Waxing nostalic about old PC games

gnome said:
There would be a heck of a market for new games with the "feel" of some of the old ones, but selected enhancements from new technology.

It's done to some extent with updated versions, but it would be interesting to see some original content that matches.
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Yep. Put DOOM at the front of the line. Same game basically with much of the same look/feel, but fairly modern graphics technology, slightly better AI, a few new baddies, maybe a new weapon or 2, all on a buncha new levels. Oh and pls include a (decent) editor to make my own levels this time. I'd buy that the day it came out, and I rarely even play video games anymore.
 
Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but GoodOldGames.com is a great place to find a lot of these. Heroes of Might & Magic 3 is currently dominating my waking hours nearly to the degree it did in 1999.
 
Oh, and don't forget the ancient Mac games like Dark Castle, Shufflepuck, Wesleyan Tetris..
 
i used to have a killer tempest clone for the mac, sometime in the mid 90s. i wish i had that still (or that i could play it even if i could find it).
 
JamesDillon said:
Not sure if it's been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but GoodOldGames.com is a great place to find a lot of these. Heroes of Might & Magic 3 is currently dominating my waking hours nearly to the degree it did in 1999.
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Huh? I've been playing Heroes 3 continuously over that time :) I estimate that I've played it somewhere around 10,000 times, with 3,600 custom maps sitting on my hd.

I also have to give a thumbs up to gog.com, since I've bought 7 games from them over the past year. It's nice to run the installer on those old games and get an icon on your desktop that launches a perfectly configured dosbox to run it.

I've seen a bunch of the Siera Quest games mentioned but not the 1 that sucked me in the deepest: Hero's Quest (aka Quest For Glory). linky. That game can be credited with my longstanding love of rpg's.

Major props to the person who mentioned Legacy of the Ancients. I had not thought about that game in a very long time. I played it quite a bit way back when.

It was also nice to see Miner2049er mentioned. That was I believe the 1st game cartridge I got for my Atari 600XL.

After much googling, I've identified the game on my Atari that I played more than any other: Eastern Front. You can see someone playing it here on Youtube.

There's a game I played around 1990 on my 1st pc that I wish I could name. You played a pioneer of sorts, who did battle with natives while you explored. It was a side view graphical game with mainly right-left motion, but some up down (to move behind some trees). When you reached the right or left edge of the screen you would move to the next location. At one point you would get in a canoe and shoot down a river, and now the game played from 3d perspective, with the natives in canoes trying to knock you out of your canoe. I would love to see that game again.

**** Found it***** It was called Colorado! You can see the game being played here. Loved that game! It was revolutionary to me at the time.
 
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BenBurch said:
I wish I had a working copy of Populous and Populous II. My copies last worked on MacOS 7.5 or thereabouts.
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http://www.abandonia.com/en/search_abandonia/populous

You need dosbox, but a link is included in there.
Though to be fair, much as I loved them, I couldn't really get into them anymore.

The same with the old sierra games. I loved them as a kid, and they certainly helped me with my english, but nowadays they frustrate me with the very obscure way of answering/solving riddles. And dying 10 times trying to walk down a path and going 1 pixel wrong.
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/search_abandonia/populous

You need dosbox, but a link is included in there.
Though to be fair, much as I loved them, I couldn't really get into them anymore.

The same with the old sierra games. I loved them as a kid, and they certainly helped me with my english, but nowadays they frustrate me with the very obscure way of answering/solving riddles. And dying 10 times trying to walk down a path and going 1 pixel wrong.
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Oooh! Thank you.
 
bigred said:
Yep. Put DOOM at the front of the line. Same game basically with much of the same look/feel, but fairly modern graphics technology, slightly better AI, a few new baddies, maybe a new weapon or 2, all on a buncha new levels. Oh and pls include a (decent) editor to make my own levels this time. I'd buy that the day it came out, and I rarely even play video games anymore.
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There's a bunch of them. I play Doom via the kickstart engine - hda troubling finding it but did find this
http://www.stevemv.com/other/enhancements/doomsday/
 
NB I had a lot of trouble getting the above to end on windows 7. A struggle to get task manager started then had no mouse control until I killed a couple of processes
eta - running program compatibility wizard seems to have fixed that
 
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Molinaro said:
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I've seen a bunch of the Siera Quest games mentioned but not the 1 that sucked me in the deepest: Hero's Quest (aka Quest For Glory). linky. That game can be credited with my longstanding love of rpg's.
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Totally with you on that one; that series was Sierra's best, although QG2 was my favorite of the bunch. Sadly, they're not on gog.com; not sure why.

The same with the old sierra games. I loved them as a kid, and they certainly helped me with my english, but nowadays they frustrate me with the very obscure way of answering/solving riddles. And dying 10 times trying to walk down a path and going 1 pixel wrong.
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Specifically the path down the mountain from Manannan's house in KQ3, especially that part hidden behind the rock? That brings back memories. Old games were definitely not as forgiving as modern ones, as I recalled last night when I lost a couple of hours' playing time as I was on my way out of a Phantasy Star II dungeon when my party got surprised and wiped out, and of course I hadn't saved since leaving town for the dungeon.
 
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I actually booted up Monkey Island for a bit today. Not to play it though, just to check out nacl box.
 
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