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Edit (for Idle): this is a good "modern" game, pretending to be made on C64, has nice music, and you die 747647654 times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBJ_fj6kPk

Don't remember that tower game.

Re doom
I remeber traumatizing my kid by replacing the monsters in doom with Barney the dinosaur. Was so funny to see his range of emotions 1st joy here comes barney singing his happy family song, 2nd utter horror and lot of screaming when barney got blown away by BFG then 3rd sadistic elation when he reized barney kept coming back for more. He was like 2.5 years old and loved playing it. I was a bad dad.

Quake 2 and Quake 3 were my teenage years

For me it depended on the platform.

TRS-80 Model 1: Colossal Caves (the granddaddy text adventure could be typed in 16k !) and Galaxy Invasion (Big 5 arcade game)

Tandy Color Computer: Shenanigans (illustrated adventure) and Lunar Rover Patrol

Sega SC-3000: Star Jacker

PC: Raptor - Call of the Shadows and Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space

and... one of my own called Jara-Tava the Isle of Fire. First developed originally on the C64 and ported to the Amstrad 6128, PC, revised with new graphics and ported to PC and Amiga.

I had a rather limited gaming experience in the early days, thanks to the overpriced solid state software cartridges of the TI-99/4A.

But I do fondly remember playing on my Nintendo Game & Watch mini consoles for hours on end - namely Donkey Kong, Parachute, and Oil Panic. On the computer, I used to love playing Space Invaders on my TI-99/4A, Choplifter on a friend's Apple IIe, and later, Moonbugs on my first PC, tha Canon A-200. There was also a PacMan-style game called Rollo & Brush, which I enjoyed.

Sadly, my love for games did not evolve much past those.

Gameboy: R-Type
Atari 2600: Hopper
SNES: Secret of Evermore / Secret of Mana
XBOX 360: Brütal Legend
XBOX One: Thief / DCUO
XBOX One X: Dragon Age Inquisition
XBOX Series X: Stellaris
PC (Win 98): Biing (It was while my puperty)
PC (Win XP): NFSU 2
PC (later): Satisfactory

Donkey Kong (original arcade version)
Defender (arcade)
Castle Wolfenstein
Sea dragon

I did like Doom a lot, but i was pretty much done with games by then. After cars & girls, games were pretty minimal.

What about Games Soundtracks? Wouldn't it deserve a Thread?

DeanH wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:27 pmone of my own called Jara-Tava the Isle of Fire

Wow! Impressive. Info -> https://www.lemon64.com/game/jara-tava-the-isle-of-fire

I didn't know you were involved in so many -> https://www.lemon64.com/games/list.php? ... an-hodgson

this I believe was technical wizardry on the C64 and had a great sound track too
https://www.lemon64.com/game/commando
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq1FjLR72kE

Oooh…
I see there are some C64 Wizards here…

Makes me remember I had a plotter, and with it I also made (if I remember well, 480 x 480+) black and white stuff (similar to my avatar) and sent to school mates as postcards… it took hours for each one…

BarryG wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 2:43 am

DeanH wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 11:27 pmone of my own called Jara-Tava the Isle of Fire

Wow! Impressive. Info -> https://www.lemon64.com/game/jara-tava-the-isle-of-fire

I didn't know you were involved in so many -> https://www.lemon64.com/games/list.php? ... an-hodgson

I missed that detail.

8bit era: Neuromancer
32bit era: Omicron Nomad Soul vs. Freelancer
64bit era: R* stuff

I've been playing Civilization and Anno series since the first games too. I don't touch linear games, or games that have a lot of shoots&ladder back and forth grind and obvious level limits..

That link only shows a fraction of what I wrote for the C64. My log lists 35 programs. 37 on the Amstrad 6128. 30 for DOS. A bunch for the Tandy Color Computer and some for the TRS-80 model 1. Most were published by Satchel Software, the trading arm of the South Australian Education Department's Angle Park Computing Centre, where I worked from 1984 until it was disbanded in 95. The Lemon link list is missing The Lost World - an even better presented and developed illustrated adventure - Softword, Commbase, Kadimakara, Picture Book and a bunch of others. A number were also versioned to the Amiga but coded by others. Tandy Australia published 3 programs on the CoCo and others appeared in journals. John Sands published 6 for the Sega SC-3000. Almost all of the programs were designed to be used by children of various ages and abilities in schools in Australia.

Jara-Tava began as Treasure Island. Steve Walsh and I upgraded it considerably. He added the 2nd island. We dropped all kinds of things around so kids could work out a history timeline of the islands. There are 4 solutions. Deliberate references to literature. He drew the graphics using a Koala Pad and his finger. I have no idea who Munro-Ford is as only Steve and I were involved. I connected a C64 and Amstrad with a serial cable and ported source code and graphics across. Wrote a program to translate the graphics from the C64 to Amstrad to EGA DOS. The Amiga graphics were all original new ones and ported back to DOS VGA. Jara-Tava and others were rewritten and improved several times. The final DOS version included mouse control, maps, a smart parser and better presentation.

I keep telling myself I will one day version some of these to Windows using PureBasic. Maybe in retirement.

That's quite the CV, Dean. I was to busy being a yuppy in the 80's chasing excess, fast cars, flying, sailing, wind surfing and lots of parties.