9/12/2007 11:29:10 AM

^^Hahaha yeah couldn't you recruit civilians, supe them up with some cybernetic implants and turn them into agents?

9/12/2007 11:42:37 AM

Great topic, btw.

I've given this some more thought and did some wiki searching, boy am I glad I did!! There were tons of games that I can vividly remember playing back when I was 6-12 that I could not name, but I figured a lot of them out.

So, without further ado, here is the list of games that shaped my gaming career (all played on Atari ST computer):

CAPTAIN BLOOD (has anyone played this? game was WAY ahead of its time)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (or any of the SCUMM games for that matter)
Road Runner
Hostages
Flood (Also an AWESOME game, I had completely forgotten about this one, but it was a favorite)
Rick Dangerous
Robocop
Xenon (AWESOME AWESOME)
Marble Madness
The Pawn

Man, I'm tempted to go pick up an Atari ST just to relive the glory days...

9/12/2007 1:11:52 PM

The very first Prince of Persia.
This extremely shitty and short 2d sidescroller called Karataka.
Nibbles for good ole' QBasic.
A little more recently than those, I spent a crazy amount of time playing Caesar II.

9/12/2007 1:18:01 PM

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Delta Force II and Delta Force: Landwarrior
Rogue Squadron

Played a lot on those games, before then it was X-Men, Mortal Kombat II, and some awesome Helicopter game on Sega Genesis.

9/12/2007 1:24:18 PM

MEGA RACE

9/12/2007 1:43:13 PM

[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 1:55 PM. Reason : ingame]

9/12/2007 1:55:10 PM

oh yeah, all the original prince of Persia's too.

I remember trying to get past the 'age check' in leisure suit larry. They'd ask these retarded questions that adults should know lol.

Police Quest series
Theme Park (by Bullfrog before EA bought them out)
SimFarm
Test Drive 1 (was the best driving sim, you could usey our wipers, headlights, etc...)

9/12/2007 2:28:19 PM

Quote :

"I remember trying to get past the 'age check' in leisure suit larry. They'd ask these retarded questions that adults should know lol."

My dad knew I was up to something when I asked him who Spiro Agnew was.

9/12/2007 2:30:29 PM

the age check was a fun idea...

but would totally fail nowadays with wikipedia...

i just kept guessing until i got questions right, then i memorized the answers...

i'm pretty sure i got at least one us history question right in high school because of leisure suit larry

9/12/2007 2:38:28 PM

Hahahaha I remember the age check things. After a few weeks of playing I figured out and memorized all the right answers. Years later when I was taking US History AP, people like Spiro Agnew made me say "oooooh so that's who it was"

So did anyone else play Quest for Glory 4? John Rhys-Davies was the narrator and he was hilarious.

9/12/2007 2:39:26 PM

Realllly old (like when floppies were 5 1/2 ") --> nibbles and a gorilla game on Qbasic..

9/12/2007 2:48:39 PM

Quote :

"MEGA RACE"

lol I remember that game, it came with one of my computers.

Man, that game was terrible cheesy. And it had the corniest FMV cut scenes.



[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 3:21 PM. Reason : not that bad I guess]

9/12/2007 3:20:03 PM

does anyone have the file or link to a site where i can download the original Scorched Earth? i was looking for it awhile back but couldn't find a file that wasn't corrupted or a still valid link.

9/12/2007 3:25:52 PM

I'm pretty sure I played a flash version of it online a few months ago. Although there are tons of clones out there.

9/12/2007 3:33:28 PM

^^^hahaha it must have been a Packerd Bell, thats what we had when I got MR. man was that computer a piece of shit.


and some Prodigy ISP, oooo the good ole days.

9/12/2007 3:40:16 PM

^^^^ Man I was just thinking about that guy from Megarace! That guy was awesome.

X-Com





[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 3:51 PM. Reason : .]

9/12/2007 3:49:53 PM

Quote :

"nibbles and a gorilla game on Qbasic"

is that the shit where the gorillas threw bananas on a trajectory/power setting? i used to play that shit

there was some old game I had back in the early 486 days that had some spaceship you flew arund fighting and trnasporting stuff...you could salvage parts out of wrecks and upgrade you ship...i forget what it was called

oh, and my first combat flight sim was Su-25 Sturmovik
in beautiful 4-colors!

9/12/2007 5:34:11 PM

^Privateer?

9/12/2007 5:53:19 PM

Star Control 2. Even after beating it, I could still go back to that game and cruise around through the game again, exploring the known universe and toasting Ur-Quan dreadnoughts.

Master of Orion. I freaked out my aunt when I gleefully told her how I vaporized 60 million Dorloks with a few neutronium bombs.

Civilization and Colonization are also there. Don't think I need to say anything else about them.

Hero's Quest (Quest for Glory) series. I'd play my way through one through three, just to create the uber-character who could do it all. Especially in the first one, I'd have a warrior who would also go rob all the neighbors.

Wing Commander series. Die Furball, die!!!

9/12/2007 6:00:44 PM

X-wing - The first game I ever bought. It was $20.00 at Wal-Mart and came on 5 1.44mb disks. That game did everything right that games today try waaaaay too hard at. They actually re-released it in a format that would work on "modern" computers a few years ago but they changed the music to actual movie sound track and it ruined the game.

TIE Fighter (on CD-Rom!!) - Better than X-wing imo.

Descent

9/12/2007 6:40:22 PM

QUEST FOR GLORY


SO YOU WANT TO BE A HERO

9/12/2007 6:55:24 PM

aha god damn I forgot how ghetto the graphics look



this game was really addictive for me too except for the motherfucking lack of save feature

[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 7:28 PM. Reason : k]

9/12/2007 7:23:25 PM

MEGA RACE

holy shit, I haven't thought about that game in more than a decade. That FMV guy was so creepy.

9/12/2007 9:09:04 PM

9/13/2007 8:15:11 AM

IT'S A TRAP!

9/13/2007 9:09:58 AM

^^^^^ Oh Ya I remember Mega Race now. Ya that was a cheesy game but I played it alot.

I think I also played Dragon's Lair and it was the coolest game at that time but I could never beat it.

I remember paying for internet access through Prodigy or AOL at an hourly rate. Takes like 5 minutes to log on and the good ol "Welcome, You Got Mail". Man can you imagine paying for internet access with only less than 10 hours of access time now.

I remember some BBS games I used to play as well like L.O.R.D.S. (I think it was Legend of the Red Dragon) and some other games like that.

[Edited on September 13, 2007 at 9:30 AM. Reason : ]

9/13/2007 9:28:22 AM

Quote :

"Syndicate That game was awesome, I tried to run it a year or so ago but it's apparently incompatable with modern hardware, it played at like 800 frames per second and was completely unplayable. "

DosBox for the win Mr Mac, google that shit

and I've gotta throw in:
Red Alert
the original Star Wars: Dark Forces (Doom with stormtroopers and Boba Fett)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Curse of Monkey Island
X-Wing/Tie Fighter
Warcraft

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9/13/2007 9:40:08 AM

I remember one game, but the name escapes me. It may be before your time...

Things I remember:

1) You are some sort of detective. It's a noir game. It tried its hand at digitized graphics.
2) You start off in an apartment. There are several objects you can manipulate. I remember that you can grab a camera and film, and look through a telescope to the complex across the street to see a silhouette of a stripper. You take pictures of her when a John comes in. You later blackmail the person to get info.
3) You take a job which leads you to some office building. The job might be a kidnapped daughter or something. You hit on the receptionist by giving her flowers you found somewhere else and if you make the right dialog choices it will lead you to a dinner. Make the right dialog choices there and you'll end up in her hotel room.

...never mind while trying to remember I came up with a name. I think it was called "Martian Memorandum."

Actually found it:
http://www.abandonia.com/games/657/MartianMemorandum

Man, those screen caps bring back some memories.

[Edited on September 13, 2007 at 9:49 AM. Reason : -]

9/13/2007 9:45:11 AM

Oh, and the original Command and Conquer is now freeware. Enjoy:

http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.aspx?id=61#NewsMain


And while I'm posting: Space Quest

9/13/2007 11:31:09 AM

I might be downloading some of these games later

I had forgotten about all of them

9/13/2007 2:53:03 PM

^^Space Quest IV was the heat. My old 386 computer would always lock up on the part when the Latex Babes of Estros were about to shave your legs off.

9/13/2007 4:17:32 PM

anybody ever play rebellion?

9/13/2007 6:03:42 PM

rebellion was fucking weeiiird

9/13/2007 6:17:08 PM

9/13/2007 9:10:08 PM

for strategy games, there is basically just one word

Microprose

9/13/2007 9:13:49 PM

I LOVED rebellion. Sierra made alot of good point and click adventure games back in the day.

They tried to redo rebellion a bit with that new star wars game, but added in some real time strategy fighting. It really didnt work for me.

9/13/2007 9:17:17 PM

i can't remember this one. you basically moved your "enterprise" looking ship in an 8x8 field and then warped to other sections (8x8) areas to complete missions. really old game.

9/13/2007 10:28:35 PM

found it....EGATrek

9/13/2007 10:46:34 PM

Quote :

"did anyone play Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold"

YES! Forgot about that one. That game held me until Doom II. It sort of had some similarities with Half Life now that I think about it.

9/15/2007 11:21:33 PM

You ever feel like you want to pull out about 30 old games and play?

I wish I had that kind of time these days

11/26/2007 10:53:44 PM

11/26/2007 11:04:06 PM

including some Commodore 64 games on here

Zork

Temple of Apshai (first game I ever played, on my brothers Comm. 64)


Summer Games


Elevator Action


Tony La Russa Baseball
fucking loved that game, really really good

and the Ultimate:

11/26/2007 11:05:18 PM

there was a version of madden from like 96 with panthers/jags on front i think....i always wished i could find a torrent for it

11/26/2007 11:07:12 PM

[Edited on November 26, 2007 at 11:18 PM. Reason : .]

11/26/2007 11:12:48 PM

Dark Forces II.

Diablo I,II +exps.

11/26/2007 11:39:55 PM

^^
Black Cauldron. I played that game a ton!

11/27/2007 8:17:26 AM

^^^ 2nd favorite game on my PC jr

1st:

11/27/2007 8:43:47 AM

Willy Beamish.



Had the 6 disk set. I remember it being one of the more visually stunning games of the time.

Wish I could get my hands on the CD talkie edition. From what I understand it's pretty valuable.

11/27/2007 8:47:02 AM

Ah yes, Elevator Action, how could I forget how much you pissed me off.

11/27/2007 10:38:32 AM