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.
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Sim City 2000 Red Storm Rising (really, most of the older Microprose combat games are fun) M.U.L.E. Wing Commander: Privateer
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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*.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. Posts: 181 | Registered: Aug 2001
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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).
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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!!)
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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?!?!?
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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.
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Yey Fool's Errand. Papa Moose, did you know the author is writing a new one for halloween release?
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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 Posts: 2911 | Registered: Aug 2001
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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!)
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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!"
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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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