[Ace]

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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Ace
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[CP5670]

Here is a list of the titles that made me an avid gamer back around 1995.    

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.   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).]

[Gortef]

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...

[Fineus]

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.

[CP5670]

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. (full version) The full version can still be bought at http://www.mking.com for some 12 dollars.

[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?

[Nico]

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!!!!

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!! where's my lol smiley?!?!!!?

[an0n]

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.

[Setekh]

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.  

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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.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Setekh


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.

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 Captain Comics, saboteur or the last ninja were more actual lol. Sokoban, too... pffff, I feel so old now

[Gortef]

ahh, on the C64 Paperboy/Kickstart/... ... damn can't even remember the names of some classics

[Styxx]

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!

[Stryke 9]

Ooh! Forgot about Beneath a Steel Sky!

Never got it to work beyond the police headquarters bit, but it was still schoveeeeeeet.

[Alikchi]

Ever heard of Command and Conquer?

[CP5670]

"You have died: Restart, Exit, Load"

hehehe, I remember that one; that bit was great.: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.

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.

[Sandwich]

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.

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? 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...

[Nico]

raptor was cool, but nothing beats Xenon2 and its ubber impposible difficulty

[Setekh]

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...

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.

[Grey Wolf]

Anyone ever plat the original Star Trek game where your ship looked like this:

And the Klingons looked like this:

?

Edit: That better?

[Nico]

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?