Nostalgic Games

[Jim01Participant 6678]

Russky wrote:

I feel like I’m back in the middle school
Now I feel old though, compared to what you guys posted
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My first gaming machine was an Amstrad with classics like Dizzy and Oh Mummy

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Jim01 wrote:

and Oh Mummy

Holy s~~~! Talk about a blast from the past! That name suddenly triggered something off in my brain from my childhood! I have played this game at a friends house when I was 5 years old roughly in 1989. I remember the familiar music, its a recognisable song but i cant remember the name, can you?

Can’t believe my brain remember that game after all these years!

[Jim01Participant 6678]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

Jim01 wrote:

and Oh Mummy

Holy s~~~! Talk about a blast from the past! That name suddenly triggered something off in my brain from my childhood! I have played this game at a friends house when I was 5 years old roughly in 1989. I remember the familiar music, its a recognisable song but i cant remember the name, can you?

Can’t believe my brain remember that game after all these years!

Sorry I can’t.

classic game though and if you google it you can play it for free online

[Jim01Participant 6678]

couple more I have thought of

Diablo is one of my favourite games of all time

[Anonymous 4]

Mario and Harry Potter

[SamsquanchParticipant 4226]

I was playing COD4 on my PS3 last night and signed on to play multi-player and the servers are still up. Of course a bunch of the rooms are taken over by modders but it seems like Mercenary TDM is still legit. Played for 2 hours last night, still fun.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

Samsquanch wrote:

I was playing COD4 on my PS3 last night

Call Of Duty 4 is Modern Warfare, and it’s my favorite Call Of Duty game. My favorite levels are the Russia levels including Chernobyl. I noticed that the Call Of Duty games look much better on the PS3 than on the Wii.

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[CommodoreParticipant 11]

Yeah, vote for Maniac Mansion also! As an Amiga 500-man, my top list is
Cannon Fodder
Syndicate
UFO – Enemy unknown
Street Fighter 2
Worms
Lemmings
Super Cars 2

It is a delight to build your own Amiga starting from mainboard and chips, jeah…

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[Zach the CatParticipant 9]

I used to play Starcraft and more recently I tried it out again. unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be many bound, defense, sim, ect. games anymore nowadays. I miss the old starcraft days. mainly because they were my first days on the internet.

[Northern SoulParticipant 186]

Since my divorce I have amassed a sizeable gamecube collection. This console is an under-rated retro classic. It was small, cheap to buy and generated a massive amount of games with playable graphics and gameplay. A great all-rounder. In my opinion the best GC game is F-Zero. God damn it is so hard but hats off to the developers for making it so quick. That game was leap years ahead. A must play for any retro gamer.

Now I am building up a Super Famicom collection which is proving more tricky. The classics like Super Street Fighter II turbo are still so playable.

In terms of strategy – Settlers II by Bluebyte. I literally spent years of my youth playing this.

[ShinyParticipant 2307]

Ok, my favourites I still play going purely from what has already been posted:

Civ I (still play it on a Win98 box)
Joust, Tempest, Rastan Saga, Black Tiger, Ghosts n Ghoblins, Flying Shark, Ikari (MAME)
CounterStrike 1.6 (last pre-Steam version, f~~~ Steam) and Day of Defeat
Jedi Knight (endlessly replayable, design perfection) and its many mods
Jedi Outcast (only game I ever bought on the day it was released)
Jedi Academy (textbook example of why varied levels does NOT add replayability, but still fun). Shadows of the Empire too for the Hoth battle.
Command & Conquer (various versions) – loved it, and original Warcraft, but could NOT get into Starcraft, just couldn’t. Go figure.
And of course the greatest of all games, the Ultimas. Play Lazarus if you haven’t, you’ll thank me.

O and Russky – dude, if I had a dollar for every hour spent on Elite, River Raid and Boulder Dash, I’d fly us both to Moscow and buy you a beer.

[Jim01Participant 6678]

Northern Soul wrote:

Since my divorce I have amassed a sizeable gamecube collection. This console is an under-rated retro classic. It was small, cheap to buy and generated a massive amount of games with playable graphics and gameplay. A great all-rounder. In my opinion the best GC game is F-Zero. God damn it is so hard but hats off to the developers for making it so quick. That game was leap years ahead. A must play for any retro gamer.

Now I am building up a Super Famicom collection which is proving more tricky. The classics like Super Street Fighter II turbo are still so playable.

In terms of strategy – Settlers II by Bluebyte. I literally spent years of my youth playing this.

Paper Mario 1000 Year Door is still one of my favourite games of all time

[Anonymous 11]

I used to be literally addicted to Donkey Kong Jr. Defender, Tempest, and that vector Star Wars rocked too. Doom was the only game to ever instill fear in me while playing it.

I used to love the classic Star Wars PC games from the early to mid-90s too especially Tie Fighter. I’m sure Disney will cuck up any forthcoming Star Wars games.

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Shiny wrote:

Jedi Outcast (only game I ever bought on the day it was released)
Jedi Academy (textbook example of why varied levels does NOT add replayability, but still fun).
Command & Conquer (various versions) – loved it.

Yeah Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy were quite good. Being based on the Quake3 engine, they were highly moddable. Now even better is that Outcast and Academy have become open source

As for Command and Conquer, I liked Tiberian Sun the best, even though it was brutally hard.

[darkmatter32Participant 35]

lately, I’ve been replaying RE4 for like the 5th time now

Aside from that, these days I have a mac so I’m limited to the degree of gaming (not sure how to run emulators on macs and whatnot–seems too complicated for me)

When I had a pc, I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic 3 I think? That was awesome.

Oh, I lied–I actually play Avernum 1+2 on my mac through Steam which is what you may remember as the Exile series from back in the 90s from Avernum software.

😀

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.” ― H.P Lovecraft

[CaptainAfricaParticipant 13]

Hmm I don’t play that many games nowadays but good memories from childhood or the mid teens include:

The N64 Zeldas (Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask)
Super Smash Bros. Melee (which I took a dip back into recently the last couple of years)
Shadow of the Colossus
Super Meat Boy
Sonny 2 among other flash games, hah.

An online game that I dumped a lot of time in was Lost Saga although that never had a large playerbase.

I used to be really into Magic the Gathering although that isn’t a video game, still play it occasionally.

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[Mister StealthParticipant 362]

President Camacho wrote:

WWF Wrestlefest is an all time favorite of mine.

The best character is probably the Ultimate Warrior. Gorilla Press Slam and Running splash = GAME OVER.

Great memories at the arcade playing this with friends.

Steel sharpens steel

[Repulsive RalfParticipant 356]

I still have my Amiga 1200 with its Blizzard card and CD drive in my wardrobe, one day I will dig it out and try some of those old games that I still have :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N4__MK32Hg

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Gerald wrote:

Love Command and Conquer. I played the entire series through, and if I had the disks still would start over again!. I am stuck on Civilization III though, I don’t like the add-ons in IV. I prefer the simplicity of III and play it occasionally still.

Command and Conquer was the beginning of the end for me, and my friends with computer gaming.

In High School, we played Ad&d with paper and books, and we had board games with army stacks and dice rolls etc. and the first wave of computer games was in that style. Turn based, slow deliberate tactics. MY friends and I were hyped about C&C before it came out, but once we played with other people online, and it just devolved into who could click the mouse the fastest, and churn out troops and mindlessly rush them forward, etc. it quickly fell out of favor.

But the new tone for games was set, and it seemed after that it was all that style, or hack and slash.

Once the younger generation got hooked on the speed of the game, all the layered tactics, requiring planning and strategy went out of the games.

I think age of Wonders was the last old school game we really enjoyed. We are old farts now, and though we were the first of the computer game kids, we got left behind.

I recently got Age of Wonders 3, and I found it still has that old school charm.

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Anonymous wrote:

I used to be literally addicted to Donkey Kong Jr. Defender, Tempest, and that vector Star Wars rocked too. Doom was the only game to ever instill fear in me while playing it.

I used to love the classic Star Wars PC games from the early to mid-90s too especially Tie Fighter. I’m sure Disney will cuck up any forthcoming Star Wars games.

When I was in the Navy 82-86, our ship had a table top version of that game. Thing must have weighed 300 pounds (now you can put it on a cell phone) and man did I put a lot of quarters into that!

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