How about what was your all time favourate old time game

[welsh wizard]

Mine was the old text Infocom mind benders, "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" or "The Red Baron" 2X player version

[bigslammer]

atari space invaders, street fighter 2, unreal, mario kart 64, genesis madden 94, nhl 94,davis cup tennis, madden 64

[Stan]

Hi

Mine was probably Duke3D. I think I spent days and days and days (...) on that game.
I loved blowing up these aliens b\!!$%

Stan

[Carl Uman]

River Raid for Atari

[reddog4629]

Pakman-Yeah

[Andrew]

Shadowgate for the NES...loved it...stayed up nights trying to figure it out...

[Andrew]

Shadowgate for the NES...loved it...stayed up nights trying to figure it out...

[Andrew]

Shadowgate for the NES.

[Red Rage]

I would have to say, Pool of Radience or Final Fantasy

[LordLocksley]

I agree w/ Carl...I still play River Raid...

[U-96]

Hmmmm that's a toughie...

Elite on the Acorn Electron/BBC

There was a game on the Amiga by Broderbund where you flew a Helldiver across Japanese islands and machine-gunned little men and torpedoed warships. I played that for months. Can't remember the name, sorry. Something like 'Wings of Glory'

Wings, a WW1 flightsim, was the most atmospheric game ever, with period tunes, etc.

The original Civilisation, Railroad Tycoon, B-17 and Gunship on the PC/Amiga. Those were all groundbreaking when they appeared and soaked up most of my spare/sleep time. Microprose could do no wrong c.1990-3. /forum/smile.gif

U-96

[mudoggy]

LOL U-96.. I remember the Broderbund game.. Im not sure about the 'Glory' part, but maybe wings of Steel, or something Fury.. ohhh man.. I can see and hear the game but not the title! (I couldn't torp ships, but had fun bombing, strafing, and rocketing the poor souls on the ground). Wings was awesome as well, but strafing missions were a drag (toooo long).

Silent Service II for the Amiga was addictive, and many games from my C64 days were as well: Raid on Bungling Bay, Jumpman, Beach Head, Loderunner, Destroyer, Racing Destruction Set, Battle of Antietam.(Really, I wasn't a violent child..) Our whole family used to play Jumpman and Mario Bros. against each other (you had to jump up from below and flip over crabs and other little beasties..then walk up and kick them off the screen.

The Infocom text games were fun.. Zork and all that.

I've gotten "The Speech" from the lady about playing Imperialism until 3AM... (hahah worst part is, she's right! hahah /forum/wink.gif )

Seven Cities of Gold just popped into my head as well.. "Pirates!" was cool too, as was F15 Strike Eagle I and II.. yes, Microprose was king...

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[dawgtuff]

Corkball.....DawgTuff.

[Dominus]

Anyone ever play "Ascendancy"? It's sort of like civilization in concept, but the gameplay is much better in my opinion. You get to choose from 30 different species of aliens (none of which are even humanoid) and use them to build an interstellar empire & eventually take over the universe! I believe it was made by a company called "The Logic Factory"

[IRED]

Is Astoroids to new?

That is my favourate but Ms. Pacman is a close second.

[Joel Kleppinger]

There was the sweetest basketball game for the day: Magic Johnson's MVP by Virgin Interactive (now THAT was ironic /forum/wink.gif). That was the game that I was addicted to for many months. I got so good with it, I decided to see how many consecutive 24 game + 8 team tourney seasons I could go undefeated in consecutively. I think my best was somewhere around 15 or 16 straight undefeated seasons. /forum/smile.gif

Other than that, no game has taken me like that until I grabbed Need For Speed: High Stakes a few months back. For a whole month, I could barely put it down (ok, I couldn't put it down at all).

[BBA]

The original Lands of Lore.

[MrEd]

P O N G ! ! ! ! Ruled!!!!

Then there was Asteroids, yeah!

-MrEd
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[chipbgt]

Super dodge ball for the NES. I would almost pee my pants playing that game with my friends as a little kid. That game was so awesome. I wonder what a simple game like that would be like on a n64 or dreamcast...hmm. i would buy em.

[Eli]

Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Super Mario Kart (SNES version, not MK64), Final Fantasy 3, and Warcraft 2. That's about all that immediately comes to mind...

[welsh wizard]

Mr Ed, Man I forgot about pong, that thing took the pubs over back in the U.K. used to have to wait for hours just to get on the machines and put your 2 bob in for about 5 minutes of game then th e landlord made you go to back of line to play again.

[MrEd]

Oh, man. With all the games that are being re-made, I wish they'd bring back that one!!!

-MrEd
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[welsh wizard]

MrEd
You could always check around some garage sales, who knows some one might have an old Atari system with it on cartridge an old 800 or even 130XE (no I haven't forgotten the 1200 or the 800XL's)you might get it for a couple of bucks, on my Newel256KXL i sometimes still plug in the odd cartridge when I don't need to blow an eprom. still have some fun with River Raid,Quix, and so on.Just remebered one Digger Dan trying to escape the spiders and ghost!

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[jokostel]

digger...on an old ibm xt

[KillerBug]

NO TERIS ANYWHERE!!! Teris was my favorite untill Strife came out in I think '94.

[lost1]

The first version of Wizardry on my old Apple II kept me hooked to my greenscreen like a junkie! It was text based, but also had still-graphics.
The original Battlezone was way cool in the late 70's-early 80's. I plunked many a quarter into arcade machines on that one. Anyone know where I can get it for the PC?

[a Bill]

Adventure was my first favorite, then Wizardry.

[Joel Kleppinger]

chipbgt: I have to hand it to you. Super Dodge Ball was the best game to ever hit the NES system. Though I never had an NES, I can remember going over to friend's houses and making them rent that game. /forum/smile.gif Now, if a remade version of that would just come out on PC....

Oh well, now I've got to go dig up an emulator or something. /forum/wink.gif

[KillerBug]

lost1 - I believe it was the first M$ entertainment pack(back when there was no WIN9X to spit out over and over again) Although this will be altered by socolgal, try out some real old ***** pages.

(KillerBug, you're right! /forum/wink.gif -socalgal)


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[shnikey]

I hate to be so cliche but, I have to say my favorite game ever is Zelda for Nes. That was just a great game. I still play it all the time.
Shnikey

[JerseyJoe]

On the pc my old time favorites are Wizardry and Civilization.

Also, I liked the board games Call of Cthulhu and Red Bear, White Moon.

[bringspeed]

breath of fire, cept for the one part where they made you screw around building experience by imposing a toll that made you fight hundreds of monsters to pay, thus rainsing your experience points so you could compete in the rest of the game. about the only part i didn't enjoy imensely. the original zelda is great, but i never did beat it. castlevania on snes. super mario rpg, the first time anyway. got old, and stupid, quick. jedi knight, though it's not too old. myst. WAY better than riven. riven was made harder by taking half the clues away from the puzzles. not fun. super mario cart, snes, first game i ever played. i got GOOD at that too, dead shot with greenie turtle shells, prefered them to red ones. super mario world, didn't stop playing till igot it to say 96 levels, got a star beside it too, still not sure how i did it, played the game the same as all the other times. warcraft 2. also not too old. the original Mortal Kombat, it just felt alot more arcadey, and fun. but what was up with that gray stuff that flew off people when you hit them? /forum/smile.gif

[papalion]

Q-bert

[Plaster]

Fighters Megamix (Sega Saturn.) Anyone ever hear of that system?

[MrEd]

OHHH, MAN; I can't believe no one has even mentioned Joust!!! If anyone has a Playstation, there is a Game Disk out there called William's Arcade Collection (or something along that line). It's got a lot of the old Atari games on it. Including Joust, but ALAS, no Pong!!!!

-MrEd
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[KillerBug]

Get a TI-83+, they have all these games from when computers had rare ram, small hard drives, black and white screens, and 6mhz chips, because that describes one!

[beller6]

My altime favorites:
any King's Quest/ Leisure Suit Larry/Kyrandia book 1 .

[Nathan]

Without a doubt

Wolf3D

[Mai Oh Mai]

For PC--Hitchikers Guide the Galaxy on 5.25" floppy disc. Board game--Monopoly (the new PC version is okay also.)

[Roy]

Starcross by Infocom. From the era before pictures. Played via dialog with computer (mine was Osborne O-1).

Never did find the last crystal. /forum/frown.gif

[welsh wizard]

Roy you found some, I got so frustrated I gave game to a friend, thats if my memory isn't playing tricks must have been about 89 I think. Mai Oh Mai I still have a go with Hitchhikers on the ST every now and again, when you haven't played it for a year or two you can still have fun, did you ever try Leather Goddess of Phobos man that was a weird one.

[U-96]

Hehe thought you might like this GIF: /forum/smile.gif

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[Sweeper]

berzerk and defender
there were a few more , but man that was along time ago and I can't remember there names.

[Bonehead]

I think you all missed a great game for the XT: Sopwith(Camel)!!! You could even play it head-head!

[chipbgt]

Joel,

This was a long time ago ( for fun I searched for all posts with "chipbgt" in them) but they do make a super dodge ball emulation...on my machine it is always a little grainy, but its still a blast to play!

[tonym]

Asteroids. The table version. Cause it was possible to put several pitchers on that baby .
Hi-chee-wah-wah! Time does fly by!!!!!

And I have fond memories of bombing the hell out of virtual Europe (sorry my EU friends) with "Flying Fortress" on the Intellivision system. "Bombs away...". It was a clunker, but oh what fun!

Tony

[Dave_H]

chipbgt
Thanks. Boy just looking at that pong game brought back some cool memories of childhood. (when life was easy) LOL
I can even here the cheesy noises. Bloop...Bloop...Bloop
Dave

[pickel]

I have fond memories of myself, my wife and daughter spending hours on end playing
"Duck Hunt" on the old Tandy color computer.

the pickel

[jad1097]

All the atari games above + Yars Revenge I used to play it for hours. Guess What I still have it and it works great. Picked up atari 2600 and 20 or 30 games at a yard sale for $5!A couple of years ago.Also picked up an old tandy with a bunch of stuff for $10.The Tandy Runs on something like DOS 1.? all floppys and 51/4 disks. Next time we hook up the Tandy I will check.
Can I play these old Tandy games in Dos/Win98? We have a bunch of games and stuff.

[Serge]

Romance of Three Kingdoms series for SNES..
actually a latest version should be out on psx.. check it out (http://www.koeigames.com/games/romance6/default.htm)!

[Ceeffa]

SPACE INVADERS Simply the best!!

[wangel]

Prince Of Persia

I played this game for weeks before I beat every level. Was very disappointed when Prince of Persia II came out this year. No way to make the original any better!

[orkboss]

Thinking way back ... Dungeon Master on the Amiga, not good by todays standards of course but at the time I loved it.

For PC game I think Ultima Underworld II. I played this round a friends. I wouldn't mind getting hold of it now.

[stylin19]

Donkey Kong

[ayuen]

My favourite oldies were for the C64. Games like Ultima III, Pool of Radiance and that whole slew of SSI D&D series, Archon. And other arcade-type games like joust clones (Pegasus). Sword of Fargoal. Yep, brings back childhood memories.

[montanafan]

Asteroids and Space Invaders.

[JeffD78]

There was one I used to play on BBSs called Legend of the Red Dragon, a text based RPG. Can't forget the Megatraveller series for PC, or the old Deathtrack. Sierra's Space Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory, Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest. The Original Star Control and Star Control 2 (3 kinda sucked). Oh yeah, can't forget my dad's copy of Strip Poker that I found when I was 13!!! Wheeeee!

[Zotzmein]

Deadline - text game by Infocom (all the text Zorks)

Alternate Reality (for the Atari 800) - first time I saw a first person 3D perspective game.

Questron – similar to Ultima

Yar’s Revenge for the Atari 2600

Pong II – Looks like the original Pong but features a compartment for battery operation. In essence it was portable, you could take it over to a friends house and hook it up very easily.

Regards,

Zotz Mein

[Smellfunny]

Starcraft and Civ2 have eaten more of my life away than I care to admit.

[DaveLewis]

The old Infocom text games were great - A Mind Forever Voyaging, Leather Goddesses of Phobos - all of them were well written and fun. I even found them to run on my old TI-99. Now that's ancient history.

[Axel]

Oldest PC game was one written for APPLEIIe called 'code of hamurabi' - mostly text based ruler of the domain type strategy stuff.

Then -
defender
star gate
star castles
space invaders
and final fantasy I & II for NES

Lately, I can't stop playing alpha centauri - I'd describe it as future RISK on steroids in 3D - for the PC, and you can load the entire game so you don't access the CD - awesome graphics. Haven't networked it yet. Only finished the game 8 or 9 times so far.