Waxing nostalic about old PC games

I played the Sierra adventure games where you had to type all the commands like "press button"... but they were a real pain in the a$$ for a non-native english speaking kid like me. There was one game where you had to participate in a giant robot fight, I think it was one of the Police Quest games...I loved that part, I played it over and over again.

Earlier I used to play that worm game as well as some kind of pacman and space invaders (all of them with ascii characters). I also remember the artillery game, that one was fun to play with a friend... And there was one game that had something to do with moving blocks of disorganized towers in order to rebuild them in a proper way. Oh and later on when my father bought the first (I guess) ms flight simulator this one was my favorite for years... come to think of it, I was quite a nerdy 9 year old :D
 
I played a game called ZORK when it first hit the market--it was a text only adventure--to move north you'd have to type "N" or "North"- South "S" etc- all word commands--no graphics-
it's amazing how much technology has progressed since the early 80's --- what does the future hold?
 
Teetop said:
I played a game called ZORK when it first hit the market--it was a text only adventure--to move north you'd have to type "N" or "North"- South "S" etc- all word commands--no graphics-
it's amazing how much technology has progressed since the early 80's --- what does the future hold?
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Scroll back to the first page... I provided a link where you can download and play (it's really boring these days).
 
Commodore 64 was all the go.

Paradroid (my all-time favourite game, even today)
Gribbly's Day Out
M.U.L.E
Ghostbusters
Uridium
Cauldron II
Gauntlet (spent a whole night on this once)
Dragonriders of Pern
Commando
Monty on the Run (still the best game soundtrack!)
Spy Vs Spy
Wizball

Ahh, yes. Those were the days.
 
SwissSkeptic said:
There was one game where you had to participate in a giant robot fight, I think it was one of the Police Quest games...I loved that part, I played it over and over again.
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Space Quest III
 
LW said:
Space Quest III
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Which, robot-bashing fun aside, was also famous for being the first game with a soundtrack developed specifically for it by a Big Name Rock Band.

Supertramp.

I'm glad to see Paradroid make someone else's list. Rogue and its descendant, Nethack, were also classic games I loved.

Remember ALLEY CAT?

Current computers should be able to perfectly emule a P75, maybe an entire DOS machine with specific characteristics. It would be nice.
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You mean like this?

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

I use it for all my old gaming needs.

Speaking of old DOS games, the ultimate CRPG of the time wasn't Bard's Tale or Dragon Wars or Ultima.... it was WASTELAND.
 
scribble said:
Remember ALLEY CAT?
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Whoa...I must quit opening this thread! I'm wasting far too much time at work reminiscing!
OK...back atcha. Remember "Borrowed Time"? How about "4d boxing"?
 
scribble said:
Remember ALLEY CAT?
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Not until you mentioned it. OMG, I LOVED that game sooooo much as a kid. I'm going to see if I can find it somewhere.

I already wasted a week playing Warlords 2, and even downloaded "Dracula in London".

I need to stay away from this thread.

eta: Okay, found and downloaded Alley Cat. It's so cute. I do well with catching fish, and catching the mice in the big cheese, but I don't think I ever had success mating with the cat at the top of the arrows/presents/other cats screen. What a bizarre little game it is, to be sure.
 
bigred said:
There was also a series that I forget the name of where you could choose to be one of about 3/4 characters (like fighter, magician, etc), was pretty good. I remember you had to cross some desert and I mean literally walk it.....took a handful of turns and once in awhile you'd get stalked by a rhino or some such.
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Quest for Glory II, my personal favorite of the entire series, and the only one that didn't get the VGA treatment by Sierra. There's a remake in development.

I think TIE Fighter is probably my favorite game of all time. (by now, I consider anything before the advent of 3D cards "old").

A close second in an entirely different genre: Darklands. I absolutely love games that make you feel like you're in a HUGE world and will never be able to see it all. Very, very few games have succeeded in doing that for me. Runs pretty well in DOSBox on Linux too :)

Shadows of Yserbius is another one I remember fondly, but I don't know how dated it would feel by now.
 
Nasarius said:

I think TIE Fighter is probably my favorite game of all time. (by now, I consider anything before the advent of 3D cards "old").
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My version of TIE Fighter (Collector's Edition CDROM with the expansions) won't run on Windows. I've tried it in several different versions, with emulation mode and everything. It's enough to make me want to dredge up all my old knowledge and set up a DOS 6.2 box just to play it on.
 
How about "Star Trek". Basic game on a Cyber 6600 (?). There was many a potentially good engineer blew away his study time on that game.

Ascii platform games on Kaypro, forget the name.

Blagger on C64. That was great for sharing a beer over after work.

Typing in the code for "Adventure" to run on an S-100 character computer screen. It ran on MS Basic, but you couldn't buy it for many computers. What someone did do, however, was publish a book of the assembly decoding. After many hours of typing this code in,(and checking the typos), voila. By looking up the character in/out section to your own BIOS routines, you could re-write those sections and run Basic FWIW.
 
Nasarius said:
Quest for Glory II, my personal favorite of the entire series, and the only one that didn't get the VGA treatment by Sierra. There's a remake in development.

I think TIE Fighter is probably my favorite game of all time. (by now, I consider anything before the advent of 3D cards "old").

A close second in an entirely different genre: Darklands. I absolutely love games that make you feel like you're in a HUGE world and will never be able to see it all. Very, very few games have succeeded in doing that for me. Runs pretty well in DOSBox on Linux too :)

Shadows of Yserbius is another one I remember fondly, but I don't know how dated it would feel by now.
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Yeah Quest for Glory, thx.

I'm wondering if Darklands is the one I was thinking of....there was one that was about some kid/young guy going through some weird world for...well no idea why, really, but it opened with him screeching up to a secret lab in his sports car and teleporting himself there. One of the first hurdles was dodging past these little black "blobs" that dripped down from the top of the screen (which I never got past #$@!). The graphics might not have been top-end for the day per se, but upper tier - and more importantly to me, had a sort of unique look/feel that I liked (for ex. a predominantly white/blue color scheme, almost Nagel-like).

I'd like to find some of the answer for getting through some of these games, assuming I could still find/run them (eg that one, Starflight, etc).
 
bigred said:
Yeah Quest for Glory, thx.

I'm wondering if Darklands is the one I was thinking of....
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It's not. Darklands was a Medieval GErman RPG.

You are thinking of "Out of This World" (aka: "Another World" I think) which was followed by a sequel, "Flashback."

You can download both of them from the underdogs site I mentioned before.


I'd like to find some of the answer for getting through some of these games, assuming I could still find/run them (eg that one, Starflight, etc).
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www.gamefaqs.com

They have every guide for every game going all the way back to... well, god knows, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see a book of Alley Cat tips.

Edit to add: http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/alley_cat.txt

Damn.

Starflight was great.
 
bigred said:
Yeah Quest for Glory, thx.

I'm wondering if Darklands is the one I was thinking of....there was one that was about some kid/young guy going through some weird world for...well no idea why, really, but it opened with him screeching up to a secret lab in his sports car and teleporting himself there. One of the first hurdles was dodging past these little black "blobs" that dripped down from the top of the screen (which I never got past #$@!). The graphics might not have been top-end for the day per se, but upper tier - and more importantly to me, had a sort of unique look/feel that I liked (for ex. a predominantly white/blue color scheme, almost Nagel-like).

I'd like to find some of the answer for getting through some of these games, assuming I could still find/run them (eg that one, Starflight, etc).
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He's right, it's Out Of This Word... I've beaten it a few times (including recently) if you want obscure hints or straight answers just PM me...
 
scribble said:
It's not. Darklands was a Medieval GErman RPG.

You are thinking of "Out of This World" (aka: "Another World" I think) which was followed by a sequel, "Flashback."

You can download both of them from the underdogs site I mentioned before.




www.gamefaqs.com

They have every guide for every game going all the way back to... well, god knows, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see a book of Alley Cat tips.

Edit to add: http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/alley_cat.txt

Damn.

Starflight was great.
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You are the man.

Thx - will check out as I'm able -
 
Quest for Glory fan here too :D
I also loved Star Control 2 - brilliant.
Others include Dune 2 and Dungeon Keeper (not that old, I know :P)
 
Placebo said:
I also loved Star Control 2 - brilliant.
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Then you'll love the remake. Try a google search for "The Ur-Quan Masters". I'd link you direcly but it's tough navigating on this PDdA
 
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