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Let's reminisce about the olden days.

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C64 - remember trying to adjust the head on the floppy drive?
Flight Simulator
Red Storm Rising
The Gauntlet

8086 - BBS Star Trek

The Kings Quest Series - I recently played KQ8 Mask of Eternity again; great game
 
I..feel..... old.

First time I used a computer was either at school [unix system - Had to use ye old style of rotary dialing a remote server and placing the phone into the phone acoustic set: http://penguinpetes.com/images/acoustic_phone_modem.jpg ] or using a Radio Shack Texas Instruments PC computer (with the huge floppy disks) to enter data into a spreadsheet [helping my Mom at her workplace].

That started my trend in computers starting with TI-99/4A [delved into programming and made a few games]. After that - Apple at school and C-64 at home [started surfing the high seas with ye mateys - aarggh!!], then an Amiga [waaay ahead of it's time - too bad Commodore totally dropped the ball on that amazing product], then finally gave in and jumped over to the PC [about the time when Doom / Windows 95 hit].


 
quake 1 online. the lag was so bad i felt like i was on ice. but loved it.
quake 2 community, enough said.
CNC red alert w/ exp. aftermath. i was top 100 in the world during junior high.
went from a 15" pos to a 17" gateway monitor. all i played was TFC and i died and gone to heaven.
then i got cable modem. been one hell of a railer ever since.

games these day are meh. quake live and l4d are the only that interest me. what i would do to go back to quake 2/quake 3 or CNC games online.
 
My next door neighbor had a computer repair shop in his backyard. I'd sit out there listening to him playing games because he had bad ass speakers. You could explosions going off, and etc. Finally I got myself invited over there, and we played Duke Nukem 3D, Krush Kill N Destroy, Warcraft 1, and 2, C&C Red Alert, Quake 2, and of course many board games *Axis and Allies*.

Those were the best days of gaming, and the most fun I had. I then discovered internet gaming on heat.net, and mplayer. Got into Quake 2, C&C Red Alert westwood online, and was hooked. It was a good era of gaming, and I all but forgot about console gaming. PC gaming is terrible now. It's all about how many shadows they can fit on a guys nose instead of making immersible enjoyable game play with decent hit detection in online gaming.



 
I remember my first multiplayer game. It was for the Atari ST and was called Midi Maze. There was no networking at the time so all the computers had to be joined through the built in midi ports. This was a first person game , like doom with 16 players. Really advanced for its time 1987.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Maze


 
Real men played games with teletypes instead of monitors. 🙂 When real men got monitors they displayed any color as long as it was green or amber but, not on the same monitor.
 
Originally posted by: jRaskell
First things first. The best thing about the good old days... is that they're gone.
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Right on because if you try to play one of those games from the good old days you'll likely ruin your very fond memories 🙁

I remember going to my cousins house and playing Racing Destruction Set on the C-64 all night long. We'd have to put a bunch of pillows on top of the 1541 disk drive to quiet it down so his parents wouldn't hear us!

Then there was the time he came over my house a few days before Christmas. We sneaked under the tree and carefully unwrapped what was to be Guild Of Thieves! OMG we played that for about 4 days nonstop until we had to slip the disk back into the present 😀

I also used to love Earl Weaver's baseball, Earth Orbit Station, Zork!, and a bunch of others I can't remember now.
 
We actually didn't get our first home computer until around 1998-1999 (I think).

Anyway, it was a Dell PII 266mhz and I played a butt-ton of Age of Empires (the original).
I was a big console gamer, so PC gaming didn't catch on with me much until I discovered EverQuest.
EQ almost broke off my engagement until I woke up.
My gaming is much more casual, although I still game a lot on the PC... Not so much console anymore unless I bust out my original NES or the SNES. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: paperfist
Originally posted by: jRaskell
First things first. The best thing about the good old days... is that they're gone.
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Right on because if you try to play one of those games from the good old days you'll likely ruin your very fond memories 🙁
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Hey now, I can still enjoy a round of Master of Magic 😛
I can't really go back to the first Wizardry or Bard's Tale, though.
 
My favorite of all time was Asheron's Call. It was an MMO released in 1999 (IIRC) and I played from 2001-2005 or 2006ish. The game itself was great, but the community was the best part of the game. I still talk with a dozen of the people I used to play with.

Other than that, my favorites were:
Command & Conquer, C&C Red Alert
Diablo, Diablo II (I finally left when they segregated old characters from new characters, so I couldn't show off my 1.09 Grandfather, 2x 1.08 Vampire Gazes, etc. anymore, lol)
Starcraft, Warcraft III
Half-Life (for its time, I still prefer it to Half-Life II)
Civilization (original), Masters of Magic, Colonization

As a little kid, the NES and our original Tandy-something-or-other are what got me into games. Next it was the Super Nintendo and an Hewlett Packard Windows 95 Pentium II 266MHz, then an HP Pentium II 450MHz, then another HP - Pentium III 1GHz. By the time we got the Pentium III, I was the computer whiz in the family, and I convinced my parents to buy a Geforce 4 MX420 64MB so I could play something, but I don't remember what. From there, we got an HP 2.0GHz Pentium 4 that we had nothing but problems with, so we finally switched to Dell with a couple of 3.0GHz Northwoods. FINALLY, sometime around 2004ish, I ordered some parts and built my first "homemade" computer - X2 4200+, 1GB Corsair DDR 400, 6800 GT PCI-E, and an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. Cost a pretty penny, and the addiction has only continued from there...
 
I remember the first Civilization. It was called "Civilization: Call to Power"

I better remember the second Call to Power (I guess there was a split? in the dev team) It was way better than Civ 2, and the gameplay was amazing. graphics sucked, but w/e. I would say the gameplay was almost as advanced as Civ 4 if you really micromanage.

good game.

Tropico too, still play it

EDIT: I forgot C&C 95. Great game there. AoE, the original, still play those two as well
 
I still remember seeing GLQuake on a Voodoo 1 for the first time. At that moment my perception and expectations of PC gaming changed forever.
 
Originally posted by: Kreon
I remember the first Civilization. It was called "Civilization: Call to Power"
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😕 You mean the first Civ that you played? CTP came out well after Civ 2.

There was some sort of naming rights conflict, and Activision briefly had the rights to the name "Civilization", so they made their own game, CTP, not related to the Sid Meier series except thematically. Around the same time Firaxis/Sid (and by "Sid" I mean "Bryan Reynolds") came out with Alpha Centauri, since Activision had the "Civilization" rights. Then Sid and Firaxis got the rights back, so the second CTP game couldn't use "Civilization" in the title anymore, and Firaxis could do the "official" Civ3.

I think the whole thing was also related to the rights to the Avalon Hill board game "Civilization", which predates the Civ1 computer game; I don't remember the details.
 
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