Really old PC games (warning, there may be nostalgia involved)

[dannyl]

The first game I ever played...Prince of persia.

http://ridwankhodabux.files.wordpres...ersia_1989.jpg

hell ya! oldie but goodie.

I have a RTS game that I loved back in the day. Not that old, around 1997 but had me hooked for some time:

Dark Colony:
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[Corrderio]

Chips Challenge - Best retro puzzle game ever.

Maniac Mansion - I prefer the NES version for the music, but still a classic.

Day of the Tentacle - I'll neger forget the part where Haogie was "surfing" through time.

Oregon Trail - Windows version was pure awesome, though hunting wasn't as fun compared to the Apple version.

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (1996 Version) - Great revision. Loved having to keep track of the culprit's description, QuckTime movies of Lynne Thigpen briefing you, and the cartoonish animation. Only thing it was missing was Rockapella.

[Obiron]

King's Quest series (all of them, but 6 was my favorite)
Might and Magic III (never played any others, but I loved this game!)
Torin's Passage
Castles (I was great at this game as a kid, but I tried to play on an emulator a couple years back and I couldn't win a single battle!)
Betrayal at Krondor (big fan of Raymond Feist, who was my first fantasy author)

[bungiefan]

I remember the look of a bunch on my Apple ][, but I can't remember the names of many.

Lady Tut
Sea Dragon
Number Munchers
Sneakers
Space Egg
Phoenix
Galaxian and Super Galaxian
BattleTech (couldn't beat it because I couldn't solve the last room puzzle)

I also remember an old DOS game I can't find a copy of, Montezuma's Revenge, that I'd like to try emulating.

Good Old Games has some of the titles you guys have mentioned. I couldn't figure out Castles on DOS from them though, but I remember playing the Mac version in junior high.

For something slightly newer, Descent 1 and 2. http://www.descent2.de/d2x.html They've been updated with non-IPX online play and some extra features.

There's also the Marathon Trilogy via AlephOne. http://source.bungie.org/ http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/

[tol]

oh my god you just dropped a huge nostalgia bomb with stunts..... i had completely forgotten about that game. used to play the shit out of it ffffffffuuuuu

[Penthesilea]

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[Insanecyclone]

[Aevis]

oh wow, torin's passage and the neverhood. totally forgot about those.

plenty of afternoons were devoted to dying in dragon's lair:

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i also spent way too much time with wing commander:

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[Alvein]

http://www.mos6502.com/friday-commod...dungeon-siege/
Halls of Death. Even remember having to save games to a tape deck.
Such a good game though, Had all the RPG elements even in 1983.
http://www.mos6502.com/wp-content/up...1/08/hod_2.jpg

[Reality]

Virtual Pool, what what what

[Yuri-G]

fucking Wing Commander. loved that as a kid, even though I was terrible at it.

Might and Magic III, hell yes. also IV and V. I gave VII a try (I think it was VII? it's the first real-time game in the series) but I couldn't dig the switch from turn-based combat.

I need to download those again... thankfully, gog.com is cool about that sort of thing.

[Gokulo]

<3
I think this was the first real RPG I played:

[Cesaria]

I'd love to see a remake of the 7th Guest to join the puzzle stuff that seems to cluster on the Nintendo DS.

Original Civ was probably the first PC game I got seriously hooked into.

[Myrrh_Quetz]

Age of wonders was one of my favorite games.

Also, redneck rampage

[miokomioko]

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http://www.myabandonware.com/media/c...ntrol-ii_8.gif

best game? best game.

[Illsathe]

can't believe no one mentioned Master of Magic

I did pick up MoM from GoG's winter sale. It...hasn't quite held up like I remember. Still a lot of fun, but I have to wonder if I really did spend that much time just hitting "Next turn" while waiting to cast spells/build troops/etc.

I want to say that I ended up playing Dungeons of Daggorath on my father's TRS-80 via a cassette tape, but I honestly don't remember whether it was called that or not. I think it looked like that.

[Saga]

Twinsen's Odyssey. Fuck everything else.

[synistar]

Oh damn, also forgot about 2 games that stole my life forever way back.

Simcity... and their method of DRM back before interwebs was widespread (derp AoL HAHAHA) was with a flimsy paper where you had to either identify a city or a population based on a 3 square patterned code, or else it would spam you with disasters from the moment you hit play! Course SC2k was an awesome follow-up. ABUSE THEM HYDRO PLANTS!

Alpha Centauri... Sure it was the sequel to Civ 2 so it isn't as ancient as other games, but it ate just as much time away.

[Grey Jorildyn]

ultima series
spacequest series
krondor series
wing commander(!)

[solracht]

Twinsen's Odyssey. Fuck everything else.

This, the main theme still melts my heart.





Also: Myst, The Dig, Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Prisoner of ice, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones.