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Title: Old Games...
Post by: Turnsky on May 13, 2003, 05:25:38 pm: who's nostalgic around here?

me, i've been playing ABUSE lately(heh, Doom Platformer)

anyone else?
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Post by: Galemp on May 13, 2003, 05:36:57 pm: Castles II: Siege and Conquest

:drool:
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Post by: Fineus on May 13, 2003, 05:39:52 pm: Secret Weapons of The Luftwaffe, Lightspeed - ahh, the memories...
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Post by: Martinus on May 13, 2003, 05:40:14 pm: [color=66ff00]Xcom: Terror from the deep :)
Thief 2 as well but it's not as old.
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 13, 2003, 05:43:26 pm: Starcraft? :nervous:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 13, 2003, 05:47:20 pm: Most of 'em.

Master of Orion, Fallout, Deus Ex, Blood, original-flavor Independence War, Another World...
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Post by: Thorn on May 13, 2003, 05:47:36 pm: Chronotrigger...
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 13, 2003, 05:49:53 pm: Bad Mojo...
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Post by: Martinus on May 13, 2003, 05:57:05 pm: [color=66ff00]Just out of interest; how old is system shock 2, I can't find a copy of it anywhere. :|
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Post by: Turnsky on May 13, 2003, 05:58:03 pm: old enough to be in ea's little white boxes...
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 13, 2003, 05:58:58 pm: Old enough to be abandonware.

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=3924
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Post by: Thorn on May 13, 2003, 06:03:30 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Just out of interest; how old is system shock 2, I can't find a copy of it anywhere. :|
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You want it? I'm tired of it.
No charge.
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Post by: elorran on May 13, 2003, 06:17:49 pm: Space Invaders?
http://www.dryphed.com/elorran/legebarn.exe

Pacman?
http://www.dryphed.com/elorran/packman.exe

Now these ARE old classics :)
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Post by: Martinus on May 13, 2003, 07:33:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Thorn

You want it? I'm tired of it.
No charge.

[color=66ff00]You good sir are most kind :)

Thanks for the info too Strkye, and unless someone can host the whole shebang movies and all (seems the abandonware one is missing those) I'll take you up on the offer Thorn.
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on May 13, 2003, 07:42:39 pm: Duke Nukem 3D
Final fantasy 4,5,6
Total Annhilation
Dark Reign

:p
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Post by: Thorn on May 13, 2003, 07:52:45 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]You good sir are most kind :)

Thanks for the info too Strkye, and unless someone can host the whole shebang movies and all (seems the abandonware one is missing those) I'll take you up on the offer Thorn.
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If you want it, just send me your addy... may be a week or two till I get it though...
Pester Shrike to call me if you really want it :P
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Post by: Unknown Target on May 13, 2003, 07:56:22 pm: Combat Flight Sim 2, Mech 4, a little Thief, a little Combat Mission, Homeworld, a little Homeworld: Cataclysm, some Jane's WWII Fighters, and that's about it.
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Post by: Kamikaze on May 13, 2003, 08:11:35 pm: I'm playing some SNES games... planning to get myself a dreamcast and a saturn sometime so I can do some old console gaming.

Oh and I'm playing a few old comp games, like system shock 2 (debating whether to go pick up thief) and I have that stash of dos games somewhere....
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Post by: CP5670 on May 13, 2003, 09:59:54 pm: Quote
Most of 'em.

Same here. :yes: I was just playing Monkey Island 2 a few days; absolutely hilarious. :D Recently finished Descent 2 again as well.

By the way can someone tell me what happens in the end of System Shock 2? I beat the game but the HOTU version does not have the movies so it just dumped me to the main menu instead.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 13, 2003, 10:11:19 pm: Spoiler:
You get away in an escape pod with a chick and a dude, have a nice chat with SHODAN over the viewphone, shoot a screen, and the chick gets possessed by SHODAN

Last I heard. I never finished it either, I was just told.:D
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Post by: CP5670 on May 13, 2003, 10:32:52 pm: okay, that sounds pretty crazy... :wtf: :D
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Post by: J3Vr6 on May 13, 2003, 10:35:15 pm: I was actually playing Police Quest III a few months back... I remember when that game came out I thought it was so cutting edge.
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Post by: ZylonBane on May 13, 2003, 11:30:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Old enough to be abandonware.
No, it isn't. (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65259)
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 13, 2003, 11:36:50 pm: Who cares? (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8611/page2.htm)
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Post by: Amon_Re on May 14, 2003, 12:47:25 am: Gyruss.... This game is my all time fave shooter ;)

Cheers,
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Post by: Stunaep on May 14, 2003, 01:16:53 am: Daggerfall.
Title: Re: Old Games...
Post by: Nico on May 14, 2003, 02:25:50 am: Quote
Originally posted by Turnsky
who's nostalgic around here?

me, i've been playing ABUSE lately(heh, Doom Platformer)

whoa. I remember that one.
lately I've played... FS2 ;7 ( heh if it's not an oldie now... ) and worms2.
that sid, I haven't played any other game on pc for quite some time.
wanted to reinstal dark omen, but it doesn't like XP it seems...
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Post by: Razor on May 14, 2003, 08:20:48 am: TYRIAN
DN3D
Descent (shame on you. none of you mentioned it)
Freespace 1 and 2 :p
Hi Octane
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Post by: kode on May 14, 2003, 08:30:43 am: the older games I've been playing lately is
falcon 3.0
jetpack
ascendancy
lemmings
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Post by: tEAbAG on May 14, 2003, 01:29:27 pm: At any given moment I have a X-Com game going. Lately I've been revisiting the Quest for Glory series.
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Post by: Sandwich on May 14, 2003, 02:25:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Xcom: Terror from the deep :)[/color]

Booyah!! :nod:

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Originally posted by SKYNET-011
...Total Annhilation...:p

Double booyah! ;7

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Originally posted by Razor
TYRIAN

Strike 3!! ;7
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Post by: Razor on May 14, 2003, 02:28:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

Strike 3!! ;7

What? :wtf:
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Post by: Sandwich on May 14, 2003, 02:34:35 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Razor

What? :wtf:

Peppermint ice-cream.
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Post by: Martinus on May 14, 2003, 02:39:18 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

Strike 3!! ;7

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What? :wtf:

[color=66ff00]Stryke 9's little brother...
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Post by: Sandwich on May 14, 2003, 03:12:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Stryke 9's little brother...
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:lol:
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Post by: beatspete on May 14, 2003, 03:52:15 pm: Frontier Ellite anyone? I might make a Panther Clipper for freespace, sure would 0wn with its Large particle accelerator. Yup, sure was a great game, I still know most the star map.

And transport tycoon. I played that for 31 hours in just 7 days. And that was a school week
:lol:

And starcraft of course. I wonder how many zerg I had smoked with my seige tank and bunker combo's... thousands. Ten thousand? Twenty?
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Post by: karajorma on May 14, 2003, 05:40:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by beatspete
Frontier Ellite anyone? I might make a Panther Clipper for freespace, sure would 0wn with its Large particle accelerator. Yup, sure was a great game, I still know most the star map.

I did consider making some mods based on the ships from Frontier but after looking at the manual I realised that they were actually so simple that either I'd have to completely reinvent them or end up with 50 poly ships :)
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Post by: CP5670 on May 14, 2003, 09:00:40 pm: Just picked up Spectre VR, an old favorite of mine, from HOTU and it actually works on my current computer.

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lemmings

I spent many hundreds of hours with this and its sequels about ten years ago; a very, very cool series. Problem is, I cannot get any of them work on the computer I have right now. :(

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Descent (shame on you. none of you mentioned it)

I talked about D2 earlier on; played through that, its expansion pack and some of the user-made missions very recently...
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Post by: 01010 on May 15, 2003, 01:19:54 am: Quote
Originally posted by beatspete
Frontier Ellite anyone? I might make a Panther Clipper for freespace, sure would 0wn with its Large particle accelerator. Yup, sure was a great game, I still know most the star map.

Best game ever. I traded in my Panther Clipper for an Imperial Courier and started military missions in the Imperial sector, by this point I'd been playing the game for about four months solid. I loved it and can't wait until something more tangible is released about Elite 4.
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Post by: kode on May 15, 2003, 01:50:22 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670

I spent many hundreds of hours with this and its sequels about ten years ago; a very, very cool series. Problem is, I cannot get any of them work on the computer I have right now. :(

not even the windows 95 remake?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 15, 2003, 02:27:19 am: I have been playing...

Raptor: Call of The Shadows!
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Post by: J.F.K. on May 15, 2003, 02:55:15 am: Quote
Originally posted by Thorn
Chronotrigger...

My definite favourite old game... IMHO, the Chrono games were way better than the FF series. The gameplay was just gold, and the time travel was handled really well. X-Com's also a good one mentioned above, though. :D

:hopping:

^^ I just realised we had this smilie! Cool.
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Post by: beatspete on May 15, 2003, 10:19:35 am: Quote
Originally posted by 01010
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Best game ever. I traded in my Panther Clipper for an Imperial Courier [/B]

Imperial Trader was always my fave, with a 20MW laser and a heap of sheilds, it could take on anything.
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Post by: Martinus on May 15, 2003, 11:32:06 am: [color=66ff00]Anybody know where I can get monkey island 1/2?
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Post by: Razor on May 15, 2003, 11:44:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

:lol:

Hey why are you being so modest? Overdrive man, overdrive!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:doubt: :rolleyes:
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Post by: 01010 on May 15, 2003, 11:58:25 am: Quote
Originally posted by beatspete

Imperial Trader was always my fave, with a 20MW laser and a heap of sheilds, it could take on anything.

I was never a fighter or a miner (I always found mining a pain in the ass) I was a trader, used to run animal skins from one of the sytems you started on (not Lave) the Icy one, can't remember the name, to Barnards star, take agricultural machiney to Sol and then repeat the run in reverse.

I really loved that game, damn shame I can't get hold of a PC version.
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Post by: CP5670 on May 15, 2003, 12:45:34 pm: Has anyone here played Supaplex? It was a freeware puzzle-like game released around 1990 and was the other one that I spent several hundreds of hours about a decade ago. There was a mac port of it called Infotron which is how I was introduced to the game and some fans made a windows port called Megaplex more recently. Highly addictive and definitely recommended. :yes:

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not even the windows 95 remake?

I couldn't get that to work either, as it just gives an illegal operation immediately on startup.

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Raptor: Call of The Shadows!

I still have my really old pilot file for this; have stashed up some 75 million credits now. :D

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[color=66ff00]Anybody know where I can get monkey island 1/2?
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They should both be on HOTU. If not just search around on Google since I have seen other sites that have those two, or I can email them to you if you want.
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Post by: karajorma on May 15, 2003, 12:48:41 pm: Frontier and Frontier Encounters are both available for £5 each from The Elite Club (http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/)

Plus you can play them for 30 days to try them out for free :)

The Amiga version is free though so if you have UAE set up you can play that instead :)
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 15, 2003, 02:21:27 pm: Ooh, I've rigged my my laptop as a "old games" comp. Basically, been playing: Monkey Islands 1-3, Quest for Glory 1-5, Space Quest 1-6 and not to mention DIG, Full Throttle, Sam and Max, and Day of the Tentacle. I'll hopefully get Half-Life to work. Then of course the CLASSIC Another World or in some places known as Out of This Word.

I'm a sucker for those GOOD ol' Adventure games....

Oh man, how could I forget, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is also on my "old games" laptop. :D
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Post by: Nico on May 15, 2003, 02:39:28 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Then of course the CLASSIC Another World

you've beaten it?
then you gotta explain me how to break the code for the ejection seat of the tank in the arena, near the end of the game. I did it thanx to blind luck and patience :p
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Post by: 01010 on May 15, 2003, 02:47:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Venom

you've beaten it?
then you gotta explain me how to break the code for the ejection seat of the tank in the arena, near the end of the game. I did it thanx to blind luck and patience :p

I had the walkthrough but I never used it until that section. I think it was a case of just hitting the buttons, worked for me. So sad how the guy sacrificed himself for you. I really liked that game too.

Don't suppose anyone played the Turrican games? They were the best.

Kara. I have the UAE version but it's not a pirate copy so the manual check is still active. I tried the shareware versions of Encounters and Frontier but I'm running ME and I'm not inclined to spend five hours installing 98 and all the legacy drivers for DOS gaming. Guess I'll just have to commit it back to memory, though I guess that's not too bad, I can get back to playing Vice City PC now.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 15, 2003, 03:16:37 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Venom

you've beaten it?
then you gotta explain me how to break the code for the ejection seat of the tank in the arena, near the end of the game. I did it thanx to blind luck and patience :p

Well, how I usually did was that I just pressed all the buttons until I blew half of the arena away and the the only button left was the ejection one. :D

Oh by the way, has anyone ever played the Another World Sequel? HEART OF THE ALIEN?

Weird and Sad game. You play the alien this time and it takes place during and after the first game. Its odd, but has a real sad ending. Only came out for Sega Saturn but if I remember correctily Home of the underdogs has it.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 15, 2003, 03:24:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by 01010

Don't suppose anyone played the Turrican games? They were the best.

Hell YEAH!!! They rocked! Music kicked ass too! Actually quite many of Amiga's games kicked all ass! Lost Patrol was a kickass Vietnam game only beaten finally by VIETCONG. Then there Flood! A cute little green thingy that had little adventures in the sewers. That was KICKASS. And who could forget Star Control!
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Post by: diamondgeezer on May 15, 2003, 03:25:53 pm: Keen, Doom and Tiberian Dawn
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 15, 2003, 03:30:22 pm: (http://www.smdweb.net/model/decepticon.jpg)
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Post by: diamondgeezer on May 15, 2003, 03:34:40 pm: (http://www.andersonrossi.hpg.com.br/thundercats2.jpg)
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Post by: kode on May 15, 2003, 03:50:52 pm: (http://ra2.nucleardays.com/images/logo_nod.jpg)

sorry, couldn't help myself. I just think it's a really cool logo.
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Post by: CP5670 on May 15, 2003, 04:26:06 pm: yes, that nod logo is great. :yes:

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I'm a sucker for those GOOD ol' Adventure games....

Same here; it's too bad that there are very few of those nowadays. My favorite adventure game was probably Mission Critical with its realistic story and excellent immersion. The Dig was a nice one too.
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Post by: Nico on May 15, 2003, 04:27:23 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Dark_4ce

Well, how I usually did was that I just pressed all the buttons until I blew half of the arena away and the the only button left was the ejection one. :D

Oh by the way, has anyone ever played the Another World Sequel? HEART OF THE ALIEN?

Weird and Sad game. You play the alien this time and it takes place during and after the first game. Its odd, but has a real sad ending. Only came out for Sega Saturn but if I remember correctily Home of the underdogs has it.

never heard about this one.
you mean you play as the alien that helps the dude from times to times ( I remember something like that, no? ).
rah, another world. the begining of the game is engraved in my memory forever, with the ferrari, the failed experience, then blma, you're thrown directly at the command ( and in a pool infested with tentacle thinguys ), and you get out of the water just in time, and just to face that lion thingy , then...
damn, when I think of it, I don't recall any game that achieved to make the plot evolve that much while playing...
it's a masterpiece if you ask me ( it also brought me a ****ing virus :p )
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Post by: Nico on May 15, 2003, 04:31:20 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
yes, that nod logo is great. :yes:

Same here; it's too bad that there are very few of those nowadays. My favorite adventure game was probably Mission Critical with its realistic story and excellent immersion. The Dig was a nice one too.

one title: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Best Adventure Game Ever.
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Post by: 01010 on May 15, 2003, 04:33:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Dark_4ce

Hell YEAH!!! They rocked! Music kicked ass too! Actually quite many of Amiga's games kicked all ass! Lost Patrol was a kickass Vietnam game only beaten finally by VIETCONG. Then there Flood! A cute little green thingy that had little adventures in the sewers. That was KICKASS. And who could forget Star Control!

Thankyou thankyou. I loved Turrican and i'm sad that few people here got to experience it because it is without doubt the BEST 2d Platform/shooter EVER. The music is still ingrained in my head and I could hum you the tune from any of the levels, I can even remember the song titles from some of them.

I guess that makes me a geek.
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Post by: karajorma on May 15, 2003, 04:58:09 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Venom

one title: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Best Adventure Game Ever.

Also the one with the single funniest scene. There is a bit on one of the paths that literally made me cry with laughter. It's the bit with Indy doing his shadow puppet routine. The problem is that IIRC it only occurs if you don't have all the items you need to solve the puzzle but try anyway so most people probably missed it.

I loved Another World too. I must have played it through about 5 or 6 times. I personally love the blast run where you're running through the tunnel as the doors are being blown up behind you :) I also loved the way you didn't make it home in the end but instead get carried off on the back of that weird flying creature thanks to the friendly alien :)

If you liked AW it might also be worth looking into Flashback and also Wasted Dreams.

Turrican was cool but Turrican II was better in my opinion. Last time I installed Deliplayer I had nothing but trouble with it but I'm still tempted to try again just so I can listen to all the music.

If we're talking Amiga games then I've got a huge list (which I won't bore you all with for now) but the forgotten classic I have to mention is Warhead. :)

I absolutely loved that game. Probably my favourite newtonian physics space combat sim of all time. You can see a lot of it in I-war which was (partly) written by the same guy.
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Post by: Nico on May 15, 2003, 05:20:24 pm: there's also Dark Light ( ;7) Conflict. wasn't really newtonian, but the ship had a huge momentum. only got to play the demo, but I wish I could get my hands on the full game.

for another Another World-like, there's Dark Earth, made by the same guy.
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Post by: CP5670 on May 15, 2003, 05:24:50 pm: Quote
one title: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Best Adventure Game Ever.

This was another excellent game, and one I just played through a few days ago. Too bad the god machine at the end doesn't work though. :D

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Also the one with the single funniest scene. There is a bit on one of the paths that literally made me cry with laughter. It's the bit with Indy doing his shadow puppet routine. The problem is that IIRC it only occurs if you don't have all the items you need to solve the puzzle but try anyway so most people probably missed it.

Is that the part in the hotel in Monte Carlo after Trottier runs away? Indy's nur-ab-sal figure looks like some kind of rabbit. :D I don't think you need to lack any items there to do that though; all you do is turn off the lights and then use the flashlight.

It was also funny when Indy locks Al-Jabbar in his own closet in the wits path, which causes him to completely blow his top.

I think the funniest bit was at the beginning when you are talking to that Biff doorman guy and start throwing insults at him. :D There are actually three ways to get into the theater and Sophia gives you a different fortune reading later on based on what you did here.

Another older game I really want to play is Beneath a Steel Sky. It works fine up to a certain point, but then the game just exits with some strange "resource not found" error. I tried downloading it from four different places and got the same thing with all of the copies, which is a pity since the game looked really good up to that point.
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Post by: 01010 on May 15, 2003, 05:34:27 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma

Also the one with the single funniest scene. There is a bit on one of the paths that literally made me cry with laughter. It's the bit with Indy doing his shadow puppet routine. The problem is that IIRC it only occurs if you don't have all the items you need to solve the puzzle but try anyway so most people probably missed it.

I loved Another World too. I must have played it through about 5 or 6 times. I personally love the blast run where you're running through the tunnel as the doors are being blown up behind you :) I also loved the way you didn't make it home in the end but instead get carried off on the back of that weird flying creature thanks to the friendly alien :)

If you liked AW it might also be worth looking into Flashback and also Wasted Dreams.

Turrican was cool but Turrican II was better in my opinion. Last time I installed Deliplayer I had nothing but trouble with it but I'm still tempted to try again just so I can listen to all the music.

If we're talking Amiga games then I've got a huge list (which I won't bore you all with for now) but the forgotten classic I have to mention is Warhead. :)

I absolutely loved that game. Probably my favourite newtonian physics space combat sim of all time. You can see a lot of it in I-war which was (partly) written by the same guy.

By Turrican I meant the whole series (three was upsettingly poor though) of course II was the best :) I think I have a copy of the .adf if you need it. Remember Gods? I don't think the Bitmap Brothers made a bad game.
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Post by: Turnsky on May 15, 2003, 05:48:28 pm: Quote
Want some rye? Course y'do..
;)
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Post by: karajorma on May 15, 2003, 06:01:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by 01010

By Turrican I meant the whole series (three was upsettingly poor though) of course II was the best :) I think I have a copy of the .adf if you need it. Remember Gods? I don't think the Bitmap Brothers made a bad game.

I've already got a copy but thanks for the offer. Actually I still have my Amiga so I could always use that even if I didn't :)

Gods was good but if you're gonna mention the BB's you can't not mention Xenon 2 :D

Another game that deserves mention is Zeewolf/Zeewolf 2. I still get tempted to play both from time to time :)
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Post by: 01010 on May 16, 2003, 01:20:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma

I've already got a copy but thanks for the offer. Actually I still have my Amiga so I could always use that even if I didn't :)

Gods was good but if you're gonna mention the BB's you can't not mention Xenon 2 :D

Another game that deserves mention is Zeewolf/Zeewolf 2. I still get tempted to play both from time to time :)

Could never get past the halfway boss on the second stage of Xenon 2. That game was one of the only games that no one I knew could ever complete. I could never get Zeewolf 2 to work but I loved Zeewolf. But if there's one game that proves that gameplay is all that matters it has to be Speedball 2. If I'd have put as many hours into my education as I did into this game I'd be a millionaire by now :)
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Post by: Nico on May 16, 2003, 01:45:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670

Another older game I really want to play is Beneath a Steel Sky. It works fine up to a certain point, but then the game just exits with some strange "resource not found" error. I tried downloading it from four different places and got the same thing with all of the copies, which is a pity since the game looked really good up to that point.

ah, yeah, I know that ( the bug, never played the game ). it was on the retail version too ( very smart, heh? ). here was something to do to fix it, you should make a search on google or something.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 16, 2003, 03:48:51 am: Then theres the forever classic, SPEEDBALL 2!!!!

"Ice Cream! Ice Cream!"
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Post by: J.F.K. on May 16, 2003, 04:06:17 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
Same here; it's too bad that there are very few of those nowadays. My favorite adventure game was probably Mission Critical with its realistic story and excellent immersion. The Dig was a nice one too.

I love adventure games. Bah, all this 3D stuff... they got nothing on the gameplay of Keen. :)
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Post by: Sandwich on May 16, 2003, 04:20:31 am: Quote
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[color=66ff00]Stryke 9's little brother...
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:lol:

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:lol:

Hey why are you being so modest? Overdrive man, overdrive!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:doubt: :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Razor in this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,15115.0.html) 15 minutes later

Oh so it's my fault that only 1% percent of your brain is working.
I've seen comments that weren't even funny and people just started to spam the thread with LOLs. Mostly, these comments were written by someone "high up". :rolleyes: and so people just started laughing madly because of their fear of the high uppers.

Need I say more?

Oh, and back on topic: BIG RED RACING!!!!
Title: Old Games...
Post by: kode on May 16, 2003, 04:57:25 am: sam and max hit the road and day of the tentacle

especially both of them.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 16, 2003, 05:11:36 am: Discworld... The first one.
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Post by: Martinus on May 16, 2003, 06:36:16 am: [color=66ff00]Yeah flashback was good, I found another world to be a little too 'you must time everything to perfection or die' which frustrated me to the point where it just wasn't fun anymore. :sigh:

I forgot about bladerunner which I though was quite cool, I got decent scores on the shooting range too. :)

Starwing/fox for the snes is one of my personal favourites, real 'seat of your pants' game. :nod:
Kicker is good too, it's a real oldie, an arcade game. You can still get the ROM and run it on mame, it's a good laugh. :)
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Post by: Sandwich on May 16, 2003, 06:47:39 am: Future Wars!!

*is still an old questie at heart*
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Post by: Nico on May 16, 2003, 07:47:48 am: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]I forgot about bladerunner which I though was quite cool, I got decent scores on the shooting range too. :)

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oh, yeah! the game was damn cool.
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 16, 2003, 07:50:56 am: YEAH! I used to get stuck on disc 2, tho. I'd get to a point when wherever I went, there was my boss in a long coat and hat telling me to "go home and get some rest, McCoy", so i did, and nothing happened.
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Nico on May 16, 2003, 07:55:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
YEAH! I used to get stuck on disc 2, tho. I'd get to a point when wherever I went, there was my boss in a long coat and hat telling me to "go home and get some rest, McCoy", so i did, and nothing happened.

mmh... I remember him saying that, but I don't remember being stuck there.
altho there's one HUGE pb about that game: at the very begining, there's a tiny bullet shell to find on the first crime set ( the place where they sell animals ). it's damn hard to see, and if you miss it, well, you can't finish the game, you'll be stuck at one point or another.
that was quite stupid, even more since you can't go back to the place and pick it up later...
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 16, 2003, 08:13:02 am: All adventures tend to have something like that.

Remember Phantasmagoria?
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Post by: Martinus on May 16, 2003, 08:53:03 am: Quote
Originally posted by Venom

mmh... I remember him saying that, but I don't remember being stuck there.
altho there's one HUGE pb about that game: at the very begining, there's a tiny bullet shell to find on the first crime set ( the place where they sell animals ). it's damn hard to see, and if you miss it, well, you can't finish the game, you'll be stuck at one point or another.
that was quite stupid, even more since you can't go back to the place and pick it up later...

[color=66ff00]I didn't find it and I still managed to finish the game with all endings (had to read a walkthrough to get one ending though).
Runciters animals :)
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Title: Old Games...
Post by: karajorma on May 16, 2003, 09:29:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by 01010

Could never get past the halfway boss on the second stage of Xenon 2. That game was one of the only games that no one I knew could ever complete. I could never get Zeewolf 2 to work but I loved Zeewolf. But if there's one game that proves that gameplay is all that matters it has to be Speedball 2. If I'd have put as many hours into my education as I did into this game I'd be a millionaire by now :)

I got the final boss and nearly defeated him once. I probably would have done it if I hadn't bought the Bitmap Shades! :D They were useful in Speedball 2 so I assumed they would be good here too.
As for speedball 2. I still play that now whenever I have friends over. It really can't be beaten as an after pub game :)
Title: Old Games...
Post by: 01010 on May 16, 2003, 10:54:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma

I got the final boss and nearly defeated him once. I probably would have done it if I hadn't bought the Bitmap Shades! :D They were useful in Speedball 2 so I assumed they would be good here too.
As for speedball 2. I still play that now whenever I have friends over. It really can't be beaten as an after pub game :)

They should get the original Speedball 2 team together and make a remake, not like the crappy 3d playstation one, but using high res sprites and not touching any of the gameplay dynamics whatsoever. That is the closest thing to a perfect game I have ever came across, brilliant fun single or multiplayer.
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 16, 2003, 01:33:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Remember Phantasmagoria?

God, you just HAD to go and remind me, didn't you?

At least it was someone else's waste of money. Bad enough that that thing took up my hard disk space. I mean, fine, make an entirely linear horror game where all there is to do is hunt pixels, and you have to find every one or the game plumb just doesn't progress, but at least make a monster that's better than a malevolent fart cloud and a steroidal worm.
Title: Old Games...
Post by: 01010 on May 16, 2003, 09:08:08 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9

God, you just HAD to go and remind me, didn't you?

At least it was someone else's waste of money. Bad enough that that thing took up my hard disk space. I mean, fine, make an entirely linear horror game where all there is to do is hunt pixels, and you have to find every one or the game plumb just doesn't progress, but at least make a monster that's better than a malevolent fart cloud and a steroidal worm.

I'm suprised you even bothered to play. Though I wouldn't mind a quick blast to see what was so bad about it. Wouldn't mind a go at "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties" either. :lol:
Title: Old Games...
Post by: J.F.K. on May 16, 2003, 09:14:01 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
All adventures tend to have something like that.

Sam and Max Hit The Road. It was one of those click-everywhere-till-you-find-something games. If you didn't reach into the mousehole in your flat at the beginning of the game, you didn't have money to buy a crucial thing right near the end... real pain in the butt. Hilarious game, though. :D
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 16, 2003, 09:14:40 pm: I bother(ed) to play quite a lot of things I really shouldn't (have), and I was a dumb kid who could pretty much be wowed by anything better than 8-bits then, anyway. This was pretty much back in the days when Blood was a snazzy new special-effects theatre and the most coherent plot was StarCraft's, mind.;)

Basically, it was one of those "experimental" games where they try something that sounds like it could be fun and find that it isn't at all. In this case, the game was meant to be kinda half-movie, half-game. It was linear to the point where concepts like "free will" and "playing the game at all differently from how it was intended" were best regarded as jokes- if you were at the point where you'd gotten into the Town and bought the (forget what), you then had the ability to get the Magic T-Bone, and you'd better damn well get the Magic T-Bone, or you'd end up going back and forth between the same four frames over and over again until you damn well got it. And it went on and ON. You couldn't even die until the very end.
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Post by: CP5670 on May 16, 2003, 09:50:07 pm: Quote
ah, yeah, I know that ( the bug, never played the game ). it was on the retail version too ( very smart, heh? ). here was something to do to fix it, you should make a search on google or something.

After about half an hour of searching I finally found a solution. It seems that pressing the scroll lock key right before that part to disable background transitions prevents the crashes, so I can now finally play this game. :D It's looking very interesting so far and is quite funny too; some classic adventure game goodness... :D
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Post by: Nico on May 17, 2003, 04:29:24 am: and the heroes name rocks :D
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 17, 2003, 12:43:42 pm: :mad: DAMMIT!!!!

I can't get the voices to work on my LAPTOP for Beneath a Steel Sky!!! I have the talkie version. I Install it ok on my lap, it has win 98, so no prob playing in dos if need be. But the only thing it plays is the damn music, no sound fx, no nothing. Not even the intro works. ****....:(
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Corhellion on May 17, 2003, 02:49:40 pm: Duke Nukem 3D
Shadow Warrior (Lo Wang: "Holy clap! Just like Duke Nukem! ha Ha!" :/Lo Wang)

StarTrek Command 1 (I wonder if you can mod it..."Freespace Command" anyone? ;7)

Starcraft/BroodWar

Some n64 and SNES games *hugs his emulator*

Diablo 1

Heavy Gear1

Shogo: M.A.D. (I squish you, puny marine!)

X-Wing Alliance

FS1 and FS2

Descent 1 (I actually bought it this year...couldn't live without it)

uh...that's it I think...

Cor
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Nico on May 17, 2003, 03:31:58 pm: first descent keeps being installed/deleted/installed/deleted from my HD :p
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Post by: TrashMan on May 17, 2003, 04:07:18 pm: FS2*
X-Wing Alliance*
Outcast* *-------------- Ahhh.... one of the best
Worms
Warhammer:Chaos Gate and Dark Omen
Baldur's Gate 1&2*
Jagged Alliance 2*
Lords of the Realm 2*
Sam & Max
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Live 2000
X-Com --------- (sequel coming out soon! - UFO: Aftermath)
Fallout 1&2
Master of Orion
- allmost all of my old Amiga games ..... sigh...:sigh:
Title: Old Games...
Post by: CP5670 on May 17, 2003, 04:34:09 pm: Quote
I can't get the voices to work on my LAPTOP for Beneath a Steel Sky!!! I have the talkie version. I Install it ok on my lap, it has win 98, so no prob playing in dos if need be. But the only thing it plays is the damn music, no sound fx, no nothing. Not even the intro works. ****....

:wtf: the game has voices? I do not get any voices either but I was not expecting them anyway.
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Stealth on May 17, 2003, 04:37:34 pm: anyone remember "Fatal Distractions"?! I'll pay a LOT of money for that CD-ROM if anyone has it or knows of someone who does... i LOVED that pack. had like 87 games on it, mostly shareware, but a few freeware. included games like:

Pickle Wars
Doom
Descent (?)
Xargon
Jill of the Jungle
Cosmic Cosmo
Captain Comic
Wolfenstein 3D (?)
God of Thunder
Prince of Persia (?)
Commander Keen (lots of them, i think three of the four games... all demos though)

and tons of strategy, puzzle, and side-scroller games :D

man i loved it :D
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Post by: CP5670 on May 17, 2003, 06:32:41 pm: oh, Prince of Persia; that is another one I played a lot around 1990 along with its sequel. :yes:

By the way, has anyone tried running the user-made 3dfx patches for either Descent or Descent 2? They make the games look exponentially better than they used to and very, very impressive for 95/96 games.
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Post by: Turnsky on May 17, 2003, 06:43:42 pm: i-war was another old fav of mine.... you can get 'openglide' in order to play it a high res.... i think
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Post by: Admiral LSD on May 17, 2003, 11:34:02 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Dark_4ce
:mad: DAMMIT!!!!

I can't get the voices to work on my LAPTOP for Beneath a Steel Sky!!! I have the talkie version. I Install it ok on my lap, it has win 98, so no prob playing in dos if need be. But the only thing it plays is the damn music, no sound fx, no nothing. Not even the intro works. ****....:(

You running it in "real" DOS or under Win98? BASS is apparently quite picky about running in anything other than real DOS. If you can wait a bit, ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/) may provide a solution. It's a Virtual Machine for the SCUMM engine (hence the name) used in, among other things, LucasArts adventure games. BASS support is in the works, preliminary support is already in CVS but as yet, only the intro works. A lot of the code required to get more than that is apparently in there but it just hasn't been tied together yet.
Title: Old Games...
Post by: Sandwich on May 18, 2003, 02:23:04 pm: Centurio(n?)!! :)