Crash Bandicoot

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31st January 2021, 18:53
badger1

Crash Bandicoot

I've just been down a rabbit hole reminiscing about old computer games I used to play. One that i loved was Crash Bandicoot and i've just found out it can be played on my laptop. I'm not really interested in getting a dedicated console so to get myself up and spinning is it just a case of buying one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vibration-G...s%2C266&sr=1-9

And then setting myself up on Steam and buy the game? https://store.steampowered.com/app/7..._Sane_Trilogy/

Is there anything else I need to do?

Anyone else gone down this route? Am I going to be disappointed?!!
31st January 2021, 19:01
Devonian

I used to love that game. Going back a lot further I wonder if you can get Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy :tennis:
31st January 2021, 19:06
Montello

Defender was my favourite arcade game but you need the proper arcade controls.
31st January 2021, 19:14
RustyBin5

You should be able to just download an emulator
31st January 2021, 19:18
ENES

Quote:

Originally Posted by Montello

Defender was my favourite arcade game but you need the proper arcade controls.

Oh yeh, I loved Defender - and Pheonix.
31st January 2021, 19:28
GraniteQuarry

Once upon a time I was stranded for a week in a small village just outside Brussels - Crash and red vino saved the day!
31st January 2021, 19:58
RustyBin5

Quote:

Originally Posted by Devonian

I used to love that game. Going back a lot further I wonder if you can get Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy :tennis:

https://www.playdosgames.com/online/jet-set-willy/
31st January 2021, 20:35
Gullers

Jet Set Willy [emoji1303]
Another reminder chuckie egg?
31st January 2021, 20:40
TimeThoughts

Jet Set Willy

Now there's a flashback. I haven't thought about that game for 20years & more.

Must have lost a year in the 1980s at least on that game.
31st January 2021, 20:49
RustyBin5

Quote:

Originally Posted by TimeThoughts

Jet Set Willy

Now there's a flashback. I haven't thought about that game for 20years & more.

Must have lost a year in the 1980s at least on that game.

There were many. Jetpac, secret of Monkey island, little big adventure, sensible soccer, discworld, simon the sorcerer, commander keen, bomberman, atic atac

God this is nostalgic
31st January 2021, 21:34
Linocut

Quote:

Originally Posted by ENES

Oh yeh, I loved Defender - and Pheonix.

I was never any good at Defender, same guys did Robotron, I could get a million on that :)

I used to play Crash with the kids, it was the only game I could compete at.
1st February 2021, 11:06
Macca

Yes you should just need the game install and a compatible controller to play it once installed

Crash was amazing, I loved crash 3, crash bash and crash team racing

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1st February 2021, 12:12
kevkojak

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gullers

Another reminder chuckie egg?

Loaded from a cassette (noisily!) On my BBC Micro.
My first experience of gaming. I must have been 7 or 8 years old!
1st February 2021, 12:15
Macca

Quote:

Originally Posted by kevkojak

Loaded from a cassette (noisily!) On my BBC Micro.
My first experience of gaming. I must have been 7 or 8 years old!

I had that on the bbc too, and moon raider which I played to death

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1st February 2021, 12:19
badger1

Controller ordered and just about to order the game.

I hope i'm not going to be disappointed.

One more question if i may - I assume the game is stored locally and therefore can be played without internet?
1st February 2021, 12:27
kevkojak

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macca

I had that on the bbc too, and moon raider which I played to death

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Just to drag the thread off on a tangent, I had a huge catalogue of Digital Fantasia games for that computer (it was a hand-me-down from one of my cousins). The boxes were always magnificent, but the cassettes would never load for me! I could get lost in the box art alone, it was my dream to get into those games. Worth a fortune now of course - and all mine are in a landfill 😆
1st February 2021, 14:56
Mr.D

Got a couple of raspberry pis knocking about but I do find the nostalgia quickly wanes ; good projects nonetheless.

I did once have a spectrum emulator on a £500k Silicon Graphics Industries Onyx workstation so I could play Lords of Midnight.
1st February 2021, 16:13
Macca

Quote:

Originally Posted by kevkojak

Just to drag the thread off on a tangent, I had a huge catalogue of Digital Fantasia games for that computer (it was a hand-me-down from one of my cousins). The boxes were always magnificent, but the cassettes would never load for me! I could get lost in the box art alone, it was my dream to get into those games. Worth a fortune now of course - and all mine are in a landfill ðŸ˜†

The box art was amazing but the boxes were often comical in size for one cassette, I remember when cd rom came about and things really changed in terms of graphics etc on pc, carnage’s don was such a great game!

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1st February 2021, 16:54
andrewcregan

Skramble was my arcade classic (10p a go) and obviously Pac-Man :distracted:
1st February 2021, 18:27
badger1

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewcregan

Skramble was my arcade classic (10p a go) and obviously Pac-Man :distracted:

I had a friend with scramble on a Vic 20 (I think, could have been a C64) spent hours playing it!
1st February 2021, 18:31
andrewcregan

Quote:

Originally Posted by badger1

I had a friend with scramble on a Vic 20 (I think, could have been a C64) spent hours playing it!

I definitely had it on the Vic-20.
In the days when a computer had 3.5k RAM.
1st February 2021, 18:32
reecie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfIwDC2F2lc

If you want a true rabbit hole to go down I give you the MiSTer FPGA. As well as perfect arcade and console emulations it also does the same for actual computers. BBC Micros, Spectrums, Amigas and much more. The list of what is supported is at https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
1st February 2021, 18:41
Berty234

Loved Crash. Great era of gaming.

I still play the original Jonah Lomu Rugby with my dad whenever possible. The best rugby game ever released with the hidden ability to offload etc.

Final Fantasy VII has to be the ultimate retro game for me. So pleased they did a mobile version of it recently.
1st February 2021, 19:18
Macca

Quote:

Originally Posted by Berty234

Loved Crash. Great era of gaming.

I still play the original Jonah Lomu Rugby with my dad whenever possible. The best rugby game ever released with the hidden ability to offload etc.

Final Fantasy VII has to be the ultimate retro game for me. So pleased they did a mobile version of it recently.

Final Fantasy VII was just epic and the best game I ever had on PlayStation

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1st February 2021, 19:29
RustyBin5

When I used to frequent actual arcades it was Gorf or defender or asteroids for me.
1st February 2021, 19:43
r.dawson

I know you've said you don't want to get into buying a console but I got a switch last year before everything kicked off and it's been great.

You can get crash for it, but also if you pay the yearly online subscription (£15 or thereabouts for the whole year) you get access to a nes and SNES emulator with some great classic games.

Plus the remakes or series of old games are also fantastic. Well worth a look.

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9th February 2021, 09:43
Macca

Quote:

Originally Posted by r.dawson

I know you've said you don't want to get into buying a console but I got a switch last year before everything kicked off and it's been great.

You can get crash for it, but also if you pay the yearly online subscription (£15 or thereabouts for the whole year) you get access to a nes and SNES emulator with some great classic games.

Plus the remakes or series of old games are also fantastic. Well worth a look.

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We bought our son a switch which has exactly that, the crash release is great fun and the emulated games are a bonus for dad when he’s on my Xbox. Been reliving the glory days playing SEGA outrun this week

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9th February 2021, 10:46
gcleminson

Quote:

Originally Posted by RustyBin5

When I used to frequent actual arcades it was Gorf or defender or asteroids for me.

And Tron, with the rollerball - might have even been the first interactive game (?) where you could choose the order in which you did the 4 missions..
9th February 2021, 10:50
Sinnlover

Quote:

Originally Posted by Berty234

I still play the original Jonah Lomu Rugby with my dad whenever possible. The best rugby game ever released with the hidden ability to offload etc.

Where can you play Jonah Lomu Rugby? I loved this game as a kid, the more modern Rugby games are no where near as fun.
9th February 2021, 11:00
TheFlyingBanana

Quote:

Originally Posted by ENES

Oh yeh, I loved Defender - and Pheonix.

If you liked them, you'd probably love Uridium on the Commodore 64. You can easily emulate it.
9th February 2021, 11:08
Mr.D

Raspberry Pi is the way to go ; emulate everything up to PS1 . Works with popular game controllers .

All for the price of a pi and an SD card . Which you can always change to something else ic yiu get bored. £50 not including the controller . Easy project with lots of support online and ongoing development.

You can customise it ; put it in an arcade cabinet , put it in a gameboy case and make it portable , combinw with a multimedua streaming solution.

Just be mindful not all the retro games are as good as remembered . I had great fun putting Atari VCS and Amiga games up on a 4k 16ft projector !

Such a laugh
9th February 2021, 11:52
eoghan101

I use an nvida shield pro. Picked one up at the begining of lockdown and been thoroughly impressed. Have got retoroarch and dolphin to emulate nearly any console up to PS1 and GameCube/Wii.
Hade great fun lodging up some nes games Captain Skyhawk and top gun. Also Bushido blade for PS1. Forgot what a tense and dramatic game it is.

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9th February 2021, 12:24
Sinnlover

That sounds well above my competence level when it comes to technology, I can't even work out how to get my email on my ipad!
9th February 2021, 13:36
Brighty

Have crash bandicoot 1-3 on XBox one, great fun.
Also have a retroarch Raspberry pi setup, which is good, mostly only tried older NES SNES stuff, but have managed to get PS1 Hogs of war working, great game, hilarious dialogue by the late great Rick Mayall
9th February 2021, 16:58
Berty234

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sinnlover

Where can you play Jonah Lomu Rugby? I loved this game as a kid, the more modern Rugby games are no where near as fun.

On a PS1/PS2 with the original cd :)
9th February 2021, 17:30
CatalystGuy

I loved playing crush, crumble and chomp! on my old apple II.

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9th February 2021, 17:54
mikeveal

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.D

Raspberry Pi is the way to go ; emulate everything up to PS1 . Works with popular game controllers .

All for the price of a pi and an SD card . Which you can always change to something else ic yiu get bored. £50 not including the controller . Easy project with lots of support online and ongoing development.

You can customise it ; put it in an arcade cabinet , put it in a gameboy case and make it portable , combinw with a multimedua streaming solution.

Just be mindful not all the retro games are as good as remembered . I had great fun putting Atari VCS and Amiga games up on a 4k 16ft projector !

Such a laugh

Wot MrD said!
I have Retropie running on a Pi4. I've just swapped to the Pi4 from a Pi3, the Pi3B is good enough for everything except the Nintendo 64 emulation.
So far I have it running about 40 ZX Spectrum games & around the same number of Amiga games. I've got about half a dozen MegaDrive games running, there are plenty more out there, I just haven't downloaded them yet.
It is running 1782 Arcade machine games. No, that's not a mistake, every one is tested and runs & plays perfectly. Yes, arcade machines, the things with a coin slot.

I have what I believe to be a complete set of games for the N64. So far I've tested and configured about 20. They all work, some are a bit slow and the sound isn't perfect. Even the Pi4 doesn't really have the grunt to emulate all the games. There are some that run perfectly.

It is also running Kodi, so will stream from my NAS & from both legitimate & illicit streaming sites if you so desire.

All that and I've barely scratched the surface. It will emulate:
3do
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Apple II
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Atari 800 and 5200
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx
Atari ST-STE-TT-Falcon
Coco
Colecovision
Commodore 64/VIC-20/PET
Daphne
Dragon
Dreamcast
Famicom Disk System
Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Color
Game Boy
GameCube
Game Gear
Game & Watch
GemRB
Genesis/Megadrive
Intellivision
Love
Macintosh
Master System
MESS
MSX
NEC PC8800
NEC PC9800
Neo Geo
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Neo Geo Pocket
Nintendo 64
Nintendo DS
Nintendo Entertainment System
OpenBOR
Oric
PC Engine
PC
Playstation 1
PSP
Sam Coupe
Saturn
ScummVM
Sega 32X
Sega CD
Sharp X1
Sharp X68000
SG 1000
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Thomson MO/TO
TI-99
TRS-80
Vectrex
VideoPac / Odyssey 2
Virtual Boy
Wonderswan Color
WonderSwan
Zmachine
ZX Spectrum

It is consuming an awful lot of my time!

Edit to add:
I don't yet have a version of Crash Bandicoot running on it!
10th February 2021, 08:29
Macca

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brighty

Have crash bandicoot 1-3 on XBox one, great fun.
Also have a retroarch Raspberry pi setup, which is good, mostly only tried older NES SNES stuff, but have managed to get PS1 Hogs of war working, great game, hilarious dialogue by the late great Rick Mayall

Hogs of war is one of the absolute best games you can get on ps1!

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10th February 2021, 09:09
bry nylon

I used to like playing Battle 1917 and Apocalypse (like Risk but with added nukes), on the Spectrum and K240 on the Amiga..
interesting to read about the Raspberry Pi thing, might look into that..
10th February 2021, 09:48
Sinnlover

Quote:

Originally Posted by Berty234

On a PS1/PS2 with the original cd :)

This is more than likely to be the approach I will take but I know I would play it once and the it would collect dust, just like every other PlayStation I have bought.