the best games of yesterday...

Matt7 · Post by **Matt7** » 2003-07-23 09:21pm

anybody remember, in the days of yore (with the 486 computers, MS-DOS, and boot disks and the like), the old games, in the era of Commander Keen, Duke Nukem I, Descent...Doom I... what were your favourite games?
Mine were Commander Keen, Duke Nukem I, Dark Forces, Doom, Secret Agent, and BioMenace.

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-07-23 10:13pm

Anyone remember Iron Slug for the Arcade Games?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-23 10:19pm

Stellar 7

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-07-23 10:20pm

Leisure Suit Larry

Matt7 · Post by **Matt7** » 2003-07-23 10:25pm

I forgot about Major Stryker and Kiloblaster...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-23 11:23pm

Quest for Glory 1-4.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-24 05:06am

Anyone remember Detroit ????

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2003-07-24 05:30am

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.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-07-24 05:38am

UFO: Enemy Unknown is probably my favourite old game.

DeadM · Post by **DeadM** » 2003-07-24 06:06am

Stunt Island.

My god I loved that game.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-07-24 06:09am

Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific, Aces over Europe. Yes, I was flight-sim nut.
Then there was Dune and Dune 2 (ah, so many hours...), Football Manager (in its various incarnations), All the Lucasarts adventures, Wing Commander 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny and Doom, Simcity (in its various versions), a lot more I can't remember.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-07-24 06:12am

I am the official gamming dinosaur since my suggestion will consistantly include some unix server based game like multi-play merchant trek....

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-07-24 07:58am

I liked:
Commander Keen
Stunts
Leisure Suit Larry
Traffic Department 2087
One Must Fall 2100

I can't remember the rest.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-07-24 08:24am

Ufo:Enemy Unknown, which I still play these days...

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2003-07-24 10:59am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:I am the official gamming dinosaur since my suggestion will consistantly include some unix server based game like multi-play merchant trek....

Me and my beloved Castles of Dr. Creep on the C64 laugh in Your Youthfulness's direction.

I swear I have been more impressed by graphics, but not as impressed with gameplay, since 1986 or so.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-24 11:13am

HARPOON![

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-07-24 12:09pm

Suicidal Lifestyle wrote:Stunt Island.

My god I loved that game.

Agreed. Still have it, but rarely use it. However, this game still has a big fanbase that makes new props and films. Did you ever see "Stuntzilla"?

Mutant Headcrab · Post by **Mutant Headcrab** » 2003-07-24 12:57pm

Ufo: Enemy Unknown.

Nothing comes close to that first time you blow an alien to hell and back.....at the cost of three of your squad. The game can be hard early on....

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2003-07-25 12:58am

JediNeophyte wrote:Leisure Suit Larry

oh yeah! I played that at my aunt's house and she had to answer the questions for me in the beginning there was plently of stuff which wasn't graphic enough to be graphic like the hookers bedroom, where the graphics are so bad you can't see any of her privates.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-07-25 01:43am

Skool Daze

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-07-25 05:28am

Three Words

Infocom Text Adventure.

hands out Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, and suggest we get together with Kelly and Co. to stop the leather goddess of Phobos from enslaving humanity....

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-07-25 05:30am

Also I should point out to the C64 fans. My adventures with university Unix server games predate personal computers....

I remember TIMELORD for the C64...

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-07-25 09:01am

*slowly sits in my eazy chair by the fire and sets my cane down next to the chair.

Gather young ones and i shall enthrall ye with stories of the Tandy 1000 8086! ......blabbers incoherantly about RGB monitors , math co-processers and tractor feed dot matrix printers.......

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. 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.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-25 12:30pm

I LOVED this one game game, i just can't remember the damn name. You flew a few different ships on missions around this city or something, and in between the missions was a great story (part of what taught me to read, i think). it was an Epic games thing, i think. I also had One Must Fall 2097, which I think is better than any other fighting games I've ever played (DOA3 can shove it, OMF is t3h c00ln355!!!!111). I liked the Duke Nukem series, especially 2, 'cause of its purty graphics 'n stuff. I played Dark Forces a lot, but I had some crappy preview CD with only 3 missions (it came with Tie Fighter collector's edition, Behind the Magic, and both Rebel Assault games, so I guess they had an excuse)

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-07-25 12:44pm

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???