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I just found a disk with DOOM!

the old win 95 version... I got it loaded on my pc with XP on it and taking a trip down memory lane.

so what games did you play "a Long time ago" and do you still play them?

Ahh I remember DOOM, sadly it won't work on my computer :(

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Not GOLD, not the recent 3-d version, the original.

I don't play it anymore, because my computer can't make it work with sound. That is to say the software's audio architecture was designed for primitive computers only and it just doesnt work with anything modern, though the rest of the game does. And the sound was super-awesome.

There are a lot of semi-old games like Starcraft, Warcraft II and Age of Empires I and II that I really like, and wish the sequels would just upgrade these old games to make better use of modern computers instead of trying to come up with new shit. Take Starcraft, for example, but add new resolutions possible, remove the unit caps. Or the first Age of Empires, except with the garrison and farm-management goodies from Age of Empires II.

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Not GOLD, not the recent 3-d version, the original.

I don't play it anymore, because my computer can't make it work with sound. That is to say the software's audio architecture was designed for primitive computers only and it just doesnt work with anything modern, though the rest of the game does. And the sound was super-awesome.

There are a lot of semi-old games like Starcraft, Warcraft II and Age of Empires I and II that I really like, and wish the sequels would just upgrade these old games to make better use of modern computers instead of trying to come up with new shit. Take Starcraft, for example, but add new resolutions possible, remove the unit caps. Or the first Age of Empires, except with the garrison and farm-management goodies from Age of Empires II.
ever played MOO (Masters of Orion?)

I tried to play the old SSI game Roadwar 2000 awhile back. I loved that game when I was a teenager. But the Apple emulator didn't work right or something. I couldn't use most of the games functions and controls. I was so pissed.

I had some of the old text adventures that were popular when I as in junior high can't find them, so I cannot play them anymore..... sniff sniff. :(

I think I have a win95 version of DOOM around here somewhere. But my copy of Quake 2 still works on my current system!

A couple of months back I found a BIG archive of old games, with all the classics other people had never heard of. Lost it when I formatted, though.

doom 2 is the best old game, and duck hunt, and North and South, and Mission Impossible

SimCity 2000 and 3000. I've always loved to build things. :D

Civ II. Better than Civ I or III, imo.

Though I finally got round to getting a copy of Civ IV, and....Damn you, Sid Meier! Damn you to Hell! You've just sucked all my spare time out of my life!


I also enjoyed Populace - the original. Nice quirky game there. Doubt it'd run on my pc now. I remember when I have a Pentium I 100, I had to have it on the slowest setting possible - otherwise it just went crazy.

Civ II. Better than Civ I or III, imo.

Though I finally got round to getting a copy of Civ IV, and....Damn you, Sid Meier! Damn you to Hell! You've just sucked all my spare time out of my life!


I also enjoyed Populace - the original. Nice quirky game there. Doubt it'd run on my pc now. I remember when I have a Pentium I 100, I had to have it on the slowest setting possible - otherwise it just went crazy.

funny, I thought it was NSGF that sucked all the remaining time... :D


I still play civ, Lord of the Relms, Mechwarrior 2, Angband, Spaceward Ho!...

and If I can still find my old copies of Ultima...*sigh*

lots.

Win95 Doom is old? :p Bleh. I have the DOS version.

The oldest game that I have and still play regularly is probably F-19 Stealth Fighter, from 1989.

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Not GOLD, not the recent 3-d version, the original.

I don't play it anymore, because my computer can't make it work with sound. That is to say the software's audio architecture was designed for primitive computers only and it just doesnt work with anything modern, though the rest of the game does. And the sound was super-awesome.

Good game. Dosbox will run it perfectly. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

Or you could try emulating a console version of it, which might be easier...i'd recommend the Sega Genesis version.

Angband

yay! Have you tried T.O.M.E.?


and If I can still find my old copies of Ultima...*sigh*


Yeah, I still play those.

yay! Have you tried T.O.M.E.?

Yeah, I still play those.
no... never heard of T.O.M.E.

no... never heard of T.O.M.E.

It's an update of sorts to Angband. www.t-o-m-e.net

Although I prefer ADOM.

I still play the Quest for Glory games from time to time. I never got a copy of Quest for Glory V, though I did try the demo. Demo sucked. Also, I am annoyed that the glitch in IV involving the Bone ceremony scroll was never fixed, meaning you'd never be able to complete the game with your own character. Pissed me off time after time.

DOOM is 'old'? Holy crap, I must be a geezer!

My parents still have a computer standing somewhere (not in use though) from around 1986, i tried starting it up a few years ago but the screen didn't work , the rest does, but the screens totally different from the ones we have now so couldn't really do anything. That computer had some great games though, even if they were in black & white (well, with a sort of greenish glow to everything)

It's an update of sorts to Angband. www.t-o-m-e.net

Although I prefer ADOM.Thanks, now I have something else to occupy my time. :D

DOOM is 'old'? Holy crap, I must be a geezer!in computer years? hell yes!

My parents still have a computer standing somewhere (not in use though) from around 1986, i tried starting it up a few years ago but the screen didn't work , the rest does, but the screens totally different from the ones we have now so couldn't really do anything. That computer had some great games though, even if they were in black & white (well, with a sort of greenish glow to everything)

Monochrome! I remember those.

Civ II. Better than Civ I or III, imo.


Civ II? Much to modern, I'm playing Colonization at the moment.

But Civ II was fun, too. I love to take down whole Empires in one round only with Howitzers. ;)

Civ II. Better than Civ I or III, imo.


excellent.

so what games did you play "a Long time ago" and do you still play them?

Heroes of Might and Magic III..."Tower" castle type was my favorite, specifically, although I have long since learned the pros and cons of each type.

Many, MANY hours wasted on that one. :)

Heroes of Might and Magic IIISigh. I miss my copies of Clouds of Xeen and Darkside of Xeen. Saved up my money for months to buy Darkside the day it came out.

Old games? Well, for awhile I had Wasteland and Bard's Tale I, II, III. Man... those old EA games were fun. However, if we're really going old, I still have Yar's Revenge.

...and the Atari 2600 to play it on :p

Lemonade Stand.

Wheres me teef?

Man... those old EA games were fun.Day of the tentacles anyone?

Thinking back, it amazes me one could actually find books with DIY games for the ZX81. Not that I'd recommend them. There has to be more interesting ways of killing time. Bashing your skull in with a hammer, for example.

Day of the tentacles anyone?
:D :D :D I loved that game! Still do, actually. I wish LucasArts would make more like that. Grim Fandango was a good game, but nowhere near DoTT, Sam & Max, and the first 3 Monkey Island games.

I had a game called the New Zealand Story on the Amiga when I was a kid. Not played it in over 10 years now, but I can still remember nearly everything about it. Including there not being any save option at all. Took about 5 hours to complete, and if you died it was back to the start.

There was a text adventure called Humbug that I used to love as well. It's about 18 years old now, but I still find it funny. Never completed it, and I swear it's impossible to do so.

I just found a disk with DOOM!

the old win 95 version... I got it loaded on my pc with XP on it and taking a trip down memory lane.

so what games did you play "a Long time ago" and do you still play them?

I remember when I first got Doom, greatest day ever. Then it got lost, but recently I 'found' a little something that let me play Doom 95, Doom 2, Doom TNT and Doom Plutonia.

IDDQD FTW!

I still play:

Transport Tycoon Deluxe (with the TTDPatch)
Descent (1!)
Master of Orion (1!)
Civ II
sometimes even X-Wing, Monkey Island and Indiana Jones
also The Dig and Warcraft 2

I just found a disk with DOOM!

the old win 95 version... I got it loaded on my pc with XP on it and taking a trip down memory lane.

so what games did you play "a Long time ago" and do you still play them?None really, but I've been meaning to crank out Dinotopia sometime soon.

I'm Bobbin Threadbare.

Are you my mother?

I recently got back into the semi-old game Starcraft.

I never realised there were so many Koreans in the world! The multiplayer servers are full of them :eek:

ever played MOO (Masters of Orion?)

MOO forever! Klackons, of course!

ever played MOO (Masters of Orion?)

I still play:

Transport Tycoon Deluxe (with the TTDPatch)
Descent (1!)
Master of Orion (1!)
Civ II
sometimes even X-Wing, Monkey Island and Indiana Jones
also The Dig and Warcraft 2

MOO forever! Klackons, of course!

Yay'! Fellow Moo players! I have been playing Master of Orion and Master of Orion2 forever and never bored of it.
Civilization 1-2 same way, I don't like new Civs, sticking to the old ones.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Civ in space, very cool game.
Tie Fighter (1995) is also one of those I can't give up. I go out and blast some hippie rebel scum every once in a while.
Heroes of Might and Magic 1-2-3 are also always in my hdd or closeby. I consider Homam4 never happened and I hate French for Heroes of Might and Magic 5.

Heroes of Might and Magic 1-2-3 are also always in my hdd or closeby. I consider Homam4 never happened and I hate French for Heroes of Might and Magic 5.Nival Interactive is Russian, is it not? Heroes 5 is pretty sweet, though. They pretty much went back to what 3 was all about.

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Not GOLD, not the recent 3-d version, the original.

I don't play it anymore, because my computer can't make it work with sound. That is to say the software's audio architecture was designed for primitive computers only and it just doesnt work with anything modern, though the rest of the game does. And the sound was super-awesome.

There are a lot of semi-old games like Starcraft, Warcraft II and Age of Empires I and II that I really like, and wish the sequels would just upgrade these old games to make better use of modern computers instead of trying to come up with new shit. Take Starcraft, for example, but add new resolutions possible, remove the unit caps. Or the first Age of Empires, except with the garrison and farm-management goodies from Age of Empires II.
I still have Pirates, i don't think it will work on this PC though, i still have the old Commodore but the monitor went, we actually have a spare monitor, so hmm...
But shit yeah i loved that game, the disk for saving games broke though.:(
I've had Civ II for 7 years now and i played it for the 1st time in 1 1/2 and i was rather messy but i was having my best game ever.

The CD drive on my Computer is stuffed somehow so i cant play AOE anymore either.:(

Nival Interactive is Russian, is it not? Heroes 5 is pretty sweet, though. They pretty much went back to what 3 was all about.

I went crazy for screenshots at first but when I started playing I got bored despite my effort to like the game. Graphics look good but maps are dull, clicking right spot is a problem, combat sucks not fun at all, castle looks fine but base building has become dull. I liked spending time at my castle listening to Homam2 musics and looking at scenery, in this game I don't.
I checked Nival Int. is Russian but I still hate french and blame them for Homam5! :p

Fragile Allegiance

I got it in '96, and it already worked poorly on my computer, because it was too old. At this point I can't get past boot up.

Which is a pity, because it was actually a very fun game...

Fragile Allegiance

I got it in '96, and it already worked poorly on my computer, because it was too old. At this point I can't get past boot up.

Which is a pity, because it was actually a very fun game...

That was pretty good. I discovered how to break the game by building an engine onto a newly colonised asteroid and sending it careening into the well-developed ones of my enemies....mwahahahaha.

Yay'! Fellow Moo players! I have been playing Master of Orion and Master of Orion2 forever and never bored of it.
Civilization 1-2 same way, I don't like new Civs, sticking to the old ones.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Civ in space, very cool game.
Tie Fighter (1995) is also one of those I can't give up. I go out and blast some hippie rebel scum every once in a while.
Heroes of Might and Magic 1-2-3 are also always in my hdd or closeby. I consider Homam4 never happened and I hate French for Heroes of Might and Magic 5.

I played X-W on my old 386 (25MHz, 8 GB ram...). I had to keep details to minimum... then I tried T/F, oh my, I experienced 1-second clicks! I had to wait till I got a new PC to play T/F.

T/I, T/A... wow... too bad Lucas would never let us shoot down that pesky Skywalker dude!

That was pretty good. I discovered how to break the game by building an engine onto a newly colonised asteroid and sending it careening into the well-developed ones of my enemies....mwahahahaha.

Suicide Bomber!!! :p

Last year Ashley got me a Wolfenstein. 'twas awesome, even if it did make me motion sick.

I went crazy for screenshots at first but when I started playing I got bored despite my effort to like the game. Graphics look good but maps are dull, clicking right spot is a problem, combat sucks not fun at all, castle looks fine but base building has become dull. I liked spending time at my castle listening to Homam2 musics and looking at scenery, in this game I don't.
I checked Nival Int. is Russian but I still hate french and blame them for Homam5! :pThe maps do get boring, yes, and the map editor is a bit hard to use. I loved the campaign though. And yeah, listening to the music in 2 was one of the coolest things ever (though I had the Compendium version, and it had different songs :p)

Ahh I remember DOOM, sadly it won't work on my computer :(

Have you tried legacy?

I can't believe no one has mentioned XCOM: UFO Defence (or UFO: Enemy Unknown for you UK types).

Nival Interactive is Russian, is it not? Heroes 5 is pretty sweet, though. They pretty much went back to what 3 was all about.
Heh, Heroes V is awesome - best in the series. I love the Shadow Matriarchs and the Blood Furies. :D Best unit concepts ever (yes, I <3 Dark elves >.>).

As for (relatively) old games, the ones I still play are the Baldur's Gate series (best rpg's ever made), FF VII & VIII, Majesty (awesome sim game), AoE I, Heroes III and Age of Wonders II (not really that old).

I can't believe no one has mentioned XCOM: UFO Defence (or UFO: Enemy Unknown for you UK types).

I still play it. :)

I played X-W on my old 386 (25MHz, 8 GB ram...). I had to keep details to minimum... then I tried T/F, oh my, I experienced 1-second clicks! I had to wait till I got a new PC to play T/F.

T/I, T/A... wow... too bad Lucas would never let us shoot down that pesky Skywalker dude!

Saving the Emperor, joining the secret order and flying side by side with Darth Vader was beyond satisfying though :D

Fragile Allegiance

I got it in '96, and it already worked poorly on my computer, because it was too old. At this point I can't get past boot up.

Which is a pity, because it was actually a very fun game...
AAGH!!! Because of that game I had to format my PC!' Was fun yes but lots of bugs'!

Last year Ashley got me a Wolfenstein. 'twas awesome, even if it did make me motion sick.
That game brings back memories, I puked after playing it and my face turned green.

Heheh damn, nobody mentioned it, so I guess I'm gonna be the first which is a shame coz that makes me feel real old, but hey there ya go.

Anyhoo I'm gonna go for Elite!

Had it on the old BBC B, now I go it on me BBC emulator, and it runs shit hot, man you need good eyes!

I still play my old Sega regularly. Mostly Sonic and Streets of rage.

Heheh damn, nobody mentioned it, so I guess I'm gonna be the first which is a shame coz that makes me feel real old, but hey there ya go.

Anyhoo I'm gonna go for Elite!

Had it on the old BBC B, now I go it on me BBC emulator, and it runs shit hot, man you need good eyes!

One of the first games I ever played, on a monochrome 286 or something. :p (along with Starglider, which i downloaded for nostalgia reasons not long ago)

I've been giving Elite 3 a spin too - since it's been patched up i'm actually finding it's a good game.

OLD games are the only things I play mostly graphic adventure games, like: day of the tentacle, sam&max, Monkey island 1-4, Indiana Jonas and the fate of atlantis, and many more I don't bother to mention but mostly they all are graphic adventure.

Pool of Radiance.

One of the first games I ever played, on a monochrome 286 or something. :p (along with Starglider, which i downloaded for nostalgia reasons not long ago)

I've been giving Elite 3 a spin too - since it's been patched up i'm actually finding it's a good game.


Ohh yeah and I brush out the Ragnarok every so often, coz I never did finish it.

NationStates :)

NationStates :)

NS is starting to get pretty damn old school now, after all.

anyone here play the old sierra adventure games (kings quest, space quest leisure suit larry, etc...)?

i love those games, but because of computers getting faster some of these games are nonplayable on new machines.

i love those games, but because of computers getting faster some of these games are nonplayable on new machines.

Ho hum, the second time i've linked it here... ;)

dosbox.sourceforge.net

It's an update of sorts to Angband. www.t-o-m-e.net

Although I prefer ADOM.

The main problem with ADOM is that it requires me to take about four days in a row doing nothing else, barely even sleeping, in order to get a win.

The main problem with ADOM is that it requires me to take about four days in a row doing nothing else, barely even sleeping, in order to get a win.

Yeah. And then while fleeing from an undead vault, your heavily wounded level 38 character falls into a pit and breaks his neck.

:(

8-bit Nintento:

River City Ransom
Legend of Zelda

Super Nintendo:

Final Fantasy III (VI japan)

PC:

Master of Orion
Master of Orion II
Master of Magic

and I'm not sure if Starcraft is old enough to be considered an 'old game'.


Sure these games are short on graphics, but they are still very entertaining. Seems like all the more modern games are trying to appeal to the ailing attention span of todays youth with lots of flashy graphics and instant gratification. Whereas the older games had to make their money on game play (ie how much fun they were to play).

I'm starting to feel like an old man talking about the 'good ol days'. heh :p

In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, a remake of Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon is to be released tomorrow.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/sidmeiersrailroads/index.html?q=railroad%20tycoon

Frogger and Pitfall rock! I also liked Donkey Kong.


Well, you said Old games.

Frogger and Pitfall rock! I also liked Donkey Kong.


Well, you said Old games.


I liked Space Invaders on my old Atari VCS.... :)

Yay! Peech! So seldom seen...

I liked Space Invaders on my old Atari VCS.... :)



I'm no good at the modern games. Well except Tiger golf (i kick ass).

Nice to see you darlin'.....been way too long.

Master of Orion 2 has to be in the top... ooh, two games ever, I recon. Nobody's done it better yet.

I don't play many really old games (not enough time :( ) but I keep meaning to dig Fragile Allegiance (only 1997, apparently) out, and I played a remake of Elite up to Deadly recently (and did the secret missions - after looking at the source code to find out how to get them ;) ). I have Lemmings on two sorts of floppies and F15 Strike Eagle 2 kicking around somewhere, too, as well as all the Megadrive Sonic games in a big collection.

I had a games compendium with Carrier Command in it once, but we had to send it back because most of them wouldn't work on our 8088 :(

The remake of Settlers II might be cool. In fact I'm tempted to get a Nintendo DS just so I can play Settlers on it.

I'm no good at the modern games. Well except Tiger golf (i kick ass).

Nice to see you darlin'.....been way too long.


It depends on the new game. I'm playing a online game called "City of Heroes" at the moment, which kicks ass... all spandexed up and nowhere to go. :D
Hey, don't blame me... I tried to add you to my 360 and you blocked me... *is sad*
What is this 'tiger golf' of which you speak?

It depends on the new game. I'm playing a online game called "City of Heroes" at the moment, which kicks ass... all spandexed up and nowhere to go. :D
What is this 'tiger golf' of which you speak?


Tiger Woods golf. I play the skins game and beat the pants off Mr. Peechland. It's fun!

I'd never block you. I just think I dunno how to use the 360 thing. I signed up and never use it. We should catch up.

I can't believe no one has mentioned XCOM: UFO Defence (or UFO: Enemy Unknown for you UK types).
ohhh...that was a cool game.
The 2nd was meh, though.
And I bought the latest version this year, but they'd gone way overboard in tech and fiddliness. It just didn't have the same 'feel' as the original. Too much frustration, and not enough success.

As someone else here mentioned: Day of the Tentacle - awesome game. Might have a look round for it...

Also Diablo - it was the reason I finally installed Win95 on my pc.

Tiger Woods golf. I play the skins game and beat the pants off Mr. Peechland. It's fun!

I'm not familiar with this Tiger Woods game... I always found the idea of 'virtual' golf kind of strange anyway - it's that part of my brain that never understood watching sports either. You play sports - that's where the 'fun' is. (Well, to me, anyhow).
I only actually used 360 like twice anyway... we should catch up. Yahoo me sometime.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

Dos emulator, lets you run a lot of older games. I like Betrayal at Krondor, Wizardry 6, and of course DOOM. Got all three on my work machine. I look forward to Wii just because you'll be able to download and play a lot of the classic Nintendo games.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

Dos emulator, lets you run a lot of older games. I like Betrayal at Krondor, Wizardry 6, and of course DOOM. Got all three on my work machine. I look forward to Wii just because you'll be able to download and play a lot of the classic Nintendo games.
Betrayal at Krondor was, to me, one of those 'almost' games.
It was almost a great game, except it was let down with a very basic, very exploitable bug: You could take as long as you wanted to finish each chapter.
This meant you could (and I did) wander around almost the entire countryside in Chapter One, killing everything, finding loot and raising your stats. And of course each chapter had regen.
You could also, if you so inclined, spend time practising and getting their stats to max. I did this with stealth by wearing some boots that gave me high stealth. Then I snuck back and forth past some sentries. Every 3 or 4 goes my natural stealth would go up. After a while, I'd take the boots off and my stealth would be high enough to go thru it all again without the boots. Not long and I'd have 100% stealth.
Did the same for lockpicking, too.
If you did all this, by half-way thru the game the battles were a joke. The Mage, Owyn, was doing more damage just with his staff than anyone else!
Come the final battle, it was over in a couple of rounds: Owyn fires a bolt that damn near kills the evil guy and then smacks him one. The End.

Shame really, cause it could have been an awesome game. All they had to do was have time limits on each chapter.

Yes, I know: I could have played it as if there was a time limit, but the temptation not to is too damn hard to resist!


You can find download copies of it. Sierra released it as freeware way back in '97 when they launched the final chapter in the series. So it's not pirating any more.

I just found a disk with DOOM!

the old win 95 version... I got it loaded on my pc with XP on it and taking a trip down memory lane.

so what games did you play "a Long time ago" and do you still play them?



Sid Meier's Getteysburg. I absolutely love that game.....

Yeah. And then while fleeing from an undead vault, your heavily wounded level 38 character falls into a pit and breaks his neck.

:(

Hey, at least it isn't as dumb as letting Strength Of Atlas/Lordly Might run out when you are already Strained! or breaking your leg by kicking a wall whilst looking for secret doors when your strength has been reduced to 2 by a =oWeakness.

Done them both.

Thankfully I have avoided the 'death by exploding frog' ending.

I still play the Quest for Glory games from time to time. I never got a copy of Quest for Glory V, though I did try the demo. Demo sucked. Also, I am annoyed that the glitch in IV involving the Bone ceremony scroll was never fixed, meaning you'd never be able to complete the game with your own character. Pissed me off time after time.

5 was...ehh.

It was a conclusion to the story arc, that's all I can say. You settle down, become king, get married, and finally, FINALLY, fight a dragon.

5 was...ehh.

It was a conclusion to the story arc, that's all I can say. You settle down, become king, get married, and finally, FINALLY, fight a dragon.

lol, yeah, those were the days.....

I got 52 classic dos games off bittorrent recently, so I have playing a lot of classics. My favourites are Civilization I/II, Kings Quest 1-4, and Space Quest 1-3.

I got 52 classic dos games off bittorrent recently, so I have playing a lot of classics. My favourites are Civilization I/II, Kings Quest 1-4, and Space Quest 1-3.

The originals or the VGA remakes of KQ1 and SQ1 ?

Betrayal at Krondor was, to me, one of those 'almost' games.
It was almost a great game, except it was let down with a very basic, very exploitable bug: You could take as long as you wanted to finish each chapter.
This meant you could (and I did) wander around almost the entire countryside in Chapter One, killing everything, finding loot and raising your stats. And of course each chapter had regen.
You could also, if you so inclined, spend time practising and getting their stats to max. I did this with stealth by wearing some boots that gave me high stealth. Then I snuck back and forth past some sentries. Every 3 or 4 goes my natural stealth would go up. After a while, I'd take the boots off and my stealth would be high enough to go thru it all again without the boots. Not long and I'd have 100% stealth.
Did the same for lockpicking, too.
If you did all this, by half-way thru the game the battles were a joke. The Mage, Owyn, was doing more damage just with his staff than anyone else!
Come the final battle, it was over in a couple of rounds: Owyn fires a bolt that damn near kills the evil guy and then smacks him one. The End.

Shame really, cause it could have been an awesome game. All they had to do was have time limits on each chapter.

Yes, I know: I could have played it as if there was a time limit, but the temptation not to is too damn hard to resist!


You can find download copies of it. Sierra released it as freeware way back in '97 when they launched the final chapter in the series. So it's not pirating any more.

There are a ton of games like that, once you learn how it's done you can make it so incredibly easy. FFVII for instance, since everyone knows it, you can get so freakin powerful so easily that everything in the story line is an absolute joke. One shotting the last boss. Oblivion, you can beat the main quest at level 2, and you're better off doing so. If you're smart you can polish off every single quest without hitting level 3 and it'll be easy as pie.

The originals or the VGA remakes of KQ1 and SQ1 ? See I know you are only asking so we can bag out the VGA remakes, so lets just jump to it. The VGA remakes were pieces of crap which pissed all over what were truly great games (If a littl awkward to play).

I still play Red Alert and Settlers 2. Such awesome games :)

You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

> open mailbox

Opening the mailbox reveals:
A leaflet.

Opening the mailbox reveals:
A leaflet.

>read leaflet
(taken)

"WELCOME TO ZORK!

ZORK is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortals. No computer should be without one!"

>

> kick mailbox
Kicking a mailbox is not notably useful.

> west
You are in a forest, with trees in all directions around you.

> east
You are in a dimly lit forest, with large trees all around. One
particularly large tree with some low branches stands here.

> climb tree

You are about ten feet above the ground nestled among some large
branches. The nearest branch above you is beyond your reach.
On the branch is a small birds nest.
The birds nest contains:
A jewel-encrusted egg.

Aaah - the memories :D

ever played MOO (Masters of Orion?)

Ah, yes. Not in the old days, I came upon that like two or three years ago. Great game!

Good game. Dosbox will run it perfectly. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

Or you could try emulating a console version of it, which might be easier...i'd recommend the Sega Genesis version.

I do have an NES emulated version, but its not the same. The music is totally different, and it's magically easier.

I'll try the DOS version, but I bet it didnt have the same music that the Mac version had. I mean this was back in the day when Macs were better gaming machines than DOS.

I got one for you all:

Donkey Kong. That game was da shit man!

Oregon Trail! :D

C'mon, you know you played it in school...

Oregon Trail! :D

C'mon, you know you played it in school...

I loved that game....I miss it so...:(

Doom I and II. Load of old Mega Drive games, notably the Streets of Rage and Sonic series.

Monkey Island I and II, though they don't work on my PC any more. :(

As well as a bunch of other stuff that XP is so crap it doesn't run. :(:(:(

Monkey Island I and II, though they don't work on my PC any more. :(

The ScummVM version of MI 1 works perfectly under XP. The legality of downloading that is of course another matter. And you get the VGA remake instead of the original...

Hey, at least it isn't as dumb as letting Strength Of Atlas/Lordly Might run out when you are already Strained! or breaking your leg by kicking a wall whilst looking for secret doors when your strength has been reduced to 2 by a =oWeakness.

Done them both.

I've done the first, but not the second. I have, however, unwittingly kicked a door with an explosion trap when I was down to my last couple of hitpoints. Ugh.

Thankfully I have avoided the 'death by exploding frog' ending.

I haven't heard of that one. I'm guessing it has something to do with the one that pops up in pools?


I do have an NES emulated version, but its not the same. The music is totally different, and it's magically easier.

I'll try the DOS version, but I bet it didnt have the same music that the Mac version had. I mean this was back in the day when Macs were better gaming machines than DOS.

Well, there's plenty of mac emulators around. Google reveals:
http://www.emulators.com/softmac.htm

Can't help you with the actual game, though.


I loved that game....I miss it so...

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=2972 ?

Oh, and shame on all of you for not mentioning Star Control II yet.

Oh, and shame on all of you for not mentioning Star Control II yet.

Even thinking of that game is quite orgasmic.

I even have Star Control 3 on my Neo-Geo, though it's kind of weird.

Battle Toads (includign BB: Double Dragon)
Sonic Pinball for Sega
CONTRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Old School Zelda
Castlevania

I remember when I first got Doom, greatest day ever. Then it got lost, but recently I 'found' a little something that let me play Doom 95, Doom 2, Doom TNT and Doom Plutonia.

IDDQD FTW!thanks, I could only remember IDKFA :D

I still play my old Sega regularly. Mostly Sonic and Streets of rage.My sega is now just dedicated to Might and Magic III Gates to another world.

anyone here play the old sierra adventure games (kings quest, space quest leisure suit larry, etc...)?

i love those games, but because of computers getting faster some of these games are nonplayable on new machines.a couple of years ago, a collection of Roberta William's games were re-released, and those included KQ, SQ, and a couple of cool myteries... as well as the first disk to Phantasmagoria.

and I have the Leisure Suit Larry collection. :D

OH and in the same Vein... Cobra Mission!

Frogger and Pitfall rock! I also liked Donkey Kong.

Well, you said Old games.I love Pitfall! standing on the crock's Head!!!

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards and Operation Neptune.

> kick mailbox
Kicking a mailbox is not notably useful.

> west
You are in a forest, with trees in all directions around you.

> east
You are in a dimly lit forest, with large trees all around. One
particularly large tree with some low branches stands here.

> climb tree

You are about ten feet above the ground nestled among some large
branches. The nearest branch above you is beyond your reach.
On the branch is a small birds nest.
The birds nest contains:
A jewel-encrusted egg.

Aaah - the memories :D

> Piss on plant
it has fire-proof skin

> Piss on rocks
That would be arson

> Piss on Grass
That would be arson

> Piss on Tree
It has fire-proof bark

I shit you not... :D

I remember idclip for no clipping mode. along with iddqd but that was already mentioned.

Even thinking of that game is quite orgasmic.

I even have Star Control 3 on my Neo-Geo, though it's kind of weird.

Star Control 3 is shit, due to the original designers not having a say in the plotline or anything. Meh, shit is probably too harsh. It wasn't that bad, just mediocre.

There *might* be a SC4 written by the original developers coming out sometime in the near future though, and they'll probably do a "It was all a dream" trick, or something.

Super Mario Bros.

Boy, this thread shows people's ages quite well.

Zork... that was great. Only I got frustrated at having to figure out obscure commands.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Zelda: A Link to the Past and the lovely OLD Zeldas... all excellent fun. Unfortunately, they've nerfed the new ones.

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego - for DOS.

Playing Wild Arms for the PS currently.

Sim City 2000

Wolfenstein 3D. (Doom 95 nothin'...)

I still play Heroes of Might and Magic III, so I don't consider it "old" really.

Warlords 3 (another DOS game, but it got replaced in my world with HOMM3)

The Monkey Island games - as well as Grim Fandango. Unfortuantely, I can't get an emulator to run those.

And my all time favorite: Wacky Funsters. (Who doesn't like a game called Rambi vs. Blambo where you can be a deer with a phase-plasma death-ray?)
http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/arcade_action/games_w/wacky_funsters.html

The Monkey Island games - as well as Grim Fandango. Unfortuantely, I can't get an emulator to run those.
I love those games! I haven't needed an emulator to run Grim Fandango on XP though...? :confused:

I need game help people. I have know idea what game this is but I am hoping that someone on here must know what I am talking about.

All I can tell you is that it's on the Atari St and is a platformer. One of the levels is really bouncy and you just bounce around to the end of the level. I think that was the second level. In the first level I think you were able to turn into paper aroplanes but I am not sure because I was so young it may have just been a that you jump on. I think the first level was made from chocolate or something however that could also be BS as I was 3 at the time and don't remember much. I can't remember what the character you look like was, though I think he may have been brown.

I really really want to know what this game is as it is the most nostalgic gaming memory I have!

Sim City 2000


Sim City on the Snes is the best (and the original I think).

The Monkey Island games - as well as Grim Fandango. Unfortuantely, I can't get an emulator to run those.

MI 1 runs under ScummVM. Grim Fandango does not need an emulator, it runs fine under XP. Provided you have the original cds.

I need game help people. I have know idea what game this is but I am hoping that someone on here must know what I am talking about.

All I can tell you is that it's on the Atari St and is a platformer. One of the levels is really bouncy and you just bounce around to the end of the level. I think that was the second level. In the first level I think you were able to turn into paper aroplanes but I am not sure because I was so young it may have just been a that you jump on. I think the first level was made from chocolate or something however that could also be BS as I was 3 at the time and don't remember much. I can't remember what the character you look like was, though I think he may have been brown.

I really really want to know what this game is as it is the most nostalgic gaming memory I have!
"a boy and his blob"?

"a boy and his blob"?

*looks up*

Nope definately not, it was for the Atari St and had different style graphics as well as there beying only one character.

None at the moment. I occasionally will get into the mood to play Civ 3 again. I liked Civ 2 better because the rules were easier to edit, but there are things about Civ 2 I didn't like, so I won't go back.

A couple years ago I did find a version of Maniac Mansion, the old NES game. That was an awesome game; I'll tentatively say it's the 2nd best game ever.

All I can tell you is that it's on the Atari St and is a platformer.

Specify the year please ?

Specify the year please ?

No idea :(

It was either my older sisters or brothers and I have no idea when she got it. Do you have any ideas?

I still play all the Ultimas - that's the only reason I keep a Win98 machine running.

Plus, I recently discovered a copy of the original CRPG, Oubliette. Written for the University of Illinois PLATO mainframe in 1977, it was ported to DOS in 1982. It has to run from a floppy drive, and it automatically saves your progress as you play so there's no reloading if you die.

NetHack

(And Mordor II, but I doubt any of you have heard of it.)

i found pong. the first game i ever had..... made in '86. so proud!

UFO : Enemy Unknown (aka X-COM : UFO Defence).

What a spiffing game.

(And Mordor II, but I doubt any of you have heard of it.)
ASCII game?

I remember an ASCII game called Moria.

>look s
You see borogoves
>get s
You can't get those. They're too mimsy.

NetHack

(And Mordor II, but I doubt any of you have heard of it.)

Oh, yes and yes on both of them! Haven't thought of Mordor II in a while... always liked that one.

Reminds me of Ragnarock, too. Such a great game.

EDIT: Oh, and Rogue... heh. I always liked being the ASCII smiley face.

ASCII game?

I remember an ASCII game called Moria.

>look s
You see borogoves
>get s
You can't get those. They're too mimsy.

No, it had graphics. Not very good graphics. It's on Wikipedia.

I'd have also listed Zork, but I don't have it on this machine and consequently haven't played it in ages.

ASCII games had graphics. They were just ASCII graphics. Nothing but ASCII symbols.

ASCII games had graphics. They were just ASCII graphics. Nothing but ASCII symbols.

Actual art, I mean. The good version of Mordor II even had a bit of 3D in it, before it was canceled for legal reasons. All we got was a gigantic, 10-level beta. Or about 1/3 of the game.

Pool of Radiance.
Nice game, but it didn't quite live up to the BG and IWD series, or even NWN for that matter.

Grim Fandango was great. ^^ Awesome character concepts.

The Monkey Island games - as well as Grim Fandango. Unfortuantely, I can't get an emulator to run those.


I'm running Grim Fandango on an new, fairly high powered jobbie with XP using the windows compatability wizard, seems to work, badly but playable;) Otherwise you could try things like dosbox or CPUKILLER which may help.

I haven't heard of that one. I'm guessing it has something to do with the one that pops up in pools?

Yup: if deaf when drinking from a pool and a frog appears, the frog explodes.

Do you know how to get the 'choked on his own vomit' death message?

Master of Magic

First time I've heard of somebody else playing MoM. What a great game! There are so many totally different ways to beat it... Tactics with only one magic realm, tactics with two of them, tactics where you pick your books to get a specific set of spells, together with a special race (to get invisible trolls, or even better undead, free-of-charge ones)...

I still play it from time to time.:)

Nice game, but it didn't quite live up to the BG and IWD series, or even NWN for that matter.

Grim Fandango was great. ^^ Awesome character concepts.

I actually meant the DOS version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_of_Radiance), predating BG by about 10 years.

Oh, yes and yes on both of them! Haven't thought of Mordor II in a while... always liked that one.

Reminds me of Ragnarock, too. Such a great game.

EDIT: Oh, and Rogue... heh. I always liked being the ASCII smiley face.

Rogue was okay, but it's been immensely improved on.

But here's a roguelike almost nobody has heard of - Omega. :p

Yup: if deaf when drinking from a pool and a frog appears, the frog explodes.

Do you know how to get the 'choked on his own vomit' death message?

Hm, nope. Haven't had that one either. Paralysed and sick, or something?

I actually meant the DOS version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_of_Radiance), predating BG by about 10 years.
Oh right - I always forget about that one. -_-

Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario World
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Legend of Zelda
Base Wars
Kickle Cubicle
Contra
Metroid
Warcraft II
DinoPark Tycoon
Oregon Trail
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Jackal


Those are in no particular order. I'm just listing them as they come to me.

I actually meant the DOS version (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool_of_Radiance), predating BG by about 10 years.

silver blades was the best of that series

I recently replayed the krynn series.

ofcourse
master of orion
master of magic
UFO
civ
Pirates
have all been said but how about paradroid or airbourne ranger on commadore 64

Chrono Trigger
.

some great memories there

Where to start?
Ah yes...
Mail Order Monsters
1942
Maniac Mansion
Zack McKracken
M.U.D.S.
Mafia (best fucking game ever, unfortunately I don't know if this is the real name - you started as a petty criminal, hired gansters, got weapons, stole/bought cars, bribed the cops, robbed banks, and finally become Boss of the Underworld. GTA sucks compared to this)
California/ Winter/n Summer Games
Skate or Die
Hawkeye
Archons (Battle Chess is but a weak rip-off)
Warlock
etc.
etc.

Ach, the sweet days of childhood gosu-ness... ;D

I need to play Yar's Revenge again. I miss that game.

Not to dig up an old thread, but I went through my stuff at home and found my copy of The Oregon Trail. :-)