Best 8-bit computer game

[Malcolm]

Whether it was on a Sinclair, Commodore, BBC, Acorn, Atari, Oric, Dragon, MSX, Amstrad, Sharp, Jupiter, Tandy or Mattel 8-bit computer what was that computer's best game?

ZX 81: Mazogs
ZX Spectrum: Jet Set Willy (after attic bug was fixed anyway)
C64: Wizball
Oric Atmos: Scuba Dive
BBC Micro Model B: Elite (no brainer imho)

 

[Talsar]

Spectrum - Treasure Island Dizzy
Commodore 64 - Creatures (APEX Productions), Slilent Hunter, Shadow Brothers, Supremacy, and ofc Bubble Bobble.
BBC Micro - Agreed Elite ftw damn starbase docking one pain in the butt.
Amiga - Nightbreed (sorry had to add this in i know not 8bit but was a good game)

 

[Malcolm]

BBC Micro - Agreed Elite ftw damn starbase docking one pain in the butt.

aye, was a relief when you could get a docking computer

 

[Alan]

Spectrum : Chaos (battle of the wizards)
c64 : Spy Hunter - gota love the bass !

ohh and as we had Amiga earlier : Monkey Island !!!!

 

[Malcolm]

Chaos was my 2nd fave (good old Julian Gollop)

found this that looks very interesting

https://sourceforge.net/projects/realtimechaos/


Spyhunter on the C64 is a classic too.

If you're going to mention 16 bit computers then I'll add

Atari ST: Oids
Commodore Amiga: Cannon Fodder

 

[Muylaetrix]

c64 elite, first game ever to have me still playing it after a year.

 

[Vasconcelos]

Atari 520ST = BARBARIAN!!!!!!!

 

[Talsar]

aye, was a relief when you could get a docking computer

lol your not joking, if i remember correctly you have to do 3 successful trades, avoid enemies and not buy anything until you can afford it

 

[Darzil]

I preferred Elite on the Spectrum, to be honest. Seem to recall there were a few extra quests, and I preferred the explosions.

Fave Spectrum game would be between that and Doomdarks Revenge, though.

Darzil

 

[Malcolm]

I preferred Elite on the Spectrum, to be honest. Seem to recall there were a few extra quests, and I preferred the explosions.

Fave Spectrum game would be between that and Doomdarks Revenge, though.

Darzil

hmm i'm sure the bbc one had as many as the speccy one. a mate had it for the electron and lacked a lot of the missions.

doomdark's revenge is a classic as is lords of midnight. Met Mike Singleton, their creator once (he's a local lad) and he was a very nice chap.

 

[Talsar]

hmm i'm sure the bbc one had as many as the speccy one. a mate had it for the electron and lacked a lot of the missions.

doomdark's revenge is a classic as is lords of midnight. Met Mike Singleton, their creator once (he's a local lad) and he was a very nice chap.

hmm i'm not sure, i know that the Commodore 128 version had a few extra missions

 

[Hawkwind]

Elite and Frag on BBC were both great games
Spectrum - Jet Set Willy
Atari ST - Defender / Robotron
Comodore Vic/64 - Gridrunner and other Llamasoft games coz I got them free Mate who lived in the village wrote them (Jeff Minter- crazy hippy guy who loved Llamas)

 

[Malcolm]

Loved Frak! on the BBC. Preferred Yak's Llamatron to Robotron on ST and loved Super Gridrunner too, and there also was a rather ace port of speccy game Chaos for it too. Loved Yak's games on the C64 and Vic 20 too.

Another speccy game I just remembered is Transversion. Think there's a PC remake of it somewhere too.

 

[Talsar]

Also i just remembered "outrun" on the Commodore 64 one of the best (still is) car racing games of all time

 

[Huntingtons]

www.remix64.com ftw!

 

[Aiteal]

wizardry on c64
3d maze on zx81 :worthy:
hobbit on speccy (although I had a soft spot for lode runner and way of the exploding fist)
elite on the school's Beeb

 

[Tubbs]

zx81 - 3d monster maze
c64 - uridium/way of the exploding fist
speccy - manic miner
dragon 32 - ring of darkness/donkey king

16 bit machines

amiga - pinball fantasies/cannon fodder
atari st - dungeon master

 

[Soha]

Gotta say Punchout on Nintendo 8bit
amiga Moonstone or monkeyisland

 

[Malcolm]

wizardry on c64
3d maze on zx81 :worthy:
hobbit on speccy (although I had a soft spot for lode runner and way of the exploding fist)
elite on the school's Beeb

loved the tune for wizardry (which was also used for Fairlight on the Zx Spectrum). 3d maze was great (that chunky t-rex was scary!). hobbit was a good game too - remember that i got it in a big box with the book).

 

[Hawkwind]

Atari 520ST = BARBARIAN!!!!!!!

Cheat!!! ST's used 68000 = 16 bit comp.

 

[Malcolm]

nah the thread morphed into a 8 & 16bit discussion

 

[Punishment]

Master System (8-bit afaik) = Alex the Kid (dumdumdumdumdumdumdidumdumdumdumdumdum ... omg get that tune out of my head )

 

[Cromcruaich]

Speccy:Knight Lore, Sabre Wolf, Starquake, Elite (ofc), Sam Fox strip poker (ok maybe not)
C64:Uridium and that one where you were a robot and took over other robots by playing a little mini game with circuits? wtf was it called?

Most frustrating game:Underwurlde - gah!

 

[Malcolm]

Speccy:Knight Lore, Sabre Wolf, Starquake, Elite (ofc), Sam Fox strip poker (ok maybe not)
C64:Uridium and that one where you were a robot and took over other robots by playing a little mini game with circuits? wtf was it called?

Paradroid by Andrew Braybrook (who also wrote Uridium, Gribbly's Day Out, Morpheus and did the C64 port of Rainbow Islands)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid

Ace game as was the 3d speccy conversion called Quazatron - never played the sequel to that called Magnetron which was also available for C64 though

 

[knighthood]

Head over Heels was the best 8 bit game ever

No contest

 

[Malcolm]

Head over Heels was the best 8 bit game ever

No contest

i never got into that. A mate of mine made a remake for the PC though it's not entirely faithful to the original but it's close.

http://www.retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=hoh

 

[Tallen]

Elite, nuff said.

No one has said Jetpack or Skool Daze? C'mon peeps, use your heads

No thread about this is complete without this link http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

 

[Sharaft]

isnt NES also 8-bit?

there its def Mario and Castlevania xD

 

[uspe]

i wont forget the fanstastic game pirares on amstrad 6128
some games came out the same with that. cutthroats from eidos and sid meirs pirates.