Zzap!! 64....The golden years.

[Neo Gold]

Used to...& still do love my o'l C64:mellow:...& i gotta say this...i miss buying these 'Meat & potatoe' magazines:smile:..Y'now down to earth kinda stuff!!...
And Back in the day...it was quite a buzz to see your scores & name in your favourite gaming mag!:biggrin:
Back in Sept 1987...I'ball & Zone Ranger...:wub:
The Scorelord cometh..
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d108/marc-spence-/zzapgdsfwm.jpghttp://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d108/marc-spence-/zzapgdsfwn.jpg
Old habits never die...Heh he..

[vib_ribbon]

great scans!!

how did they authenticate the scores back in those days?

[Neo Gold]

great scans!!

how did they authenticate the scores back in those days?

The O'l Polaroid was a great way...:wink:
Can you see my name...eh..can you chun!!
Just have to slip these in here!!...enjoy..& please listen to that delta musak!!..cool..
Thalamus..were indeed the 'CAVE' of the C64 World & no misstake...
Delta..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmy00U7MoK4&feature=related
Delta II 'Armalyte'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUFAmJPqxK8&feature=related

[joeblade]

Still listen to rob hubbard on my way to work sometimes.....

Does that make me sad, strange, weird or all 3!! :blush::rolleyes::blush:

[Neo Gold]

Still listen to rob hubbard on my way to work sometimes.....

Does that make me sad, strange, weird or all 3!! :blush::rolleyes::blush:

No not at all.., tbh Rob hubbard opened up new genres with the c64 & taught new programmers/musicians new tricks, i think c64 gaming was prolonged as a trait of this, it attracted more people to the c64.
Its still astonishing what Thalamus & Rainbow arts sqeezed out of these machines!!.
A LOT of arcade conversions on the c64 were pretty good & sometimes more enjoyable to play...& get this, most had better music than the arcade originals....for instance Alien syndrome, Ghoul's n Ghosts...LED storm...Bionic commandos..etc etc:smile:

[vib_ribbon]

...but i see that you werent the king of slap fight. :wink:

i saw your post on another popular forum about slap fight... that's why i mentioned it. :sleep:

[Neo Gold]

...but i see that you werent the king of slap fight. :wink:

i saw your post on another popular forum about slap fight... that's why i mentioned it. :sleep:

Heh he...Yeah Slap fight/Alcon was a great little shooter...with many add-on's for your craft!!...it was an addictive shmup, i would like to see what the pcb is like tho now....:smile:

[gundaRn]

Thalamus..were indeed the 'CAVE' of the C64 World & no misstake...So what does that make Graftgold?
Technically fantastic and each new game had something never seen before.

Ah, the originality of the olden days...:wub:

[joeblade]

Heh he...Yeah Slap fight/Alcon was a great little shooter...with many add-on's for your craft!!...it was an addictive shmup, i would like to see what the pcb is like tho now....:smile:

Slap fight is still awesome now, i love the "trade off" between powering up your ship & manouverability....i remember playin it on the 64 with my m8 (who could clock it) and watching him throw his comp pro 5000 joystick against the wall in anger!! :laugh::biggrin::laugh::rolleyes:

[Neo Gold]

Slap fight is still awesome now, i love the "trade off" between powering up your ship & manouverability....i remember playin it on the 64 with my m8 (who could clock it) and watching him throw his comp pro 5000 joystick against the wall in anger!! :laugh::biggrin::laugh::rolleyes:

Heh he...yeah..i eventually finished this too...the last boss i remember..a Giant cpu??..witch you shot the screen out..:cool:
Btw..has anyone got the pcb ?.

[vib_ribbon]

i have!! does that make me the "hardest corer" in shoot 'em ups here?? :wacko:

i bought it off a nice chap on shmups.com in america who had a spare.

if only vB forums would fix some of the things they've broken since the upgrade, then you can see that i have these shooters in my collection:

star force
slap fight
twin cobra
vulcan venture
ibara

...i think that's it.
top 4 on the list i used to play in my local arcade:

http://www.we-play-games.com/community/showthread.php?t=292

ibara... uhm... still not sure about these new shooters y'know. :dry:
(but thanks to superpang for the education... i'm still learning)

[Neo Gold]

Aww...excellent chun...please if you can, take some piccy's of it running matey & maybe a mini review?...
Thanks..:smile:

[vib_ribbon]

sure, but i'll have to ask you to wait till early next week as i'm running around at the moment.

in truth, i'm really rubbish at the game, always have been. i guess i should really turn the difficulty back down from hard to easy (apparently, the guy i got it from can 1cc it on hard difficulty)... i always struggle from level 3 onwards, yeah, i'm that rubbish.

the amstrad version i had as a child, haha, it was in a tiny window surrounded by massive boarders. i think you can only get 1 set of sides as well. the bomb was tiny. cant remember who did the conversion now, but it was pretty poor. :biggrin:

[vib_ribbon]

better late than never??

managed to fire this up to take a photo for you... :wacko:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2209/2319505608_f877ed0e2d.jpg

but it's one of them games that i got boarded up... so nothing to see here i'm afraid. :sad:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2123/2318700135_a0919658ac.jpg

i did manage to squeeze in a quick game, and got royally slapped. how apt. :laugh:

[Neo Gold]

Awesome stuff Chun!!:cool::cool:.....yeah i have Vulcan Venture here...i love that Shmup.
I would love a play on that Slap Fight!!....my eyes are peeled for that one.

[vib_ribbon]

probably doesnt help that i play slap fight on those rotary sticks... too lazy to rotate the screen on the other cab. :wacko: i think i'm gonna put some energy into finishing time solders on that cab and then rotate it to play ikari III since i havent played that much since getting hold of it a while ago. maybe then i'll get hold of midnight resistance too.