What old games are you still playing?

[Vympel]

Ah, but can you still use the nine-finger control system required to look, lean, strafe, run, juggle the UI -and- fight? Before we were spoilt by mouselook and sensible controls, it took so many more skills to drive complex shooters.

If you were smart, you just used the mouse and the direction keys, like a slightly more unwieldy than usual FPS.

[The Yosemite Bear]

you path-th-th-etic creatures-s-s-s of flesh and bone.

[Chardok]

I still play Incredible Hulk: Ultimate destruction. I think...2004? 2005? Can't remember off the top of my head. Also, I play Star Control 2 (1992-3) regularly. Why that game is so the same but still replayable, I'll never know.

Also...WHY MUST I LOSE MY ELUDERS?!?

Yeah, that's a teaser. if you want "in" the "club" you need to go play Star Control. Because if you don't you're a douchemonster. Just kidding, you already are. But seriously, Go play it.

[Masami von Weizegger]

My father called me today to gloat about how he beat Super Mario Brothers on the NES before me (Christ, I was, like, five and you hogged it anyway, dad! Who makes an international call to brag about that anyway?) so I've been playing that to prove that the grasshopper has surpassed the... the whatever you call a grasshopper master.

I've been looking for other NES games I used to own to prove myself the Trans-Generational Family NES All-Star Champion but I can't find the other two games we used to compete at; Low G Man (about a guy who could jump quite high, not a diminutive FBI agent) and my personal favourite, Kabuki Quantum Fighter (a U.S. soldier becomes a Kabuki warrior in a computer simulation to kill an alien virus with his hair).

That and 16-bit old school Sonic. Where the fuck did my reflexes go? I seem to get hit all the time now. I could do this blindfolded when I was nine.

[Akhlut]

Well, if we consider games from 2004 or earlier old, then...
Crusader Kings eats up most of my time when I play games these days. Other computer games I tend to play a lot anymore are other old Paradox games, though I want to dig up my copies of SimCity 3000 and SimLife and see how those hold up.

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne uses up my console time anymore. Beyond that Monster Rancher 3, Brigandine, and not a whole lot else.

[chitoryu12]

Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark are two fun ones for me. The cartridges and my N64 don't work particularly well, so it's loads of trouble to try and play them, but I found an emulator so I can play them on my PC with an Xbox 360 controller. Much easier than with the N64 controller. Then there's Super Mario 64, an old favorite.

On the PC, I've loaded some older games I found, like the original RollerCoaster Tycoon. When I find the damn CD code, I'll reinstall SimCity 3000. I would have put The Sims back in with the Hot Date and Vacation expansion packs, but unfortunately the CD is messed up and won't install. I also finally found the code for Battlefield 1942, but unfortunately not many people are playing my version any more, and even less are playing the mods. Doesn't help either that my joystick is fucked up and keeps wanting to pull to the right all the time, which means I can't really play Freespace 2 any more.

[Solauren]

Sometimes, I just love playing Aztec (Commodore 64). Gotta love that game. I put my poor 'avatar' in the game through such living hell (jump, fall 30 feet, jump, fall 30 feet, jump, fall 30 feet, dynamite something, jump into hole, fall 30 feet, crawl throw a wall or smack head into)

[KroLazuxy_87]

Even my friends who play old games and think it's normal(not that it isn't) blame me of playing really old games.

Diablo 2 - While the pixels are still clearly visible in the game, the online play is still entertaining. (Not really that old, but I play it so much, it has to be on the list.)

Cybersphere - Best words ever used to describe a game: Post-Apocalyptic Cyber-Punk. An all-text game based off the MOO code. If you've never played a tel-net game(MOOs, MUSHs, MUDs), you can't call yourself a game addict. >EDIT< Beware browsing this site at an office, there are a couple hand drawn images of slight nudity in it's depths.

Empire, Wargame of the Century - The first incarnations of this game were done all in Dos, with no visual representation. In the latest(late '80s) uses a basic visual representation. Turn-based, Capture cities, produce different types of units.

[Satori]

I still play Incredible Hulk: Ultimate destruction. I think...2004? 2005? Can't remember off the top of my head. Also, I play Star Control 2 (1992-3) regularly. Why that game is so the same but still replayable, I'll never know.

Also...WHY MUST I LOSE MY ELUDERS?!?

Yeah, that's a teaser. if you want "in" the "club" you need to go play Star Control. Because if you don't you're a douchemonster. Just kidding, you already are. But seriously, Go play it.

Heh. Anyone else here play Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem?

[Lord Revan]

would Warcarft 2-3 count?

[Logical Mike]

We've been known to fire up the old nintendo 64 for some serious Goldeneye tourneys. Game still holds up well after all these years.

[KroLazuxy_87]

Satori: Eternal Darkness was the shit. It's only fault was that it's on the Gamecube.

Logical Mike: Perfect Dark was ten times better on the 64.


Anyone a fan of the Elder Scrolls series? Morrowind specifically.

[Stark]

You mean the quarry simulator?

OH LOOK.

A CLIFF RACER.

[Vendetta]

You mean the quarry simulator?

OH LOOK.

A CLIFF RACER.

It says a great deal about Morrowind that the most popular fan mod for it (after the nude patch, of course) is the one that removes all the cliff racers.

[irishmick79]

Goldeneye and Perfect Dark have to be some of the best party shooters ever. Some of my friends would get so mad at each other over goldeneye shootouts that they wouldn't speak to each other for days.

[hongi]

Jurassic Park: Trespasser. Hilarious fun.

[Oni Koneko Damien]

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne uses up my console time anymore.

Well if that's old, then count me in. I just defeated the Moirai sisters for the fifth time, and my Rhi wants me to get her Chu Chulainne to level 99.

Other than that I still play Doom 2, Quake and Quake 2 from time to time (usually with a few mods to give better controls). Not exceptionally good games, but they do what they are supposed to: Provide masses of things to slaughter in an enjoyable manner while listening to a pretty decent soundtrack. If I could find a way to load D!Zone or an equivalent and randomize the enemies/items I'd probably be even more hooked.

[aerius]

I still play C&C Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, and Generals. Still have the original C&C lying around somewhere but I haven't played it in years.

Also have Need for Speed Porsche, but only play that around once a month or so.

[Guardsman Bass]

My brother and I have lately been playing some of the old SNES games in our spare time (I've got to hand it to Nintendo - we got the Super Nintendo back in 1993, and the sucker hasn't had any problems in 16 years). We just recently beat Super Mario RPG (which is an excellent game), as well as "Super Mario Bros 3" on Super Mario All-Stars. A bit farther back (a couple of months ago, right after spring semester ended), we beat our way through the Donkey Kong Country titles (all three of them).

We tried beating Jurassic Park II: The Chaos Continues, but that game is fucking hard. Not "Battle Toads" difficulty, but hard.

Although I haven't really played them in about a month, I usually play a decent amount of Alpha Centauri and Civ III (more of the latter than the former as of late). Part of that was because I remember being daunted by Civ III back when I first got, and was determined to beat my way through all the difficulty levels (I managed to do it on "Emperor", the second-highest, but "Deity" was too much considering how much the comps cheated).

[Darksider]

I still play C&C Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, and Generals. Still have the original C&C lying around somewhere but I haven't played it in years.

Also have Need for Speed Porsche, but only play that around once a month or so.

If you like the original C&C games, you can pick up First Decade in the bargin bin nowadays, or maybe even the package with First Decade and Tiberium wars.

That would give you every game except 3's expansion (Including the cheesy FPS) on one disc, and updated to run on XP without any hassle.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I forgot I have Tetris on my Cell phone.

[loomer]

I still play Adom, Settlers 2, Civilization 2(best one of them, if you ask me), MoO2, Westfall, Dungeon Keeper, Simcity 3000, my old SNES games, Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Age of Empires 2 (LAN favourite, of course), CS 1.6, Creatures 3, and Abomination: the Nemesis Project.

They're all a damn lot of fun.

[wautd]

Currently hooked on Simcity 4 (finally got it working again)

[RazorOutlaw]

Battlefield 1942 with the Battlegroup '42 mod.

I've been trying to get "Abuse" to run, with no luck, thanks to Vista, as well as "Castle of the Winds". CotW was basically a precursor to Diablo. It was the first hack-and-slash dungeon crawler I'd ever played and despite Diablo's superior graphics I couldn't help but compare it to CotW (years later). Like Abuse, I can't get the game to run. CotW also featured graphics on par with Windows 3.1 solitaire. I guess I'm just feeling a little too nostalgic.

I was going to mention a bunch of other games that are old and that I've attempted to pick up again in the past year or so but the fact of the matter is I usually tire of those games quickly. Hell, I hardly give most of the strategy games I own more than ten minutes if I install them. They just aren't fun - and I've played the same variation too many times to find them interesting. But the same goes for a lot of those older games too - there's always some flaw, some sign of old age that makes me find something newer and more to my tastes. I think it's interesting that there are web-based emulators out there (and emulators even available for the 360!) but for ones like the NES games the same thing applies. Ten minutes of Mario and co. and I'm done.

Otherwise I've been sticking to "The Witcher" and "Mass Effect".

[RedImperator]

My old school Nintendo experience is the exact opposite from yours. I sat down with Super Mario All-Stars today and wound up beating Super Mario Bros. (the long way, without using the warp zones). Maybe I just really like platformers.