The 'Oh, If I can play that game again...' Thread

[Caius]

Well, the query is in the title.

If i can play oldies games, I should play DOS games, like Trog or Harald 'alias the toothpaste fighter'

Whats yours

[econ21]

TinCow mentioned it in the thread on DOS games, but I kind of miss Elite. I played it on a Commodore-64. It was a spaceship combat/trading game. It had very fun combat and an utterly vast galaxy to explore. I got pretty fixated on it. For example, there was function whereby you could press a key to get a view out of the back of your ship and see the blackness of space with lots of white stars shining in it. I played that game so often that once, while I was having a driving lesson, I looked in my rear mirror and saw the black n white space of Elite. (No wonder I crashed on my first driving test!)

Actually, I suspect if I investigated it, I would find you can play it on an emulator or something. And if I tried it, I would probably find it very dull, clunky and limited. Generally speaking modern computer games are SO much better than the old school ones. So it's probably better to keep it as a fond memory than really try to revisit it.

[Bijo]

There's this one DOS game I played as a kid, but it's been so long ago I totally forgot the name. Oh, if I could play that game again...

Furthermore there's the old side-scrolling Duke Nukem, and The Fate of Atlantis.

[x-dANGEr]

Heroes I. (Yea.. Not that old.. But well.. I'll be 15 next week)

[pevergreen]

Warcraft 2.

[Ciaran]

All of the old LucasArts adventures are still worthwhile playing, there´s nothing that can come up to them in their genre.

[Kekvit Irae]

You can play old DOS games. Just use DOSBox. It finally makes Ultima VII and Serpent Isle (much love for both) playable again.

[Husar]

Advanced Tactical Fighters.
The perfect mix of simulation and accessibility for little Husar, and it featured planes I have never been able to fly and use like that since, like the AC130.
I loved that game as a kid, the mission editor was great as well, the only one that comes close is the one from OFP, but it's a lot more complicated(then again, also allows for more things to be implemented).

I'd have to find the CD and hope it still works before I could try it in DOS Box. I'd actually prefer a new version with updated graphics but the same gameplay.

[doc_bean]

Worms, the original, with the old friends I used to play it with. Still wouldn't be the same now that we've lost some of our childish/pubescent/adolescent humour (yes, I played this game for about a decade).

[Arbaces]

Heroes I, and Suppaplex (sp?)

...and Doom II, of course.

[Pannonian]

TinCow mentioned it in the thread on DOS games, but I kind of miss Elite. I played it on a Commodore-64. It was a spaceship combat/trading game. It had very fun combat and an utterly vast galaxy to explore. I got pretty fixated on it. For example, there was function whereby you could press a key to get a view out of the back of your ship and see the blackness of space with lots of white stars shining in it. I played that game so often that once, while I was having a driving lesson, I looked in my rear mirror and saw the black n white space of Elite. (No wonder I crashed on my first driving test!)

Actually, I suspect if I investigated it, I would find you can play it on an emulator or something. And if I tried it, I would probably find it very dull, clunky and limited. Generally speaking modern computer games are SO much better than the old school ones. So it's probably better to keep it as a fond memory than really try to revisit it.

Oolite - Object oriented Elite

Customise to your taste.

[x-dANGEr]

Heroes I, and Suppaplex (sp?)

...and Doom II, of course.

Yeap.. Doom for sure. (I can't remember exactly what version I used to play.. Definately not III though :P )

[TinCow]

Heh... anything I want to play again I do. I've still got every game I've ever owned (that came on CD... the floppy games are long gone). However, if there was one game I could 'forget' and play again for the first time, I would probably be Fallout 2. There was so much depth to that game and so much to explore and do. I have difficulty playing it over though because I know where everything is!

[Kekvit Irae]

What spoiled Fallout 2 for me was the sudden knowledge of knowing that you could go to San Fransisco right off the bat and beeline to Navarre and get the power armor and plasma rifle before you start any quests. After that, the game just didn't have that epic feel to it since I now instinctively require all my newly-made characters to have power armor. However, it's still a great challenge to go through the entire game (even with the power armor) if you go solo with Hand-to-Hand only.

[Geoffrey S]

I'd love to be able to play Tie Fighter again. Although Mac OSX manages with most games, this one it doesn't seem to like even in retro mode.

[Somebody Else]

Another vote for Elite being a fantastic memory. And Fate of Atlantis. And also Centurion, Defender of Rome. Probably a few others too...

[The Foolish Horseman]

i always play the old lucasarts games ( the ones of the scumm engine) by using ScummVM, a pc emulator which plays esacpe from monkey island etc.


Good legal fun

[Quintus Of Pompeii]

This is an old game, never the less, the original die hard on Sega Saturn, that was a truely great game. It was highly addicitive IMO, though it was basic.

-Q

[Whacker]

I'd love to be able to play Tie Fighter again. Although Mac OSX manages with most games, this one it doesn't seem to like even in retro mode.

I was about to swoop to your rescue, but I then I re-read your post and saw the dread "Mac OSX" bit, which made me feel dirty to type.

If you can get access to a 2000/XP machine, you've got two options.

1. Dosbox. It's ok, runs ok, not a bad solution.

2. VDMSound+DOS32A. This worked great for me. You'll need to install VMDSound 2.1.0beta first, I think that's the most recent version. Whatever, just get the most recent version of it. Next you'll need to get this: http://dos32a.narechk.net/index_en.html and "install" it. When I say "install", all you have to do is overwrite the dos4gw.exe in your /TIE or /TIECD dir with the dos32a.exe (rename it to dos4gw.exe). Run with VDMsound and it should work like a charm for you. Also, depending on the system, you may need to run the nolfb.com (Google for it) first, through a batch file so you'll have VESA compatability.

Alpha One, mission critical craft, under attack!

Alpha One, mission critical craft, shields down!

Alpha One, mission critical craft, hull condition critical!

Alpha One, mission critical craft, destroyed!

Abort mission, mission a failure!

[Gregoshi]

I remember Elite on the Commodore 64 fondly. The other game I really liked from back in the golden age was EA's The Seven Cities of Gold. Exploring the ever changing New World was more fun than its blocky pixels belie.

[ShadeHonestus]

I remember Elite on the Commodore 64 fondly. The other game I really liked from back in the golden age was EA's The Seven Cities of Gold. Exploring the ever changing New World was more fun than its blocky pixels belie.

Have to agree with both of those. I would also love to play the original Madden for the Apple II E. They still haven't caught back up with it in terms of designing plays. I remember a group of us crunching performance numbers to outfit rosters, drafting players, etc etc all of our own invention to augment the game which left such things open ended in the code.

[UltraWar]

I have a list of them which are games I wish I could play again but most of them I have reacquired for instance Monkey Island 1/2, Doom/2/Final and Sim City 2000. But the game I wish I could play again was LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon). It was such a great game and I used to play on the web remake of it: http://www.lotgd.net but nevertheless...

[Blodrast]

Doom/Doom 2 run on windoze just fine, even without Dosbox or any additional tweaking. I still play Doom - it's still on my hdd...

Somebody Else: I loved Centurion, too. And it also works on windows, but I think I needed to fiddle around with it for a bit. Last time I played it was about 5 years ago, and it worked, eventually, although I think I wasn't able to turn off the sound or something...

I really liked Dune 1... I kinda sucked at it, and I don't think I ever finished it - I think I always got stuck in the somewhere during the quest.... - I know, pathetic, but, hey, remember, I was a kid, and, besides, I had no experience with that kind of games - it was one of my first ones...

Oh, and I think I played Supaplex on my Spectrum Z80 - cool stuff!

Oh, and doc bean: I've also spent many, many hours playing Worms with my friends - for years, all throughout college, and even afterwards, to some extent. Not for a decade, unfortunately, but you're right, that's one of the best multiplayer games of that kind...
If I may be allowed a bit of shameless nostalgia, sometimes after staying to 1 or 2 hours of a really boring and painful lecture, damn early in the morning, we'd go to one of our friends' place, and we'd play till the evening Sometimes, we'd also gather to his place, everybody claiming it was for "working on that project", but, somehow, the project-related issues were discussed and agreed upon within half an hour, and the rest of 3-4 hours were spent... making each other's worms "sleep with the fishies"

[Beirut]

Falcon 3.

The Godfather of flightsims.

[ShadeHonestus]

I loved Centurion, too.

Oh yes, Centurion, how could I forget that one, the original that is. Also along that time frame does anyone remember The Sword of Aragon?

[screwtype]

Actually, I suspect if I investigated it, I would find you can play it on an emulator or something. And if I tried it, I would probably find it very dull, clunky and limited. Generally speaking modern computer games are SO much better than the old school ones. So it's probably better to keep it as a fond memory than really try to revisit it.

Oh, you might be suprised. Some old games seem very dated when you go back to them, but I find others get me in just the way they did originally.

In fact I'm starting to look seriously into getting into retro gaming, using the various Abandonware sites out there, because quite frankly I'm disappointed with the direction the industry has gone in general and I never seem to be able to find a game anymore that I like. Apart from anything else, so many of them are MP titles these days, or MP oriented, and I don't do MP.

[Subedei]

Defender of the Crown....wait, was that Amiga or PC???? Well, "Pirates!" 4 sure

[screwtype]

Defender of the Crown....wait, was that Amiga or PC????

That was THE big, must have game when the Amiga first came out. I think it was eventually published on the PC as well though.

They sure exploited its name recognition too. I remember my local store selling it for $125, when you couldn't find another Amiga game over about $70.

I bought a copy years later for next to nothing. Couldn't see what all the fuss was about, the gameplay was pretty basic really. I think the graphics were the big attraction - nobody had seen anything like it at the time...

[ShadeHonestus]

Defender of the Crown....wait, was that Amiga or PC????

Oh yes, wasn't that the game that actually had jousting? Haven't seen a game include it since really.

[Caius]

Jazz JackRabbit also.

I remember that game.I want to play it