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

**miokomioko** · 2012-02-06 04:45

I think my old PC game library looked something like:

Day of the Tentacle, King's Quest, Hugo's House of Horrors, Maniac Mansion, Ultima, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig, Space Quest series, Betrayal at Krondor, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Commander Keen, Lemmings, Myst, Eye of the Beholder, Might and Magic, Wing Commander, X-COM, Sim City, Star Control series, Descent, Magic Carpet, Full Throttle, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, and FUCK YOU DRAGON'S LAIR.

If you want to count the Atari 800 as a "PC," I could go on for daaaays. Polar Pierre anyone? Anyone?

For those unfamiliar, GOG.com has a decent little selection of old PC titles made compatible with modern Windows without hassle, a few are free, most about $6~$10. I'm seriously considering rebuying Ultima 6 and 7. Too bad they lumped 6 in with 4 and 5 and put 7 by itself.

**Restrat** · 2012-02-06 09:32

My favorite game was The Colonel's Bequest. Best murder mystery ever!

**Illsathe** · 2012-02-06 16:21

Originally Posted by Restrat

My favorite game was The Colonel's Bequest. Best murder mystery ever!

I enjoyed that game, but it was the first Sierra game that I had to play with a mouse. I could not tell what certain pixels were supposed to represent.

miokomioko, what is it about Ultima 6 and 7 that you enjoyed so much? I know those are highly thought of, but I just could not get into them the way I got into 4 and 5. There was way too much time spent walking around, and this was even with using the Orb of Moons in 6 to teleport around. I'm genuinely curious because I know 7 is held up as the epitome of the series, and I just could not feel that way, even after trying multiple times.

**arshesney** · 2012-02-06 20:50

All of the good 'ole point and click adventures, Ultima series, Dune 2 been posted already.
Two games I really loved and I didn't see mentioned:

Elite (Frontier):

And Wing Commander: Privateer

Edit: Eye of the Beholder series:

**miokomioko** · 2012-02-06 21:17

Originally Posted by Illsathe

miokomioko, what is it about Ultima 6 and 7 that you enjoyed so much? I know those are highly thought of, but I just could not get into them the way I got into 4 and 5. There was way too much time spent walking around, and this was even with using the Orb of Moons in 6 to teleport around. I'm genuinely curious because I know 7 is held up as the epitome of the series, and I just could not feel that way, even after trying multiple times.

Honestly, it's probably just because 6 was the first Ultima I played, so it got that unfair head start with me over the earlier ones. Going back to older installments after I fall in love with the first one I try rarely works out well for me. I know 7 is sometimes looked down upon by the older veterans of the series because it did away with the turn-based system, but I thought it to have such a large amount of depth and detail that I didn't mind. Being able to interact with almost everything in the game, and actually do intricate little activities with them like baking bread (fetching water from the well, pouring flour, mixing in with water, rolling into balls, placing in the oven, pulling them out when they rose, and selling them). It just feels like an isometric elder scrolls type of thing to me. Of course, it all went in the shitter come 8...

**bungiefan** · 2012-02-06 22:09

Originally Posted by Tweek

another one was The Black Cauldron
http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/scre...auldron_01.png
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.z...blackshot1.gif
http://image.dosgamesarchive.com/scr...kcauldron4.gif
http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n12/BlackCauldron.JPG

also props for the mention of Chips Challenge, Descent, Myst

I never did manage to beat that. I could get into the castle and then I got lost. I found it and tried to go through it again and now I can't even get that far. I think I was 6 when I last had access to it though.

**miokomioko** · 2012-02-06 23:13

You need to "throw thermal pod."

http://oughtobe.com/images/icewiz.jpg

**chiyio** · 2012-02-07 12:04

Originally Posted by miokomioko

It just feels like an isometric elder scrolls type of thing to me. Of course, it all went in the shitter come 8...

I always felt like morrowind was the spiritual successor to ultima 7. they both had that same open world feel to them.

**Trichocyst** · 2012-02-07 12:13

I really loved Civilization: Call To Power. I wish the other Civ games would take a cue from them and go far into the future with technology trees.

**Kaylia** · 2012-02-07 13:16

Not the oldest pc game I played, but I would play this again any day.

**idklol** · 2012-02-07 16:28

I think i mustn't be as old as most people posting cause i never played most of the games i've seen so far. From my childhood;

I can't imagine how many hours of my life i must of used playing these 3 games.

**Gokulo** · 2012-02-07 16:31

@Theme Hospital:
http://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/

**Tweek** · 2012-02-07 18:16

Originally Posted by idklol

I think i mustn't be as old as most people posting cause i never played most of the games i've seen so far. From my childhood;

I can't imagine how many hours of my life i must of used playing these 3 games.

we all played C&C and then C&C Red Alert and AoE too (and warcraft for that matter) but these were much later

**Aevis** · 2012-02-08 02:54

vette! i think one of the first racers with a 3d environment, but all i remember is this screen:

arkanoid:

http://bestofthe80s.files.wordpress....8-arkanoid.jpg

this one shouldn't need any introduction:

http://s46.radikal.ru/i114/1004/02/febd274493d9.jpg

the incredible machine:

http://ercancem.files.wordpress.com/...-300.jpg?w=500

another world (out of this world for you NA):

http://www.guiamania.com/wp-content/...er-500x375.jpg

**Cantih** · 2012-02-08 04:55

Originally Posted by Aevis

the incredible machine:

http://ercancem.files.wordpress.com/...-300.jpg?w=500

Oh man, I think I still have the CD for that somewhere.

**Not Kuno** · 2012-02-08 06:45

Old school, eh?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...hima/Hugo2.png
http://www.gadgetgrounds.com/images/...-duke-exit.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fU7LdRkUMV...0/gameplay.png
http://www.acorn-gaming.org.uk/Reviews/HOMM2/hbatt.jpg

And of course... my favorite..

http://img.waffleimages.com/20601274...3d4d2/city.jpg

Over 9000 hours, etc etc.

**Corrderio** · 2012-02-08 11:54

Originally Posted by Aevis

http://www.guiamania.com/wp-content/...er-500x375.jpg

Oh god I remember that game. Keeping shields up during a gun fight got brutal.

**miokomioko** · 2012-02-08 14:21

I loved that game so much, but I had only played the SNES version. I thought the graphic/animation style was pretty damn rad and had never seen anything like it before/since.

**Wulfgang** · 2012-02-08 15:42

Didn't read anything beyond page 1; sincerely hope Worms Armageddon was mentioned somewhere as it remains the best game ever made

**Rhyis.** · 2012-02-08 15:52

Liero>Worms.

Deal with it.

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