Speaking of ST Games...

[madhatter667]

Hey guys.

I am seeking recommendations. I have a healthy chunk of Atari ST titles now...

I was wondering what titles are considered "essential" to a collection?

I tend to like RPG and dungeon crawler games...arcade, action,and adventure are all good too.

I can't compile a list at the moment, as I just got in from work, and it is time to hit the pillow.

 

If any recommended titles are in my stack, then they're definitely the ones that are going to get the first go when I make some space to set up the ST.

 

Side note: Do any of the ST games play with a mouse? Or are they all joystick controlled? If joystick, what type? 2 button, or single? Really new to the STs... most of the games I got with the cocmputers that I purchased, though some were obtained via a big game lot off of ePay.

[Christos]

Hey,

Let's start from the very beginning. The ST uses the Atari type of joysticks just like almost all other systems of the day. ST games have 3 mechanisms for them to be played, the joystick, the mouse and the keyboard. In general, platform, shoot em up and in general action games use the joystick, the mouse is being used by adventures, rpg's and strategy games and the keyboard by all type of games but most don't support it. Needless to say that flight simulators in general use all 3 ways...

 

so here is a small list.

 

RPG:

Dungeon master and Chaos Strikes Back (DM2)

Crystals of Arborea and Ishar trilogy

The Bard's Tale

Phantasie III

 

unfortunately rpg is not my thing so I don't know much

 

Adventure (this is )

Lucas Arts (Monkey Island, Indy III, Loom, Zack McKracken)

Cruise for a Corpse (brilliant)

Future Wars - Time travellers (awesome)

Black Sect

Maupiti Island

Operation Stealth

 

Shoot em up:

Wings of Death

Lethal Xcess

SWIV

Wolfenstein 3d

Xenon

 

Platform:

Turrican 2

Metro Cross

Gods

Zool

Rodland

Bubble Bobble

 

Various:

Another World (Action adventure)

No second prize (3d motorcycle racing simulator)

Frontier: Elite 2 (Space trading and fighting)

 

Just out of my head...

[Tickled_Pink]

Hey,

Let's start from the very beginning. The ST uses the Atari type of joysticks just like almost all other systems of the day. ST games have 3 mechanisms for them to be played, the joystick, the mouse and the keyboard. In general, platform, shoot em up and in general action games use the joystick, the mouse is being used by adventures, rpg's and strategy games and the keyboard by all type of games but most don't support it. Needless to say that flight simulators in general use all 3 ways...

 

so here is a small list.

 

RPG:

Dungeon master and Chaos Strikes Back (DM2)

Crystals of Arborea and Ishar trilogy

The Bard's Tale

Phantasie III

 

unfortunately rpg is not my thing so I don't know much

 

Adventure (this is )

Lucas Arts (Monkey Island, Indy III, Loom, Zack McKracken)

Cruise for a Corpse (brilliant)

Future Wars - Time travellers (awesome)

Black Sect

Maupiti Island

Operation Stealth

 

Shoot em up:

Wings of Death

Lethal Xcess

SWIV

Wolfenstein 3d

Xenon

 

Platform:

Turrican 2

Metro Cross

Gods

Zool

Rodland

Bubble Bobble

 

Various:

Another World (Action adventure)

No second prize (3d motorcycle racing simulator)

Frontier: Elite 2 (Space trading and fighting)

 

Just out of my head...

As the man said but ...

 

Also add Rainbow Islands to that list. I've always preferred it to Bubble Bobble.

 

If you want a good multiplayer game, try Dynablasters. It's a version of Bomberman best played with 3 players.

 

I'm not sure if I would call Frontier: Elite 2 an essential item, though. A very frustrating game to get into without the playability of the original. Then again, the original Elite on the ST wasn't even as good as the original BBC version.

 

Also add:

 

Oids

Super Sprint

Microprose Grand Prix

Stunt Car Racer

Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker

Carrier Command (I was on the verge of finally beating that when I finally lost interest in the ST).

[madhatter667]

Wow, out of that whole list, I only have Bubble Bobble! Ha ha ha! 'll have to keep my eyes peeled for some of those! Dungeon Master is one that I have heard of, many times, and not just in the ST realm. I have a disk image of that...though I haven't tried to write the image, or play on emulator yet... I prefer the real hardware, so I'll eventually get the PC set up to write to disk.

 

Rainbow Islands... this game IS fun... I have Rainbow Islands Revolution for the DS and it's cool. That game tends to draw a fair price when it crops up. I'll work on getting that list made between tonight, and tomorrow... I woke up at like 7:30pm (graveyard day), so it isn't like I've done much.

[+poobah]

Sundog?

[madhatter667]

Ok, so here is the list of games I have. I have split them up into two categories.

The first are legit, manufactured disks. The second batch is copied disks.

 

Games:

To Be on Top

Imperium

Mystical

Germ Crazy

Blasteroids

Starball

Hacker

Bubble Bobble

Q-Ball

The Fool's Errand

The Pawn

The Guild of Thieves

Prince

Kult

Sensible Soccer

Chariots of Wrath

Altered Beast

Sim City

Silent Service

 

Copied Games (titles listed as written on the disks):

Time Bandit

Defender of the Crown

Airball

Elevator Mission

Mousetrap

Crystal Castles

Fire Blaster

Monopoly

Bubble Ghost

Arkanoid

Wheel of Fortune

Plutos

Gold Runner

Star Trek

Karate

Flight Sim II

Star Glider

Battle Zone

The Rogue

Gauntlet

Major Motion

Millipede

Shanghai

ST Vegas

Test Drive

Chessmaster 2000

Backgammon

Solitaire

Blackjack

Flipside

F-15 Strike Eagle

ST Pool

Ripcord

Star Raiders

Yahtzee

Karate Kid II

Psion Chess

Championship Wrestling

Road Runner

World Games

Empire

Naval Battle

Barbarian

Isle of Tuceitin

Skyfox

Leisure Suit Larry II

 

 

Games like ST Vegas, and blackjack I really could care less about, but is there anything in the list that I could write over without shame? Ha ha ha! Any good stand outs?