Let's reminisce about the olden days.

[erwos]

Sword of the Samurai was like my favorite damn game ever as a kid. I should really go hunt it down and play it with dosbox.

Otherwise, the old Infocom text classics come pretty close. I'd say my favorite was Zork Zero, but Enchanter and Beyond Zork come close.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: chizow
SSI Gold Box games and Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2. These games helped build AD&D's reputation on the PC long before BG1 and 2. The original NWN was actually based on the SSI Gold Box code though. Long hours spend exploring and mapping every bit of those SSI games. EOB 1 and 2 were a great mix of first person action, puzzle solving and RPG character development.

I just found my EOB floppies whilst clearing out a box in the basement... 5.25"
I asked my kids if they'd ever seen a 5.25" floppy and they said no, so I showed them the disks.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: chizow
SSI Gold Box games and Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2. These games helped build AD&D's reputation on the PC long before BG1 and 2. The original NWN was actually based on the SSI Gold Box code though. Long hours spend exploring and mapping every bit of those SSI games. EOB 1 and 2 were a great mix of first person action, puzzle solving and RPG character development.

I just found my EOB floppies whilst clearing out a box in the basement... 5.25"
I asked my kids if they'd ever seen a 5.25" floppy and they said no, so I showed them the disks.

EOB rocked, played that quite a while. And The Bard's Tale's sequel The Destiny Knight.

 

[GZNails]

I started in '93. We played SWOTL (secret weapons of the Luftwaffe), Grand Prix (thought shock on the wheels were revolutionary) and the original Sim City. I remember we looked up codes to cheat for SC. When we got to school we typed in "funds" on the school comp and it gave us mad cash. I know some of you remember that.

Everyone in the classroom thought we were crazy good hackers.... yeah... right.

Then my folks bought my bro and I a Macintosh Performa 450 for about $1,500. We got into Sim City 2000 and again typed in the cheat code:
porntipsgazzardo... I'm sure you remember that code! (Had to ask my bro the other day as I couldn't remember and he said it as if he had just played the game.)

Then got into cs beta in aug of '98 and have been goofing around since.

 

[imported_Imp]

In the good old days, I was a little kid playing video games on the computer and consoles. I did not care for losing, so I smashed one Super Nintendo Controller (technically, it still works), and I use to hit the tower or pummel the desk on which the computer sat. That computer always had major issues, I wonder why...

 

[zerogear]

Konami Code + Contra.

 

[Cuular]

Zork on a Commodore Pet, and Space Invaders both loaded from cassette tape. Moved on to a home built Apple II and The Way of the The Exploding Fist. One of the best side scrolling martial arts games ever produced. Accidently discovered it in a box of floppies picked up from a rummage sale.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: CPA
Links 386, now that was a great game.

Yes indeed it was. And those graphics were awesome.

Duke Nukem

Commander Keen

Crystal Caves

Monuments of Mars

Apogee games rocked!!!!

 

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: acheron
now get off my lawn, at least until such time as we can get someone even older than I am who played Rogue on a mainframe in 1980 or something.

Star Trek on an IBM 370/158.
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/st.html

 

[TidusZ]

Originally posted by: Imp
In the good old days, I was a little kid playing video games on the computer and consoles. I did not care for losing, so I smashed one Super Nintendo Controller (technically, it still works), and I use to hit the tower or pummel the desk on which the computer sat. That computer always had major issues, I wonder why...

My little brother is 19 and he still does that to his desk unfortunately, I hear him cussing and banging when he gets owned in WoW pvp. Then if I investigate he'll whine about warlocks usually.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Rise of the Triad.

"NO! Please don't kill me! Have mercy!"

I love that game, all of the funny random things that were put in there.
I'm going to see if I can get my copy running in dosbox tonight
God mode made you 10 feet tall, bulletproof and able to shoot balls of light.
Dog mode, turned you in a viscous mutt.
The Excalibat.
Being told "Yoooouuuuuuu Ssssuuuuccccckkkkk!" if you died without killing any enemies.
If you made the screen the smallest size (a trick to get the game to run faster on slow machines) the game would tell you to "Get a 486 "
The random hats appearing on the characters on the loading screen for different holidays.
A late game item called "El Obscuro's Head", a dis-embodied head of Gilligan from Gilligan's Island.

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Rise of the Triad.

"NO! Please don't kill me! Have mercy!"

I remember my dad being very upset when I played this game. He didn't think it was very funny when me and a friend would take turns getting people to beg then shoot them anyway

 

[Golgatha]

It started with the NES, then the SNES, Genesis, and finally in college I got my first PC in 1997 (AMD K5 233Mhz, 32MB RAM, 2MB Matrox Video, ESS SB compatible, and 4.3GB Maxtor HDD). Built my first computer with the help of a still very good friend. It was an ASUS P2B motherboard, 160MB of RAM, PII 400Mhz, and had a blazing fast Sound Blaster brand Voodoo II 8MB card in there. I played mostly NSF II, Quake 2, Total Annihilation, and Final Fantasy VII in those days.

I learned to build and troubleshoot PCs for gaming purposes and to make a little extra cash in college. I now have a Q9550@3.0Ghz, 8GB DDR2, 1.8TB of total storage, and a 1GB 4870 video card. I also became A+ certified (602 PC tech designation) this year just for kicks (I'm a chemist by training). I still love PC gaming as much as ever.

I've got a fully backwards compatible PS3 and Nintendo Wii for console action, and I'm a sucker for those retro games compilation discs. Sonic's Mega Collection for PS3 is my most recent purchase, and let me say it is well worth the money.

 

[Patt]

First games were on a Commodore Vic 20 ... some sweet games loading off cassette tapes and cartridges. Then I graduated on to an Apple II clone, where Ultimata III and Ultimate IV took up waaaaaaaay more time that I care to admit. Swapping games with a buddy down the street, looking back, I'm surprised I was allowed to play so much

Then nothing ... absolutely nothing until I bought my first computer for myself, which was a rockin' P75, with an 8 MB vid card that was smoking on WarCraft II. Since then, I haven't looked back ... and now I have a kickass PC, a PS3, a WII, and a PSOne that still sees the occasional action.

ACTUALLY: now that I think of it, the first games were not PC based, but an old-ass Coleco with a lightgun.

 

[rudder]

Atari 800 and Crush, Crumble, and Chop. This was before the 5.25" floppy disk revolution. You had to listen to screeeeech..... schroooonch..... schreeeech for 10 minutes for it to load.

If you had the big bucks you could buy the cartrigde version, but then you could not stop the program and hack your hit points.

 

[Marty502]

My first computer (1994, I believe) was a 486 DX4 100 Mhz with a whooping 1.2 GB HD and 8 MB of RAM.

I then upgraded the RAM to 16 MB, my video card from 1 to 2 MB, and man... my PC ate NFS!

And some people said I overkilled the whole thing when I got it up to 48 MB of RAM. Windows 95 was pretty smooth at that point!

Four pages and no one has mentioned Wacky Wheels?? Coolest Apogee game! I also had lots of fun with Death Rally, DN3D, Doom 2...

 

[Bulldog13]

Really 4 moments stick out most looking back.

Rocking the Bad Street Brawler on the Olivetti.

Crusader: No Remorse. First person you run into is a random scientist giving you some information. Then you think, damn, I got me this gun here. And watching him fall over in an expanding pool of blood.

The Command and Conquer install sequence.

Tinker trapping in Ultima Online while hidden. Watching the prey debate on opening your chest o goodies.

 

[QueBert]

bad street brawler! They need to remake that, not in photo realistic 3d, but very nice hand drawn cell shaded cartoon graphics. That game on my C64 was loads of fun, it didn't have a story and didn't make much sense. I beat up an old lady, a dog, a gorilla and some goons. I want a updated version! lol

Racing Destruction Set on the C64 was good, making your own tracks + setting gravity to nothing and making the cars fly off jump never got old to me.

Law Of The West, if I had programming skills I'd make a 08 version. Exactly the same game with new graphics and voice acting. "UP YOURS SHERIFF!"

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Going to the university to play Star Trek on the mainframe with kids at Cal Tech over ARPANET.

 

[fwacct4]

I vividly remember the disappointment I felt after upgrading from an IBM XT to IBM AT which rendered "Bouncing Babies" unplayable due to the tremendous increase in the speed.

 

[lifeobry]

MegaRace, the original. I remember i couldn't beat the track Particle Accelerator.
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. So fun.

Those were when I was pretty young. Nostalgia. Ahh...

 

[TidusZ]

Originally posted by: Bulldog13
Really 4 moments stick out most looking back.

Rocking the Bad Street Brawler on the Olivetti.

Crusader: No Remorse. First person you run into is a random scientist giving you some information. Then you think, damn, I got me this gun here. And watching him fall over in an expanding pool of blood.

The Command and Conquer install sequence.

Tinker trapping in Ultima Online while hidden. Watching the prey debate on opening your chest o goodies.

That install sequence impressed the hell out of me. That whole game kicked my ass.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I started out with a c64 and when my parents finally caved and got me a 300 baud modem my world changed... Even moreso when they finally caved again and got a second phone line.

I miss all of the old lucasarts games the most. Simple but awesome. I still like to play the first two monkey islands from time to time.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

My first computer was an Apple II+ that I got for nothing. 64K RAM and a monochrome monitor. My first games were Infocom text adventures, RPGs like The Bards Tale and Wizardry and a couple of action games. One of the all-time great action games on the Apple II machines of the day was Loderunner. Tons of fun, lots of action and it required a great deal of thought to puzzle out how to beat the levels. Maybe the best combination of reflexes and brains in any game I've ever played. 150 levels and NO save game feature. The way I finally beat it was over the course of a week where I'd play a few hours a day and leave the computer on 24/7 when not using it because to turn it off meant I had to restart on level 1. It's amazing how afraid I was of a power failure once I got beyond level 75 or so.

 

[Molondo]

For me it was prince of perisa and Digger. i only played it on my dads company computer at work. Still got lots of milage out of it!