It's over ten years old...General Zod wrote:
Civilization 2 isn't all that old in comparison to some of the others.
Greatest old game?
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Yeah. I loved that game. It drove my cousins crazy because I always wanted to play it when I went over to their house.Dangermouse wrote:Did anyone here play Sword of the Samurai? That game rocked.
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You know I used to play a multi-player BBS game that was like a crossbetween Monopoly and Scarface. you could buy and sell realestate in Miami, but if you started to run out of money, you could buy and sell coke, put hits out on other player's and their luiteniets, and have the feds/IRS come down on you like the wrath of god.
I wish I could find that one again.
I wish I could find that one again.
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I loved StarFlight for some reason. I've always been into explore/trade type games. Tie Fighter and MOO (both the original, and the second one) both rocked. A friend of my dad's was throwing out MOO and gave it to us. Installed it, booted it up and fell in love. I spent hours torturing the poor Saurians. 
Rise of the Triad was an awesome game, and was the first game to really blow me away graphiclly. The original Dark Forces (yeah, yeah, it isn't nearly as old, but damn if it wasn't fun as hell) was wicked. Then there was my internet version of Battleship. I can't remember what it was called, but it was insanely addictive for me. I'd play for hours, and the thing that seemed the coolest was that my opponents were often around the world in Japan, Australia or some other country on the opposite side of the globe, yet there I was playing Battleship with them. (Ok, I was like 11 and it fascinated me at the time) A game I got from the library called High Seas Trader, which was basically StarFlight, only with 1700s-era technology.
Ok, it's 4:45 and I'm rambling. Guess I'll leave it at that.
Rise of the Triad was an awesome game, and was the first game to really blow me away graphiclly. The original Dark Forces (yeah, yeah, it isn't nearly as old, but damn if it wasn't fun as hell) was wicked. Then there was my internet version of Battleship. I can't remember what it was called, but it was insanely addictive for me. I'd play for hours, and the thing that seemed the coolest was that my opponents were often around the world in Japan, Australia or some other country on the opposite side of the globe, yet there I was playing Battleship with them. (Ok, I was like 11 and it fascinated me at the time) A game I got from the library called High Seas Trader, which was basically StarFlight, only with 1700s-era technology.
Ok, it's 4:45 and I'm rambling. Guess I'll leave it at that.
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On the C-64:
Commando
Outlaws
Defender Of The Crown
Pirates! (Say no more)
Elite
Airborne Ranger (First tactical realism shooter ever)
Green Beret (Faster and much better port of Rush'n'Attack, with soundtrack by the always great Martin Galway)
Barbarian (Decapitating your friends rules, especially with that green ET who appears to kick the heads away whilst laughing)
Times Of Lore
Rambo 2
Kung Fu Master
ACE
JET (Full 3d graphics, external views and carrier landings in 19-fucking-83!)
Bionic Commando
Pitstop 2 (Trying to run your friends off the track and distracting them while in pit so as to flush their fuel tank, awesome game)
The Duel (So simple: you are on opposite sides of a road, and need to kill each other, shooting the legs slows the other guy down)
Lightforce (Brilliant soundtrack by Rob Hubbard)
Star Paws (Brilliant sci-fi take on the Roadrunner cartoon, where you play the part of the coyote, complete with crazy traps)
Ikari Warriors (2-player Commando with tanks!)
Raid On Bungeling Bay (Awesome strategic top-down shooter that was the predecessor to Sim City)
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Boulder Dash
Druid 1&2
Army Moves
Navy Moves
Hysteria
Implosion
Flying Shark
Last Ninja 1&2 (The greatest action/adventure games ever made. Modern games like GTA:SA or HL2 simply doesn't compare)
On the Amiga:
Zeewolf (Fucking brilliant 3D helicopter shooter, combining elements of Virus and Desert Strike into a game with gameplay far superior to most of the generic FPS crap flooding the market these days, and all on a single fucking 720k floppy)
Zeewolf 2 (Same as the original, but bigger and better, with more vehicles and more of a proper plot)
Moonstone (First of the splatter games, and we all loved it)
Eye Of The Beholder 1&2 (Really good AD&D adaptations)
Deathmask (Think EOB made into an FPS, and with splitscreen multiplayer. We used to hold so many tourneys for this one)
Cannon Fodder (Awesome realtime tactics game with a good portion of humour, and hard as fuck)
Syndicate (Like Cannon Fodder, but much darker and more speculative violence)
Rocket Ranger (Fly with your rocketpack and fight ME109's, beat the shit out of nazi guards, and rescue cute girls from nazi zeppelins and the nazi moonbase, how can you not love it?)
It Came From The Desert (Must-play for anyone who liked 1950's atomic monster movies)
Silent Service (Such an awesome sub sim. Dad and I used to play this until the early mornings, racking up insane tonnages)
Lemmings 2 (Bigger and better than the original, with more units/levels/themes whilst retaining the brilliant gameplay)
Walker (With your bigass walker, mow down nazis and americans, then post-apocalyptic americans, then arabs in the middle east. What's not to love? It also works with 2 players, as one can control the walker while the other aims the guns. Brilliant.)
Fireforce (Most reviewers at the time hated it, but I always liked it's attempt at combining a platformer with realistic weapons and settings)
Project X (Team 17 took the sidescrolling idea and really made the most of it, with a sexy-looking game with awesome powerups and sufficiently expert-level gameplay)
Assassin (A quasi-remake of Strider that improved substantially on the original)
Alien Breed 2 (Awesome top-down 2-player shooter, that interestingly doesn't use a splitscreen)
Lotus 1/2/3 (For fans of splitscreen racers)
Sim City
F1GP (So before it's time, and so much fun to play)
Stunt Car Racer (Geoff Crammond is a fucking genious. Interestingly, Deth Karz borrows a lot from this old gem)
Sherman M4 (Looks like a sim, but plays more like Doom with tanks)
Turrican 1&2 (This is how to make a proper platformer)
That's about all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll need to look through my extensive floppy collection to dig out some more.
Commando
Outlaws
Defender Of The Crown
Pirates! (Say no more)
Elite
Airborne Ranger (First tactical realism shooter ever)
Green Beret (Faster and much better port of Rush'n'Attack, with soundtrack by the always great Martin Galway)
Barbarian (Decapitating your friends rules, especially with that green ET who appears to kick the heads away whilst laughing)
Times Of Lore
Rambo 2
Kung Fu Master
ACE
JET (Full 3d graphics, external views and carrier landings in 19-fucking-83!)
Bionic Commando
Pitstop 2 (Trying to run your friends off the track and distracting them while in pit so as to flush their fuel tank, awesome game)
The Duel (So simple: you are on opposite sides of a road, and need to kill each other, shooting the legs slows the other guy down)
Lightforce (Brilliant soundtrack by Rob Hubbard)
Star Paws (Brilliant sci-fi take on the Roadrunner cartoon, where you play the part of the coyote, complete with crazy traps)
Ikari Warriors (2-player Commando with tanks!)
Raid On Bungeling Bay (Awesome strategic top-down shooter that was the predecessor to Sim City)
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Boulder Dash
Druid 1&2
Army Moves
Navy Moves
Hysteria
Implosion
Flying Shark
Last Ninja 1&2 (The greatest action/adventure games ever made. Modern games like GTA:SA or HL2 simply doesn't compare)
On the Amiga:
Zeewolf (Fucking brilliant 3D helicopter shooter, combining elements of Virus and Desert Strike into a game with gameplay far superior to most of the generic FPS crap flooding the market these days, and all on a single fucking 720k floppy)
Zeewolf 2 (Same as the original, but bigger and better, with more vehicles and more of a proper plot)
Moonstone (First of the splatter games, and we all loved it)
Eye Of The Beholder 1&2 (Really good AD&D adaptations)
Deathmask (Think EOB made into an FPS, and with splitscreen multiplayer. We used to hold so many tourneys for this one)
Cannon Fodder (Awesome realtime tactics game with a good portion of humour, and hard as fuck)
Syndicate (Like Cannon Fodder, but much darker and more speculative violence)
Rocket Ranger (Fly with your rocketpack and fight ME109's, beat the shit out of nazi guards, and rescue cute girls from nazi zeppelins and the nazi moonbase, how can you not love it?)
It Came From The Desert (Must-play for anyone who liked 1950's atomic monster movies)
Silent Service (Such an awesome sub sim. Dad and I used to play this until the early mornings, racking up insane tonnages)
Lemmings 2 (Bigger and better than the original, with more units/levels/themes whilst retaining the brilliant gameplay)
Walker (With your bigass walker, mow down nazis and americans, then post-apocalyptic americans, then arabs in the middle east. What's not to love? It also works with 2 players, as one can control the walker while the other aims the guns. Brilliant.)
Fireforce (Most reviewers at the time hated it, but I always liked it's attempt at combining a platformer with realistic weapons and settings)
Project X (Team 17 took the sidescrolling idea and really made the most of it, with a sexy-looking game with awesome powerups and sufficiently expert-level gameplay)
Assassin (A quasi-remake of Strider that improved substantially on the original)
Alien Breed 2 (Awesome top-down 2-player shooter, that interestingly doesn't use a splitscreen)
Lotus 1/2/3 (For fans of splitscreen racers)
Sim City
F1GP (So before it's time, and so much fun to play)
Stunt Car Racer (Geoff Crammond is a fucking genious. Interestingly, Deth Karz borrows a lot from this old gem)
Sherman M4 (Looks like a sim, but plays more like Doom with tanks)
Turrican 1&2 (This is how to make a proper platformer)
That's about all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll need to look through my extensive floppy collection to dig out some more.