Mine was Downland for the TRS-80 Color Computer.

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Favourite? Eh lad, when I were a kid we didn't have platforms games... space invaders or asteroids and considered ourselves lucky.

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Dizzy on the c64. Then SMB.

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New Zealand Story, Space Invaders, Robotron, Defender


Wol..

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When I was a kid we had an upright console radio in our living room which was closed off by doors so we only heated the kitchen (wood burning range).

On Saturday late afternoon my Mother would open the door to the living room and let the kitchen heat flow in there. After my Father got home and we finished supper and washed the dishes, the living room would be heated up enough so we would all gather in there to listen to radio programs. On other nights of the week we would read books in the kitchen.

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Hill Street Blues was the one for me...

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For me when I were just a "kid" it has to be the one and only original version of "Chicken"...

Pretty dumb (not to mention life threateningly dangerous) when I think back about it now...

But it was quite a buzz you got standing there with your toes right at the edge of the platform, neck & face outstretched as far as you dared towards the tracks, heart beating like the clappers and trying not to look terrified or pee yer pants in front of your mates, waiting for the 2:15 Edinburgh to Glasgow express to rush by about an inch from your nose...

They don't make platform games like that anymore (we'll not with all those ruddy CCTV cameras and bloody PC namby pamby brigade do gooders banning such happy childhood games)...

PS: I often wondered... who was more scared us the kids or the train drivers judging by some of the expressions on their faces as they zoomed by at 90 miles an hour...

PPS: If you've only played namby pamby "computer platform games" as a kid... then you aint lived...

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Ghost'n'goblins perhaps

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Henry's House on the C64 was a true winner ;)

Volt.

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Yeah, those ruddy politically correct people opposing children dying at train stations. No fun.

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BurgerTime is my all time favourite game, still today!
Best game ever!!

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My favourite platform game of all times?

No doubts: Bubble Bobble.

I loved the coin op, the C64 conversion and the laaate PC conversion which went on the shelves in the late 90s (or it was 2000 already... don't remember). I simply can't load it with MAME in the office pauses, since a single play would run too long.

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really hard one ... i have always had a place for The Great Giana Sisters but that came after i was a kid, same with Bubble Bobble and Superfrog and Brian The Lion.

ToyBizarre and Super Pipeline it is then...until Bubble Bobble and TGS hit us.

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Fire & Ice on the Amiga, loved that when I was a kid.

Noteable mention for Captain Planet too, even though everyone else seems to hate it, it came bunlded with my Amiga 500+ so I played it a lot, and it still has fond memories,

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On cbm64 I played bagitman, bombjack, BDash1...100, ....

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If I had to name one single platform game above others it would be "Impossible Mission" by Epyx (1984, Commodore 64). Wonderful animation, terrific (and challenging) gameplay and that wonderful digitized speech ("Stay awhile, STAY FOREVER!") provided by Electronic Speech Systems. It was as much a puzzle game as a platformer and it excelled in both.

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They didn't have computers available for home users when I was a kid. when I was 18 or so though, I got a TRS-80 Model 1 and could play some cool games with little asterisks and greater than and less than symbols that represented space ships moving around the screen. Wow...I remember playing that for hours.
Then big five software came out with the actual graphic versions of such games as asteroids....
I remember downland on the Coco. fun game....but Dungeons of Daggorath was my favorite. I spent many an hour slamming the keyboard keys furiously trying to move or fight using the clunky keyboard system they had. In the sequel I wrote, Castle of Tharrogad, I created a mouse pointer menu driven interface for the game and made it flood filled graphics. Too bad Tandy insisted on dumbing down the game play repeatedly before releasing it to the public, making the game boring and worthless. Wish I had kept the original version - the game play was much better and more challenging. The graphics were also not as cartoon like.

Ah well.....the days when one human being could write their own mouse driven interrupt based pointer/menu OS AND 3D graphics game with sound in only 32k of memory.
I miss those days.....
Oh, did you ever play Danger Ranger?


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Wonderboy arcade. Back in that time didn't have any computer until i got the first computer being a teen.

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