Waxing nostalic about old PC games

scribble said:
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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I wanted to install that but it crashed during installation despite all my efforts to troubleshoot. Is there any significant difference besides that the characters have speech?
 
My memories of old games involves trying to input five pages of BASIC from Computer Monthly(or some such)into a Commodore Vic20 and after hours of typing,hitting RUN and nothing happening!! Oh the anger!! Same with loading games from cassettes,if you had the volume level incorrect the damn thing crashed!;) All that for a demo version of Paperboy!
 
gnome said:
I wanted to install that but it crashed during installation despite all my efforts to troubleshoot. Is there any significant difference besides that the characters have speech?
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I downloaded it and tried it out. If you cancel the installation while it's downloading the voices, you'll get the rest of the game minus the voices. (For some reason, it would only download at 7 kbps! That would have taken hours!)

I would up uninstalling and deleting it, because it's still buggy, and was interacting in a weird way with XP.

Didn't notice any real differences, but I didn't keep it that long.
 
I had a text-only "adventure" game of Mission Impossible for Commodore 64. It was really crappy, stuff like "Enter the Blue Room. Look door." sort of thing. The funny part was, I could never finish it, because if you went too far the Commodore ran out of memory and crashed.
 
Old games

I'm not even 30 yet and some of these younger gamers are making me feel OLD! Damn you!

Flashback is an awsome game, I didn't know it was a sequel. Though it has it's own sequel Fade to Black.

I'm still trying to figure out one I played on the old Apples(old as in monochrome graphics.) It was the first 3d game I remember ever seeing. The graphics were all line graphics, and you could drive different vehicles. Drives me crazy that I can't remember what the name of it was.

Impossible Mission, first time I heard my C64 talk, "Another Visitor, stay a while, STAY FOREVER!" That game was a biatch to finish.

And thanks to arthwollipot, for posting the name Wizball, 4 colors!!!!!!


Ok, for my contribution: Questron. RPG, actually in 2 parts, with the second part being a 3d dungeon crawl. Damn I wasted a lot of hours on that game.


SSR
 
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Stainless_Steel_Rat said:
I'm not even 30 yet and some of these younger gamers are making me feel OLD! Damn you!
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Haaa! I know the feeling...

Flashback is an awsome game, I didn't know it was a sequel. Though it has it's own sequel Fade to Black.
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I don't thikn I knew about Fade to Black... but I think the original Out of This World beats Flashback -- every scene in OOTW is something different and interesting, whereas Flashback puts you through several screens of the same thing -- on the other hand, OOTW can be played all the way from start to finish in probably 15 - 20 minutes, tops.

I'm still trying to figure out one I played on the old Apples(old as in monochrome graphics.) It was the first 3d game I remember ever seeing. The graphics were all line graphics, and you could drive different vehicles. Drives me crazy that I can't remember what the name of it was.
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Well, that's not too specific...

Is there any chance, though, it was the totally awesome Elite, by Ian Bell? It's a classic...

The first "3d" game *I* remember seeing was BattleZone. Oh, bet you didn't think of that. :P
 
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malaka said:
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).
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Hah, ditto!

Though my favorite games were Cashman, Quest and Danger Ranger
 
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scribble said:
Well, that's not too specific...

Is there any chance, though, it was the totally awesome Elite, by Ian Bell? It's a classic...

The first "3d" game *I* remember seeing was BattleZone. Oh, bet you didn't think of that. :P [/B]
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It wasn't either of those... I've checked. You were on a planet, you could run around and investigate different buildings. You could not only take "planes" but "cars" too. I remember it in monochrome, but I can't remember if it was the system or just the game. Dang, might have been an Amiga, did Atari make computer systems?

I know that at least 1 other game played on it: Racing Destruction Set.

It's sooo frustrating to not remember the name of either the system or the game.... grrr.

*Edit* Ok, I'm pretty sure it was the Atari ST now....

*Edit2* Whew, ok after DEEP googling... I believe I was playing Mercenary. My friend must have only had a Monochrome monitor...

SSR
 
scribble said:
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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I'll take a look - thanks.
Is it Star Control 3? Actually I did see that - I still need to find the installs though :\

Azrael 5 said:
My memories of old games involves trying to input five pages of BASIC from Computer Monthly(or some such)into a Commodore Vic20 and after hours of typing,hitting RUN and nothing happening!! Oh the anger!! Same with loading games from cassettes,if you had the volume level incorrect the damn thing crashed!;) All that for a demo version of Paperboy!
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Hahaha. Now THAT's nostalgia! I had the same experience with a MSX Spectravideo with BASIC interpreter :D
 
Way back, on a Dragon 32 "ROM trap", games were few and expensive, so I wrote my own; "Space Invaders", "Pack Man", a helicopter rescue game, beat the maze, a few more, I think.

Hack, on a UNIX machine. Actually, I have a PC version somewhere.

Leisure suit larry :p.

Space quest.

Mean Streets. I played it for the flight sim part only.

Jetfighter I and II (III sucked), oh, and all the other ancient flight sims where you flew blocky airplanes around in jerks over green plains with brown pyramid-shaped mountains here and there.

Descent I, built my own levels. DII sucked, but the later ones were de(s)cent ;).

Duke Nukem, "Damn, I'm looking GOOD".

Then of course, playing MS Combat flight simulator. Especially online was about as much fun as you can get with your clothes on.

Yeah, those were the days, for shure.

Hans
 
MRC_Hans said:

Duke Nukem, "Damn, I'm looking GOOD".
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The first one was great (for its time). Simple arcade type game, but fun.

The 2d one was a DOOM wannabe and some of the comments were funny, but overall it sucked badly IMO. For one thing no matter what setting you used, you hardly saw any bad guys. It was mostly a lot of poking around hallways and rooms....and very unimaginative boring ones at that......zzzzzzzz

I found my old copy of "XOR" NFL (where the players are Xs and Os) and played a game. It's still fun! I also love that the plays you can call are greatly simplified for those of us who don't have the time/inclination to learn an actual NFL-style playbook.
 
I'm too young to remember any of these really old games :(
I love Descent though, but I can't find it on PC. I bought for Playstation way back in 96. I also love Daggerfall. I found this one dungeon while wandering in the wilderness that took me three real time days to explore completely. I've been hooked ever since.

I also love the Tex Murphy games. I've played Under a Killing Moon, Pandora Directive and Overseer. Haven't gotten them to play under WinXP, but I've yet to give them a shot under DosBox.

There's a presidential simulation game called Shadow President I really love, as well. It's also one of the few games I know that will run in WinXP command line.

I blew many a recess by playing Oregon Trail when I was a kid. In a bout of nostalgia, I bought the sixth edition a couple years ago. How times have changed.
 
tygirwulf said:
I blew many a recess by playing Oregon Trail when I was a kid. In a bout of nostalgia, I bought the sixth edition a couple years ago. How times have changed.
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I know. I bought a "collection" CD pack of Red Alert (ie Command and Conquer series), which was fantastic for its time and I spent many hours on. Man is it weak now, and not even so much because of less advanced graphics. The AI is extremely weak, for one...and the new versions they came out with were about 1% different than the original.

And while I don't consider this all that old, AOE I (which I still like and occsionally play) could also have been 100 times better if the AI just wasn't as predictable/weak.
 
After years of playing "Parsec", "Munch-Man", et al. and programming in BASIC on my TI-99/4A (constantly saving/restoring from audio-tape because the disk drive was too darn much!), my dad delighted me with the purchase of our first IBM clone -- with amber monochrome monitor, 256k RAM and 10MB HDD! He blew a WAD on that thing!

After that I became a Sierra junkie as well. For those Sierra lovers, you should check out "Peasant Quest" at http://www.homestarrunner.com/games.html. It is a BRILLIANT parody/re-creation which really takes you back. Probably only takes 30-45 minutes to play through. ;)
 
The one game that captured my whole family was a "Lemmings" clone called "Loader Larry" we spent hours helping that man move boxes and blow up walls. :)
And then off course "Leisure Suit Larry" hehehehehehe
 
Oh, yeah, forgot Lemmings. Only the original, two dimensional one was any good, IMHO. I recently revived it, btw; found a "winlemmings" in a bargain bin. The real thing, with a whole set of extra levels, all running under Windows (including XP). Still loads of fun.

Did anybody ever find a utility for creating your own levels in Lemmings?


Hans
 
Only thing I remember about Lemmings was there was a button you could push to make em all explode - my sister thought the game was real cute until I showed her that lol
 
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