Games I Used To Play (and think I still want to)

I seem to be on a retro jag at the moment. My excuse is that there was good design in the constraints, plus a message from my mother that they have found a couple of boxes of old role playing games.

So emulators are being downloaded, 'copies' of games I had found on the net (I used to have a box of Commodore 64 games but it got left in a flat move somewhere. Oh foolish student that I was).

Also a scouring of ebay and a bizzare hope that old hardware and playing these games on the original hardware will give me some kind of epiphany. It wont but it will be fun for a short while.

But what are the games that most stick in my mind, well most seem to be from the Commodore 64 (I had a Vic 20 and a ZX81 before that, but none of the games except monster maze really remain in my memory, well that and the Scott Adams adventure game 'The Count' which was a cartridge for the Vic 20). After the 64 came my Amiga 500. Games on that, well I loved playing Trip-A-Tron. Daft that, but anyway..

From the 64 (in no order):

• Shadowfire
• Psi Warrior
• Enigma Force
• Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• Zoids
• Lords of Midnight
• Domarks Revenge
• The Sentinal
• Infocom games, Suspended, Deadline and Starcross.

In fact on my 64 I remember being obsessed with the next Beyond release, or following the releases of Denton Designs.

On the spectrum I always wanted to play Mel Croucher's 'Deus Ex Machina'. I think I have just snagged a copy from ebay, just need a spectrum to play it on.

I think the only hardware that is still in the family is the Amiga and that is probably not in a good way. I hope to try and rescue that when I visit the family to recover the box of RPG's.

And in that box, well I am not sure but I know that I had far too many rules and not enough time to play them all, in fact I enjoyed the construction of the game worlds in the rule books so much that I collected rules. I know I had:

• Dungeons and Dragons
• Star Frontiers
• Indiana Jones RPG
• Star Trek
• Paranoia
• Call of Cuthulu
• Car Wars
• Killer
• Warhammer

and maybe a few others, which ones remain and in what state I am yet to discover but it feels stupidly exciting.

I am sure I can think of a good excuse to talk more about a long time ago as if it was relevant to now.