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post #1 of 22
9/5/03 at 2:32pm
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1 - The announcement of Ultima: X made me have my father drag out our old Ultima Series discs and crack them out to play. Its like reading a book you haven't read in a really, really, really long time! I enjoyed it (though I admit, I stopped at 5) and it wasn't as hard as it was when I was 12.

2 - Zork/Infocom Games: When I was 10 my dad started bringing these home, and I LOVED them. Never could solve them myself, but I would do anything they came out with - insofar that I'd beg my parents to get me at least one new one a year. Still can't solve Zork without a walkthrough.
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post #2 of 22
9/5/03 at 3:50pm
No one can beat Zork without the hint book. Friggin' maze.

Does anyone remember the game Protector? It was by Synapse. We had it for the Atari 800 (on cassette, no less) but I imagine it probably came out for the Commodore 64 as well. You piloted this little spaceship and had to rescue the inhabitants of a city before an enemy ship scooped them all up and deposited them in a volcano. Once everyone was rescued or sacrificed, the volcano erupted and slowly ate away at the new city where you deposited all the survivors, so you had to rescue them again and dump them in an escape chute.

It was rather involved for a game from 1983. It also had a bitchin' theme song.
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post #3 of 22
9/5/03 at 7:05pm
All the above plus:

Tempest. Cool vector graphic shooter, and I was good at it, so that's probably why I remember it.

Star Wars. We've mentioned it in other threads lately, but again, a great vector graphics shoot 'em up.

Elite. One of my favorite space sims, and the first with any real detail.

Ballblazer. I bet we destroyed more ten-dollar C64 joysticks with this game than any I can think of.

I think I played almost all the old text adventures, and early graphic adventures. I could never get enough.

That's a few just to get the ball rolling.
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post #4 of 22
9/5/03 at 9:24pm
I grew up on LucasArts adventure games on the Amiga. Loved them all. Sam and Max, the Monkey Island games and Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis especially. Playing them all on the Xbox via the ScummVMX emulator reminded me just how great they all were.

I played a lot of the Sierra graphic adventures when I was younger, too. Mostly the Police Quest and King's Quest games, along with a few Leisure Suit Larry games.

It doesn't count as a game I used to love, but I just started playing the original Clock Tower for the Snes. Loving it. Somebody needs to port this to the GBA.
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post #5 of 22
9/5/03 at 10:28pm
X-Com Enemy Unknown I still rate as highly playable, and one from further back but by the same guy that was great little strategy game was Chaos. I'm still trying to track a copy cos my original one went out with ye olde steampowered 486.
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post #6 of 22
9/5/03 at 10:42pm
Sierra's "Police Quest 3: The Kindred". Becuase pulling over a DUI and getting vomited on never gets old.
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post #7 of 22
9/6/03 at 12:26am
Man, those Lucasarts games ruled! Now i need to ask, what is this Xbox Scumm Player and how do i get it? I love my xbox as is, but if there is a way to play Monkey Island, it will become an eternal love.
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post #8 of 22
9/6/03 at 1:01am
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Doyle the half-demon:
Man, those Lucasarts games ruled! Now i need to ask, what is this Xbox Scumm Player and how do i get it? I love my xbox as is, but if there is a way to play Monkey Island, it will become an eternal love.
Your Xbox needs to be modded. It's an emulator for the Scumm engine, so you can play the LucasArts graphic adventure games on the Xbox. There's versions of ScummVM for the PC and Dreamcast as well as some palm PCs, too.

You can get the PC/Dreamcast/PalmPC versions <a href="http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php" target="_blank">here.</a> You might have to hit mIRC or eDonkey for the files for the Xbox version.
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post #9 of 22
9/6/03 at 1:24am
Tron. Still the only game I've ever downloaded an emulator for.

For something a bit more recent, I have an irrational love for Tecmo Super Bowl. It's the only reason I still have my Genesis floating around...
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post #10 of 22
9/6/03 at 1:25am
I was cleaning out my computer stuff today and found this gem, Quests of Camelot I: The Search for the Grail. One of Sierra's first King's Quest-type games. I even have the old map of Europe that came with this thing. I'll have to give this a play.
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post #11 of 22
9/6/03 at 8:27am
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blipper:
...and one from further back but by the same guy that was great little strategy game was Chaos. I'm still trying to track a copy cos my original one went out with ye olde steampowered 486.
All you could possibly want on Julian Gollop's Chaos (the greatest game ever written, no really, it is) can be found <a href="http://www.stutaylor.freeserve.co.uk/ChaosGame/index.htm" target="_blank">here</a> including the game itself for download (it's freeware now).

Gollop's equally fine follow-up, Laser Squad, can be found <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lasersquadclassic/" target="_blank">here.</a>
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post #12 of 22
9/6/03 at 9:48am
Anyone know where I can download some of Infocom's old text-adventures?

I'm particularly thinking of the absolutely BRILLIANT 'Suspended : A Cryogenic Nightmare' which I originally played when I was about 13-14, yet never finished (played on a friend's old TRaSh-80)...Most of you won't understand the joy of beating a game that takes twenty minutes to load via audio-tape, yet it utilised the most advanced graphics card; that has yet to be surpassed to this very day

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....YOUR OWN MIND!!
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post #13 of 22
9/6/03 at 11:30am
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Jim Barg:
Tron. Still the only game I've ever downloaded an emulator for.

For something a bit more recent, I have an irrational love for Tecmo Super Bowl. It's the only reason I still have my Genesis floating around...
I'm currently enjoying ESPN NFL Football for the X-Box, but Tecmo Super Bowl remains my all-time favorite. It's the PERFECT blend of fun vs strategy. Ironically, this is the only game I tend to play on my emulator.
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post #14 of 22
9/6/03 at 11:51am
Ghostbusters for the sega master system has to be a favorite old school game. The music, capturing ghosts, cruising the roads sucking up spooks, and climbing that building to reach zuul.

Going farther back...Nightdriving in the arcades is my earliest memory of driving for the first time. First time I had a depraved sense of joy crashing into the cow and seeing all the car parts fly in the air. Only matched by Outrun, hitting the tunnels and becoming hypnotized then crashing not too long after.

There are way too many games that I loved when I was a stupid punk kid not old enough to go to the local pool hall, but sneaking in after hours with my uncle who owned it was a nice treat.
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post #15 of 22
9/6/03 at 11:56am
Thanks Dan, I didn't know about Laser Squad. The Gollop brothers have enourmous talent, I love their stuff. Chaos truly is one of the greatest games ever, so many games now lack the (simple)playability and addictiveness this game had, I reckon.

An online version would be the greatest thing since gravitic null deflector socks. Oops, they haven't been invented yet.... anyway, it would be good.

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post #16 of 22
9/7/03 at 4:55am
X-COM and Monkey Island remain the two best games ever made. No contest.
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post #17 of 22
9/7/03 at 12:40pm
pirates gold for the PC is just an amazingly addictive game...the one for sega is also good...whens the new one ocming out anyway?

castlevania 1 and 2 for NES

megaman 2

sim sity 2000...i had a population of just over 9,000,000 with archologies,so awesome

street fighter 2 for sega

mario 2 and 3 for NES were played constantly also

dammit,i miss my childhood
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post #18 of 22
9/8/03 at 2:12pm
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Hertz: As of 1999, Activision was offering ALL the Infocom TA's on one disc. However, there is an archive of old and new interactive fiction here:

<a href="http://www.if-legends.org/~yois/" target="_blank">http://www.if-legends.org/~yois/</a> (infocom only)

and

<a href="http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive.html" target="_blank">http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive.html</a>

Highly recommended. HOURS of non-graphical fun!
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post #19 of 22
9/8/03 at 2:20pm
Quote:
mongycore:
Ghostbusters for the sega master system has to be a favorite old school game. The music, capturing ghosts, cruising the roads sucking up spooks, and climbing that building to reach zuul.
Oh, yes. But Zuul can suck it. I've never been able to beat that bitch. I can get Zuul down to one hit left then I get tagged by one of those fucking devil dogs and have to start over. I'm to the point that I have millions of dollars in my account so I don't really have to do any Ghostbusting while the PKE meter fills.
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post #20 of 22
9/8/03 at 2:37pm
ever play <a href="http://screenmania.retrogames.com/c64/02/c64_0039.html" target="_blank">JUMPman</a> for the Commodore 64? Before there was Max Payne, there was Jumpman with real Bullettime action.
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post #21 of 22
9/8/03 at 2:46pm
jungle hunt and q burt
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post #22 of 22
9/8/03 at 2:49pm
Old school KOEI stuff: Romance of the three kingdoms (I've played all versions), Uncharted waters, Lost Horizons, Ghengis Khan II, Aerobiz, Liberty or death, L'Emperor. For quite a while, it seemed like those guys couldn't make a crappy game. Excellent for strategy/history enthusiasts and still hard to get some of the better ones.
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