IsoRPG

[Jocke The Beast]

Don't make me start guys (when talking about old cool games) :wink:

Anyways, here's a pic of one of my favourite "old-games", Fairlight. And Nathan, if you enjoyed "Knight Lore" you would love "Fairlight" since it also had the same fantastic 3d graphics but was a little more advanced then "Knight Lore" in some ways (each room in "Fairlight" poses a problem that you've got to overcome).

[na_th_an]

Oh, yeah, Fairlight! That one was truely awesome. And I mean "awesome".

I get astonished with those games. Young people may be laughing at us when they see the screenshots, but take this in mind: those games ran on a 8 bits machine with a 3.5 Mhz processor and 48 Kb or RAM. Imagine having to sort the stuff in the room so they are drawn in the correct order, once per frame, in such a slow machine with such a limited amount of memory. Take in account, also, that the games were loaded from tape, then the whole game had to fit in memory: graphics, code, map data, music data... that left out very little room.

Ultimate (the makers of Knight Lore) developed their technique a little bit futher with "Alien 8" and they even added scrolling to the thing in "Gun Fright". I really don't know how they achieved that in such a humble machine.



Btw, my personal favourite ISO game has to be Head Over Heels, by Ocean Software (1988). There's a cool remake of this game on the works, also. Batman, from the same author, came before, and was almost as good.

original:



remake:

[aetherfox]

OMG!!!!

*drool*

downloading...

[Jocke The Beast]

Ok, I'm not feeling well anymore...I've spent the entire day downloading remakes over at http://www.remakes.org/. Found alot of old goodies....like IK plus, Barbarian, Rick Dangerous, Castlevania, Bomberman, Solomon´s key and even a good remake of Wings Of Fury (which was as funny as I remember it back in the late 80's). When playing these old games one gets happy. Many of the games back then were really well-made and had alot of style and was very unique. Ahh....memories... 8)

[Dr_Davenstein]

This was my favorite iso game of all time.
It's called Equinox on SNES...




This game makes you feel weird when you play it... like you really are in a strange land or something.


P.S. Sorry, Pyro! I think your thread finally got jacked! :oops:

The game does look cool though... can't wait to try it!

[barok]

we're still talking iso, aren't we?

I love old game!!! I have like 10 megs on my jumpdrive dedicated to nes games.

[relsoft]

we're still talking iso, aren't we?

I love old game!!! I have like 10 megs on my jumpdrive dedicated to nes games.

Can you send me a CD? j/k

*droools...

[Badjas]

My favorite ISO game is Little Big Adventure. And thanks na_th_an for making me remember that gun fright game ^_^ it so ruled back then.

http://el-muerte.student.utwente.nl/lba/...a1-024.gif

[Gustav]

Best ISO game - Landstalker :-D

[subxero]

Slightly off-topic... but directed to Gustav.

"Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei."

If my German is holding up, that means "Everything has an end; only the sausage has two."

Nice :-D