Any retro gaming fans

Lemmy_kilmister said:
I keep having get old xp laptops so I can play FA Premier Manager 2002
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True story I was playing premier manager once and back then you couldn’t choose your starting team so you be given the choice of a few sides in the lower leagues.
As made your way through the leagues you’d get offers from Other clubs at the end of the season and I was doing ok but the only offer I got in the then first division was Sunderland so I took it.

But I just stopped playing it as I just couldn’t do it.
 
Me. Been a gamer since I was preteens. Now 51. I made/have a full sized arcade machine that runs mame and has 5k games on. Like track and field, outrun, PAC man, you know all the 70/80/90s arcade games.plus also built a 3/4 sized virtual pinball machine (3 screens, 1 playfield, 1 DMD and 1 backglass) that has about 200 tables on it, like terminator 2, the getaway, Twilight zone, etc

Played most of the old Sierra games back in the day as well.

Plus loads of mmorpg like Ultima online.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Its quite a nice bit of kit. I sold mine when I got it as they were going for silly money, and i realised I wouldnt have that much time to play it but it felt like a good quality bit of gear. Only thing stopping me from buying another one is they were announced that long ago now that I feel I might as well wait for a v2.
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I did the same - I put two pre-orders in (one on my account and one on my sons). Mine came first and I sold it for twice I paid, so when my son's came it was "free".

It is a great bit of kit. I dont use it a great deal because I have a gaming PC, but when away with work it is invaluable. I have found myself buying games specifically for the Steam Deck. Valve are doing a really good job of supporting it with new features and updates.
In terms of the downsides - I don't find it as comfortable as some reviwers have made out. This is personal preference and I know I'm not alone. I watched a podcast where one of the guests described that the Xbox 360 controller was the perfect fit for their hands and every other (similar) controller since is not quite right and I have to agree with that. the 360 controller was perfect for me and I spent so much time using that controller that everything else just doesnt feel quite right.
 
WeeGord said:
Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Championship Manager 01/02 and Sid Meiers Pirates.

Those 4 games have had a scary number of months or even years of my life.
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For me, all of those except Pirates. I played a ridiculous amount of Altered Beast, Desert and Jungle Strike too.

I may have to pull out the spare RPi4 and build an arcade rig.
 
sadgit said:
Me. Been a gamer since I was preteens. Now 51. I made/have a full sized arcade machine that runs mame and has 5k games on. Like track and field, outrun, PAC man, you know all the 70/80/90s arcade games.plus also built a 3/4 sized virtual pinball machine (3 screens, 1 playfield, 1 DMD and 1 backglass) that has about 200 tables on it, like terminator 2, the getaway, Twilight zone, etc

Played most of the old Sierra games back in the day as well.

Plus loads of mmorpg like Ultima online.
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Track and field great fun!

Outrun how cool was that

Any games that yiu can get x box or ps that is equivalent of track and field?
 
I just tried playing asteroids after downloading it from the Microsoft store. The controls aren't in the right places on the keyboard for me to bring back my rad skills.
 
Was part of that ZX Spectrum generation. Started off with Manic Minor, Horace Goes Skiiing, The Hobbit and I was hooked.

Enjoyed those "Ultimate: Play The Game" titles Atic Atak, JetPac and Lunar Jetman, Sabre Wulf, and Knight Lore.
The original Spectrum Football Manager was fab and later inspired me to write my own football game when I was late teens, being an evil sod, I put in a random chance card routine, which made random events occur like "Your star player dies in a car crash" or £docked 10 points for fielding an ineligible player", my mates were not amused.

Loved The Lords of Midnight completed that then Doomdarks Revenge. Would love to find the time to play those again on an emulator.

Skooldaze and Back to Skool were great as well, would love to try them again, but that fricking noise when the teachers caught you doing something bad is giving me the heebeegeebees just thinking about it
 
Reidydog said:
I just got 7 Leisure Suit Larry games for £1.99 & Sid Meiers Pirates for a £1. All on the Steam deck, ready to go.
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I’ve just got a Steam Deck for Christmas, quite excited to get stuck into it, first job is to download some emulators.

I would love to know how to get Championship Manager 01/02 on it somehow.
 
I used this. Only problem I've found is you have to log out of Heroic and back in again if you get any new games on Epic in order for them to show up in the library. All much easier if if you have a little usb hub plugged in with a mouse and keyboard.

Heroic
 
I've just played Robotron - 2084, bloody hell that is hard. I never saw it as a kid and I need to use both joystick on my machine... mental!
 
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