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Lo guys.
I thought that i would take a wee break from NC and explore my old PC games to find ye old favorites.
So far i found Fallout 1 and good old Worms.
As i have played theese till my fingers began to lack skin i would like to ask the community what THEIR favorite old time games are?
- Napalm
Worms = teh best love it still play it when i can be arsed to install it,
another favorite of mine was tropico :D
Oh and of course Red Alert 2 and Yuris Revenge:D :D
great great GREAT games
~T
half life :D
never get tired of baldurs gate, good game.
SUB CULTURE > NC !!!!
ok, serious. Such a cool game, you'll love te grohics, the sound is cool, and good story. Check it out!
Dune
Civ 1 + 2
Colonsation (Spelling?)
UFO: Enemy unkown (AKA: X-Com)
X-Com: Apocalypse
Warcraft 2
Starcraft (including brood wars!)
Constructor
Imperium Galactica
Master of Orion 2
can't think of more just now
Edit: how could i forget civ 2? 8|
nonamebrandeggs
28-09-03, 22:24
lemmings.
My old PC games are:
Apogee ones (classics!), including:
Duke Nukem 1 & 2,
Biomenace,
Commander Keen (!),
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
etc. etc.
An old, weird, classic adventure game called "Dreamweb" by Empire Interactive.
Betrayal at Krondor.
Many by "Epic Megagames".
One Must Fall 2097.
Another even older one that I bet no-one knows: a RPG called "Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation"
And many more that I should mention, but elude me at this late hour :P
EDIT: UFO: Enemy Unknown and Terror From The Deep both scared me shitless in my younger years :P
Eddie
You guys might want to check this site out:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/
Just scanning through the lists is like a blast from the past. :)
Magic Carpet rocked, and Elite 3 was good (after the bugs were fixed).
Gonna have to dig out an old P233 to play them on though, 'cos they don't run properly if at all on modern computers.
-Krll
Whiety Bulger
28-09-03, 22:33
OLD SKOOL WOLFENSTINE 3D BIATCH
Originally posted by Whiety Bulger
OLD SKOOL WOLFENSTINE 3D BIATCH
That.. and Blake 3D.
Eddie
QuantumDelta
28-09-03, 22:43
There are probably dozens I could mention, but only one, stands out above all others.
http://www.freespace2.com
Nuff said.
Descent Freespace 2
Creatures I and II(the old commondore 64 ones)
Retrograde (c64)
Kasumi Ninja (Atari Jaguar)
Wings of Fury (Amiga)
The last ninja games (c64)
Morrowind (not old i know)
X-Com Terror from the deep.
enemy unknown was ok, and all the ones after TFTD really sucked :p
the liesure suit larry games also humoured me for a while :D
MINESWEEPER!!!!!!
ONOZ!
and who could forget VIRTUAL SPRINGFIELD!!!!!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Baldurs gate.
Rocked.
And still does.
And will do.
Forever.
:D
TheonlyoneIknow
28-09-03, 23:46
Elite roxxor'd, (C64).
Paradroid, (also C64). If you remember this game, part of it isn't too disimilar to the hack screens in our dear Neocron, when you took control of your next robot. Class.
1942, (the overhead plane game).
Total Annihilation. Doom, too.
Don't know if some people count that as old but I got TA years ago and played Doom aroun the same time; being the "young 'un" that I supposedly am I call it old. ;)
Originally posted by QuantumDelta
There are probably dozens I could mention, but only one, stands out above all others.
http://www.freespace2.com
Nuff said.
By far the greatest, most underachieving game ever (in terms of underachievement makes neocron look like a multi-award winning bestseller)... but an absolutely stunning game
FFIV through VIII
Wolfenstien 3D
lemmings
Chips Challenge
Half life
Resident Evil: DC
How to be a complete B*****D
Quake 1
Sonic The Hedgehog
C&C
TA
depends on how you define 'old' though :D
Deus Ex
Starcraft
Desus ex.. um.. Deus Ex.... erm.... the first GTA..
did i mention Deus Ex?
Playing it again :) installed it after the last patch as it didnt seem to do a great deal... at area 51 now :)
(also playing neverwinter nights on lan with m8s, but that aint exactly old)
Originally posted by Rith
By far the greatest, most underachieving game ever (in terms of underachievement makes neocron look like a multi-award winning bestseller)... but an absolutely stunning game no dude omikron nomad soul > all of the others
its damn 5 cds came out in 1999 or around there, with gfx and compete with todays standards
to tell u the absolute truth, i got neocron only because it looked exactly like omikron cept online.
so omikron is like a kik ass version of nc offline
Owww, the good old days :
Jill of the Jungle :angel:
Monkey Island
Duke Nukem
Major Striker
UFO
Stunts
Syndicate
Wing Commander
omikron:
http://pcmedia.ign.com/media/reviews/image/omikron001.jpg
strip club in omikron:
http://pcmedia.ign.com/media/reviews/image/omikron005.jpg tis a shitty quality screenshots tho, LOOK AT MY POST COUNT :D
Unreal Tournament
Morrowind
Deus Ex
Super Power (Global Power in europe)
Starcraft
(etc)
Originally posted by ichinin
Super Power (Global Power in europe)
has another name that was released in usa but never looked at really
think it was called Global Power or somethin or Global somethin
ps: makers of omnikron
http://www.quanticdream.com/english/index.htm
they and kk should team up ;]
The Descent series of games
Starcraft
It's not really old, but I also like Tiberian Sun.
Myst
Riven
Myst III: Exile
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Rainbow Six (Any)
Solitaire
I've been playing games a *very* long time, so I won't bore you with a humungous list ... just a few highlights ;)
Planescape : Torment - Best storyline/atmosphere *ever*.
Unreal Tournament : Got an *ahem* unofficial download 3 weeks before release, had to buy it 3 times eventually due to scratched CD's, new installs on new PCs, lost discs etc...
Was still playing it on the day they finally switched off the stat logging servers 3 years later.
(For officially logged games only - 6,500 matches, 122,000 minutes [85 *days* eek :eek:], 71,000 frags : 11,500 deaths - 18,000 of the kills were headshots. And people wonder why I am a sniper in NC :D)
Even made some money and got some free (sponsored) travel out of tournaments :D
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Aaaah - Infocom text adventures. Great days.
Sensible Soccer/Speedball 2 : Spent uncountable hours wearing my thumbs to stumps playing my housemates at these after getting back from the pub.
That'll do for now - getting all misty eyed reminiscing. lol
space quest
sam and max
wing commander
xcom
syndicate
pirates!
uhh alot more but that's all I can think of.
OLD SKOOL WOLFENSTINE 3D BIATCH
^=== the shit
Doom
Doom 2
Final Doom
Half Life
Neocron:p
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures! ..... j/k hehehe
Imperium Galactica is a great game, too bad it won't work for me anymore, my computer is too good for it now...
Yes, Commander Keen was very... keen...
Jill of the Jungle .. wow ... :lol:
What else is there... I mean back then you could just grab every Sierra OnLine and LucasArts and Microprose and Bullfrog game and know it would rock !
*sighs* Those times ...
It came from the desert ...
Lords of Conquest ...
Jones in the Fast Lane ....
Indiana Jones III ...
Battle over Britain ....
Kings Quest I ....
Stunt Car Racer ....
Commander Keen ...
Dangerous Dave ...
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards ....
Leisure Suit Larry in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals ....
Maniac Mansion ....
Space Quest ....
.... :(
Originally posted by kurai
Sensible Soccer/Speedball 2 : Spent uncountable hours wearing my thumbs to stumps playing my housemates at these after getting back from the pub.
You'll be glad to know then that Speedball 3 is on it's way
and damn, i know and played all of the mentioned games so far. does that make me a geek?
o_O
Originally posted by Sanctus
and damn, i know and played all of the mentioned games so far. does that make me a geek?
o_O
At least you wouldn't be the only one :D
Richard Slade
29-09-03, 09:01
Damn I always wanted the full version of Constructor
Also I'd say (with so little time, back to work damnit, adding more later)
*Cosmos Comsic Adventure damnit! It rocked when I was a kiddo
(First experience with shareware btw, damn I hated that)
*Chaos Overlords. Hardcore strategy at it's fineset
*Syndicate: American Revolt. Now THAT was hard shit. BUT, I made it *bwahaha*
*Commander Keen 1-6. Kiddo, a 33MhZ and too much time in school, what to do what to do
*It came from the desert. *sniffles* Oh sweet amiga days.
Still revive it at times with the emulator, get pissed of the sucky rip, back to NC
*Gazillionaire. Bwhaha I own the universe! Damn I loved playing this game with my friends.
*Sam & Max: Hit the road. My first real adventure game, aaaw so sweet memories and so many laughs
*X-com: Terror from the deep (And UFO too). Another fine hardcore strategy (only to be played on Superhuman)
*One Must Fall 2097. Jaguar still owns every damn char in the game. 'cept for shadow, of course
*Total Annihilation. Love! Soooo many troops. Soooo BIG wars! Bring it on!
*Planescape: Torment. This game is WACKED but so damn cool.
Also where my PPU got the word "deader" from. Damn Mort is rock hard.
*Pirates! Gold. Loved the combo of RP, strategy and FIGHT
*Colonization. First REAL strategy I went into and whooped.
(took time but yeah I made it.)
*Mystic Towers. *sniffles* Oh sweet C64. Still revives this oldie too.
*Wacky Wheels. First REALLY kewl multiplayer game I played.
*Grand Theft Auto. Aaah freedom.
*Ultima IIX. Damn I actually hated this game cuz it was so damn hard and my english sucked. But it's the first REAL RPG so..
*Dune 2 (and 2k)
Nuff said
*Shadowlands
First real hardcore RPG I finished off
*Rygar
Opinions on this one anyone?
*Heroes of might and magic 3. Now this is what I've spent my nights with friends on until we all just sat there like zombies sleeping with our eyes open
*Lords of the Realm II. So many bugs so kewl game.
Originally posted by Sanctus
You'll be glad to know then that Speedball 3 is on it's way
and damn, i know and played all of the mentioned games so far. does that make me a geek?
o_O
You played Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure? o.O
Anybody know where i can dig up the old game called "Masters Of Magic"? its a kinda Civilization game with magic and pump ass battles:p
Ive been looking for 3 years since i had to press Format C: on my old 133Mhz:(
- Napalm
Richard Slade
29-09-03, 09:57
Got it!
MoM 2 too bwahaha! I own...........a sucky life........
I think you mean "Master of Magic", not "Masters of Magic", which was released some years after. First one can be found at Underdogs (link was posted in this thread).
DigestiveBiscui
29-09-03, 10:21
i've been going X-Com mad
cant wait for the new one on friday :D
X-Com : UFO.. and it looks like im not in the minority here ;)
I'm actually playing UFO again at the moment - in between bouts of Photoshop and 'Cron. It still rocks just as much as it did when I played it on my old Amiga.
Sensible World of Soccer (Amiga)
Duke Nukem 3D (PC)
Outlaws (PC)
Command & Conquer (PC)
Rally Championship (PC)
Artillery duel (C64)
Galaxians/Galaga (forgot the name and the platform)
hehe....
*sigh*
Thread about old games, I thought thered be a bit of nostalgia etc in here, but most people are mentioning games that are not even 4-5 years old....
Ive still got my commodore 64 setup believe it or not, to me TV lol :lol: Games like SlySpy, DuneBuggy, shit loads of freeware and shareware etc, Shadow of the Beast, Gauntlet etc etc, all arcade classics, Also some of the stuff that ive got for my old mastersystem (god thats the best consile evar !) man ive got around 150 master system cartridges 8|
Original monk
29-09-03, 13:39
-half-life and onlinemods (cs, tfc and firearms)
-C&C tiberian sun, red alert, RA2, yuri's revenge
-carnivores2
-sof (online ctf, map:snipersnest) , sof2
-swat3 and all tom clancy's like rainbow6 etc
-alienpinball
:angel:
Hmh.. theres so many old pc games i've played and even
more of amiga and commodore games but heres some..
Stunt driver - not sure of the name, you could make own
racetracks with all kinda loops and shit.. hours of fun at
my friends house :P
Wolf3D - first game we got on our new cyrix 75mhz
Doom - omg wtf is this?!
Blood 3d - damn i liked this game, too bad blood 2 was crap.
Starcraft - countless hours of bashing my brother to bits here..
Quake1 - best mp game ever, played it hc from 1996 to 2002.
•Super|\|ova•
29-09-03, 13:53
Lost Dutchman
Slicks'n'slide
Alone in the dark
Originally posted by \\Fényx//
Thread about old games, I thought thered be a bit of nostalgia etc in here, but most people are mentioning games that are not even 4-5 years old....
How do these strike you then:
Dungeon Master (and Chaos Strikes Back)
Sundog
Millenium 2.2
Carrier Command
Civilisation (the original)
Laser Squad
Supremacy
Bah, that's all I can remember for now. Yes, I had an Atari ST. :)
-Krll
UH UH UH just remembered one..
MOONSTONE!!! god i loved that game for my Amiga...i think ill go rig it to my TV and go all nostalgic:angel:
- Napalm
Originally posted by Krll
How do these strike you then:
Dungeon Master (and Chaos Strikes Back)
Civilisation (the original)
Supremacy
http://neocron.jafc.de/images/icons/icon14.gif
Starwars Supremacy yea ?
ONOZ ! another game i LOVED was R.o.t.t !!! ;)
Richard Slade
29-09-03, 14:27
Originally posted by •Super|\|ova•
Lost Dutchman
Slicks'n'slide
Alone in the dark
Aren't all Dutchmen lost?
No but seriously, :p :angel: :cool:
Originally posted by \\Fényx//
http://neocron.jafc.de/images/icons/icon14.gif
Starwars Supremacy yea ?
No, no, no! :)
It was an Atari game called Supremacy. You terraformed planets, built some mining/farming/whatever structures on them, trained guys and sent them off to defeat the CPU opponent. :)
ONOZ ! another game i LOVED was R.o.t.t !!! ;)
Ohh... Rise of the Triad... was an ok game... might have liked it more if my mate didn't insist on thrashing me at it in multi player all the time. :)
-Krll
Well, in the good old days I begin:
As we have,....
"Wizzball", C64
"Last Ninja", C64
"Pirates!", C64
"Arkanoid", C64
"Gianna Sisters", C64 (the Original! Mario Bros. are a cheap copy of it!), C64
"Strike Fleet", C64
"Paradroid", C64
Man, the C64 were the ages! God, is this long ago! geez....
"The 7th Guest", PC
"Diablo", PC
"Diablo II", PC
"Command & Conquer", PC
"Wingcommander I t IV", PC
"Baldur's Gate", PC
"Icewind Dale", PC
"Medal of Honour", PC
"Enclave", PC
/edit
"Teacher Busters", C64 I loved to play it after school, exspecially having had french lessons the days. The money to clean the tank chains of the poor remains of my French teacher was worth being spent. I feld so delighted, .....
omg, that gave me a shiver when you mentioned the gianna sisters 8| I had that game... fecked up the tape cause I played it so much rofl...
good times good times..................................
Originally posted by Napalm82
Anybody know where i can dig up the old game called "Masters Of Magic"? its a kinda Civilization game with magic and pump ass battles:p
Ive been looking for 3 years since i had to press Format C: on my old 133Mhz:(
- Napalm
I have it original and in the box. The ony problem is playing it requires BASE ram. and lots of it. so no windows and sounds and such.
And so far I still played all these games. Still have a lot of them. I'm a geek...*sniff*
Originally posted by Krll
Dungeon Master (and Chaos Strikes Back)
Sundog
Millenium 2.2
Carrier Command
Civilisation (the original)
Laser Squad
Supremacy
Bah, that's all I can remember for now. Yes, I had an Atari ST. :)
-Krll
Ah, 16-bit nostalgia... Carrier Command and Supremacy were awesome. Civ, of course, needs no comments other than ":0". DM was THE daddy, and though I never played Millennium 2.2 it's follow-up, Deuteros, I still come back to from time to time on WinUAE. :D
Let us all all bow our heads in reverence to:
Bubble Bobble
Rainbow Islands
Gauntlet
Mega-lo-mania ("We've nuked them!!")
Stunt Car Racer
Cannon Fodder
Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters
UFO: Enemy Unknown and XCOM: Apocalypse (TfTD was just a UFO rip-off without the waypointed can-opener missile)
Xenon 2: Megablast
Speedball (1 and 2)
Alien Breed
Monkey Island (1 and 2)
And yes, I too originally had an Atari ST-FM (512k RAM, until the 2 meg upgrade which made the case bulge). :D
Shock.
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be..."
Dungeon Keeper1
bile demons > j00
MjukisDjur
29-09-03, 16:04
kids...
Wasteland :)
Originally posted by \\Fényx//
Thread about old games, I thought thered be a bit of nostalgia etc in here, but most people are mentioning games that are not even 4-5 years old....
That's cos he said PC games.
Going back more than 6 or 7 years or so there simply aren't that many good PC games - all the major talent was still writing primarily for Amiga/Atari etc.
If you wanna play Nostalgia Poker ... I see your C64, and raise you a ZX-Spectrum :D
(Got a Vic-20 & a ZX-81 waiting in reserve :D )
Originally posted by \\Fényx//
omg, that gave me a shiver when you mentioned the gianna sisters 8| I had that game... fecked up the tape cause I played it so much rofl...
You want shivers?
http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/downloads/machinae_supremacy_-_gianna_sisters.mp3
www.machinaesupremacy.com .. oo yeah!
Originally posted by MjukisDjur
Wasteland :)
Hmm .. I need to play that again. Yay, Home of the Underdogs, here I come !
Originally posted by Shockwave
UFO: Enemy Unknown and XCOM: Apocalypse (TfTD was just a UFO rip-off without the waypointed can-opener missile)
Shock.
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be..."
Ahhh, you did not play TfTD much did you? The Blaster missile WAS in there. although slightly less effective.
Best tacktic ever that was:
1.Form up Blaster line IN dropship (sitting 1st line and standing behind it 2nd line)
2.Unload troopers in heavy armor around dropship.
3.Nuke the shit out of the ENTIRE level by bombing every house or area.
4.close dropship
5.Takeoff and call in the cleaners to collect still identifiable alien parts for FURTHER autopsy.
TheonlyoneIknow
29-09-03, 19:09
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Deighton
[B]Well, in the good old days I begin:
As we have,....
"Wizzball", C64
"Last Ninja", C64
"Pirates!", C64
"Arkanoid", C64
"Gianna Sisters", C64 (the Original! Mario Bros. are a cheap copy of it!), C64
"Strike Fleet", C64
"Paradroid", C64
Ah! There IS someone else who remembers this classic with equal fondness. Gr8 game. Spent far too many hours glued to a 14" tv in my m8s room playing this game.
On reflection, X-Com was and still is a highly addictive game. I have it in the box and it's sat in front of me, although I haven't played it for a few years now :(
Anyone remember The DIG? One of the puzzles had me stumped for a couple of weeks as I recall.
Dungen Master also roxx'd. It's sequel was a huge disappointment though.
Syndicate...
Ut
Ut2k3
Discworld o_O
ah theres a few, most already posted:)
Originally posted by Shockwave
Ah, 16-bit nostalgia... Carrier Command and Supremacy were awesome. Civ, of course, needs no comments other than ":0". DM was THE daddy, and though I never played Millennium 2.2 it's follow-up, Deuteros, I still come back to from time to time on WinUAE. :D
There was a follow up? I'll have to look this Deuteros up. :)
Let us all all bow our heads in reverence to:
Bubble Bobble
Rainbow Islands
Gauntlet
Mega-lo-mania ("We've nuked them!!")
Stunt Car Racer
Cannon Fodder
Speedball (1 and 2)
Monkey Island (1 and 2)
OMG... how could I have forgoten these? Bubble Bobble just rocked my world with two players. :)
And yes, I too originally had an Atari ST-FM (512k RAM, until the 2 meg upgrade which made the case bulge). :D
I got an ST-E when my ST-FM was getting a bit too old to handle the games. It was also my first encounter with dismantling two computers in order to fix one, since I was going through my childish "hit the computer" phase when I lost games at games at the time and managed to nuke the floppy drive on the ST-E. :)
-Krll
Originally posted by Krll
There was a follow up? I'll have to look this Deuteros up. :)
PM me an email address and I'll rake out the .ASF files for it if you like. I've even for an .ASF file of the gamesave disk! :)
OMG... how could I have forgoten these? Bubble Bobble just rocked my world with two players. :)
Managed to complete the entire thing 1-Up without using an umbrella back on the Amstrad CPC-464. That was about the time I decided to see if Gauntlet really was endless. After a week's play I gave up at level 523. :D
Originally posted by Sanctus
Best tacktic ever that was:
1.Form up Blaster line IN dropship (sitting 1st line and standing behind it 2nd line)
2.Unload troopers in heavy armor around dropship.
3.Nuke the shit out of the ENTIRE level by bombing every house or area.
4.close dropship
5.Takeoff and call in the cleaners to collect still identifiable alien parts for FURTHER autopsy.
Yeah, I did the same thing, but I used four 2-man teams to spot for the 4 artillery pieces, and made sure at least 2 of the Blaster troops were heavily Psionic so I could Mind Control enemy troops and use THEM to scout! :D
The Blaster was a good way of making an doorway where the aliens didn't expect one. :D
Neuromancer + B.A.T. (both C64)
I loved to sell my bodyparts =)
Man, now i remember!!!!
"Hawkeye", a C64 game. O god, i loved it, too.
I am so old, when I begin to remeber about all that stuff. I got my First C64 in 1986, I think. Hell, it was fun. Now I am 28 and have to see in this forum, that some even dunno what i am talking about.
Those who know the C64 games, are we really THAT old?
Anyone else maybe remember, too
"Katakis", C64
and
"R-Type", C64
It seems, that those times gone by, you cannot bring back. Man, those thingies are "Cultural Relicts".
Katakis was my first sidescroller =)
and yes, you (we) are already that old :D
My all time favourites:
The Repton series (Acorn Electron)
Citadel (Acorn Electron)
Elite (Acorn Electron)
Solar Jetman (NES)
Salamander (NES)
Star Paws (Spectrum)
The Great Giana Sisters (C64)
R-Type (Amiga)
Gravity Power (Amiga)
Elite 2 Frontier (Amiga)
Super R-Type (SNES)
R-Type 3 (SNES)
Metroid 3 (SNES)
Soul Calibre (Dreamcast)
Elite 3 First Encounters (PC)
Total Annihilation (PC)
Outcast (PC)
Soul Reaver (PC)
Soul Reaver 2 (PC)
Star Craft (PC)
Half Life (PC)
Mech warrior 4 + all expansions (PC)
Neocron ;)
And my newest favourites:
Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic (Xbox)
Soul Calibre 2 (Xbox)
Settlers 1 2 & 3
Duke Nukem
THPS 1 + 2:)
PC is comparitively recent in my gaming life, so most 'old' games were on the amiga or spectrum for me.
The ones I can remember (many of which I only remembered cos this thread reminded me, heh):
Chaos
Laser Squad (both done, if memory serves, by the brothers that were responsible for UFO: Enemy Unknown)
UFO: Enemy Unknown :p
Speedball 2
Bloodwych ("Thou art a smelly bumblefoot" "Maybe so, but thou shouldst be so lucky")
Monkey Island
Elite
Robosport
Sim City (never really took to the sequels)
The Bards Tale
Turrican (just cos of my 11-year-old-awe at the digitised speech after years of the spectrum)
Ghostbusters (just cos of amusement remembering the 'He slimed me' speech on the spectrum.. the music too :p)
Dungeon Master
Pool of Radiance
Bruce Lee (forget if it had a sub-title)
Syndicate
Sabre Wulf (first game I played using a joystick instead of keyboard)
Paradroid (first time I played I had NO clue what was going on.. played a year or two later and it was pretty easy - this was on an Amstrad I think...)
Jet Set Willy (actually a bit crap, but nostalgia and all that)
Dragon's Breath (I think that's what it was called.. brewed potions and fed them to your dragons to try and enhance them so they could go burn down villages and stuff.. multiplayer too)
Renegade
Space Harrier
and of course, the source of my NC character's name:
Hired Guns
Just a repeat of what everyone's just said, but I can't sleep safe at night without mentioning:
Baldur's Gate 1 (and 2): probably the first "real" RPG I played, and completed, and played again. And I still love it to bits.
All the monkey islands were truely classics, and ripped my sides. Them guys at Lucasarts sure are funny :)
I really should dig up Pool of Radiance and/or Planescape: Torment - even though they are a tad old, or maybe the new NWN mod.
I didn't think NWN was as good as it was cracked up to be, SP wise, as good as BG1 and 2 at least. And the reviews put me off PoR, as well as Arcanum. Grr.
Eddie
Voodoochicken
30-09-03, 20:04
The following disregard gfx.. ie. based only on gameplay (and in no particular order).
1) Stunt car racer (best driving game in history of mankind)
2) Blood money (best scrolling shoot'em up ever made)
3) Speedball 2 (best brutal sport game)
4) Impossimole (Not sure about the spelling, but it was a cool platform game)
5) Pirates
(played so much I could identify any part of the world by one piece of a treasure map.. handy for rescuing relatives and then loads of money!)
5b) Pirates gold (as good as the ST version, but with a slightly better interface and SVGA gfx)
6) Dungeon Master (best ever dungeon crawling game)
7) Half-life/Doom 2/Duke Nukem 3D (hard to split these three - Best 3D FPS games)
8) Joust (fantasic multiplayer game)
9) PANG (addictive)
10) Rogue Trooper (can't beat a blue super soldier) :D
11) -"Can't remember the name.. maybe was Soldier. Whatever it was called, it was amazing for it's time.
An absolutely amazing 3D game on the ST. You were a soldier and could pilot/drive all kinds of vehicles. Surfboards/rowing boats/ tanks/helicopters/hovercraft, etc, etc., great range of weapons to use. Ability to disguise yourself as an enemy [by putting a red uniform on].
You start off in an area near a bull and an enemy soldier you are "supposed" to contact. (iirc you could get the enemy uniform off him.)
I seem to remember always surfing westwards from the start location, to an island that had a hovercraft on it 8) Avoiding the nasty shark, of course.
The game also involved taking to a few people who lived in tepees, before finally killing the enemy general in his bunker
Other mentions (that I can remember)
amstrad (I think)- Chuckie Egg
st- Strider
st- Cannon Fodder
st- Disc (the game in Tron)
st- supercars 2
pc- Diablo
pc- warcraft 2/Starcraft
pc- hyperblade
2600- "Lots of games on the Atari 2600"
st- Bubble Bobble (and other, very similar games)
st- Barbarian
st- Nightbreed
st- Prince of Persia
pc- Lemmings
pc- Worms
st- Panzer Kick boxing (needed 1 Mb to customise your fighter's moves)
st- Stealth Fighter F-19 (think that's the right name.. Only flight sim game I've ever enjoyed)
Anyways... Where has all the gameplay gone? (Apart from the fact my ST blew up)
[edit] Two more mentions after being reminded in this thread.
1) Sensible Soccer. The only football game I really liked (plus, I scored a goal from behind the half way line. The bounce caught the keeper off guard) :D
2) Blood (equal to the other 3 games I mentioned, but much more amusing and bloody)
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[edit 2] Great ones for breaking your joysticks
1) Summer olympics
2) Winter olympics :angel:
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Viduus[JBX]
30-09-03, 21:49
Originally posted by QuantumDelta
There are probably dozens I could mention, but only one, stands out above all others.
http://www.freespace2.com
Nuff said.
Anyone who PLAYED FS2 but didn't SAY FS2 should be taken out back and put out of their misery.
See? NOT "'nuff said". :p
QuantumDelta
30-09-03, 21:52
Originally posted by Viduus[JBX]
Anyone who PLAYED FS2 but didn't SAY FS2 should be taken out back and put out of their misery.
See? NOT "'nuff said". :p
haha, too true, NO ONE who plays that game will EVER Forget
DIVE DIVE DIVE HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!!!!!!!!!
And to a lesser extent the comment after "....okay that was close, and we have to wait 15 minutes to change our shorts."
Originally posted by Voodoochicken
Great ones for breaking your joysticks
1) Summer olympics
2) Winter olympics
how many joysticks did i lose to that game :lol:
sonic the hedgehog > j00
Im still switching 'tween:
1.> Never Winter Nights
2.> Baluder's Gate
3.> IceWind Dale
SirSensi
Isn't it extremly funny, that only a few can remeber some C64 or C128 stuff??
Hey, anybody know "GEOS", sorta Windows for the C64??
"4) Impossimole (Not sure about the spelling, but it was a cool platform game)"
I think it was Mission Impossamole. Starring monty the mole
Nice platform game
"5) Pirates
(played so much I could identify any part of the world by one piece of a treasure map.. handy for rescuing relatives and then loads of money!)"
I hope you meant the trick to get 1/4 of the map each time and digging up the 250000 gold treasure 4 times. At least I did
Will someone PLEASE contact the guys from X-com to get us a new X-com. They should be reading this
http://www.haktanir.org/amiga/
Game music for download, for that EXTRA nostalgic feel. Could not find the Megalomania speeches though. What I did find was this. Will interest some of you no doubt
http://www.gamesdomain.com/e32000/whatever_happened_to_sensible_software.html
These guys now work for Codemasters. Codemaster did buy the rights for all their games. So let's hope they re-release it.
http://amigos.amiga.hu/ancientoys/screenshots/megalomania2.jpg
Why is is that it always look crappier than how you remember it. Graphically I mean.
Another thing: why is there not some petition-site to get these games re-released?
Some games are already sceduled fo rerelease (Defender of the Crown and Speedball for example) but we can ask for more. Most of those guys from back then are still in business. Especially Codemasters and the guys from X-com
QuantumDelta
01-10-03, 13:30
lol, megalomania...
I soooo sucked at that game.... was fun though :p
forgot monkey island 1 and 2
and cosmo
BTW, anyone heard of Blood and Magic?
yes i remeber blood and magic. I did not really like it though
Voodoochicken
01-10-03, 21:20
[i]Originally posted by Sanctus
"5) Pirates
(played so much I could identify any part of the world by one piece of a treasure map.. handy for rescuing relatives and then loads of money!)"
I hope you meant the trick to get 1/4 of the map each time and digging up the 250000 gold treasure 4 times. At least I did
Will someone PLEASE contact the guys from X-com to get us a new X-com. They should be reading this [/B]
?.. I don't know what trick you are talking about.
I could simply recognise any part of the world map by a single reef/piece of land.
That meant I only ever needed to have one piece of a map to find anything.
ie. you get a bit of a map.. go and rescue a relative.. they give you a bit of a different map (for the treasure).. and you promtly recognise the location and go and get it. :D
As for the X-com, I'm sure "Laser Squad Nemesis" is still going (since it was roughly released a year ago).. and.. oh look, it was made by the same guys.
Of course, it's based on lasersquad, not X-com.
I played it for a few months after it's release, but got tired of playing an unfinished product + listening to the jerkoffs in the community (http://www.lasersquadnemesis.com/)
[edit] Bob696 is a really nice guy though [/end edit]
Ahhh.. Meglomania.. Good game.. (very easy though).
However, it reminds me that I forgot "Populous 2", which we had lots of fun playing multiplayer (using a serial cable). :)
[edit 2] ooh. I just searched for "Medway boys" and found a few things (ah.. loverly compilations by many groups)
1) it was "Impossamole"
2) "Rick Dangerous" .. .. Excellent game.
More games I liked:
-Return of the Jedi
-IK Karate+
-Solomons key ;)
-Elf
-Rogue
-Defender of the Crown
-Oids (make your own lvls and kill or save little stick men)
-Dynamite Dux (though not really)
-Postman Pat (the swaying van and music kicked arse)
-The Untouchables
-Hong Kong Phooey :lol:
-Jimmy White's Snooker
-Tired now.
Rento Webex
01-10-03, 21:53
Deus Ex
Half Life
Opposing Forces
Jack Jackrabit
judging from your reply you knew the trick, but maybe you did not see it as one. The idea in pirates was that there was 1 big treasure and you would need all 4 map pieces to find it. yet if you found it with one piece it would reset. and a new treausere would be on the second piece. so in the end you found 4 treasures instead of the intended 1
and i knew about laser squad. but i am waiting for an x-com one
Any old LucasArts Adventure Game
Monkey Islands
Sam'n'Max
Maniac Mansion and DOTT (tentacles rox)
And another classic adventure:
Beneath A STEEL Sky (freeware nowadays)
Of course there are a lot of other games, but adventures are my favorite.
System Shock rox tho. :)
Whitestuff
01-10-03, 22:56
DOOM and DOOM 2 are my first loves ever.
Duke Nukem 3D : I used to do custom DM maps in this game.
Half Life: Opposing Forces, Counter-Strike, . . . . Basically played at least 75% of the mods for this one.....
Wolfenstein 3D
A really old but good (and very rare/obscure) game is Maelstrom for the PC, not the Mac. It is a great strategy game. I loves it.
X-Wing for DOS... good ole days....
Dark Forces mmmmmm pixely goodness.
Descent 1 & 2. My first "flight sim" so to speak.
EDIT: OMG I forgot MONKEY ISLAND! How the hell did I do that? My favorite strategy/adventure games ever ever ever.....
Oh and Loom and Indiana Jones were good Lucas games too.
Voodoochicken
01-10-03, 23:18
Originally posted by Sanctus
judging from your reply you knew the trick, but maybe you did not see it as one. The idea in pirates was that there was 1 big treasure and you would need all 4 map pieces to find it. yet if you found it with one piece it would reset. and a new treausere would be on the second piece. so in the end you found 4 treasures instead of the intended 1
I don't really class this as a trick. (If there was only supposed to be one lot of treasure, then meh.. I dunno.)
On the versions I played, you got a max of one lot of treasure per relative you rescued.
If you'd found the treasure, then the next relative would show you where another lot of treaure was... and the location in the world was always different.
Each lot of treasure was only, iirc, 100000 gold (though possibly not).
Also, considering it worked on the pirates gold pc version I doubt the coders thought it was a "trick".
The only trick is to accidentally kill off most of your crew just before you retire. ;)
Sam and Max remake is on it's way I think. I heard something about that a short while ago
But what I am missing here is WHAT eaxctly makes the games you pick so great? Playability? This and that feature? atmosphere?sounds? etc
Chrissuit33
02-10-03, 17:03
Duck Hunt. There is no game greater in all of the history of video games. Stupid Dog.
http://www.geocities.com/xcom_/snakeman.jpg
The new one comes out tomorrow ....:D
http://www.geocities.com/xcom_/soldier.jpg
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