What old games are you still playing?

[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.

[Adrian Laguna]

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.

Another popular one is the mod that makes all wildlife leave you alone unless you bother them or they're blighted. I prefer that one, since it fixes the overall problem of every last animal attacking you on sight.

[chitoryu12]

Jurassic Park: Trespasser. Hilarious fun.

What's the best way to get that? I've wanted to try it out for quite a while just for kicks.

[Solauren]

L.O.R.D

If you don't know what that is, and you're a computer geek, HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME

[RazorOutlaw]

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.

I'm not sure how old you are (I'm 23) but when I was younger, say eight or nine, I played the hell out of Super Mario Brothers 3 with my brother. In my mind #NO. 3 is the best Mario brothers game out there. And I suppose it's because I devoted so much time to it instead of, you know, going outside more often and socializing, that makes me tire of it so quickly nowadays. By the time All-Stars rolled around I couldn't even be arsed to finish the first level - new graphics or not.

[Vendetta]

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.

Another popular one is the mod that makes all wildlife leave you alone unless you bother them or they're blighted. I prefer that one, since it fixes the overall problem of every last animal attacking you on sight.

True, less psycho mudcrabs is a good thing as well.

[Ghost Rider]

Super Mario 1-World...when the mood hits me.

Mega Man 1-4. The latter parts for me don't have charm in 5-6. MM 7-8 are too easy, and MM9 is nice, but feels meh. Interesting challenges though.

Phantasy Star 1-4 and Final Fantasy 2-6. FF1 has enough variations but the newer version make it from easy to dumb, deaf, blind easy and I did most the single playthroughs on the original NES as a kid.

TIE Fighter when I want a decent SW game.

[Losonti Tokash]

I just started playing Crusader Kings for some reason.

edit: which for some reason I thought was ancient but I just looked it up and it's like 5 years old. Shit.

[Czechmate]

F-Zero. <3 Mute City.
Super Mario RPG.
Pokemon Red. (I keep tryin to get out, but they just keep pullin me back in!)
Earthbound.
Yoshi's Island.
...lots of SNES emulations, really.

[OmegaChief]

I find myself playing Skies of Arcadia every six months or so (Thank goodness the Wii runs gamecube games).

With the recent MW4 announcement I wound up digging out my old Xbox out of the attic to play through Mechassault once again.

I have also been tempted multiple times to go back and play Pokemon: Silver too, perhaps I should stick my gameboy in a draw so it stops tempting me

[Jade Falcon]

Freespace which I got from GOG.com. I've got the basic game but I wanted a version with Vista compatibility and the Silent Threat mission pack.

[Stark]

If only you could get a new engine that worked on modern systems, was loaded with high quality content, and had a giant pile of superior campaigns. For free even!

Does it count if you keep starting Ultima 7 and giving up because you've played the opening like eight trillion times?

[Darth Ruinus]

I'm still playing Wild Arms 3, Guilty Gear XX and Dark Cloud 2 for the PS2. For my Sega console I still play Sonic 2 & 3, Primal Rage, Pacman 2: The New Adventures, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Columns. I also occasionaly play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters and Tetris on the SNES.

[Stofsk]

I'm playing Diablo 2. I'm even thinking about playing Diablo 1 as well.

I have a ton of more modern games I could be playing, and even want to play. But, there's something about fighting motherfucking Diablo, the LORD OF TERROR, in his hell palace. I have the ambition of finally taking a character through Hell difficulty too. I've never done that. Until I have, I won't be able to say I've actually completed Diablo 2.

Look, I know the graphics are shit. It's a 10 year old game, what do you want? It's just... really fun to play, personally. Diablo 1 had great atmosphere - dark, gothic fantasy where you're one guy (or girl) in a really big labyrinth full of scary monsters. Diablo 2 had good atmosphere, but once you got the hang of it normal difficulty was depressingly easy, and nightmare was more like 'medium'. Then you hit hell and it's like, wow, this isn't hard it's fucking ridiculously hard.

I'm hanging out for Diablo 3. I haven't had much faith in Blizzard since Warcraft 3 and the WoW phenomenon, and what I hear about Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 doesn't inspire me with much confidence, but on the other hand I'll give it a shot. If I don't like it, I can always go back to the originals. Visually though they look good.

[hongi]

Jurassic Park: Trespasser. Hilarious fun.

What's the best way to get that? I've wanted to try it out for quite a while just for kicks.

Sorry, don't have a clue. I only have the one I bought when it first came out.

Stofsk, do you play single player? Because ganks have ruined online play, so that you either have to play alone or with a group that you know. And you might want to try Hardcore mode.

[Stark]

I'm playing Diablo 2. I'm even thinking about playing Diablo 1 as well.

I have a ton of more modern games I could be playing, and even want to play. But, there's something about fighting motherfucking Diablo, the LORD OF TERROR, in his hell palace. I have the ambition of finally taking a character through Hell difficulty too. I've never done that. Until I have, I won't be able to say I've actually completed Diablo 2.

Look, I know the graphics are shit. It's a 10 year old game, what do you want? It's just... really fun to play, personally. Diablo 1 had great atmosphere - dark, gothic fantasy where you're one guy (or girl) in a really big labyrinth full of scary monsters. Diablo 2 had good atmosphere, but once you got the hang of it normal difficulty was depressingly easy, and nightmare was more like 'medium'. Then you hit hell and it's like, wow, this isn't hard it's fucking ridiculously hard.

I'm hanging out for Diablo 3. I haven't had much faith in Blizzard since Warcraft 3 and the WoW phenomenon, and what I hear about Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 doesn't inspire me with much confidence, but on the other hand I'll give it a shot. If I don't like it, I can always go back to the originals. Visually though they look good.

What's sad is that the Diablo-em-up genre is pretty big, but they're generally not really much better than D2. D2 is old, rubbish, primitive etc but ten years later nobody has really done much better.

[Stofsk]

Yeah that is pretty sad.

[Ziggy Stardust]

I have a rather odd collection of very old games that I still fiddle around with occasionally.

An old Risk computer game made by Hasbro in (IIRC) 1997. Actually a very well-designed game (almost certainly inspired the Total War series with some of its mechanics).

Some weird game called Unnatural Selection where you control populations of alien organisms and fiddle with their genetics to allow them to compete against other organisms, and eventually take over the world or something.

SimANT. Part of the Sim series of games. You play an ant colony. You can do all sorts of fun stuff with this. I like fiddling with it for ten to twenty minutes while waiting for programs/updates to finish downloading or processing on my computer.

The Return to Zork. This game is just too much awesome. If you don't know it, you aren't nerdy enough. There are other games in the series, but this is the only one I specifically remember. It's basically like Myst, but it doesn't suck.

Ghouls and Ghosts and Super Ghouls and Ghosts. Old-school arcade-style side-scrollers. Not only incredibly fun, but surprisingly challenging games. I'm not even sure I ever managed to completely beat them (though I know I have made it as far as the final boss).

The House of the Dead series. Fun arcade shooters, with an utterly incomprehensible plot and dialogue.

[Jade Falcon]

A few more to add

Freespace
Beneath a Steel Sky
Mean Streets/Martian Memorandum
Arcanum

[Xisiqomelir]

I play ST every day. I also play KOF '98 multiple times a week.

I replay FF6 several times a year (eat it, Chrono Trigger).

And chess is always a good time!

[Uraniun235]

I've been plowing through Mechwarrior 2 lately. DOSBOX (or Mech2) doesn't seem to want to play nice with my joystick so I've had to play with keyboard and mouse, but it's worth it for the rad music and fun missions.

[Bounty]

Starfleet Academy. The SNES version. It's not even that awesome but I keep coming back to it.

Picking up the boxed PC version for $2 this afternoon just makes me want to play the SNES one more. Sure it has no FMV, or special effects, or textures, or proper controls, or much of a plot, but damnit branching storylines and missions you can solve by being Star Trek captain-y and not shooting the crap out of everyone I'M LOOKING AT YOU ELITE FORCE are so rare I have to cherish every one that comes by.

(By the way, most depressing CD sleeve ad ever? Coming Soon: Secret of Vulcan Fury )

[Jade Falcon]

What the hell did happen to Secret of Vulcan Fury anyway? Hell, I remember Star Trek Final Unity taking a crapload of time to develop. Did Interplay lose the Star Trek licence or something?

[Bounty]

What the hell did happen to Secret of Vulcan Fury anyway? Hell, I remember Star Trek Final Unity taking a crapload of time to develop. Did Interplay lose the Star Trek licence or something?

Interplay ran out of money and shelved the game. There are rumours that the source code is out there, sold along with the company's assets, but it's very unlikely it'll ever surface.

[born in shadow]

I've been playing Doom 2 over the past week or two. I also keep ducking back to older games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3 and Metal Gear Solid. In the next few weeks I plan to play the Playstation Clock Tower