A GAME POLL some of the cpc games i would play all the time

[cpc4eva]

A selection of cpc games i played all the time.

I always found myself coming back to play these games the most even after completing them with or without cheats.

Not the best ever games on cpc for sure but some of my favourites.

Please vote tell me what you think of them.

I have allowed max 20 votes so you can vote for one or all 20 if you liked them all and i have allowed users to change their votes.

Poll is not open to guests though.

[EgoTrip]

Only 2 on that list, Switchblade (demo version back in the day) and Anarchy.

Other games that got played to death by me:

Spindizzy
Knight Lore
Chuckie Egg
Chuckie Egg 2
Killer Gorilla
Pinball Power
Manic Miner
Darts 180
Dizzy (both full and AA special edition)
Fantasy World Dizzy
Magicland Dizzy
Spellbound Dizzy
Turrican 2 (demo)
Gauntlet (including Deeper Dungeons and Gauntlet 2)
Ranarama

[remax]

Football Manager 2
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer
Wec Le Mans
Rick Dangerous 1
Target Renegade

[cpc4eva]

Only 2 on that list, Switchblade (demo version back in the day) and Anarchy.

Other games that got played to death by me:

Spindizzy
Knight Lore
Chuckie Egg
Chuckie Egg 2
Killer Gorilla
Pinball Power
Manic Miner
Darts 180
Dizzy (both full and AA special edition)
Fantasy World Dizzy
Magicland Dizzy
Spellbound Dizzy
Turrican 2 (demo)
Gauntlet (including Deeper Dungeons and Gauntlet 2)
Ranarama

ranarama never really played that one interesting choice never heard much about it.

I wish Gauntlet had some tunes

[Carnivius]

Ones off the top of my head be

SwitchBlade
Death Wish III
Stryker & The Crypts of Trogan (demo)
Turrican II (demo)
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles 2 - The Coin Op (demo)
UN Squadron
Oh Mummy
Harrier Attack
Paws
Glider Rider
TANK
Arkanoid
Double Dragon
Operation Wolf
Batman The Caped Crusader
R-Type
Strider II
Batman The Movie
Ship of Doom
Anarchy
Basket Master
World Series Baseball
Dizzy 1
Dizzy - Prince of the Yolk Folk
Fast Food
Hero Quest
Ghostbusters
Garfield - Big Fat Hairy Deal
Dan Dare 2


Probably missed some but those are the ones I can recall playing loads of when I was a child and play most of those as an adult too.

[cpc4eva]

Ones off the top of my head be

SwitchBlade
Death Wish III
Stryker & The Crypts of Trogan (demo)
Turrican II (demo)
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles 2 - The Coin Op (demo)
UN Squadron
Oh Mummy
Harrier Attack
Paws
Glider Rider
TANK
Arkanoid
Double Dragon
Operation Wolf
Batman The Caped Crusader
R-Type
Strider II
Batman The Movie
Ship of Doom
Anarchy
Basket Master
World Series Baseball
Dizzy 1
Dizzy - Prince of the Yolk Folk
Fast Food
Hero Quest
Ghostbusters
Garfield - Big Fat Hairy Deal
Dan Dare 2


Probably missed some but those are the ones I can recall playing loads of when I was a child and play most of those as an adult too.

very good selection i should have put basket master in the poll i would play that all the time loved it so much.  i loved turtles and op wolf and batman the movie. they were fun games.

[ervin]

Ones off the top of my head be

SwitchBlade
Death Wish III
Stryker & The Crypts of Trogan (demo)
Turrican II (demo)
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles 2 - The Coin Op (demo)
UN Squadron
Oh Mummy
Harrier Attack
Paws
Glider Rider
TANK
Arkanoid
Double Dragon
Operation Wolf
Batman The Caped Crusader
R-Type
Strider II
Batman The Movie
Ship of Doom
Anarchy
Basket Master
World Series Baseball
Dizzy 1
Dizzy - Prince of the Yolk Folk
Fast Food
Hero Quest
Ghostbusters
Garfield - Big Fat Hairy Deal
Dan Dare 2


Probably missed some but those are the ones I can recall playing loads of when I was a child and play most of those as an adult too.

wot no robocop?

[cpc4eva]

just edited poll and included basket master and silkworm as they were games i always played no matter what.  i loved silkworm's eerie atmosphere and you could control both jeep and plane with one player joystick.  basket master was always fun toplay especially the slam dunks and slow mo replays.

[MacDeath]

my selection in this list :

Weak le Mans
Rick Dangerous 1
Rick Dangerous 2
Afterburner
Target Renegade
North & South
Robocop
Pang
Silkworm

I only chose games I actually had at the time and I loved as well.

Not into sport games...
I must recognize smash TV and goldenaxe should be in my list as well, (switchblade too perhaps) but I didn't have them in the past, and played them on SegaMegadrive...
Only exception is pang, because i loved the arcade and the GX4000 cartridge is really great.

I didn't  liked basket master (but had it)... very good realization but a 1vs1 basket game is not what I crave for.

To me rick dangerous 2 was really a big crushing hit.
same play as on 16bit, just the palette error being the only fault.. (this damn green instead of dark blue)

North and south also was really a great game, the sort of 16bit feeling we so rarely had.

Target renegade and silkworm were both great 2players co-op games.

Afterburner was excellent when played with something like this :


Wec le Man was one of the rare racing game I liked because the feeling when your car is "flying" after a crash and great use of Mode1.

Microprose Sucker actually played well, but was a despicable uncoloured speccy port anyway...  like too many footy games indeed. And I really prefer action futuristic blood sports like speedball.
at the time i couldn't understand why they couldn't use more colours in this game... then I learnt the terrible concept of speccyports and I hate such games even more now.


Microprose offered stuffs so much better... Airborne ranger is great and I was a massive fan and user of Gunship and Pirates!


Operation Wolf was amazing, gryzor as well... Head over heels, Arkanoid 1&2, Wizball... ghostbuster2, Barbarian.


I can't get all my list now...

[Carnivius]

wot no robocop?

I didn't own it.     I played it a lot when borrowing it off a friend but for some reason I never had my own copy.

I liked the CPC Silkworm but used to play it far more on the Amiga at my then best friend's house just before school and at lunchtimes cos he lived next door to the school.  Such meaty sound effects and an awesome theme tune.

[ervin]

Robocop was very much the game that took pride of place on my computer game shelf.
That big box looked mighty impressive.

(Although my favourite CPC game is actually Head over Heels).

[Carnivius]

Head Over Heels was a weird one for me.  I liked that I owned it, and I liked the sprite design but I don't know if I enjoyed playing it for very long.  Good game though.  I think I just wasn't keen on those isometric games (and never been fond of that angle for spriting anyways which is why there's pretty much no isometric work in my portfolio at all) yet I did fine the game Movie fascinating but for other reasons I guess (and probably cos even though it was isometric it wasn't platformer like most others were so didn't have to fiddly jumping).  I got both of those games in the same pack as some of the other games mentioned here.  The Dixons Top 20 pack for 99pence.  Still the best value I've ever got out of a games compilation (with Super Mario Bros All-Stars and the Amiga compilation I had that contained The Chaos Engine, The Settlers, Cannon Fodder and T2: The Arcade game being great ones too but obviously far more expensive).   Had Arkanoid, TANK, Slap Fight, Basket Master, World Series Baseball, Movie, Head Over Heels, Game Over, Tai Pan, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Yie Ar Kung Fu 2, Batman (3D), Freddy Hardest, Army Moves, Phantom Club, Madballs, Legend of Kage, Green Beret and Wizball  of which I enjoyed most of to some degree (only ones I didn't really enjoy were Green Beret, Wizball and Phantom Club).   Hm... I think Tai Pan was the first time I learnt what a brothel was.

Man that was a nice nostalgia trip I just had.  ahhh...

[ervin]

Wow, that is indeed a spectacular compilation!
I also enjoyed Movie a lot, even though I never had any idea what the blimmin' heck was going on!

I had the same Amiga compilation as well. I beat all the games except Settlers, which I think I only ever played once after deciding it wasn't my sort of game.
I remember T2:The Arcade Game being incredibly easy (I have a vague recollection of beating it on my 3rd go or thereabouts).
Heck, I even remember the music I was listening to at the time! (Pat Benatar's Greatest Hits).

[Sykobee (Briggsy)]

I loved Settlers. I wasted so much time in it.


Yeah, T2 on the CPC was really easy.  Luckily I borrowed that game back in the day.

[Carnivius]

The Settlers was not of a genre I normally enjoy but there was just something about it that kept me playing.  Maybe the superb detailed building graphics or the finely animated little people going about their business and fighting and such or the excellent and varied tune that played through out.   I still load it up on my A1200 (was one of those Amiga games that used extra memory, in this case for larger maps) and the music is one of many classic 8 and 16 bit tunes that I often play while pixelling (helps take me back to that era).

T2 was on CPC?

edit: oh yeah the regular home version of Terminator 2 as opposed to the Operation Wolf style arcade game.  I still have that on my CPC.  Nice chunky colourful graphics.

Wow, that is indeed a spectacular compilation!
I also enjoyed Movie a lot, even though I never had any idea what the blimmin' heck was going on!

Yep.  Can't go wrong for 99p even if they were all pretty terrible.  Nice that there were some good and great and even classic games in it.

And yeah I never really understood much of what to do in Movie but it still intrigued me enough that I kept loading it up and trying to figure it out.

[cpc4eva]

my selection in this list :

Weak le Mans
Rick Dangerous 1
Rick Dangerous 2
Afterburner
Target Renegade
North & South
Robocop
Pang
Silkworm

I only chose games I actually had at the time and I loved as well.

Not into sport games...
I must recognize smash TV and goldenaxe should be in my list as well, (switchblade too perhaps) but I didn't have them in the past, and played them on SegaMegadrive...
Only exception is pang, because i loved the arcade and the GX4000 cartridge is really great.

I didn't  liked basket master (but had it)... very good realization but a 1vs1 basket game is not what I crave for.

To me rick dangerous 2 was really a big crushing hit.
same play as on 16bit, just the palette error being the only fault.. (this damn green instead of dark blue)

North and south also was really a great game, the sort of 16bit feeling we so rarely had.

Target renegade and silkworm were both great 2players co-op games.

Afterburner was excellent when played with something like this :


Wec le Man was one of the rare racing game I liked because the feeling when your car is "flying" after a crash and great use of Mode1.

Microprose Sucker actually played well, but was a despicable uncoloured speccy port anyway...  like too many footy games indeed. And I really prefer action futuristic blood sports like speedball.
at the time i couldn't understand why they couldn't use more colours in this game... then I learnt the terrible concept of speccyports and I hate such games even more now.


Microprose offered stuffs so much better... Airborne ranger is great and I was a massive fan and user of Gunship and Pirates!


Operation Wolf was amazing, gryzor as well... Head over heels, Arkanoid 1&2, Wizball... ghostbuster2, Barbarian.


I can't get all my list now...

i remember the joystick wow thats a classic stick i think i only saw it being used on PC back in the day so it was just as good on cpc too wow !!!

yeah not everyone loved sports games but i always had to play every sport game that came out on cpc but they were my favs listed in the poll.

Robopcop and rick dangerous in 2nd place with target renegade in 1st place on the poll so far.  I loved all 3 and still are in my favs rick dangerous was just so cool.

i agree with your comments on wec le mans but i would loved to have seen it it colour as the colour load screen is amazing.  Also very true about microprose soccer it sucked in many ways the cpc version but wasnt too bad to play even if it was a speccy port i always found myself coming back to play it i loved the banana power feature to score goals with you needed a stick that was good with diagonal.

Pang on cpc cart is awesome i loved that game i thought that Zap T Balls was just as good too they were brilliant on cpc.

[MacDeath]

some games have special place in heart because of the co-op mode...

Ikari Warriors,  Silkworm and Target renegade, forgotten worlds, gauntlet are among them... such games clearly cemented the relations between me and my brother...
Rampage per example was really fun to play at 3 players despite the keyboard clashes...
Batty had a nice co-op mode, sadly it had no vertical fullscreen like arkanoid...

even the poorly speccyported "duet" could be fun in co-op...

I guess 1943, flying shark, golden axe, double dragon128k

some other games were quite fun 1vs1 like North and south, Barbarian, supersprint, IK+...

And so on... the really good multiplayer games were not so many, but added the sharing/bonding experience.


If I remember correctly there was even a way to play with two players in :


wizball : one would play the "catball"


Tank  : could get separate control for canon and automaticguns, one player being gunner.


The fact that i was a little brother also played a part in this aspect... my fucking big bro would keep playing alone and wouldn't let me play (damn bastard) else...




Wizball : funnily : the manual was wrong... to activate the bonuses you had to move quickly left-right the joystick... not jsut press space (in my version).

at first we couldn't play it... but by chance one day we found out how to activate the options/bonuses... and rediscovered the game and it was excellent.
Still I fail to understand how they could port it on speccy... it is based on colours, lol...


To me Microprose sucker is really handicaped by using only 2 colours... you can't really recognize both teams well... I mean, Mode1 = 4 colours... where the fuck are those extra 2 colours that are so needed !!!

[Carnivius]

Tank  : could get separate control for canon and automaticguns, one player being gunner.

Ah, yeah me and my friend or sister did that occasionally too as it was a little unwieldy to have the seperate turret controls with 1 player.  It was a lot easier when I played it on Winape and set my Dual Shock so I could control the tank with the d-pad, the fire button as X and the turret rotation with L1 and R1. 

[Gryzor]

Ah, yeah me and my friend or sister did that occasionally too as it was a little unwieldy to have the seperate turret controls with 1 player.  It was a lot easier when I played it on Winape and set my Dual Shock so I could control the tank with the d-pad, the fire button as X and the turret rotation with L1 and R1.

Genius

[MacDeath]

Genius

actually :