Waxing nostalic about old PC games

I really enjoyed a few C-64 games---Sword Of Fargal--Blue Max--Beachhead (the water actually splashed up when you shot your big guns at ships and missed)-Legacy of the Ancients (RPG)--and revolutionary Dungeon Master for the Amiga!!!! One can get a pretty ggod remake of Sword Of Fargal and also a Java version of Dungeon Master that is better than the original game
 
I used to love the old Paratrooper game on the old Apple IIe machines in the 80's (I hope I am not dating myself here).

I remember playing that while we were supposed to be programming BASIC in sixth grade and getting detention when the teacher caught me. (I was a legend after that and procured quite a lot of games since then)

At least they brought that game back on the Ipod updates (look at the Games section called Parachute). Now I can get dock in pay while playing that at work. Now if I can only get Street Fighter II on my Ipod - I would be a happy camper...

Scottch
 
Oh god.. I almost get tears in my eyes from reading this thread.. Where shall I begin:

When I was 7 years I got my first computer, a ZX81.. There wasn't any games for this little black thing (afaik), so I had to make my own games, and I did. Yes, I made my first game when I was about 8 years old (with a little help from my mother, shhh). Now I think I have made about 10-15 full games.

When I was about 12 years old I joined the largest demo group in Denmark (Zymotics). Commondore computers was my life back then, and this was the days when teachers would tell you that computers had no future. Quite hillarious actually.

Maybe I missed it, but why didn't anyone mention International Karate or The Great Giana Sisters? Or how about Shadows of the Beast, Lotus Turbo Challenge, Panza's Kickboxing or The Last Ninja? Now come on :) ..I think all the Infogrames productions were quite stylish as well.
 
Wolfenstein.....that was revolutionary for it's time. I got laid off about the time I discovered it...helped wile away more than a few hours in between waiting for phone calls. :)
 
Darat said:
ZX81 - and the precursor to such games as Wolfenstein 3D … :)
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Ok, so there were such games, but my mother didn't want to buy them for her son and forced the poor kid to code them himself.

Thank you for destroying my family relations (now I have to punk my mother) and making me look like a complete dork in the same act! :) ..I was seven ok?!

By the way, your cat looks like he/she seriously needs to be confused :) ..Actually, your avatar is scary, something deep is going on in the mind of that cat :(
 
How about Dig-Dug? I remember Nibbles and Gorillas. Somehow Gorillas was perenially entertaining.
Speaking of flight combat, the one I remember was called Fokker or something like that... you were German or British and then they killed you because it wasn't possible to see what you were doing.
 
Teetop said:
I really enjoyed a few C-64 games---Sword Of Fargal--Blue Max--Beachhead (the water actually splashed up when you shot your big guns at ships and missed)-Legacy of the Ancients (RPG)--and revolutionary Dungeon Master for the Amiga!!!! One can get a pretty ggod remake of Sword Of Fargal and also a Java version of Dungeon Master that is better than the original game
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It seems I wasted a couple of years playing " Dungeon Master " for the Atari ST.
I actually made it to the last (bottom )level, but never figured out how to end the game...

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http://www.retro-experience.co.uk/atarist/dungeonmaster.html

Very progressive for it's time... I have a DOS version that amazingly runs perfectly on my AMD 64 based PC..
 
Wow, some good stuff, fond memories....

First computer game I played was 'Pong', back in '76 at the Holiday Inn.

One of my all-time favorite games has to be Omega Race for the Vic-20. Man, I wasted hours on that. I can still hear the stupid music....

Sierra games were great!! Krondor anyone? LucasArts Day of the Tentacle was pretty popular with my kids, and my son HAD to have Airborne Ranger when it came out.

I still have Doom2 and fire it up every so often. Doom was the first game that actually made me jump and caused me to yell out loud. :D

RayG
 
I liked Doom but wasn't too keen on Doom2. Seemed too much like "more of the same".

Heretic, however - now THERE was a spin-off.
 
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Heretic, however - now THERE was a spin-off.
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Was that the one where if you entered the Doom cheat codes, it said "Cheater! You don't deserve any weapons!" and all your weapons vanished?
 
arthwollipot said:
I liked Doom but wasn't too keen on Doom2. Seemed too much like "more of the same".

Heretic, however - now THERE was a spin-off.
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"If it aint broke don't fix it"......but I do agree they should have done a little more with DOOM2. Really it was more like "DOOM 1.1"

However the umpteen clones that followed ALL sucked IMO. Heretic, Quake, blah blah....incredibly boring compared to DOOM. Fancier graphics, sure, but that's not what really makes a game great.
 
arthwollipot said:
I liked Doom but wasn't too keen on Doom2. Seemed too much like "more of the same".
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The mid-levels of Doom II are among the best FPS levels that I've played, not that I've played too much that genre. The start and the end are a bit boring, though.

I mean those large open levels containing hordes and more hordes of heavy-weight enemies.
 
Yeah them was the days. :) I remember a friend of mine who lived about 20' away and I hooked up via phone and played that a few times ie us 2 vs the baddies.....one rainy night nothing was going on and neither was into going out so we did that half the night, must've gone through about half the levels right there. phew.
 
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