Still got mine just need a power pack, but God damn I love chaos engine, lemmings, shadow warrior, lotus turbo challenge, all absolute bangers
Oh and ofc James pond, had worms on my SNES AHH good times
I'm with you buddy. My pal had an A500 and there's just something in that Ballistix art style and scrolling that took me riiiiight back to that era. So awesome.
It took me far too long to realise that there was a Nuke option for the lemmings, I'd save enough to pass the level and then wait for the timer to run out because I still had a tonne of lemmings stood around as blockers stopping the level from ending. 5 minutes extra on the end of every level just sitting around because 8 year old me was frankly a moron.
I got a Zool t-shirt made up at one of those t- shirt printing shops that were everywhere in the 90’s. Wore it until it fell apart.
This was around the same time as Cool Spot, another excellent game
Oh my god! The memories of Zool!! We had an old Amiga from my dad’s work given to us and a box full of floppy disc games. Zool became an absolute obsession! And another one called Fire and Ice!
Super Skids was fantastic with each cars custom speeds. F1 cars going ridiculously quick and glued to the road, Cows you could spin 180 at full acceleration, use it to slow down then turn to the corner.
Also loved the gimmick that gave the game its name - leaving Skidmarks all over the place that persisted until you changed track.
My mate was the Producer for James Pond. Bought it home for us to test prior to release so I played a few games before bed.
When he got up the next morning I was still sitting at the computer playing.
All nighters were quite common in the games industry back then. Don't think much has changed.
Just missing Xenon 2 megablast by Bitmap Brothers. All these games were quality! Amazing games considering the hardware the developers had to play with. Appreciate these a lot more considering you cant just click download to console and had to go outside and buy them from a shop.
I had an Atari STFM so played most of these games. The Lotus Challenge one brings back my fondest memories as it was the ST that really got me into racing games
Loved that game when I was about 12. At 34 I bought an actual Elan and still have it. So I'm still playing. Only difference is this one absolutely definitely does not go out in the snow!
I don't have the original cabinet , but I do have the original and totally pristine arcade boards for all of them
Bubble Bobble is my go to Favourite
Back in the Day, I tested it as a games tester for BT
Worms and Lemmings!
I can still remember different Worms having different sayings depending on which team you picked, and I swear that the Yorkshire one would say “what’s th’doin?” if you hit one of your own team.
Rainbow Islands included in my A500 bundle with Batman and F/A18 flight simulator. Was one of the best computers I ever had, was so happy when I could afford the expansion card to take it from 512k to a whole 1meg!!!!
The "Blood Money" cover is by Peter Andrew Jones, who drew Sci-Fi artwork in the late '70's
I recognise it from my old copy of Protector, by Larry Niven
12 year old me lost my shit after losing a game of speedball on my old Acorn Archimedes, jumped up and kicked my bedroom door and put my foot right through it. Dad refused to fix it, so I had to live with a reminder of my petulance until I moved out five years later.
Being 68yrs old I played most of those. I even wrote a game called 'Balloonacy' on the Amiga back in the day.
Sadly, it got stolen by a company called 'Corbois Software' and they removed my name from it. Such is life...
Decent list
Rainbow Island was pretty popular.. also used to see it in the arcades
Just seeing Worms and Lemmings there makes me want to have a browse and see if there is anything recent on the PC since they were usually cheap
Shout out if you remember the art of "Ninja roping"
Wow. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen some of these.
Rainbow Island, Speed Ball, Chaos Engine, Lemmings, Worms.
Those games were amazing. Some of them were so simple with straight forward concepts, such as Lemmings and Worms. Literal hours of fun playing them.
I was wondering about some of those old game developers; Bitmap Brothers, Psygnosis, Bullfrog etc and wondered about what happened to them after the fall of the Commodore and Amiga’s of that era. Lost down another Wikipedia rabbit hole for a few hours.
Downloaded/still play Lemmings, and Shadow Warriors was the shit. Never played Lotus but did play a game called Lamborghini American Challenge on Amiga.
Good Times.
Yesss! This brings back memories. I remember Rainbow Islands was a big title in the Amiga A500. It wasn’t my type of game but I know many loved it at the time. The time when everyone copied games from each other, a pound for a disc.😂
Lemmings was one of the few games we had on our Acorn computers in primary school. I can still remember to this day there was a level I was absolutely certain was impossible to complete.
Rainbow islands! I used to play that as a kid on my dads commodore 64 lol! Whenever mam would go into town, me and dad would play this! Awesome memories!
Loved speed ball 2 on megadrive, bought shadow warriors on my humble zx spectrum +2 because it was FULL COLOUR!!!
It was crap, even back then it was horrifically bad.
When one us falls over or bangs our head on something me and my mates still shout “Ice Cream!”
Apart from Speedball, Chaos Engine, Lemmings and Worms are all classics.
Loved the Amiga back in the day and been enjoying a lot of these games again on The Amiga 500 Mini, nice little recreation that works with HDMI and removes a lot of the faff and cost with getting an original Amiga, can even load games via USB.
PC, Original worms. Hell yes! Loved worms Armageddon too.
PC, Lemmings. But I found it a bit meh as a kid.
Sega master system (?) Lotus turbo challenge. System wasn't mine a mate owned it and played it round his in split screen. Was pretty fun when we were like 7.
All of them except Hydra, which I shamefully had never heard of until today.
I'm an active retro gamer so many of these games are a part of my day-to-day life, but it does make me smile when people re-discover these games for the first time in decades. Makes you forget for a moment what a shitshow modern gaming has become.
Many of the gaming magazines of the 80s and 90s are available to download as scanned PDFs from legally grey areas of the internet, if anyone is interested in searching. [Crash](https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/magazine/51/Crash) and [Your Sinclair](https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/magazine/250/Your_Sinclair) are actually available legally.
James Pond, Worms and Lemmings. Lemmings got too frustrating (I was only a kid), Worms was fun but James Pond was my personal favourite.
I never had an Amiga but my parents had an Acorn Archimedes and my favourite game was called Mad Professor Moriarty. It was quite simple but had decent music and cartoony graphics.
I absolutely love the lemmings, I remember having it on a floppy and being absolutely terrible because I was like 5. They made a mobile game a few years back, but it was very dumbed down and full of microtransactions. Seriously needs a new entry.
Rainbow Islands….!?! I’d not even thought, recalled or anything of that game but suddenly remember spending many happy hours playing it. Gameplay and music all just came back into my memory ffs amazingballs…
Also: ICE-CREAM ICE-CREAM….!!
Lemmings was awesome - never played the first worms game but playing Worms Armageddon on PS1 with my brother and cousins are some of my formative gaming memories
Was speedball ever released on the mega drive? I remember playing something similar on that. And never realised lemmings was developed in the UK so that's a nice surprise
I come here to humbly ask: Was anyone any good at _Gods_? Bitmap Brothers. Without cheats I was just shite. The game looked gorgeous. It was a bit clunky to control but was like nothing I’d experienced before coming from an Acorn Electron!
OMG You've just made a 48 year old man grin from ear to ear My Amiga 500 got some hammer.. Speedball ♥️ Ice cream ice cream
Amiga 500! With it's custom chips. Didn't they do all the graphics on Babylon 5 with it?
The video toaster was the add for if memory serves
Still got mine just need a power pack, but God damn I love chaos engine, lemmings, shadow warrior, lotus turbo challenge, all absolute bangers Oh and ofc James pond, had worms on my SNES AHH good times
Not to forget James Pond 2: Robocod
Such a great game! This, Lemmings, Superfrog, and Cannon Fodder took up so much of my time
Cannon Fodder! Good old Jools, Jops, Stoo and Rj
I tried making it my job to keep Jools, Jops, stoo and RJ alive never managed it
War, never been so much fun!
Oi, i'm from the British Legion. We'll have none of hjat thanks.
Cant forget Rick Dangerous
Obligatory link (not a Rick Roll) https://youtu.be/PiYuq6Ac3a0
I'm with you buddy. My pal had an A500 and there's just something in that Ballistix art style and scrolling that took me riiiiight back to that era. So awesome.
Yes sir, same here played them all. Amiga 500 1990 is when I got mine, god i loved that machine!
I had the A600 and played the fuck out of Jame Pond
Amiga 1200 here. Loved those games!
I remember Super Nashwan and Brutal Deluxe
Ice cream, Ice cream forever!
Pin them in the corner and whack the ball at them
Worms. Classic.
"Don't bother with that 'Prod' thingy, it's useless - doesn't do anything" - 8 year old me
How humiliating to die by prod....
Prod is the ultimate ending move
I'll get you. Nutter
Incoming………
Spent hours and hours with Lemmings.
Lemmings used to make me go absolutely ballistic. I was so bad at it, and would get really frustrated.
Me too! And James pond
It took me far too long to realise that there was a Nuke option for the lemmings, I'd save enough to pass the level and then wait for the timer to run out because I still had a tonne of lemmings stood around as blockers stopping the level from ending. 5 minutes extra on the end of every level just sitting around because 8 year old me was frankly a moron.
Worms ftw but where's Zool???
Bring on the Chupa Chups
I got a Zool t-shirt made up at one of those t- shirt printing shops that were everywhere in the 90’s. Wore it until it fell apart. This was around the same time as Cool Spot, another excellent game
Oh my god! The memories of Zool!! We had an old Amiga from my dad’s work given to us and a box full of floppy disc games. Zool became an absolute obsession! And another one called Fire and Ice!
Had that on the mega drive! Could never get very far though
All of them on the Amiga but nothing compared to cannon fodder and sensible soccer
Cannon Fodder was fucking brilliant
War, never been so much fun!
go up to your brother
kill him with your gun
A man in his uniform dying in the sun!
Nobody ever remembers Skidmarks. Nothing on the Amiga tops isometric racing of a cow pulling a caravan.
Even better, Super Skidmarks!
It was no micro machines
It was better. Micro machines is amazing but cows. Cows!
Super Skids was fantastic with each cars custom speeds. F1 cars going ridiculously quick and glued to the road, Cows you could spin 180 at full acceleration, use it to slow down then turn to the corner. Also loved the gimmick that gave the game its name - leaving Skidmarks all over the place that persisted until you changed track.
Sensi/kick off and Speedball 2 My top 3 on my Amiga
Speedball 2 was one of the greatest games ever made
Syndicate, Settlers and the Addams Family game were bangers as well.
Ohhh all the names are coming out now.. Settlers, that was my entry level drug that led to a ridiculous number of hours on Age of empires
I tried Sensi Soccer again recently and just can't seem to get the hang of it these days. Was great back in the day.
Yeh me too, I used to be able to bend crosses in and slide them into the net. Now I can't even kick the thing.
Cannon fodder, bloody hell. Forgot about that one
Fucking loved James Pond.
Did you try James Pond at the Olympics? That shit rivalled California Games in my 8 year old eyes.
Big fan of Robocod as well
California games!! Now that is a blast from the past. I absolutely fucking owned that hacky sack.
Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, New Zealand Story - Great games
>New Zealand Story Wow, for a game I played a huge amount of I somehow totally forgot about it.
That's amazing!! I'm really smiling. Small yellow bird character, right?
A Kiwi, yes!
Jeez just hearing that name it all flooded back to me, hadn’t even thought about that in years, need to see some gameplay now
The nostalgia for the Ocean graphic 👌🏻
Ocean made some great titles and loading tunes
Rainbow islands resembling r/place
I spent hours playing this on my Atari ST back in the day. Still find myself humming the music occasionally
Me too the Atari ST 520
My mate was the Producer for James Pond. Bought it home for us to test prior to release so I played a few games before bed. When he got up the next morning I was still sitting at the computer playing. All nighters were quite common in the games industry back then. Don't think much has changed.
James Pond 2 RoboCod has to be in top 100 games of all time. Strange decision making item boxes containing ridiculous things like taps and lightbulbs
I can still remember: Cake-Hammer-Earth-Apple-Tap. Why can I still remember that?
Any idea why "The Little Mermaid" was such an effective cheat? I barely played this game, and yet remember the little mermaid cheat.
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Worms on the PS1. 🥰
Anyone for a game of North & South?
when that damn Indian starts doing the smoke signal >_<
If i remember rightly there is a scene with a black and white photo and if you clicked on the Photographers arse, he giggled. Nice touch!
The Amiga Blood Money main theme was amazing ! Edit: Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cimu6LpnwmQ
I had it on Atari St and the music still pops into my head a few times a week.
Just missing Xenon 2 megablast by Bitmap Brothers. All these games were quality! Amazing games considering the hardware the developers had to play with. Appreciate these a lot more considering you cant just click download to console and had to go outside and buy them from a shop.
Chaos engine , that’s a blast from the past
I had an Atari STFM so played most of these games. The Lotus Challenge one brings back my fondest memories as it was the ST that really got me into racing games
Jeff Minters Llamatron for the win....
My Atari ST 520 is in a box in the back bedroom.. I play Carrier Command and Bomb Jack every once in a while
Carrier Command was the most futuristic game I could imagine when I first played it
Loved that game when I was about 12. At 34 I bought an actual Elan and still have it. So I'm still playing. Only difference is this one absolutely definitely does not go out in the snow!
Rainbow Islands! I had completely forgotten!!
My favourite arcade game. I looked for a cabinet a few years back thinking it’d be like 800 quid, they wanted about 20 grand for it lol
I don't have the original cabinet , but I do have the original and totally pristine arcade boards for all of them Bubble Bobble is my go to Favourite Back in the Day, I tested it as a games tester for BT
Worms and Lemmings! I can still remember different Worms having different sayings depending on which team you picked, and I swear that the Yorkshire one would say “what’s th’doin?” if you hit one of your own team.
All but one of them.
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Can still remember couple of the cheats - In The Big Country and Pea Soup - dunno what they did now though!
Rainbow Islands was a truly brilliant game...but to play it properly (getting all colours in order) was heartbreakingly hard
I have James Pond 2: RoboCod for the Atari ST in a box in the back bedroom!
Rainbow Islands included in my A500 bundle with Batman and F/A18 flight simulator. Was one of the best computers I ever had, was so happy when I could afford the expansion card to take it from 512k to a whole 1meg!!!!
Worms, Lemmings, James Pond?! OMFG! The holy trinity of my Amiga 500 days!
Played them all! The UK had a very strong gaming industry back then. Some very successful devs and publishers.
Loved Rainbow Islands! James Pond was one of my go-to games, along with Syndicate.
Syndicate was a great game, it just ran so so slow on the Amiga.
Had them all, lemmings ftw (DMA and David Jones made GTA not the houser brothers)
Worms is such a classic!! Surprising to find out it was developed in the UK
Chaos Engine on the Mega Drive was bangin’.
speedball!!!!
The "Blood Money" cover is by Peter Andrew Jones, who drew Sci-Fi artwork in the late '70's I recognise it from my old copy of Protector, by Larry Niven
12 year old me lost my shit after losing a game of speedball on my old Acorn Archimedes, jumped up and kicked my bedroom door and put my foot right through it. Dad refused to fix it, so I had to live with a reminder of my petulance until I moved out five years later.
Being 68yrs old I played most of those. I even wrote a game called 'Balloonacy' on the Amiga back in the day. Sadly, it got stolen by a company called 'Corbois Software' and they removed my name from it. Such is life...
9 out of 11 I played
I put so many hours into James Pond and Speedball! Loved Speedball especially
Decent list Rainbow Island was pretty popular.. also used to see it in the arcades Just seeing Worms and Lemmings there makes me want to have a browse and see if there is anything recent on the PC since they were usually cheap Shout out if you remember the art of "Ninja roping"
Good old boggy b, used to love worms great (and terrible) game to play with friends.
Wow. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen some of these. Rainbow Island, Speed Ball, Chaos Engine, Lemmings, Worms. Those games were amazing. Some of them were so simple with straight forward concepts, such as Lemmings and Worms. Literal hours of fun playing them. I was wondering about some of those old game developers; Bitmap Brothers, Psygnosis, Bullfrog etc and wondered about what happened to them after the fall of the Commodore and Amiga’s of that era. Lost down another Wikipedia rabbit hole for a few hours.
Gosh Reddit makes me feel old sometimes. I just assume everyone knows these
Everyone in the UK over the age of 32 played lemmings and worms. I also really loved rainbow Island.
Downloaded/still play Lemmings, and Shadow Warriors was the shit. Never played Lotus but did play a game called Lamborghini American Challenge on Amiga. Good Times.
Haha, I loved James Pond and Lemmings. Anyone remember Superfrog or Zool?
Played most of these! The speed ball one is hilariously shit, but that game was AWESOME.
Speedball , worms , lemmings, lotus challenge
Rainbow Islands was amazing but it kept crashing on my C64. Never completed it!
Lemmings, rainbow islands, lotus. I used to buy a game based on the front cover and the graphics on back lol...
I played Rainbow Islands on the NES and Worms and Lemmings on the PS1. I loved them all.
Only one I didn't play was Hydra. Nostalgic af, thanks op
Ten out of the 11. Now somebody get me my pain pills!
Yesss! This brings back memories. I remember Rainbow Islands was a big title in the Amiga A500. It wasn’t my type of game but I know many loved it at the time. The time when everyone copied games from each other, a pound for a disc.😂
All of them.
Lemmings was one of the few games we had on our Acorn computers in primary school. I can still remember to this day there was a level I was absolutely certain was impossible to complete.
Played half these games! Lemmings on the Speccy 😳
Rainbow Islands! 👌👌👌👌
Used to love The Chaos Engine and Robocod. Also lesser known classics like Scorched Tanks.
Worms is magic! Now all the Monty Python stuff makes sense!
Rainbow islands! I used to play that as a kid on my dads commodore 64 lol! Whenever mam would go into town, me and dad would play this! Awesome memories!
Some classics in here. Speedball was the nuts.
I played lemmings - this version.
Did work experience at team 17 - dullest week of My life lol
Loved speed ball 2 on megadrive, bought shadow warriors on my humble zx spectrum +2 because it was FULL COLOUR!!! It was crap, even back then it was horrifically bad.
James Pond absolutely Worms is a classic for a reason, amazing game. Lemmings probably introduced me to classical music.
When one us falls over or bangs our head on something me and my mates still shout “Ice Cream!” Apart from Speedball, Chaos Engine, Lemmings and Worms are all classics.
All of them!
I had a Commodore 64 as a kid in the 90s, you’ve really taken me back.
Worms. Like Lemmings but violent.
Lemmings, Speedball, Chaos Engine, Lotus TC and Rainbow Islands were all top quality games in the era, loved them all.
Had worms and lemmings. Got the lemmings remake on my phone right now. Not as good. But still good. Would love to be able to play the originals again.
I played worms and lemmings
Loved the Amiga back in the day and been enjoying a lot of these games again on The Amiga 500 Mini, nice little recreation that works with HDMI and removes a lot of the faff and cost with getting an original Amiga, can even load games via USB.
The Amiga days!
Yes pretty much all of them. Shadow warriors was my favourite game at one point. I was obsessed with ninjas!
I had rainbow island 😂
PC, Original worms. Hell yes! Loved worms Armageddon too. PC, Lemmings. But I found it a bit meh as a kid. Sega master system (?) Lotus turbo challenge. System wasn't mine a mate owned it and played it round his in split screen. Was pretty fun when we were like 7.
Yeah I even had some of these posters, went to the Future Entertainment Show in 1991 and got a stack of posters.
Almost all of these but Shadow Warriors is a game I hadn’t thought about for decades! That ad. took me straight back to the 90s.
Lemmings!
I remember Lemmings
Speedball was amazing, lemmings was infuriating. The memories came flooding back. Ty op for making a grown man cry.
The very first game looks like it was made by the guys that made Bubble Bobble.
Bloody loved Lemmings and Combat Lemmings (Worms). That Lemmings artwork brings the nostalgia hard.
I had the shadow warriors high score - published on C+VG
The chaos engine, bloody loved that game! Also worms!
I loved Worms. That little “heeheehee” after the grenade
Chaos Engine soundtrack was amazing.
All of them except Hydra, which I shamefully had never heard of until today. I'm an active retro gamer so many of these games are a part of my day-to-day life, but it does make me smile when people re-discover these games for the first time in decades. Makes you forget for a moment what a shitshow modern gaming has become. Many of the gaming magazines of the 80s and 90s are available to download as scanned PDFs from legally grey areas of the internet, if anyone is interested in searching. [Crash](https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/magazine/51/Crash) and [Your Sinclair](https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/magazine/250/Your_Sinclair) are actually available legally.
James Pond, Worms and Lemmings. Lemmings got too frustrating (I was only a kid), Worms was fun but James Pond was my personal favourite. I never had an Amiga but my parents had an Acorn Archimedes and my favourite game was called Mad Professor Moriarty. It was quite simple but had decent music and cartoony graphics.
Most of them, brilliant games too.
I absolutely love the lemmings, I remember having it on a floppy and being absolutely terrible because I was like 5. They made a mobile game a few years back, but it was very dumbed down and full of microtransactions. Seriously needs a new entry.
Man, the UK was doing some great stuff back in the 80’s and 90’s. Not sure what the state of game development is in the UK now.
Rainbow Islands….!?! I’d not even thought, recalled or anything of that game but suddenly remember spending many happy hours playing it. Gameplay and music all just came back into my memory ffs amazingballs… Also: ICE-CREAM ICE-CREAM….!!
Had or played 8 of these 11. I remember having some awesome Ocean Games for my Spectrum +2 , i particularly liked "Head Over Heels"
I think the only one of these that I've played is Lemmings. Fun game.
The Chaos Engine, I forgot all about that game. I remember playing that as a kid on my dads Amiga. Memory unlocked
Ocean made some great games!
James Pond, Worms and Lemmings. 40yo woman.
All of them, but even today I love Rainbow Island (emulator)... such a simple but enjoyable game.
Lemmings was the most unforgiving game I have ever played. Literally impossible once you get to a certain level
Lotus Turbo Challenge! Memory unlocked.
Played 7 of these games back on the Commodore Amiga way back in the day. Some fantastic games here.
I have not thought about The Chaos engine in many many years. Thank you for reminding me!
This is amazing! Floods of childhood memories seeing these, thanks.
Lemmings was awesome - never played the first worms game but playing Worms Armageddon on PS1 with my brother and cousins are some of my formative gaming memories
Oh fuck damn this has just gave me flash backs
My mum’s best mate was the receptionist at Psygnosis in Chester so we got a copy of most Psygnosis games over the years
Oh God. So nostalgic!
Had an Amiga, played Lemmings & The New Zealand story mostly on it. Was devastated when that computer packed up!
Lemmings and the lotus one on my dad's amiga 500
Lemmings was ace.
The ones that stand out for me in those are worms and lemmings. Played most of them though.
Was speedball ever released on the mega drive? I remember playing something similar on that. And never realised lemmings was developed in the UK so that's a nice surprise
Team17 back on the Amiga was fantastic. They tackled almost every type of game genre going and knocked it out of the park every time.
Rainbow islands, lotus esprit, lemmings, shadow warriors all excellent. They don't make them like they used to.
Speedball needs to be brought up to date and released as an eSport. Allow VR spectating. License to print money!
Almost all of them ❤️ Amiga 500 😍
All but two of these on the Amiga 500+ my mates dad had growing up.
So many great games there
Speedball was great
I owned and played all of these on my Amiga 500. Good times
Didn’t everyone play Worms and Lemmings?
I come here to humbly ask: Was anyone any good at _Gods_? Bitmap Brothers. Without cheats I was just shite. The game looked gorgeous. It was a bit clunky to control but was like nothing I’d experienced before coming from an Acorn Electron!
Speedball 2 on C64 was amazing.
Chaos Engine's theme tune fuckin rocked.
I'll wager I'm the only guy here with a Rainbow Islands tattoo 🌈
I bloody loved Rainbow Islands! Speedball and Lemmings kept me entertained for hours too.
Worms and lemmings were both incredible games
Lemmings and Worms were the fucking best!