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jjj807

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i played rapter on a x386 black and white laptop with windows 3.1 great times. 3d realms made my life
 
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As far as the Real-Time-Strategy genre is concerned, for me, it was Metal Marines.

I always considered it to be the originator of the Command & Conquer series, although no "experts" ever said that to make it official, it's just a personal point of view. However the actual term "RTS" wasn't even existing as far as I can remember back then. The actual game wasn't "Real Time" per se, and was considered to be a simple Strategy game, which was the term used during that time.

Metal Marines was originally made for the SNES and PC platforms by developer Namco, back in 1993 (and was recently released on the Wii's Virtual Console, on the 10th of July of this year). And a Special Edition PC revision was released in I believe was 1995 or 1996, which included better warning sound effects and a full voice-over acting for the otherwise voice-less mission briefings (but I myself never played that version specifically, I played the original, on Windows 3.1 and also SNES, and of course I started playing it on the SNES). I really played the heck out of that game.

I remember once though ... it was heavily raining outside, and I managed during that rainy day to stay alive in one of the toughest missions in the game by making THE biggest base I had ever been able to build up in the entire time I've owned the game. I've never been able to ever replicate anything like I did that day afterward. And during the last moments of the mission, when I was FINALLY gaining territory and the upper hand of the battle the greatest of my fear incarnated itself in the form of a sudden, unexpected yet obviously about-to-happen power loss.

Suffice it to say that when it occurred I remember I stared at the television screen for at least five minutes non-stop, speechless, troubled, baffled, out of this world, ablaze inside me and ready to detonate myself in rage, frustration and sadness. I also remember I never spoke a single word to my parents for the rest of the day. It was the feeling to have spent hours to accomplish absolute nothingness. Ah yes ... good ol' times, good ol' times.
 
ConstipatedVigilante

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Wow, you just brought back memories. My brothers and I played a lot of Jazz Jackrabbit, Keen, Raptor, Whacky Wheels, and Rise of the Triad when we were little.
 
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TestedAcorn

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Ha ha I remember Commander Keen. I used to play it at my cousins house every time i went over there. I must have played that when i was like 6 or 7. Ohhhh good times.
 
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wanderer27

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Yeah, I loved the old Infocom (Zork, etc.) games.

I really miss games like Starflight. Now that was an amazing game for as small (byte wise) as it was - seemed absolutely huge.

Why can't they make games that now?

 
WhipperSnapper

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Does anyone remember playing Star Fleet I: The War Begins which was an ASCII based space dreadnaught at war simulator? I always thought that it was an intense, rather fun game.

I also enjoyed playing Empire and Empire Deluxe.
 
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9mak9

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Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Originally posted by: Nohr
Scorched Earth - Best artillery game evar.

Death Rally - Top down racing with combat.

Line Wars II - 3D space combat, I love the music.
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Yep, used to play Death Rally and Scorched Earth back in the day as well. Hell, I still play Scorched Earth...
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yeah that is def a classic...those tank games are all over the place originating from scorched earth...

i wish they would come out with a compilation of these older games that are compatible with xp and vista...but as i said i download all the keen games for $5 from steam...it is amazing to be able to play those
 
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duragezic

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Some of my favorite old games were Commander Keen games, Jetpack, Scorched Earth, Command and Conquer, Duke Nukem (especially Duke 3D, Build engine FTMFW), Raptor: Call of Shadows. After that came Quake which with mods is probably the best game of all time still.
 
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Shadowknight

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Dark Forces, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight (and the expansion pack), The Lurking Horror, Zork Trilogy, Enchanter Trilogy, Planetfall, Stationfall, Pac-Man, Legend of Zelda (not a computer game, but I'm including it anyway), Wing Commander I-III, Wing Commander Privateer, Doom, Master of Orion, Warcraft II, Sam and Max Hit the Road.

Granted some of these are from the early 90's, but they're "old school" to me; i.e. the gameplay, writing, and overall charm overcame any graphical deficiencies, wheras it seems most (not all) of today's "big" games have graphics out the bum, but lack in playing time (10-15 hours? Really? That's worth $50?), writing, and overall fun.
 
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CP5670

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Raptor and Jazz Jackrabbit were great. I still have my original Raptor pilot and have kept using it over the years. The game is short and you can complete the whole thing in two hours or so, so I've played it at least 30 times over the years and have racked up some $900 million or so. The last digit actually doesn't even fit in the screen in the shop (Harrold's Death Emporium :laugh:). Scorched Earth was also loads of fun if you had a couple of people playing. I loved all the taunts the tanks used to make.

I practically grew up on Lemmings and Infotron (Mac port of Supaplex) in the early 90s. Both were Mac versions for which the graphics and music were far superior to the DOS ones. I remember it took me over a year to beat Lemmings back then, although I can do it in a day now. :p I found out about Lemmings Revolution only recently and am actually going through it now. Of all the various Lemmings sequels, this is the most true to the original in terms of the gameplay.

The mid to late 90s were all about the Descent and C&C games for me, and later the Freespace series (which I'm still into).
 
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9mak9

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ooo man lemmings was amazing...they have recent ones also...they can remake that game using the crytek engine that would be sweet :D

I own all the C&C that is def one of the best...decent though i remember playing that one...
 
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Anyone remember Rise of the Triad? I was also big into that Jedi Knight 2 Dark Forces game, actually the first one as well, great game. I remember Gateway having a contest where you played the game in the store on one of their computers and you had to defeat 10 enemies and the fastest times were logged, the fastest ones would get a brand new Gateway computer. I did really bad in it but that's some gaming thoughts from my past.
 
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Once the FPS craze hit - I just couldn't go back to 2d or isometric style games on the PC. It's a different story on the DS though.. :)
 
mc866

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Rise of the Triad was sweet!!! For whatever reason the graphics looked so good at the time. Again not the oldest game mentioned here but a good one.
 
Skunkwourk

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Sam N Max: Hit the Road
Dune II: Battle for Arrakis

EDIT: I briefly remember playing Bioforge but never finished it. Only posting it cause I randomly came across it.

oh and old VGA games where you had to type in the command, the memories.
 
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Reader Rabbit

Lord of the Realm

Karateka

Prince of Persia

Full Throttle : One of the best Adventure games ever by LucasArts

Frogger

Battlezone

Cyberia 1 & 2

Crusader No: Remorse and Crusader: No regret - 2 of the best topdown isometric view shooters ever of the 90s

 
Ika

Ika

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Raptor

SimTower

Gizmos and Gadgets

Jazz Jackrabbit

Duke Nukem (sidescroller)

Wolfenstein

Oh man these were the shit. Me and some buds had a trip down memory lane and we busted out some of the old games. I showed them the SimTower glitch where your money goes negative after getting around 2.2billion or so.
 
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9mak9

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I like sim isle...that was an interesting one...

Do you mean Syberia 1 and 2? cause yeah i love adventure games
 
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