Favorite old school game

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » November 27, 2003, 6:51 am

My friend and I were out at Denny's tonight talking about our favorite old school games. What games did you grow up on? What games did you play through a hundred times? Which games do you keep an NES or DOS box around for?

For myself:

Star Control 2 (pc)
Wing Commander 1&2 (pc)
Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire (pc)
Megaman 3(nes)
The Legend of Zelda (nes/snes)

Kwonryu DragonFist · November 27, 2003, 8:21 am

Star Control 2 Rocked!

I even made some spaceships for the SC2 clone : TimeWarp!

It was one of my old favs!

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » November 27, 2003, 12:06 pm

Legend of Zelda
Combat (atari)
SMB 2 and 3

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » November 27, 2003, 5:17 pm

Bards Tale

There are others. But don't want to date myself too much!

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » November 27, 2003, 9:36 pm

Road Rash (3do)
Shadowrun (snes)

Vetiria · Post by **Vetiria** » November 27, 2003, 10:59 pm

SMB 1, 3 and Super
Metroid

Rivera Bladestrike · November 28, 2003, 12:18 am

Super Baseball Simulator 1000... i loved that game

its not that old school but Zelda 64: Ocarina of Time was one of my favorite games of all time.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » November 28, 2003, 1:00 am

Sionistic wrote:Road Rash (3do)

lol you bought a 3do

Super Baseball Simulator 1000... i loved that game

that game owned. though that three ball pitch was bullshit.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » November 28, 2003, 1:50 am

yes, a 3do, and ten games, for 50$, whats your point?

Erolz NTurnet · Post by **Erolz NTurnet** » November 28, 2003, 2:01 am

The Original X-Com. I actually had the UK version at first called UFO:Enemy Unknown.

Quake 1 CTF still lingers on my box.
Military Madness (Turbo Grafx 16)
Splatterhouse (Turbo Grafx 16)
River Raid (Atari)
Maze Craze (Atari)
Kaboom! (Atari)
That Dodge Ball game for NES

And that stupid horse racing game for the Calecovision game system.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » November 28, 2003, 4:28 am

Erolz NTurnet wrote:That Dodge Ball game for NES

Super Dodge Ball.

I might still have that.

VariaVespasa · Post by **VariaVespasa** » November 28, 2003, 5:02 am

NES- Crystal Mines, Ghengis Khan, Romance of the three kingdoms

PC- Star Control, Red Storm Rising, Wing Commander 3

*Hugs*
Varia

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » November 28, 2003, 7:07 am

The Original X-Com. I actually had the UK version at first called UFO:Enemy Unknown

Yes. I often experienced "lost time" when playing this

Lead artist on my current team was the lead on the original UFO. In his spare time he's currently helping some amateurs who are porting it to a more modern format.

Estrosiath · Post by **Estrosiath** » November 28, 2003, 2:39 pm

Section Z for NES.

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » November 28, 2003, 6:45 pm

Space Invaders (atari)
Jumpman (comadore 64)

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » November 28, 2003, 8:56 pm

Legenae wrote:Space Invaders (atari)
Jumpman (comadore 64)

I loved Jumpman!

Jumpman Junior ruled muchly too. That game used to make me so mad!

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » November 28, 2003, 9:18 pm

WOW! Someone that actually KNOWS Jumpman (and Junior)!!

I thought I was the only one.

Those games kicked ass, especially on super speed LOL. /sigh I miss those games.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » November 28, 2003, 9:21 pm

Legenae wrote:WOW! Someone that actually KNOWS Jumpman (and Junior)!! I thought I was the only one.

Those games kicked ass, especially on super speed LOL. /sigh I miss those games.

Those were the main ones I looked for when I discovered there was a C64 emulator out there. Played them again a few months ago!

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » November 28, 2003, 9:28 pm

This PoS computer I am using at the moment can't run an emulator. But I'll have to look into it once I move! Would love to play them again!

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » November 28, 2003, 11:33 pm

Loved XCom and I wish they'd make it work for XP. Now I have to play it on a win95 box.

Bard's Tale was awesome.
The Gold Box editions for AD&D.
Impossible Mission
HardBall
Zelda (the first one) We played this when we were stationed in Japan. A big room filled with drunk GI's huddled around a TV and a NES. Very wierd.

There was this one game we played on the Commadore 128 where you and another guy were swordsmen fighting each other trying to cut each other's head off. I don't remember what it was called but I remember having loads of fun with friends.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » November 29, 2003, 3:22 am

Legenae wrote:This PoS computer I am using at the moment can't run an emulator. But I'll have to look into it once I move! Would love to play them again!

If your computer can run a web browser it can run a C64 emulator!

Syndaen Crystalthorn · November 29, 2003, 2:14 pm

Hmmm...

VGA Planets (The original and best Play by e-mail game.)

Loderunner (PC XT)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Text Adventure)

Shadows of Yserbius (First MORPG I ever played ~1991)

Kwonryu DragonFist · November 29, 2003, 2:45 pm

Archon and Adept on the C64!

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » November 29, 2003, 4:06 pm

Lode Runner

Galaga

Wizardy

Crav · Post by **Crav** » November 29, 2003, 6:38 pm

Lets see.

Keystone Capers(atari)
Pirates(nes)
Techmo Bowl(nes)
Dragon Warrior series(nes)
FF series(nes)
Legend of Zelda(nes)
Super Baseball Simulator 1000(nes)<--This game was really ahead of it's time.
Bolo(mac)<--First multiplayer game with more than 2 people, used to play it in High School during my computer science classes.

Aevian Dreaklear · Post by **Aevian Dreaklear** » November 30, 2003, 4:17 pm

Super Contra > All

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » November 30, 2003, 5:34 pm

Jumpman Junior ROCKED.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » November 30, 2003, 9:57 pm

Dregor Thule wrote:Jumpman Junior ROCKED.

!

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » November 30, 2003, 10:31 pm

Jumpman Junior ROCKED.

Someone else that knows Jumpman! Whenever I'd get into a favorite game discussion with people, and I tell them my all time favorite is Jumpman, I'm met with "Jumpwhat?" I'd then go on to describe the game, but people would look at me as though I'm speaking Klingon. Guess it wasn't too popular of a game? /shrug

Anyways, awesome screen Aslanna! I can still hear the Jumpman music. Ah, the memories!

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » November 30, 2003, 10:44 pm

Erolz NTurnet wrote:The Original X-Com. I actually had the UK version at first called UFO:Enemy Unknown.

Quake 1 CTF still lingers on my box.
Military Madness (Turbo Grafx 16)
Splatterhouse (Turbo Grafx 16)
River Raid (Atari)
Maze Craze (Atari)
Kaboom! (Atari)
That Dodge Ball game for NES

And that stupid horse racing game for the Calecovision game system.

Jeez, you tapped into three of my favorites. X-Com was just about the best game ever, I think it only unpacked to about 2.5 to boot. Ball Launchers for everyone!

Military Madness was just amazing and way before it's time. Many people played this later as Panzer General as the games were so damn similar in play-style.

Kaboom just kicked ass. One of the few "In-the-zone" games the atari was capable of cranking out.

Archon was great. Be fun to try that one online. My atari 800 owning friend was nearly impossible for me to defeat. His goddamn banshee would wreck my day, every day.

Old fav's in the Williams collection for Joust and Robotron. Later on, Smash TV kicked much ass as well.

Just loved Master of Magic, especially after I downloaded a 1.4 meg patch on my 9600 baud that took about 3 hours to add. Balanced the game out very nicely and really wouldn't mind playing it again if I could get it running again somehow. Jeez, Microprose kicked so much ass.

Bioforge was a great game. Total drool inducer. Pretty damn gory for it's time to boot.

Crusader: No Remorse made me buy a pentium finally. Very nice memories playing that one. Still remember the music to it, very well done

Avestan · Post by **Avestan** » December 1, 2003, 2:40 am

Military Madness (I still play the rom every now and then)

Master of Magic

Jones in the Fast Lane (cannot find a version that will work on a recent computer anywhere, please advise)

Bards Tales

Phastary Star II

Mario RPG

Doom

Tron

The Original Wolfenstein (deffinitely not 3d)

Mike Tyson's Punchout (Super Macho Man is my idol)

The Original Metal Gear

Double Dragon

Mutant League Football

Cyberball (maybe called something else. . .robot football)

RBI Baseball

Original NES Tennis Game

Baloon Fight

. . .will have more later.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » December 1, 2003, 7:28 am

VGA Planets (The original and best Play by e-mail game.)

Three words: Fucking. Cylon. Minefields.

Erolz NTurnet · Post by **Erolz NTurnet** » December 1, 2003, 8:11 am

Oh yeah.... Syndicate was fun too.

They actually re-released Military Madness for the PS1. I happened upon it on accident in Best Buy a few years ago.

They added a 3-d battle sequence that gets old quickly but the music and AI haven't changed one bit. There are some additional maps from some contest they had and the map editor is included as well.

Damn game is still fun.

Anyone ever get "Atari Vision" or remember the "Atari Handshake"?

Sadly, I played soo much frickin Atari I started seeing double for a short whle... The doctors actually called it Atari Vision which made me feel kinda good since at I knew at least I wasn't the only kid addicted to games then.

** spelling > me at 6:20am **

Mak · Post by **Mak** » December 1, 2003, 8:15 am

I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing "Dungeon Master" on my first computer, an Atari ST, back in the mid to late 80's.

In more modern times, I still enjoy Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, and Dark Forces.

Kwonryu DragonFist · December 1, 2003, 11:19 am

Master of Magic was great!

Phantasie III on the Amiga was a wonderful game back in the day!

One of the games that woke the gamer in me must have been Jetpack on the ZX Spectrum.

For C64 Platformers i liked one called Jet Set Willy, it had a great music for a game that old!

The Jet Set Willy house

http://freespace.virgin.net/james.ducke ... _sect.html

The Game in Java

http://www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk/jsw.html

The Music! Will need a Mod-Player

http://www.mirsoft.info/wogm_download.p ... ocation=10

--

Link to OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of the old tunes from the golden ages!

http://www.mirsoft.info/gmb/musician_in ... d_ele=NzE=

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » December 1, 2003, 12:07 pm

NetHack! It's amazing the depth an ASCII game that can fit on a single 3.5" diskette can have.

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » December 1, 2003, 12:12 pm

Wasteland
Timebandits
A bunch of the ones listed above.

Kithyen · Post by **Kithyen** » December 1, 2003, 1:39 pm

Doom. Was the first game I played that had ridiculus amounts of blood and gore in it. Was also the first 1st person shooter I played that I enjoyed (Wolfenstein 3-D didn't hold my interest for "too" long). Doom was also the first game that kept me sleepless for many nights trying to beat it on hard and nightmare.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » December 3, 2003, 11:08 pm

I forgot one...Reach for the Stars (the original).

Ogbar · Post by **Ogbar** » December 3, 2003, 11:57 pm

How old do I feel that you folks think of NES as "old school".

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » December 4, 2003, 4:34 am

Well the original NES is, what, 15+ years ago now?

That's pretty old school

Tho it's closer to 25 years back to when I remember begging my mum for coins to play Space Invaders and later Pac Man, Frogger (own), Phoenix and the greatest arcade game of all time: Missile Command

If she'd given me more 10p pieces back then and let me get it out of my system perhaps I would have found a more useful career than games programming

Trek · Post by **Trek** » December 4, 2003, 12:36 pm

I have a Space Invaders stand-up in my game room

In terms of fun games I would go with just about any of my C64 stuff a few of my favorites:

Paradroid
Skate or Die
Beachhead 1 & 2
All the Summer/Winter games
Apache
Bards tales
Ultima 4
And many many others (to early in the AM)

Now on Atari 2400 there was:

River Raid
Pit Fall

I loved both of those

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » December 4, 2003, 12:56 pm

NES:

Metroid
Blaster Master

Arcade:

Tempest ( I rocked at it!)
Spy Hunter

Runcade · Post by **Runcade** » December 4, 2003, 2:02 pm

SNES: zelda kicked ass and still does
SNES: earthbound. first rpg i ever played

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » December 4, 2003, 3:14 pm

I think I still have my Bards Tale maps I made. I swore then I'd never play another game that made me draw my own maps!

Luckily Al Gore invented that internet thing though so I can just print maps from online if I need to.

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » December 4, 2003, 3:53 pm

old school for me means my old beat up Atari with lots of tapes recorded in some turbo speed

my fav's from that era were Diamond Mines, Dig Dug, Boulder Dash, Robbo, River Raid and some fun game with a guy painting a house and Nutcracker music playing, can't remember the name

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » December 4, 2003, 5:50 pm

Ogbar wrote:How old do I feel that you folks think of NES as "old school".

You are old

My first thoughts were of pong and asteroids on the original atari. My kids still play it at my Mom's house, that thing has got to be nearly 30 years old.

Nethack\Angband are still cool, I play them on and off.

Post by **Sylvus** » December 4, 2003, 6:26 pm

NES is old school though. When you think about how it has existed for about half as long as video games have been around, I'd say that qualifies.

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » December 4, 2003, 7:04 pm

BURGER TIME!

ELEVATOR ACTION!

Legenae · Post by **Legenae** » December 4, 2003, 8:53 pm

Ogbar wrote:How old do I feel that you folks think of NES as "old school".

Reading this list I'm feeling pretty ancient myself. ha!

I love the old Atari. A lot of the old Atari games came out on the Playstation. I have a few of them: Space Invaders, Pac Man, Centipede, Frogger, Q-bert (another fave I forgot to mention).

I know that the Playstation version of these games aren't like the old Atari ones, but I still enjoy them.

Also on the Commadore 64, I used to play that Winter Games game (as well as the Summer and California Games). Not as fun as Jumpman, but memorable none the less.