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HVdynamo wrote :

Descent 1
Descent 2 Probably my favorite of the 3
Descent 3
Descent:Freespace
Descent:Freespace 2 (I liked the Descent series if you can't tell)
Starcraft
Half-Life

Those were the games that took most of my time back in the day, mostly Descent 1 and 2. I remember how badass I felt when I learned to TriChord in Descent 2, and playing with my friend over Direct Dialup. Those were the days.

So, you like Descent then, I would have never have guessed...

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Swiv 3D hands down, rocked my world for a good two years before the 'Commando's' series came out .

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HVdynamo wrote :

Descent 1
Descent 2 Probably my favorite of the 3
Descent 3
Descent:Freespace
Descent:Freespace 2 (I liked the Descent series if you can't tell)
Starcraft
Half-Life

Those were the games that took most of my time back in the day, mostly Descent 1 and 2. I remember how badass I felt when I learned to TriChord in Descent 2, and playing with my friend over Direct Dialup. Those were the days.

Half-Life and Starcraft aren't old school. You have to at least go back to the DOS 5.0 days, not Windows 95.

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AVP
AVP2
Total Annihilation + Expansion Pack
Zork Series
Commander Keen
Catacomb the Abyss
Day of Defeat
Original Counter Strike
Half Life
Diablo
Diablo II
Fallout series
Star Wars Dark Forces FTW

I will prolly think of some more later lol

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BigMac wrote :

You can find posts along this line in many currently ongoing threads.

Deus Ex, need I say more?

agreed very good story Love jc well paul that sucked. 10 stars in my books the story just grabs ya right in the game

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I have a few more to add to my list,

Total Annialation (don't know how I missed that)
and
the Monkey Island games

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Any one mention

Wing Commander Series
Strike Commander
Leisure Suit Larry
Bio Forge
System Shock
Crusader
Dune

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Fallout
Fallout 2
Planescape Torment
System Shock 2
Half-Life
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Grim Fandango
Baldurs Gate
Quake 3
Soldier Of Fortune II Double Helix

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i_hate_flying wrote :

Half-Life and Starcraft aren't old school. You have to at least go back to the DOS 5.0 days, not Windows 95.

Personally, I feel the demarcation point is whether it came out on CD. Most of the titles listed here are anything but old school, but they are old.... for the most part. Though I guess I violated that a bit with some of my picks.

Oh well.

Message edited by infornography42 on 05-06-2008 at 01:53:43 AM

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My first "good" gaming computer was a Mac so I had ports of PC titles but also some Macintosh gems.

Marathon series: FPS with excellent storyline, great graphics (for it's time), and has gone opensource today.

Escape Velocity series: Something like a 2D Freelancer, this game was huge and had hundreds and hundreds of mods (then called "add-ons" ) for free. Third installment is out today and still has a huge fanbase.

Bolo: This sweet little tank game where you moved through different terrain and set up traps and defense while trying to destroy/outwit your enemy. Was awesome to play on Appletalk.

The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain: What can I say? It's an incredibly fun learning game. I play it from time to time just because it's replay value is still so high.

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gwendal wrote :

My first "good" gaming computer was a Mac so I had ports of PC titles but also some Macintosh gems.

Marathon series: FPS with excellent storyline, great graphics (for it's time), and has gone opensource today.

Escape Velocity series: Something like a 2D Freelancer, this game was huge and had hundreds and hundreds of mods (then called "add-ons" ) for free. Third installment is out today and still has a huge fanbase.

Bolo: This sweet little tank game where you moved through different terrain and set up traps and defense while trying to destroy/outwit your enemy. Was awesome to play on Appletalk.

The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain: What can I say? It's an incredibly fun learning game. I play it from time to time just because it's replay value is still so high.

Bolo was a great game I spent hours playing that on the network at school

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Heroes of Might and Magic 1, 2 and 3!!!

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Heretic was pretty sweet too.

I just installed Fallout 2 again the other day- it's a legend. You can always pick up and play that one.

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The teletubbies

Very badly programmed, full of bugs, was very disappointed.

Was for my daughter...but i remember you could make cookies and sometimes they would fly onto the wall....that made my daughter laugh.

Adibou (french)
Worms
Tyrian
Abuse
BBR
One Must Fall

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How's about good ol' Manic Miner!! Thats really ol' skool (1980's)...

OK so it was originally a ZX Spectrum game... but it does have a full working port to the PC.

Bob

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Strike Commander (PC)
Original Privateer (I never got to play Privateer 2, but Priv 1 and Righteous Fire was awesome).
Tie Fighter

Flight sims where art thou?

A privateer (2) sequel (not like freelancer please) with assasin's creed like graphics would be awesome.

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The game was a space adventure game where you flew your ship to other worlds looking for resources and other life. The "aliens" had ships also and you could attack them, visit the planets they lived on etc, and even form treaties and trade resources with them.

In battle depending on how poorly you fought your ship would get damaged, there was a little console you could click on that would show your engine and the parts that were damaged etc. I think it was called a "spin drive" the damaged parts would turn an orangish yellow and depending on the damage you couldn't fly anywhere until they were repaired.

That would be either Lightspeed or its sequel/expansion, Hyperspeed. Lightspeed had two star clusters, Hyperspeed had the same two clusters plus two more. Really interesting games. I "borrowed" Lightspeed from a friend back in the day, and then saw Hyperspeed in the store and jumped on it.

They were removed from ALL abandonware sites years ago. I search for it occasionally - I found it once, but it was a non-working copy. I don't know what happened to my old copy of Hyperspeed, and I don't exactly have a 5 1/4 disk drive anymore even if I did.

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http://www.planetmic.com/orbit/hyperspd/hspd01.htm

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Daggerfall!!

Other than that....

Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

Also... an old hover-craft racing game called Hi-Octane

Edit:
Other thoughts were:
Descent (just the first one really)
Mutant Spacebats of Doom (Name might be slightly off)
Cyberdogs

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anybody play Rise Of The Triad?

http://www.3drealms.com/rott/

pretty much a doom clone, but WAY more fun on multiplayer. and of course the cheat code 'ludacris gibbs' was awesome, where massive amounts of blood and body parts come spewing from your fallen enemies. hahahaha

X-COM is the greatest game ever, no contest.

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more great classics:

Commander Keen
Maniac Mansion
Castles 1+2
duke nukem (and Duke3D)
flash back
Out of this World

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Leisure Suit Larry

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Betrayal at Krondor. Second best CRPG ever (after BG2)
Darklands
More votes for XCOM, Civ(1) and MOO(1)

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I might be too young to count, but my vote goes to the original Rogue Squadron and Age of Empires 1 and 2.

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Mech Warrior- I like all of them until M$ ruined it with 4. 3 was the best, imo. Deformable terrain and realistic as hell. Great game overall.

Doom
Duke Nukem 3d
Heretic
Black and White, while not being that old school is still epic.
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
SimCity 2000
UT '99

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Mechwarrior 3 was the worst one by far. Pulse lasers and autocannons could knock enemy mechs down in a single volley and it just became a game of knock them on their butt, then blow them up. The final boss fight was.... disappointing to say the least.

Mechwarrior 4 drastically changed the mech building engine from battletech standard to something different. I enjoyed it a lot, but missed my old mech designer. The expansion for it was dog poo, but Mech 4 Mercs was in my opinion the best of the entire mechwarrior franchise. That game was well written and extremely enjoyable.

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Besides Diablo I liked Wizardry 8 and Baldurs Gate...I know they
aren't exactly OLD but old enough.

I wish I could find a copy of Wizardry 8..I would play again.

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My top five would be:

1. Warcraft 2
2. C&C and C&C Red Alert
3. Wolfenstien 3D
4. Doom and Doom2
5. Prince of Persia

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corgann wrote :

Besides Diablo I liked Wizardry 8 and Baldurs Gate...I know they
aren't exactly OLD but old enough.

I wish I could find a copy of Wizardry 8..I would play again.

Not old enough to be old school.

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infornography42 wrote :

Mechwarrior 3 was the worst one by far. Pulse lasers and autocannons could knock enemy mechs down in a single volley and it just became a game of knock them on their butt, then blow them up. The final boss fight was.... disappointing to say the least.

Mechwarrior 4 drastically changed the mech building engine from battletech standard to something different. I enjoyed it a lot, but missed my old mech designer. The expansion for it was dog poo, but Mech 4 Mercs was in my opinion the best of the entire mechwarrior franchise. That game was well written and extremely enjoyable.

I still liked Mech 3 but the getting knocked down all the time part was very annoying (stupid Annialators ) Mech 4 was a better game though and Mech 4 mercs is probably my favorite of the series, but I do miss some of the freedom of mech custumization that was in Mech 2, but it did force me to try new weapon types so that was good.

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Rogue, Castle Adventure, Zork and Kingdom of Kroz. Sopwith Camel, BattleChess, Lawnmower, Pharoah's Tomb, Captain Comic, Commander Keen Series, Lemmings are the games I loved and think are old school.

Newer ones - Doom, Prince of Persia 1 and 2. Leisure Suit Larry 1-6. Descent, Wing Commander, AH-64 Apache, Heretic, Hexen, Quake, Wolf3d.

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the first 3 elder scrolls games were really a step forward in the rpg genre

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leasure suit larry and police quest-first pc games i played.awsome at the time

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humalong wrote :

more great classics:

Commander Keen
Maniac Mansion
Castles 1+2
duke nukem (and Duke3D)
flash back
Out of this World

Commander Keen

Was that the 286/386 game where you had to go find peices of a spaceship and there were blobs or aliens all over the place to stop you?

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Pike you are right about commander keen (bought off steam for nostalgia a few months ago).

My favorite old school games were Quake 1 + 2 (was so addicted to Q2CTF), Space Quest series, King's Quest Series, Phantasmagoria (spade to the mouth anyone?), and of course Duke Nukem 3d, hell I even like Duke 1 + 2.

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people are stupid and there are a lot of noobs who did not play the older games.

Starcraft!

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Ahhh, the config.sys and autoexec.bat days...

These have probably been mentioned already but I don't have time to read through all the posts. Having said that, and in no particular order, here goes:

1. Bards Tale

2. Ultima 8

3. TES: Daggerfall - Still have the box

4. Duke Nukem

5. Unreal - This one made me buy a whole new system, a PII 400 Deschutes with the immortal Intel 440BX chipset, which was not cheap back then. $2.5K for what now sits as my network firewall...lmao.

6. Quake - All-time classic

7. Deus Ex

8. Syndicate - RIP Bullfrog...an early victim of EA's policy of buying up, then f*cking up, good studios.

9. Grim Fandango

10. EverQuest - Not exactly "old" but it's easily down as the most hours I ever put into a game...had to be upwards of 6k over 6 years. Considering I probably paid pennies an hour to play it, it's the best value I've ever gotten out of a game.

I know I've easily left out another 10+ plus...these are just the first ones that popped into my head.

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Grim Fandango, awesome game, but not exactly old either.

Ultima 8, yeah, now you're talking. I remember buying the game AND the speech expansion. I remember the expansion coming on three 3.5" disks and costing 20$ more. Bastards. But it was worth it to hear those daemons growl! I still have box, disks, manuals... I copied all that stuff to my hard drive and then backed it up on media eight years ago or so. Now you can just go to www.abandonia.com and download it in a few seconds

As for Ultima 7, I remember tossing a bunch of cash at that series with all its expansions. Spectacular game, I wish they'd stop making those online games and get back to their roots. I think they'd have to rethink/redesign the POV, though. That old school overhead hero view doesn't do it for people any more. It would have to be more like Oblivion. In fact, they could use the Oblivion engine.

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chmod000 wrote :

2. Ultima 8

Wow, really? Most fans of the Ultima series place that near the very bottom, like one above U9. Personally, I actually liked U9 better - I recall you spent like 80% of U8 wandering in one massive dungeon.

Now, Ultima 7 (parts 1 and 2) - those were some damn fine games. Very difficult, though... and when they were new almost nobody had internet access, so getting help if you were stuck... well, you pretty much had to buy a hintbook. Which I did, lol.

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My favorites are Descent 1 & 2 , there are other but never finished those 2 , ive been playing those recently , well after i get bored shooting kpa soldiers

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snarfies1 wrote :

Wow, really? Most fans of the Ultima series place that near the very bottom, like one above U9. Personally, I actually liked U9 better - I recall you spent like 80% of U8 wandering in one massive dungeon.

Yeah, I remember that you start the game in the overworld, near a town, then you enter the town, and the rest of the game is pretty much in the underworld. Still, I liked it. Back then, there wasn't as much hype about computer games as there is now. You bought a game because you saw it in the shop, heard about it through friends or its reputation preceded itself, not because you saw a review. I was the only Ultima fan I knew and I didn't know what to expect. Was I disappointed when I completed U8? Not really, I did keep waiting to return to the overworld and do some battling/hunting/exploring there, but I was never disappointed because I didn't know what to expect. Nowadays, I read a review before I buy a game. As I progress through the game I get to these points where I say to myself "Oh, this is that crappy part they talked about, or this is where the game takes that (un)expected turn that leaves everyone depressed."

I got U9 a few years ago and tried playing it, only to be severely disappointed. I didn't get past the first 30 minutes. Just didn't like the game at all. The story, the graphics, the POV and the interface all sucked. Felt like I was playing a downgraded U7 in the year 2005.

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Great thread.

I was glad to see Syndicate and Die By The Sword mentioned. I really enjoyed those.

I saw someone mention Beach Head which made me laugh. I liked Beach Head but it was all about Raid on Moscow, Winter Games and Ghostbusters. I remember playing Karateka but I think that was an Apple IIE game.

Didn't the old LucasArts games all use XMS memory when everything else used EMS? I remember having to create the "LucasArts Boot Disk" for those games but the "Strike Commander Boot Disk" worked for everything else. I do miss some Strike Commander, X-Wing and Wing Commander. I recently installed the ScummVM to get Full Throttle and Last Crusade working. Probably hit The Dig, too if I can find the time.

I know it's terrible now but when I first got to college everyone in my apartment wanted Rebel Assault. The problem was our computer didn't have a CD-ROM or a sound card. We actually pooled money to buy a SoundBlaster Pro 8-bit card and a CD-ROM for a computer we didn't own.

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Heh mentioning Ghostbusters reminds me of my old C64 days with games like Lode Runner, Wilfred the Wizard, Archon, and Jumpman. I think the game that really hooked me was Doom. I did play Wolfenstein 3d, but Doom was the one that I played over and over again online and even on the Playstation.

Props go out to :

Half Life
X-Com
Civilization
Star Control I and II (Edit: Woops I meant Star Control not Star Craft)

and for you uber-nerds: mudding!

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AAHH the good old days many of these games I killed many a day on, games I wish they wouldn't have killed, MechWarrior, Wing Commander 4 was hard as H**L, how many played Obsidian, there was a thinking mans game even if it was a bit disorientating, and Zork,Duke 3D, the trip through the bars was great, man am I old or what

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The Tex Murphy series especially:

Under a Killing Moon
The Pandora Directive

way ahead of it's time.

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Ahh mudding. Played 3 Kingdoms for a long time, until they nerfed my guild to oblivion.

bastards

Into the Eagle's Nest was another great old game. Played that one a lot.

Silkworm too.

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STARCRAFT Hands down one of best games I have ever played and owned just sitting here waiting till SC2 comes out cmon blizz ur too slow i wanna play now

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darkestdust wrote :

STARCRAFT Hands down one of best games I have ever played and owned just sitting here waiting till SC2 comes out cmon blizz ur too slow i wanna play now

You realise that there's not one hint of punctuation in what you just wrote?

Used to play Lemonade Stand for Apple IIc a lot.

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Mmmm...

Games that I miss:

Duke Nukem 1 (side scrolling action!)
Duke Nukem 2
All the Command Keen's (played them for hours)
Warcraft 1
Warcraft 2
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Might and Magic 6
Lords of Magic (I'd still play this if I could find the CD's)
Worms 1-2-Armageddon
Mechwarrior was a blast!
Wolfenstein (who didn't love this game?)
Doom 1 (didn't much care for Doom 2 and 3)
Whiplash (older racing game)

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Xternal wrote :

My favorites are Descent 1 & 2 , there are other but never finished those 2 , ive been playing those recently , well after i get bored shooting kpa soldiers

HAHA yea! Descent was rad! I remember when I was in 4th grade my friend's dad was the network admin to the school district and we'd have LAN parties in the school during our lunch time we were only allowed to play Descent but with 20-30 kids playing... it was a blast

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GinoS wrote :

If you really want to date yourself....

Does anyone remember how you had to hack your config.sys and autoexec.bat files to get any game from Origin to work?

Does anyone remember when flight sims were king? Falcon? Falcon 3.0 anything from Damon Slye or Microprose?

How about SSI and all those great sims?

I'm getting old. Hell, I know that. I just don't want to do what old farts do. My first kid's graduated from college and is married.

My first game was Zork, the text based game before there was, gasp! Sound and animation.

Was that zork for IBM PC AT? or for APPLE IIe? har har. I was there. Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III. But I did not play it much. It was all text, text base adventure game, no graphics. I remeber Elite a space merchant type adventure game for apple IIe (best graphics for apple) before it got remade for pc computer. I play elite, but this came out after zork. Man, zork was old. It was very popular, at the time I was cool with ms pac man for apple iie.

Did you know, there exists paperback novels that gives you choices to turn to alternate page to have a fork in the storyline. I was hook on these and did not play zork much. My apple iie computer time was limited even at home. Anyway, if you wish to replay zork, you can download apple iie emulator at http://www.mess.org/ and download applesoft games to play like zork (all three). It is out there on the net. Got problems? Don't worry, after you get emulator to run, I can help point you in the right direction for the zork games if it is still there. Hopefully, the publisher of zork has gone out of business....

game game game, after spending thousands of dollars and diminishing value of game product...I get mad. How come I don't buy more comics. At least when the movie comes out, the comics value goes up. Thousands of dollars in comics going up sounds like more money for new hardware or maybe more beer to party in college.....all that's ancient history.

Does anyone reading this a true Dungeon and Dragon fan? You know, D&D fan before pc game use it to make lots of money. In other words, a true D&D fan with weekly get together to throw the dice and chat all night? You know a fan before you can make money being a d&d wizard and go work for a gaming company. Hmm, life was crazy for gamers even before pc.

lights out. jujubefruit.

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GinoS wrote :

If you really want to date yourself....

Does anyone remember how you had to hack your config.sys and autoexec.bat files to get any game from Origin to work?

Does anyone remember when flight sims were king? Falcon? Falcon 3.0 anything from Damon Slye or Microprose?

How about SSI and all those great sims?

I'm getting old. Hell, I know that. I just don't want to do what old farts do. My first kid's graduated from college and is married.

My first game was Zork, the text based game before there was, gasp! Sound and animation.

Was that zork for IBM PC AT? or for APPLE IIe? har har. I was there. Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III. But I did not play it much. It was all text, text base adventure game, no graphics. I remeber Elite a space merchant type adventure game for apple IIe (best graphics for apple) before it got remade for pc computer. I play elite, but this came out after zork. Man, zork was old. It was very popular, at the time I was cool with ms pac man for apple iie.

Did you know, there exists paperback novels that gives you choices to turn to alternate page to have a fork in the storyline. I was hook on these and did not play zork much. My apple iie computer time was limited even at home. Anyway, if you wish to replay zork, you can download apple iie emulator at http://www.mess.org/ and download applesoft games to play like zork (all three). It is out there on the net. Got problems? Don't worry, after you get emulator to run, I can help point you in the right direction for the zork games if it is still there. Hopefully, the publisher of zork has gone out of business....

game game game, after spending thousands of dollars and diminishing value of game product...I get mad. How come I don't buy more comics. At least when the movie comes out, the comics value goes up. Thousands of dollars in comics going up sounds like more money for new hardware or maybe more beer to party in college.....all that's ancient history.

Does anyone reading this a true Dungeon and Dragon fan? You know, D&D fan before pc game use it to make lots of money. In other words, a true D&D fan with weekly get together to throw the dice and chat all night? You know a fan before you can make money being a d&d wizard and go work for a gaming company. Hmm, life was crazy for gamers even before pc.

lights out. jujubefruit.

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