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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?

If you don't have to DOSBOX it, it aint old school.

All of the TSR/SSI Goldbox games

Quest for Glory Series

Star Control 2

EOB series

Jet Fighter

Stunts

i'd spent weeks on civ II. best turnbased system for me.

Ok well I started on consoles so really -

Bionic Joe made my eyes water when I beat it. How about Super Dodge ball and River City Ransom? Man that was a crack up!

My first memorable RPG experience was FF3 - man that was awesome.

As far as PC goes how about uber castle wolfenstein! 3d baby! Half life 1 was one of the few that kept my attention long enough to get a second and even third play through.

Credit where credit is due... Starcraft was 10 years ahead of its time upon release. Nydus canal earned me the joy of getting cussed at online numerous times. I would laugh till my stomach hurt. Great game --- so cutthroat though! Can't wait for SC2

One of the best old school games I have played is Netrek. Been around about 20 years and is free. It has evolved over the years building off of PLATO to Empire and now Netrek. I remember playing over my raging 9600 baud modem. It has a Star Trek theme, is multiplayer, is real-time and you get to fight against the other team using different ships and weapons. Is pretty cool, a new version was released this month, Netrek XP 2010 at http://www.playnetrek.org

hehehe. multiplayer gameplay on a single pc. the good old days.

really old school games:

F-117 Stealth Fighter for the Commodore 64
GoldBox SSI games of Dungeons and Dragons.
Champions of Krynn series, Gateway to the Savage Frontier series, Pool of Radiance series
I miss the good old days.

Heroes of Might and Magic II and III.

Might and Magic VI

Legends of Might and Magic - Midevil version of CS. Lot of bugs and what not, but it's my fav FPS of all time.

Warcraft II

Red Alert - C&C

Doom - Spent many hours on this game as a child
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As you can see I was a big 3DO fan. It's too bad that their games went from Good -> Bad as time progressed.

Those are the PC games I grew up with and that really got me into PC gaming.
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Also some clasics from school days:

Oregon Trail

Loom

Dyno Park Tycoon

Roller Coaster Tycoon

i remember that game. the good old turn-based games of old. lol

I doubt you played F-117 on the C64. First, I played that game on my 486 before I updated the OS on it. (Win98 couldn't play that game, its version of dos was missing some files.) Second, if the plane even existed in the 80s, I doubt anyone knew about it, so they weren't making video games about it. Last, C64.com doesn't have it listed in their games list. Any chance your thinking about F-14 tomcat, f-15 strike eagle, or some other game? I loved F-117 and would love to play it again, their "copy protection" isn't that hard anyways. (would put a drawing of a plane on the screen and you'd have to ID it. Like a F-14 looks anything like an F-18.)

Quest For Glory III

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/ [...] creenshots

and no I don't use illegal emulation software you crooks.

5 was okay. The only thing is, 4 and 5 are very similar, except they took out some of the coolest aspects of 4 and replaced them with mediocre additions at best. Caravans, individual hero movement and I believe creature w/o hero movement were all removed in 5. There is nothing more satisfying in 4 than building up a juggernaut hero and having him and another juggernaut hero clash. Heroes 4 really focuses on hero development since a lvl 20+ hero can single handedly destroy an entire opposing army.

2 and 3 though are the best as far as actual game play and tactics. The AI in those two were much smarter and there wasn’t huge imbalances between the different factions.

You should really look into getting 3 and 4 though. You can find both with no cd cracks on isohunt. Need vuze to download it.

Some of the best games for me are:

prince of perisa (the first one)
commander keen series were geat I still play them sometimes, brings back good memories jumping on that pogo stick.

I was a great fan of the lucas arts games, such as sam and max and monkey island. I loved the hard puzzles and funny remarks made by guybrush threepwood. Wolfestien 3D and Doom were also some of the best games ever made.

Does anyone remember the game called cyberstorm? turn based game, you had to make a fleet of robots to go and mine minerals on other planet very very nice game.

As someone else mentioned above, I feel old now

Worms 3D had the right idea. I mean, where do you go after side-scrollers? Increase the graphical detail and make it like Super Mario 64. Unfortunately, it didn't work well. Personally, I play Worms World Party, it's like Armageddon, just more maps and options and stuff. Hardly old school.

Like someone else here said, if you don't have to dosbox the game, then it definitely ain't old school. I wish the youngun's would stop coming here with their Quake, Deus Ex and Half-Life and let us old guys reminisce. Old school was before ID Software and before Valve. I'd go so far as to say that all games including and after Wolfenstein 3D do not qualify as old school. We need to set the cut-off somewhere.

How did Commander Keen do? Did he get of off from being stranded on that planet? Did he have to confront a bigger adversary that the mad rat? I never finished the game!

i'm glad he got back home safely

how ironick, to fight off aliens time after time and then die with a donut...life truly makes no sense

well said

Currently playing baldur's gate with the 'baldur's gate trilogy' mod, which merges the bg1 world seamlessly into bg2 without needing to start a new character (unless they die, which can happen frequently on anything above normal level of difficulty). There are some awesome mods for this classic old game to give it lots of replayability. The 800x600 resolution (with the bgt mod) takes some getting used to, but there are mods to increase the resolution also. The focus of the game is more about superior gameplay and replayability than flashy graphics. It may have been as long ago as 1998 since bg1 was awarded 'game of the year' but the game is still very actively discussed on some game forums.

Also the ww1 combat flight sim 'red baron 3d'. At it's height 8-10 years ago this game was regularly played online by up to 40 players in 2 teams (allied team vs german team) each battling for control of the skies over flanders fields. With fast, exciting gameplay I have yet to experience as much fun while playing an online game (especially while supping a few beers). Each online game also featured specific team objectives such as the bombing and destruction of behind-the-lines enemy airfields, supply dumps and train depots, each heavily guarded. The first team to reach the game's objectives won the game. Red baron still has a dedicated community website http://www.wings-of-valor.net although these days the site is more regularly used to discuss online games of il2.

Combat mission: beyond overlord. Released in 2001 and featuring a superior AI, this game revolutionised the turn-based strategy wargame. As the game suggests, the game is set in the weeks and months following the allied invasion invasion of normandy in ww2, right up to the end of the war. At the start of the game the player chooses which month the game should be set, which in turn determines which units the player and the AI each gets to fight with on a randomly generated battlemap (could be a town, village, forest or woodland). Each turn you plot moves on the battlefield without knowing what moves the AI is going to make at the same time. When ready, the moves are played out simultaneously in real time and the consequences of the actions for men and tanks under your control can be observed. You can spend up to an hour plotting your moves on the battlefield only to see some of your best units wiped out in the space of 60 seconds, just because you did not anticipate a german panther tank concealed just out of sight behind a hill or a farmhouse. The original game only had 2 weaknesses, that being poor graphics (certainly by today's high standards) and a mis-calculation of the power of machine guns. Both of these problems were fixed in the sequal 'combat mission: beyond barbarossa' but the eastern front theatre may not be to everyone's tastes.

Also medieval: total war (the original medieval:total war, not the sequel). The game featured classic chess-like gameplay on the main strategic map together with huge real-time battles featuring 1000's of medieval soldiers on the tactical map. All this was combined with an excellent AI. There are a number of good player-developed modifications for the game to further enhance gameplay. Mtw1 and it's predecessor shogun:total war were both developed by the same development team. The series inferior sequels rome:total war, mtw2 and empire:total war were developed by a completely different development team and it shows. Although it's 'game of the year' award in 2002 may mean mtw1 might not currently be considered a 'classic old game', it certainly has all the makings of a classic game. Unfortunately the game is not compatible with modern nvidia graphics cards.

Why do you use older systems?
Don't older games work on new ones?
I'm downloading Deus Ex just because of all the good talk about it

Well, since thief is mentioned, It will freeze when it sees more then 1 cpu. As such, you have to patch it to use one core, or set its affinity during the main menu.

BankaiBUICK, Its things like this that make people keep an old games computer around, just in case. Kind of like how Starwars : Dark Forces II has non working video acceleration(software works fine) on many Vista/Win7 computers.

Dude Mplayer was the best online community by far from anythin at the moment had the best people games and community, nothing like mplayer adn there wil be nothing like mplayer