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.

[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.

[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

[Subedei]

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

Yes, it had jousting, but it was total luck to win in. Well, I only won every once in a while....

As screwtype points out: The one best thing were these graphics....and they really kicked butt. I loved to play it as a kid....

[frogbeastegg]

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

Conqueror 1086AD on the PC had it. Foot combat too, and a strategy map, and a battle map ... Ah, the nostalgia. That was the first strategy game I ever played. I'd love to play it again - then I remember it's a game which would definitely have aged badly. Bad AI, for a start.