Retro Revenge

I really enjoying putting together my previous retro games blog post so I figured it was time to put together another. So without further ado, here’s more games that you’ve likely never heard of.

Creatures (Clyde Radcliffe Exterminates All The Unfriendly Repulsive Earth-ridden Slime) II: Torture Trouble C64

We've had people complaining about torture in World of Warcraft like it's a new thing. Creatures brought torture to the C64 back in 1990 with every 2 levels of platforming being followed by a puzzle torture section, these torture puzzles were so popular that Apex put out a sequel that focused purely on the torture. Watching the YouTube video will give you a pretty good idea of what most of these single screen sections involve, but you're missing the gory deaths of Clyde's cute friends.

Extra kudos to Creatures 2 for having one of the most bizarre cheats ever. Lick your finger and rub it up and down the joystick ports for infinite lives, yes I know it seems crazy but it really worked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc0QDlaRFeo

Best Cheat

JetStrike Amiga CD32

Jetstrike plays like a combat version of Choplifter, with a whole lot of variety beyond the usual missions of picking up people and dropping them off, You'll have to deal with: Dogfights, Stunt flying, recon and tank bombing missions in a large selection of aircraft, such as: A-10 Warthog AH-64 Apache, Spitfire, Acro Jet and Dragons. The maps were rather small and it was pretty hard to see what was coming when you really started to move along fast (just like Sonic games after 1995) but the gameplay, variety and CD32 music is a recipe for win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si69-4giMcs

Super Skidmarks Amiga

Super Skidmarks and Worms two games whose names alone gave me a lot of entertainment through the years. One of the biggest reasons that Super Skidmarks stood out from the crowd were its smooth animations, high quality graphics and tight controls. There's not a whole lot of real content here that's particularly groundbreaking or original but it took the existing sea of Supercars clones to the next level, it's just a pity that the YouTube video below doesn't do justice to this great game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0EU1ocGjrY

 

Buck Rogers Countdown to doomsday

As much as I do enjoy medieval fantasy it’s nice to get into a good sci-fi RPG no matter how quickly the in game music brings on dementia. I expect this will be one of the better known games on this list just due to the amount of systems it was released on, but I’m curious to know what people thought of this game. For some reason I believe that it wasn’t well received, but I loved it and it’s the only game on this list that I’ve actually completed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MzAPrpVFk0

Halls of the things ZX spectrum

About as basic as a game can be (except for the bewildering controls), run around a maze, shoot things, collect rings, win game. There’s a good chance this may have been the first game I ever played and I have many fond memories of playing this at my Aunts house when I could still count my age on one hand.

Others have fond memories of this game also and there’s a updated HD version. Crazy! http://retrospec.sgn.net/game/halls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_O5eR5nAQo