, poor old Oman would fall for it everytime
PC Engine was originally an 8bit system developed in 1987 by NEC, it was only ever released in North America and Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pc_engine
It had some amazing games for it, including the most arcade perfect port of R-Type for the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pc_engine
It had some amazing games for it, including the most arcade perfect port of R-Type for the time.
Structaural
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Dask said:
Yeah it was available from the grey importers, I couldn't afford it in the end, it's R-type sure was the bollox (I was addicted to that game - me and a mate used to sneak into Las Vegas arcade in Wardour street every evening and cane it till we ran out of 10ps).
I vaguely remember playing Alien Breed 3D 1st person version on the Amiga CD32. The older Amiga CDTV looked cool at the time. At least in the shops it did.
There was a British handheld consol that failed in 2005. it lasted 6 months. The name escapes me. Might have had something to do with dodgy Russian businessmen as well.
There was a British handheld consol that failed in 2005. it lasted 6 months. The name escapes me. Might have had something to do with dodgy Russian businessmen as well.
fen_boy
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Structaural said:
PC Engine = Turbografx (sort of the turbografx was 16 bit I think, but still played the 8 bit games)
Games for which you can now get on the Wii Virtual Console including r-type I believe.
The r-type on the PC Engine was annoying though as it came in 2 cartridges released as separate games about a year apart. So r-type II was incredibly hard right from the beginning as you started with no weapons on level 5
ha i always thought i was the only one to have worked out that! i had it on spectrum though.Smoky said:
That's superb, I can't remember what games I had, I only had the games that came with it and one or 2 more but I can't remember what they were.
Microprose soccer was boss, i'm really reminiscing over it now, it was always fun to hammer Oman, I worked out that you from kick off you could move the ball 3 times (including the kick off itself) and the ball would be in the back of the net, poor old Oman would fall for it everytime
souljacker
innit
editor said:
I think Cannon Fodder was remade as AGA. None of the others were though.
Thats my point really, all the best games were for the old pre-1200 chipset, so there wasn't really anything to show off the CD32.
souljacker
innit
editor said:
AGA was backwards compatible, thats why.
editor
hiraethified
Sensible Soccer, Frontier Elite and loads more were AGA, you know.souljacker said:
http://amigaflame.com/amipas93.htm
http://amigaflame.com/amipas94.htm
souljacker
innit
editor said:
Well there you go! I'm sure I only ever owned nonAGA games (except for Zool).
Kid_Eternity
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Crispy said:
Yep. I've only ever known two people to own one (both from wealth off backgrounds) and it was a cool machine, basically an arcade machine in a box but waaaay out of my then price range.
Crispy
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Incidentally, the plastic casing design for the Atari Jaguar, now lives on as a dental camera
Structaural
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Crispy said:
PacificOcean
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xenon_2 said:There was a British handheld consol that failed in 2005. it lasted 6 months. The name escapes me. Might have had something to do with dodgy Russian businessmen as well.
The Gizmondo.
Opened a shop on Regent's St. Burned through all the money Tiger Electronics gave them on fast cars and dodgy accounting and sold about 4 units. The main bloke is banged up now for gun possesion and fraud.
The Nokia N-Gage didn't do too well either (though without the criminal element!)
Does anyone remember the Amstrad GX400? The Amstrad version of the C64G. I think it only had one game.
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And then there was the PalmOS-running Tapwave Zodiac.
http://www.pdatoday.com/maximumpda_more/1827_0_2_0_M/
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