Streetfighter

How could I forget, Streetfighter I.  In the arcade, it was the most expensive game…at 40p a go.  Most other stuff was 20p back in 1988.  Large rubber pads were in place of buttons which you had to physically hit.  Wether it made a difference the harder you hit, I don’t know but I saw many a player hitting the pad with his sleeve wrapped around his fist for protection.  I think someone cut themselves they played it that much!

Streetfighter II was obviously miles ahead of the first version but we’ll talk about that later…

Gryzor…childhood memories

I remember playing Gryzor around 1988 in the arcade at home.  It was just awesome, very difficult so I didn’t play it too often with my precious pocket money.   It was also known as ‘Contra’ in the USA.

Essentially a platform shooting game, it had great physics model for the time and playability is good.  You can shoot upwards, downwards etc. which was revolutionary at the time – also you could move into the screen rather than horizontal scrolling only…

In 1991 I attained Contra for my SNES – and played it to death.  It’s an excellent game all round.

Currently in 2007 I’m still playing Gryzor on Konami Arcade classics on my Nintendo DS.  That just proves what an excellent game it is – and it’s still got a good level of difficulty!