Waxing nostalic about old PC games

[bigred]

Anyone else remember the "classics," and I don't mean "Half Life I" but really going back, ie before the days of video cards etc....

I esp. remember a lot of shareware games like Cmdr Keen, Wolfenstein, Duke Nuk'm (the orig), the "worm" games (where you're in a box and you have to stop from running into your own tail, which keeps growing), etc. There was also an awesome "Galaxia" clone I found one time (downloaded from a "BBS" - remember those?), a ton more interesting than the orig. game, ie you had a lot of optional things you could get from killing the right ship, like a shield/etc....had real colorful backgrounds and sounds too. Was fun to see if I could beat my high scores.

Ah the old days.....I kinda wish I still had the system up n running just for nostalgia.

Although I do still have the "XOR" NFL game and it's actually kinda fun to play once in a blue moon.

 

[scribble]

google for "home of the underdogs." I think the site is www.the-underdogs.org

 

[malaka]

Ah the old days.....

Using a hole-punch to make my floppies double-sided. Each side could hold ~20 games. I taught myself Basic on a co-co (TRS-80 Color Computer).

Playing Zaxxon, Congo Bongo, Shock Trooper. The "worm" game might have been called "Snafu" (at least on the Intellivision", I think).

 

[CFLarsen]

Digger. 59K, fantastic game.

Snake. Caused a riot at work. We held championships after work. (and during, ahemn)

 

[alfaniner]

You are in a maze of twisty little passages.

 

[Orangutan]

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[Piscivore]

I got the Pac-Man and Atari paddle TV games for Giftmas. My 9yo son was obsessed with Pong for a month.

 

[Darat]

I remember well the blister in my palm from the Atari joystick base...

Favourite game of all time for me is Miner 2049er, best platformer… ever. I remember well the blister in my palm from the Atari joystick base...


http://www.classicgaming.com/miner2049er/levels-atari800.html

 

[bigred]

You are in a maze of twisty little passages.

lofl - God bless the old text-based games. We had some IBM Displaywriters (or something similar) that even at the time were considered old at work years back....they had a game like that which me and one other guy used to take turns at trying to crack. Was kind of a find and kill the dragon thing or something similarly silly, with assorted baddies you had to kill along the way....surprisingly fun at times.

 

[bigred]

google for "home of the underdogs." I think the site is www.the-underdogs.org

friggin firewall.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Warlords II. Little people, little monsters, maps, and cities you could raze. I miss it sooooooo much.

 

[RSLancastr]

google for "home of the underdogs." I think the site is www.the-underdogs.org

Ah, Underdogs.

All six of the old DOS-based freeware games I wrote are there!

ML Yaht

ML Shut The Box

ML Loyd

ML Push Your Luck

ML Otra

ML Crux

Even though they play much faster on today's machines than on the old XT I wrote them on, they are all still playable except for Otra, which is just too fast. I understand there are cycle-eating utilities which make ancient games such as mine run on today's machines at the speed they originally ran.

Them were the days!

 

[chrisqqgx4]

the "worm" games (where you're in a box and you have to stop from running into your own tail, which keeps growing)

I miss that one, Sammy the Snake I think it was. All emulator versions now are so fast for modern machines. I miss that old DOS version.

It ran on QBASIC, and you had to run over the numbers and the maze got more and more difficult to manoeuvre round.

That silly Gorilla banana throwing one always came with it too.

 

[Bodhi Dharma Zen]

X-Wing, Tie-Fighter, Descent, are among my all time favorites

 

[Earthborn]

I miss that one, Sammy the Snake I think it was.

No, it was called Nibbles.

Here you can find a copy. You need Qbasic and a slow computer to play it.

 

[Zep]

What you WILL need is an old PC to run them on! A 386 or 486 or perhaps a 75MHz Pentium with the original SoundBlaster and a Trident VGA card... Boot the PC from a DOS "games floppy" with the appropriate drivers, and start your games from the HD.

Incidentally, I happen to think Descent is still the best flying shooter game ever - I still play my copy in my rare downtime, and Zeplette and I are planning on fighting it out with network games soon.

 

[DangerousBeliefs]

Zork used to drive me crasy.


The good ole days? Virtually any game on the Commodore 64.

Pirates! (Awesome)

F-19

Pool of Radiance series (many thousands of hours missed)

Elite (was there a plot to this British game?)

Blue Max

Ultima I II III IV

Archon

Bard's Tale!

 

[Soapy Sam]

I remember well the blister in my palm from the Atari joystick base...

Favourite game of all time for me is Miner 2049er, best platformer… ever. I remember well the blister in my palm from the Atari joystick base...


http://www.classicgaming.com/miner2049er/levels-atari800.html

Yeah. A likely story. We all know how you got those blisters, sonny!

 

[Darat]

Yeah. A likely story. We all know how you got those blisters, sonny!

I have no idea what you mean...

 

[bjornart]

What you WILL need is an old PC to run them on! A 386 or 486 or perhaps a 75MHz Pentium with the original SoundBlaster and a Trident VGA card... Boot the PC from a DOS "games floppy" with the appropriate drivers, and start your games from the HD.

Incidentally, I happen to think Descent is still the best flying shooter game ever - I still play my copy in my rare downtime, and Zeplette and I are planning on fighting it out with network games soon.

I can get a C64 emulator that will even emulate the time it took to load something from tape, yet getting an old PC game to run is almost impossible. The universe sucks.