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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #60 on: January 18, 2011, 08:43:45 pm
Quote from: Zacam on January 18, 2011, 08:10:51 pm
Quote from: Ravenholme on January 18, 2011, 07:54:50 pm
... since I was 3 (1994)...

I think I'm going to go have a large stiff drink. So I can not feel so old.


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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #61 on: January 19, 2011, 01:14:21 am
Quote from: Zacam on January 18, 2011, 08:10:51 pm
Quote from: Ravenholme on January 18, 2011, 07:54:50 pm
... since I was 3 (1994)...

I think I'm going to go have a large stiff drink. So I can not feel so old.

*clinks the glass*

Right there with ya bruttha.

Most of these games I remember playing.  I remember when SWotL was first published.  Heck, I remember playing a standup arcade pong in a pizza place, and the first video pinball games.

This thread makes me want to pull my VIC 20/Apple IIe/Amiga 500 out of the garage and hook it up again.

*sigh*

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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #62 on: January 19, 2011, 03:10:14 am
Quote from: rev_posix on January 19, 2011, 01:14:21 am
Quote from: Zacam on January 18, 2011, 08:10:51 pm
Quote from: Ravenholme on January 18, 2011, 07:54:50 pm
... since I was 3 (1994)...

I think I'm going to go have a large stiff drink. So I can not feel so old.

*clinks the glass*

Right there with ya bruttha.

Most of these games I remember playing.  I remember when SWotL was first published.  Heck, I remember playing a standup arcade pong in a pizza place, and the first video pinball games.

This thread makes me want to pull my VIC 20/Apple IIe/Amiga 500 out of the garage and hook it up again.

*sigh*

You kids...  Up hill both ways, and get off my lawn.  :D

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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #63 on: January 19, 2011, 03:29:43 am
Quote from: rev_posix on January 19, 2011, 01:14:21 am
I remember when SWotL was first published.

Oh man, SWotL, Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour: the Battle of Britain. Those were good games. I remember when the Aces series replaced them and I was disappointed because they didn't have the big campaign mechanic and their ToDs were short.

(And no flying the B-17.)
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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #64 on: January 19, 2011, 04:00:44 am
Quote from: NGTM-1R on January 19, 2011, 03:29:43 am
Quote from: rev_posix on January 19, 2011, 01:14:21 am
I remember when SWotL was first published.

Oh man, SWotL, Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour: the Battle of Britain. Those were good games. I remember when the Aces series replaced them and I was disappointed because they didn't have the big campaign mechanic and their ToDs were short.

Those were quite good. I played BoB and it's expansion quite a bit, then I got the budget label version of Battlehawks 1942 a few years later. The manuals for those games were almost like history books. I can also remember the "radio wheel" copy protection device that BoB had. Later I got the Aces collection (by Dynamix) for the PC; in fact I was rummaging around the loft two days ago and pulled it out along with a load of other oldies (probably too many to list here). I missed out on SWotL, which I really wanted to play, because it wasn't released for the Atari ST which was my main gaming platform when I was younger. But IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 kind of makes up for that.
 

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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #65 on: January 19, 2011, 02:12:51 pm
All you old-timers make me feel so young. I was 2 in 1994....
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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #66 on: January 19, 2011, 02:22:20 pm
Quote from: lostllama on January 19, 2011, 04:00:44 am
Quote from: NGTM-1R on January 19, 2011, 03:29:43 am
Quote from: rev_posix on January 19, 2011, 01:14:21 am
I remember when SWotL was first published.

Oh man, SWotL, Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour: the Battle of Britain. Those were good games. I remember when the Aces series replaced them and I was disappointed because they didn't have the big campaign mechanic and their ToDs were short.

Those were quite good. I played BoB and it's expansion quite a bit, then I got the budget label version of Battlehawks 1942 a few years later. The manuals for those games were almost like history books. I can also remember the "radio wheel" copy protection device that BoB had. Later I got the Aces collection (by Dynamix) for the PC; in fact I was rummaging around the loft two days ago and pulled it out along with a load of other oldies (probably too many to list here). I missed out on SWotL, which I really wanted to play, because it wasn't released for the Atari ST which was my main gaming platform when I was younger. But IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 kind of makes up for that.

I miss thre old days when you got a decent sized manual with every game to flick through while you were waiting for the game to install.
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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #67 on: January 19, 2011, 04:03:05 pm
Quote from: sayoqod on January 19, 2011, 02:12:51 pm
All you old-timers make me feel so young. I was 2 in 1994....

I was 22 :nervous:
 

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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #68 on: January 19, 2011, 04:05:04 pm
I wasn't even born in 1994. :nervous:
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Reply #69 on: January 19, 2011, 04:09:52 pm
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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #70 on: January 19, 2011, 05:24:29 pm
Did somebody mention Zaxxon? Count me in! And if one mentions Zaxxon, one has to mention Sopwith!

And how could I forget Laser Squad?

Also, more recent ones like Worms (first one) was a blast back then when playing with friends. Molez was great too, especially when 4 people crammed to play it with a single keyboard!

Dune II, this one I didn't expect

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Reply #71 on: January 19, 2011, 06:13:58 pm
Just started playing Final Fantasy a few hours ago. The very first one.

Seems kinda neat.
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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #72 on: January 19, 2011, 06:28:36 pm
Quote from: Mika on January 19, 2011, 05:24:29 pm

Dune II, this one I didn't expect


Curse you! I forgot how much I loved that game and now I'm being sucked back in....
 

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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #73 on: January 19, 2011, 06:29:58 pm
Quote from: Ghostavo on January 19, 2011, 06:13:58 pm
Just started playing Final Fantasy a few hours ago. The very first one.

Seems kinda neat.

I keep meaning to get into that...
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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #74 on: January 20, 2011, 03:34:20 am
Prince of Persia, (the original), Pitfall,  Asteroids and Another World!  :nod: :yes:
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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #75 on: January 20, 2011, 01:15:11 pm
Quote from: Hades on January 19, 2011, 04:05:04 pm
I wasn't even born in 1994. :nervous:

Now I feel old.
 

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Re: Games of a certain era
Reply #76 on: January 20, 2011, 02:10:30 pm
Quote from: Flipside on January 19, 2011, 06:28:36 pm
Quote from: Mika on January 19, 2011, 05:24:29 pm

Dune II, this one I didn't expect


Curse you! I forgot how much I loved that game and now I'm being sucked back in....


Would you like to remember more? A welcome find as well. If they only finished it some day...

EDIT: Thanks for reminding me of Another World! I don't remember how many times we died on the first screen...
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Reply #77 on: January 21, 2011, 01:48:47 am
From the days when EA was still a new company, had shapes as it's logo and actually made games vs buying sports games from other companies:

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Reply #78 on: January 21, 2011, 02:56:35 am
As strange as it may seem, EA has been fairly awesome over the past few years in terms of promoting new IPs and treating its developers well.  Activision is basically the new EA.
 

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Reply #79 on: January 21, 2011, 04:00:22 am
Yeah, since they have that new CEO they are still quite business like, but (much) less scared to invest in something new and innovative. It is why Bioware and Pandemic joined EA.

Quote from: Ghostavo on January 19, 2011, 06:13:58 pm
Just started playing Final Fantasy a few hours ago. The very first one.

Seems kinda neat.

Seriously, I've got some kind of FinalFantasiofobia. Ever since someone said that someone called Sephiroth from FF7 is awesome because he has a big sword which is 6 meters long (giggles, giggles), and that is apperently the most important reason I should play that game, I am staying away from it.
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