View Full Version : [OT] Better games from the past than today...
I find games have lost the old feel like they have, it's more graphics over gameplay I see.
I started playing Uplink again and was addicted for hours.
can anyone tell me some really good games that I'd find addictive?
Rick Dangerous.
Still the best game ever.
Tis like indiana jones...
I have to concur. There's also far too many elves.
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
The text adventure!
Athon
SpaceQuest+Leisuresuite Larry!
Hired Guns :) amiga500 ftw
Pool of Radiance/Curse of the Azure Bonds/Secret of the SilverBlades for Commodore 64 tbh :lol:
Master of Magic
An old RTS/ Strategy game/Civilization kinda game, well made and with a lot of stuff, it can keep me entertained for hours.
And of course Fallout 1+2
- Nap
Loderunner, Bard's Tale, Dungeons of Daggorath...
I'd like to add:
RTS: Total Annihilation (woo yay and hoopla for the upcoming SupCom!)
Multiplayer FPS: Quake 1
Single player FPS: Quake 2
Athon
Dungeon Master
Captive
Eye of the Beholder
Monkey Island
Turrican
Mega Lo Mania
all I kind think of right now for the Amiga500, FTW
oh yeah, and Neocron 1 :p
DarkPhoenix
05-04-06, 16:35
The Curse of Monkey Island
Tyrian
Raptor
Wolf3D (with new stuff) w/ WolfGL
Paper Dragon
05-04-06, 16:38
Spy Hunter, bitches.
Possibly the greatest 2D shooting game. Ever.
RogerRamjet
05-04-06, 16:43
Spy Hunter, bitches.
Possibly the greatest 2D shooting game. Ever.
Doom FTW
Oh the monkey island's , damm them games rocked.**gonna try get them again**
Hmm a few oldies i like playing ,
Starcraft
C+C Red alert
Xcom
Smash TV
Day Of Defeat (Now playing DoD Source thx to Cmaster for the heads up on that;))
Wonder Boy
Zelda Link to The Past
Phantasy Star Series (The old ones on megadrive)
Cant think of any more atm , plus work to do so will have a think and post more :p.
landofcake
05-04-06, 16:49
Well it's got to be System Shock 2 hasn't it ?
:)
Clive tombstone
05-04-06, 17:13
Come on, NO ONE said Planescape:torment? (especially the ones who said Fallout? :D )
Shame on all of you :D
Shogo mobile armor devision
Crimson skies
Worms armagedon
Gunstar Heroes (original)
Vector man
Ranger X (genesis)
http://www.abandonia.com
Some quality stuff on there, particuarly if you pick up the "editors choice" or whatever it is ones.
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Aha! got home and started digging around on the net for emulators and oldskool games.
And found this classic that i loved playing : Phantasy star 4.
i was always a massive fan of the point and click adventure games
heres some of my favs:
Grim Fandango (amazing game)
Little Big Adventure 1 + 2
Day of the Tentacle
Leisure Suit Larry 1,2,3,4,5,5,57,6,7,67,8,,89,98,,09,904334.54
Sam'n'Max
Monkey Island 1,22,3,454,65,7 (i enjoyed the later 3d ones as much as the originals)
Full Throttle
Normality
i hate the fact that all the big name game creators tend to make the same games.. you know... blow stuff up... shoot stuff... drive stuff.. i mean, i enjoy them.. but i really miss the adventure games :(
Final Fantasy III SNES (imho best console RPG ever made)
Secret of Mana SNES (close runner up to FF3)
Super Puzzle Fighter Arcade/PS1 (Best and most addictive puzzle game)
Shogo PC (one of the best and most underrated FPS ever made)
Doom 1 and 2 PC (the daddy of all FPS bow down)
Ghosts and Goblins Arcade/Com64/PC (Best scroller ever)
Fallout 1 & 2 PC (Still the sex, play it monthly)
Master of Magic PC (RTS meets Fantasy meets civilization, still have the floppies)
Legend of the Red Dragon PC ( L.O.R.D BBS Door game, its god tbh, and I lived only a few blocks from the creator of the thing, there was/is no game bigger in the BBS world, if you didn't love this game, chromosomes must be missing from your genetic makeup)
Mario Kart SNES (racing at its finest)
1949 (and various knockoffs) Arcade (flight sim LoL top scroller, and its teh win)
Final Fantasy VII PS1 (one of the best RPGs made for a console, still havent figured out how to take out the reddragon)
Contra Arcade (side scroller great stuff)
Samurai Showdown (all versions, nearly the best fighter to hit the arcade ever)
Mortal Kombat 1 (the classic not those other shitty ones)
Civilization (many hours lost to this game)
Moria (text graphic rpg/random dungeon LINK (http://www.piratehaven.org/~beej/moria/))
Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 (pc rpg goodness, the tops as far as that goes, besides fallout :P)
Ultima (take your pick, ones of the best, needs a mention)
Ultima Online ( the daddy of the mmo world, we can thank it for the mmo concept and the mmopvp concept tbh)
Diablo (deserves a nod for being the first big over the internet RPG type game to exist, was a bit before ultima, and helped the mmo movement get where it is today, besides who didn't love killing those cows.. lol)
Armored Core PS1/2 (Underrated SinglePlayer Mech game, one of the best)
Wipeout PS1/2 (One of the fastest best racing games I've ever played, good soundtrack at least for a techno head)
Thats all I can think of at the moment.....
-A
Lucius Drake
06-04-06, 00:21
Hmm for me it would have to be Chaos: Battle of the Wizards, Fantasy Island Dizzy, Syndicate, Hired Guns, Thief : The dark project.
Been playing Chaos with various friends for about 8 years so its got definate staying power :)
Drake
slime cricket + snake wars, not from the past but good example of gameplay over graphics.
oh androth SEX!
cant belive i didnt think of secret of mana , damm was a awsome rpg. Ofc the few FF's were great. Gonna get dl those on rom's tomorrow ;)
Also thought i would mention a few oldies.
Alex the kid
Road rash
Golden axe
Street fighter
sensible soccer
populous
rambo first blood and 3
california games.
- Z
- Esprit (there is Enigma (http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/) now)
- Spaceward Ho!
- Homeworld
- Clonk Planet
- Transport Tycoon (http://www.openttd.org/)
- Jewels of the Oracle
- Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
- Worms
- Bolo
- The Settlers 1 & 2
- Buried in Time
Private_Eye44
06-04-06, 01:17
TBH THIS PWNS J00z Allz..
Pong
Donkey Kong
Deer Hunter (ANY VERSION)
Defender, Tron, Utopia,.
Does anyone remember those mechanical games? I had a driving game with 3 spools with cars on them and a paddle that moved your car back and forth. Scoring was based on distance travelled and the whole game was manouvering your car back and forth to avoid hitting any other cars. The score was kept on an odometer style thing with a manual reset that zeroed it out. I spent literally hundreds of hours playing with that thing.
The Ottoman
06-04-06, 03:27
delta force 2 =p
Best Fps ever. Well, it was anyway before the cheating with trainers started. The maps were insanely huge. I think they even were endless. A real sniper's heaven. I would put on my gilliesuit, take my barret and lay down somewhere in the grass.Argh, what a lovely game it was.
Winston Smith
06-04-06, 05:34
I still dream that bullfrog didn't tank and that they will come out with a new "syndicate wars" and "dungeon keeper 3"
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Aha! got home and started digging around on the net for emulators and oldskool games.
And found this classic that i loved playing : Phantasy star 4.
Yeah i used to play that game on sega btw how you got that ? :)
Thats the one with Chaz and Rune and the attack macro in wich you can combine spells to make special attack trough the macro.
I used to like that, Shadorun of course and Syndicate. Oh and Flashback
/signed
Which ones have you played?
If you get EV:Nova for PC, you can get EV:Override and EV:Classic for free!
i own all three for mac, and i've played the original EV since around when it came out.
still great games.. and a lot of these others listed here..
I owned the first two for mac, and nova for pc. Yeah, I played EV:Classic since like '94. Damn that was a long time ago!
RogerRamjet
06-04-06, 09:52
Deus Ex.
Reminds me of how NC used to feel :(
Frontier Elite 2 / First Encounter
Fallout 1 & 2
The Longest Journey
Perihelion (http://vellum.cz/~mikc/parba/perihelion-en.html, feelings are really like NC!)
The Dig
Another World (of course ...)
Indiana jones(s) : Fate of atlantis, the last crusade ....
"Les voyageurs du temps" (http://mo5.com/test-jeu-video-116-les-voyageurs-du-temps-sur-atari-st.html). What a ubber french game !
mmm the good old days
Mario 3 (rip nes)
mutant league games
Baulders gate(up untill nwn)
fallout tactics
final fantasy 7 and tactics
tactics ogre
NBA Jam for the genesis
killer instinct(snes)
Contra
the mutant turtle game(think there was only one that was fun to play) nes
Twisted Metal(the reason i bought the playstation)
Castlevania(alot of them :D )
Diablo2 and startcraft
rock and roll racing(genesis)
super baseball(genesis)
sonic spinball XD
streets of rage
sim city 2000 XD
Age of Wonders Shadow Magic
oh and that genesis star trek game(if you played it you know what i'm talking about)
were a few more for the pc but their names escape me
Hitman2. :p
Some old Ps1 adventuregames, like crash are kewl to.
pizza connection 1 !
http://www.thelegacy.de/pics/screen/p/PizzaConnection.gif
John Bushido
06-04-06, 15:47
Elite 1+2
Syndicate
X-Com 1+2
Monkey Island 1+2
Maniac Mansion 1+2
Zak McKracken
Tie Fighter
Civilization 2
Dark Forces
Hell-demon
06-04-06, 16:34
dungeon keeper 1 and 2
day of the tentacle
sam and max
deus ex
fallout games
Grim fandango
system shock 2
homeworld and homeworld cataclysm
also worth mentioning...........
Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines
Yeah i used to play that game on sega btw how you got that ? :)
Thats the one with Chaz and Rune and the attack macro in wich you can combine spells to make special attack trough the macro.
I used to like that, Shadorun of course and Syndicate. Oh and Flashback
Thats the one ;)
Just use google and search for Sega or Nes or Snes emulators (program freeware) and Sega/nes/snes Roms (the games).
Easy and free to download (emulator and roms[games])
**edit check your PM's kame i sent u links with the emulator im useing and a link to a rom site, Enjoy;)
Anyone remember epic megagames. They had many a scroller shareware game out back int he day Jill of the Jungle comes to mind, of course Duke Nukem and another space one I cant for the life of me remember the name of, the ship was cool though you could fly to crazy planets and do delivery missions bounty hunt, get cloaking devices and all that... but the name *sigh*....
-A
PS. Have Secret of Mana on my snes emu I'll post a screeny when I get home for nostalgia purposes that game was/is the sex. Rpg wise anyone remember Suikoden <sp?> or a old pc one called Eye of the Beholder? What about Wizardry?
Edit: Solar Winds, came out in 1993 the game was fun as hell. And you can still get the thing on floppy from epic or theres a site that hosts the old playable demo, that game was fun as hell LINK (http://www.classicdosgames.com/epic.html)
Apocalypsox
06-04-06, 23:15
Anyone remember that damned game named Neocron so many people used to play? was damn fun :D
P.S: Megaman 4tehfuckinwintbh
Yeah it was...
still as niddy would saything along the lines of...
"Neocron 2 IS better! you all must have been looking through those rose tinted spectacles."
RogerRamjet
06-04-06, 23:30
Yeah it was...
still as niddy would saything along the lines of...
"Neocron 2 IS better! you all must have been looking through those rose tinted spectacles."
Well, i have to wear welding goggles for NC2 :p
Obsidian X
07-04-06, 00:20
Most of mine have been mentioned but I'll do em again:
Most of the LucasArts adventure games: i.e - Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, Full Throttle, Monkey Island 1 & 2 (and 3 to a lesser extent)
TIE Fighter (and later X-Wing Alliance, though it was never as good as TIE Fighter, maybe it was an age thing)
Rise of the Triad
Duke Nukem 3D
Syndicate
Jagged Alliance
Colonization
Pizza Tycoon
Simcity 2000
Innocent Until Caught (anyone here remember this?)
Beneath a Steel Sky
I'm sure more will come to me...
Yeah it was...
still as niddy would saything along the lines of...
"Neocron 2 IS better! you all must have been looking through those rose tinted spectacles."
Damn straight.
N
Rolling Thunder LINK (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9362) yeah ftw... :D
Battle Toads
Commander Keen series
Old old old old (think DOS) Prince of Persia
Metroid
Nintendo Track and Field(with the excersize pad)
DarkPhoenix
07-04-06, 01:33
Anyone remember epic megagames. They had many a scroller shareware game out back int he day Jill of the Jungle comes to mind, of course Duke Nukem and another space one I cant for the life of me remember the name of, the ship was cool though you could fly to crazy planets and do delivery missions bounty hunt, get cloaking devices and all that... but the name *sigh*....
Xargon and Dr. Riptide ftw
Okay, let's see;
Defender
Crazy Climber
Nebulous
Dungeon Keeper
Civilization (probably responsible for more lost hours than any other game for me)
Battlezone
Cannon Fodder
Sensible Soccer
Missile Command
Beneath a Steel Sky
And probably hundreds more that I can't think of right now.
Hired Guns :) amiga500 ftw
Oh yes, got 500+ (+for 1 MB (!!!) RAM)^^
Street Fighter :D
The scroller street fighter? or the fighter?
-A
universe... a point and click game on the amiga aga 1200
chase hq .. on the old spectrum 48k
The scroller street fighter? or the fighter?
-A
The fighter, Street Fighter 2 in particular - I wasted so much of my youth playing that!
hehe there were so many street fighter 2's, afaik there was street fighter 2, street fighter 2 championship, street fighter 2 turbo: hyper fighting, street fighter 2: the new challengers, and street fighter 2 turbo (my personal fav someware around 93 or 94) Still remember the unstoppable Sagat combo, and the insta crash the game combo lol.
Still I prefer MK1 to SF due to the violence invloved.. ;)
-A
<3 mega drive <3
puyo puyo (best puzzle game ever)
sonic (all of um + chaotix)
micro machines (twin turbo + millitry were the best)
zelda 64 (the first one)
gunstar/guardian heroes (sex Clive tombstone)
altered beast
elite
toejam and earl
marble madness (trackball ftw)
james pond 2: robocod
ecco the dolphin
gauntlet
mario kart 64 (didnt play the original)
mario 64
worms armageddom (the others were cool too ofc)
grand theft auto 2 (gta 1 was too basic and 3d gta didn't work)
x-beyond the frontier (and x-tension)
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