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What were your favorite *classic* PC games of all time? Cutoff points are: no 3D accel games, no Win9x or newer games Rate Topic: -----

#1 User is offline   Jaqie Fox 

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  Posted 02 December 2006 - 07:30 PM

I thought this might be fun.
Please post links where available, or describe the game... if it is one that others may not know about.


My favorite PC games (before 3D acceleration and before win9x) are:
Cyber Empires http://www.abandonia...06/CyberEmpires
Doom
Acid Tetris http://www.acid-play...ad/acid-tetris/
Raptor: Call of the Shadows http://www.3drealms.com/raptor/
XCOM: UFO Defense http://www.xcomufo.com/
Quake 1
Scorched Earth http://en.wikipedia....(computer_game)
Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Kee...bye_Galaxy.21
So what are your favorite classic PC games? B)

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Posted 02 December 2006 - 11:12 PM

I had other games too - including some I remember enjoying - but I only listed the ones I would recommend.

Wolfenstein 3D - http://en.wikipedia..../Wolfenstein_3D
Tyrian - http://en.wikipedia....omputer_game%29
Duke Nukem - http://en.wikipedia....omputer_game%29
Raptor: Call of the Shadows - http://en.wikipedia...._of_the_Shadows
688 Attack Sub - http://en.wikipedia..../688_Attack_Sub
Jazz Jackrabbit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabb...omputer_game%29
Descent - http://en.wikipedia....omputer_game%29
Battle Chess - http://en.wikipedia....ki/Battle_Chess
Lemmings - http://en.wikipedia....28video_game%29
Commander Keen series - http://en.wikipedia....der_Keen_series

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Posted 02 December 2006 - 11:29 PM

Nice lineup! I never played descent, but I played terminal velocity. I actually got Descent3 from a vidcard purchase long ago but never tried it.
Which duke nukem was your favorite? I loved 2 but 3D was a bit...nasty at times. (can you imagine a woman playing that game? I did and liked...most of it, just parts made me wanna hurl.)

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Posted 03 December 2006 - 01:48 AM

hey jaqie it's nice topic :)

did you remembar maruo that man who Fights to get the woman :thumbup

but I wanna ask you about volleball game , I search about it before but I couldn't found.. :huh:

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Posted 03 December 2006 - 09:01 AM

I think I know what you are talking about. I saw it in passing once on a client's system way back when DOS was king. It was named "summer games" or something similar.

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Posted 03 December 2006 - 03:09 PM

OMG... Scorched Earth... I remember wasting countless hours on that game!! Hah, I must fine a download of it and play it again, lol. But yes, nice lineup and a nice topic! :thumbup

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Posted 03 December 2006 - 03:37 PM

Ringfinger: google scorched3d. modern graphics version. After you play it you don't want the original scorched earth anymore (*GASP!*) ;)

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Posted 03 December 2006 - 05:25 PM

View Postjaqie, on Dec 3 2006, 03:30 AM, said:

Doom
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
XCOM: UFO Defense

That's what I call games !!!.
For me... Civ1, Sim city 4, GTA 1, LBA, C&C... wait, I've already mentionned these in an other thread !!! :P

Ok then...for the real oldies:
Wacky wheels http://en.wikipedia....ki/Wacky_wheels
Jagged Alliance 1 http://en.wikipedia....Jagged_Alliance
Sam and Max Hit the Road http://en.wikipedia....ax_Hit_the_Road (and other Lucas art but the list would be long)
Quatantine http://en.wikipedia....tine_%28game%29
The incredible machine http://en.wikipedia....redible_Machine

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 11:19 AM

Nearly all LucasArts games! Starting from MI1:

Monkey Island 1
Monkey Island 2
Monkey Island 3
Full Throttle
Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis
The Dig
Sam & Max Hit the Road

One exception: Zak McKracken and The Alien Mindbenders

Now for some non-LucasArts game... MicroProse games!

XCOM: Ufo Defense
F-15 Strike Eagle II
F-15 Strike Eagle III
RailRoad Tycoon Deluxe
Red Storm Rising
F-19 Stealth Fighter
F-117 Stealth Fighter
Colonization

Other than those... uhhh, I'm hard-pressed to remember...

What about those actually-old games that are runnable using ScummVM? A lot of them I discovered in WinXP days after I found ScummVM...

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 12:23 PM

Original Tetris, and welltris, I think I developed carpal tunnel playing Tetris.

Dune
Dune II
Castles II

Actually haven't played many since. My hardware budget couldn't keep up with the gaming requirements.

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 12:44 PM

I liked this games ling time ago
The monky island game.
Hybris
turican
gods
raid over moscow (a 64c game)
Mortal combat
did dug
lands of lore 1
Lost eden

and many more :P
I did play these in win 98 ore and on c64 and a amiga 500.
later i did emulate the old games :thumbup

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 01:05 PM

Yeah, for emulation I tend to use DosBOX. it's free and works well.

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 02:27 PM

Transport Tycoon
Syndicate
Warcraft 2
Worms
Death Rally
Big Red Racing
C&C-series
Dune 2
Sim City 2000
Lemmings
Liero
Molez
Doom

I cannot remember more at the moment...

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Posted 04 December 2006 - 03:04 PM

View Postjaqie, on Dec 5 2006, 02:05 AM, said:

Yeah, for emulation I tend to use DosBOX. it's free and works well.
DOSbox runs all my MicroProse games real well. Even got Roland MT-32 emulation (after copying the MT-32 ROM files). But for LucasArts games (plus some others), better to run using ScummVM.

Hey, ScummVM's site will even point you to a free SCUMM-based game!

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Posted 05 December 2006 - 11:49 AM

Hi All,

Just adding my two cents worth:

Crusader: No Remorse - Wikipedia - Crusader: No Remorse I spent a lot of time getting this one working in DOS....

Ultima VI: The False Prophet - Wikipedia - Ultima VI: The False Prophet Made good use of my new Adlib card...

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Posted 05 December 2006 - 12:24 PM

Mario
DAVE

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Posted 05 December 2006 - 12:37 PM

View PostFodder, on Dec 5 2006, 12:49 PM, said:

Ultima VI: The False Prophet - Wikipedia - Ultima VI: The False Prophet Made good use of my new Adlib card...

You may not believe this, but I actually have and AdLib card sitting around right now...
I remember playing wolfenstein 3D with it, what a riot!

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Posted 05 December 2006 - 04:53 PM

View PostFodder, on Dec 5 2006, 07:49 PM, said:

Crusader: No Remorse - [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader:_No_Remorse]Wikipedia - Crusader: No

Yes !!! I remember that. It had really cool long cinematic sequences. Indeed, that game was almost a film !

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Posted 05 December 2006 - 05:13 PM

way back windows 3.11, i guess that would be the original Taipei by David Norris © 1988, 1989, 1990 :thumbup

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Posted 06 December 2006 - 12:57 AM

OMG THERE ARE TOO MANY TO SAY... *cries* Where has all my time gone... Oh yeah thats right, pretty much playing all those games :P

But right above every single list, you have to include Sierra... All those *Quest games...

But especially Police Quest 2... I still play it over and over and over :)

I want games like that to come out still... There are too many FPS games out :(

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