13 'Quirky Classic' Games From The 1980s Are Heading To Xbox In Attic Archive

Never played any of these. One game I'd love to see come back is an old Mega Drive / Genesis game. It was a McDonald's-themed game called Mic / Mac or something like that. Surprisingly good but fairly difficult.

Is there anyone who wants this in 2025?

@Kaloudz Mutant Monty is fairly good.

@EdgarTheBug Is it worth the cost for that one game?

@Kaloudz Well compared to todays standards definitely not but if you have an old system it would be best to just randomly find it in a charity shop or something or just emulate it to be honest until this package comes out.

How do i squeeze that cassette into my series X

I could be tempted if the list included these…

Drop Zone - Atari 800xl, Uridium - C64, Ghostbusters - C64, Impossible Mission - C64, Blue Max - Atari 800xl, IK+ - C64, Montezumas Revenge - Atari 800xl, Shamus - Atari 800xl, Creatures 1&2 - C64.

I loved my speccy back in the day and still play some of them on antstream arcade

@Kaloudz I never heard of these either! But I didn't have a C64 or these other systems. I had a Colecovision and my cousin had Intellivision II, and my neighbor had a TI-99, so I'm more familiar with those libraries.

Atari 50 spoiled me on this front and now a collection like this just feels incomplete if it isn't also a really well-presented museum and interactive documentary.

@AlwaysPlaying older gen Xers maybe?

Loved the zx spectrum as a kid, but I find it hard to play any retro games for more than 5 minutes these days.
Might still play jet set willy though!

I remember having the Amstrad CPC, as a kid. Not sure how old I would have been at the time. Ours did have an actual disc drive built in, rather than the cassette player.

Cannot say that I remember any of these games at all.

Replaced that several years later, with the Commodore Amiga. Playing Starfield now surely brings back lots of good memories of months sunk into Frontier (Elite II) on the Amiga.

Eventually I replaced the Amiga with the very first Sony PlayStation. And the rest is just history.

I'm an old player who started with a... zx81 (basic computer). I approached roughly most of the computers and consoles of 80 and 90ies. To give the chance to play some "oldies", why not... But those games were on computers and created with keyboardd in mind... Old consoles, ok but computer ' games...?? Try to make a gen X playing super mario on NES... He or she will scream !!! (I tried with my nefew..) Those new games are prehistorical and I'm coming from this era!!! I know that those games are cheap and you can still dream on to see any SNES game on a Microsoft platform... But even for young European players, it doesn't mean anything to them !!
By the way : NO I'm not nostalgic of the C64 or the Amstrad CPC or the Oric Atmos.
I think gen Z could be interested in 16 bit consoles games and over. Before that the technological "gap" is too important.

I was in Bomb Disposal in the early 80s, and remember buying a ZX Spectrum when I returned from the Falklands, with the money I had saved whilst over there because, obviously, I was unable to spend any money whilst there!

When I returned to the UK, my Section was moved into Brompton Barracks in Gillingham, Kent, which was primarily occupied by a detachment of the Gurkhas, and I fondly recall being the only one with a computer and having my 5 roommates (yes, there were six of us living in one room!) crowding around the TV monitor playing various games.

One of them was a game called Valhalla, and all I can remember is that you had to type in your instructions for the characters to then carry them out, but after a while, we got stuck, and being a bunch of Squaddies, we did the only thing we could think of, which was to type in rude words, which then saw a female character walk on to the screen, tell you off and wag a finger at you...! 😂

Damn, what passed for entertainment back in the early 80s... 🤣

Bubble bobble, gauntlet, wonderboy, operation wolf, manic miner, chucky egg, commando, rambo , ghosts n goblins, rainbow islands, 1942. Why do we always get the lame ones?

Things like this compilation are important for game preservation, so I’m all for it. As a 48 year old ZX Spectrum owner, this is targeted at me…and despite having several other ways (original hardware, emulation, new versions of the Speccy) to play these games, I’ll probably still buy this as well, just to support these games being available to more players!

Even back then, a lot of the micro computer games, felt like shovelware, that you played for 5 minutes, and never loaded up again.

@Jenkinss I don't think I had any of them. I do remember playing games on a console using floppy discs, and I even remember getting a monthly magazine that came with TMNT across several discs that came free with the mag, but I can't remember for the life of me what the machine was. I also remember (I think the title is right) Jumping Jack?

@EdgarTheBug Yeah good shout bud. I might pick up a console or find an emulator to try a few of these and then buy the game when it comes to Xbox if I like them. Thanks man.

I liked living there, @Medic_alert. Not sure what it is like now as I live in Plymouth in Devon now, but back in the early 80s it was a very nice place. I met my first wife in the Lord Nelson pub, which was within staggering distance of the barracks too. Again, I'm not sure whether that is still there, but I spent many happy evenings within that establishment... 🤪

Mate aren't these all on Wos (World of Spectrum) for free? I grew up in the 8 bit era but while there are some games still worth playing from then, for me gaming really started in the 16 bit era

@OcelotRevolver Nope not even us 🤣

Do they actually work with the controller, or do you end up needing a keyboard?

@johndoe89 Gen Z is interested in the NES and Game Boy; both of those are pre-16-bit. Even Gen alpha is interested. It just depends on the game and system. For some of these tho, yeah, the gap is a little too wide.

@AlwaysPlaying yeah. I’d like to try it out. A lot of people are interested in video game history.

@BattleMonkey lol

@EdgarTheBug Had it on Amstrad, I'm thinking its going to be so hard with modern controllers

@johndoe89 Man, I loved my Oric Atmos and still mess about with 8-bit games when I get the chance. Happy days 😃