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MrToilet said:HeeHee, one of my favorite pastimes was to try to get to Oregon in like Late April, Early May- strenuous pace, everyone but me dying from cholera, dysentery, typhoid or my personal favorite, drowning while fording every river....I may have to bust that game out again....Where's my Macintosh or Apple IIGS?!
Some of the games Interplay used to put out were absolutely incredible. Has anyone else here played Wasteland? For those interested, it is the unoffocial prequel to Fallout. (Or rather, Fallout is the unofficial sequel to Wasteland.) Prequel might not be the correct word, since they do not follow the same characters, but the general premise is the same, that being the main character is a wanderer in a post-apolocalyptic world.) The immense size of the game was amazing, and it took many hours just to finish it, and much longer if you explored everything. All of that on a 3.5" disk. (Or maybe two. I cannot remember.) I would love to get my hands on the Interplay Anniversary Collection that came out about ten years ago. It had a lot of classics.heatsinker said:
Boar-Ral said:
Was Under a Killing Moon a continuation of the series with Tex Murphy? I seem to remember that it was. I remember playing Mean Streets, which I think was the first Tex Murphy game, and thinking how awesome it was that they could get limited speech and sound effects from a normal PC Speaker. I believe it was Access Software who created it, along with their Links386 Golf.versello said:
I love your process for deciding what games are good.Torgo said:
It's true!My gaming experience does not go back that far, but I did play an old Star Trek game on my PC where you needed to enter your actions, coordinates, etc. as a series of text-based commands. Good times.AARGH! said:
I looked for my copy of Sydnicate a few weeks ago and was unable to locate it.AARGH! said:
I played that game for hours. One of my favourite weapons was Satellite Rain, where satellites in orbit would fire bolts of tungsten that would melt on re-entry and pulverize whatever they hit. At least I hope we're talking about the same game! I was too young to understand Adventure when I traded something with a friend for the game. I still have it, and might get back to it someday. There was some contest surrounding the game too, if you could create a sentence or word or something based on letters or words found in secret areas in the game. A few weeks ago I found a web site that listed the worst ten games of all time, and Adventure was listed as number one. Oddly, I felt a sense of pride in that.AARGH! said:
I cannot remember the name of the Egyption game. I almost thought Eye of Horus, until I reread and noticed you said it was a text-based game.schoenda said:
I loved Oregon Trail. My mom manages the library at a nearby school and so we got all of the old educational titles from MECC. Recently, dad picked up the PC version of it and has been playing it a lot. I used to have some pretty good strategies, but I cannot remember any of them anymore.Mr. Tinker said:
We were discussing BBS door games at work today, including Legend of the Red Dragon or my favourite, Barren Realms Elite. When I was younger and more ambitious, I rewrote Barren Realms Elite to be more suitable for single player gaming. Somewhere, I still have the disks with the finished product. That is going back a very long time!illumina315 said:
Boar-Ral said:Was Under a Killing Moon a continuation of the series with Tex Murphy? I seem to remember that it was. I remember playing Mean Streets, which I think was the first Tex Murphy game, and thinking how awesome it was that they could get limited speech and sound effects from a normal PC Speaker. I believe it was Access Software who created it, along with their Links386 Golf.
I loved most of Sierra's adventure games and was hooked from a young age. When we first bought a Laser 128EX, an Apple-compatible computer, the first game my parents bought was the original Space Quest, soon followed by Space Quest 2.
Another game that I really loved playing was Out of This World, or Another World, depending on where you bought it. I played that game for days before finally finishing it. I waited for a sequel for years and just recently found out that there as one, but instead of making it for the PC, it was built exclusively for Sega, the Genesis, I think. So now I am off to look for one at pawn shops or Value Village. (An incredible source of old consoles, I've found.)
Glorious FMV directed by the man behind Tex Murphy, with James Earl Jones doing narrations. I was surprised the acting wasn't so bad. Wish I bought Pandora Directive. That link just made my day. Truly.KidzMD said:Yay, more old folk like me
First system was the 2600 and Pac-man. Played it for hours, even though it was just a bad, bad game...
And for those that want to be taken back - a little online Nintendo/Sega goodness
http://www.everyvideogame.com/
Heres to hopingYES YES!!! Just think, if some company made games like that today, and stuffed the box with crap and an over-authored manual and everything else people on this thread are talking about, EVERYONE would buy. That's something that's just waiting to happen.br0k3nman said:
I really wish I owned all of the Tex Murphy games. I played Mean Streets for hours at a time. I thought the transition between areas where you fly your car in 3D was incredible for the time.versello said:Yup, Under A Killing Moon is a continuation of the Tex Murphy series. I believe it's part 2. I never played the first, but Moon came on 4 CD's. 4 freakin' CD's back in '94 was unheard of
I have the official Doom strategy guide at home, still sealed, with the original Doom disks inside. I do not know if it will ever be worth anything, but I'm keeping my hands on it for old times sake.versello said:I threw away most of my old games, but kept classics such as Doom, Doom 2, Duke 3D and Under A Killing Moon.
I read somewhere that blowing on the cartridges or the connectors was supposed to actually promote corrosion and make things worse. I ended up using erasers and rubbing alcohol to clean the cartridges and connectors. I finally bought a replacement connector, and it is made out of a different metal than the original one and is supposed to not cause as many problems. It seems to be doing the trick, as I haven't had to see the power light blink in ages.USMC2Hard4U said:Well I am 20 now... Turning 21 in august. Nostalgic gaming for me is NES. I remember being like 2 or 3 when NES came out and we got one. My Dad used to play it with me. I remember owning at Mario and Megaman 1 and stuff. Good times. But now all those games have been re-released. Thank God I dont have to use my horrible old NES. Its so hard to get games to work now... Gotta blow in em, spit in em, push em down and them put like another game on top of it just to get the damn thing to work.... think of it... you had to do that when it was new too
Super Mario Kart is -why- I bought my Super Nintendo. I was visiting a friend whose parents had just bought him one along with the game. I was 14 and had just started my first job and saved everything to one, along with the game. It was the first time I ever bought something so expensive myself, and I still remember the smell of the packaging.Clownboat said:
(BTW, what if that is not the smell of plastic, but the smell of Japan, Korea, or wherever they make these? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?) I soon bought a Super Scope which I really enjoyed, but wished more games came out for it. I borrowed a friend's SNES mouse and used Mario Paint for ages, my sister and I taking turns drawing the stupidest pictures. Mario Kart took the cake, though. We would race around the simplest hauntest house track for hours, just to shave off a fraction of a second. We had the top 10 times all within about a second of each other. We were so upset when we loaned it to a friend and he erased the times. I think my sister yelled at him more than anyone. I have not played it but I did a quick Google search when I read your post. I found aeggrock said:
What I found incredible about Out of this World is that some points of the game were so difficult and frustrating, but I would keep at it over and over until I made it past it, right into the next area that was even more difficult. Maybe it is just because I am older now, but with newer games, when I get frustrated by a game, I have to walk away or I start cursing. Some games end up being shelved indefinitely because of this.HaMMerHeD said:
I'm trying to rig up something involving vacuumsThomasE66 said:
...The problem with the fridge is it's only big enough to hold cans...I just need to find a beer in a can that I can live with...until then it's the old Mountain Dew...