What Classic Video Games of Old did you Enjoy?

[Rainbow Mage]

I loved several, but since I loved so many, I'll only name a few of the best ones.

1) Earthbound (Mother 2)

2) Tetris Attack

3) Super Mario World

4) Zelda: A Link to the Past

5) Final Fantasy IV

6) Joe & Mac ( I doubt anyone hardly remembers this one)

7) Final Fantasy USA: Mystic Quest

 

[*Anne*]

Pong.

 

[Riverwolf]

Did? I still am a retro gamer. ^_^

But back then, I was primarily a Genesis/N64 gamer who focused on Sonic the Hedgehog (all the Genesis games, including the ones that in retrospect are bad lol), Ecco the Dolphin, Doom, Mortal Kombat, Vectorman, Banjo-Kazooie, Star Fox 64, and Donkey Kong 64.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

Oh my gosh! Sonic! Banjo-Kazooie! Donkey Kong 64! Awesome!

 

[Father Heathen]

Populous. Doom. Zelda. Contra. Super Smash TV. Castlevania. Bomberman. Double Dragon. Custer's Revenge.

 

[ChrisP]

How old does a game have to be before it's "old"?

Pong.

 

[Father Heathen]

How old does a game have to be before it's "old"?

When the graphics fail to impress the kids.

 

[ChrisP]

Oh well... in that case.

Half-life
Counterstrike Beta 5-6 era
Team Fortress Classic
Unreal Tournament
Doom
Doom 2
Quakeworld
Quake 3
Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 original. Netcode was rubbish, laggy as hell.
Kingpin
Heretic
Wolfenstein 3D
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Blake Stone
Rise of the Triads
Wing Commander 4
Civilisation 1&2
Alpha Centauri
Homeworld 2
Masters of Orion series.
Red Alert
Command & Conquer the special forces expansion...
Dune 2
Mortal Kombat 1&2
Wacky Race(r?)s 2 (with the panda and the oil slicks etc. First game played online for me... 1994 14.4k modem direct dialup connection to my mates 9.6k...)
Virtua Fighter 2
Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting
Samurai Showdown
Soul Blade
Tekken 2
Burnout 2
WWF Smack Down


yeah I'll stop there.

EDIT: Forgot Alpha Centauri, Homeworld 2 and Masters of Orion series.
EDIT2: And Wing Commander 4 and Stuntcar for PC with the track builder.
EDIT3: And Rise of the Triads, shrooms and massive rocket spreads made this game gib central.

 

[JMorris]

When the graphics fail to impress the kids.

so games from 5 years ago?

 

[ChrisP]

so games from 5 years ago?

Nah only 90s maybe early 2000s and earlier IMO.

 

[JMorris]

Oh well... in that case.

Half-life
Counterstrike Beta 5-6 era
Team Fortress Classic
Unreal Tournament
Doom
Doom 2
Quakeworld
Quake 3
Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 original. Netcode was rubbish, laggy as hell.
Kingpin
Heretic
Wolfenstein
Blake Stone
Civilisation 1&2
Red Alert
Command & Conquer the special forces expansion...
Dune 2
Mortal Kombat 1&2
Wacky Race(r?)s 2 (with the panda and the oil slicks etc. First game played online for me... 1994 14.4k modem direct dialup connection to my mates 9.6k...)
Virtua Fighter 2
Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting
Samurai Showdown
Soul Blade
Tekken 2
Burnout 2
WWF Smack Down


yeah I'll stop there.

EDIT: Forgot Alpha Centauri, Homeworld 2 and Masters of Orion series.
EDIT2: And Wing Commander 4 and Stuntcar for PC with the track builder.

alot of my same games too.

btw, dune 2, samurai showdown, & the original master of orion can all be downloaded as abandonware

 

[ChrisP]

Cheers bro, I got dune2 a while back. still like playing ordos for a challenge. if your starport craps out your screwed though.

 

[Smoke]

I liked the old arcade games. I spent many an afternoon, many years ago, drinking beer and playing Space Invaders and Asteroids.

Later, I enjoyed Donkey Kong.

But I always liked pinball better than video games.

 

[ChrisP]

Used to play Asteroids and Space invaders on mac. Anyone remember MacLanding?

Found a gif.

 

[Rainbow Mage]

What about the old Donkey Kong Jr., if you want to get really classic? Or the original Mario Bros. where they crate eggs for Bowser?

 

[Father Heathen]

Team Fortress Classic

I LOVED this game back in the day. It's a shame that it died off due to the bunny hop exploit and every server eventually being populated with nothing but bots.

I also loved TF2 until they ruined it with retarded unlocks, and Fortress Forever simply sucked.

 

[Father Heathen]

Here's a link you all might like. It's an NES emulator you can play in your browser: vNES

 

[ChrisP]

I LOVED this game back in the day. It's a shame that it died off due to the bunny hop exploit and every server eventually being populated with nothing but bots.

I also loved TF2 until they ruined it with retarded unlocks, and Fortress Forever simply sucked.

LOL tbh it took off with bunny hopping. Then they removed it after valve took over CS and made a game design change to the engine they both ran off which was to CS's benefit and TFC's detriment.

Public server games were all skill levels though. Clan levle was people conc-jumping from one end of the map to the other, bhopping/speedjumping around corners, pinching the flag the conjumping back again as fast as possible with demos, heavys engies and solly mid-airing you the whole way.

Mayhem. If you want I can link you to some oldschool youtube of this. The skill level got ridiculous about 2004

Yeah TF2 unlocks kinda messed with the balance, but they've got it right again now. Only the engie update to go and it's "coming soon"...

 

[JMorris]

Here's a link you all might like. It's an NES emulator you can play in your browser: vNES

you can find emulators for the nes, snes, genesis, & n64. you can also find roms for most of the games made for these systems. and they're all free.

 

[Father Heathen]

you can find emulators for the nes, snes, genesis, & n64. you can also find roms for most of the games made for these systems. and they're all free.

I used to have an xbox that was mod chipped and had a crapload of emulators and roms on it.