alot of old console games are classic and we just wana (and actualy do) play them again. because of their simplicity and fun but i never hear about pc game classic ppl play again. it's like they are just not cool or something.
we all remember old console game with nostalgia but never any pc games. sure we loved some pc games back in the days. but it's like we would never install them again. id rather have fond memories about games on pc i played than loading them again. i expect an old console game to look how it does. i tend to amplify the graphic of old pc game and when i see them im shocked in horror or just dont seem to see what i used to.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 22:18
Hmm, this is difficult for me, since my actual first 'computer' was actually an amiga; for that, I use to swear by Syndicate and Sensible Soccer. You wouldn't find me playing anything else other than those two.
For PC, hmm...well, I'll always enjoy a lucasart classic :)
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Anonymous2004-12-24 22:25
Well i think the pc doesnt suffer from this because you can just go back to ease. The pc classics you have just need to be installed agian, no fuss and no mess. The nostalgia from consoles is from the people who broke or sold their old nes or genesis and want to revisit their past. I feel that way for my saturn but that broke years ago. If i want to play monkey island, i load it up on scummvm and play.
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OMG LOL!uNJUZNN.ZE2004-12-24 22:36
syndicate was badass, totaly badass, it was the most violent game ive ever saw(at the time) and the story/goal of the game was realy great. sequel was so so
but you wont see me play it again though. id kill for a remake that dont change a thing but i just wont reinstall it again.
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Anonymous2004-12-25 0:56
Easily the Sierra Kings Quest Series, and of Course the Original Text Based, return to Castle Wolfenstein, with Wolfenstein 3D getting an honorable mention.
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masa2004-12-25 1:25
The Secret of Monkey Island and its first sequel. Never played the rest of them.
Loom.
Wing Commander.
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Anonymous2004-12-25 1:35
they are classic and can be easily played with a dos emulator like the nes emulator but do we do it ? i think not. we do it for old console but not old pc.
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Kei2004-12-25 2:42
masa is dead on. Loom, WC, SoMI, all amazing.
The old Space Quests were really good, two and three in particular. "Hugo's House of Horrors" was another of that adventure genre, but was done freelance, and was a real kick. How about the old Indiana Jones games?
I can't think of my gaming childhood without thinking of adventure games. ^_^
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Ed_Oscuro2004-12-25 3:25
Hard to say why it is what PC games don't resell for much at all; ease of use for consoles really only accounts for so much (but it's true that I play very few DOS games these days seeing how I only have XP-tan...)
HHH was a great series. I still haven't beaten two. Nitemare 3D - the Wolf 3D spinoff of the series - was one of my introductions to FPSing. It's a pretty bland game but it had some neat ideas (all the weapons are projectile attacks, for one) and some neat music. One of the tracks in the first episode (the shareware one, only version I've played) is taken right out The Last Ninja 2...Nitemare 3D's/HHH's author, David P. Gray, shares a last name with the song composer for that game, Matt Gray. I think they must be related.
But really, there's a ton of old PC games that everybody should love; lots of the fans from the old days have gotten their adventuring done so for us action-adventure primary types there doesn't SEEM to be much.
Really most 2D character-based PC games (sidescrollers, topdown and the like) were pretty bad, and I think much of the reason nobody cares about PC games is that all the best stuff seems to be adventure (which I love). Hard to say really. Some games are climbing in value though - Macintosh too (can you say Bungie?)
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Anonymous2004-12-25 3:43
I second Wing Commander (as well as every other Origin flight sim).
Anyone remember that OOTW game?
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TheLastRoboKy!PTp2mgltYM2004-12-25 4:07
Ultima 7. The things you could do, and often would do just because you could were many and hilarious. I often regale people with the time I tried to murder every NPC in the entire game and put them in the hostel in Paws.
Ultima Underworld, too, VERY long game and VERY fun. I think it was very underrated too, but the extreme lenth of the game and your ability to choose good or evil makes the game an instant classic. And the fact that it was the first 3D of the Ultima genre and very good helps it.
I lost the game a long time ago.. This thread makes me want to find it again and play it. I never beat it despite months and months of play I just kept getting lost or dying but it extremely entertaining.
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Anonymous2004-12-25 7:20
Is the original Doom old enough yet to be considered an old classic? I first played this game AFTER Duke3D, Quake and Quake 2, and still found it to be fantastic fun.
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RangerKarl2004-12-25 8:31
Doom pretty much kicked the FPS genre up into the stratosphere, so yeah, I'd say it's a classic.
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SHK!2004-12-25 9:32
Day of The Tentacle.
Yeah, I'm weird like that. o_O
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ct060332004-12-25 10:12
how about worms, sim city (just about any of the old maxis line) decsent, halflife.. id reinstall and tear through any of those games.. if i still had the cd/ still compatible with xp.. *shakes fist*
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ct060332004-12-25 10:16
oops, forgot one, Age of empires, the original, or the original Command and conquer (older than AOE)
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Tuxedo_Baka2004-12-25 11:35
Sam & Max, Day Of The Tentacle, Full Throttle, Elder Scrolls: Arena, Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, Syndicate, System Shock 1&2, UFO: Enemy Unknown, UFO: Terror Of The Deep, Master Of Orion, and so many more...
For WinXP users, ScummVM runs many old adventure games, and DOSBox handles lots of the old classics easily - except the UFO games dammit!
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theBiskuit2004-12-25 11:57
I'm sorry, but Rise of the Triad kicked the FPS genre up.
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Blah2004-12-25 11:59
Sierra: King's Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry.
Lucasarts: Monkey Island 1+2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, etc.
All from my dad's coworkers. Damn pirates.
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OMG LOL!uNJUZNN.ZE2004-12-25 13:06 (sage)
UFO Enemy Unknown has to be THE best game of its time for me. i actualy had made sheets with the stats of ALL my soldiers and would update them acordingly and play them to raise them on a specific role. my soldiers very rale died and it was a sad day when they did. this game had a bug that the higher difficulty didnt work and i thought i was inhumane till i knew that. if the dificulty had worked, the game would realy have been inhumane and unbeatable at the hardest difficulty.
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Anonymous2004-12-25 15:54
UFO was awesome. I keep saying they should re-release it with modern graphics, but when they do, they keep adding new features AND THIS RUINS THE PURITY rant rant.
>>17
Worms doesn't count, it was an Amiga game first. It's like "nigga" - it's OUR word, and you got no right usin' it! Game. Whatever.
RotT = most innovations at once in an FPS! Long list of features there.
The problems...that they wasted a button so you could switch between one and two pistols (WHY? Even had they been hell-bent on keeping that dumb option they could've made the 2 button a toggle) which have no use after picking up the MP40 and especially not if you're trying to get the end of level bonuses.
The reg. version maps sucked.
Finally it came with a game-ending bug that did not let you beat El Oscuro...at all. Until they released a patch (omg lol BBS tiem) which didn't help either. However, it's still one of my favorite FPS games, and that's interesting given that I don't care for the original Wolf 3D much.
That said, play the game. TODAY. Not tomorrow, December 25th. One of the game's bonuses shows up today. Hooray!
Holy shit, I can't believe I forgot all about Rise Of The Triad. I loved the high-power weapons, like the one that shot napalm in four directions from impact.
Oh, I've got both UFO games to work under WinXP, but I need help. The sound is pretty stuffed, and the world clock goes at insane speeds. Is the a program for old SoundBlaster 16 emulation? Also, a program that temporarily lowers CPU speed?
Getting them to work under DOSBox would be ideal since it performs both of these tasks, but it refuses to load both games.
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Anonymous2004-12-25 21:15
UFO ... that's X-COM, right? <3
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Tuxedo_Baka2004-12-25 21:21
Yep.
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Anonymous2004-12-26 7:53
Maybe I didn't catch it... but...
Forgot... POPULUS!!!
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Anonymous2004-12-26 13:17
DESCENT IS THE MOST SUPERIOR GAME TO HAVE EVER BEEN CREATED
6 DEGREES OF FREEDOM, 100% 3D-SPATIAL CONTROL, NO GRAVITY
ITS SUPERIOR BY THE NUMBERS... JUST HAVE TO DO THE MATH
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Anonymous2004-12-26 18:34
X-Wing and Tie-Fighter(but not X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter, that game was a waste of money - also, mouse control is best! Why did they take it out!?)
Betrayal at Krondor is a classic, I simply love it. It's the atmosphere, the long texts and the simplicity of it all.
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Film11!7TXcUi5s9.2004-12-26 19:09
I remember my first full game - Settlers II, the best in the Settlers series IMO.
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Rock.Omega2004-12-26 19:45
I still agree with X-Com. That was by far teh UB3R 1337 game for ever. That and Half-Life, but not as much...
I bet no one's played "Super Galdelic Hour" by Enix. It's basically DoA beach volleyball in the form of a "variety hour" gameshow. It also came to PS2 before DoA volleyball came out, perhaps ahead of its time. If you've ever wanted to make a shy large breasted girl compete with a loli girl in the form of jumping rope, boxing, and several other games, with the ability customize costumes, all in a typically happy wacked out Japanese gameshow atmosphere, then this is your game.
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friggincornflakes2004-12-27 4:46
Bonus to >>20 and >>24 for RotT, the multiplayer for that way insanely good. I loved those macro sound effects for taunting my opponents.
Despite what someone else posted, you can't just go back and install old games and play them. Pretty much everything before Windows 95 will not run in XP and 2000 unless you know how to set up batch files, MSDos compatiblity, or my preference, download DOSBox.
I loved certain companies like Sierra, Westwood, id, Apogee, Microprose, and I swear by their flagship games.
As for my list of all time favs:
Sid Meier's Civilization
Doom
SimCity 2000
Wolfenstein 3D
Alone in the Dark
Legend of Kyrandia: Book One
Prince of Persia
Rise of the Triad
Wing Commander
Heretic & Hexen (doom clones)
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Hero's Quest AKA Quest for Glory 1 2 3 & 4
King's Quest 1 through 5
Space Quest 1 through 3
Leisure Suit Larry 1 through 5
Legend of the Red Dragon (i miss my 9600 baud modem and BBSs)
Stunt Island (I'd be surprised if anyone knows Stunt Island)
Lemmings
Martian Memorandum
Ultima 6 & 7 (god 8 was a piece of crap, they removed partying ffs)
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Random Anonymous Fucktard2004-12-27 5:35 (sage)
>>36 wins for mentioning Civilization and Alone in the Dark.
Someone mention the games by Infocom too, geez. Like Zork I-III, A Mind Forever Voyaging, etc. Surely I'm not the only one...?
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Ed_Oscuro2004-12-27 11:11
Bah, everybody remembers RotT. A Mind Forever Voyaging, though? Bonus points for that one. How about I Have no Mouth and Must Scream? after the Harrison Ellison short story/book?
I also thought Homeworld was pretty nice (after the books in the Heechee Trillogy by Poul Anderson, though the books were definitely different...game was G-rated) when I played it years back, but it's probably rather average.
More recently, Omikron: The Nomad Soul seems to have been a cult classic.
Big fan of Heretic, myself. Not Hexen so much, but that's a good one too.
Police Quest? Then there's the So You Want to be a Hero games, as well.
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Anonymous2004-12-28 11:50
Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Duke Nukem... I still play them all. well i did befor my HD crashed.
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Anonymous2004-12-28 14:11
Master of Magic and Transport Tycoon Deluxe come into my mind.. I'd still love to play them, but my current computer seems to hate them both. Luckily I just got hold of an excess compiter that I can run DOS on (curse that XP). o//
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Random Anonymous Fucktard2004-12-28 16:05
>>40
I think it's been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but use http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/. Since 0.62 there are very few DOS games it cannot run.
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Random Anonymous Fucktard2004-12-28 18:09 (sage)
Ah yes, I forgot Mech Warrior II.
If you haven't played it, you're not a gamer. Period.
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Random Anonymous Fucktard2004-12-28 18:10 (sage)
Whoops. Mechwarrior 2.
Add Out of this World as well.
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Anonymous2004-12-28 18:39
>>41
Hm.. I think I tried dosbox once before but had problems getting it to work at all. And now that I have 2 computers it isn't really a problem anymore. Thanks for the tip anyway.
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OMG LOL!uNJUZNN.ZE2004-12-28 20:06
>40 omg Transport Tycoon Deluxe , that game was as bad to me than sim city 2000, i could play on an on and i was unbeatable. id keep playing when i owned the world and then let it run just to let new cie start and look at them laughing and get ludicrusly rich. aah my monopolistic reign was bliss.
2007-05-30
Oh god. I just started to browse 4chan at that time.
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Anonymous2009-06-19 0:00
I still have a copy of Might and Magic VI kicking around that I play fairly regularly. I've also got all or most of the King's Quest, Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry games kicking around somewhere. Lemmings was definitely a childhood favorite, too. Also, Fallout.
I've always been bummed at how frustrating it can be to
1) get a hold of old games
2) Get them to run
3) Get around some copy protection BS that is irrelevant these days (Sure the code books were fun, but to use ahalf tattered PDF?)
4) Get around some interface confusion or gameplay pitfall.
But if you get past all previous 4 steps, shit gets awesome.
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Anonymous2009-06-20 6:06
>2004
HOLY FUCK
Does the text board exist in some plane of reality unaffected by time?
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MorningBoner!oHLAWDVyVI2009-06-20 6:23
I HAVE NO MOUTH, AND I MUST SCREAM
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Anonymous2009-06-20 6:34
>we all remember old console game with nostalgia but never any pc games. sure we loved some pc games back in the days. but it's like we would never install them again.
Hahaha, what. Right now I have the following old games installed: Jagged Alliance 2, Fallout 1 and 2, Wizardry 8, Starlancer, Majesty + expansion, Populous 3 and Dungeon Keeper 2. And I don't even play them because of "LOLNOSTALGIAGOOGLES", I play them because they offer something games nowadays don't.
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Anonymous2009-06-20 6:37
i still play baldurs gate 2 from time to time not just for the nostalgia but for the fun + LAN games
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Anonymous2009-06-20 6:55
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW OLD IS THIS
2004? GOD DAMN.
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Anonymous2009-06-20 7:29
What the fuck is this place?
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Anonymous2009-06-20 8:06
Broken motherfucking Sword
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Anonymous2009-06-20 8:25
VIP Quality?
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Anonymous2009-06-20 8:36
NOTHING FUCKING DIES HERE
THIS PLACE IS HELL
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Anonymous2009-06-20 8:40
i lold
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TCKaos the BRO!dGeyRY6iVs2009-06-20 8:47
Has anyone said Oregon Trail yet?
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Anonymous2009-06-20 9:22
Myst Series, bro.
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lionhub2009-06-20 12:09
Myst indeed, brother. Playing that at a young age in an empty room made it the first game to scare me. Now, what about You Don't Know Jack?
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Anonymous2009-06-20 12:35
Deus Ex, Fallout, Mechwarrior games, Freespace2, heaps of pc classics around that i keep installed.
Oh yeah, and Myst :D
We don't have nostalgia for them because we've been playing them the entire time, modding them if they get boring. lol @ console fags throwing out the entire system.
I believe this is technically the oldest thread on 4chan, right?
anyway, there was that one post on /t/ that we kept going from 2007 or something. It died recently, which was something. Probably the longest-lasting mainboard post.
Anyway
old pc games aren't hard to track down or learn about. And a lot of them are miles ahead of modern gaming.
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Anonymous2012-07-26 21:33
>>88
>gaming is de-evolving
Shit sucks, man. You think we'll ever get out of this rut?
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Anonymous2012-07-26 22:24
bumping for posterity
nevar forget
I shall bless this thread with the mark of 2012, the year of Katawa Shoujo. ;_;7
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Anonymous2012-07-26 23:48
>>90
>the year of KS
How about no, you tremendous fargoth.