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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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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.

Reply to virtusdcs

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.

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sweetpants wrote :

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!

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High School:
[img]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bard%27s_Tale_Box_Cover.jpg[img]

College:
[img]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Warcraft_Orcs_And_Humans_-_Box_Art.jpg[img]

After college:
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Just approximate game I remember around approximately what I was doing at the time....

I just read the info for syntax for image inclusion and testing at the same time.

Reply to jujubefruit

Did this image bring back nightmares from anyone?

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?

Reply to jujubefruit

Homeworld
Mechwarrior series
AOE series

Reply to Celtic

you want old school? Organ trail for the mac!!!!

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liljone wrote :

you want old school? Organ trail for the mac!!!!

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.

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Reply to GrandAdmiralThrawn

holy crap! how could i forget Starcraft?
i disappoint myself.
Also, a vote for Freddi Fish. That game was SICK.

Reply to ledzeprules

GrandAdmiralThrawn wrote :

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

Reply to pike

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 :hello:
c&c red alert - I use to alter the game by changing the settings in the ini file and make my medics have c4

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leftonthecorner wrote :

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 :hello:
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

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fade to black ?
dinosaures fighting each other *can't remember the name
killing moon or something * a sort of detective game

Reply to pike

Sanitarium

The Curse Of The Monkey Island

Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror

Abe's Oddysee / Abe`s Exodus

Toonstruck

Mortal Kombat

Reply to MisterJJ

Toonstruck! Such an underappreciated game! Shame they canned the sequel due to poor sales.

Reply to mothhive

I gotta say that i loved the ultima series....and thus having said that, if anyone else liked Ultima, here is a link to the most awesome Ultima MMO....thats right, theres still one out there. It is called EUO, or Egg's Ultima Online. Egg is the name of the guy that made it. It is totally awesome and if you love old school PC games, then this is for you.

http://swut.net/euo

If you do play, make sure and read the manual first!
Enjoy!

Reply to metallicawinter88

Sweet, going to check out EUO right now!

Reply to i_hate_flying

leftonthecorner wrote :

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.

Was it Iron Helix?

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jujubefruit wrote :

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....

jujubefruit.

Apple IIe? I wish... I had an Apple II+ It was juiced though, and had 64K of memory! I used to play lots of text adventures and I remember the elite game as well.

You can play the original Zork on the web. http://www.ifiction.org/games/play [...] &mode=html among others. Also, Zork I, II, and III are available for download at: http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

I read those books too. Choose Your Own Adventure, I believe they were called.

Reply to grue

My Apple IIe only played Wizardry.

On the C-64 it was Silent Service, Telengard, the Phantasm series, Ultima series, Gunship, Red Storm Rising, and pretty much anything else by Microprose.
I miss most of all just being able to look at a publisher's logo and being pretty sure the game would at least be entertaining. Avalon Hill was who taught me the other side of that rule, I think they contracted out their board game conversions and the success of the conversion varied widely.

Reply to jalek

the games i've ever played on my very first pc...
Prince of Persia
Shinobi
Carmen San Diego

then... the upgrades...

Doom (the perfect excuse for buying a trident vga video card with 1mb, a 486dx and a supervga monitor)
then, was Quake with opengl (the excuse for upgrading to a 3d accelerator 3dfx voodoo 4mb+diamond stealth4mb)
Command and Conquer (8/10 of my youth)
Worms (hours and hours playing at night)
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Quake III (my voodoo3!!)

those were my most played classics

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Mechwarrior 2 - first game I played that had an immersive atmosphere, mostly because of the awesome music. Even though I could waste enemy mechs with all-fire mode I would still *pretend* I couldn't do that and take a few shots here and there, just because it felt more real that way. And the intro to the game was the best thing I'd seen on a computer up to that point.

Freespace 1&2 - still the best space combat sim ever made. Endless hours of multiplayer over PXO.

Command & Conquer
Star Wars: X-Wing vs Tie Fighter
Doom
MegaRace (lol)

Reply to copasetic

Anyone here remembers Nam? it is the first FPS i've ever played and I totally missed it.
I loved Pacman too.
Ah! Childhood memories...

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Reply to romulus47plus1

Going to pull out the "i'm ancient as F***" hat here.

1. Echelon (the original)

2. Gato

3. Wizardry (the whole series)

4. Gunship (the original)

5. Articfox

Add: All the original AD&D games, Castle Wolfenstein and Wolf 3D, Up periscope, Bard's Tale (the original 3), Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe, Doom, far to many to name..........

Reply to yamagiru

Several of you have mentioned playing with the autoexec.bat and config.sys files, but no one played any games that needed their own "boot disk"? They were needed so that enough memory would be free under 640k so there was enough room for the game. I'd give an example, but it was so long ago that I don't remember. (besides, it required a reboot, so I didn't play it much.)

ROTT was great, nothing was better then having drunk missiles or being in god mode. Lords of the realm 2 was great also. There was a network version of it, I've played it against my dad on several occasions. The game lost its luster after we discovered that your better off getting rid of your cows and just growing grain. You need more people in the winter time to plant, and an equal number (compared to cows) to harvest, but that leaves you with 2 months that you need much less people, allowing you to get wood/stone, or make weapons faster.

One of my more favorite old PC games was (i think) F118. Very bad graphics, but the game play was very nice. I couldn't play it once I moved to windows 95, the version of Dos wasn't compatible. (at least thats what the game said.) Which moves to my next point...

Dosbox. Seriously, if you love playing the old games, get it. If you try playing your old games and they run to fast, get dosbox. Its a dos emulator, and allows you to play your old classics, even if it doesn't work nativly on your OS. (now I wish I didn't through away my version of F118!)

I still use CCS64 to emulate the C64 on my computer. One of the best old games was Rocket Ranger. My dad had it on the Amiga, but there was a dos port. Whats better then stopping the nazi's or going to the moon? (not that I ever got to do that, I never got that good...)

I agree btw, if it came on CD, or was used in windows, thats not old gaming. Old gaming is C64, Amiga, or dos only. (fine, Apple II as well.) Those were the golden age of gaming.

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Always a DEMON!
Reply to 4745454b

OK here's my End All list of Favorite old timers>>

Warcraft 2: (3 sucked balls in my opinion)
Final Fantasy Series 1-7
Earth Worm JIM!! (hilariously funny, and great gameplay)
Alien vs. Predator (Atari Jaguar 64 bit/ that game was awesome)
Baldurs Gate 1+2( Still timeless RPG classics that can be played on XP)
Doom 1+2 (games that actually pulled me away from consoles)
StarWars: Knights of the Old Republic ( I know its only 5 years old but still)
Wolfenstein 3-D ( The father of FPS games)
Quake (was amazing back in the day)
Mike Tyson's Punchout...(Come on you know it was fun.)
Unreal ( the original, was a huge step forward in gaming and graphics)
Mechwarrior Games 1-3 (Great games back when I was a highschooler)
James Bond Golden Eye: Nintendo 64 (Still a fun game)
StarFox (yes it was fun)
Grand Turismo (1-3) playstaytion(changed the entire definition of the racing genre)
Metal Gear Solid (playstation)
The Command and Conquer Series(PC)
The Horde (3DO+ PC)
General Chaos (Sega Genesis)
Zelda (Come on, you know this man)
Evander Holyfield Boxing (first boxing game to include digital human models and real time wounds that would actually bleed more when you punched them)

Reply to dragoncyber

ok, another game to add to my list, Fallout just started playing it for the first time after I bought it based on all the positive reviews I've seen in this and other threds. So thanks this thred has helped me find a bunch of fun games that I missed when they first came out.

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Reply to GrandAdmiralThrawn

M.U.L.E.
Multiple Use Labor Element

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Was that ever on the PC? I have that for the CCS64 emulator, but it only supports 1 person playing, which is dumb. Does anyone know if there is a PC/Dosbox rom for this that supports 4 players?

If you want to go that far back, there is little that beats MULE, Santa Paravia, Space Trader, Airline, Firefighter, and Lords of Conquest. These are from a genre that I don't think even really exists on the PC. (Lords of the realm 2 is as close as I've ever seen to this kind of strategy game.) If you like arcade stuff, then Dinoeggs, Pitstop, and Archon are some of the best around for the C64.

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bydesign wrote :

M.U.L.E.
Multiple Use Labor Element

THIS

Reply to snarfies1

I'm definitely not quite old enough to be old school... but hey... I'll throw my favorite old games up here anyway! In no particular order...

Nibbles (Snake-like game)
Gorillas (Throw exploding bananas at other players)
Scorched Earth (Original, not that 3d junk)
Full Throttle
King's Quest V
Prince of Persia (Wasn't too fond of the second one)
Commander Keen (all of them)
Star Control 2
X-COM: UFO Defense (Nothing like not knowing what was going to pop up on a mission!)
Doom
Heretic
The Longest Journey
Day of the Tentacle
Alone in the Dark
Deus Ex
System Shock 2
Thief series (Especially The Dark Project)
Beyond Good and Evil (Not old school at all... but damn, I have to mention it!)
Might and Magic
Might and Magic III
Buck Rogers

I'm sure if I sit here and ponder longer I'd think of a whole lot more...

Best wishes,
FrozenFoxy

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OK here's my End All list of Favorite old timers>>

Warcraft 2: (3 sucked balls in my opinion)
Final Fantasy Series 1-7
Earth Worm JIM!! (hilariously funny, and great gameplay)
Alien vs. Predator (Atari Jaguar 64 bit/ that game was awesome)
Baldurs Gate 1+2( Still timeless RPG classics that can be played on XP)
Doom 1+2 (games that actually pulled me away from consoles)
StarWars: Knights of the Old Republic ( I know its only 5 years old but still)
Wolfenstein 3-D ( The father of FPS games)
Quake (was amazing back in the day)
Mike Tyson's Punchout...(Come on you know it was fun.)
Unreal ( the original, was a huge step forward in gaming and graphics)
Mechwarrior Games 1-3 (Great games back when I was a highschooler)
James Bond Golden Eye: Nintendo 64 (Still a fun game)
StarFox (yes it was fun)
Grand Turismo (1-3) playstaytion(changed the entire definition of the racing genre)
Metal Gear Solid (playstation)
The Command and Conquer Series(PC)
The Horde (3DO+ PC)
General Chaos (Sega Genesis)
Zelda (Come on, you know this man)
Evander Holyfield Boxing (first boxing game to include digital human models and real time wounds that would actually bleed more when you punched them)

PC games, dude.

Plus, warcraft 3 did NOT suck balls.

Message edited by ledzeprules on 07-06-2008 at 03:26:24 AM

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Oh my gosh you people! There is one game i can't believe nobody has even mentioned yet! (Or atleast I skimmed the billions of posts in this thread and didn't see it) I agree with everyone who says Starcraft (duh), as well as the lovers of Full Throttle/Curse of Monkey Island/Grim Fandango (oh my gosh that game was SO good), but you're all leaving out another amazing Lucasarts game...

OUTLAWS!

It was my first FPS game, and dadgum was it good! It had the best cut-scenes in my opinion, even better than any of today's, simply because it made you so anxious to finish a mission just so the cut-scene could advance the awesome storyline! Did anyone else love this game like I did? Anyone??

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X-Wing
Day of the Tentacles

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Reply to steve_c10

By the way, did anyone mention Star Control 2?

The original creators released the source code, you can get a modernized version at http://sc2.sourceforge.net/.

Reply to snarfies1

:hello:
i guess i should list my faves in order from oldest to newest old school games
really old school games:
zork series - text based adventure games on my commodore 64
karateka - apple IIe
oregon trail - apple IIe
Wing Commander Series - First played on my 386 25mhz
Police Quest - This one was on the 486dx chip never tried to run on an sx
newer old school games
Diablo I & II - I still play this sometimes
Dark Forces I & II
Jedi Knight Series
Deus Ex
MDK
Unreal Tournament
Doom
Wolfenstein 3d
and last but not least Half Life & Counter Strike!!!
these are some of my all time favorites of the Old School games I used to play i could probably significantly expand this list but these are the ones that had the most impact and replayability to me

Reply to Jmorelli0623

as an addition to my above post, I must add the MechWarrior series. As I was clicking to submit that post I remebered the days me and my friend Eric would sit at opposing sides of my room on two old IBM pentium MMX machines someone donated to me from their office. Mechwarrior 1, 2 and 3 and Monster Truck Madness were the first games that I played heavily on that LAN and pretty much got me into bringing my boxes to LAN parties, so I guess you can say they paved the way. Had to give them a mention here :pt1cable:

Reply to Jmorelli0623

Back before the days of PC's...

In university during the 70's, playing Star Trek on the University's mainframe... move your ship by typing in the command - dot matrix printer spits out the computer's move - read the printout - type in your next command - repeat until your computer time allocation is wasted and you haven't finished your programming assignment yet.

Where are all the wargamers?

Harpoon
Panzer General - Allied General - Pacific General
Operational Art of War
West Front - East Front
Steel Panthers

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Reply to nurn

Dating myself here:
I recall playing some games on "audio" cassette tape attached to the computer. Can't recall what they were. Maybe someone could elucidate what the hell I was doing.

Also, around 1985 there was this game called "Hacker" that I loved.

The Zork series, Hitchhiker's Guide..etc were fantastic. But amazingly hard. Needless to say I never completed them.
I adored Lode Runner, Police Quest, Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry. All of those Sierra games were fun.
Spent countless hours and sleepless nights playing Civ 1.
Harley Davidson: The Road to Sturgis
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Give me a break, I was 10)
Paperboy
Ultima III
Wizardry (!) big time

Reply to seam123

The Vic20 had games on "cassettes" When they came out with the Commodore 64, they stopped using cassettes and started using 5.25 floppies. The vic is the only one I know of that used cassettes, but I'm sure there are/were others.

Civ 1 was great, I never liked the other Civ games.

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Reply to 4745454b

exfileme wrote :

Quake, Quake 2, Quake III Arena, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, Blood, Blood 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Shogun Warrior.... they will all remain my favorites...

everything but Jedi Knight; Blood 1 & 2; and Shogun Warrior - just mainly i didn't play those(although i am up for anything that's a classic)

I also played Wolf 3d; Kingpin: Life of Crime, Rainbow 6 including Eagle Watch expansion; Rainbow 6: Rouge Spear(i didn't play any of the expansions for Rouge Spear and nothing else after that), the Tactical Ops Mod for UT (i can wait til Tactical Ops 3 for UT3 is out), as gay as this is King Quest 1 on my Tandy T1000 , Full Throttle(thanks Tim Schafer), C&C Tiberian Sun, Hexen, GTA, Mortal Kombat, Half Life, Max Payne, RoTT (Rise of the Triad) and Heretic other than that i stuck to my nes, snes, ps1 or ps2. great thread i enjoyed this

spook24

Message edited by spook24 on 07-15-2008 at 04:35:17 AM

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4745454b wrote :

The Vic20 had games on "cassettes" When they came out with the Commodore 64, they stopped using cassettes and started using 5.25 floppies. The vic is the only one I know of that used cassettes, but I'm sure there are/were others.

It also had cartridges

I am almost sure the C64 had the tape deck too.

EDIT. Not like i can always believe wiki, but hey...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasette
Check out the "Datassette sound sample" I remember accidentally putting a data tape into a tape player(they where copies[mmm early pirating] and did not have a label)

EDIT EDIT
Takes me back.

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nukemaster wrote :

I am almost sure the C64 had the tape deck too.

It did. I had a friend who had one. It was even slower than the 1541 5-1/4 drive, which was pretty darn slow. And sometimes it didn't work right - you'd play the tape for several minutes to load a program, and it wouldn't be until the tape ended that you'd error out. I think those tape drives were phased out fairly early on.

Reply to snarfies1

At the time, nothing beat the C64 with the 5.25" drive and a fast load cartridge. (well, as long as the game supported it.)

I can't tell you how many hours of my life got wasted typing

Quote :

LOAD "favoritegamehere" ,8 ,1

Man, those were the days....

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Always a DEMON!
Reply to 4745454b

Wow,

Is this thread bringing up a lot of old feelings for anyone else? I'm 29 now, and these great games seem like they happened ages ago. Just reading the lists of favorite games is making me wish I was 13 again and hacking my config file to get these amazing games to run. I wish I could take 6 months off of work and devote it solely to replaying these gems.

I would like to add several names here:

Out of this World: What an amazing story and music. Gameplay was tough but rewarding. Ending was tear jerking.

Gold box games:

A. Curse of the Azure Bonds: 2 months of my life spent trying to beat it.

B. Champions of Krynn: A nice spin on the gameplay and world design. FANTASTIC story.

C. Secret of the Silver Blades

Anyone remember an RPG called Lands of Lore? How about Clouds of Xeen!?

I miss the old days so bad. I haven't been hooked by a PC game since Baldur's Gate, and before that it was a loooong time.

Chris

Reply to evensen007

Thanks - you guys have brought back SOOOOOOOO many good memories from my misspent youth.

Man - i hear you evensen007 . Im 26 and it does just feel like it was a year or two ago. To tell the truth i havent been hooked on games the same way in ages.

I played A L O T of StarControl 2. I even drew an entire starmap over the summer holidays ( trust me - that was quite a task ). Just got the modernized game and cant wait to play it.

Lords of the Realms was a real time sink come to think of it. I remember actually buying the game 2 weeks before we got a PC that could run it - just kinda stared at the box and imagined how good it was. And it was that good.

Loved the first Constructor game. That seriously pawned tbh. So many cool elements and options. It was one of those games where you restarted it to get it right so many times that you never actually finished the game!

Lands of Lore - I do remember that RPG. It was like the Ultima ones - was really cool actually. Good graphics for its time!

Too many (new pc) game bundle pack games to remeber but there were loads of good ones.

The Crusader series was a real truimph in the gaming community. It leapt ahead in terms of graphics, cut scenes ( alot had reallife video overlays ) and just game dynamics ( i.e proper bullet shells, breaking glass and objects.

Oh man - Dune, Myst, Duke Nukem & D.N 3D, Lemmings, Golden Axe, Warcraft 1, Diablo 1, Cyberdogs, Heroes Quest(s), Jones in the Fast Lane, Monkey Island ----> were amazing games from my youth. [ they were just popping into my head :ange: ]

Earliest games i had that kicked ass on my old IBM XT computer were a top down shooter called Into the Eagles nest and Airborne Ranger.
Seriosly - best games ever in that era.
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/ [...] anger.html
(site has all the best old games)

My Gold Awards for all times fav old games ( and most time spent on )go to :

1. XCOM UFO : 1 + 2 ( and a good deal on 3 )
2. Starcraft [ canNOT believe im still an active player
3. Fallout 1 + 2
4. Ultima 8 ( best atmosphere in a game in a long while )

Message edited by DannyBoy27 on 07-16-2008 at 05:28:45 PM

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I recall old TSR AD&D games that were a lot of fun for coming on a few floppies.

Another was Wasteland (which Fallout 1/2was based on).

Bullfrogs Syndicate was another violent, but fun game to play, although **** hard to beat in 2.

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Oh my GOD!! I remember Airborne Ranger!!!! For some reason I want to say that I had it on my Commodore64, but maybe it was my first PC. That game was soooo awesome! I remember it being really hard and trying so many different tactics to beat each mission.

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Add: Legend of Kyrandia!

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Add: Legend of Kyrandia!

Those Kyrandian Squirrels are real Killers.

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