linch September 28, 2004 Share linch Member September 28, 2004 What PC game stands out to you that you played in the early/mid 90's. After that post on what video game you played first, I'm feeling kinda nostalgic. I wanna get my hands on a few old school games and bring them in to work. Any suggestions? Top ones I can think of would be.. Warcraft 1/2, Rise of the Triads, Wolfenstien, Duke Nukem. Their was also I game I played that had a name with the word "Machine" in it... it was a puzzle/maze game and very addicting, I believe it was part 3. Ring any bells?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters September 28, 2004 Share gOOters Member September 28, 2004 ROTT was good. And of course...HL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox September 28, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member September 28, 2004 Oooh, Oooh! Master of Orion was a great strategy game, and X-Com: UFO defense was a lot of fun, too. As a bonus, both are DOS games, so you can get DosBox (Way more FPS than Counterstrike!) and never have to deal with those stupid extended and expanded memory issues again! Look ma, no boot disks! 5 points to anyone who recognizes the old geezer on the banner of the DosBox website. He's from another good strategy game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa September 28, 2004 Share Playaa Member September 28, 2004 Quake 2 is what got me into video games. But Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island and the other puzzle games were all games I played at school and STILL enjoy to this day. and I think the "Machines" game you're thinking of is "Incredible Machines" check here that is definatly one of the best games ever made that never got enough attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul .gc September 28, 2004 Share soul .gc Member September 28, 2004 Go back farther to the 80's. Break out Zork and all the old text-based games. I still remember those days of reading the story as you went, having to type N,S,W,E for the directions and "Get lamp", "Light lamp". Those were great games. From the 90's I remember the fighter jet games that came out all the time. There was also "Legend of Yserbius" an online RPG that was fun. Diablo I, Doom, Quake, Myst, Starcraft, Civilization, Wizardry (a true classic), Ultima, Leisure Suit Lary I-IV, King's Quest I-VI, Mechwarrior, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters September 28, 2004 Share gOOters Member September 28, 2004 Oh yeah! King's Quest...OLD SCHOOL! Also, Police Quest I played to death and in retrospect, it REEKED! I remember that one scene I kept dying, because I couldn't type: open door, get out, pull pistol, shoot faster than it took the badguy to shoot me! ROTT was the first game I ever played where I was like WHOA this is cool! And couldnt put it down for weeks. I remember there were dual pistols too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty September 28, 2004 Share Fatty GC Founder September 28, 2004 I spent a lifetime playing Wizardry on my original Mac, the old boxey one. In the 90's, one game that I loved was some text based space trading game, etc....where you'd have allies etc. Anyone remember the name of this? Once we pulled a big mutany and laid mines in the next sector of a dead-end where our entire ex-friend fleet was hiding out (like a dead end, hard to find, etc) I loved that game. You'd mine planets, build up your ships, etc. Played it on a bulletin board in like 1995 or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman September 28, 2004 Share Hitman Member September 28, 2004 (edited) Their was also I game I played that had a name with the word "Machine" in it... it was a puzzle/maze game and very addicting, I believe it was part 3. Ring any bells?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This what you're thinking of: http://www.classicpcgames.com/?p=game&ei=I...achine+3%2C+The Edit: didn't see playaa's link, but this is the part 3 you spoke of. Edited September 28, 2004 by Hitman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenger September 28, 2004 Share Kenger Member September 28, 2004 All the Sim games. like Simcity. Simfarm, Simant, Simisland. Tycoon games like railroad tycoon, dinasaur park tycoon. Starcraft was the biggest online game i think around that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linch September 28, 2004 Author Share linch Member September 28, 2004 Yes playaa...thats it!! I thought i had it burned on one of my CD's but couldnt find it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwOOp September 28, 2004 Share SwOOp Member September 28, 2004 I used to play one that was a blast to play with 2 players, called "scorched earth" there wasn't a whole lot to it. Just set the degree of angle on your shot and calculate for wind speed, but man was it fun, and the little captions the dudes said were hilarious. Police Quest was another one I played, but I always had a problem when it came time to the driving of the police car. Another that comes to mind would be leisure suit larry, a real man's game!! It's all about trying to score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magruter September 28, 2004 Share Magruter Member September 28, 2004 Do you remember the bazooka for SNES?!!! Yeah i loved that thing!!!! What's it called? I use to listen to pearl jam ten for hours and play the game where you have to shoot the robots!! Oh man was that fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox September 28, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member September 28, 2004 Dude! Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island rocked. And infogames put out text-based games that weren't Zork that were also good. I'm thinking Planetfall because it was a bunch of fun, but there's a whole bunch: http://www.infocom-if.org/games/games.html Of course, the Zorks were still the best. Fatty, were you talking about Federation? It was a multi-player one, it was even on AOL for awhile. You start off as a stinkin' hauler, become a trader, etc. after a couple of days you own a planet, comabt and the like. That was fun too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magruter September 28, 2004 Share Magruter Member September 28, 2004 I think it was master blaster: No, wait that was a name of a nintendo game i played alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magruter September 28, 2004 Share Magruter Member September 28, 2004 It was called super scope!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBugs September 28, 2004 Share TheBugs Member September 28, 2004 Mechwarrior was prolly what got me hooked on the PC and you can forget about HL. And Wolfenstine/Duke Nukem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL September 28, 2004 Share dwEEziL Member September 28, 2004 Swoop, I have a game similar to that called "Tank" I think. It didn't so much have the "wind speed" thing. Basically what you said but if you got the speed to 800 exactly, and if "Rebound" was set, the shot would keep going, burrowing through the ground even, until it hit something...even yourself. I will look for it to see if I still have the floppy it is on. One problem I had with it though, even on a 433MHz system, is that the CPU ran it too fast. I know there are programs to slow down the processor for older games (maybe even this DosBox util but I didn't see that in the Info or FAQ) but I haven't got around to trying one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConGregation September 28, 2004 Share ConGregation Member September 28, 2004 I remember scorched earth. It was like a shareware game, right? And it ran too fast for me also. Basically a simplified version of Worms (that was one thing I didn't care for about worms, went for 'fun' but not actual strategy and competition). But you get a group playing SE that actually tried to win and it was a blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox September 28, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member September 28, 2004 Dweez, DosBox has a limited amount of speed control using ctrl + F11/F12 (faster/slower) but I never played with it much. I usually just jacked it up (Playing Master of Orion) because by default it seemed pretty slow. You can also change the framerate / drop frames. It's pretty good, but I never tried it with a lot of games. Hey, does anybody remember Sam and Max hit the road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ak2786 September 29, 2004 Share Ak2786 Member September 29, 2004 Yeah it was called the super scope mag, my RA has one in his room lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Shertown Pimp September 29, 2004 Share Sir Shertown Pimp Member September 29, 2004 I'm a big heroes of might and magic fan, all of them. Also who can forget tiefighter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mossad September 30, 2004 Share Mossad Member September 30, 2004 space quest, kings quest, police quest, willy beamish, leisure suit larry, phantasmagoria. I used to be a pretty big nut over sierra games :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage September 30, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests September 30, 2004 StarCraft is what got me into PC gaming in the 90's. Before then, back in the 80's it was King's Quest and Police Quest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xterminator September 30, 2004 Share Xterminator Member September 30, 2004 original warcraft orcs vs humans duke nukem 3D gorillas (Q-basic game) fifa soccer 96 faceoff (hockey) Wolfenstein Scorched Earth Leisure Suit Larry Police Quest Kings Quest Ultima X-Wing vs Tie Fighter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeabos September 30, 2004 Share Zeabos Member September 30, 2004 X-Wing TIE Fighter <----Loved this game so much Warcraft II SNES emulators Chrono Trigger :-D What got me into video games?? Three games "Ecology" Its an awsome game that was educational and fun it was a hyperstudio game "Spelunx" another hyperstudio game and of course Myst and Riven Two awsome hyperstudio games! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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