The Unregarded, Home Systems Edition.

[SuperMappy]

One of my favorite 8bit games was "Shamus". It was on Atari and Commodore computers.



I remember Synapse Software made a lot of great games including:

Fort Apocalypse



and Blue Max

[F-ZeroOne]

"Shamus" I don't think I've heard of before, and only vaguely know "Fort Apocalypse" - but then I was a Speccy twa... owner. The Spectrum version of "Blue Max" I had a lot of fun with, once I got used to the way it played.

[Whiteball]

Loved Shamus and the similar C64 game by Anirog - Zodiac




We also played a lot of Pinball Spectacular on the C64 and despite having had a Vic-20 for many years before I never knew there was also a version of Pinball Spectacular for that too. Both were really good for thier time on home computers and were obviously versions of Namco's early arcade titles Gee Bee, Bomb Bee and (not so much) Cutie Q

C64 Pinball Spectacular


Vic-20 Pinball Spectacular


1978 Gee Bee


1979 Bomb Bee


and also 1979 Cutie Q

[SuperMappy]

[F-ZeroOne]

Theres been a French game (and if you know anything about how French games were viewed back then, you know that meant odd! ) that I've been trying to think of as a relative seemed to enjoy it a lot, and it was possibly based on a French or European comic book character. The following game doesn't quite match my memory of it but I think its the most likely candidate, Infrogames "Sidewalk" (doesn't help I remember it having a different title):

[F-ZeroOne]

I only ever got to play the demo of this, but for some reason I played it a lot - Gremlins "Harlequin":

[venusian]

I remember having the full version of that but on the Amiga. My recollection is of it looking quite different though. A quick search on YouTube says the Amiga version was significantly smoother, and later levels much more colourful.

[F-ZeroOne]

Yeah, I 'twas but a humble ST owner, you don't have to rub it in...

[venusian]

What surprised me is that the ST version wasn't better. It's the sort of thing to ST was pretty good at... not so many big sprites, chunky scrolling.

[F-ZeroOne]

If I had to guess, possibly a different programmer or a rush job?

Possibly a bit more well known now as one of them was included on The Retro Spectrum, "Sidewize" and "Crosswize". I remember them as being very good shooters for the Spectrum, though playing "Crosswize" today it does seem to be, as the yoofs say, "rock 'ard":

[Kay Joon]

The two 8 bit games that reappear in my head unprompted from time to time are N.O.M.A.D. on the spectrum, and The Castles of Dr Creep on the C64.

[F-ZeroOne]

I must have played N.O.M.A.D. at some point but don't recall much about it; looking at videos it seemed to have a reasonably unique - for a 2D game of the time - momentum mechanic for the main character.

Despite its long history of iconic British comic characters, "2000AD"s oeuvre has rarely resulted in well-remembered games. There have been some, including "Nemesis the Warlock" and "Strontium Dog" but the one I remember the most is "Rogue Trooper". Naughty Norty!:



(its worth saying the much later "Rogue Trooper" game for later systems was great fun).

[Whiteball]

The two 8 bit games that reappear in my head unprompted from time to time are N.O.M.A.D. on the spectrum, and The Castles of Dr Creep on the C64.

Played Castles of Dr Creep on the C64 too. Great game.
The other one I sank many hours into was Racing Car Destruction Set which had a fantastic track designer with varying road surface types and gravity. Still have the original disk here somewhere.

[F-ZeroOne]

The "Sebs Place" channel on YouTube recently reminded me of this, Atlantis Softwares "Supercom". I have vague memories of playing it, but how I acquired it and from where are lost to time. Covertape maybe?:

[noodles]

I was always fascinated with Necromancer on the C64.
Synapse software had class, their box art was top notch.