OT: Oldies but Goodies

[Aloofi]

Ah, Homeworld was mindblowing, though the sequel sucked big time. Ceasar III and Lords II were my first games, and Age of Kings, my first and Last RTS , with the exception of Anno 1602.

[Gryphin]

Empire Deluxe
Turn Based 4X, Strategy.
Less than 10 unit types.
wonderful game.
Fast Multi player.
Good map editor
Can't wait for Internet edition.

It will never replace SEIV.

[PvK]

Wolfenstien 3d
Never played it, just scoffed and thought it was funny that the Nintendo Version censored the pictures of Hitler by removing the moustache!!!

Original Wolfenstein I don't think I've played since about 1987. Cool game though. I'd rather play it than Wolf 3D.

I had fun with the Return to Wolf 3D demo multiplayer, but it didn't convince me to buy the game.

Doom
Hmm. I think probably the Last time I played this was 1995 or '96.

Heretic
Just played the demo, maybe in 1998.

I played Hexen though LAN with my wife ... maybe 1999.

Dark Forces
1996

Duke Nukem 3d
Never.

Rebellion
Never.

Quake
1999?

Quake II
2002

Myst
This isn't really a game; it's a puzzle adventure.

I prefer Rune for first-person hacking, but only when turned down to about 80% speed or less. Any faster and it is twitchy and network lag makes it annoying. Unfortunately, most MP hosts set it to 100 or faster, and/or use the Rune powers (yawn - pointless).

PvK

P.S. I think the guards were asking for your pass in Wolfenstein when they said "all spice", but I don't remember what the words were supposed to be.

[ May 01, 2003, 22:21: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Kamog]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Ah, you children make me laugh. Now I remember back to the days of the Commodore 64, playing games like Choplifter. Or playing the original Castle Wolfenstein (2d top-down maze Version) on primitive Apple computers (you remember, the ones with the green screens?) on the sly at the J.H.S. library. Heck, I remember playing Pong on the old Panasonic game console, the one that preceded the Atari 2600.

But the one I miss the most, is the old Star Trek simulator. You know, the one where you traveled from sector to sector blowing up Klingons and the occasional cloaked Romulan? Where the "graphics" were just colored text, if you were lucky?

Oh for the good old days...

Yeah, I remember those good old days! I played the old 2-D Castle Wolfenstein on the Commodore 64. You start out with a gun with 10 bullets in it, in a room in the Castle and your mission is to find the plans for Operation Reinhold (or something) and escape with them. You eventually get stuff like grenades, a German uniform, and a bulletproof vest.

I also played the old Star Trek game on the Commodore 64. That game had a lot of nice features. The ship had long range sensors, phasers, shields, photon torpedos, damage control, self-destruct, etc. When you got hit by Klingons and your shields failed, your systems start to get damaged and won't work until they're fixed. You can dock at starbases to recharge and get repaired. It was a really fun game!

Also on the Commodore 64: Archon, Archon II, Black Hawk, Commando, Temple of Apshai, Mail Order Monsters, G.I. Joe, Impossible Mission, Omega Race, Wizard of War. Ah, the good old days. I remember staying up all night playing these games.

[TerranC]

Terminal Velocity; Boy, I loved that game...

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Ah, Homeworld was mindblowing, though the sequel sucked big time.

Aloofi, please tell me how the sequel to homeworld can suck when it hasn't even been released yet.

If you think that Homeworld Cataclysm was a sequel, then it's a clear sign that you did read what the box said.

Oh, and if you would like to know about the REAL sequel, go here, and find the link to the Homeworld 2 trailer.

[Kamog]

The first video games I ever played was on the Commodore Pet computer. It had a small monochrome green screen and a slow tape drive. The games came on cassette tapes and they took forever to load. There was Space Invaders, a racing game, a mining game, and a labyrinth game. I thought they were so cool!

And then I played games on the Intellivision. There were some really fun games: Sea Battle, Utopia, B-17 Bomber, Dungeons & Dragons, Bomb Squad, Astrosmash, Armor Battle, and, uh, hmm, what was that game called? The one where you fight robots inside a maze - Night Stalker?

This was a long time ago... I miss those days.

[Narrew]

I never got into FPS's, but 1 game that I really got hooked on was Transport Tycoon, ran in DOS, decent 2D graphics, I loaded up a while back and played it. Chris Sayer was the programmer, he asked who ever had the legal title to it (I think Micropose) if they would sell/release it back to him so he could revamp it (it had been out of print for a long time), they said no.

Oh well, I dont know exactly why I was hooked on it, but I was.