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Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: SaSa on January 13, 2012, 11:31:31 pm

Is this the right section? I hope so.

For me it was Starwars Jedi knight: Jedi academy. There is something insanely satisfying about using force choke to smash storm troopers into walls, throw them off ledges, and electrocut them for no real reason. The story was not half bad either, and the fact that you could choose to be good or evil (yes i did both and it was awesome each time) was pretty out their for its time. (Clocked this about ten times, and it was worth it each time)

Honorable Mentions: Age of empires 2 (The first every lan game i played)
Call of Duty 1 (Thinking i was awesome that i could run it at full settings)
Freelancer (for being an awesome space game, being an intergalactic space cop was extremely fun. Blasting baddies and running away, occasionally)

So what used to float your boat?

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Plasma on January 13, 2012, 11:36:42 pm

For me it would have to be the Marathon series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_%28video_game%29 or Escape Velocity Override http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EV_Override

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Bane on January 13, 2012, 11:51:05 pm

(http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/X-Com-Apocalypse-Beta-Cheats-PC-2.jpg)

Of course, games like Total Annihilation (Not supreme commander) and Earth 2150: Lost Souls, even SYNDICATE

Title: Civilization, but honourable mention goes to ...
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 13, 2012, 11:55:04 pm

The original Caesar game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNHx4ZgdKvo
I remember it being absolutely terrible when I was a kid, but I still played it. No manual. No instructions. The game was impossible to play or understand.

Jump forward 20 years to today and the game hasnt changed at all. It is still just as horrible as it was back then.

Thankfully Civilization was released a year later and it fixed everything. So I guess my answer is: Civilization.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Spork on January 14, 2012, 05:16:57 am

^Yea, I had the same issue, I liked the look of it, but had absolutely no idea how to play.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: camy205 on January 14, 2012, 06:58:12 am

(http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25600000/Gordon-Freeman-on-Half-Life-1-game-menu-gordon-freeman-25689275-800-600.jpg)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Zarkov on January 14, 2012, 07:34:25 am

Wolfenstein.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: The Demon Lord on January 14, 2012, 07:53:40 am

Heretic and Doom 2, Worms, X Wing and Tie Fighter, Jazz Jackrabbit

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Emrico1 on January 14, 2012, 08:50:06 am

IK+ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-1XstYycxA), Supercars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oawl1hzJpA&feature=related), and the epic fairytale (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGO6XGunuzE). 50 calibre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hXZqWtV9lw)... Man, I could actually ramble on about great old games for ages.

Amiga 500 was my gaming heyday.

Title: No country for old men
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 14, 2012, 09:09:44 am

Quote from: Spork;1462024

^Yea, I had the same issue, I liked the look of it, but had absolutely no idea how to play.

I am pretty sure Caesar cant be played, even when using Cohort II as the battle interface. Whats weird was it only took them 3 years to bring out the far superior Caesar II, but it took them seven years to create its Egyptian cut&paste: Pharaoh.

Quote from: Emrico1;1462039

Man, I could actually ramble on about great old games for ages.

Amiga 500 was my gaming heyday.

YouTube user applemctom (http://www.youtube.com/user/applemctom) has a channel devoted to video games and, in particular, an entire series devoted to defunct video game developers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLHhyI35Dgw

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on January 14, 2012, 09:26:41 am

Original Duke Nukems. Before this 3D shit.

Side scrolling FTW.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: oefox on January 14, 2012, 10:37:49 am

Civilisation would be my biggest genre change from action games to strategy, Might and magic's for rpg, but TES would be overall favourite series and time spent.

Duke 3D for first "online" gameplay over modem but Unreal Tournament was first true online gaming...oh the evening hours wasted at uni instead of studying.

Yeah, I remember first dukes, dangerous dave, commander keen etc., NES beat them all though, super marios bros for best ever game of all time IMO.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Growler on January 14, 2012, 11:09:22 am

Myth was my 1st online game.

1st game, jet set willy on the zx spectrum!

Title: Ultima: Four Weeks and a copy of CodeWarrior
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 14, 2012, 11:31:17 am

Quote from: oefox;1462058

Civilisation would be my biggest genre change from action games to strategy, Might and magic's for rpg

Might and Magic?? GO ULTIMA!

LORD BRITISH REPRESENT!!

One dude. Four weeks and a copy of CodeWarrior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psk3IG0N7T4

Quote from: Growler;1462059

Myth was my 1st online game.

1st game, jet set willy on the zx spectrum!

Hah! I almost feel sorry for you.
A friend of mine had a speccy and Jet Set Willy. He ran into the attic bug which wasnt present on the C64 version :D

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: BeNZene on January 14, 2012, 11:42:40 am

Almost too hard to chose, but a blast from the past for me is Sid Meir's Pirates! Enjoyed all three versions (87, 93 and 04). Looking at that time line a new version can't be that far away...

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: pyro on January 14, 2012, 12:06:46 pm

Day of the tentacle, Monkey island series and Red Alert 2 took up a shitload of my time when I was younger. Had some great times playing them.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: SaSa on January 14, 2012, 12:12:15 pm

wow yea all the worms games were all awesome and Duke 3D (in my opinion) was the start of fps. Clocked the demo multiple times, also clocked Duke Nukem 2 (Side scrolling) on an old mac laptop.

Red Alert 1: I played this game about 50 hours and only ever got to the 7th level (easy difficulty was still impossible)
Command and Conquer 1: Clocked this. Such a frustrating game, but worth killing Kane in the end. Brotherhood of Nod was so OP when you play GDI and GDI OP wen you play Nod.

Red Alert 2 and Yuri expansion: Both awesome clocked both of these (the zapper tank things allies got were the best)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: CSfaith on January 14, 2012, 12:27:51 pm

1st games I remember on my IBM redstone 386 -

Xeno, Street rod, test drive, Duke nukem 1 + 2 (not the 3d shit) Bolderdash, Striker, oh the days of smashing your space bar were epic. Pretty sure most moden keyboards could not handle the abuse of the old school mechanical keyboards ! hehe.

Daiblo 2 - Was my 1st online game (56k modem and 1000ms = wut ? ) But have to say it lead me to be come an online gaming guru

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Emrico1 on January 14, 2012, 12:31:27 pm

Boulderdash was EPIC

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: CSfaith on January 14, 2012, 12:38:59 pm

Yes, yes it was :D Due to my memory not being what it was I have a massive list of game images in my head which I can not remember the names to ahahaha - so more TBA

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xenolightning on January 14, 2012, 01:57:12 pm

Quote from: CSfaith;1462080

...Xeno...

Yessir?

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: CSfaith on January 14, 2012, 02:17:32 pm

I see wot you did thur

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: FRAG-em on January 14, 2012, 03:37:00 pm

i think my first ever pc game was paganitsu, but not the aztec one, there was one before that that was a penguin moving blocks around a puzzle.
No need for colour when all we had was green screen crts lol.
First real strat game was Defender of the Crown, loved that shit.

First MMORPG = Diablo II, thanks for getting me hooked on that CSFaith !

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on January 14, 2012, 03:49:48 pm

Quote from: FRAG-em;1462097

i think my first ever pc game was paganitsu, but not the aztec one, there was one before that that was a penguin moving blocks around a puzzle.

Paganitzu like a boss.

Loved that shit. Had 1, 2 + 3.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: winfieldsaregoo on January 14, 2012, 04:25:52 pm

cannonfodder,indy heat,robocop,rick dangerous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q--mx6E7LwQ

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pitchey on January 14, 2012, 06:09:57 pm

Wooooo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHNT7mR-8d0

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Zenith on January 14, 2012, 09:04:44 pm

Cool looking at the Vid Tiwa posted of the old Commodore 64 games, I had forgotten a lot of them, Elite was the one that stood out in my mind and Last Ninja for the SID music. Commando was also one I played a bit. Quake 1 on Dialup was where I started my online gaming. 250ms pings.

Title: Brøderbund - Stunts - God of the Lancia
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 14, 2012, 09:11:04 pm

Brøderbund - One of the greatest video game developers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcMeCUzZ6sA
I am so utterly tempted to do a video showing my asian level Lancia driving skills.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: AvatarFACE on January 14, 2012, 11:42:07 pm

My old favourites: Doom, Hexen, Civilization II, Ultima IV(sega version), Ultima VII(part 1 and 2), Diablo, Diablo II, Galactix, Cosmo, Z: Steel Soldiers, Whacky Wheels, C&C Renegade(first FPS I played online), Galactix, Duke II and Speedball on the Amiga. I have probably missed some but that's all the favorite games I can remember. I still load up doom every now and then and kill some daemons.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Scunner on January 15, 2012, 02:01:25 am

Alex Kidd on the Master System. The first series of games I ever got into. Kidd was a boss.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Alex_Kidd_EnchantedCastle.png)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: 5tacK on January 15, 2012, 02:37:34 am

I felt differently about games the older I got. Most of that was due to playing them socially/using other people's pc's/consoles.

Never really liked all of the games i played that much, at the time yes, but usually within time/sharing parameters.

Main games that I have fond memories of/thrashed:

PC - Doom, Alone In The Dark, Syndicate.
Console - Driver, GT2, Dune2000, Syphon Filter 1/2/3, SSX.

I was from a poor, single parent family, and was a late bloomer tech-wise, never had a computer or console at home. I bought my first console when I was 19, and my first pc when I was 23.

Thank fuck for friends.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: BerG on January 15, 2012, 05:09:28 am

Oh man, Syphon Filter was fucking awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSBQRNBKRrM

Did you used to go around on that level, tazering the CBDC Agents in the head?

HOLY FUCK THAT WAS HILARIOUS.

Title: 1999 - Greatest year of gaming
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 15, 2012, 09:17:12 am

Quote from: BerG;1462173

Oh man, Syphon Filter was fucking awesome!

Has it really been TWELVE years since I played this??
And 19 years since playing Syndicate? My persuadertron skills need updating.

It all seems like yesterday.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: BerG on January 15, 2012, 09:37:55 am

Oh yeah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzcqH2L6TKU

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: SteddieEddie on January 15, 2012, 12:22:13 pm

Put few 20c coins into defender and stargate

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Demandred on January 15, 2012, 12:58:54 pm

spent younger years playing
Digger
Dig-Dug
Bushido

and would never pass up a spacey machine that had bubble bobble on it

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on January 15, 2012, 08:49:23 pm

first games on pc I played were

Red Alert , Starcraft, MDK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAwHpAdNbaY), Shadow warrior (made by duke 3d people, Same game but you're a ninja pretty much),

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Cowwie on January 15, 2012, 09:34:50 pm

Quote from: SteddieEddie;1462194

Put few 20c coins into defender and stargate

Never could clock that game, a hour+ or so on one 20cent piece was about the best i could manage, loved the way it could suck you in and make you totally obviously to your surroundings. Never could get into stargate, midways strike force was pretty good as well imo.

Title: Spyhon Filter: Jump Around Remix
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 15, 2012, 10:46:58 pm

Quote from: BerG;1462180

Oh yeah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlZqeVL3CiM
Quote from: Demandred;1462197
and would never pass up a spacey machine that had bubble bobble on it
Give me a Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter 2 CE, or Mortal Kombat machine and I will stay there all day.

The earliest online Multiplayer game that I played:
Legend of the Red Dragon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon)

My schoolmate had set up a bbs server at his house over twenty years ago. He lived in the an orchard in the middle of nowhere and had multiple phone lines.

Not only was this the first online experience I ever had, it introduced me to the sheer number of people in town who not only had accounts (there were, like, 200) but used computers.

When I found out one of my teachers had an account, I grief killed the living shit out of their character.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: AvatarFACE on January 15, 2012, 10:55:03 pm

Oh man I completely forgot about syphon filter, still got that around somewhere. tazer people till they caught on fire lol!

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Bane on January 15, 2012, 11:24:21 pm

i completely forgot

(http://www.clansword.net/mw2/MW2_1600x1200.jpg)

Back when Activision made decent games!

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: ILoveMescaline on January 16, 2012, 03:56:50 pm

Ah the memories....

[ATTACH=CONFIG]6826[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6827[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6828[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6831[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6829[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6832[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6833[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6834[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6830[/ATTACH]

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on January 16, 2012, 04:07:56 pm

OMFG RESCUE ROVER.

NOSTALGIA TUMOR.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Growler on January 16, 2012, 04:24:11 pm

my 1st console, see that switch kids..... TV TYPE Colour or B-W. Fuck so so many hours playing bw games!

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Atari-2600-Wood-4Sw-Set.jpg/800px-Atari-2600-Wood-4Sw-Set.jpg)

and the game I remember the most on it.

FUCK YEAH!!

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Pitfall%21_Coverart.png)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: frankytanky on January 16, 2012, 04:32:04 pm

Paperboy
Syndicate
Alex Kidd
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: 5tacK on January 16, 2012, 04:35:47 pm

I thrashed some Rampage on one of those Atari consoles.

(http://cdn3.spong.com/pack/r/a/rampage187133l/_-Rampage-Atari-2600-VCS-_.jpg)

Forgotten about that until you posted that pic.

Title: x-com
Post by: smegmacheese on January 16, 2012, 07:12:15 pm

I'm playing x-com apocalypse at the moment, Bane. Saw it recently advertised on steam and grabbed the bundle. I loved these games when they were first out. I see Firaxis is going to make a new version of it.

However f*** them to hell, they are not using action points. Turn based yes, but no action points. The justification being we don't want players piddling around with their action points all the time. For m that piddling was part of the fun, calculating where you needed to be in order to not die. Just more dumbing down of games in general I guess. The complexity of this game still captures my imagination. I am an angry gamer when intellectualy challenged game devs make executive decisios based on what they think rather than polling the community which is opposed to this Speaking of which 2 alien motherships just screwed over my bases while I was nearly finished researching small disrupter shield....I am fuxored time to restart X

Title: This ended up being a rambling rant: Die in a fire Zynga!
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 16, 2012, 07:23:20 pm

Quote from: smegmacheese;1462425

I'm playing x-com apocalypse at the moment, Bane. Saw it recently advertised on steam and grabbed the bundle. I loved these games when they were first out. I see Firaxis is going to make a new version of it.

However f*** them to hell, they are not using action points. Turn based yes, but no action points. The justification being we don't want players piddling around with their action points all the time. For m that piddling was part of the fun, calculating where you needed to be in order to not die. Just more dumbing down of games in general I guess. The complexity of this game still captures my imagination. I am an angry gamer when intellectualy challenged game devs make executive decisios based on what they think rather than polling the community which is opposed to this Speaking of which 2 alien motherships just screwed over my bases while I was nearly finished researching small disrupter shield....I am fuxored time to restart X

It has been my opinion for awhile that the Games Industry have lost their way.

I blame it on the Ascension to GodHood of Peter Molyneux, Sid Meier, Warren Spector, Trevor Chan, Chris Beatrice, Ron Gilbert, Stieg Hedlund, Casey Hudson, Ken Lobb, Tim Schafer, and Jeff Minter.

Now we are only left with the morons. Well, and Notch and Rolf I suppose. And those two dudes who made Mount&Blade.

Oh and Will Wright too, but he never ascended, he sold out years ago.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: sadisticveneer on January 17, 2012, 11:44:52 pm

I used to love Total Annihilation , was the bee's knees back in the day :D Same for Carmageddon.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Hopeless on January 18, 2012, 08:33:09 am

Steel Sky, Return to Zork, Wing Commander, ET's Rugby League, Kens Labrinth, Ironman, Golden Axe, Leisuresuit Larry, Sim City, Recoil(prob my all time favourite game wish they had made a new version of this) all took many hours of my childhood from me

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: The Demon Lord on January 18, 2012, 08:46:32 am

Quote from: Hopeless;1462657

Steel Sky, Return to Zork, Wing Commander, ET's Rugby League, Kens Labrinth, Ironman, Golden Axe, Leisuresuit Larry, Sim City, Recoil(prob my all time favourite game wish they had made a new version of this) all took many hours of my childhood from me

Hell yes Recoil is AWESOME!

Drifting the BFT while shooting flaming death at Robots = epic Win!

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Hopeless on January 18, 2012, 09:14:51 am

Quote from: The Demon Lord;1462659

Hell yes Recoil is AWESOME!

Drifting the BFT while shooting flaming death at Robots = epic Win!

Fucking aye

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: The Demon Lord on January 18, 2012, 09:51:28 am

Quote from: Hopeless;1462665

$#@!ing aye

Damn I think I am going to have to Download an ISO and re-clock that game

So much fun - I really wish someone would make an updated version of it!

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: krasher on January 18, 2012, 10:01:07 am

Death track!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]6841[/ATTACH] (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/933/Deathtrack.html)

I remember Melissa...she was hot stuff...all 8 pixels of her!

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: The Demon Lord on January 18, 2012, 10:27:15 am

Does anyone remember an old game - it was kinda like Mech warrior but not - you could customize the gun pods on your Mech thing and then go rampaging - was quite gory from memory (lots of Blood and guts) and was a top down view

Also LAPD - Cop of the Future:

(http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/2761/398890-x1_alpha_blue2.jpeg)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on January 18, 2012, 10:38:35 am

G-Police.
Heavy Gear.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Hopeless on January 18, 2012, 11:27:27 am

Quote from: The Demon Lord;1462670

Damn I think I am going to have to Download an ISO and re-clock that game

So much fun - I really wish someone would make an updated version of it!

yea still play it now and then great fun

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: DarkVirus on January 18, 2012, 12:10:21 pm

Cant remember the name.

But it was like X fighter or X machine or something...

Kind of like a little blue transformer, you could walk around, fly, or turn into a bike and shoot stuff on different levels.

Sega game was boss.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: 5tacK on January 18, 2012, 06:32:45 pm

Quote from: RetardoBot;1462683

G-Police.

Fuck yes.

(http://www.romulation.net/files/screenshots/roms/PSX/21519/s966373f8431bc9eef1fd50e6580308ad.jpg)

I however made the mistake of buying it on PS3, played it twice and gave up due to the gfx looking really bad for their age on a high-def, 40 inch tv.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: EnjoyTheSauce on January 19, 2012, 01:18:59 am

Star Control 2. So many hours sunk into that game. Loved all the quirky races, great story and epic exploration.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Zarkov on January 19, 2012, 05:58:37 am

In my youth, I read a book a day.

Now, I play counter-strike, check my email, lurk forums, watch TV.

Not sure if a it's better use of my time.

Title: Rogue
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 19, 2012, 09:29:32 am

Quote from: EnjoyTheSauce;1462847

Star Control 2. So many hours sunk into that game. Loved all the quirky races, great story and epic exploration.

Hmm

*Looks at user name*
*Look at signature quote*

That explains a few things.

Quote from: Zarkov;1462849

In my youth, I read a book a day.

Reading a weeks worth of Wikipedia entries a day counts as a 'book'.

Also: mAngband (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)#Variants), the multiplayer variant of the old Angband (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband) rogue like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike) game based on Middle Earth is still the greatest MMO I've ever played.

Speaking of the old Rogue like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike) games: NetHack is the best and Ragnarok (download (http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/ragnarok.htm)) a close second.

http://www.mangband.org/ exists, but it just isnt the same as the original telnet version.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: AvatarFACE on January 19, 2012, 10:14:13 am

I also played ADOM a bit but it was so difficult only having one life trying to complete that game.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: DarkVirus on January 19, 2012, 03:36:21 pm

Ranger-X was the name!!

(http://www.emuparadise.me/Sega%20Genesis/Snaps/Ranger-X%20%28U%29.png)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on January 19, 2012, 04:03:06 pm

Goldenaxe... the original civ game and syndicate were great.

As was original dune. and platform duke and commander keen and baldurs dash.

Oh the fun of editing autoexec.bat and system.files.to set irq and dma setting to get sound in games.

Address 220 irq 7 dma 5.

Ega cga tga and vga options.... as well.as making sure himem.sys was loaded for extended memory.

The youth of today has no idea how to start things.in dos or fault find hardware conflicts....

And lest i forget
.... wing commander...

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on January 19, 2012, 04:05:30 pm

Another great game was a robot fighting game called OMF ... one must fall

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Must_Fall:_2097

(http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/94/One%20Must%20Fall%202097_6.png)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: EnjoyTheSauce on January 19, 2012, 04:05:35 pm

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1462865

Hmm

*Looks at user name*
*Look at signature quote*

That explains a few things.

So I jump on Reddit and what do I find

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQBQYi88AAI&feature=player_embedded

Theres a fan made sequel out :O

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: The Demon Lord on January 19, 2012, 04:09:36 pm

Quote from: Xsannz;1462919

Another great game was a robot fighting game called OMF ... one must fall

[url]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Must_Fall:_2097[/url]

([url]http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/94/One%20Must%20Fall%202097_6.png[/url])

Crystal was a total fox in that game.

but Raven was the man

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on January 19, 2012, 04:12:39 pm

You mentioning crystal... bumped the old memory banks.

Apogee who made the great game crystal caves....
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Caves

(http://Http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Crystal_Caves.png)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: The Demon Lord on January 19, 2012, 04:14:17 pm

I also can't believe no one has mentioned Cannon Fodder or Cannon Fodder 2?

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on January 19, 2012, 04:19:37 pm

What about dig dug... or am i showing my age....¿¿

(http://img.squakenet.com/snapshot/3984/16579-DigDug.jpg)

OH DID anybody else have the hack for wolfenstein that changes the wall banners to nude women.....

Was the best thing ever....

Oh and pagan ultima iv [not online]

there are some older ones from when we had an ibm xt that were text files with moving characters for various symbols like a dungeon scroller turn based but dont rememember the name

Title: 2012 - Greatest Retro Gaming Year!
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 19, 2012, 04:37:42 pm

Quote from: EnjoyTheSauce;1462920

So I jump on Reddit and what do I find
Theres a fan made sequel out :O

Between this and the fan remake of Descent, and the remake of Star Trek: Birth of the Federation, this may end up being a great year in Retro Gaming History.

Quote from: The Demon Lord;1462924

I also can't believe no one has mentioned Cannon Fodder or Cannon Fodder 2?

My classmate did a Cannon Fodder review for his game development assignment.

Quote from: Xsannz;1462926

What about dig dug... or am i showing my age....¿¿

....holy crap *goes off to make a Java remake*

Quote from: Xsannz;1462926

Oh and pagan ultima iv [not online]
there are some older ones from when we had an ibm xt that were text files with moving characters for various symbols like a dungeon scroller turn based but dont rememember the name

Ultima IV was crazy. So big, so many things you could do, and so many ways to die.

And did you mean Rogue? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on January 19, 2012, 04:47:05 pm

3D Realms, I'mma let you finish but Apogee was the greatest developer of all time, OF ALL TIME.

Also; Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure. Sorry, but unless your alien shits bombs and has suction cap hands then your game can suck a dick.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on January 19, 2012, 04:47:25 pm

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on January 19, 2012, 05:26:22 pm

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1462931

Between this and the fan remake of Descent, and the remake of Star Trek: Birth of the Federation, this may end up being a great year in Retro Gaming History.

My classmate did a Cannon Fodder review for his game development assignment.

....holy crap *goes off to make a Java remake*

Ultima IV was crazy. So big, so many things you could do, and so many ways to die.

And did you mean Rogue? ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike[/url])

YES YES I DID MEAN ROGUE

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 19, 2012, 07:37:48 pm

Quote from: The Demon Lord;1462924

I also can't believe no one has mentioned Cannon Fodder or Cannon Fodder 2?

Recheck second page. winfields mentioned it. On that page is dig dug.

I also thrashed cannon fodder. It was boss.
and I can't believe no one has mentioned Jetpack yet.

Which still lives.

Infact the chappy who owns it is making Jetpack2... although it's in flash :(

Also on my fantastic timewaster list:
Skyroads
ugh
Hugo's House of Horrors

Can't believe no one has mentioned a *Quest yet. This must be what getting old feels like :(

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on January 19, 2012, 07:57:25 pm

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Nostalgia'd hard at Hugo's House of Horror.

Fuck you, Pyro.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 19, 2012, 08:06:16 pm

The second one was hard as fuck, Hugo's Whodunnit. Especially the bit where the fuck'n Dalek turns up and chases you around.

Third one was cool. Hugo's Adventure iirc. The one with the planecrash in the jungle anyhow.

Newer games include:
Duke3D
Warcraft 2

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on January 19, 2012, 08:08:16 pm

I remember not liking the second one, like it confused the hell out of me and didn't really bother with it.

I do remember the plane crash and remember loving the shit out of it.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 19, 2012, 08:44:51 pm

Yeh, second one was awkward as fuck. I remember getting a walkthrough for it and still not being able to finish it.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on January 19, 2012, 08:46:25 pm

any body remember Police Quest

http://www.thehouseofgames.net/index.php?t=10&id=183

(http://www.thehouseofgames.net/files/p/police_quest1/police_quest1-5.gif)

made by good old sierra studios

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Cowwie on January 19, 2012, 09:34:30 pm

Quote from: Xsannz;1463011

any body remember Police Quest

made by good old sierra studios

Never could get into it, loved Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders tho.

Title: Nostalgia is like a mouth full of balls.
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 19, 2012, 09:56:45 pm

Quote from: Pyromanik;1462986

Can't believe no one has mentioned a *Quest yet. This must be what getting old feels like :(

Quote from: Xsannz;1463011

any body remember Police Quest
made by good old sierra studios

This is where Nostalgia has let the two of you down.

The quest games were TERRIBLE. You died. You died a whole lot. You died and you died and you died and the game laughed at you for dying, like it was your fault.

This was before you could download a walk through.

You died in Police Quest when you approached the wrong side of the car. Seirra studios and all the Quest games hated you. Dont ever forget that.

And do you have fond memories of "Beneath a Steel Sky"?

I remember playing for ten hours before being killed by a giant spider near the end for hanging around too long in an area trying to figure out what to do.

The last time I had saved was four hours before hand.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on January 19, 2012, 11:19:47 pm

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1463025

This is where Nostalgia has let the two of you down.

I remember that, police quest 3, i still have the floppies. If you didn't walk around your car before you got in the first time you drive, you failed, and if you didn't save, you had to start the entire game again. Same thing for running red lights without your sirens on, but putting sirens on makes your car go extremely fast.

The incredible Machine has always been a favourite game of mine aswell

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: 5tacK on January 19, 2012, 11:28:12 pm

I'm so glad I didn't have a computer as a kid. Those games all look like shit, but I probably would be O-face over them as well.

Title: Aint got the key
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 20, 2012, 02:32:33 am

Quote from: 5tacK;1463047

I'm so glad I didn't have a computer as a kid. Those games all look like shit.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZReVeyMqlsA/TUe_0iqWbOI/AAAAAAAACFk/WjdSZy3wrfY/s1600/Crysis217_final.jpg)
vs
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Redneckrampage.jpg/250px-Redneckrampage.jpg)
I certainly know which game was better.

HOT DAMN!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGZaV9oMPn4

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: 5tacK on January 20, 2012, 02:56:40 am

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u258/5tack/billy-yeah-rightcopy.png)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: ILoveMescaline on January 20, 2012, 12:25:14 pm

Wow, some of these posts really take me back! Crystal caves, golden axe, Cosmo's cosmic adventure, Wing Commander, Kings Quest....Funny how much I enjoyed some of those old games. Almost makes me a bit sad that I'll never play games like them again.

Here's 2 more games that some may have played: Dr Brain & Biomenace.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]6848[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]6849[/ATTACH]

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: The Demon Lord on January 20, 2012, 01:17:44 pm

and of course who can forget all the Lucas Art SCUMM classics:

The Dig,
Day of the Tentacle
The Curse of Monkey Island
Sam and Max hit the Road
Full throttle

so much time of my youth waster

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: [rEc] NONAME on January 20, 2012, 02:49:56 pm

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1463065

([url]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZReVeyMqlsA/TUe_0iqWbOI/AAAAAAAACFk/WjdSZy3wrfY/s1600/Crysis217_final.jpg[/url])
vs
([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Redneckrampage.jpg/250px-Redneckrampage.jpg[/url])
I certainly know which game was better.

i remember redneck rampage,was badass :) had good soundtrack on it as well

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 21, 2012, 09:31:53 am

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1463025

This is where Nostalgia has let the two of you down.

The quest games were TERRIBLE.

Oh, you assume too much Tiwa!
I said I can't believe no one has mentioned one of them yet.
I myself never played any of them, I just remember them being quite popular back in the day.

Quote from: `Kayne;1463042

The incredible Machine has always been a favourite game of mine aswell

Ah yes, I knew there was something I was missing!

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1463065

([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Redneckrampage.jpg/250px-Redneckrampage.jpg[/url])
I certainly know which game was better.

I'm on you like stink on shit.
Great novelty factor, shit game.

Just browsing through GOG.com and Syndicate jumped out at me.
Back on my mates Amiga 500... that game was so boss it owned us every time.

Commandos, I remember SO MANY HOURS sunk into that game!!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Commandos_Behind_Enemy_Lines.jpg)

Quote from: Pyromanik;1462986

cannon fodder
Jetpack
Skyroads
ugh
Hugo's House of Horrors

Quote from: Pyromanik;1462998

Duke3D
Warcraft 2

Descent
Earthworm Jim
Heroes of Might and Magic
Postal 2
Myst
Sim City 2000
Total Annihilation
Quake 2 (I played Quake too, but wasn't so fanatical about it)
Rick Dangerous
Rick Dangerous 2

I also remember an Indiana Jones game, and a Return of the Jedi game that I've never been able to find since. (on Amiga).

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Scunner on January 22, 2012, 04:51:42 am

And out of left field one ... Microsoft's Close Combat series, a bunch of strategy games set in WW2 that got better with every iteration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpevWBx5ees

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Tandoori on January 22, 2012, 08:04:47 pm

(http://www.freegameempire.com/Img/Cache/Games/The-Incredible-Machine/Screenshot-1.png)

Yeah boyy!

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on January 22, 2012, 09:00:20 pm

^ I can remember so clearly the tune my computer used to make through the speaker at the bottom of the case. It's actually kind of stuck in my head now...

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Ranger Bob on January 31, 2012, 08:52:58 pm

yeah i'm going to be showing my age here but

Atari 800xl (yes many fond memories when i was 4)
Montezuma's revenge
Dandy dungeon
World champion karate
where in the world is carmen sandiego
Spy vs Spy
Spyhunter

Arcade
Streetfighter 2

Super Nintendo
Yoshi's island

N64
Goldeneye (will always be my Highest ranked FPS EVER)
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time
Mario Kart64
Mario64

Playstation
Final Fantasy 8

PC
Doom
Lemmings
Sim city
Kings quest collection
Rainbow 6

Title: Montezumas Revenge was also a pain in the arse, pun intended.
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 31, 2012, 11:22:43 pm

Quote from: Ranger Bob;1465400

yeah i'm going to be showing my age here but

Atari 800xl (yes many fond memories when i was 4)
Dandee dungeon

Dandy.

DANDY!!!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_(video_game))

I HATE YOU DANDY!!

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: BeNZene on January 31, 2012, 11:24:07 pm

So many good memories from this thread....

Those child and early teen years of going round to friends houses / having friends round to my house and playing them on PC. Especially during winter. Being stuck inside in standard 2, playing carmen san diego at lunchtime. Zork, HHGTG, Empire, Rogue, Elite, on my friend's monochrome XT. Endless trading and borrowing of the "Quest" games (Hero Quest / Quest for Glory being the most fun, in retrospect maybe the first RPG I played?). Being super jealous of Wolfenstein on my friends VGA computer (my EGA computer just couldn't hack it). F19 Stealthfighter, getting F117A Stealth Fighter for my birthday (only to find it was the VGA version - the EGA version was sold separately). Stuck at my grandmothers for 2 weeks, played Starflight 2 on her PC. Staying at grandads and playing Railroad Tycoon on his much faster machine. Shorting out my 80286 12 mhz, which lead to a 80386 25mhz, SWOTL ran great. Then came Dune 2, lemmings at intermediate during more rainy lunch times. Star Control 2 - my taste in music has never been the same. Saving up from weekend jobs - first computer that was mine not the family's, played XCOM and then CnC.

[/soppy eyed brain dump]

Time to stop procrastinating....

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Ranger Bob on February 01, 2012, 11:28:58 am

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1465512

Dandy.

DANDY!!!! ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_%28video_game%29[/url])

I HATE YOU DANDY!!

Haha good to see i'm not the only one who knows what it was, i have a Rom of it also :p

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: dirtyape on February 01, 2012, 12:48:06 pm

Jesus, this is like a group of old men sitting around reminiscing about when they were lads... but anyway, spent many a rainy day playing IK+, Ultima 5, and Bards Tale 3 on the c64 as a lad. Oh and Rally Speedway, top speed 200mph in icy conditions = lol. Enjoyed Underwurld. And there was some weird ass game called Trolly Wally that became an obsession for my friends and I as it was so damned hard it was near impossible. Druid was cool, and Druid 2. And off course Gauntlet at the arcade. Then things went 16bit.

But I still think that the most impressive game ever was Doom. The game was visually and aurally spectacular for it's day.

Title: Pioneering spirit of the 80's
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 04, 2012, 11:29:43 am

Quote from: dirtyape;1465580

Jesus, this is like a group of old men sitting around reminiscing about when they were lads.

Good. My mission (http://www.getsome.co.nz/showthread.php?79739-Old-games-that-used-to-float-your-boat&p=1462012&viewfull=1#post1462012) has been a success!

The pioneering age of the 80's with its new technology and hitherto unknown game mechanics gave rise to the shitstorm of games in the 90's. Emphasis on the word 'shit'. For every game that was actually fun to play there where a dozen that were not. For ever Warcraft, there were 12+ Wargasms (Wargasm mechanics have never been emulated unfortunately). People from the 90's only remember the 'good' games. People from the 80's remember all the games, good or bad, because there werent as many. If your game was not good, you just go out of business and make another game.

Also, the 80's were the first of the 'licensed' games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Western_role-playing_video_games#Golden_Age_.28late_1980s.E2.80.93early_1990s.29) to turn up. TSR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSR,_Inc.).

In ten years time, when people ask about 'old games that used to float your boat', I will be listing stuff like Dynasty Warriors, Star Wars Galaxies, Battlefield 2, Morrowind, Hitman, and Stronghold.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on February 04, 2012, 11:54:30 am

i just downloaded the mortal kombat pack for nostalgia (in steam on sale) my god my reaction are getting bad compared to when i was 12

Title: Old flames of rage
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 04, 2012, 12:17:57 pm

Quote from: Xsannz;1466636

i just downloaded the mortal kombat pack for nostalgia (in steam on sale) my god my reaction are getting bad compared to when i was 12

I remember going into an arcade to play this and wondering if the machine was broken because I dont remember the graphics being so hideous. Gameplay for the original game is still just as fun as it was back in the day. None of this 'million hit combo!!!' rubbish. Once you take about 8 hits you be dead. Literally.

Rant below.

Quote from: Wikipedia

In 1995, the Daily News summed up the Mortal Kombat series like so, "The original Mortal Kombat video game debuted in 1992. Its combination of story line, character and mega-violence soon made it a hit worldwide. And the controversy engendered by its blood-gushing special effects only served to boost its popularity."

We used to line up to play the original (and II) to play that at the arcades, same way we used to line up to play SF2. Only difference was that the guy who stayed on the longest had murdered dozens of people in a spectacular way.

Quote

Mortal Kombat's commercials have also received some criticism. In the 1993 hearings on violent video games, Senator Joseph Lieberman criticized Sega for one of its TV commercials saying that the commercial promoted violence. The commercial, as described by Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication, "The TV commercial shows a boy gaining the respect of his friends after winning Mortal Kombat. At the end of the commercial, the boy angrily knocks over a tray of cookies given to him by friends now frightened by the boy's fighting ability. The boy roars, 'I said I wanted chocolate chip!'"

Moral outrage over video games (with the exception of 'Naughty Bear') has always pissed me off.

Quote

On November 22, 1997, 13-year-old Noah Wilson died when his friend Yancy stabbed him in the chest with a kitchen knife. The mother of Noah, Andrea Wilson, alleges that her son was stabbed to death because of his obsession with the Midway game Mortal Kombat. She alleges that Yancy S. was so obsessed with the game, that the child thought he was actually the character Cyrax. This character, Cyrax, used a finishing move in which the character grabs the opponent in a headlock and stabs the character's opponent in the chest. Wilson alleges that this is the maneuver in which Yancy S., killed her son.

Hey. News flash stupid mum: You and your son 'Yancy' (who calls their son 'Yancy'?!) are stupid, murderous, retards.

Quote

However, despite the character's other varieties of finishing moves, the character Cyrax does not actually perform this move at all.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on February 04, 2012, 12:26:31 pm

back back forward punch - raidens combo... this is a combo i can remember non of this up down left right a b c ddd c left up down right bbb bullshit from dead or alive or any new styled fighting game.

how the fuck am i meant to remember a 30 button combo .. i barley remember breakfast.

as an adult, Project Manager and a contributor to society i have to try and remember enough without trying to remember a 200 page combo book per character just to play a game and have fun to wind down... i guess this is why SWTOR and BF3 appeal at the moment - the lead you by the hand and tell you what to do .. or just say aim at moving thing push mouse button.

even SWTOR gets a bit complicated with all the combos of moves that add to each other .. i think i am just feeling mentally OLD today.

edit: RANT

i remember being about 17 when there was a story about some 5 year olds breaking another kids ribs copying moves from POWER RANGERS... and there being a big hoo ha about violence on TV.... but what they failed to focus on was that the Father beat the mother as well and that the kids had been going to karate and thought well we will practice on our friend....

so really if you are violent natured your probably going on that killing spree with or without video games. in fact the video games of you shooting people probably stopped you from actually doing it for a few more years because you vented by playing games.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Clin on February 04, 2012, 12:35:27 pm

HP HP BLK HK HK LK HK Scorpions brutality

I have the MK pack on XBox. A steal for about eight bucks.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Clin on February 04, 2012, 12:40:38 pm

God, I remember when MKII came out. There was one chip shop in Hastings that had it, and i was a broken ass 13 (?) year old, so I'd just go after school and watch older kids play. The sprites and backgrounds were mind blowing.

You'd go to paper plus and buy (read) EGM2 and Gamepro just to maybe get a couple of Fatality Codes as they were discovered. Once I even resorted to MKII trading cards to get moves at like $7 per packet. Then you'd get a double up of Barakas blade swipe and throw your toys out of the cot.

This Edit is not a lie

Cabal used to float my boat in a big way.

http://i.imgur.com/0JUBK.jpg[/IMG]

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Virus. on February 04, 2012, 03:32:15 pm

CBF reading 6 pages, but if The Incredible Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_(series)) hasn't been mentioned then none of you LIVED.

EDIT: Fucking hug me Hori!

I also played the original Unreal Tournament a LOT, Total Annihilation and finally, Freelancer, the biggest classic space game in history, has already been mentioned, so ups to you.

Title: Educational video game software
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 04, 2012, 04:42:22 pm

Quote from: Virus.;1466718

CBF reading 6 pages, but if The Incredible Machine ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_(series))[/url] hasn't been mentioned then none of you LIVED.

EDIT: Fucking hug me Hori!

I also played the original Unreal Tournament a LOT, Total Annihilation and finally, Freelancer, the biggest classic space game in history, has already been mentioned, so ups to you.

I forget about "The Incredible Machine" because we had to play that for computer class on the Apple IIe's. It was one of the educational suite of computer programs you had to learn how to use/run. I just assume that everyone had played it. Same with SimCity, which was also a computer class prerequisite program.

The size of Freelancer is no match for Elite, Elite Plus, and Elder Scrolls: Arena.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Ares Helix on February 04, 2012, 05:17:23 pm

Heya, thought I posted a link to this site here, but most of these are available in dos-box ready to play form from GOG.com :)
Really cheap and all work ok :)

Title: You pay money for historical games now?
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 04, 2012, 06:16:20 pm

Quote from: Ares Helix;1466755

Heya, thought I posted a link to this site here, but most of these are available in dos-box ready to play form from GOG.com :)
Really cheap and all work ok :)

I do not understand this at all. Anyone who charges you money to get these games should be shot.

Survivors should be shot again.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on February 04, 2012, 06:21:03 pm

we had sim earth and sim ant....

edit and sim farm

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Craigor on February 04, 2012, 06:27:32 pm

Sim Ant! I remember playing that now lol

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Tandoori on February 04, 2012, 06:32:01 pm

(http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/1/144/thumb_620x2000/22763.jpg)

I wish they made it to Source.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on February 04, 2012, 07:48:45 pm

I just found my sega megadrive II

I just got it working.

Fuck yeah.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Tandoori on February 04, 2012, 08:02:22 pm

(http://youtu.be/ghhzXp6kjh0)

I loved this game

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: AvatarFACE on February 04, 2012, 08:17:42 pm

Quote from: Super_Hori;1466795

([url]http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/1/144/thumb_620x2000/22763.jpg[/url])

I wish they made it to Source.

The specialists= Awesome

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 05, 2012, 12:58:45 am

Quote from: Virus.;1466718

CBF reading 6 pages, but if The Incredible Machine ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_(series))[/url] hasn't been mentioned then none of you LIVED.

EDIT: Fucking hug me Hori!

I also played the original Unreal Tournament a LOT, Total Annihilation and finally, Freelancer, the biggest classic space game in history, has already been mentioned, so ups to you.

Wow you're young :<

Quote from: `Kayne;1466804

I just found my sega megadrive II

I just got it working.

Fuck yeah.

Never lost mine.
On the other hand, the TV blew up, so I still can't play it.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: nzholty on February 05, 2012, 01:35:02 am

Ballblazer on my Atari 800XL thrashed to death while at Intermediate and high school

http://youtu.be/qri5xavBdh4

Also....

MULE Thrashed this to death to

http://youtu.be/QWvQQuLPmzg

Sorry, cant get the vids to embed

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Cowwie on February 05, 2012, 01:44:50 am

Quote from: Xsannz;1466790

we had sim earth and sim ant....

edit and sim farm

and

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Itcame-c.jpg)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 05, 2012, 11:25:14 am

"MAKE THEM ANTS GAY UNCLE!"

err...???

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Craigor on February 05, 2012, 11:29:05 am

LOL!!! It says "Make them ants cry uncle!"

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 05, 2012, 12:04:48 pm

(http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~pinwhiz/Fount19b.jpg)
(http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~pinwhiz/acebox19.jpg)
(http://www.stateoftheark.co.nz/images/fountain_force2.jpg)
http://www.stateoftheark.co.nz/fountain/force2.html

Title: The Fountain
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 05, 2012, 12:18:42 pm

Quote from: Pyromanik;1466951

[url]http://www.stateoftheark.co.nz/fountain/force2.html[/url]

Quote

An interesting console released in Australia and New Zealand, this is a licensed version of the 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System made by Radofin in Europe in 1976.

I've owned at least three of these over the years, my latest acquisition being a boxed version in excellent working condition with a number of boxed games cartridges. Due to the need to free up some space I've sadly had to sell on my other two Fountain Force 2 consoles.

Holy crap, really?? I thought they were a world wide console! I never had one, but my friends did.

Those joysticks were impossible to use. Didnt it have some weird overlay thing for the buttons as well? There were 12 buttons, but different games used different buttons.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 05, 2012, 06:16:48 pm

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1466953

Holy crap, really?? I thought they were a world wide console! I never had one, but my friends did.

Those joysticks were impossible to use. Didnt it have some weird overlay thing for the buttons as well? There were 12 buttons, but different games used different buttons.

Yep. Basically like any other modern controller, except instead of having "A, B, C" it was just a 3x5 set of blank buttons. You put an insert that came with the game over it to label each button.
I think I still have it tucked away somewhere. My grandfather had it, NFI why... but I ended up with it I think. NFI where it is though :<

Games on it were pretty win. Except if you were playing something like pong. Then it was pretty much impossible. The joysticks have no centering device, and just stay at whatever angle you put them in. Getting it down so you can make minute movements is insanely difficult, lol. You tend to end up jamming a finger between the side of the joystick and the burm of the controller where it sat so you could use it as resistance to move the joystick with a bit more precision with your thumb, lol.

Title: Max Payne: The Kung Fu Mod
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 05, 2012, 10:04:04 pm

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1466634

In ten years time, when people ask about 'old games that used to float your boat', I will be listing stuff like Dynasty Warriors, Star Wars Galaxies, Battlefield 2, Morrowind, Hitman, and Stronghold.

I just realised that Max Payne was made in 2001.

A brilliant game made even better by this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb63pEPrOW8

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on February 06, 2012, 07:47:46 pm

Quote from: Pyromanik;1466878

@ sega

Never lost mine.
On the other hand, the TV blew up, so I still can't play it.

Tune into 590mhz

Works on my 19" LCD. I never actually lost mine, but I lost the power adaptor ;P

(Which I just found the other day)

Title: Ye Olde City Build Games
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 06, 2012, 09:02:08 pm

Quote from: Ranger Bob;1465400

yeah i'm going to be showing my age here but

Sim city

I had no idea there were so many City Building Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_city-building_video_games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_city-building_video_games)
SimCity 2000 came out in 1993???

I also had no idea that Dwarf Fortress was actually released in 2011.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Hmmmgood on February 06, 2012, 09:36:20 pm

Blitzkreig series

http://www.nival.com/us/#!/us/games/pc-games/blitzkrieg.html (http://www.nival.com/us/#%21/us/games/pc-games/blitzkrieg.html)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 06, 2012, 09:52:52 pm

Quote from: `Kayne;1467248

Tune into 590mhz

Works on my 19" LCD. I never actually lost mine, but I lost the power adaptor ;P

(Which I just found the other day)

o.0

My computer monitors don't tend to come with coax RF input adaptors.

I should probably just buy another PSU for my computer ('TV' is actually an old PCI TV card in a (computer, not cardboard) box in the lounge).

Title: Ascendancy
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 06, 2012, 10:36:23 pm

Quote from: Hmmmgood;1467267

Blitzkreig series

[url]http://www.nival.com/us/#[/url]!/us/games/pc-games/blitzkrieg.html ([url]http://www.nival.com/us/#%21/us/games/pc-games/blitzkrieg.html[/url])

Quote from: Tiwaking!;101457

Im guessing no one here has played any of the "Master Of Orion" Or Ascendancy games.

Quote from: Tiwaking!;474608

Odd. I've been playing Ascendancy recently. I doubt if anyone plays or has played it

Quote from: Tiwaking!;866001

Im going back to play Ascendancy now. Its old yes, but its still good tedious fun

Ascendancy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXm6DL3D4Ws
I would be playing it right now, but I remembered how ridiculously tedious (i.e slow and laggy) the combat can get. Sigh.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: kilabee on February 08, 2012, 08:47:04 am

Double dragon at spaceworld in Papakura.Rough place for a little white kid in the late 80's but I had to climb those dark stairs twice a week past all the local hoods to feed my addiction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb9P0YTeq5Y

Kneeing bad guys in the face and then hip tossing them was so much fun.
Wasted a shit load of time playing Tekken 2 about ten years later on my mates PS1.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Lias on February 08, 2012, 12:50:19 pm

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1466786

I do not understand this at all. Anyone who charges you money to get these games should be shot.

Survivors should be shot again.

You got it all wrong Tiwa! GOG is a _legit_ seller of old games, they pretty much invented the market for it.. If they hadn't, steam/gamestop etc wouldnt be selling all the old stuff they do now too.

So it's fine to pay GOG for games :-)

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Craigor on February 08, 2012, 01:09:46 pm

Just found this.. used to spend hours playing it lol..

[ATTACH=CONFIG]6949[/ATTACH]

must.. close.. game...

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Tandoori on February 08, 2012, 02:29:42 pm

Pookie the cat is my homey.

And Mort's my main mouse.

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Randomized on February 08, 2012, 05:28:02 pm

This would have been the first game I played on a PC... spent a few hours playing it on the schools Apple IIe's, which we were allowed to take home over weekends, holidays etc
Aztec, seem to remember it only as a green screen, no colour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWyB56AlAWw

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Lias on February 08, 2012, 07:38:51 pm

Quote from: Randomized;1467638

This would have been the first game I played on a PC... spent a few hours playing it on the schools Apple IIe's, which we were allowed to take home over weekends, holidays etc
Aztec, seem to remember it only as a green screen, no colour.

You probably had a system with a Hercules Graphics card and the game was in CGA emulation mode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card#CGA_Emulation

We had the same setup that let me play Police Quest in beautiful mono green, until dad went nuts and got a 16 colour EGA card.. OMG teh wonder!

Title: The air smells damp and oppressive, like a wet nun.
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 12, 2012, 09:59:56 pm

Where is Space Quest?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUnoOIikE0

Title: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 19, 2012, 06:15:39 pm

Qualified under /[a-z]+Quest/i.

Title: Star Control 2 - Remake
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 20, 2014, 10:51:21 pm

Quote from BeNZene: January 31, 2012, 11:24:07 pm

Star Control 2

It has come to my attention from EnjoyTheSauce that some of y'all out there dont know about the new Star Control remake. Last year the rights to Star Control was bought by Stardock. I know, because they spammed my inbox about the news

The rights to Star Control have been snapped up by Stardock, and a reboot of the cult classic is planned...
http://www.denofgeek.com/games/star-control/26565/star-control-to-be-relaunched (http://www.denofgeek.com/games/star-control/26565/star-control-to-be-relaunched)

Star Control 2 Remake: Stardock Buys Star Control IP From Atari, Will Launch 'XCOM-Like Reboot'
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/19000/20130722/star-control-2-remake-stardock-sequel-atari.htm (http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/19000/20130722/star-control-2-remake-stardock-sequel-atari.htm)

Anyway, recently more news was released about the remake, including screenshots and the promise of a demo

You can find way more information than I can give you here:
http://www.star-control.com/ (http://www.star-control.com/)

Title: Re: Star Control 2 - Remake
Post by: Lias on January 20, 2014, 11:02:36 pm

Quote from Tiwaking!: January 20, 2014, 10:51:21 pm

The rights to Star Control have been snapped up by Stardock, and a reboot of the cult classic is planned...
[url]http://www.denofgeek.com/games/star-control/26565/star-control-to-be-relaunched[/url] ([url]http://www.denofgeek.com/games/star-control/26565/star-control-to-be-relaunched[/url])

Star Control 2 Remake: Stardock Buys Star Control IP From Atari, Will Launch 'XCOM-Like Reboot'
[url]http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/19000/20130722/star-control-2-remake-stardock-sequel-atari.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/19000/20130722/star-control-2-remake-stardock-sequel-atari.htm[/url])

Ugh.. that makes me sad panda.. I pretty much swore to never give Stardock another cent after they sold Impulse to Gamestop.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: EnjoyTheSauce on January 21, 2014, 01:53:33 am

As a former Sins addict. I love me some Stardock and can't wait to see what they do with Star Control. They put everything on Steam, so I don't bother with impulse.

Title: Good Old Games
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 21, 2014, 11:34:20 am

Quote from Lias: February 08, 2012, 12:50:19 pm

Quote from: Tiwaking!;1466786
I do not understand this at all. Anyone who charges you money to get these games should be shot.

Survivors should be shot again.

You got it all wrong Tiwa! GOG is a _legit_ seller of old games, they pretty much invented the market for it.. If they hadn't, steam/gamestop etc wouldnt be selling all the old stuff they do now too.

So it's fine to pay GOG for games :-)

I got Darklands, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darklands_(video_game) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darklands_(video_game)) ,from GOG and I see your point now. They provide you with absolutely everything required to run the game as long as you have one functional appendage with which to run the exe

Darklands was hard to get back in the day, the fact that there is a central resource you can get them from is great! Unfortunately: Darklands is not a very good game. Well, it is a REALLY good game, but the interface is bad, there is no clear goals (you're given some vague thing to do and some vague idea of how much time it will take), the characters are flexible but their progression is only hinted at (that monk looking guy would probably a good healer for example), and the win/lose conditions exist, its just that the game doesnt tell you what they are

Having taught Video Game Development for a year, I am starting to see why kids these days dont bother playing games from certain eras. You could say that teenagers today are just dumb, which is true, but it seems that games from the Gold, Silver, and Bronze ages of Gaming were made for super geniuses

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 21, 2014, 11:45:09 am

I do <3 me some o' dat DRM Free Revolution!

Currently over 70 games and climbing :<

Just picked up Cleopatra, Pharoah, Zeus, Posidon this last weekend...

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Lias on January 21, 2014, 12:52:55 pm

Yeah I own/loved GalCiv 2 and Sins, but the whole "Sellout to Gamestop" thing just put me right off them. Maybe if they had turned around and provided me with Steam keys for all my Impulse games so I don't have to dirty myself by ever being associated with Gamestop.. but no..I have to be unclean :-(

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 21, 2014, 01:00:10 pm

GOG.com; DRM FREE, THE WAY TO BE.

Picked up the full isometric Fallout series for free before they went off registrar too.
Good times.

hashderpery:cantstopmenow

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Dumpy on January 21, 2014, 01:25:04 pm

O man I love Fallout, almost as much as I love wolf 3d. :D

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Bounty Hunter on January 21, 2014, 11:04:36 pm

....acquired metal gear solid for PC the other week.....I'm pretty sure half the reason I love playing it is I'm living vicariously through ~10 year old me. And he doesn't have a care in the world!

Title: Sid Meier's Colonization
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 21, 2014, 11:19:41 pm

Over the Christmas break I decided to try and do something I've been trying to since 1995: Completely Master Colonization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Colonization)

Here are several interesting facts about Colonization that you'll find (almost) no where else.

- The Source Code to Colonization was lost in a fire at MicroProse sometime after its acquisition by Spectrum HoloByte

- Save Scumming, that is reloading an older game to get a better result from a random occurrence, is somewhat prevented in this game by two things. The first is the random events for a turn are not exactly random, having been predetermined from a 'pool' of random numbers. Second: There are TWO save states a game can have, initial load and reload - so if you quit to DOS and load you'll be in a initial save state, but reloading the game ingame puts the save state into its secodary state

- Random Number Generation in Colonization is triggered by three main events: Combat, Visiting Villages, and amazingly: Movement. Moving a unit further than its possible moves causes an RNG chance to continue or remain in place but only if it has already moved that turn

- The names.txt contains all the information about units in the game. If you edit the Caravel's movement to 0 and select the Dutch as your starting nation, then you are playing single player

- The amount of wood you get from clearing forests ranges from 40 - 160 and is permanently fixed to the area. The type of forest cleared does not matter as I've seen scrub forest desert provide 160 wood. The amount is not random. You cannot tell how much wood is there until it is cleared. You should probably build a warehouse at a heavily forested location, just in case

- Always build part of a building if you are going to buy it. For example: A Wagon Train costs ~1000 to build, but just 3 hammers reduces this to ~600

- Small Pox is still the most efficient way to play. That is, placing Settlements as close as you can to each other to exploit the most amount of squares with the least amount of resources, in this case: Colonists

- To win all you need is five or six cities, one coastal, and 15 or more Artillery. Alternatively you can place a Colony on a one square Island and blockade the free square. Before you declare independence, dismantle all other coastal cities. The Royal Expeditionary Force can never take over your Island and you can use your reserve forces to destroy the REF fleet. Be sure to build a Dry Dock on the Island

- Indian Tribes Capital Cities can change what they train at different (random) times in the game. Inca and Aztec never change. In one game the Arawak capital by my initial settlement stopped training Fur Trappers and started training Farmers, causing me to flood the continent with farmers. Easiest win ever

- One Expert Farmer provides base food + 2, not 3 as stated in game help. One expert farmer on Savannah provides 6 food. All you need to create a good settlement is one expert farmer too feed three Statesmen and nothing else. The liberty bells will increase the efficiency of residents, which you can replace with immigrants

- Non important settlements should have a printing press, newspaper, one expert farmer, and three statesmen. Everyone else should leave as soon as the construction is complete

- Try to build Settlements within 1 square of each other. The first settler should always be a statesman, unless the settlement is built on unproductive land, then they will have to be a farmer instead

- Always trade with an Indian Capital, try not to trade with normal villages as they do not offer as much money and ALWAYS build a settlement next to them. Also, in the DOS version, put Missionary's in the capitals as this will decrease unrest, and if you are lucky, make sure your trade settlement is coastal as it will make transporting goods back to Europe easier

- You can use your ships to trade with villages, but the villages will only sell you a maximum of 25 units in return. You should always partially build and buy your first wagon train. It pays for itself very quickly. Guns, Horses, and Tools are good to sell to Indians

- Wiping out native civilizations takes a very long time. You are better off getting Peter Minuit as your founding father and just taking their land instead. The order of Founding Fathers that you should choose is (Thomas Jefferson) - Hernando De Soto - Cortez. In this way you can get LOTS of gold and colonists from Lost City Rumours and ship the money back home for free. In fact, you can use your scout to build a settlement, move the treasure inside, and turn them back into a scout all in one turn

- Angry natives immediately calm down as soon as they've killed or stolen something. Sending a criminal scout as a sacrifice is a good idea

And thats about it for my advice on Colonization. The game is incredibly buggy with many, many deadlocks. And there are all sorts of undocumented annoyances such as:

Indian Converts cannot be equipped with anything, nor can they found settlements
Two ships moving past each other will swap passengers if there is free space on the moving unit. This can be used to quickly transport colonists across the map, but usually ends up accidentally sending a formerly empty trade ship back to Europe with all of the passengers with an in bound vessel

The colonist report shows all the colonist types you've had, not HAVE. Indentured Servants still count as Indentured Servants, even if they've been trained

Quote from Lias: January 21, 2014, 12:52:55 pm

Yeah I own/loved GalCiv 2 and Sins, but the whole "Sellout to Gamestop" thing just put me right off them. Maybe if they had turned around and provided me with Steam keys for all my Impulse games so I don't have to dirty myself by ever being associated with Gamestop.. but no..I have to be unclean :-(

What is this you talk of? What do you mean "Sell Out to Gamestop"?

Title: Re: Sid Meier's Colonization
Post by: Lias on January 22, 2014, 06:16:33 am

Quote from Tiwaking!: January 21, 2014, 11:19:41 pm

What is this you talk of? What do you mean "Sell Out to Gamestop"?

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/31/stardocks-brad-wardell-talks-about-selling-impulse-to-gamestop/ (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/31/stardocks-brad-wardell-talks-about-selling-impulse-to-gamestop/)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 22, 2014, 10:48:57 am

Impulse, the content distribution system. Not Stardock as a whole.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Lias on January 22, 2014, 01:21:35 pm

Quote from Pyromanik: January 22, 2014, 10:48:57 am

Impulse, the content distribution system. Not Stardock as a whole.

I'm not saying Stardock is owned by Gamestop. I'm saying I refuse to trust, or do business with Stardock, because they sold Impulse to GameStop, without offering me an alternative (ie Steam Keys) for all their products making me an unwilling customer of Gamestop.

Imagine if Valve sold Steam to Ubisoft, and all your steam content became Uplay content.. Most people would rage.. that's kind of how I feel.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 22, 2014, 01:25:54 pm

Yeah, I understand that.
But aren't most/all of Stardock's games on Steam already? (I mean, that doesn't help you... but for new purchases...)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Lias on January 22, 2014, 01:55:23 pm

Quote from Pyromanik: January 22, 2014, 01:25:54 pm

Yeah, I understand that.
But aren't most/all of Stardock's games on Steam already? (I mean, that doesn't help you... but for new purchases...)

Yeah.. still reluctance to give them money after they made me rage so much.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on January 22, 2014, 10:40:19 pm

Fair comment.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Emrico1 on February 04, 2014, 03:35:15 pm

Gabe is my sexy love toy. Steam is gg now.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Codex on February 10, 2014, 09:19:06 am

Black and White 2 is always a favourite of mine
Black & White 2 PC Games Trailer - Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY846hYE4Xs#)

Fucking loved building epic and gorgeous towns/cities and having a bad ass tiger

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 10, 2014, 10:23:36 am

Never got around to the second one, or all that much of the first, despite how much I liked it.
Villagers in first are too much bastardfaces to actually let you get on with it. Something Molyneux himself admitted to.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Codex on February 10, 2014, 10:39:04 am

Wasn't that bad at all in bw2 tbh, never really had an issue with villagers unless I tried being evil which never worked anyway

Title: Black & White - RPG insanity
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 10, 2014, 10:42:37 am

Quote from Pyromanik: February 10, 2014, 10:23:36 am

Never got around to the second one, or all that much of the first, despite how much I liked it.
Villagers in first are too much bastardfaces to actually let you get on with it. Something Molyneux himself admitted to.

That is because Black And White touted The Creature to be the focus of the game, but the actual GAME part of the game revolved around the Villagers who had all the survival instincts of a depressed lemming. Add to this the creatures broken Moral Choice system which meant that when the Creature was taught to fish and feed itself, it counted as an Evil Act due to it counting as 'stealing' from the villagers

Thusly the game that was meant to be an RPG of epic proportions which a creature that could grow and evolve intelligence ended up being a tedious RTS featuring annoying mechanics and hideously overpowered special abilities i.e 100% lightning storm, Hungry? Tired? Eat their villagers and 100% restore vigour

Silly Peter Molyneaux

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 10, 2014, 10:43:07 am

Quote from Codex: February 10, 2014, 10:39:04 am

Wasn't that bad at all in bw2 tbh, never really had an issue with villagers unless I tried being evil which never worked anyway

Yeh, I've heard (one of Molyneux's main points promoting B&W2 was that the villagers weren't as inadvertently centric [thus diverting from the plot etc] as they were to the original). I never got around to finding out though as I was too busy being addicted to BF2 iirc. Ohh, that's a game I should vote for on gog.com xD

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Codex on February 10, 2014, 10:48:04 am

Just get it on steam :P

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 10, 2014, 10:57:23 am

Oh, it's there?
Well that's an option.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Codex on February 10, 2014, 11:52:49 am

yeah comes up on sale every big sale usually

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Reaper_Joe on February 10, 2014, 07:01:08 pm

Quote from Scunner: January 22, 2012, 04:51:42 am

And out of left field one ... Microsoft's Close Combat series, a bunch of strategy games set in WW2 that got better with every iteration.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpevWBx5ees[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpevWBx5ees[/url])

My first game on PC, the others for me were Duke 1,2&3d, Star wars Dark forces 2 and emulator with pokemon red and blue

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pitchey on February 11, 2014, 11:05:41 am

MS Combat Flight Simulator 1, ahhhh the good old days!

Title: Re: Civilization, but honourable mention goes to ...
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on February 11, 2014, 02:56:49 pm

Quote from Tiwaking!: January 13, 2012, 11:55:04 pm

The original Caesar game.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNHx4ZgdKvo[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNHx4ZgdKvo[/url])
I remember it being absolutely terrible when I was a kid, but I still played it. No manual. No instructions. The game was impossible to play or understand.

Jump forward 20 years to today and the game hasnt changed at all. It is still just as horrible as it was back then.

Thankfully Civilization was released a year later and it fixed everything. So I guess my answer is: Civilization.

Caesar III was great. Civilization is good too but I like the real time aspect of Caesar III

Title: Re: Ye Olde City Build Games
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on February 11, 2014, 03:12:36 pm

Quote from Tiwaking!: February 06, 2012, 09:02:08 pm

Quote from: Ranger Bob;1465400
yeah i'm going to be showing my age here but

Sim city
I had no idea there were so many City Building Games
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_city-building_video_games[/url] ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_city-building_video_games[/url])
SimCity 2000 came out in 1993???

I also had no idea that Dwarf Fortress was actually released in 2011.

This reminds me, I have to start up the Dwarf Fortress thread again, to tell the tales of the rise and fall of my Dwarves.

And the fact that I forgot to pack an anvil when I set out.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Benda on February 12, 2014, 09:18:24 am

On my 1st PC (80286) - Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
ATARI 2600 - PacMan and Tennis
C64 - Tron

Title: Re: Civilization, but honourable mention goes to ...
Post by: Pyromanik on February 12, 2014, 09:43:58 am

Quote from Spacemonkey: February 11, 2014, 02:56:49 pm

Caesar III was great.

Loved it. Still do, picked it up over Christmas.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Codex on February 12, 2014, 10:37:25 am

Dune 2

Still play it sometimes on my megadrive ;D

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on February 12, 2014, 12:45:25 pm

Yes, Dune 2, and the first C&C

Still play them sometimes.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: frankytanky on February 12, 2014, 04:52:35 pm

two of my favs

Broderbund Software - Stunts v1.1 [1991] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxANYMqd8cY#)

Macintosh Gaming: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzQ5-o0s0Ao#ws)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: BeNZene on February 12, 2014, 10:38:37 pm

Quote from Codex: February 12, 2014, 10:37:25 am

Dune 2

Still play it sometimes on my megadrive ;D

An open source version is available for free on web and Android it seems:
http://play-dune.com/ (http://play-dune.com/)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Codex on February 13, 2014, 08:18:09 am

Quote from BeNZene: February 12, 2014, 10:38:37 pm

Quote from Codex: February 12, 2014, 10:37:25 am
Dune 2

Still play it sometimes on my megadrive ;D

An open source version is available for free on web and Android it seems:
[url]http://play-dune.com/[/url] ([url]http://play-dune.com/[/url])

Oh my god I love you

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Craigor on February 13, 2014, 10:10:14 am

Quote from frankytanky: February 12, 2014, 04:52:35 pm

two of my favs

Broderbund Software - Stunts v1.1 [1991] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxANYMqd8cY#[/url])

I used to spend endless hours making my own tracks

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 13, 2014, 10:17:50 am

Quote from Codex: February 12, 2014, 10:37:25 am

megadrive

wo-hoe, now we're talking!

Batman Forever quite tickled me back in the day (like, when it was released).
Earthworm Jim also so fantastic. I have #2 on my megadrive, but played #1 to the end during countless rentals before I obtained my own megadrive.

Comix zone was also good, I found out not too long before the end of life (also rental, because that was the shit back in the day).

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Codex on February 13, 2014, 10:52:39 am

Comix Zone was the hardest fucking shit, I have it, I have never finished it

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on February 13, 2014, 12:41:45 pm

F-15 Strike Eagle II

It was awesome, blowing up them enemy jets!

(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155549-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-the-enemy-fighter-is.png)

(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155542-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-your-mission-objectivess.png)

(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155547-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-an-enemy-f-5s.png)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Scopey on February 13, 2014, 06:30:04 pm

Descent (http://store.steampowered.com/app/273570/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/273570/)) - On sale right now!

Gosh that nostalgic music.

It's a first person shooter as a space ship inside massive futuristic mines. It's very cool.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on February 13, 2014, 06:36:18 pm

Currently running through Abe's Exodus (on steammmmm) again.

Does that count as an old game?

(http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100406012531/oddworld/images/6/65/AE_lineup.jpg)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Craigor on February 13, 2014, 06:42:10 pm

Quote from `Kayne: February 13, 2014, 06:36:18 pm

Currently running through Abe's Exodus (on steammmmm) again.

Does that count as an old game?

([url]http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100406012531/oddworld/images/6/65/AE_lineup.jpg[/url])

I beat you by posting a picture of my Abe's exodus CD.. Which is in my garage, in a box somewhere, and I really cbf'd going to find it just for this thread

However, pretend there's a picture here.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: pop on February 13, 2014, 06:52:17 pm

Blast Corps, all you did was destroy shit.

Blast Corps N64 Playthrough Beeton Tracks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFle9gvWCk#)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Dr. Acula on February 13, 2014, 06:58:26 pm

Civ I on an old DOS box. Had a few other games on that DOS machine but can't remember the names, gonna have to dig it out of the garage and see if I can get it running.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Lias on February 13, 2014, 09:12:24 pm

C64 as a kid: Ikari Warriors, Great Giana Sisters, Ghostbusters, Wizzball, Speedball, Gauntlet, International Karate, Elite, Defender of the Crown, Bubble Bobble, Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, winter/summer/california games, death knights of Krynn, Boulder Dash, load runner

Two PC games I'd love to see rebooted:

Twilight: 2000
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/twilight-2000-1am (http://www.myabandonware.com/game/twilight-2000-1am)

Not as good as the pen and paper RPG, but I still played the absolute shit out of this.

BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/battletech-the-crescent-hawks-inception-ev (http://www.myabandonware.com/game/battletech-the-crescent-hawks-inception-ev)

Title: Lode Runner
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 13, 2014, 09:17:38 pm

Quote from Lias: February 13, 2014, 09:12:24 pm

load runner

Speaking of Lode Runner
LODE RUNNER: CLASSIC GAME SERIES in 10 GAMES, PT. 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4oKwbRAW0g#ws)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on February 13, 2014, 10:05:57 pm

Quote from Craigorsarus: February 13, 2014, 06:42:10 pm

Insert blatent fake claim for owning abes exodus here ;)

I did have the CD, well, both cd's, but they went missing somewhere.

Oh well, I prefer computer these days anyway ;)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 14, 2014, 08:56:58 am

Quote from Codex: February 13, 2014, 10:52:39 am

Comix Zone was the hardest fucking shit, I have it, I have never finished it

Yeh it was almost like SEGA's reply to BattleToads. Which was also a very fucking cool game, although I didn't own it (had a mate who did though).

Title: The Dam Busters - 1984
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 14, 2014, 02:15:02 pm

Quote from Spacemonkey: February 13, 2014, 12:41:45 pm

F-15 Strike Eagle II

It was awesome, blowing up them enemy jets!

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155549-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-the-enemy-fighter-is.png[/url])

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155542-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-your-mission-objectivess.png[/url])

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155547-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-an-enemy-f-5s.png[/url])

I count 256 colours in those screenshots. You kids and your fancy graphics these days. 16 colours is all you need
(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/194007-the-dam-busters-commodore-64-screenshot-title-loading-screens.gif)
(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/194008-the-dam-busters-commodore-64-screenshot-pilot-s-station-being.gif)
This game would be great if they remade it with multiplayer. My shooting was great, but bombing skills were subpar

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: BeNZene on February 15, 2014, 07:58:08 am

Quote from Spacemonkey: February 13, 2014, 12:41:45 pm

F-15 Strike Eagle II

It was awesome, blowing up them enemy jets!

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155549-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-the-enemy-fighter-is.png[/url])

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155542-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-your-mission-objectivess.png[/url])

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155547-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-an-enemy-f-5s.png[/url])

F19 Stealth Fighter was the shizzle. Take off, fly as low and slow as you can (just above stall speed), staying at right angles to the doppler shift radars, while going straight on to the pulse radars, take photos of the target, fly all the way back doing the same thing.

(http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/3750/F-19%20Stealth%20Fighter_3.png)
(http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/3750/F-19%20Stealth%20Fighter_4.png)

Sexiest plane that didn't exist:
(http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/TESTORS%20F-19%20MAIN.jpg)

Title: Morrowind
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 27, 2014, 08:01:44 pm

I just realized I own three copies of Morrowind. The only other game I own three copies of is Half-Life 2 (for the different Box Art)

Morrowind was made in 2002. That makes me so sad

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: AvatarFACE on February 27, 2014, 09:46:55 pm

Morrowind is awesome, I think I have my original physical copy somewhere, played many hours of that. Customized spells were so good in that.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on February 28, 2014, 07:06:27 am

(http://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/24/23473/Jetpack.png)

Title: Re: Civilization, but honourable mention goes to ...
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on February 28, 2014, 07:09:34 am

Quote from Tiwaking!: January 13, 2012, 11:55:04 pm

The original Caesar game.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNHx4ZgdKvo[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNHx4ZgdKvo[/url])
I remember it being absolutely terrible when I was a kid, but I still played it. No manual. No instructions. The game was impossible to play or understand.

My Caesar III CD got chewed up by cats.

So I bought it on gog when it was on sale. Also picked up Pharaoh because I was to lazy to find the install disc.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: AvatarFACE on February 28, 2014, 07:58:57 am

Quote from Spacemonkey: February 28, 2014, 07:06:27 am

([url]http://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/24/23473/Jetpack.png[/url])

Jetpack!! Another awesome game. The guy that made that game is trying to get funding to make a sequel last I heard.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on February 28, 2014, 11:28:33 am

Get funding?

Motherfucker already made that shit 2 years ago, no kickstarter required.

Sadly he chose flash as his medium of choice though... so 2 years later it's almost defunct on about 70% of computers.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: AvatarFACE on February 28, 2014, 01:09:15 pm

Sound like the last I heard was about 2 years ago then.
(edit) just checked his site and it's still in beta, so not released yet.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: trololololo on February 28, 2014, 04:04:14 pm

Bullrush, banned in schools these days. I use to charge the tacklers when I did a run and broke a few of their bones, consequently I was often not asked to run by myself until there where a lot of tacklers because they need to team tackle me.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pyromanik on March 01, 2014, 12:49:02 pm

Quote from AvatarFACE: February 28, 2014, 01:09:15 pm

Sound like the last I heard was about 2 years ago then.
(edit) just checked his site and it's still in beta, so not released yet.

So just like Battlefield 4 then?

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 01, 2014, 01:10:51 pm

Quote from trololololo: February 28, 2014, 04:04:14 pm

Bullrush, banned in schools these days. I use to charge the tacklers when I did a run and broke a few of their bones, consequently I was often not asked to run by myself until there where a lot of tacklers because they need to team tackle me.

I liked Bullrush, but I was the skinny guy who ran so fast no one could tackle me.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on March 02, 2014, 09:03:44 pm

I used to play GunZ: The Duel and loved it. The idea, the campaign, Loved it all.

When I saw that gunz 2 was out on steam as open beta, thought i'd give it a go, they've removed what was good about gunz 1.

So now i'm downloading a private server of Gunz 1 seeing as the devs shut down the servers, and i'll see how it goes. Will post back if anyone's intradested.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on March 11, 2014, 12:22:23 pm

StreetRod first car customising game ever
(http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/street-rod/street-rod-ss1.gif)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Rod_(video_game) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Rod_(video_game))

or Stunts
(http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/stunts/stunts-ss1.gif)

SKIE OR DIE
(http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/ski-or-die/ski-or-die-ss1.gif)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on March 11, 2014, 12:26:23 pm

Quote from Spacemonkey: February 13, 2014, 12:41:45 pm

F-15 Strike Eagle II

It was awesome, blowing up them enemy jets!

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155549-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-the-enemy-fighter-is.png[/url])

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155542-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-your-mission-objectivess.png[/url])

([url]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/155547-f-15-strike-eagle-ii-amiga-screenshot-an-enemy-f-5s.png[/url])

followed by SU27 Flanker
(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvLC_6dew08E8XRjbaS-qtMMOXJwU25_R0hi6QdM44s4bT0jkfMsdyexQ)

Title: Ski or Die?! WHAT?!
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 11, 2014, 01:05:45 pm

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 12:22:23 pm

SKIE OR DIE
([url]http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/ski-or-die/ski-or-die-ss1.gif[/url])

What the hell is that monstrosity?!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Skate_or_Die!_cover.jpg)

Title: Re: Ski or Die?! WHAT?!
Post by: Xsannz on March 11, 2014, 01:12:41 pm

Quote from Tiwaking!: March 11, 2014, 01:05:45 pm

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 12:22:23 pm
SKI OR DIE
([url]http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/ski-or-die/ski-or-die-ss1.gif[/url])
What the hell is that monstrosity?!
([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Skate_or_Die[/url]!_cover.jpg)

ski or die came first....

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Codex on March 11, 2014, 01:15:11 pm

Quote from `Kayne: February 13, 2014, 06:36:18 pm

Currently running through Abe's Exodus (on steammmmm) again.

Does that count as an old game?

([url]http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100406012531/oddworld/images/6/65/AE_lineup.jpg[/url])

Awesome games, they're remaking abes oddysee and exodus at the moment, can't wait for the release.

Strangers wrath and Munch's were remade and are also fantastic. Finished strangers at least 10 times when it got re-released hah.

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 12:22:23 pm

SKIE OR DIE
([url]http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/ski-or-die/ski-or-die-ss1.gif[/url])

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 12:22:23 pm

SKIE OR DIE

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 12:22:23 pm

SKIE

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 12:22:23 pm

SKIE

(http://iforce.co.nz/i/02ly0jmq.owe.png)

Title: SkiFree
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 11, 2014, 01:17:22 pm

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 01:12:41 pm

ski or die came first....

I've never heard of Ski or Die before. It also didnt come first:

Quote from: Wikipedia

Skate or Die! is a skateboarding game released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, and IBM Compatibles running MS-DOS

Quote from: Wikipedia

Ski or Die is a 1990 winter sports game by Electronic Arts for the Amiga, NES, MS-DOS and Commodore 64.

Speaking of Skiing games, why is there no love here for SkiFree (1991)?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Skifree_screenshot.png)

Title: Re: SkiFree
Post by: Xsannz on March 11, 2014, 01:28:36 pm

Quote from Tiwaking!: March 11, 2014, 01:17:22 pm

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 01:12:41 pm
ski or die came first....
I've never heard of Ski or Die before. It also didnt come first:
Quote from: Wikipedia
Skate or Die! is a skateboarding game released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, and IBM Compatibles running MS-DOS

Quote from: Wikipedia
Ski or Die is a 1990 winter sports game by Electronic Arts for the Amiga, NES, MS-DOS and Commodore 64.

Speaking of Skiing games, why is there no love here for SkiFree (1991)?
([url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Skifree_screenshot.png[/url])

fair play, ski free was great

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 11, 2014, 01:57:30 pm

FUCKING SKI FREE!

Ski and Die!

(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)
(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)
(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)
(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)
(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)(http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on March 11, 2014, 02:01:21 pm

Quote from Spacemonkey: March 11, 2014, 01:57:30 pm

FUCKING SKI FREE!

Ski and Die!

([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])
([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])
([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])
([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])
([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])([url]http://www.pcmech.com/wp-content/uploads/img/SkiFreeYesYouCanStillPlayIt_1039A/skifree_yeti.gif[/url])

lol this was the prequel rage creator long before COD or CSS rage...

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 11, 2014, 02:23:13 pm

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vCCIeMdGdeo/Txdegu8d3SI/AAAAAAAAA5U/qua3dJl__d8/s1600/undefeated___skifree_by_matsemann08-d33e15h.jpg)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on March 11, 2014, 02:31:00 pm

Quote from Spacemonkey: March 11, 2014, 02:23:13 pm

([url]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vCCIeMdGdeo/Txdegu8d3SI/AAAAAAAAA5U/qua3dJl__d8/s1600/undefeated___skifree_by_matsemann08-d33e15h.jpg[/url])

/\ - #AINTTHATTHETRUTH

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: AvatarFACE on March 11, 2014, 02:55:38 pm

Also:

(http://img131.imagevenue.com/loc542/th_502810638_awesome_desktop_wallpapers_3skifree_122_542lo.jpg) (http://img131.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=502810638_awesome_desktop_wallpapers_3skifree_122_542lo.jpg)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 11, 2014, 03:27:24 pm

I want to play Ski Free as the Yeti, running around eating people.

Someone make this game happen!

Title: SkiFree - Play As Yeti
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 11, 2014, 03:58:55 pm

Quote from Spacemonkey: March 11, 2014, 03:27:24 pm

I want to play Ski Free as the Yeti, running around eating people.

Someone make this game happen!

You could do it yourself you know
https://www.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/skifree/sheet/26926/ (https://www.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/skifree/sheet/26926/)
(https://www.spriters-resource.com/resources/sheets/25/26926.png)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 11, 2014, 05:11:53 pm

I was just looking for sprites, for this reason.

Will get my programming on this weekend.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Craigor on March 12, 2014, 10:16:12 am

Quote from Xsannz: March 11, 2014, 12:22:23 pm

StreetRod first car customising game ever
([url]http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/street-rod/street-rod-ss1.gif[/url])

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Rod_(video_game)[/url] ([url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Rod_(video_game))[/url]

or Stunts
([url]http://www.bestoldgames.net/img/ss/stunts/stunts-ss1.gif[/url])

I played the hell out of both of those games back in the day

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on March 12, 2014, 12:34:07 pm

NOTHING BEATS this gem

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4021/4214197489_63931a826e.jpg)

GOLDEN AXE FTW

Title: Commodore 64 - Golden Axe!
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 12, 2014, 07:20:06 pm

Quote from Xsannz: March 12, 2014, 12:34:07 pm

NOTHING BEATS this gem

([url]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4021/4214197489_63931a826e.jpg[/url])

GOLDEN AXE FTW

Golden Axe Music (C64) - Wilderness (Main Theme) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFoN1ZMmNUA#)

Title: Spacemonkey's SkiFree
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 16, 2014, 10:50:13 am

Quote from Spacemonkey: March 11, 2014, 05:11:53 pm

I was just looking for sprites, for this reason.

Will get my programming on this weekend.

Still waiting for this

Dont make me have to try making it too

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 17, 2014, 09:17:31 am

I'm working on the DNF timeline.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on March 17, 2014, 11:15:47 am

Quote from Spacemonkey: March 17, 2014, 09:17:31 am

I'm working on the DNF timeline.

will it be free to play?

Will you add DLC. i.e first release is just white screen and then each other pixel and sprite will be DLC?

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 17, 2014, 11:23:35 am

It's pay to win.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on March 17, 2014, 11:59:00 am

Quote from Spacemonkey: March 17, 2014, 11:23:35 am

It's pay to win.

??? ??? :'( oh well ill just roll over and pay anyway just like every other game, will you at least do bonus xp weekends and to make up for shoddy gameplay and bad servers at launch?

Title: Medieval Lords - Soldier Kings of Europe
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 19, 2014, 02:00:57 pm

Does anyone know how to play this game?
Medieval Lords: Soldier Kings of Europe
(http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Commodore_64/Advert/big/Medieval_Lords-_Soldier_Kings_of_Europe_-_1991_-_Strategic_Simulations.jpg)
I cant find the Manual for it online anywhere and cant figure out what Bureacrats actually do

I have the C64 version but it didnt have a manual either

Title: Re: Medieval Lords - Soldier Kings of Europe
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 19, 2014, 02:08:51 pm

Quote from Tiwaking!: March 19, 2014, 02:00:57 pm

I cant find the Manual for it online anywhere and cant figure out what Bureacrats actually do

Well, that's the point.

Title: Stunts Wiki
Post by: Tiwaking! on July 25, 2014, 09:12:51 pm

Quote from Tiwaking!: January 14, 2012, 09:11:04 pm

I am so utterly tempted to do a video showing my asian level Lancia driving skills.

I cant believe there is a Stunts Wiki
http://wiki.stunts.hu/index.php?title=Main_Page (http://wiki.stunts.hu/index.php?title=Main_Page)

http://wiki.stunts.hu/index.php/Lancia_Delta_Integrale (http://wiki.stunts.hu/index.php/Lancia_Delta_Integrale)
(http://wiki.stunts.hu/images/thumb/0/0c/LANC.gif/226px-LANC.gif)

Quote

Lancia Delta HF Integrale 16V

Designer:   Original car
Released:   1990
Game version:   All
Engine specs:   DOHC 16V Turbo, 1995cc
Torque peak at:   not verified
Max horsepower (est.):   200HP
Transmission:   5-speed
0-60mph:   5.1s
0-100mph:   14.7s
Half mile:   22.40s
Flat track top speed:   140mph
Real top speed :   218mph

edit:

Quote from Spacemonkey: March 19, 2014, 02:08:51 pm

Quote from Tiwaking!: March 19, 2014, 02:00:57 pm
I cant find the Manual for it online anywhere and cant figure out what Bureacrats actually do

Well, that's the point.

I found this nice guy who pointed me towards the Manual:
http://onelastsketch.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/vampire-viziers-of-medieval-europe/ (http://onelastsketch.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/vampire-viziers-of-medieval-europe/)
http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.2466 (http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.2466)
Bureaucrats increase the efficiency of Tax Collection. However: They are not as effective as simply increasing the population of the province by supporting towns. This makes them useless, just like in Real Life

Title: Zool and MOO2
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 17, 2014, 11:03:50 pm

Just gave Zool a go. It has not aged well. Especially compared to Commander Keen.

Gave Master Of Orion 2 a go too. Three hours later I remembered why it was such a great game.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on December 11, 2014, 12:02:07 pm

EA giving away Sim City 2000 for free.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/games/64040997/ea-giving-away-simcity-2000 (http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/games/64040997/ea-giving-away-simcity-2000)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on December 11, 2014, 12:11:43 pm

Oh Man, Zool. I remember that.

What was the 7up dude called? Spot or something?

Title: I remember 7up tasting horrible
Post by: Tiwaking! on December 11, 2014, 07:07:35 pm

Quote from Spacemonkeyorsarus: December 11, 2014, 12:02:07 pm

EA giving away Sim City 2000 for free.

[url]http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/games/64040997/ea-giving-away-simcity-2000[/url] ([url]http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/games/64040997/ea-giving-away-simcity-2000[/url])

This seems like a silly move.

SimCity 2000 is the second best SimCity game

Quote from Retardobot: December 11, 2014, 12:11:43 pm

Oh Man, Zool. I remember that.

What was the 7up dude called? Spot or something?

Do you mean Cool Spot?

It seem so weird to associate commercial products with platformer games these days.

Sure am glad Primo didnt have a video game mascot

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Retardobot on December 11, 2014, 09:51:32 pm

Cool Spot!

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Meesham on December 12, 2014, 01:17:36 pm

Soldier of Fortune 2 multiplayer, I played the shit out of that game. My signature move was to hold onto a grenade to bleed the time and then run up to people and throw it in their face, I only blew myself up around 25% of the time.

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: bluehomzee on December 12, 2014, 03:56:25 pm

anyone played silent storm

i liked it a lot :)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pitchey on December 12, 2014, 05:58:01 pm

Name the game, win a prize. 8)

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Dr. Acula on December 12, 2014, 10:42:59 pm

Quote from Pitchey: December 12, 2014, 05:58:01 pm

Name the game, win a prize. 8)

Don't know the game but I know the plane, P-51D is it?

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pitchey on December 13, 2014, 12:29:24 am

1/2 points to Dr. Acula!

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on December 13, 2014, 08:53:18 am

microsoft flight sim? Don't ask me which one, I don't think it's the combat flight simulator?

Edit : Just had a look through goggle glasses and it doesn't seem to be MS flight sim

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Bert on December 13, 2014, 11:20:12 am

Battlefield 1942. I still rock this anyway haha

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on December 13, 2014, 03:33:03 pm

Quote from meesham: December 12, 2014, 01:17:36 pm

Soldier of Fortune 2 multiplayer, I played the shit out of that game. My signature move was to hold onto a grenade to bleed the time and then run up to people and throw it in their face, I only blew myself up around 25% of the time.

SOF was awesome especially being able to blow body parts off

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: private_hell on December 13, 2014, 05:50:51 pm

Quote from Pitchey: December 12, 2014, 05:58:01 pm

Name the game, win a prize. 8)

IL-2

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Pitchey on December 14, 2014, 01:26:01 am

Quote from `Kayne: December 13, 2014, 08:53:18 am

I don't think it's the combat flight simulator?

Actually it was! CFS, the original!

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Kayne on December 14, 2014, 01:43:02 am

! used to play the shit out of that game : ww2 europe series, with the joystick that came with it

Title: Re: Old games that used to float your boat?
Post by: Xsannz on December 15, 2014, 07:05:07 am

i got really addicted to
SU 27 flanker
when i saw HAWX i had to buy it because of my previous love SU 27 flanker
http://youtu.be/pAoMPGoVNG4 (http://youtu.be/pAoMPGoVNG4)

Get Some

General => General Chat => Topic started by: SaSa on January 13, 2012, 11:31:31 pm