NationStates Jolt Archive

Ha. I see all of these "Best Video Game" polls, which just feature GTA and Halo2. Bah to them! Go back to the past, retro style. That's where the true "gaming" lies!

To the past, we go! To the past!

So, what's your favorite "Old School" game?

Jones in the Fast Lane!

Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Legend of Zelda. :cool:

No, I mean really old school. Like...Atari 2600s and stuff.

Not QUITE as old school (although of the choices, I love donkey kong and tetris)....but I absolutely loved loved loved Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo as well as Donkey Kong Country. Happy memories.... :fluffle:

Yeah, Pong Tetris and Donkey Kong all owned back then, and they still do. I have Pong emulated onto my XBOX, because "I keeps it real."

I chose Tetris.

However, if I were to choose an NES game it would be "Shingen the Ruler" (sp?)

That game was fun.

Tetris was good! ^_^ The Carmen Sandiego games were good too.

No, I mean really old school. Like...Atari 2600s and stuff.

Oh...in that case, Pac Man.

Spy Hunter-Had that cool sit down feature, with crappy music to boot.

Whoa, whoa wait a minute. Wasn't Tetris introduced on the NES and not the Atari 2600?

Didn't anyone play Jones in the Fast Lane??

Omg I Love Frogger!!!!!!!!!!

Whoa, whoa wait a minute. Wasn't Tetris introduced on the NES and not the Atari 2600?

Yeah....but still, tetris is old school. These games listed are the founding fathers of gaming!

Centipede

For the purposes of this poll, though, I think I'll go with Pong. I agree that Tetris is a little too new.

Didn't anyone play Jones in the Fast Lane??

Not I said the duck... :)

Far and away Tetris beats all other games.

I voted Pong because that is true oldy gaming. Rock on, Pong. Live on forever.

Didn't anyone play Jones in the Fast Lane??

Oh hell yea I did. I have it emulated on my computer even now, but I can beat the game at its hardest setting in about 15min though.

I've played it to death. It was fun, funny, and very cool.

Pong is the only one that really works as a multi-player game.

SPACE INVADERS!

It's the only one that had nukes in it. The rest are about yellow round people and floating colored squares. Plus, it gave you a sense of impending, inevitable, violent doom as aliens destroyed the earth in every game. QUALITY.

I know it's a bit newer, but Worms has to have a mention.

Centipede

I agree with Santa Barbara's last comment. After watching cartoons where the good guys always win, there was something refreshing about playing video games where the bad guys always win. All nine of the games on the list plus Centipede plus just about every other video game from that time have a 100% chance that the bad guys will win

Tie: Defender and Tetris.

I'm amazed that you didn't put Zelda on that list! or event any of the Super Mario games--those are classics.

I also liked, for the PC: the origional DOS games Tie Fighter and X-Wing. These were great star-wars based starfighter games with tons of dogfights and interesting missions.

Going back to the early arcade games, Defender was good. The original Star Wars with the yoke control was a good one. I dumped a lot of cash into Galaga and 1942 in their day too.....

From slightly later times: Arkanoids and Tetris were excellent games.

Pong is the only one that really works as a multi-player game.

Actually, there was another early vector game that was two player where you each had a ship that looked like the Asteroids ship, and there was a black hole in the center of the screen looking to suck anyone in who got too close. The object was to kill the other player.

Other than that - yeah, there was never much in the way of real two-player gaming until some of the early karate games came out.

Oh yeah, and add Q'Bert to my list of good early games.

Defender, Airborn Ranger, Pogo Joe.

I used to be so good at asteroids...

Oh hell yea I did. I have it emulated on my computer even now, but I can beat the game at its hardest setting in about 15min though.

I've played it to death. It was fun, funny, and very cool.
I play it with another human player on an emulator now... ^_^

Didn't anyone play Jones in the Fast Lane??I remember that game, where your mode of transportation was a huge marble. Got jobs and things. I wonder what I did with it.

Monkey Island 1 :D

I voted for Tetris, but I also have to agree that it's a little too new to be listed as "old school". Among the truly old school games, I'd probably have to go with Pacman.

I don't remember ever having an Atari, but I do remember having an old Apple IIe. (That's a really old computer, folks; this is pre-Macintosh.) I remember playing games like "Taipan" and "Roadwar 2000" on that thing.

--The Democratic States of Cogitation

Tetris... personaly I think i might Minor in Tetris.

anyone ever play subhunt for commadore 64? or Knights games... those were awsome.


or Scorched Earth, Warlords, or Civ 1 for PC? those are the greatest

Monkey Island 1 :D


yes, you rule

its eitheir that or mutant league hockey

Space invaders, you get to shot aliens!!!!!
P.S sorry aliens

if you want to shoot aliens, join the mexican/american border patrol

:) :sniper:

yeah that right

I agree that Tetris is a little too new.

Wasn't Tetris more or less concurrent with Duck Hunt?

Jumpman Junior for Commodore 64 cartridge, baby!

Zzt

Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Legend of Zelda. :cool:

Yep...the two best NES games right there...

M.U.L.E. is a blast too. "You have caught the mountain wampus..."

Voted for Space Invaders. Brilliant. It was even a game at the start of Ghostbusters on the Commodore 64 (2 games for the price of 1!).

Whoa, whoa wait a minute. Wasn't Tetris introduced on the NES and not the Atari 2600?
Tetris was first released on the PC in 1986 by Mirrorsoft UK.