A Retro Challenge Is Set (Retro games in general)

Member Name: shadowhawk

Product:	Retro games in general
Date:	04/08/04 (109 review reads)
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Advantages: Old school, Computer Games, Dont Die

Disadvantages: Dated Games, Look and Sound, A bit Rubbish now

Retro Game Challenge?
The gauntlet is down again?.
Anyone can enter just put this at the top of your review to let people know what is going on:
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Retro Challenge (set by: Shadowhawk)
List your top 10 favourite retro games and right a little about them.
A Retro game is anything that was on a 16-bit console or less, hand held do not count
(Master System games are fin but not Gameboy games)
Game series just list as 1
(Sonic 1,2,3 Just Sonic will do)
please put in (brackets) next to the game title the console that you played it on.
Do it in reverse order so as people read they go from your bottom of the list to the top, do 10,9,8?3,2,1
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10) Brian Lara?s Cricket (Mega Drive)
Game involved in you controlling a team for a whole match you bowled you batted and you fielded. It was pretty advanced offering a whole 8 shot types, and all bowling types, well advanced for the time.

9) Streets of Rage (Mega Drive)
Pick a character from a choice of 3 and then use this bloke to bash up as many bad guys that stand in your way between you and the end of the level. That is about the all there is of it just beat your way to the end of the level and then fight some big bad boss. But I was young and it was violent so it has made it on to my list

8) Double Dragon (Mega Drive)
Like streets of rage just fight your way to the end of the levels and fight a boss until you fight the last boss and complete the game, nothing complex. it picked streets of rage because I completed it about 20 times just because it was so enjoyable to play.

7) Back To The Future (Commodore Amiga)
Play, as the kid in the film riding his skateboard, but it was set in the future so it was that hover board if anyo
ne has seen the film. You drive along the streets dodging cars and traps, occasionally having to hit the odd bad guy. The aim of the game was to get to the end and meet up with the doctor.

6) Shinobi (Mega Drive)
A platform game where you get to play as a ninja and throw ninja stars, I used to be able to do the levels easy enough but all the bosses were really hard. A basic platform game again just have to get to the end alive with the skills of the ninja using your sword and throwing stars to take out the bad guys.

5) Street Fighter (SNES)
Some argue the best beat ?em up of all time, I think its been beaten recently but that?s another debate. The game involved about 10-20 main characters all with their own unique skills that they use to beat the guy up and win the match. The game has 2 levels of playing the one when you get it at first and you just hit the buttons as fast as you can and the next level when you learn combination moves and special moves. Who can forget ?eurgh-yukin?? A little joke for those who have played the game.

4) Pac Man (Master System)
This game involved a yellow face that had a soul purpose in life to eat little dots. The game was constructed around a 2D maze where you moved around trying to get all the dots on the screen and the occasional fruit so that you could get more points. What was stopping you was little ghost that lost you a life if you touched them, but you could turn the tables certain big dots on the screen would give you the power for a given time to eat the ghosts giving you more points and sending them back to where they started from.

3) Legends (Commodore Amiga)
A bit like Dungeons and Dragons, except I never played that. You control a team of 5 characters all with their own unique abilities, using these abilities you have to solve p
uzzles, fight bad guys, and survive till you got out of the dungeon and became a ?legend? hence the name. The game involved a lot of thinking even though it had no storyline but to get to the next room and do the next puzzle.

2) Sonic (Mega Drive)
The lovable hedgehog that is the faster thing on 2 feet in the world. This blue hedgehog, yes blue, had the technique of moving very fast and he used it to save the little animals and rid the world of evil. Idea of the game was to get from start to finish but along the way you could collect rings these would give you a higher score plus protect you. As the series went on more and more characters get introduced to extend the life span of the game, like Knuckles and Tails.

1) Robocop (Commodore Amiga)
A platform game with the tin cop himself, walk along a multi-levelled platform levels and kill the bad guys and wipe out crime, but that wasn?t the only thing the game was about it also had precision shooting stages where you have to shoot the bad guy of the girl and shoot targets trying to get a certain score.

Have fun

© David Clark
(DavidJamesClark@hotmail.com)

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