Old School Gaming.

[IrirshTerrorist]

Dragon warrior monsters, legitt
Captain america and the avengers for sega, loved it, played it easily 100x
Galaga, hold the record on points in a few of my favorite sit down restaraunt arcades
pokemon yellow version, played that easily in the 20-30 times..loved every minute of it
Crash Bandicoot, epic game series for sure, the boulder levels were adrenalizing and awesome
Teenage mutant ninja turtles,original one i think for NES (hard as hell but loved it)

You have done a lot of old school gaming, thats pretty cool, you can be our in thread expert

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Dragon warrior monsters, legitt
Captain america and the avengers for sega, loved it, played it easily 100x
Galaga, hold the record on points in a few of my favorite sit down restaraunt arcades
pokemon yellow version, played that easily in the 20-30 times..loved every minute of it
Crash Bandicoot, epic game series for sure, the boulder levels were adrenalizing and awesome
Teenage mutant ninja turtles,original one i think for NES (hard as hell but loved it)

You have done a lot of old school gaming, thats pretty cool, you can be our in thread expert

why thank you =]

granted a few of these games were hard because i was a toddler/child playing some of these games, but they were still goodies that i nod to from giving me great experiences as a kid

btw playing DOOM and resident evil as a 5 year old definitly gave me chills as a child, i ALMOST regret playing it... (i forgot to add that in my list, although i only played those once or twice since it gave me the creeps)

granted my parents didn't know i was playing these games..thank the lord for my uncle who started me down this awesome path at such an early age =]

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

granted a few of these games were hard because i was a toddler/child playing some of these games, but they were still goodies that i nod to from giving me great experiences as a kid

btw playing DOOM and resident evil as a 5 year old definitly gave me chills as a child, i ALMOST regret playing it... (i forgot to add that in my list, although i only played those once or twice since it gave me the creeps)

granted my parents didn't know i was playing these games..thank the lord for my uncle who started me down this awesome path at such an early age =]

I played Doom on an emulator recently, unfortunately it does not hold up well now a days like some old school games do... but I guess thats why we have more modern Doom games.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

granted a few of these games were hard because i was a toddler/child playing some of these games, but they were still goodies that i nod to from giving me great experiences as a kid

btw playing DOOM and resident evil as a 5 year old definitly gave me chills as a child, i ALMOST regret playing it... (i forgot to add that in my list, although i only played those once or twice since it gave me the creeps)

granted my parents didn't know i was playing these games..thank the lord for my uncle who started me down this awesome path at such an early age =]

I played Doom on an emulator recently, unfortunately it does not hold up well now a days like some old school games do... but I guess thats why we have more modern Doom games.

yes unfortunately, but true..i havent had that quality doom experience since the first one, so i didn't end up buying the second or third one, played em at a friends but they didn't tend to hold my interest after one playthrough

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

yes unfortunately, but true..i havent had that quality doom experience since the first one, so i didn't end up buying the second or third one, played em at a friends but they didn't tend to hold my interest after one playthrough

It seems to me that whether a game ages well or not is very dependent on what type of game it is. FPS and RTS games age poorly, where as RPG and puzzle games seems to age quite well.
Now I am a being very broad there, and there are quite a few exceptions I'm sure, but in general I believe what I have said holds true.

 

[Gigaguy64]

LoZ: Links Awakening
Tetris

You sir are a genius I nearly forgot Links awakening, time for an edit I think.

Why thank you very much.
That game is in all my lists.
Its is a "must Play".

Yes!... definately the best LoZ game ever and my second favourite GameBoy game ever.

Iv beaten it several times....and i still get emotional every time i play it.
Sigh...its such a good game.
(Begins humming "Ballad of the Wind Fish")

 

[Manhattan2112]

How old school are we talking?

Resident Evil: Director's Cut
Twisted Metal II
Crash Bandicoot II

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

Iv beaten it several times....and i still get emotional every time i play it.
Sigh...its such a good game.
(Begins humming "Ballad of the Wind Fish")

I love the way you are constantly trading one item for another the whole way through the game and other side things like that. Great game play, emotional story, decent length. Difficult but not insane. It was and still is awesomeness personified.

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

How old school are we talking?

Resident Evil: Director's Cut
Twisted Metal II
Crash Bandicoot II

As old school as chiseling Xs and 0s on a rock right up to games like Morrowind. Its all relative.

 

[Indecizion]

Freelancer
Heroes of might and magic 2 to 4
Zelda OoT

havent met many people whove played HoMM or freelancer but they were pretty epic XD

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

chrono trigger and mother/earthbound man

You are like the fifth person to say 'Chrono Trigger', what platform was it? What game type? I've never heard of it, but it must be an excellent nay possibly an epic game if it is so loved by many.

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

The most consistent one for me is Quake 3. I occasionally switch to different old games every now and then, including System Shock 2, Unreal, Pokemon Blue, Quake I and II, Age of Empires, Half-Life and its mods and expansion packs, all that good stuff. I really couldn't pick a favorite from these. Quake 3 just has the most replay value.

Age of Empires, Pokemon Blue/Red and the Quake games are all great old school titles.

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

chrono trigger and mother/earthbound man

You are like the fifth person to say 'Chrono Trigger', what platform was it? What game type? I've never heard of it, but it must be an excellent nay possibly an epic game if it is so loved by many.

good god you just made my head explode. It is for the snes and psx, but you can buy the port for the ds. The ds version is exactly the same as the other 2 exept it was monster arena and a new ending. If you want it get it for the ds.

EDIT: oops forgot to include that it is an turn based rpg.

Well thanks for the info, I;m gong to have to go about getting it now

 

[number9dream]

Hm...

Does Starcraft count as an old school game since it's still being played by hundreds of thousands? If it does, then well, that's my favorite game of all time so that.

I'm gonna avoid some obvious ones like Mario 64, Zelda: OoT/Majoras Mask etc, in favour of some (maybe?) slightly less known games:

1 - UFO: Enemy Unknown (aka X-Com). Fantastic game, I remember as a lil kid (like 6~ish) I had these PC magazines (we are talking 1995~96 here) and they had a review up for X-Com 2: Terror from the Deep and Master of Magic, and I wanted to play them sooooo bad... But I never actually played them until a few years ago. Absolutely brilliant game tho, and I had a hilariously memorable ending to it (assaulting the final enemy installation, I found my team down to one man so I decided to just use him to explore before I re-load... well, I walk into a room and notice 5 or 6 enemies, but I have no action points left so I end my turn.
Out of about a dozen shots, the alien soldiers manage to hit my lone hero no more than once - ship it! Surviving, somehow, through 3 rounds of this mess in what is one of the least statistically likely events ever - ok maybe not - my heroic X-Com trooper takes down the last 5 aliens in the base and ends the game for me ).

There's a free multiplayer version of the game you can download (fanmade) called UFO:2000 I think, it's quite fun (either by stacking up on ridiculous weapons and turning the entire battle field into a smoldering ruin or by actually playing seriously).

2 - Star Control 2 (aka Ur Quan Masters - you can dl it for free if you google it, ported for modern systems). Seriously, probably the funniest game I've ever played, I once saw someone compare it to Mass Effect (though this game was released in like 92 or 94, something like that), except that it doesn't have any of the useless sidequests or nothing (and don't get me wrong, Mass Effect is a great game). The Reapers and the Ur Quan are extremely, extremely similiar to be honest.

Anyway, some clips:
The Spathi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZ75L36m74

The Thraddash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WsEh7oti3U

 

[FoolKiller]

Contra on NES
TMNT on NES
Megamania on Atari 2600
Lemmings on SNES
Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers on NES
TLoZ: A Link to the Past on SNES

These are the ones that pop into my mind right now. I am sure that I have forgotten many, many more.

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

Hm... Does Starcraft count as an old school game since it's still being played by hundreds of thousands? If it does, then well, that's my favorite game of all time so that.

It counts if it counts to you... if you know what I mean.

P.S: liked you long informative post, made for good reading and decent increase in my old school gaming knowledge.

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

Lemmings on SNES

Lemmings! I loved a later version of that that I used to play on P.C when I was about 13.

EDIT: Also played original and yes; it rocks!

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Civ 4
simcity 4
Morrowind.

Morrowind is chief amongst them because seriously, I fucking love that game.

And yes, the gratuitous swearing was necessary to elucidate my point.

How young are you that a game that came out in 2005 and was supported with expansions up to 2008 is "old school".

How attention seeking are you that you get off on pointing out the small flaws in my original statement?

Check the OP, it says there's no clear definition of "old school" for the point of this thread. I'm talking about games that I have bought that weren't immediately released. I'm so terribly sorry that I don't conform to your own, perfect image in this thread, oh great and powerful Nwabudike Morgan.

You seriously consider 5 years ago old school? Wow. When I think of old school I think asteroids, missile defend, donkey kong, and all those other old arcade came that were around 20 years ago.

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

Civ 4
simcity 4
Morrowind.

Morrowind is chief amongst them because seriously, I fucking love that game.

And yes, the gratuitous swearing was necessary to elucidate my point.

How young are you that a game that came out in 2005 and was supported with expansions up to 2008 is "old school".

How attention seeking are you that you get off on pointing out the small flaws in my original statement?

Check the OP, it says there's no clear definition of "old school" for the point of this thread. I'm talking about games that I have bought that weren't immediately released. I'm so terribly sorry that I don't conform to your own, perfect image in this thread, oh great and powerful Nwabudike Morgan.

You seriously consider 5 years ago old school? Wow. When I think of old school I think asteroids, missile defend, donkey kong, and all those other old arcade came that were around 20 years ago.

And there in lies the inherent flaw of my thread; age difference = opinion difference.

In my defense I did point this out at the beginning.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Iv beaten it several times....and i still get emotional every time i play it.
Sigh...its such a good game.
(Begins humming "Ballad of the Wind Fish")

I love the way you are constantly trading one item for another the whole way through the game and other side things like that. Great game play, emotional story, decent length. Difficult but not insane. It was and still is awesomeness personified.

Sigh...now i want to play it again.