| Posted By
Alex Smythe-Ross
on 2001-01-21
|  Wow
Just found this site after discussing the old days with a friend, we both agree that some games were much better back then because you couldn't hide a crap game in fancy graphics, there weren't any graphics by todays standards, instead developers had to put some gameplay in there. Many moons ago, I had a C64 & a Plus/4, one of my favorite games was IK+, I was Bruce Lee on that game. I once heard that it was released on the PC many years ago but, I have found no evidence to confirm this. Is there, anywhere, a beat-um-up for the PC that uses the same control system that IK+ did, because all these other games have about 4 million moves scattered about the joypad and all you have to do to become a GOD is randomly press the buttons on the joypad as fast as you can and watch those moves, crap, absolute shite. I prefer the old "Mr.Miyagi" method, "Danielsan, you trust quality of what you know, not quantity." Too bloody right. Part of the fun on IK+ was to try and come up with a winning combination of moves given the 18 (was it) prefixed on the joystick. Don't matter now, I have C64 & Plus/4 emus available to me.
Another favorite game was Icicle Works, that was great fun.
A favorite on the C64 was Hypersports, once I had a cheap trackball for the C64 (switches left & right) and a friend of mine was able to set the record for the 100 meters by leaving blood, from his palm, on my trackball. He only did it so that no-one would even try to beat it, nobody wanted to re-create the pain.
Anyway, long live the Plus/4 & C64 of course.
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Posted By
Akira
on 2001-02-03
| Body Blows
These games had a control method similar to that of IK. Push the button and the joystick in one way, and you made a move. You had many combinations and one special (done by keeping the button pressed for a while). No SF2-like stuff involved.
Methinks they're the last games which used this method, and you can find Amiga and PC versions of them.
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Posted By
MIK
on 2001-01-21
 | One button Ik+ games.
PC would of been the wrong machine.
Atari ST had many Ik+ type games and more than any other machine at the time. I can't remember any names of the games, such along time ago.
I used to pay to play on Atari's and Amiga when they first came out. A shop in our town had like 20 of each machine and you payed by the hour to play any games at any time. Those were the days 
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