What are some of the oldest or most addictive classic PC games some of you have played?

I remember wasting countless hours playing J-Bird. Brought back memories when i was in a store over seas and the music playing was J-Birds theme song

damn, i forgot to add Civilization and colonization.

and by classic, i mean games that game on floppies...

[Edited on September 11, 2007 at 5:43 PM. Reason : fda]

9/11/2007 5:42:51 PM

of course oregon trail

and MFL - microsoft football league

and all the commander keens

9/11/2007 5:45:44 PM

MONTEZUMA'S REVENGE
THE MICROSOFT ADVENTURE
KINGS QUEST 4

9/11/2007 5:49:31 PM

civilization 2 = i wasted hours on that game

aces of the pacific= my first computer game, it was a sweet WWII sim

9/11/2007 5:51:48 PM

zak mckracken and the alien mindbenders
day of the tentacle
maniac mansion

9/11/2007 5:54:20 PM

Leisure Suit Larry series

Police Quest series

9/11/2007 5:55:24 PM

Commander Keen

http://www.play.vg/games/148-Commander%20Keen.html

9/11/2007 6:24:57 PM

the incredible machine
scorched earth

9/11/2007 6:30:42 PM

X-Wing
TIE Fighter
Dark Forces

9/11/2007 6:34:21 PM

jazz jackrabbit

9/11/2007 6:35:57 PM

Most Addictive - Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. I missed a week of classes playing BG1 my sophomore year in 1999.

Oldest - Either Oregon Trail or Number Munchers

edit: Just found Oregon Trail and Number Munchers online.
http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html
http://www.virtualapple.org/numbermunchersdisk.html

[Edited on September 11, 2007 at 7:30 PM. Reason : links]

9/11/2007 7:23:30 PM

halflife

9/11/2007 7:45:25 PM

warcraft II... before it all got weird

9/11/2007 8:09:10 PM

half life? baldur's fucking gate? I played those games in high school

and pretty sure they didn't come on floppies

READING COMPREHENSION FTW

9/11/2007 8:15:27 PM

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I used to play these religiously over and over and over again. I loved them. I think playing the first two helped me learn to type so well.

9/11/2007 8:29:41 PM

Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D are my classics

9/11/2007 8:57:55 PM

Hugo!

9/11/2007 9:02:53 PM

Fallout 1 & 2
Simcity

9/11/2007 9:26:06 PM

9/11/2007 9:59:46 PM

SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND

9/11/2007 11:21:58 PM

um Duke Nukem' like a son of a bitch, beat every single one

Fave was Duke Nukem 3D on my 200MhZ, loved throwing money at strippers and looking at tits, ahaha

[Edited on September 11, 2007 at 11:53 PM. Reason : then blow their ass up w/ my shotgun]

9/11/2007 11:53:31 PM

^^ this guy knows whats up

9/11/2007 11:57:45 PM

strippers in duke nukem was probably the thing i enjoyed the most about video games as a child.

9/12/2007 12:03:19 AM

Return to Zork

9/12/2007 12:04:35 AM

Monkey Island
Loom
Conquests of Camelot (my first PC game ever)
Prince of Persia
Ultima Underworld 2
Ultima VII: Part 2
Space Quest
Police Quest
Alone in the Dark

9/12/2007 12:10:16 AM

SimAnt

9/12/2007 12:27:26 AM

Captain Goodnight on Apple IIC started it all

Duke Nukem

Monkey Island

Sam and Max

9/12/2007 12:30:20 AM

Halo is a classic

9/12/2007 1:34:44 AM

Sim City 2000

9/12/2007 1:35:47 AM

WANT SOME RYE? 'COURSE YA DO!

9/12/2007 2:31:56 AM

simfarm

ducktales (it was a dos game)

forgot loom and monkey island. loved that shit. myst always creeped me out

[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 2:47 AM. Reason : .]

9/12/2007 2:47:05 AM

Quote :

"Halo is a classic"

...

9/12/2007 3:44:07 AM

I can't believe no one has said X-COM yet. It's so addictive I am STILL playing it. I have TFTD on my laptop and run it with DOSBox.

And good call on Dune II up there. I can't count the hours I spent playing that when I lived in UT and someone put it on one of the computers in the drop-in lab.

9/12/2007 7:41:33 AM

this probably doesn't work since its geocities image

9/12/2007 8:15:41 AM

X-COM and F-19 Stealth Fighter

9/12/2007 8:48:12 AM

x-com
king's quest
island of dr. quandry
incredible machine (i LOVED this game)
sim city

9/12/2007 8:54:17 AM

i am so playing police quest when i get home from work.

9/12/2007 9:16:41 AM

Had I known you liked Police Quest, I would have been friendlier to you over the years.

Did you play any of the other Sierra games?

9/12/2007 10:02:07 AM

Any of the old Sierra game series: King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory (John Rhys-Davies ftw!), Leisure Suit Larry

Any Apogee games: Cosmo's Cosmic Adventures, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem 1 & 2, Rise of the Triad (first FPS to my knowledge that had duel wielding), Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Terminal Velocity

Also the original Lemmings and Prince of Persia

9/12/2007 10:03:08 AM

^^Tom, i played a bunch of seirra games. Leisure Suit Larry, some of the space quest stuff.

I was big into warcraft II and then Commandos 1 &2..I still love that game.




did anyone play

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold



[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 10:46 AM. Reason : add pic]

[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 11:02 AM. Reason : ]

9/12/2007 10:44:25 AM

Kings Quest / Police Quest / All Sierra Games
Oregon Trail
Bard's Tale
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
Warcraft series
Leisure Suit Larry
Original Grand Theft Auto
Tie Fighter



[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 11:01 AM. Reason : ]

9/12/2007 10:56:52 AM

METAL MARINES

9/12/2007 10:59:24 AM

I used to play Dino Park Tycoon a lot.




I fired it up on an emulator a few months back and beat the shit out of it. (I looked up a way to cheat that i never figured out in the years that i played it in middle school)

[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 11:01 AM. Reason : oh, and the Kyrandia series had me hooked for a while, too.]

9/12/2007 11:01:10 AM

Sticky Bear Math and Reader Rabbit

9/12/2007 11:03:06 AM

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.

9/12/2007 11:08:40 AM

i played that game.


where'd you get a copy?

9/12/2007 11:11:32 AM

Got the CD of the game and the expansion pack like 10-12 years ago (it was already in the bargain bin at that time).

9/12/2007 11:13:08 AM

Oh hell yeah I remember Syndicate, that game was incredible. The mini-gun rocked.


I'd also like to add the Wing Commander series to my list. The whole Wing Commander storyline was great.

9/12/2007 11:19:16 AM

zak mcraken!!!

9/12/2007 11:19:30 AM

Quote :

"Oh hell yeah I remember Syndicate, that game was incredible. The mini-gun rocked."

Yeah it was a good gun, but my favorite was the mind control gun. You just shoot someone with it and they are your ally for the rest of your mission.

It's nice to have like 6-8 cops walking around with you to take out your enemies for you.

9/12/2007 11:22:14 AM