Classic games (before the year 2000) that you played

[Texashiker]

While over at the steam forums I kept thinking about Team Fortress Classic (TFC). While I was thinking about TFC, I thought it would be nice to start a thread about games we played before the year 2000.

If I had to name 3 or 4 computer games that my life was consumed by, those games would probably be:

Doom
Diablo
Quake (and Quakeworld)
Team Fortress Classic

There were lots of other games, such as Half-Life, Warcraft II, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Redneck Rampage, Diablo II, Quake II, Final Doom, and lots of others.

Those first 4 games probably defined gaming for a whole generation. For years after the release of Doom, all other first person shooters were called "Doom Clones". Doom set a standard that other games were judged by. The same thing went for Diablo and Quake.

I listed Team Fortress Classic because TFC was the second team based game I ever played, with Quake Team Fortress being the first. Quake Team Fortress was fun, but to me, TFC seemed like more fun.

 

[thespyder]

Um,

Zork
Mule
Adventure
DnD Gold box series (Pool of Radiance etc...)
Ultima Series
Baldur's Gate Series (including IWD series)
Xcom
Doom
Unreal
Hexen
Duke Nukem
Wasteland (awesome game)
Fallout 1 & 2
Sentinal Worlds 1
Diablo

Just to name a few.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Legend of Zelda
Super Metroid
Super Marios Bros
Contra
a bunch others for console
but PC would be none, although i did start playing UT99 right after the new years 2k, does that count?

 

[Newbian]

Add Dungeon Keeper 2 to that list as it was released in 1999 so not as old as many of the games listed but still applies.

I still fire that game up at times just to make a nice trap laze near the hero spawn areas.

 

[JoJoman88]

Lets see...

X-wing and some of the follow-ups
Nascar racing(pushed a PC real hard, made for many hardware upgrades)
Red Alert
Free Space 2(was 1999 or 2000, best Space game ever)
Doom
Half Life
Dark Forces
I'm know there were others that i can't think of right now but these stand out to me.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

On the PC: X-Wing and Tie Fighter series, Dynamix Football (a real classic), Doom II, Dark Forces, UT, etc

C64/Amiga: Mission Impossible, Larry Bird vs. Dr. J, Summer Games series, and tons more.

 

[Via]

I was a PS guy until the late 90s.

My first PC games:

Lords of the Realm 2
Ceasar 2
Alpha Centauri
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Baldur's Gate
Blade Runner

 

[cytoSiN]

Two words: Star Control.
And two more with some numerals: Star Control II.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

List of Avalon Hill games
Name Year Description
1776 1974 American Revolution
1914 1968 World War I
Acquire 1962
Afrika Korps 1977
Anzio 1969, 1971, 1974, 1978
Battle of the Bulge 1991
Bismarck 1979
Blitzkrieg 1965
Caesar 1976
Civil War 1961
Civilization 1982
D-Day 1961, 1965
Diplomacy 1961, 1977
Feudal 1976
Gettysburg 1961,
Jutland 1967, 1974
Kriegspiel 1970
Luftwaffe 1971
Midway 1991
Napoleon 1977
Origins of World War II 1971
Panzer Armee Afrika 1982
Panzerblitz 1970
Panzer Leader 1974
Rise and Decline of the Third Reich 1976, 1981
Russian Front 1985
Squad Leader - WWII tactical combat (1977)
Stalingrad (1963, 1974)
Starship Troopers (1976, 1997)
Tactics 1983
Tactics II 1961
Tobruk (1975)
Waterloo (1962)

 

[Zorander]

Master of Magic
Master of Orion 2
Star Control 2
Diablo
Diablo 2
Dungeon Keeper 2
Theme Hospital
Baldur's Gate
Fallout
Fallout 2
Homeworld
Heroes of Might & Magic 1
Heroes of Might & Magic 2
Heroes of Might & Magic 3
Ultima VII: Black Isle
Ultima VII: Serpent's Gate
Sid Meier's Colonization
Final Fantasy VII (Console port)

 

[Tweak155]

PC?

Doom
Doom II
Duke Nukem 3D
Diablo
Diablo II
Starcraft
Quake
Quake II
Heretic

I remember when Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition came out and they fixed the dial up issues that were around back then for playing someone over a modem. It was a god send!

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Their Finest Hour
Silent Service Two
Wolfpack
Doom 2
Warcraft 2
Command and conquer
Diablo
Starcraft
Master of Magic
Master of Orion
Civilization
Duke Nukem 3d
Heroes of Might and Magic 2
Syndicate
Dungeon Keeper
Fallout 1/2

Those are the ones I can think of that really consumed a lot of time. There's probably some others I'm not thinking of, and I'm not bothering with trying to list console games.

 

[mmntech]

Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Wolfenstine 3D
Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2
The Dig
X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing Alliance
Age of Empires
Commander Keen
SimCity 2000
Descent
Civilization
Caesar III
Star Trek: Judgment Rites
Dark Forces
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
Afterlife

I started computer gaming on Mac then moved to PC in 1998.

 

[spittledip]

Wasteland (I always mention this one)
Might and Magic 2
Warcraft
Dune 2000 (was released in 1998)
Zeliard
The Ancient Art of War on the Sea

 

[dennilfloss]

The Might & Magic and Wizardry single-player RPG series.

 

[spacelord]

Doom
Quake
Descent 1,2 and 3. was there a 2? I remember the original.. and 3

^^^ played all those on the work LAN every day at lunch.. good times.

Warcraft II
Ultima IV
Wizardry

 

[IGemini]

Oregon Trail 1, 2 (the only ones worth playing)
Descent 1, 2, 3 (2 was the best)
Master of Orion 2
MechWarrior 2, Ghost Bear's Legacy, Mercenaries
MechWarrior 3
Warcraft II
Starcraft & Brood War
SimCity 2000
Civilization II
Lords of the Realm 2
Dark Forces, Dark Forces II, Mysteries of the Sith
Command & Conquer Red Alert
Star Wars Rebellion
Allied General
Betrayal in Antara
Wing Commander III, V (Prophecy)
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Star Trek: Borg
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII

Another half-dozen or so Apple II-era games.

I did play Doom but after a healthy dosage of Descent it seemed too...simplistic as a shooter. Don't think I played more than two levels. Both came included with our first computer.

 

[IonusX]

doom 1 & 2
warcraft II
C&C 1
C&C red alert
carmaggeddon
daggerfall
diablo I
armymen
mechwarrior II
ms flight sim 98
redneck rampage
shadow warrior
nba full court press
the complete wizardry series (zomg epic games)

 

[sash1]

SimTower

 

[conorvansmack]

Tie Fighter
Betrayal at Krondor

 

[Arkaign]

The Might & Magic and Wizardry single-player RPG series.

M&M 6, 7, and 8 were pretty much the direct father of Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim, as far as I can tell.

 

[Maximilian]

Starcraft
Simcity 2000
Settlers 3
Pharoah
C&C red alert/C&C tiberian dawn

I was big on building stuff Had i known about dungeon keeper II back then i would've had a field day!

 

[Via]

C&C red alert/C&C tiberian dawn

Wasn't it Tiberian Sun?

 

[Zenoth]

Well, before the year 2000 I could only play the very few PC games that I "knew", at some of my friends' places, whom themselves happened to own a decent gaming PC (well only two friends to be precise, and both of them were mostly console gamers too). But I myself was on my last year of console-exclusive gaming. The year 1999 was the first year during which I didn't only own consoles at home, I also owned a PC, but it just wasn't good enough to play 3D games, and could barely run the original C&C which I had borrowed from one of my friends. The first gaming-capable PC I ever owned was in spring of 2001.

So, as far as PC games are concerned, the ones that I knew the most and happened to play on various occasions (and loved) were:

º Shareware, Ultimate DOOM / DOOM II
º Quake / Quake II
º Duke Nukem 3D
º Command & Conquer / Tiberian Sun / Red Alert
º Age of Empires II
º Carmageddon 2
º Descent II
º Half-Life
º Hexen
º StarCraft / Broodwar
º SWAT 3

And surely a few more which I'm forgetting about right now. All of those games with the sole exception of SWAT 3 were games that I played from anywhere between around 1996 or so, to late 1999 or very early in 2000. The very first PC game I bought myself without even having the proper gaming-capable PC to play it yet was SWAT 3. I had played SWAT 3 at a friends' place and loved it so much that I thought I'd buy it "in advance". I kept my brand new SWAT 3 copy untouched, unopened for a good four or five months before I finally got myself a completely new (pre-made) PC that was able to run it smoothly.

But generally speaking I was a console gamer back then. The one PC game that got me into "PC gaming" per se was none other than Diablo II, then soon followed by Lord of Destruction, which I bought in mid 2001 (just a week after I bought vanilla DII, LoD was released, and the week after LoD's release I bought it). Then my social life got consumed by Lord of Destruction (first off-line, for a good year or more, then on-line) for approximately the following seven years (damn you Blizzard).

Memories overflowing my mind right now... threads like this make me feel old, but very happy and proud at the same time that I had the chance to experience those games and the technological advancements "live" when they happened.

 

[Arglebargle]

Interesting. Didn't play a single game that the OP mentions. Not a one.

Civ and Civ2
Master of Orion 1 and 2
Master of Magic

4X all the way, I guess....