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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Grey Wolf on February 12, 2002, 03:52:00 pm
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Download (//"http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/gtdwolf/scorch.exe")
The grapics may not be much, but it is fun!
(And note, this is not warez, it's shareware. 20-year old shareware at that)
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You don't know how many hours of my life have been lost to that game (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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oh god..
I'll be here all night now...
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That the game with the artillery pieces shooting at each other? Cloned to death and beyond?
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Actually, it was a clone itself I believe...
I think Tank Wars came before it, and its pretty much exactly the same...
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I still have that one; I spent many, many hours with that game. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
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What's fun is the Death's Head with the arms level turned all the way up... (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/devil.gif)
I've actually had this game for around 4 yrs.
And the new question is: Scorch claims to be the mother of all games. Who's the father?
[This message has been edited by Grey Wolf 2009 (edited 02-12-2002).]
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Awesome! Anyone remember the old game Scarab of Ra? It was for the Mac, and I want to play it, but dont have a Mac. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/frown.gif) Anyone know where I can find a emulator of some sort? Thanks, and sorry for changing the topic. Thanks again! (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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I first played that game nearly 7 years ago. Was the third computer game i ever played (after Dune 2 and Civilization). I still like to play it every once in a while.
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you have no idea how much class time was spent playing eachother with that.
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Originally posted by IceFire:
You don't know how many hours of my life have been lost to that game (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Hours? Days!
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My computers to fast for the game... oh well (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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Hours? Days!
LOL, same here. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Dune 2
Another of my old favorites. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif) I spent a lot of time with this one as well. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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*sigh of reminicing*
Dune 2, Scorched Earth, Cmdr. Keen, Duke Nukem, Jazz Jackrabbit, C&C, Colonization, SimCity 2000, Tyrian, Transport Tycoon, TIE Fighter... *sigh* Ahh, the good ol' days of 640x480 at the maximum... (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
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Dune 2, Scorched Earth, Cmdr. Keen, Duke Nukem, Jazz Jackrabbit, C&C
You just named many of my favorites right there. These, along with Doom, Descent, Raptor and a few others, made me a very happy gamer back in the old days. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
[This message has been edited by CP5670 (edited 02-13-2002).]
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Originally posted by Thunder:
My computers to fast for the game... oh well (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
(http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif)
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Mine is too...
press the left arrow and the turret spins around about 10 times....
Fire and the next thing I know I'm dead...
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Originally posted by Thunder:
My computers to fast for the game... oh well (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Get a slowy downy tool thingy. Like CPU-Killer.
For some reason I owned the first ever commercially available CD-drive yet there were no games or programs on CD at the time. Stupid huh?
And on the subject of old games:
Doom, Raptor, Duke Nukem, Keen, Privateer, Elite, C&C, Lemmings, Leisure Suit Larry. And the hard-drive killer (at a hefty 92mb back in 1992 (?)) Macrocosm.
But the four (well 5) bestest old games in all existence:
Rex Nebular And The Alien Gender Benders (naked ladies and plenty of 'em)
Monkey Island (1+2)
The Dig (Excellent Lucas Art game)
Wolfenstein 3D (the God of all FPS's. Killin' Nazis while they're takin' a piss)
Search for abandon-warez on pretty much any search engine and you'll get all sorts of wierd old games. Like ones that were made when only text was used for games, ones that make Pong look state of the art.
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The Dig???? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/lol.gif)
Ah well, how the correct answer was:
1. (indeterminate- would be Syndicate if Syndicate had a level editor)
2. Syndicate
3. Earth 2150 (well... it's oldish now)
4. Master of Orion
5. (I forget the name... some old text-based game I found where you died almost instantly... that or SimCity/SimEarth)
http://www.theunderdogs.org/ ("http://www.theunderdos.org/") For all your abandonware needs. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Remember to click the banner ads- they've got ****ty bandwith for a reason.
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[This message has been edited by Stryke 9 (edited 02-13-2002).]
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I'd have posted that but I think I'd rather keep my knee-caps.
The Last Half Of Darkness was F'ing excellent. Txt based. If anyone comes across A Night With Troi, give me shout (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif) (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif).
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1.Wing Commander
2.Master of Orion
3.Warcraft
4.Descent (no bloody 2, no bloody 3, no bloody FreeSpace, no bloody RedFaction!)
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Here is a list of the titles that made me an avid gamer back around 1995. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
Beneath a Steel Sky
Crash
Descent
Doom
Dune 2
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Lemmings
Lemmings 2
Mission Critical
Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Raptor
Scorched Earth
Skyroads
The Dig
Some of these names will definitely sound familiar to you guys. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif) The best part is that most of them still work fine on my current machine.
[This message has been edited by CP5670 (edited 02-13-2002).]
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Aahh! Oh those days, we played Tank Wars with my friend so many days and then Scorched Earth showed up and it was even cooler :)
Man those were great games...
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Originally posted by CP5670
Raptor
I loved this game! I could just never find the full version, I was forced to use the rather worse shareware version without all the guns and so on.
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Raptor is still one of my favorites when I am waiting for something for a few minutes; I have played through the game so many times now that I have some $500 million for my player.:D (full version) The full version can still be bought at http://www.mking.com for some 12 dollars.
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Damn, I hate this kind of topic... all the memories from the good days of old, when I had all the time of the world and games were real pieces of art. When games fitted inside a couple of floppies and you could play them without a hard drive. Anyone remembers that "Insert disk 24" (or something like that) joke from the original Monkey Island? :)
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Originally posted by Styxx
Damn, I hate this kind of topic... all the memories from the good days of old, when I had all the time of the world and games were real pieces of art. When games fitted inside a couple of floppies and you could play them without a hard drive. Anyone remembers that "Insert disk 24" (or something like that) joke from the original Monkey Island? :)
yeah, I was amazed when wing commander 2 came out and was using 20 MB on the hard drive!!!! OMG!!!! :lol:
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!! where's my lol smiley?!?!!!?
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joke from the original Monkey Island
"You have died: Restart, Exit, Load"
That was sooo funny. You're like ':wtf: ?' and then he bounces back up.
You can kill Guybrush in one of the first two games buy leaving him at the bottom of the ocean for ten minutes when he falls/is pushed in.
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Originally posted by CP5670
You just named many of my favorites right there. These, along with Doom, Descent, Raptor and a few others, made me a very happy gamer back in the old days. (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
[This message has been edited by CP5670 (edited 02-13-2002).]
Ditto, ditto and ditto again. :D You, me and Sandwich all seem to share this in common... :) I'm not your age-group/generation, but my brother is, and we're so close that we might as well be the one person. ;)
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Originally posted by Setekh
Ditto, ditto and ditto again. :D You, me and Sandwich all seem to share this in common... :) I'm not your age-group/generation, but my brother is, and we're so close that we might as well be the one person. ;)
oh, well, i'm not the oldest guy there, but I think my first games are even older... gee, commander keen, was an advanced game then :D Captain Comics, saboteur or the last ninja were more actual lol. Sokoban, too... pffff, I feel so old now :(
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ahh, on the C64 Paperboy/Kickstart/... ... damn can't even remember the names of some classics :p
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I think I'm far from being the oldest person around too, but I guess I was the first to venture into computer graphics... I used basic to code animations like, 14 years ago or something. Ph33r the might of the dancing stick guy! :D
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Ooh! Forgot about Beneath a Steel Sky!
Never got it to work beyond the police headquarters bit, but it was still schoveeeeeeet.
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Ever heard of Command and Conquer?
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"You have died: Restart, Exit, Load"
hehehe, I remember that one; that bit was great.:D:D
Ditto, ditto and ditto again. You, me and Sandwich all seem to share this in common... I'm not your age-group/generation, but my brother is, and we're so close that we might as well be the one person.
Great to see a kindred spirit.;) Some of those old games are great to play even today; the classics never die out. I am actually only 15, but I started with these games when I was 2 or something and immediately got hooked on.:D
Ooh! Forgot about Beneath a Steel Sky!
Never got it to work beyond the police headquarters bit, but it was still schoveeeeeeet.
you had the same problem? The game kept crashing when I went to either side of the passageway before the security checkpoint, but you have to go there to keep progressing, apparently.:( Too bad, since the game looked like it would have been great. (this is the only one in that list I could not get to work fully)
Ever heard of Command and Conquer?
LOL, of course; this was another game that I spent a lot of time with. The only reason I didn't put it in there was because I didn't pick up the game until 1996 or so.
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Ahhh, Raptor - I was trying to remember the name of that game! :) It was a real good play for when you come back from a hard day at school and wanted to mindlessly blast everything in sight. :)
Of course, Tyrian was even better. :p
I think the first real computer games I played were on an old Mac 128 (yes, 128 kilobytes of memory, and no HDD). Anyone ever play Puppy Love or Harrier Strike Mission? :D I think there was a fun Daleks game, too...
But all in all, I never really encountered a game that had me slack-jawed in awe as did the first C&C... those movies are better than any of the movies Westwood has done in their C&C games since, and something about the game itself just was astounding... :D
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raptor was cool, but nothing beats Xenon2 and its ubber impposible difficulty :D
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Ahhh, my C64. *rubs the box lovingly* That's the most wonderful blue screen I've ever seen. ;)
5670, you've got more in common with me than I remembered. I'm only a year (probably less) older than you, and so we're both in the same situation... basically, growing up in front of these games... :D
Altered Beast and Silkworm man, those were my big favourites for a while. Oh, and International Karate!!! I must've poured entire weeks of my life into that series of games. Still play them today, on my faithful VICE C64 emulator. :)
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Anyone ever plat the original Star Trek game where your ship looked like this:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/gtdwolf/e.gif)
And the Klingons looked like this:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/gtdwolf/k.gif)
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Edit: That better?
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Anyone ever plat the original Star Trek game where your ship looked like this:
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And the Klingons looked like this:
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how could you figure your ship from klingon ships? :lol: