The first "good" old PC games you remember playing.
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Oldest of the lot for being the first really good one, was probably Ultima 6. Ultima 7 P1 & P2 is good as well but 8 was a control nightmare the series started to die off there. Other noteables are Ascendancy, Atrain, BadBlood, Cyber Empires, Darklands, Detroit, Dune 1&2, Lemmings, Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Oregon Trail, Savage Empire, Star Control 2(Now Open source Ur-Quan Masters), TIM 2 (already mentioned), Warlords any of them (Pain in the ass to control but fun), and Xenocide because I used to play that on a friends machine. I'm sure there are others but thats all I can think of right now.
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You have to register and download the GOG platform thing to play it from as far as i remember but it's freaking FREE and how can you complain! It works fine as well.
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Yay. My friend's dad still has his set up in his basement, and when our families occasionally get together when everyone's in town, we'll go down there and fire up Repton or Jetpac.seditary said:
As for myself, I'm sure I'm not thinking of half the stuff I should remember, but what does come to mind is Zork and Rogue.
Wow. I did not expect to be ninja'd on Rogue, of all things.Josufu said:
Damn, beaten to what I was gonna say. Rollercoaster Tycoon is so addicting. I haven't played RT3 but I hear that the first one is still better.JWRosser said:
Besides Doom, which was basically the first PC game I -ever- got to play, Gateway 2: Homeworld would have to be my pick. I really enjoyed it, because of how different it seemed to be, to me, from Doom and of course the console games I had previously played. I wouldn't mind playing it again, now .
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When I was young I had a ton of the old (good) lego games: Racers, Island, Chess, Alpha Team... oh, and Quake, had that, too.
The very first game I can remember was an implementation of Nim on a Microbee computer. It's a simple-enough game and I taught it to some of my fellow classmates in secondary school. We'd play it on paper whenever the maths teacher was late to class.
Games which were actually more along the lines of what one would think upon hearing the word "game" would include Captain Comic (hard as hell, that one), Scorched Earth (with edited tank talk files to add new lines), Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Jill Of The Jungle, Wolfenstien 3D, Major Stryker, Crystal Caves, One Must Fall, Jazz Jackrabbit, Tyrian. Hell, pretty-much everything put out by Apogee, Epic, and ID.
Games which were actually more along the lines of what one would think upon hearing the word "game" would include Captain Comic (hard as hell, that one), Scorched Earth (with edited tank talk files to add new lines), Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Jill Of The Jungle, Wolfenstien 3D, Major Stryker, Crystal Caves, One Must Fall, Jazz Jackrabbit, Tyrian. Hell, pretty-much everything put out by Apogee, Epic, and ID.
On my first computer? Impossible Mission for the C64.On my first PC? Doom.
(Don't think I need to embed a video for THAT one.)
Half-life
I first played it in 2003 in a tech-class. People from one side of the room would complain that there is a lame game that involves some scientist running around a few rooms. I saw some guy playing it (at around the point where Gordon reaches the locker room) and asked if I could try it out.
The design of the areas told me that there is way more to the game that just walking around especially if they make it looked that detailed. After equipping the HEV suit and running the test chamber, I was convinced that whatever I was playing was way deeper and utterly intriguing. Every day in that class I would make sure I finished the daily assignment early and eventually took over that computer as part of the assigned seating arrangement. As I slowly progressed through the game, then a newb at PC controls, I somehow managed to gather a crowd. My dad handed down his old windows 98 since he was primarily using his newer custom PC and by the end of the semester I had finally reached Xen both at school and at home (will always remember finding Half-life Platinum Collection at best buy). I beat the game over and over and over as well as the expansions which led me to some good ole' mods like brainbread, svencoop, and natural selection.
Epilogue: Needless to say when I beat it I looked around for related news and was elated to hear a sequel would be coming out within a year. By a little after it's release, I saved almost 1k and as well as working a little just so I could run a custom built PC designed around half-life 2's recommended hardware settings. Also needless to say, I've been following Valve's actions ever since.
I first played it in 2003 in a tech-class. People from one side of the room would complain that there is a lame game that involves some scientist running around a few rooms. I saw some guy playing it (at around the point where Gordon reaches the locker room) and asked if I could try it out.
The design of the areas told me that there is way more to the game that just walking around especially if they make it looked that detailed. After equipping the HEV suit and running the test chamber, I was convinced that whatever I was playing was way deeper and utterly intriguing. Every day in that class I would make sure I finished the daily assignment early and eventually took over that computer as part of the assigned seating arrangement. As I slowly progressed through the game, then a newb at PC controls, I somehow managed to gather a crowd. My dad handed down his old windows 98 since he was primarily using his newer custom PC and by the end of the semester I had finally reached Xen both at school and at home (will always remember finding Half-life Platinum Collection at best buy). I beat the game over and over and over as well as the expansions which led me to some good ole' mods like brainbread, svencoop, and natural selection.
Epilogue: Needless to say when I beat it I looked around for related news and was elated to hear a sequel would be coming out within a year. By a little after it's release, I saved almost 1k and as well as working a little just so I could run a custom built PC designed around half-life 2's recommended hardware settings. Also needless to say, I've been following Valve's actions ever since.
Questron for the Commodore 64 was the first real classic that I owned and played to death with my brothers
although I do remember playing choplifter on the school's Apple II's (how's that for old!)
although I do remember playing choplifter on the school's Apple II's (how's that for old!)
OMG I played halflife 1 and my computer crashed losing all my save files and I was so close to the end. I couldn't play halflife after that. =(