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Classic games (before the year 2000) that you played

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Hum. I played quite a few games; no clue if i remember them all - nethack for sure and hte original hack before then. Doom was kind of fun back then; as was quake and starcraft.

Then there was duke nukem !!! and Half Life. Descent was also there. Hum. Ok let see if i can make a list:

zork
adventure
star trek (the original version on the PDP-10 which ws much better than the dos version)
descent
Duke Nukem
Doom
Unreal
Hexen
Diablo
Quake
Dungeon Keeper 2
Total A
Total K
X-wing
Tie Fighter
Red Alert
Hal LIfe
Free Space
Star Craft
Heroes of Might and Magic
Wolfenstine
Empire (a text version of civ ?)
 
Lets see: awesum games of pre-2000:

hack n slash's done right
:
Darkstone (frekking awesum game, this > diablo)
Diablo I & II + expansions for both

first person shooters:
Duke Nukem 3D (+ mods & lan party = winning)
Quake (GL quake.. for lan parties)
Half-Life (counterstrike mod)

Cargames:
Carmageddon (not a good single player game)

Sim games:
Simcity 2000 (I like the simcity games too)
RailRoad tycoon (my favorite sim game ever)
Theme Hospital

Turn based RPGs:
Final Fantasy VII (admit it, you cried in this game! when she died)
Final Fantasy VIII
Xcom (terror from the deep) (I LOVED this game, I demand a new one! turn based!)
Baldur's Gate I & II
Icewind dale
Fallout
Fallout 2 (why the f*** did fallout3 turn into a first person shooter? /cries)
Planescape torment.


^ Id highly recammend any of the above games, even today,
because the gameplay in all of them is just really really good.
The graphics might be abit dated though, but doesnt take anything away from the games.
 
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PC Only pre-2000:

Arena:tES
Lords of the Realm, Lords of the Realm 2
Kings Quest ... lots of em
Age of Empires
Command & Conquer Red Alert
Diablo
Warcraft
StarCraft
Wolfenstine 3D
Baldurs Gate
Simcity

A few other very forgettable games
 
Command and Conquer
Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Age of Empires 2
Total Annihilation
Star Craft/ Brood War
Diablo
Fallout 1
Fallout 2

I played mostly rts games and rpgs on the pc. Everything else I played on the N64.
 
Before y2k is considered classic?

What does that make games like:
Karateka
Hack
Moria
M.U.L.E.
Adventure
Hard Hat Mack
???
 
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