Old Video Games

[No*s]

Anybody have some great old ones they want to revisit. I'm getting Lords of the Realm II from the Underdogs ATM, and I'm looking forward to a mindless night of controlling midnless soldiers to conquer the world.

So what would everyone else's poison in the old games department be?

 

[Bastet]

Well, this is a little embarassing to admit, but I got an Apple II emulator so I could play the old games I used to play in school (primary school-mid high school). Text adventures like Transylvania, Secret Agent, Sherwood Forest... I've been unable to find the very first Apple II game I ever played - Raft Away River. *sigh* It's been fun revisiting, though.

 

[Mike182]

So what would everyone else's poison in the old games department be?

TETRIS!! de diddle-de diddle-de diddle-de diddle-de-de-de-de-de :faint:

 

[Crystallas]

New games arent as good as old games. I play a new game for a few hours....then Im bored with it. To much commercialism now. Games used to be GAMES, now they're Video Entertainment.

I guess straining the brain for fresh ideas just comes out with more crap based on old games? And the games that truelly revolutionize get so much bad rap from parents that really give a crap about their kids(sence the sarcasm.)


Yeah, I dont know how long I can go without emulation. I find myself playing more MDA gameboy games than anything.

 

[BucephalusBB]

New games arent as good as old games. I play a new game for a few hours....then Im bored with it. To much commercialism now. Games used to be GAMES, now they're Video Entertainment.

I guess straining the brain for fresh ideas just comes out with more crap based on old games? And the games that truelly revolutionize get so much bad rap from parents that really give a crap about their kids(sence the sarcasm.)


Yeah, I dont know how long I can go without emulation. I find myself playing more MDA gameboy games than anything.

Just like with the music is dying-thread..
Back in the days....:ignore:

This is like most people have with their own past. Most older people will say that their games were better, most young people will say the new games are. And then there are also some new people loving retro and old people loving technology..

In the end it's all preference. mine goes to older games as well though..

 

[d.]

nearly anything that came out for c64 and amiga...

some favourites : bubble bobble, the monkey island series (and anything similar from lucasarts), bombjack, ghosts 'n' goblins, eye of the beholder, rick dangerous...the list could go on and on.

 

[YmirGF]

I recall getting hooked on adventure games on my Tandy TRS-80.
Draconian (a primitive space shootem up with pretty good graphics)
Zaxxon (if it moves... shoot it)
Missile command (very primitive, but fairly challenging at higher levels)


When I got my first Atari ST, I got into a proggie called Dungeon Master & its companion Chaos strikes back. There was another highly addictive one called Rogue. (almost ASCII graphics in a grid maze. That one was very hard.)

And... who can forget Lemmings. *shiver*

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Anybody have some great old ones they want to revisit. I'm getting Lords of the Realm II from the Underdogs ATM, and I'm looking forward to a mindless night of controlling midnless soldiers to conquer the world.

So what would everyone else's poison in the old games department be?

Neo-BomberMan

Halo 2 :biglaugh:

 

[Pussyfoot Mouse]

Well I hate to admit it but I love 'Donkey Kong'. :jam:

 

[michel]

Anybody have some great old ones they want to revisit. I'm getting Lords of the Realm II from the Underdogs ATM, and I'm looking forward to a mindless night of controlling midnless soldiers to conquer the world.

So what would everyone else's poison in the old games department be?

One I am sure exists no longer. In a local pub here, we had tables, with screens built in, where you could play 'Galaxians'. It was basic, but at least it was so bad, I had a chance against it!:biglaugh:

 

[jeffrey]

Well I hate to admit it but I love 'Donkey Kong'. :jam:

Used to be one of my favorites too, along with Tron. Could play Tron for almost an hour on 1 quarter!

 

[BucephalusBB]

Riverraid..

 

[Ori]

The original Super Mario is still a complete bugger to finish.

 

[Ðanisty]

This is probably way too obscure for you guys, but when I was little, we had an Intellivision and my favorite game was The Dreadnaught Factor.

 

[Smoke]

Donkey Kong! I used to go to the arcade and play it for hours.

Except for Donkey Kong, I always preferred pinball to video games.

 

[Smoke]

This is like most people have with their own past. Most older people will say that their games were better, most young people will say the new games are. And then there are also some new people loving retro and old people loving technology..

In the end it's all preference. mine goes to older games as well though..

I have friends my age who are addicted to the newer video games. What I don't like about them is, they just seem to go on and on forever. I like a game that ends in an hour or so.

 

[Aqualung]

I always loved Commander Keene 4. We also had some pretty awesome educational games, like a geography game and a math game. We had a non-tetris, 3D tetris-like game, too. That Q-Basic gorrilas game was fun. That's all I can think of at the moment, though I know there were more.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I remember games growing up, mainly from the NES and SNES. They had to actually have a good story line and game-play to be good. It saddens me to see how games that just aren't fun, but have incredible graphics and sounds, sell good and win awards. For me, Halo: Combat Evolved, was really Halo: Combat DEevolved. I still prefer the old N64 shooters over any shooters made today. I also think the Megaman games are still fun. And then there is the very first Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Mario, Metriod, Castlevania, and other games that have a ton of prequals and sequals. My favorite games came from the SNES and Playstion. Quite simply put, those systems have the best RPGs ever made, IMO.

 

[No*s]

Looks like we got a few retro-gaming lovers . For my part, I like my games old. I like them new, but the old ones have a special place in my heart just because they were my first games.

Anybody else here like the older RPGs such as Dragon Warrior, Nethack, and the like? (I didn't get many PC RPGs in the day...but I'm making up for it lol).

Neo-BomberMan

Halo 2 :biglaugh:

While Halo 2 isn't old, I would dare say that the most fun part of Neo-Bomberman was helping you bite the bullet .

 

[Jaymes]

Harvest Moon (I still play it from time to time!), Pokemon (the first few, not all the new Gold and Emerald stuff), Ocarina of Time, Monster Rancher, Chrono Cross... good times.