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Discuss all classic games (lets say 2002 and before) here.
Like Doom. Everyone should play more Doom.

yeah,
I wasted a whole afternoon last week, when i picked up doom for the snes.
I remember the first time i had this game and the thrill the bass lines on the start screen gave me!
Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom, Doom.....

Although mentioning the snes I have to also mention MarioKart... the great stealer of a childhood summer!

PAniC...

Unreal Tournament was, and still is awesome.

Fallout and it's sequel, too.

Golden Axe 2. That had some metal tunes. Light years ahead of its time; it sounds like a Nile demo on your sisters crappy keyboard.

After being used to playing Doom on the PC, I can't stand playing it on the SNES. I do love SNES though, with classics like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III.

Speaking of those two, which one do you guys prefer, and why? Chrono Trigger, or Final Fantasy?

I also loved Final Fantasy VII.

The game that I cut my teeth on and got me into PC gaming though? Wolfensten 3-D! Oh yeah!

Star Wars: Dark Forces was just the icing on the cake after that.

To me, Final Fantasy VII is still the best part of the series and on of the best RPGs overall for it's fantastic storyline and great characters. Except Cait Sith.


I love every Mario and Zelda title except the very early ones. There still good, but don't pull me in like the others.

On the N64, Banjo-Kazzoie and it's sequel were among my favourites. As was Conker's Bad Fur Day.

I didn't own a console. Had to use my friend's. My PC was OK though... I had such good times on Duke Nukem 3D.

marathon, durandal, and Infinity were great games. came out like, 1996? 1998? something like that. soooo much fun. Laid the foundation for Halo

Mechwarrior. Four-on-four fragfest, with a pair of massive home stereo speaker setups. We did it three times, then the guy whose apartment we did it at got kicked out for untold numbers of noise complaints. One of the many reasons why now I am contemplating a hearing aid.

I played the crap out of that Master of Magic game. It was buggy as heck in the
pre-patch age, but it was a great game that lead to lesser games such as Age of
Wonders and the good-for-a-lark Heroes of Might and Magic games.

malfred wrote:I played the crap out of that Master of Magic game. It was buggy as heck in the
pre-patch age, but it was a great game that lead to lesser games such as Age of
Wonders and the good-for-a-lark Heroes of Might and Magic games.

Don't even get me started on Masters of Magic! No fantasy strategy game has even come close to it. I played that game obsessively before all the patches, and even moreso after. The other two you mentioned are part of what drove me away from video games. Now I wait with baited breath for Diablo III

thekyle1231 wrote:marathon, durandal, and Infinity were great games. came out like, 1996? 1998? something like that. soooo much fun. Laid the foundation for Halo

Halo?

They must have been terrible games.

It's very, very sad... the amount of time I've spent actually LANning Heroes of Might and Magic 3. You can play four games at once, you know.

Back when I was very small I used to enjoy a game of Digger:

(see digger.org for a modern remake)

I'm so shocked that no-one has mentioned the original Fallout, my copy of WAR seems to now hate my computer and rendered it unplayable and well i found Fallout and couldnt resist just another play through before Fallout 3 comes out, in fact what about any of the great interplay era of RPGs like Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment etc?

All the black isle games were great, they really reinvented the CRPG in my opinion, by utilitzing great graphics for the period with interesting story lines and good gameplay.

When I hear classic games ( at least as far as the PC is concerned ), I'm thinking the Ultima series, the Wizardry series, and adventure games like Kings Quest and Space Quest.

Thank you for playing Space Quest IV...you've been a real pantload.

legoburner wrote:Back when I was very small I used to enjoy a game of Digger:

(see digger.org for a modern remake)

Oh man, I used to play Digger when I was real little too, on a friend's computer!

So it's from '83, eh? I never knew that. I wasn't born until '86.....

Keith Courage in the Alpha Zones.....

Too bad I can't find a TurboGrafX anywhere....

malfred wrote:I played the crap out of that Master of Magic game.

Certainly one of the best games of all time. I loved that game. Heck, I still have the 3.5" floppies for my copy and the instruction (and spell book) manual. I had it set up to run on windows 98 for a while there, but I've never been able to get it to run on a more modern operating system. Now that you got me thinking about it, maybe I'll look into DOS box and see if I can get it going with that.

In other Microprose news, Master of Orion 2 is still my favorite game of all time. Never before or since has an empire building game been so good. It worked like a standard turn based empire building game (think Civilization). The differences are that you have the ability to create your own alien race (or at least pick out their abilities and weaknesses). That customization really changes how you play your empire. The other revolutionary thing that I've never seen anyone use since (and I don't know why) is a non linear tech tree. When you researched new technology, there were several school you could research and each school had levels and each level had several different technologies you could chose. Once you researched a technology from that level, you moved on to the next level of that school. For example, construction was one of the schools. In level 1 construction you could learn the technology for fighter bays, heavy ship hulls, or anti missile rockets. Once you researched one of those 3, you moved on to level 2 construction and you couldn't go back to research the other two that you didn't get. The only ways to get the stuff you passed up was to trade for it with an alien race that did get it, steal it from them, or capture it when you take over their ships or colonies. It made research a series of very important choices because at every level you were passing things up that you couldn't count on getting later on. It also had tactical turn based combat that allowed you to really use tactics in your fights if you wanted to (or you could hit the auto button).

The other game that is certainly worth brining up is X-Com. The first game was one of the best games of all time (up on my top 10 list for sure...maybe in the top 5).

I miss the old Lucas Art's Adventure games.

Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle .... all fantastic. They REALLY don't make games like those anymore.

To this day my now 12 year old copy of Sierra's Lords of the Realm 2 remains one of my favorite games. (I dunno if it'll run on Vista, though).

Console-wise, Duck Hunt never gets old (still have a working NES!). Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the few console games I have that I pop in periodically.

My brother and I are big MoM fans.

I played MoO to death but never actually got into MoO2 I don't think.

I always seem like the only one who got into SSI AD&D games. Did others find them too easy? Might and Magic et al were too boring for me, story-wise, and the combat was fun.

XCOM is definitely worth mentioning. In fact, they have all the XCOM games ( Including enforcer and interceptor, for what its worth) Availible on Steam.

MOO was also a big one for me.

I've had a lot of luck getting DOS games to work with DOSBox. You'll have to fiddle around with it a bit, but I have gotten Ultima Underworld to function more or less perfectly with it, which I really thought I would not be able to do. I'm going to try Ultima 7 eventually, though that might be really tricky as it used its own expanded memory manager. Apparently lots of people have gotten it to work though.

As far as consoles, does anyone recall a NES game called River City Ransom? In my opinion it might be the best side scrolling fighting game I've ever played.

Lucasarts made an interesting RTS called 'Afterlife,' where you had a Simcity of heaven and hell, and micromanaged the souls of the local planet's departed.

Do they have Master of Magic somewhere that I can buy that'll make it run on Vista?

Predating 2002 is classic?

Dungeon Master is probably my all-time favourite game. Played that to death... deeply involving. Pity about Dungeon Master II....

I was a big fan of Wizball. And Skool Daze. And Blood Money.

Grignard wrote:As far as consoles, does anyone recall a NES game called River City Ransom? In my opinion it might be the best side scrolling fighting game I've ever played.

Ahhh River City Ransom. Played that game to death. Nothing like machine gun kicking people to within an inch of their life, finishing them off with a metal pipe and then strolling over to the mall for a strength boosting burger. Good times.

malfred wrote:Do they have Master of Magic somewhere that I can buy that'll make it run on Vista?

Not sure if its still up and running, but Game Tap was an online service that had tons of old school (and some new school) games on it. You subscribed with a monthly fee and got to play the games. They even updated the code for them so that they would run on modern computers and operating systems. They had XCom, the Kings Quest games, and a whole slew of old arcade games.

I love playing a game called Panzer Generals.
Based in WW2 you can play scenarios or campaign, German, British, US, Russian.
Division level, hex based play.

The germans are a piece of cake early on but when you invade US or Uk it gets very hard (I've never successfull won London), I think primarily because in order to get to the UK you have to smash Russia in quick order. Also you never have enough air support as the germans.


Later tanks can fire 2 hexes, and some can fire twice. You leave a unit in place and it 'digs in', terrain also gives fortified bonused.

The US is a breeze to win with as you just go Artillery heavy with screens of decent tanks. The artillery hammer the portification points out of the enemy and the tanks clean up.


I like the 'take over the world' type games, however I tend to get bogged down later on in the games as you have to manage so much.

Panzer General 2 was PC Gamer's Greatest Life Experience Evah for a while back in the late 90's but I never really got into it.

There is a freeware multiplayer support for Master of Magic around somewhere.

They aught to bring Commander Keen and X-Com back.

You can play X-com now and even buy it on Steam. I started it and have about
80+ soldiers. A main squad and various garrison squads in my bases.