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.
I'm still not sure if I ever played any game (MMOs included) as much as I played Lords of the Realm 2. I was so utterly and disgustedly disappointed with 3 that I fear its a wound that will never heal.
Baldur's Gate series also brings warm memories flooding back. Seems like today's games have no replay value at all, or maybe I've just been warped by today's games and replay value is a thing of the past.
I hear ya, my friend did nothing but play Baulders Gate and Baulders Gate 2.
I wanted to add another series of games
Heroes of Might and Magic, not to be confused with Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic was a turn based game similiar to Lords of Magic. Actually, if I remember correctly, they were both made by Sierra which would explain the similarity.
Heroes of Might and Magic was a turn based game similiar to Lords of Magic. Actually, if I remember correctly, they were both made by Sierra which would explain the similarity.
You remember incorrectly. The Might and Magic series was by New World Computing, which became a subsidiary of 3DO in 1996. I think the only game to bear that name to NOT be made by them was the new Heroes V.
Might and Magic 4-8 are some very fine CRPG, BTW. If you had both 4 and 5 installed on the same hard drive they fused together into a new game, World of Xeen, letting you access new areas that you couldn't access playing either game seperately - a very innovative idea!
Unix games that started D&D in the path of computer gaming...
I know of one college student in engineering school who drop out of college because of these games....I thought I was the only one having problems.
At the time...
rogue or moria almost got me hooked, I broke the spell by recompiling the source code with cheats---no more hex editing. Man the stress, the need to go to class, what a nightmare.... Nethack was still being perfected. Linux was loosely bundle and slackware was let's say in its beginning. Redhat did not exist. Netscape did not exist. Blizzard was not selling anything. ubisoft was not selling anything. ElectronicArts amd Sierra was still around. World-wide-wed did not exist. IRC relay chat was going to launch and being tested, torrentz did not exists, p2p did not exisits, and sendmail was catching on. Oh, and x-windows gui programming was being offer to undergrads for the first time. But you have to go to a cs class. C++ was also being offer to undergrad a year after x-windows. and cs major have to attend engineer school class. Oh at the time, MIT will soon release M.U.D. . har har
All those events I witness and checked out, and I am still here. Playing pc games. Anyone made any money investment during the internet boom--other than finding a good job? Hmm, Any in technology?
On the old Apple2s ? I remember playing that in school at lunch time.
I should also add Deus Ex to my list, I just bought it a few days ago because of all the possitive posts I've read about it. Good game interesting story and I like the combination of RPG and shooter.
On the old Apple2s ? I remember playing that in school at lunch time.
I should also add Deus Ex to my list, I just bought it a few days ago because of all the possitive posts I've read about it. Good game interesting story and I like the combination of RPG and shooter.
The Apple II-E with 2 X 5 1/4 external floppy drives. $500 for the second drive. haha Did UCSD Pascal on it but just can't remember any games.
The Commodore Vic-20 a few years before that had a tank game on a 4 track casette. You played with the angle of the cannon to knock down the enemy. What was it: 12 kb of base mem or 24
I use to play a game and maybe you guys can help me remember the name. It was a game that took place in an empty space ship. You are wondering around looking for clue to what happened. The only other thing I can remember is that you have to avoid a robot wondering the ship that will kill you. I think it was called broken helix or something near that.
Some good, somewhat older games:
mission critical
myst
conquest of a new world
oregon trail - I don't know anyone who didn't like this game when they were younger ....
Freedom! - I am not sure how many people got to play this game before it was taken off shelves for being racially offensive
Doom - spent many long days/night playing this game
Sim city
Castles -
Number munchers - don't judge me c&c red alert - I use to alter the game by changing the settings in the ini file and make my medics have c4
I use to play a game and maybe you guys can help me remember the name. It was a game that took place in an empty space ship. You are wondering around looking for clue to what happened. The only other thing I can remember is that you have to avoid a robot wondering the ship that will kill you. I think it was called broken helix or something near that.
Some good, somewhat older games: mission critical myst conquest of a new world oregon trail - I don't know anyone who didn't like this game when they were younger .... Freedom! - I am not sure how many people got to play this game before it was taken off shelves for being racially offensive Doom - spent many long days/night playing this game Sim city Castles - Number munchers - don't judge me c&c red alert - I use to alter the game by changing the settings in the ini file and make my medics have c4
Don't forget Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem 3D! I miss Oregon trail and 1st warcraft.
P.S. I was fan of all the Sim games. Sim City 2000,Sim Tower,Sim Ant ect. Dont forget C & C Red alert ..... no more Maxis or Westwood
Message edited by liljone on 06-26-2008 at 11:26:53 PM
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