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I've been trying to hunt down a copy of Mechwarrior 2 for ages. Man, I played that game to fiddlybits back in the day. I don't remember a single ounce of Campaign mode's story, other than "Wolf Clan is Awesomez!!!1@!", but it was still one of the best games I've played.

DooM has always been a steady go to, though I usually play the DooM Legacy variety. We used to have massive LAN games at my highschool during or after Techstaff (40 kids playing Geeksquad for the highschool, for class credit instead of money. Oh, and we didn't pathologically lie to your face, and we actually tried to help you.) of Legacy, 8-9 players at maximum , blasting out way Co-op deathmatch style through the game. It was full of win.

Monkey Island 2, man. I don't remember much about that game except some beggar that gave you a crap ton of money if you selected the right dialogues, and that you could dump a bucket of mud on some guy's head, but I know I played it and had fun.

Duke Nukem 3d and Rise of the Triad were both excellent games. Learning I could squish bodies in doorways, and finding the magical EKG mode, were fun times.

Shadow Warrior! God, that game was hellaciously fun. Who wanta some wang!? From slaughtering hundreds of color coordinated mutant ninjas to flirting with hot anime chicks in the bath and getting shot at, while the bunnies ran around and reproduced... good times.

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Joviwan wrote:I've been trying to hunt down a copy of Mechwarrior 2 for ages. Man, I played that game to fiddlybits back in the day. I don't remember a single ounce of Campaign mode's story, other than "Wolf Clan is Awesomez!!!1@!", but it was still one of the best games I've played.

Isn't that game supposed to be abandonware by now? I been trying to locate it too, but so far, no dice. Now, the orginal mechwarrior, that would have been cool:D For Hanse Davion!
Sadly, I can't run the sound.

Chris, any ideas?

Its a hell of a paint to get MW2's Dos mode running on Windows under an NT kernal and frankly I find its somewhat hit and miss depending on configuration.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/rniemi/mw2/mech2dos_winxp.html

This page has a good guide to doing it, you'll need to run several layers of applications to handle the sound, mouse and video, but if you can get it to work....

As for finding the actual game files, I have all my original CD's but I have no idea where you would get the files.

The Quest For Glory and Space Quest series for me. Granted I technically run them on the Anthology/Collection versions which actually work on modern machines (well QFG on Win95 box anyway) but they were old school DOS games and still fun to play.

The sad thing is, I have still yet to beat QFG1.

Although I never played it back in the day, I'd like to get the Police Quest collection because from what I've heard it was a good series.

I was always big on the old Trilobyte and Sierra horror-adventure games. The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour rank as two of the creepiest games I've ever played, Shivers and Shivers II: Harvest of Souls were suitably spooky as well, and Phantasmagoria and its sequel were enjoyably gruesome, if not particularly horrific.

I still play Master of Magic semi-regularly on my WinXP machine. In my opinion it's even better than Civilization. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, it's basically the same as Civ I, except it adds magic spells, a second underworld to go along with the main world, and strategic combat. I'd love to see a sequel to it at some point.

Tie Fighter is another one that I've played over and over, although the version I have now is the Win95 version, not the original DOS copy.

My personal favorite game is still Scorched Earth, although I haven't played it in years. My old roommate and I could blast each other for hours at a time with the insane variety of weapons. I don't remember what it was called, but my personal favorite was some kind of tunneling bomb that dug out a big portion of the mountain under your opponent, completely changing the angle and power he would need to hit me.

That I believe would be either the digger series, or more awesomely, the sandhog series.

Cut sick with one of those in a game with 2 human players (Self, sister) and 4 AIs.

Whoops. All dead.

Well, I was taking another crack at the old Forgotten Realms boxed set, Secret of the Silver Blades specifically at this moment, but then that bitch Vala just had to fail her save against an enemy Charm Monster, and then laugh off four dispel magics, six hold persons, two hold monsters and a charm monster, and dropped two of my party members and was well on her way to polishing off two more before I dropped her. Now I have to go back to the last save game, wherever the hell that was, if I want my seventh party member back.

But I'll get back to it once the incandescent rage subsides, and then on to Pools of Darkness starting with a fully equipped and levelled group for once.

I miss sim city.

If only I could find the editor I saw for it once. Clean up those bloody water lines...

I tend to win these wars since I'm still in possession of print outs of the C++ code for classic basic games.

mjn6172 wrote:My personal favorite game is still Scorched Earth, although I haven't played it in years. My old roommate and I could blast each other for hours at a time with the insane variety of weapons. I don't remember what it was called, but my personal favorite was some kind of tunneling bomb that dug out a big portion of the mountain under your opponent, completely changing the angle and power he would need to hit me.

Holy shit that game is so simple, yet so amazingly fun. I wish I still had it, though I'm sure 30 seconds or so on Google will do the trick. I loved just the pure outlandishnish of the weapons though. Although I remember a time or two when that Wheel of Death shell would sometimes not fire quite over that hill and come back to spell my doom.

Scorched Earth is a classic... I need to download that game again, sometime, just for the nostalgia...

I still have it.

Chris OFarrell wrote:Its a hell of a paint to get MW2's Dos mode running on Windows under an NT kernal and frankly I find its somewhat hit and miss depending on configuration.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/rniemi/mw2/mech2dos_winxp.html

This page has a good guide to doing it, you'll need to run several layers of applications to handle the sound, mouse and video, but if you can get it to work....

As for finding the actual game files, I have all my original CD's but I have no idea where you would get the files.

They worked? My CD had problems installing under 98, so, I never tried running them on XP yet.

Some of my favorite oldies games are Descent, Duke Nukem, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, The Incredible Machine, Crystal Caves, Commander Keen and Highway Hunter.

I love old games. They have a certain something about them that most newer games don't have. Call it soul, or maybe nostalgia. My favourites including Duke Nukem 1, Duke Nukem 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Terminal Velocity, Rise of The Triad, DooM, Realm of Chaos, Whacky Wheels, Math Rescue and Word Rescue, Raptor: Call of the Shadows and Tyrian among others. Half-Life certainly brings back some fond memories, despite not being that old.

I also like more recent games that evoke the spirit of old-school gaming, such as Critical Mass and Liero.

Part of it was the pixel art. While by-and-large 3D is certainly superior for a lot of things, pixel art was a lot more personal. I'm sure we all remember how awesome Quake looked whern it came out--those of us who thought it looked awesome anyway--compared to Doom or something. But not that the love affair has waned and you're looking more for that visceral joy again, the lack of 3D isn't as bothersome but the fancy and quite engaging pixel art can be fun.

It's like with Starflight, the graphics are frigid ass, but they had a lot of character where it counted and the game was a lot of fun for a whole variety of other reasons too. Games with those old paragraph books were so fun as well--it was a little joy each time to peel open the book and find one of the 'real' paragraphs instead of the fake ones. The one for Wasteland had an entire alternate storyline involving a Martian invasion and such.