Favorite old games
Tuesday, June 24th, 2003 - 11:24am
Been a while since we had a random polling here, so I thought I'd throw a topic out there. Think of it as an homage to my Question of the Day series.
What are your five favorite older games pre-video acceleration/pre-Playstation?
In no particular order I have to say:
Bard's Tale
Ultima IV
Doom
Master of Magic
Civilization
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
You pretty much covered them all there. Bard''s Tale 1 was the first game I ever played
. A few that you didn''t mention:
Ultima 5
Wizards Crown series
Alpha Centauri (Bards tale in space)
XCOM
Colonization
I never minded piracy. Anyone who minds about piracy is full of sh*t. Anyone who pirates your game wasn't going to buy it anyway! -Warren Spector
M.U.L.E.
Command & Conquer
Gunstar Heroes
Elite
Dark Forces
Everyone always says ''Doom.'' I hate Doom and I always have. It honestly struck me as a ""Deviled-Up"" version of Wolfenstein 3D and I''ve never seen the value of the game, nor am I compelled in the slightest by Doom III. I''ve always wondered what that says about me as a gamer.
"If Blizzard announces a subscription fee for Diablo III we will have to build a second Internet to make room for all the complaining." - muttonchop
You know, there''s lots of interesting evidence that a new Bard''s Tale from one of the original developers of the game is in the works. I''m kinda excited about that possibility.
How can you not like Doom? That game was the first to generate a viceral and compelling response from me. Of course, I mean it scared the holy hell out of me.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
In order of preference:
Syndicate (I know it wouldn''t be Politically correct but please developers, remake this game!)
X-COM
C&C Red Alert
Civ
Privateer
Elite
I have to agree with Reaper on the ""I hate Doom"" thing it never really did it for me despite playing all of the doom games. I always felt ""Meh! next!""
MUST...STOP ...PLAYING ....SWG! MUST GET REAL LIFE BACK AGAIN!
mmh let''s see:
Turrican
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R-Type (my first game I played in the arcardes
Chaos Engine
Speedball 2
MUDS
I played the last three with my friends to no end on the Amiga. Thankfully with the consoles coop play is coming back. I really missed that everytime I sat alone in front of my pc.
Bard''s Tale would be the sixth in line for me. Really a great RPG series.
I hope the rumors are true. I''d buy it in a heartbeat
No hay banda!
In no order...
X-Com
Doom 2
Homm 2
Any SSI Gold Box RPG
Fantasy General
Almost makes me want to put together a DOS box?
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
Hey Fellas, new reader and new user.
Top of my head picks:
Pirates!
X-Com
Red Storm Rising
Colonial Conquest (any of the late-80''s SSI games actually)
Earl Weaver Baseball
Welcome B-Boy
What Elysium said.
As to what it says about you as a gamer, I have one word for you, POSER!!!
JK
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
Welcome to the forums. Now that you say it Pirates was indeed a great game aswell. The longer I think about it, the more games come to mind. Anybody remember Lemmings?
No hay banda!
Q-Bert and Frogger we''re the first two games I ever played. Still greatest ever created!
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Another new reader of this forum.
An oldie that rarely gets its due is Magic Carpet from Bullfrog. Coming from someone who doesn''t like flight sims, that''s my favorite flight sim.
I loved Pirates!, and am excited by the possibilities of the new MMORPG ""Pirates of the Burning Realm.""
And how could we have gone this long without mentioning Wasteland?
Huge welcome to both Ygdrasil (from Hyperion, correct?) and B-Boy.
Ygdrasil, you do know Firaxis is making a new Pirates! right? You can count me directly into the camp slobbering over the possibility.
Wasteland! Seriously, how could we have forgotten.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Ultima VII
AutoDuel
Doom
Rings of Zilfin
IoK
bah..theres many more...you need more than 5!!
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
85's face the truth you're too dumb.
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I''m not sure what Hyperion is (Keats poem?), I just picked the name after the Giant Norse Tree of Life thingy. Plus it sounds cooler and seemed somehow wiser than my @yahoo name.
Back on topic, Red Storm Rising was a great game on the Com64, you''d sink a Russkie sub and suddenly NATO would retake a sliver of Norway.
Actually, you''re right on all counts. Hyperion is a fantastic science fiction book (actually it''s a fantastic book on its own despite being genre) based loosely around Keats'' poem. In the story the Ygdrasil is the ship that delivers our heroes to the planet Hyperion where they embark on a modern day Canterbury Tales. Of course, the Ygdrasil ship is a tree itself. It sounds weird just summarized like that, but if you''ve got any interest in sci-fi then Hyperion is a classic.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Im gonna say Doom, to counter the hatas in this thread. Seriously brilliant, it did everything a game should do, and nothing more. Thats why I like it, it''s the simplest most engaging game that game could be.
Tie Fighter
GK1
Wing Commander II
Zork
Also, welcome newbloods!
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Adding to the games already posted. There was an old game called Birthright based on the D&D campaign world. It mixed dungeon crawling with TBS and was fantastic.
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988
Dark Forces
TIE Fighter
DOOM
Gabriel Knight
Sim City
WarCraft
Aces Over the Pacific
Falcon
Civilization 2
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"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Zork!
Wizardry I
(Shame on all of you for not mentioning those)
Doom - what Elsyium said.
Ultima IV - I put in a lot of hours on old Atari 400, but never finished it. Finally got a version running on a pc a couple of years back and polished it off.
Crusader - too much fun. They really need to remake the Crusader games. Or at least make them WinX compatible.
Prince of Persia - one of the first games I played on a sweet CGA monitor!
Duke Nukem 3D - offended Mrs. Wumpus to no end, but was just too much fun. Racked up some serious long distance bills modem-ing with brothers across country.
Super Smash TV
Metal Gear (NES)
Section Z
Bonk''s Adventure
Blazing Lasers
Let''s see... Tornado gives me the fondest memories (flightsimmer at the age of 10
), flying low-level to bomb the f* out of a commie airfield with my JP-233 just never got old.
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Oh man, I guess now that I''m getting close to 30 I''m really starting to show my age
Here goes:
Defender of the Crown, on the Amiga-- I loved this game, though it was simplistic.
Marble Madness, Amiga again-- from the original Electronic Arts, way back when.
King''s Quest 3 - This game was a lot of fun for me. I think the fact that I couldn''t make the wizard mad added some suspense.
Ultima IV - A classic in the true sense of the word, this is the only game in the entire Ultima series that I stuck with all the way to the end.
The Realm - One of the first MMORPGs, this game was mostly a graphical chat room but it was a tight knit community with ""global"" chat features. It does still live, as well (www.realmserver.com) .
I didn''t list Civ2, StarCraft, or Warcraft 2 merely because these are too new for me. I''m nearing 30 and hanging on to my close years for a little while.
Craig
Autoduel
Sundog
Wizardry
Dark Forces
Choplifter
Wing Commander
And I have to put Doom up there, as the first online game I played that showed me a whole new world. Yes, it did seem to be an update to Wolfenstein, but the online experience was the best!
Money can't buy you happiness...but it can buy you a boat big enough to sell right up next to it!-David Lee Roth
And FuzzyCuddleWumpus, you''re so right...they REALLY need to remake the Crusader series. Was that the first game where you could just completely obliterate everything? It seems to me that Red Faction would never have been imagined if these games hadn''t come first.
Money can't buy you happiness...but it can buy you a boat big enough to sell right up next to it!-David Lee Roth
Oh, and of course, Star Control 2, currently being revived by those cats at http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ That game was the craziest, best-written, widest-scope... mm-waah! So many superlatives belong to that game, and I hate superlatives.
Also, sigfry, props to Defender of the Crown. I have fond memories of the punishment I would lay down with Wolfric the Wild. (""Hmm, I want your territory, and I''d rather not fight you for it. Care to joust?"")
Hey, you guys pretty much have everything of my favorites on your list.
)
Bards Tale (my first RPG)
Ultima 6 (for me the best of the series)
Wasteland (Fallout 0,5... best roleplaying game ever for me, and i''m still looking for the martians
Elite (but definitely only in C-64 Version)
M.U.L.E. (amazing multiplayer gameplay)
Pirates! (will be remaked soon... i hope it will be cool)
X-Com3 (graphics were nicer (not better) in part 2, but for me 3 had better gameplay)
hm, the only cool old game i remember which no one mentioned here is ""Alter Ego"" which i played on C64. Anyone remembers? You started as baby and had to go through a virtual life by giving multiple-choice answers when some events occur.
System Shock (No explanation needed, surely?)
Little Big Adventure (Relentless in the US)
Syndicate (Thanks Kegboy for reminding me. I really should hunt down a copy and try getting it running)
Command & Conquer (The only game in the series I really like.)
Crusader: No Remorse (Look at him burn! *mad laughter*)
Hexen (I always liked this series more than the Doom one. Dunno why really.)
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Oh yes! I loved that game, I wish I could get my hands on a fresh copy.
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Great site, btw. I was recently playing CS and a 12 year old asked me how old I was over mic (because I have deep voice). I told him 32 and he asked incredulously, ""How come yer playing computer games if yer that old?!?!"" Anyway, nice to find this site.
atari 2600 - river raid. never made it to 1,000,000 which promised you''d get T-shirt if you took polaroid of screen with score...
c-64 - Pools of Radiance. real d&d for first time.
Moebius. couldn''t believe the graphics/game play for 64k.
PC way too much Civ. trying to remember other game, was
called something like ""empire"" where you take over cities,
set production, and by time you had 20 cities and half building
fighter jets game would take 3 minutes just to think about
what you did every round.
also was the ascii-based dungeon crawl game...where you''d
get polymorphed for better or worse, anyone remember name?
anyway, thanks again for cool site. -Roo