The Greatest Games You've Never Played

[dodogildo]

Here's another game you may want to consider - Mission Elevator by Micropool. I've played this for the very first time today and I can't believe I've missed out on this gem for so long! It's quite similar in style to Elevator Action. .

Excited, I hunted this game and voila, shocking result

[Puresox]

Wow that price?!!

[dodogildo]

I know, right?
The first thing I'm gonna do this evening is to find its DSK file and give this curious piece of sh*t a go through HXC

[ukmarkh]

Mission Elevator, I have that game... It's so-so!

[Gryzor]

I wonder if someone shouldn't contact Darran, since the forum email notifications aren't working... anyone care to do it?

[Cholo]

Here is 10 random picks. I know it can be a bit situational depening on where you live in the world so what is "never played"

Mr. Heli: Never seen this one on budget. One of those games where if you didnt walk into the game shop the right time of that month you just never ever get a second chance to buy it. I never saw it.


Pirates!: £20 price. 6128 disc only. I think the high overprice is what dragged the game reviews down the the odd average score & gray dull half a page with little to none pictures. The cover didnt help either. No offence to the artist as an adult i can appreciate it, but as a game hungry teenager i would have had a lot more pirates, soldiers, damsels in distress along with the usual explotion or cannonfire. Luckily i got to play the game on a friends 6128 back then & have bought pretty much every new version since then.


Asphalt:Tough little game inspired by Mad Max 2 i guess. A bit short perhaps thanks to the difficulty of the game, but its one of those that i keep telling myself "just one more go" again & again. Never seen the game for sale, not even used/resale.


Kung Fu: Was one of the very first Amstrad Action Covertape. Tried to load it but it kept crashing. Oh the dissapointment .. especially as it was a marterial arts game (that was still kinda hot back then with Bruce Lee etc).Many years later i tried loading the game again & due to the gained experience i could hear that the "pause gap" (silence) between the loading block the record was too litlle thus making the game crash. Easily fixed simlpy by pressing the pause button for a couple of seconds or making a manual copy to a different tape. Always made me wonder how many amstrad users has the game but never got around to experience it. Then again .. i wouldnt label as a "great" game.


Sim City: First experienced the game on a Amiga 500. Later discovered there was a amstrad version that i oddly didnt remember. So i went back and looked thru my old mags & found the commercial for the game. Full page, colour, might as well have been a abstract painting though (me being a teenager etc). I guess this is a bit like the Pirates! issue .. how do you sell something completely new/new idea? Great version though.


Satan: Really good looking game. Black Tiger style gameplay but Black Tiger could only hope to look this good. I dont think this was sold outside the original boxed version.


Baby Jo in Going Home: Nice big happy sprites & has a bit of a "nextgen" feel to it. Disc only & most likely also 6128 only too. 1991 so it was a late game. Did feature in a couple of compilation in 1993 but by then most people had moved on to the 16bits.


West Bank: Brilliant conversion of Sega "Bank Panic" arcade game. Giant sprites, colourfull characters, good variatiom, and a increasing difficulty. Perhaps not so rare a game, but it dont pop up often on like ebay.


Skweek: Pretty amazing & addictive gameplay. Fairly classic "fill in the squares" puzzle/gameplay ala pacman. Lovely bright and sparkly colours though. Might as well mention the followup Super Skweek. Perhaps its a regional thing but i didnt see it even though its a 1989 game.


Donkey Kong: A trulely amazing conversion of the arcade game. Sure it isnt rare now as its probably one amstrad fans will likely mention .. but it never really resold in any way, so technically it quite rare & always has a silly high price like £100 on ebay. So many games never got around to be resold on budget or compilation & this one is definately one of them. Wonder if the average reviews made it worse for many games like this.


Honourable mentions:
Livingstone I Presume
Livingstone I presume
The Duct (covertape, loading issues again)
Arkanoid 2
Goonies

[dcdrac]

I remember when playing sim city I would build the place up then make the reactor blow up speed up the time and wait to see how long the radiation cleared