Oldies but goodies...

[Bretty]

After another game release and another realisation that the industry is happy releasing truly unworking products I decided to flick through my old CD folders.

I am 25 and begun gaming on Amstrads and then Amigas. Suffice to say that by the time PC gaming had begun I was right in the middle of it. From the game Braveheart (ok this was buggy) to Close Combat and Command and Conquer.

This was a time when internet gaming was reserved to those lucky enough to be in California or Washington or had a 100ft telephone cable that their parents let run into their one telephone jack. Yes, I am the latter. But why is this important? Simply put, we had no expectations what so ever regarding quality except that it would be fun and addictive!

This brings me to three classics. Theme Hospital, Close Combat and Wing Commander.

I can hand on heart swear that these three games, to me at least, can still be played today and be as fun if not more fun than these newer games. They are not stories, movies or political statements they are games. I never had to patch or crawl through forums to fix them and just put in the disk and played for HOURS! I put to you that this is why the Indy market and iPhone games are such a hit!

I challange you to go through your collection and post your 2 or three favorite oldies that you are still able to play today. I have installed Theme Hospital and have been playing it all week now... a few crashes 8) got to be a few comp. issues, but awesome and fun never the less. As a matter of fact I have now played Theme Hospital for longer than I have been playing Empire: Total War!!!!!

It was a nice breather to play a simple and fun game and I bet a few of you will enjoy doing it too.

 

[ae86gamer]

I can never get enough of playing Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast. Also Crazy Taxi.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

Dungeon keeper and Fallout 1&2, truly golden oldies.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Pokémon!

And Monkey Island

 

[Maj.JakeVitaminwater]

Age of Empires 2, TES 3: Morrwind(don't know if its considered old yet seeing as there are many people who still play it because its better than TES 4: Oblivion), Sydney 2000(its a game about the olympics in 2000)

 

[Trilby]

The first two Thief games, Dune 200 (refreshingly simple after current RTS titles), Dungeon Keeper 2... damn it, there are loads, but I've just had a mental block. I'll edit them in later.

 

[SimuLord]

Rome: Total War will be five years old this September and it's still the best game in its series (and the graphics hold up remarkably well).

Morrowind's a 2002 release and it's still arguably the best Elder Scrolls game.

But for games released while Bill Clinton was still President, my favorites are Railroad Tycoon 2 (1998) and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (1999).

 

[Xaositect]

Baldur's Gate series (I come back to it and play through it rigorously several times a year, despite having completed them all more times than I can count). I seriously think Im likely to be playing the game on and off for a very, VERY long time, I just love it that much.

Total Annihilation. Its amazing how I am unable to understand why I find this game so compelling still now to this day. Ive always found the units extremely bland and crude looking, yet at the same time so interesting. Something about the game just occasionally grabs me and I want to play it again, and watch my group of Millennium ships blow the smeg out of the enemy on land.

I always keep my copy of Half-Life+expansions close at hand, since playing through the chaos of Black Mesa had a significant impact on me the first time all those years ago. In fact its amazing how little effect Half-Life 2 had on me in comparison. Its just like without Black Mesa its not the same.

 

[NeutralDrow]

The first two Thief games, Dune 200 (refreshingly simple after current RTS titles), Dungeon Keeper 2... damn it, there are loads, but I've just had a mental block. I'll edit them in later.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who liked Dune 2000. Never got into the C&C games, but Dune was fun as all get-out.

I still have fond memories of Deadlock (the second one, at least, which apparently was more of an expansion than a sequel). Oni probably counts as an oldie by now, so I'll throw that in, as well.

 

[Anarchemitis]

1943.

 

[Combined]

Floor 13, a game about being a "minister" in a "ministry" doing "managerial" things and "not kidnapping and torturing people at all".

Colonization. It's just...fun.

Z (or Zed.) was one of the best too. Controlling all-american, beer-drinking, nice-looking, heavy-weapon-wielding robots and the robot version of Kilgore from Apocalypse now was insane and awesome.

Life and Death (1 and 2) is both fun and scary. You get to kill people while being a doctor and getting away with it!

Then there was Dune 2, Afterlife, Dominions, Tetris, Gloriana, Beasts and Bumpkins, Constructor, Street Wars, Extractors, Pizza Tycoon, Caesar 2-3, Centurion and Many, Many, Many others.

 

[helare]

Dungeon keeper 1&2 and Operation Flashpoint:Cold war crisis

 

[Da_Schwartz]

1943.

YES!!!

And don't forget about Life-force either.

 

[llewgriff]

Turok, the first three before the series started to decline. The first one's my favorite.

 

[Bullfrog1983]

This thread has been done a bunch of times... but what the hay.

Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero? (a.k.a. Hero Quest)
UFO: Enemy Unknown (a.k.a. XCOM: Enemy Unknown)
Baldur's Gate II

There are many more oldies I love, but those are the ones I am actually playing right now.

 

[Mayonegg]

Little Big Adventure 2 (1997 I think)

 

[The_Prophet]

Serious Sam
/thread ^^

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Morrowind.

 

[-Seraph-]

Metroid 3 (Super metroid) is still one of the best side scrolling games I have ever played and is one of the best metroid games ever made. I still go through it from time to time weather to just played the game normally or speed run it. My best record so far is a little under 2 hours for beating it

Killer Instinct is still one of the best fighting games ever made. Basic in principal, all out amazing in design and is still a fun game to play with other people.

FF's 1-7 are still fun to play, and i never get tired of going through them.

 

[Bretty]

Dungeon keeper 1&2 and Operation Flashpoint:Cold war crisis

Missed out on these two!!! Dungeon Keeper was probably one of the all time most fun games of all time for me also.

I am also hoping ARMA2 is something like the fun I got Flashpoint... but we will see.