Fess up. You know who you are. You play the games that have fallen way to the back of the shelf, that you're embarassed to tell poeple you even own. You were excited when Pokemon Ruby and Saphire came out. You frequently play Oregon Trail Version 1.0. Yes . . .
Hey, I'm one of you.
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
I loved Oregon Trail!!! I hated it when your stuff got stolen,but it was also fun to see how fast your family could die.
[ July 30, 2004, 02:49 PM: Message edited by: Mr.Gumby ]
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Beachhead!
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Omega Race
Space Command
Star Castle
Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
You have no idea.
I play Sid Meier's "Colonization" whenever I get the chance. One of the best "god games" ever made. X-Com: UFO Defense, too. Still one of the scariest games ever made.
If you ever want for old PC games, go to www.the-underdogs.org. They have a lot of feeware downloads of old games that have been released to the public. That is if you can stand the advertising on their site.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Oregon Trail is one of the greatest games on the planet. I downloaded an old copy that was too slow for the processer, so it ran in about two minutes.
Old Carmen Sandiego games.
Nothing wrong with old games.
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The banner at the top of Underdogs is hilarious.
The one for Poker room, where the only thing they make sure is still in the shot with the camera pans down are that woman's giant boobs.
[ July 30, 2004, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
Has anyone played Crime Fighter? I think it's one of the most ingenious games ever made. The best part is, you fight people and create crime.
[ July 30, 2004, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: Mr.Gumby ]
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Master of Orion II X-Com: UFO Defense <- AWESOME GAME!! Star Wars Rebellion <- lost my old copy need a new one Hero's of Might and Magic III <- yay for bittorent The Marathon Trilogy by Bungie <- before there was Halo... there was the Marathon! Imperialism and Imperialism II: The Age of Exploration <- Yay for building late 19th and early 20th centuary countries!!
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Heck yah! Master of Orion I and II!!!
Wolfenstien Doom Shadow President
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I love this game called Incredible Crisis. It's so freaky. It's like this weird game made up of minigames in which you try to help a Japanese family get back home for their Grandma's birthday, but they're impeded by destroyed office buildings, romantic liasons, aliens, bank robberies, and shrink rays. And it's all punctuated by the Tokyo SKA orchestra, playing in the background.
It's the best. Game. Ever.
Also I love Threads of Fate, a left by the wayside Action/RPG by Squaresoft with two different main characters and two differing storylines. The characters are so engaging!!
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Oh! Syndicate! That was a great game.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Castles II: Seige and Conquest!! I played that game so much... man Underdogs is an awesome site... I'm gonna be downloading forever... specially cause my new PC has an 80 gig harddrive which will actually fit all of these old games
It doesn't have rebellion though Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Lemmings
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Shining Force I and II
Ufo: Enemy Unknown
Master of Magic
Ah, the good ol'days...
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
On my computer:
Beneath the Steel Sky Skyroads Dark Forces Prince of Persia Zork
On the 2600:
Worm War I Defender Combat
I also have some SNES and Genesis games, but I don't play them as frequently.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I'm confused. You mean you people don't regularly play old games like Galaga, Balloon Fighter, and Millipede? (Millipecle) What about Contra? Penguin Adventure, and all the other games on Forty-two in One? This isn't weird! It's great!
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Zooooooooooooooork! How could I forget it!? Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Masters of Orion II Master of Magic
2 classics.
A friend has the newest Masters of Orion game. I haven't seen him in 3 months.
Pirates! was a game they had out when I sold "Tandy" computers. It was non-copiable boot disk, and would only play on thier PC clones. I miss that game.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
I still play many older games...
Sim City 2000 Red Storm Rising (really, most of the older Microprose combat games are fun) M.U.L.E. Wing Commander: Privateer
and many others. I'm seriously considering hooking up my old system with my KVM switch to play them in their original form. Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Alcon: I was another sucker who bought Rebellion. I might have my CD still, if you can't find it I may be able to arrange something.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
I think I can get it through bittorrent, there seems to be a torrent of it up at http://www.suprnova.org, but I'm not sure if its functional or not and won't be able to test it for another week or so when I get home to my PC.
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
Worms Heroes III Civilizations(dunno if it counts) Oregon Trail Pokemon Ruby (sorry)
BTW, love the game site there.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
The best thing about the really old arcade games like pong is that you can program you're own version.
Hobbes Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
I've got every Commander Keen game on my computer. As well as Silpheed and a bunch of Sierra's x Quest games. Day of the Tenticle. Tank Wars and Scorched Earth. Yeah, old games rule.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Tail Gunner, Red Baron, Battle Zone, any other vector graphics game.
Obscure PC Game of all time: Realms of the Haunting. AWESOME adventure, good action, sweet puzzles.
i.e. - it's the best of Doom, 7th guest, and Zork Nemesis (it's contemporaries) rolled into one.
[ July 30, 2004, 04:00 PM: Message edited by: Jim-Me ]
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Ack! Pirates! was the best game EVAR. I played the living bajeebus out of it after my knee surgury. I managed to rescue my long lost sister, mother and father I believe. Oh yeah, that game *killed*.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
oh... Cosmic Balance for the C-64...
Posted by Pepek (Member # 3773) on :
Scorched Earth
Lemmings
Prince of Persia (<--- hell yah)
And I can't help but love Asteroids.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Stars! That's a great one, Farmgirl, another excellent choice. I've also been playing an old version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (iv) on the PC.
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
I still play the original Commander Keen and Duke Nukem games (pre-3D).
In my opinion, the height of video game technology was the Super Nintendo. Downhill ever since (although the Game Boy Advance is nice).
Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :
For those who loved Pirates, Sid Meier is updating it. I don't know if anything can recapture the simple glorious fun of the original, but Sid usually seems to make anything fun.
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
King's Quest, and what was it, Surgery or something.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
King's Quest VI drove me nuts. Quest for Glory IV however was excellent...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
X-COM: UFO Defense is definitely in my top five computer games of all time list.
Lemmings Out of this World Wings, a very primitive WWI flight sim that had a strong narrative element, was great. It was either a Lucasarts or a Cinemaware game--can't remember which. Defender of the Crown was fantastic in its day, but would probably fail to hold my attention if I were to play it now. Populus II Dungeon Master & Dungeon Master II The Last Express M.U.L.E. Shadow of the Beast blew me away when it was released, but would undoubtedly bore me to tears now.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Speaking of older flying games, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat would have to be mentioned.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
I thought Quest for Glory III was the best. And there was nothing wrong with Kings Quest 6. 7 was a little odd and 8 was blasphemy.
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
I'm embarassed to say I play a distant cousin of D & D over AIM.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Maniac Mansion.
Posted by Meruhesae (Member # 6698) on :
Final Fantasy VII Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Meruhesae? Demon Diaries?
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Day of the Tentacle... what a craazy game! That game was so funny and goofy... I remember the fake vomit on the ceiling... and putting the hamster in the microwave.. and going to get the fork so I could pop that stupid clown thingy and get the voice box for I dunno what... I also remember wishing that my character had an AK-47 or an M4 about a million times so I could just go counterstrike style and blow everything out of my path :-D
Posted by Azile (Member # 2312) on :
Yes! Day of the Tentacle. That's one of my all time favorite games (Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to work on my computer anymore). The farthest I have ever got in the game though, was early into the future.
I have this CD with a bunch of popular old games, like Commander Keen 1-4, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Bumpy, Dino Park, Clyde, Lemmings, Carmen San Diego, Ugh and the list goes on. Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I'm sorry, but I have yet, to this day, been excited about the release of a Pokemon game of any sort.
I am, however, I huge fan of old video games. Some of my oldest memories include playing games on my Apple IIe and PC.
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves Aztec Bouncin' Babies Below the Root Their Finest Hour Carmen Sandiago (Various Flavors) Hostage! Bruce Lee Lives (Terrible game but I have fond memories of trying to figure out how to do anything) F-19 Stealth Fighter Curse of the Mummy Q-Bert Chuck Yeager's Air Combat Loom The Secret of Monkey Island Wolfenstein 3D Life and Death II: The Brain Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade The Legend of Kyrandia I, II & III Duke Nukem I & II Commander Keen (Can't Remember all the names)
Man... I can't even think of all the games I used to play. I've been trying to assemble some old PC parts to make a legacy system. I've currently got a Mobo with a P133 (gotta be able to play some games from the mid-to-late 90's) and 16MB of RAM. I also have a CDROM, PCI Video Card, Modem (just for giggles), Floppy (3.5) and some other stuff. I'll probably put a 6Gig HDD in it so that I have plenty of room for games and operating systems (I'll probably Dual-boot between DOS/Win 3.11 and Win95). I just have to get around to assembling it and getting the needed parts (KVM, Hopefully a SB AWE32, and an Old School Case).
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Yay Zork!!!
I like the old text adventures best (like using my imagination... and actual video games are too addictive for me)
It's out of print, so Tom sent me a copy of Infocom's text adventures collection, and I've had fun playing all kinds of text adventures I'd never seen before (Trinity, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Hollywood Hijinx, Planetfall, etc!!)
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
Adventure Bosconian Space Invaders Pacman Pong Centipede
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
Skifree?
Posted by School4ever (Member # 5575) on :
I like Oregon Trail 1.0 Carmen Sandiego Zork King's Quest Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I have a question. In elementry school we were allowed to play with the computer if we had been particularly good that day. This was around 1986/87. The game we played involved going into a castle and finding secret passages and stuff. I never finished the game, but I would like to. The only thing I can remember was that one of the rooms was called the Chartruese Room (sp?). This game was played on an Apple. Does anyone know what the game is called?!?!?
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I guess if Zork is considered a "video game," them I should've put "The Fool's Errand" here instead of in its own thread. It's somewhat graphically (quality) challenged, but less so than Zork. Of course, Infocom didn't really try.
And any time someone brings up Infocom, I must plug my long-out-of-print publishing-company-went-bankrupt-owing-me-a-boatload-of-money-I-never-saw book, A Shortcut Through Adventureland, Vol. II: Infocom. I don't always get credit for it on internet searches, since I have third billing as co-author, but it's me, goldurnit.
--Pop
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
Yey Fool's Errand. Papa Moose, did you know the author is writing a new one for halloween release?
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I've loved every Infocom text adventure I've ever played, although I never feel the urge to replay Deadline or...oh, what was the hard boiled 40's style detective type game they had? I wasn't wild about it either.
My favorite Infocom games have been Zork The Enchanter Series Suspended Beyond Zork (or was it Zork Zero? I'm thinking of the one that featured to Coconut of Quendor very prominently. It's been too long) Hitchhiker's guide and my all time favorite, Trinity. My god that was an involving game.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Noemon -- yep the coconut one was Beyond Zork.
I like the fantasy/SF adventures the best -- they're usually the most creative and funny. The Leather Goddesses of Phobos one is a lot of fun, definitely recommend it, though I think that one's hard to find.
I'm playing "Infidel" currently, another Infocom one, and that one's not as much fun -- exploring a lost pyramid. So far it's just been logic puzzles without any other characters to interact with...
Posted by ? (Member # 2319) on :
The brick game(forgot real name)
?
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I loved all of the old Sierra Games. I think the Quest for Glory / Hero's Quest series was my favorite, but I also liked Space Quest and, yes, even a couple of the King's Quest games. And let's not forget about Leisure Suit Larry.
The Infocom games were great. Zork through Zork III were all great, but after that the series went downhill. The Enchanter and Planetfall series were both awesome. In my opinion, though, the best of the Infocom games, and still one of the best games ever written was A Mind Forever Voyaging.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Oh, and Jake, I think the detective one you're thinking of may be The Suspect.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Infocom's three noir mysteries were Deadline, Witness, andSuspect.
[ August 02, 2004, 08:06 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah, Leather Goddesses of Phobos was great. I only played it on the "lewd" setting though. Anybody play it through on the less racy settings to see how different it was?
Witness was the mystery I was thinking of, I think. It was the one with Monica in the bungalow, right? Deadline was the one in the mansion, and Suspect was the one at the costume party? I only messed around with Suspect--it didn't hold my attention as well as most of the others.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Noemon -- yep I tried it, the tame version uses less, um, vocabulary, and instead of making out with the harem princess, you have long discussions with her about laundry lint and economics and other fascinating subjects Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I figured that it was probably pretty funny.
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
quote:I've got every Commander Keen game on my computer. As well as Silpheed and a bunch of Sierra's x Quest games. Day of the Tenticle. Tank Wars and Scorched Earth. Yeah, old games rule.
Man, I remember Slipheed... that demo was a *lot* of fun. You also get a cookie for Day of the Tentacle.
Also: the Marathon games (I bought the Bungie Mac Action Sack even though I don't have a Mac. I pulled the data files off and run 'em under Aleph One. Awesome!) Tie Fighter & X-wing Warcraft Carmageddon 2 Doom 2 Day of the Tentacle (I wish I could find this again!)
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
Kings, Police, and Quest for Glory games...I still play those every now and then. I'd rank em QfG, Kings, then Police in descending order.
Dark Forces I & II.
Imperialism! I can't believe anyone else mentioned that.
X-Wing, Tie Fighter (the latter was quite a bit better). Wing Commander. Doom, Castle Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, Carmen Sandiago! I'd forgotten that one, I'll have to dig it up sometime.
There WAS one, called Shadow of the Beast, for an old Amiga that I have never found again, anywhere .
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
You know, I've been meaning to give Imperialism a try for ages. I think I picked it up from a bargain bin a few months ago. If I did, I'll have to install it and give it a try.
Posted by J. Alfred Prufrock (Member # 6732) on :
Any of you play One Must Fall? Mmmm, robots duking it out in DOS.
I loved Scott Adams's old text adventure games, and to this day, I'm still addicted to Rogue.
Kyrandia was a blast, though I can't say I was fond of the third one. Did you ever play Goblins?
King's Quest III was the best one, IMO. Nothing better than poisoning your evil master with a cat-hair cookie.
How about Sam and Max? Not as old as some of that stuff, but a classic nonetheless, I think. I loved it.
I absolutely love the Space Quest games, as with the Quests for Glory. I have to agree with Rakeesh on the order of them, though I favored QfG II: Trial by Fire more than any of 'em.
edit: Rakeesh: I'm not sure if this is the right one, as I haven't played it before, but this page has Shadow of the Beast 1 and 3 on it, if you scroll down. You'll need an emulator, I think, but they might work.
[ August 04, 2004, 03:56 PM: Message edited by: J. Alfred Prufrock ]
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
I still play "One Must Fall". And I like it a lot! :-)
And I still play "pong". Does it makes me weird? Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Boo yeah! One Must Fall all the way. My friend Jamie and I would play against each other on our blazing fast 14.4 modems. Everyone in school wanted to be us, let me tell you. We'd also duke it out in Rise of the Triad pretty often. More games need santa hats and christmas carols if you happen to play on the 25th of December.
I also played Goblins. Or... one of them anyway. I enjoyed it, but not as much as the Quest games. Space Quest was my favorite. "You grab the ladder and jam it in your pocket... ouch!"
Posted by J. Alfred Prufrock (Member # 6732) on :
Haha. I always found it morbidly entertaining to go through the games dying in as many ways as possible, just to read the messages. "Shredded like an Iran-Contra document, your many independent parts flutter to the bottom of the hopper. This is of little importance to you, what with your being dead and all." - SQ3
I recently found out that a sequel to OMF existed (OMF: Battlegrounds), and from what I saw on the box, it looked decent -- and it was priced at five bucks, so what harm could it have been?
I want my five bucks back.
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