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Those Kyrandian Squirrels are real Killers.

Myst like dannyboy27 said. damn totally forgot about that one. and Scorched Earth like some else said.

Hired Guns 4 player co op on 1 pc lol

I loved Crusader No Remorse(still have the cd too). I still want to play the second one No Regret.

I played Fallen Haven quite a bit back in the day.

Tribes was the shiznit, but Tribes 2 sucked!

Deus Ex was very cool.

Half life

Monkey Island Series, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Duke Nukem 3D, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Z, Age of Empires I, Rebel Assault II, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, X-Wing VS Tie-Fighter, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Theme Hospital, tooooooooooooo many great games!!!!!! oh Half-Life I, Opposing Force!!

Ye - the Ultima series was fantastic.

I remember being amazed when Age of Empires 1 came out. You could watch the villagers chop would and harvest etc. Was amazing in the day.
Played that quite a bit.

I had the original SWAT which was like 5 cds and this was BACK in the day when most games barely took up 10% of the cds capacity. It actually wasnt that good but most of the engine was comprised of interacting with overlayed real life clips of SWAT personel. And - for some reason you could never just shoot a baddie. It failed you. You had to incapacitate him in some way or other. Never finished it.

Police quest on the other hand.... now that was fun and engaging.

Shame on me, I had completely forgotten about HI-octane. Now that I think about it, DukeNukem 3D Atomic Edition and (I wonder why nobody thought about it) Tomb Raider.

Another huge hit: MDK. Incredibly fun, with very nice tricks used to simulate gorgeous graphics even with 8-bit, software rendered 3D.

I think it's been mentioned: Lemmings (and Lemmings 2).

Ultra Old Skool maximum: I remember playing Xenon 2: Megablast on

All of these were DOS games (or had a DOS version) running best on VESA 2.0 cards (anybody remember DisplayDoctor/UniVBE ? It gave my P75@112/16 Mb with S3/Trio64 a 120% boost under Duke3D!)

Combat (Atari 2600)
Joust (Atari 2600)
Asteroid (Atari 2600)
ML Baseball (Intellivision)
B-17 Bomber (Intellivision)
Sea Battle (Intellivision)
Turbo (Coleco)
Ballblazer (C64 / Atari 800 XL)
Archon (C64 / Atari 800 XL)
Summer Games (C64 / Atari 800 XL)
Winter Games (C64 / Atari 800 XL)
Pitstop (C64)
Pole Position (Atari 800 XL)
Bruce Lee (C64 / Atari 800 XL)
Ultima IV (Atari 800 XL)
Barbarian (Atari 1040 ST)
Defenders of the Crown (Atari 1040 ST)
Captain Blood (Atari 1040 ST)
Gauntlet (Atari 1040 ST)
Populous (Atari 1040 ST)
Falcon (Atari 1040 ST)
Silent Service II (IBM 286)
Wing Commander (IBM 386)
Doom (IBM 486)
Command & Conquer Red Alert (IBM P1)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (IBM P3/P4)

You guys crack me up. I have shoes older than most of you.

Civilization I -- played for 5 years
Civilization 2 (I still play this almost every day a little, LOL -- 13 years of CIV2!!!)

Master of orion

Attack sub 688

Maniac Mansion

Doom

Pirates!

Falcon 2.0

THESE are OLD games, people! NOT Deus ex, Half Life, Ultima, etc. LOL!!! Those are practically current. Even original Doom is not really that old. CIV came out in 1991. That's old.

Civilization 2 might just be the best single-player computer game ever made because it is so wildly open-ended, no 2 games are ever the same. It is like opening a fortune cookie, and also like crafting things with your bare hands. When you battle after building so long, it is YOU out there! Every decision is vastly important down the road. It is tense, emotionally-engaging, and extremely addicting. I don't think there has ever been a more balanced game, and a more perfectly challenging AI. it is as intellectually stimulating as chess without being a chore. I cannot say enough good things about it. So many games today are all about graphics but all these features of gameplay are dumbed, or watered down to the point that you get sick of them in short order. Most single-player (and multiplayer) games today are EXACTLY the same every time you play them. Like chess, which you play for a lifetime also (and has NO graphics), CIV is very different every time. Why can't other game makers see this?

CIVILIZATION 2 IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE -- IT'S THE NEW
CHESS ON COMPUTER

I think if I had to pick one from shooter category, it would be Doom, so Doom and CIV are it.

Hack looks like a good game, from a bygone age.

I grew up playing games on my dads old C64. Some of them were ascii like hack, (lords of conquest, airline) while others were text games like Zork. (Santa Pravia, Space trader, though this one has some "graphics".) In many ways, I like these games even better then the ones I play today, although through the use of emulators I still play many of the games I mentioned. These games HAD to have a good story and/or gameplay, or else there was no reason to play them.

Just about the only company that comes to mind is Blizzard. I know not everyone is into PRG/RTS games however, so not everyone would agree. Apogee and Sierra were two others that I would practically buy without checking first.

Used to play that at school library before we got a LAN room (and we started playing Starcraft).

Another game I loved way back was Hexen, warrior, cleric and mage in a shooter, oh yeah.. I gotta find that game.

edit, didnt see the 5 pages for this thread haha.

Alpha centauri was a classic.
Starcraft.

I have to add all the good ol' platformers, such as Epic MegaGames' trilogy Jill of the Jungle (1992) and Jazz Jackrabbit (both 1 & 2), Apogee's Duke Nukem series, the Secret Agent trilogy, Commander Keen, and many more I don't remember right now.

I spent a good portion of my childhood playing the Sierra line of Quest games....i.e. police quest, king's quest, space quest, leisure suit larry. I remember how we had to be sneaky when playing leisure suit larry so our (friends and I) mothers wouldn't see what we were playing. There were many other games played before and after but those stick out in my mind when you mention "old school" gaming. There is nothing quite like being 9 years old and beating one of those games by using your reasoning and problem solving skills.

Theres always Dosbox. I use it to play nuclear war. Now all you need is the name of the game... (and then find the game/rom.)

Possibly Starflight or Starflight 2

I just want to add that Star Control 2 was one of the greatest games ever made. If people reading this post have not played this game get the remade edition and give it a go. I actually just played it all the way through like 6 months ago: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Also, id like to add that while at school people held Worms tournaments for cash prizes. They got a good turnout too. I mean i thought i was good but some people are amazing with that grappling hook.

Other honorable mentions:
Dungeon Keeper - awesome game, very original
Syndicate - one of the funnest games ever and the sound track for this game rocked
Lords of the Realm 2 - Isnt this the game where you spill hot oil on your enemies army? That cant get old.
The Horde - I think i only saw 1 person mention this in the whole thread. Awesome awesome game.
Jedi Knight 2

And i didn't see it mentioned but im gonna add Microprose's Magic: the Gathering. If you ever played the TCG, you need to go get or download this game.

anyone tried Blood 1 - more than forty missions of constant horror..never played a more scary game than that one..? I heard the Pope banned it!

Actually I have, it was pretty good considering. I remember I got Blood 2: The Chosen for $50 sometime around 98/99. That was a hilarious game, in a good way.

I do not quite call SS old school yet

thats a fun game to co-op on

i remember the games like kyrandia that was great, spent hours on that.

but there is one game i can remember playing and cant think of the name.

all i can remember is there's a part where your stuck on a plane and a robot is trying to blowtorch is way in through the back, so you have to make different coloured light bulbs turn on and off in a sequence to knock it out.you also find some yellow device that you have to use on a door of a hut to get in and one of the puzzles you have to use a map and do something with bats i think.

any ideas?

Yeah I loved playing Half-Life I still do and counter strike 1.6 Oh the good old days.

I don't think I ever mentioned in this thread, but I picked up a STACK of games off of craigslist. The guy was getting rid of his PC games, and was unloading them, you had to take them all. There were some "newer" games like the first GRAW, Painkiller, and a bunch of tom clancy games. (Splitter cell, rouge spear, etc.) Also included were some older games such as Driver, XIII, The first Unreal, and a bunch of other games I never heard of. (Ground control 2?) While these are not as old as the ones we've been talking about, if I ever find the time to install and play it will keep me occupied for a long time.

Did I forget to mention I got the stack for $10 total?