Any computer games fans? (we need a gamers icon!)
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Sep 2021
8:16pm, 4 Sep 2021
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Cheg
Cheers fetch.
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Sep 2021
8:36pm, 4 Sep 2021
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Dvorak
Isn't Russian Tetris just Tetris? I loved Klax. On the PS, I was well into a game called Devil Dice, could spend hours playing that. And Live Wire, which was an enclosing territory game. And Q*Bert. Every Saturday when I was 16/17/18, into Stirling to the arcades (there were two). Future Flash (a kind of Galaxians which I never saw anywhere else), Wild West, a sit in space vector game, a railroad track switch game (can't remember their names, but I used to have dreams about the railroad one). And then the absolute seismic shock of when Battlezone came in, there used to be a dozen people peering in just watching someone play. |
Sep 2021
8:41pm, 4 Sep 2021
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GregP
Q*Bert. I’d forgotten about that. Battlezone with the two push pull sticks tank thing? Came out not long after Asteroids? |
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Sep 2021
8:48pm, 4 Sep 2021
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Dvorak
I've just looked up Future Flash - it's actually a Missile Command-alike. Missile Command! And Tempest! Two games which never translated that well to the home format due to the controls. The local chippy had a Tempest machine - frequent visits. And I've just found a YouTube channel: Old Classic Retro Gaming m.youtube.com May do like McGoohan, and watch it on Big Telly. (Battlezone: yes, the twin stick tank game.) |
Sep 2021
9:21pm, 4 Sep 2021
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JK *chameleon*
I had the sequel to Devil Dice - I remember it being quite frustrating having only played DD as a demo and found it a lot of fun. That's reminded me of Tombi!, a nicely made PSX game that I had, but that was stolen. A pseudo-3D platformer/RPG game having to seal away some evil pigs. One of the quests involved finding cheese for a mouse, and was called "Some cheese, please", which I still quote endlessly to housemate whilst cooking, to his blank face 
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Sep 2021
10:54pm, 5 Sep 2021
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Grast_girl
I'm not sure what the Russian Tetris was, but it had a collaborative mode that I'd play with Dad. I think there was a link to the Russian circus(?). May have been some pirated thing that Dad got hold of somehow.
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Sep 2021
10:58pm, 5 Sep 2021
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Dooogs
Ooh, never saw that one. If anyone ever mentions Tetris, I always get this earworm stuck in my head: |
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Sep 2021
11:45pm, 5 Sep 2021
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JK *chameleon*
Great Girl - I think I played that one. Definitely rings a bell with your description. The Gameboy version is still the best Tetris, never seen a version that does it better. |
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Sep 2021
11:55pm, 5 Sep 2021
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JK *chameleon*
A little light googling reveals the game I remember is "Super Tetris". That the one you remember Grast Girl?
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Sep 2021
10:43am, 7 Sep 2021
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GregP
Garotte Rogue would appear to be a thing. I just got thrashed by one. Will wander off and investigate builds.
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