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Old 13-07-2010, 17:27   #1
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For those that aren't aware, Monkey Island 2 is now available for download on Xbox Arcade - updated with new art and voices as per the first one. Been playing the last couple of days.
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Old 14-07-2010, 11:32   #2
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When I injured my hand last year I needed something to play single-handed and Transport Tycoon came through
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Old 14-07-2010, 11:41   #3
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I really want to play through some old Amiga games - Gods, Mega Lo Mania and Xenon II: Megablast spring to mind.
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Old 14-07-2010, 13:35   #4
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Memories. Had quite a few of those, but my brother sold the Amiga and all the software about two years ago

I just bought Roadblasters for the Lynx on eBay. That should wile away a few commutes
May I suggest WinUAE..

Or even easier:

Download and install HWA package - http://hobring.esero.net/hwa.exe

Then download and install Game Hard Drive Pre installed Packages from the game list - http://hobring.esero.net/games.htm

On your desktop shortcut named HWA Configurations is automaticly created. Simply open it and double click on name of the game.

Game will run, done! To close a game, press ''*''

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I really want to play through some old Amiga games - Gods, Mega Lo Mania and Xenon II: Megablast spring to mind.
The emulators have got pretty good now. Use WinUAE on my laptop from time to time. They're all ideally A500/kickstart 1.3 games so should run pretty much perfectly.

The difficulty is getting digital joysticks - I got lucky a couple of years ago and found at the back of my local pc shop a couple of new competition pro joysticks - needless to say they were snapped up damn fast. But amiga games really need digital sticks with 2 buttons. Closest you will get on the PC is a joypad.
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Old 14-07-2010, 13:16   #5
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Just been playing through Second Sight again on my old Xbox, brilliant game.
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Old 14-07-2010, 19:34   #6
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If you like Transport Tycoon, don't forget OpenTTD, a feature complete (and then some) open source clone of TTD. http://www.openttd.org/en/

If you're used to TTD or Transport Tycoon, be sure to take an amble through the wiki before you play it, especially the section about track signals.
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Old 15-07-2010, 21:16   #7
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Not a year can go by without me playing Streets of Rage 2 on the Megadrive
Also had such an urge lately to dig out my C64. Still got about 400 games for it, the vast majority legit too

Someone I know on Twitter very kindly sent me their Dreamcast a few weeks ago Not had much time with it but I've managed to pick up a selection of games very cheaply from a friend:
Timestalkers
Sonic Adventure
Power Stone
Soul Calibur
Jet Set Radio
Metropolis Street Racer
ChuChu Rocket
Fighting Force 2

all for £8 Only got the discs but still not bad at all!

Until very recently I wrote a few nostalgic ramblings on a retro gaming site: http://b4hd.com/ Some happy memories there

Got a Megadrive with 15 odd games that I bought just before I broke my foot last year. Still not got round to actually playing any of the games I know there was Aladdin and Skitchin in there and can't for the life of me remember what else!
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