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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: Entilzah on 22 Dec 2006, 17:33
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What's your favorite old computer game that you still have one your computer and still play.
Mines Oregon Trail. A great classic game. I've had it since it originally came out and still put it on every computer I own. It's one of those silly games that breaks the average routines of the day. I'm not even sure if anyone even remembers it. For those of you who don't, it was one of the few games that schools endorsed and let you play in school. Or atleast they let us play it when I was in elementary school.
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We played Oregon Trail for a grade in my history class in 3rd or 4th grade. Good game.
X-Com: UFO Defense is also an amazing game. Different aliens are invading the earth, and you have to stop them. Simple concept, amazing implementation.
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Oregon Trail was a good game. I don't know how many times my family died because I couldn't kill a stupid deer though.
For me, though, the mother of all old computer games was Karateka. Simple, but just hard enough that I never got sick of it. I also loved the fact that it had a 'bad' ending.
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Oregon Trail was crack for 3rd graders back in my day. The days we got to go to "The Computer Lab" to play that was like Christmas.
And Karateka on Atari was the bane of my existence as a kid. Those fights where the guys had birds to help them? Freaking impossible.
The oldest game I have that I'm still working on (and by that I mean I will probably never get around to beating it) is "Alice." It's only from 2000, so it's not all *that* old, but I got soooo far on it before and then my hard drive died. I've heard the ending is worth beating it, so I've never given up hope!
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Don't we have this same thread in like a million different variations already?
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I count 1.3 million.
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You Don't Know Jack games (until they got rid of the awful humor)
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Fallout and Fallout 2.
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Dr. Quandary (Mac game) and Commander Keen.
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I've never finished System Shock 2. I tried on three different computers, but viruses, accidental formatting and my migration to Windows XP forced me to give up. And since I sold my PC (for a Mac) and my 360 (for a Wii), I can't even play BioShock when it comes out.
Such is the bane of my existence. Oh well. Back to Zelda.
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yeah...but zelda is great
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..only one? Bah to that.
Fallout 1&2
Masters of Orion 2
Duke Nukem 3D
DOOM 1
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 & Yuri's Revenge
Sanitarium
Quest for Glory 1 - 5
Arcanum
Baldur's Gate II + Throne of Bhaal
Half-Life 1 + Expansions
Sadly, with a few exceptions, these are the only games I play on a somewhat regular basis. Yes, the only games i seem to ENJOY playing on my PC are 8+ year old games.
God I hate the current state of PC gaming.
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Baldur's Gate II + Throne of Bhaal
Oh hell yes.
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After watching the Brian Jonestown Massaacre/Dandy Warhols documentary 'DiG!' my friend and I played a game of Oregon Trail where we pretended to be Antone Newcombe and that the party were members of TBJM and the Dandies. It was so much fun. God love the journal feature.
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Oh. I didn't know how old we were talking about. your list there is generally what I would say then.
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Master of Orion.
I haven't been able to get Master of Magic or Daggarfall to run on my new system (though I will when I have time to tweak some settings) and I can't find the install disk for Colonization.
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Master of Orion.
I haven't been able to get Master of Magic or Daggarfall to run on my new system (though I will when I have time to tweak some settings) and I can't find the install disk for Colonization.
That was an amazing game... when it worked.
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Dope Wars.
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Dope Wars is made of awesome and win.
The Crecent Hawk's Revenge. Seriously, that game made me a geek. The first game I ever bought, which got me into gaming, sci-fi and Battletech all at the same time. It just went downhill from there.
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the original ground control. i love strategy games, and this one is so original and unique. you start out a match with up to 3 dropships that you configure ahead of time, and then play the game. its well balenced and so in depth. try it!
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I guess this doesn't really count as a computer game, but I'm using a Sega genesis emulator to play Buck Rogers: Countdown To Doomsday right now.
I had it for my old Sega but I couldn't be bothered to dig it out every time I played so I downloaded it. I'm so lazy. In any case, this was the first RPG I ever played and I still love it.
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Oregon Trail 2, Starcraft.
And my all time oldie that kept me hooked was Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus. The graphics rocked ass back in the day.
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Games I enjoyed on our first pc
Captain Comic
California Games
Prince of Persia
Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego
Civilization (I use to have to save my games on 5.4" disks, because there was never any hard disk space :) )
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Starcraft, Warcraft II and Command and Conquer series
And I love abe! My brother got me some game on gba with him in it, it kicked ass back then, it kicks ass now!
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The old Pirates! game on my Apple ][gs. I could play that for hours, man. Until I accidentally formatted the discs.
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Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego
I forgot all about this game....it was another good one I used to play all the time
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Its not quite the same caliber as others listed, but thanks to the help of one of my friends I currently have skifree on my laptop, and its oddly addictive.
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California Games
Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego
I second these choices. I don't know how many times I came away from the PC as a kid after failing to hit a jester or something else in hackey-sack.
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arcanum was mentioned. i don't really consider that a very "old" game, but i do consider it one of the best damn games i've ever played.
as for old games:
age of empires 2 (another game i consider one of the best ever)
diablo (the first one)
warcraft 2
all those of those games are brilliant and, frankly, few modern games in their respective genres compare.
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I second these choices. I don't know how many times I came away from the PC as a kid after failing to hit a jester or something else in hackey-sack.
the "Dizzy Dean" was the ultimate hackey sack trick :)
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"descent freespace" I still love that game. "Alpha Centauri" was a fun civilization rip off too.
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rip off?!? hardly, since sid Meierr made both games (although to be fair, sid wasn't alpha's main dev. but he did play a large role in its creation). but yes, it is a most excellent game i think.
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All of the Monkey Island games. I wish I could remember what I did with the other Lucas Arts/Schafer advenveture games, they were soooo good.
I still break out AoE2 and Diablo 2 as well. As far as rts games go, I really don't think the perfection achieved in AoE2 will ever be attained again. The closest I have experienced in recent years was Rise of Nations.
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Here's an idea: Some company should buy the rights to old-school games, and create high-res versions. But they should sign something, so if they mess with the gameplay in anyway, the original company can sue them. Imagine high-res versions of:
- Diablo
- System Shock 2
- AoE 2
and so forth.
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That's not a bad idea....but let's be honest, most games would get fucked up and lots of people would be sued.
Besides, it would just ruin it for me if high-res versions were created. It just wouldn't be the same if the didn't look and feel the same as I was used too. They got to be great games because of the way they were/are, why go back and fuck up a good thing?!?
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The oldest of games I played on the compy: Mixed-Up Mother Goose. I believe it was on an Amiga system
Other older games that I loved and still play occasionally:
Zelda 1 and 3 (play on roms now)
Oregon Trail
Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale series
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I don't see any love for Dungeon Keeper or Syndicate, something is very wrong here.
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I lost my dungeon keeper disc. It's very annoying as I was 1 dungeon away from beating the game.
Dungeon keeper 2 is great fun though. I've beaten that, but some levels are hella tricky.
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The MechWarrior series. I don't know why nothing of the sort has been done right in ages.
Hundred tun behemoth + quad LRM 20s = fun, right?
As I remember back in the Oregon Trail days of computer lab, whenever you named your characters after classmates, it was assured that they would not get a proper burial. Their only reward for leeching off of the supplies that YOU hunted and traded for was the right to decompose on the side of the trail.
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The old Pirates! game on my Apple ][gs. I could play that for hours, man. Until I accidentally formatted the discs.
I liked it more on NES, to tell you the truth. My dad still has the map of that game memorized. Like, not anything that came with the game or was published on the internet or anything. He just played it so much that he memorized it.
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well since you mentioned NES duckhunt is possibly my faveroite game ever created.
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Mario Kart on the SNES still whets my whistle every now and again.
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Chocks Away....there was a flight sim and a half.....its the sort of game I could hallucinate about its so strongly ingrained in my memory....
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I love all the C&C games bar Renegade and Generals.
I love Fallout 1 and 2 with a passion that verges on creepy obsession.
I love Ultima 7 and 8.
The original Warcraft games.
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i am still convinced to this day that oregon trail hated my guts. i have never beaten it, it just kept killing me.
everything from the Space Quest series was wonderful. there were parts where your success in the game was determined by how fast you could type. needless to say, being 5 at the time made these bits difficult.
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one of my favorite shirts. man that game was good.
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Anyone remember Yukon Trail?! Was a spin-off of the original Oregon. I loved navigating down the rivers, but the rest was weak in comparison.
Also loved Duke Nukem and SkiFree.
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SkiFree ate my childhood much like that FUCKING ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN ate my skiier. Princy's avatar inspires rage to this day.
Also, KidPix on the Mac. I didn't start really gaming until mid-N64 era. My first PC game was Tiberian Sun...
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I gotta say: Skifree and Worms world party. those games rocked. oh and EGA trek. now that was fun :-D
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I ski'd past the Snowman once in ski free....got et the next time though =[
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The Space Quest and Monkey Island series I will never stop loving them.
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i'm honestly kinda shocked that no one has mentioned simcity. i remember playing the hell out of that game (that and o'dell down under) in elementary school. i sucked at it though, so i generally ended up with sprawling slums which were essentially just fire traps. before long i'd be flooding them, burning them, and tornadoing them b/c, to be honest, it's a lot more fun than trying to establish a viable transportation system from the subrubs to the commerce district. yeh, good times.
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Yeah I had EGA trek my Dad use to play that, I could never figure anything out.
Q Basic Gorrillas was another one, my Dad taught me about angles (I was about 6) so I could play that game, I got pretty good at it as well. Damn I'd forgotten about that, there was also Nibbles.BAS which pre-dated Snake on the mobile phones by about 10 years. Ahh Dos 5 that prings back so many memories...
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Oh god, I'd completely forgotten about the existence of Q Gorillas. I just remember that it was one of the earlier games I played.
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It reminds me that I was good at the arcade version of Rampage.
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Sanitarium and NUMBER MUNCHERSssss
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star control 2
duke 3d
the laura bow games were dopeness as well
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I've never played a game I couldn't finish.
However, this ignores Sega. Sega is my Kryptonite, and that is why I love it. There are very few Sega games I have finished.
The list as I remember it: Strike series, home alone 2, Sonic 2, Labrynth, Lemmings(Hellz yeah), Zero Wing, Commander Chaos, Power Monger, Rings of Power. Anything else=me dead.
God bless you Sega, may you return to me one day.
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I still play an old Mac puzzle game called 3 in Three. It is insanely difficult and took me about 3 days straight to beat, I doubt I could do it again though. If you have a Mac and Classic Environment, find it and play it until you get fired from work/drop out of school, It may happen.
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Oregon Trail, definitely
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NUMBER MUNCHERSssss
GOOD GOD THESE WERE AMAZING.
YES.
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Dungeon Hack.Best D&D based computer game ever produced.
And Heretic. Not Doom, not Hexen, not even Dark Forces. Heretic.