the best games of yesterday...

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-07-25 01:14pm

How old are these? (I am a retorical question!) I don't know. But here goes:

Commander Keen- I remember that game. Lots of fun. Way to be, id.

Heretic-(late in the 486 era) Fantasy-esque game, first 1st-person shooter to feature a persistant inventory, AFAIK.

Lemmings was just plain great.

Pitfall was a fine way to waste eight or ten minutes...

Good 'ole Battlechess. Nothing's more fun than watching a Rook eat a Queen.

Worms: the original game. What more need be said?

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-25 01:28pm

Sriad wrote:Commander Keen- I remember that game. Lots of fun. Way to be, id.

OMFG, I used to LOVE Keen. I had 5, i think it was, still side-scrolling, but with better graphics (and lots of happy bouncing balls

)

Sriad wrote:Heretic-(late in the 486 era) Fantasy-esque game, first 1st-person shooter to feature a persistant inventory, AFAIK.

good game, I dunno about inventory tho...

Sriad wrote:Lemmings was just plain great.

I loved making the things do pointless jobs when I couldn't beat a certain level. So fun to have a bunch of lemmings dig to their death at the bottom of the screen, or build stairs just to fall to their death at the top

Sriad wrote:Good 'ole Battlechess. Nothing's more fun than watching a Rook eat a Queen.

Wow, that game was great. I have the disks, but no manual to answer the damn questions it gives you when you start...

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-07-25 01:35pm

Sriad wrote:Lemmings was just plain great.

Compared to the Amiga version, the PC music was very crappy. And it made a huge difference...

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-07-25 01:54pm

Slartibartfast wrote:
Sriad wrote:Lemmings was just plain great.
Compared to the Amiga version, the PC music was very crappy. And it made a huge difference...

The music was a good portion of what made Lemmings so great. I mostly remember the SNES version, actually. To this day one of my favorite improvements to games is playing them with a grossly inappropriate soundtrack, Christmas carols with Postal 2, for example.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-07-25 02:03pm

Lord Poe wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:when i was a kid my summer addiction was a game called Starflight. you were given a shitty ship and upgraded it with money you made by mining, finding planets to colonize, and discovering artifacts....oh yeah and blowing up the ships of aliens you didn't like.
Man, I spent way too many hours on that game. I even bought the Genesis version!

The sequel was even better. Starflight II: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula. you were basiclly an inter stellar trader, but you had to solve thr problem of an uppity race of blobs called the spemin who,while once the whipping boys of the galaxy had suddenly become the most powerful race in the galaxy.
It had a sequel???

hours? more like days! weeks even! i remember being sooo pissed off when i finally got a ship with class 5 everything and i get my ass kicked by these evil SOB'S with plasma bolts.

the sequal was rockin'! The Spemin find a wormhole that goes back in time and some aliens give them plasma bolts, shields that work in nebulas, teleporters for their ships. They suddenly become nasty and wander the galaxy with fleets of ships kicking ass and extorting fuel from you. You were able to land on homeworlds of races and trade with them. it was cool.

Yuri Prime · Post by **Yuri Prime** » 2003-07-25 02:22pm

Descent was definately one of my favorites. There were like 3 of us that lived in my neighborhood that got really really good at it and nobody at school could beat us when we played it in the computer lab. Descent 2 was even better. I liked Quest for Glory as well. Great games.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-07-25 02:31pm

The Incredible Machine. I remember when I was a little kid...
Terminal Velocity.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-07-25 02:45pm

Exonerate wrote:The Incredible Machine. I remember when I was a little kid...
Terminal Velocity.

!!!!!
How could I forget!
Well, I know how. I only ever played "The Even More Incredible Machine" and I soon lost whatever it was that let me get into the game. But this was one of the greats, thanks for reminding us.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-25 02:47pm

Oh, Descent and Terminal Velocity were both really cool too... as people post, I am taken back into the days where I was excited about getting Windows 95, 'cause it was so much better than Win 3.11... I used to have just about every game Epic made (a friend worked there and somehow got boxes of floppy disks for some reason, I just took one of each

)

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-07-25 02:55pm

Zork. ( damn you thief ! )
Planetfall. ( Whew, I dont feel so good... )
Suspended ( Poet, WTF are you saying? )
Ultima III, IV, V ( Where does this shiny moongate go?)
Blue Max ( oooh, oooh, look a general's car )
MULE ( I caught the Wumpus ! )
Winter Games ( ski jump...whoo hoo ! )
Railroad Tycoon ( yesss....a new speed record )
X-COM ( What the HELL is that Black thing? Aaaaarrghhh.....)
Sim City 2000 ( shut up and sit in traffic you fuckers! )

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-07-25 02:57pm

When did Lucas Arts first start making their point & click RPGs (ie Monkey Island, etc)? Those definately deserve a spot if they're old enough.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-07-25 02:59pm

I remember spending hours at a time playing Bard's Tale, Bard's Tale II and III. They were AWESOME and I even did a AD&D campaign based on the Bard's Tale setting many years ago.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-07-25 03:02pm

Sriad wrote:When did Lucas Arts first start making their point & click RPGs (ie Monkey Island, etc)? Those definately deserve a spot if they're old enough.

Ah...I forgot. Full Throttle was one of their best.

Stravo wrote:I remember spending hours at a time playing Bard's Tale, Bard's Tale II and III. They were AWESOME and I even did a AD&D campaign based on the Bard's Tale setting many years ago.

Bard's Tale rocked. Although I found III to be too hard. I remember with much fondness as my friend and I would go to the candy store to load up on goodies then sneak into his dad's room to play Bard's Tale I on his Apple. My friend did all the playing, but I did the mapping. I remember the joy of going to the review board for promotion. Learning a new spell, or gaining an extra attack.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-25 03:03pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
Sriad wrote:When did Lucas Arts first start making their point & click RPGs (ie Monkey Island, etc)? Those definately deserve a spot if they're old enough.
Ah...I forgot. Full Throttle was one of their best.

Full Throttle was great... Question: Did you ever get past the part where you're on the front of a truck with a shotgun-toting guy in the front seat? I could never figure out how to beat that part, and so eventually uninstalled the game and sold the CD...

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-07-25 03:07pm

Mitth-raw-nuruodo wrote: Full Throttle was great... Question: Did you ever get past the part where you're on the front of a truck with a shotgun-toting guy in the front seat? I could never figure out how to beat that part, and so eventually uninstalled the game and sold the CD...

I solved the game, but I dont remember what I did there. I got stuck later in the game and needed a hint to finish. Gosh darnit, know Im gonna be thinking about what I did all day.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-07-25 03:09pm

Hey guys, how about the Police Quest and Space Quest games?

Or spending hours looking for the telltale flicker of a cloaked ship on Spacefleet?

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-07-25 03:13pm

Lord Poe wrote:Hey guys, how about the Police Quest and Space Quest games?

Definitely. Quest for Glory was fun too (I liked it at leasT) as well as Robin Hood and Conquests of Camelot, and some of the others.

Ultima anything.

Wizardry.

Wing Commander

In fact, I still probably have alot of them on diskette still, although I'm certain the Diskettes are fucked up.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-07-25 03:15pm

Oh yeah, and dont forget Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, or Maniac Mansion (or Day of the Tentacle.)

Anyone remember the Monkey Island series?

I heard Full Throttle will have a sequel coming out.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-07-25 03:17pm

an yone here remember when Duke Nukem was side-scrolling Shareware? Or Wolfenstein 3D (Anyone here believe that a 2d, monochrome game spawned that series?) and the follower Doom...

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-25 03:22pm

Connor MacLeod wrote:an yone here remember when Duke Nukem was side-scrolling Shareware? Or Wolfenstein 3D (Anyone here believe that a 2d, monochrome game spawned that series?) and the follower Doom...

Duke Nukem: I mentioned that above
Wolfenstein 3d: Shit, I played that game, didn't like it much tho. Doom was much more fun.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2003-07-27 02:19pm

Really loved:

Firepower- Two player capture the flag game featuring HUGE bases and tanks

Tongue of The Fatman- A fighting game.. I remember this being pretty funny...

Wasteland- Post apocalyptic RPG

Day of The Tentacle- Humorous....

WING COMMANDER- Can't forget that one....

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-07-27 03:27pm

Archon. Like chess, but instead of the attacking piece always winning, you'd have to duke it out on a battlefield, and damage carried over between battles. The cheapest unit was definitely the light army's phoenix.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-07-27 03:54pm

Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego on the Apple ][e!

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-07-27 04:15pm

Dalton wrote:Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego on the Apple ][e!

For there is no glory like 2D, 4-bit puzzle games.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-07-27 05:52pm

Datana wrote:
Lonestar wrote:Anyone remember Iron Slug for the Arcade Games?
Do you mean Metal Slug? That was out in 1996, quite a bit after the 486.

Let's see... F-19 and Prince of Persia were definitely fun. Lemmings was the first game I had to use a soundcard. First dedicated Windows game I can recall playing was SimEarth. Also went through countless games of Oregon Trail on the Macs in the school computer lab. Of course, Nethack. Absolute worst game would be the "port" of Megaman 3 for the PC. Pretty much threw out everything good about the game and created an Americanized version.

Its my favorite game of all time you cant stop metal slug ...