What is your old favorite game on PC?

[Chaotic42]

I guess I'll have to stay with the boring answer of Doom.
Silent Service 2 and Bass Champ both make the top 5 though.

 

[Dug]

What was your Hardware question again?

And why do you care again?


Anyway- even before the pc was my all time favorite- Wizardry

 

[Gunbuster]

I wish they still made games like Mission Critical

 

[Rankor]

Sorry, but I couldn't pick just one game and I wanted to give some of these games their due .

Aces Over the Pacific, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, US Navy Fighters 97, EF2000, WW II Fighters

X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Wing Commander 3/4, X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, X-Wing Alliance, Descent, Descent FreeSpace

Need For Speed, Screamer, Rally Championship, Rally Championship 3D

Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom ][, Alien Doom Mod, Bubblegum Crisis Doom Mod, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Shogo, Blood, Blood 2, Nolf

Final Fantasy 7

System Shock 2, Thief, Thief 2, Deus Ex

Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Warcraft 2, Starcraft

Mechwarrior 2, Mechwarrior 2 Mercs, Netmech, Interstate 76

Civ 2, Master of Orion, Master of Orion 2


They're probably others but I'm playing Nolf 2 on Superspy right now.

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Almost forgot Grim Fandango, Circle of Blood, Tomb Raider Series, Metal Gear Solid, SWAT 3, ALL of the Half-Life Series, MDK Series, Midtown Madness Series, Rainbow 6 Series

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[GT1999]

Half-Life and Counter-Strike
Civilization II
Quake II & soundtrack

 

[KingTrav1]

Half-Life (TFC) - I still play TFC few times a week for my clan. My favorite OLD game are the Police Quest series, I didn't like any of the SWAT games though.

 

[xfactordomine]

How old is old?

On my C-64 (that's considered a pc right? ) :

Archon
Mail Order Monsters
Bard's Tale 1, 2, & 3

Now I use a C-64 emulator when I'm feeling particularly nostalgiac..

On x86... :

Betrayal at Krondor
Freecell!
Warcraft 1 & 2
C&C Red Alert



-X

 

[DimZiE]

gunship 2000, budokan, rampage, F117a nighthawk ( i still play all of them on my 386SX machine )
but the first game i remember playing and having a good time was "Kings Quest I"
some of the more recent games (early 90's) i still play are Quake, Duke NukeM, and Total Anhinnilation...


the good ol' days ( i can brag about my system w/ only 2 MB of RAM )

 

[tart666]

For my top game of all time:

Xenon 2 Megablast from the Bitmap Brothers released in 1989. The best vertical-scrolling shooter EVER! To this day the song haunts me. Just won't get out of my head. If you have time, check it out : it's Megablast by "Bomb the Bass" .

Some other favorites:
Elite,
Civ I,
Doom (of course),
TFC 1.5 (actually not an oldie, still sold in stores),

 

[Mem]

Tough call but I`ll say the X-COM games,especially the first one UFO Enemy unknown .

 

[slicksilver]

Grim Fandango

 

[ed21x]

Tetris
Doom2
Starcraft
C&C (original)

 

[eaadams]

Wing Commander II and all the addons and voice packs
Doom on a BBS
X-Wing series (all of the Holland games)
Castles (where it all started)
Quake I with metalica in the backround and the power / value my 3dfx produced then
Syndicate .... "terminate!" This game NEEDS TO BE REDONE SO BAD!

 

[tart666]

Does anyone know if Grim Fandango runs on win2k? or do I have to install 98 to play it?

 

[shadware]

Space Quest 4-6 and the remake of 1. Great games. DN3D is great as well. Now i've just been working on UT2K3 against bots since 56k no longer will support me in CS

 

[capodeloscapos]

Well, obviously, my Nº 1 is HIDDEN&DANGEROUS, it´s fantastic!!!!

Need For Speed 4 (I still play it, but it CAN HAVE HIGH REQUIREMENTS STILL NOW, if you download new cars ( jpracing.racerplanet.com ) such as the HIGH POLIGONS ONES. and play it in a two players race with ALL THE HIGH DETAIL.

Grim fandango is great, and Age of Empires too.
In order to play a two players game in real time, RETURN FIRE is a must.

TOCA 2 touring cars is also excellent.

PD: The ones who have a powerfull rig, can test NFS 4 with the full grid high polys cars, and race a split screen with a friend, and see if you can get 30 FPS.
The renault Clio, Megane, VolksWagen Gol, Fiat 125 and Peugeot 205 are one of the most heavy, in order to test.
I still play NFS4 with my father, and it´s really fun.

 

[RaiderJ]

King's Quest IV (Perils of Rosella) holds a spot just because it was the first PC game I ever spent a good bit of time with, and I even wrote to Sierra's snail-mail hint address a few times to help me out with some of the puzzles. Ever wait 4 weeks to get a response on how to get past a spot in a game? Also, The Humans and the Quest for Glory series ate up many hours in front of a computer screen. All the Lucasarts games, chiefly The Dig were great games as well.

Of the more recent games, why has no one mentioned Fallout! Too new maybe?

 

[KickItTwice]

My old time all favorite.... Quake 2 I still play it online all the time. CTF rocks. As for single player, Half Life, and Unreal( graphics way ahead of its time) were great.

 

[annihilator]

Betrayal at Krondor

Woot! That one got me into pc gaming in the first place.

Also, how about @#$!ing Gabriel Knight?! (The first one.) Damn, that was a good game. Some of the puzzles were ridiculously hard, but that probably had the best plot of any adventure game I ever played.

And, another vote for Starcraft as well.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I'd have to say Civilization 1, I still played that up untill recently lol prob the greatest classic strategy game of all time, for FPS's I'd say Counter-Strike still holds it own, and although it's not That old Homeworld is still by far one of the most advanced and best RTS's of all time, no one does a 3D rts better.

 

[Andros]

Very old favorites: Quest for Glory, Gabriel Knight , Monkey Island, Broken Sword etc etc.. Wing Commander and X-Wing/TIE Fighter are up there too.

The game I think I got the most out of was Quake2. I played Q2CTF for years.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: squalejo
For me it's still CS.....

I take it this is Counter Strike?

 

[Officerdown]

Best old game huh?
I'd have to say Blood or Doom. Both are classic old time games. I remember blood was the first game I ever bought. Yeap, I played that on the 'ol 233Mhz... Now I play it on my g0d computer, 2200+. Just as good as it was back in the day, accept for some sound problems.


Officer

 

[Jeff7]

How old are we talking here?
I used to get to play Number Crunchers on the MAC we had in the classroom in elementary school.

I liked Dune II a lot back in the day; it got even better once I got my first soundcard.

I guess Half Life is old, though I only actually got it maybe a year or two ago. Counterstrike was cool too; I sucked at it from start to finish; when I started, it was maybe 1:10 as my killeath ratio; I finally managed to improve it to maybe 1:3 average....I went on a vacation from CS for awhile, but just tried it again. Sooo many empty servers anymore; the few fast ones I found were mostly bot servers. Time to look for a replacement I guess.

 

[dszd0g]

Originally posted by: Officerdown

I'd have to say Blood or Doom. Both are classic old time games.

O.K., I object to any video game released in the last decade being called a "classic." Doom was released in 1993 as shareware. I really enjoyed the game, but give it another 10 years. If people are still playing it, then it's a classic.