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Stuffs me what old system I had, All I know is that it was connected to a black and white tv and had a huge keyboard, took tapes and I've still got a handfull of the tapes laying around.

Digger was definately good fun. How come noones said anything about Commander Keen 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 haha the list goes on there.

Duke Nukem 1,2

There was an old game that I used to like, I've never been able to track it down again, was pretty intense with the tunnels and stuff you'd go through, was like Duke Nukem but you had to rescue some guy that was crashed or something, I dunno:p

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yeah sydicate was tops. the nes robot only works with two games

gyromite and track and field i think it was

basically you should simply plug in the controller two port and it should work

but yeah it has to be with either of those two games to work at all

Here we have R.O.B., or Robotic Operating Buddy, from Nintendo, also known as Family Robot in Japan. R.O.B. is a small robot which sits on your desktop or floor, etc. He has 2 arms with 2 platforms on each arm. He has a few plastic disks and such he can manipulate (anyone have the specifics on this?) I believe he connects to port one on the NES, and you control him with a standard controller on port 2, though I can't be sure, it might be the other way around.

What is R.O.B. supposed to do, you might ask? Well, officially, R.O.B. is an interactive game interface between the game and the player. Basically, you tell R.O.B. to do stuff using the NES controller, and he does them, affecting game play. For example, you tell R.O.B. to pick up a block and he does and the game responds to this. You need to time R.O.B.'s actions with the onscreen action , since there is a delay in when you tell R.O.B. to do something and when he actually does it and gameplay affected.

It sounds like a neat idea, but in practice, R.O.B. is just a gimmick, and gimmick that actually worked well in selling NES units in the US. At least very early in the life of the NES. The idea was to give the 'ol standard video game system a new look, and make it appear that the NES was new and cool and not like those old pre-crash consoles. Well, at the time, US gamers didn't know this, but support for R.O.B. was dead in Japan, as it was being released in the US. There were only two games released for R.O.B., Stack-Up and Gyromite. The games are identical to the Japanese versions; in fact, the title screen of Gyromite says "Robot Gyro", the Japanese title of the game, they didn't even bother to change the title screen and put in the US title!

Gyromite came with R.O.B., you could buy Stack-Up separately, and as one can guess, Stack-Up is quite rare. As a side note, many early copies of Gyromite contain a FC 60 pin PCB, attached to a 60-72 pin NES adaptor inside, and many have copies of the game have been cannabalized for the adaptor inside. Another point of interest here, is that you can play Gyromite with a standard controller, and you don't need the robot at all. Anyone know if you can do this with Stack-Up?

R.O.B was only released in the US, Japan, and Canada (the Canadian R.O.B. came in a bilingual box, which you can see above, and probably the instructions were bilingual also (can anyone verify?). I don't believe R.O.B. was released in any PAL market (Europe, UK, Austalia, Asia).

Today, R.O.B. is quite a collector's item, and can fetch $100+ for a complete set (which is rare, since many of those plastic blocks etc were lost). If you are a NES freak, a R.O.B. is a must-have in your collection!

I remember an old skool car racing DOS game I played way back in 1990-1991 called "Deathtrack" by Dynamix.. You get to drive around in a kitted up car loaded with machine guns and rockets.. my favourite was dropping mines in the path of cars coming to get me :( It featured crusty CGA/EGA graphics (good for it's time) and u could do massive jumps over hills.. make pitstops for repairs and refuelling.. each time u win a race u get money for more weapons/armour/mods. I found a link to it here:

deathtrack.jpg

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=DeathTrack

i dont think i could pick a favourite old school game!! there is just way too many awesome games!! just off the top of my head though:

enduro racer - sega master system

road rash series - sega mega drive

double dragon - sega master system

rock and roll racing - super nintendo

wwf royal rumble - super nintendo

afterburner 2 - sega master system

choplifter - played it on some ancient pc with only black and yellow colours

streets of rage series - sega mega drive

So many great games over the years hard to pick just one, but though the Zelda series was great, also tried for ages to find a copy of Rock & Roll racing loved it, anyone got one. Also the early Metal Gear & Metroid, Ultima series & Final Fantasy.Had pretty well every console since I got my Atari & must say they dont make em like they used to,the Ataris still going as well as all my nintendos but I've had 3PS1's **** up and I'm on my third PS2.

HAHAH

 

I was more into role playing games... :D

 

Prince of persia

DrangonBall Z

 

MYST- the best game ever!!!

Indiana jones...

haha i remember prince of persia!! addictive playing. fear my sword fighting ninja skillz :D

did anyone play Flashback in about 1993? that game had the coolest intro.

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