that really stuck to your ribs. for me this was the mid-90s


MechWarrior II- mech combat sim


TFX - combat flight sim


The Journeyman Project and TJP Turbo - futuristic first person adventure


Descent I and II- zero-g space flight combat sim


Doom I and II- duh

6/10/2009 7:08:34 AM

6/10/2009 7:11:12 AM

EA Sports NHL 1993

6/10/2009 7:13:09 AM

MechWarrior II
An apocalyptic racing game called Pod
The Neverhood
Deathdrome
The trivia game that came with Encarta 95

6/10/2009 7:20:47 AM

IDDQD

6/10/2009 7:25:43 AM

Odell Lake. That brings back memories. I guess I'll just add a few that I played that haven't already been listed:

Martian Memorandum


Lemmings


Wolfenstein 3-D


Number Munchers


Logo


Oregon Trail


International Karate (C64)


Ghostbusters (C64)


Commander Keen


Hugo (something or other)


The Terminator (DOS) - way ahead of its time, or at least it's one of the first 3D games I remember complete with GTA style car jackings and everything.


And various Carmen Sandiego games.

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6/10/2009 7:27:07 AM

Betrayal at Krondor

6/10/2009 7:28:58 AM

jump joe 2

6/10/2009 7:33:42 AM

Descent 1 & 2:


X-wing (on 3.5" floppies!)


TIE Fighter CD-ROM

6/10/2009 7:35:09 AM

Secret of Monkey Island:


Monkey Island 2:


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6/10/2009 7:35:14 AM

6/10/2009 7:38:28 AM

yes, NIBBLES.

oregon trail, family feud, jeopardy, where in the world is carmen san diego

there was also some science game we used to have to play in school and it was awesome. dont remember what it was called though

6/10/2009 7:42:20 AM

Might as well toss this one in too:


And I finally found it (couldn't remember the name)...
Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams



It was a Zork knockoff.


[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 7:47 AM. Reason : -]

6/10/2009 7:42:42 AM

barney blaster


king's quest series, particularly kq6



myst



odell down under


also loved the journeyman project

6/10/2009 7:50:08 AM

Mappy said:

Quote :

"The trivia game that came with Encarta 95 "

"The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu said, 'To know that you do not know is best.'"

6/10/2009 7:54:07 AM

man, totally forgot about Myst

6/10/2009 7:57:21 AM

Police Quest


Police Quest 2


Police Quest 3


Police Quest 4


Police Quest: SWAT


Police Quest: SWAT 2



and then my other addictions

Commandos and Commandos 2

6/10/2009 8:07:06 AM

where is duke nukem 3D

6/10/2009 8:13:01 AM

Not sure how I forgot about Myst or Wolfenstein 3-D. Awesome games.

6/10/2009 8:13:12 AM

Starsiege


More early teen years but still a freaking awesome game.

[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 8:18 AM. Reason : .]

6/10/2009 8:17:47 AM

Quote :

"still a freaking awesome"

6/10/2009 8:24:12 AM

6/10/2009 8:34:40 AM

damn this typhoid.

6/10/2009 8:38:59 AM

Final Conflict:


Roller Coaster Tycoon:


The incredible machine:

6/10/2009 8:47:09 AM

Sid Meier's Civilization


Montezuma's Revenge (aka Monty)

6/10/2009 8:50:39 AM

Apple Cider Spider:



Lemonade Stand:



Chopper Commando:



Zork:


Trinity:


That pretty much sums up the highlights.

6/10/2009 9:06:16 AM

Tachyon: The Fringe


Age of Empires II: The Conquerors


Sim City

6/10/2009 9:13:04 AM

sid meires empire
quest for camelot
commander keen 1 and 2
xwing
hardhat mac
pacman
jawbreaker
civilization 1
and a bunch of the ones already mentioned

6/10/2009 9:27:35 AM

Sim City
Number Munchers
StarCraft
Some older game that started with an X... it was some action game where your dude jumps around a lot.
Oregon Trail


A lot of others...

6/10/2009 9:34:49 AM

Master of Magic

probably the single most "need to be remade" game

...

and "used to play"... haven't you ever heard of DosBox

6/10/2009 9:45:33 AM

X-Com


Super Solvers games


And a ton of Sim City 2000

[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

6/10/2009 9:52:21 AM

The Sims and Tomb Raider

6/10/2009 9:55:52 AM

I've played a lot of games already mentioned... Here's a few that have yet to be mentioned that I played:

Jazz the Jackrabbit I


Jazz the Jackrabbit II


Privateer I


Privateer I Righteous Fire


Privateer II


The Entire Wing Commander Series (I, II, III, IV, V) + Expansions










Wing Commander Armada


Scorched Earth


Age of Empires


Missle Command


Command and Conquer I (Tiberium Dawn) + Expansion


Command and Conquer Red Alert I + Expansions


Mario Is Missing


Pole Position


One Must Fall


There was this other game that I used to play that I enjoyed, maybe someone could help me find it. It was a racing game in the 90's that had pretty good graphics for the time. You had a car and raced around a dozen or so tracks (one of them being in Dubai iirc). You could buy health/repair your car as well as purchase missles for attacking (Light missles where white, medium missles were orange/yellow, and heavy missles were red), as well as deploying oil or mines for safety. Cool game.

Quote :

""used to play"... haven't you ever heard of DosBox"

I've spent hours trying to edit dosbox settings to get games like Privateer II to work, but in the end gave up because I couldn't. I am seriously thinking about buying an old PII or PIII and installing windows 95 and having at it with the old games

[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 10:07 AM. Reason : .]

6/10/2009 10:00:06 AM

i have enjoyed this walk down memory lane.

in addition to the many here i also was a fan of the king's quest. Sierra could do no wrong in my eyes as a young man.

Megarace was another good one.

the highlights from here that were my favorites were

that terminator game. finally someone else who has played it. truly ahead of its time as stated.

police quest 3. so help me i played the ever living hell out of that game.

wing commander.

tie fighter/xwing

commander keen and hugo (looks like jbtilley also had the shareware catalogs)

Zork is on here, but Return to Zork isn't. (this was much more Myst like)

Quote :

"The Sims and Tomb Raider "

Those were out when you were a kid? I imagined we're talking pre-high school here. if so, damn, damn, that really puts it in to perspective.

6/10/2009 10:02:37 AM

Legend of Kyrandia:


Loom:


Space Quest series:

6/10/2009 10:05:30 AM

^2 I played Kings Quest, too!! How does it put things into perspective? Age differences?

The Sims I played in middle school, then the Sims 2 in HS... but Tomb Raider I played when I was just starting 6th grade I think... my stepdad taught me how to play it

When I was in elementary school one of my all-time favorites was Shivers, except I usually would let my sister play it and I would watch bc I was scared haha.

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6/10/2009 10:05:46 AM

Quote :

"Megarace was another good one."

ZOMG IRSeriousCat. I love you (no homo). I've been searching for this game for a couple years now actually, and no one I know has ever played it. Thanks! Actually, I never played Megarace I, I played Megarace II



I read somewhere there is a megarace III. I must play it tonight.

[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 10:16 AM. Reason : .]

6/10/2009 10:12:43 AM

Quote :

"There was this other game that I used to play that I enjoyed, maybe someone could help me find it. It was a racing game in the 90's that had pretty good graphics for the time. You had a car and raced around a dozen or so tracks (one of them being in Dubai iirc). You could buy health/repair your car as well as purchase missles for attacking (Light missles where white, medium missles were orange/yellow, and heavy missles were red), as well as deploying oil or mines for safety. Cool game."

Death Rally. Game was awesome.

6/10/2009 10:15:09 AM

I like this deaf rally concept son.

6/10/2009 10:16:14 AM

^^ It was megarace II . I will check out this death rally though Need more racing shootemup games

Don't forget Destruction Derby too...



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6/10/2009 10:17:18 AM

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II



Rogue Squadron 3D



A TON of others that I can't remember right now

6/10/2009 10:20:57 AM

^i loved flying in what was it beggars canyon?

i also got this one at compUSA one time. I was very young and didn't know what it was I was purchasing it was just cheap and in my price range.

and then i got my first erection.

Quote :

"He crash-lands on a strange planet, seemingly inhabited by women only. He sets off in search of the vase and a way to get off the planet. Decades ago, a vicious war between the sexes erupted on the planet. The males focused on developing mechanical and electronic weaponry, while the females focused on biological warfare. In the end, the females unleashed a biological weapon that eliminated the male population. However, at least one male survived the attack. Due to side effects caused by the biological weapon, the females were no longer able to give birth to males, so they had no way of continuing their species. The populace of the planet is divided into two classes, Keepers and (breeding) Stock. The Keepers are technologically advanced and reside underground, where they monitor the Stock. The Stock reside above ground and have a primitive culture. Their only purpose is to be impregnated by a gender-bent Keeper in order to repopulate the planet. "

[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM. Reason : edit]

6/10/2009 10:23:09 AM

How come nobody has even mentioned oldschool Ultima games? Ultima 5 and 6 were my favorite, followed by 7.

Quote :

"I've spent hours trying to edit dosbox settings to get games like Privateer II to work"

There are a couple things you need to keep in mind:

1) You need a pretty fast computer to play the late 90s DOS games

2) Video setup/scaling algorithm or whatever makes a huge difference. Use the D-fend front end and set it to Direct Draw. I've had far better luck with that than any of the other scalars. I couldn't even get Jill of the Jungle to run right on some of those other ones.

3) all the memory settings are far easier in DOSbox than on an actual older computer. Do you remember that shit? Getting the conventional memory shit set up was horrible.

4) make sure your sound settings in DOSbox match what the configuration program in the game have been set to

[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM. Reason : tips for DOSbox]

6/10/2009 10:26:53 AM

^ wow. That reminded me of:

Ultimate Domain


Good game.

Thanks for the tips. I have a Pentium 2.8Ghz with 2Gb mem. Can't remember the video card. Either way it should be enough. Privateer II would just run wayyyyy too fast. Slowing it down to a tollerable speed would only make the game unstable and it would crash randomly. I need to give that D-fend front end stuff a shot. I don't recall that. It's been about a year since I've used Dosbox. Maybe it's worth giving it a shot again.

My dad setup the old school computers, so I don't remember how hard/horrible it was



[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM. Reason : .]

6/10/2009 10:31:46 AM

i didn't really play that many pc games, and most of the ones i did were already mentioned. i'm sure there are more that i can't remember.

Myst
Oregon Trail
# Munchers
Murphy's Minerals
Destruction Derby
Duke Nukem
Roller Coaster Tycoon (these were awesome)
Need for Speed (entire series)


Prince of Persia


Monster Truck Madness


[Edited on June 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM. Reason : more]

6/10/2009 10:31:50 AM

Duke Nukem



Duke Nukem 3-D

6/10/2009 10:33:43 AM

Did anyone else play Shivers?

6/10/2009 10:34:28 AM

Outlaws:


TMNT IV: Turtles in Time


Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis


Dark Forces (and all the sequels)

6/10/2009 10:36:29 AM

isn't jazz the jackrabbit one of CliffyB's games?

6/10/2009 11:00:49 AM

Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue

6/10/2009 11:05:00 AM