[mitac]

Originally posted by Liberator


'fraid not.  Linkage?

There you are. Beware, it's quite old and needs an Amiga emulator.

The prequel, Amberstar, is available as a PC version through HOTU.

[Boomer2k5]

1) UFO: Enemy Unknown (Well that's what it was called in the UK ok!!!)
2) Freespace 1/2 (Bought as combined set so )
3) Simon the Sorceror 1/2 (Again box set WITH Talkie for StS1)
4) Star Trek A Final Unity (Buggy as hell but first game I ever played on a PC and was really good at the time)
5) X-Com Apocalypse (Biggest case of release date over game functions ever )

Honorable mentions to Starcraft, Diablo II, Heroes of Might and Magic various incarnations and Tie Fighter (where I first fell in love with the Space Flight sim...although X-Com Interecptor tried to kill it).

[mitac]

A Final Unity was quite cool, though I never encountered any bugs.

[Hollewanderer]

In no real order... they're my favorites, after all!
1.Tyrian. [nobody mentioned it? Shame on you!:p]
2.FS series.
3.C&C series, including all of the various spin-offs etc.
4.Total Annihilation.
5.Hm... it's hard one. I guess that Major Stryker may qualify, or Master of Orion 2. Most likely it'll be MOO2. I spent so many times with this game.

[Lynx]

And not to forget my old Amiga:

Epic
Turrican 2
Desert Strike
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Fighter Bomber
Project X

[Boomer2k5]

Originally posted by mitac
A Final Unity was quite cool, though I never encountered any bugs.

The problem it had mainly was a penchant for severe crashery...and not CTd crashery (as that didn't happen in Windows 3.11 days) but full on system freezing, bone-chilling, jowl-wobbling crashery

The main problems appeared to be on Allanor in that game where one time, I don't remember how, but the game decided to beam all my guys up at random ending the mission short and I had to do the damn thing again....also this is where my system now crashes if I try to play the game in XP (virtually impossible but managed it once).  Shame really, just wish when they re-released it they would have made it 9x compatible.

My mates PC was prone to a bit of crashing but I think Final Unity was what gave it most nightmares....don't the UFO requires enough system resources to crash anything

[Knight Templar]

I remember A Final Unity. One of my first PC games too. It didn't crash so much for me and my cousin as it was hard.

[phreak]

Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano


It's C&C Red Alert 3 actually

arg. it better not be gay and cartoonish as RA2.

I actually liked TS, but by the time it came out, the RTS genre had became oversaturated.  The AI ****ing cheated in skirmish mode as well, which pissed me off to no end.  TS also had the ability to make really cool looking bases (i should get a screenshot).  i mean which other RTS allows you to pave your base?

[Liberator]

Dune 2000

[mitac]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
I remember A Final Unity. One of my first PC games too. It didn't crash so much for me and my cousin as it was hard.

Didn't find it that hard. But it was by far not my first PC game, maybe that's the difference.

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Nico


Twilight. Oh, and TS rocked when you added firestorm.

the TS exoansion deed indeed rock but it nearly allways crashed too. Never did find out why.

[Boomer2k5]

Originally posted by mitac


Didn't find it that hard. But it was by far not my first PC game, maybe that's the difference.

Allanor just completely stumped me (even now official walkthoughs do it WRONG) and even getting a good ending to the first mission wasn't blindingly obvious.  The rest was pretty easy though....like how the game goes down different paths depending on what you do though. Interesting for 1993 tech or whenever it was.  Plus it was Point & Click which was the daddy of PC game formats   , although fighting 6 Chodak Dreadnaughts wasn't what I called fun

[Sandwich]

Wow. ST:TNG:AFU. What memories that brings back. Wow.

[mitac]

Maybe I should install that again. It's been 10 years since I last played it, as it was published in 1995.

[Lynx]

Those old game boxes were pretty cool. DVD cases suck ass.

[vyper]

Aww man I remember that - especially the damned bit where you have to cross a room with changing floor tiles. Anyway...

What I loved was the space battles (cause remember this was before anything like Academy, Command or Armada).

[Boomer2k5]

Good luck installing it on a modern day PC   It no like such things and Windows Xp Dos faking makes it cry

Not to mention the fact, have you seen the speed of the battles on an Athon 2200+ ....not much to do but cheat in those circumstances...although if you do get it to work please tell me how, I love that game

[Flaser]

psst....use the Dosbox Luke!

[mrfun]

1: Thief. Hands down.
2: Descent 1-2
3: Dark Forces (you remember, the first one?)
4: Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries
5: Freespace

I still have all of them in running condition on my compy... Except mech2 mercs, lost my CD, but I've got the original Mech 2 in all it's midi glory.

[Kosh]

In no particular order:

1.) FS1
2.) FS2
3.) Half-Life
4.) Master of Orion 1
5.) Starcraft