Classic Games that you love.

[Sorrow]

i personally loved these titles:
Syndicate Plus
Genewars
Warwind/Warwind 2
Ultima 8
Myst 1



these are all ones i played when i was a younger, basically grew up on them, i am curious to see what games other people played back when they where younger.

[Fost]

Hey! Cool thread idea! I pretty much skipped consoles, and so my golden era runs from the speccy to the Amiga.

Spectrum:
RanaRama
KnightLore
Lunar Jetman
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Jet Set Willy
Nebulus
Elite

Amiga:
Blood Money (I remember being 2 minutes away from finishing this when my Mum started chopping some onions in the kitchen, which caused my eyes to run so much I couldn't see what I was doing!)
Speedball II
Shadow of the Beast
The Chaos Engine
Monkey Island 1 (First game I ever felt really sad about because it had ended - plus it had miles better music on the Amy)
Flashback
Another World
The New Zealand Story
Xenon II
Syndicate
Populous II
Dynablaster
Alien Breed
Virus

Wow I played a lot of games back in those days! The funny thing is - I still spend more time playing games from this era than any new releases. I just seem to get a higher 'fun' quota out of them...

[Hamish]

When I was a kid I loved all the PC platform games from Apogee. Commander Keen, Bio Menace, Monster Bash, etc. All the games I made back then were very inspired by these.

I played Doom all the time aswell, usually with all the cheats including walk through walls on. I have no idea why I thought that was fun. One day my dad confiscated the magazine with the cheats in and forced me to play like a real man.

I got Ultima 8 on a CD with my first sound card. I thought it was amazing because until then I had never played anything resembling an RPG. It took me about three years to figure out how to finish it, I spent alot of time trying to climb up the impassable mountainside because I couldn't figure out where to go. Compared to other RPGs it's pretty horrible, and it marked the end of the success of the Ultima series (unless you count online) but I still liked it cause it was the only one I had.

[Sorrow]

i loved ultima 8, unlike all the other rpg's i played it seemed to have a really cultured feel to it, the combat engine sucked, but the rest of it captured my heart oh and i didn't finish it till 5-6 years later when the graphics were very dated.

I don't know how i forgot doom i used to play it at my uncles place [death match] and even made maps for the thing, so much fun in the ol Doom.

Not to mention Commander Keen, i remember spending so much time playing it and thinking it was so hard

Xenon II <3

[Konedima]

[Sorrow]

i remember playing Jazz the Jackrabbit

i played so many games when i was younger it's not funny

Another two to add to my list would have to be Kings Quest 5 and 6

[simonb]

When i first descovered the PC i played games like colonization, civilisation, populous, sim city, wing commander, privateer, Elite.

Elite is still one of my favorite games, someone should do a remake of it.

Also, i played Ultima 7 back then and only started playing Ultima 8 when it was very outdated. I think 7 is far better.

[01d55]

I started playing in the 16-bit console era, the first gaming system I owned was the Sega Genesis (the model with a side port for the Sega CD). It came with Sonic 2, which was also the first game I managed to beat (but not before I had the first sonic, sonic 3, and knucles.)

I loved the Sonic games for the way I never really knew all of the levels. Especially Sonic 3, I was always finding giant rings that I'd never seen before or had forgotten about.

I actually didn't get another console until the N64. In the meantime, I played friends' copies of Chrono Trigger, LttP, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, and a few other SNES games.

It wasn't until I had a Gamecube that I finally got around to playing Super Metroid, which is totally awesome and everyone should play it. Like, now. I found the original Metroid to be unplayable, mainly because the zoomers are inveencible (Can't shoot down! Can't duck and shoot! ARG!)

Recently I played a javascript version of Zork on the internet. I managed to light up the attic before I gave up on ever figuring out what my goal was.

It seems that games have been getting easier, on the whole, as time goes on. This is particularly evident in Nintendo games - I'm fairly sure they haven't made a hard game since Mario 64.

[Hamish]

I think developers have started to make their games easier because it attracts more players. People can be drawn into a game if they've given immediate success and feel like they're good at it. When you don't playtest your game properly you usually end up making it very difficult, because after playing it every day for a few years you get very good at it.

Ultimately you can't go wrong by simply having different difficulty settings for your game, so I've got an easy mode for people who dont play many action games, and hard and extreme mode for hardcore gamers who like a real challenge.

[01d55]

[Fost]

I wonder if anyone here is old enough to get excited about the Nintendo Revolution as much as I am? recently, I was looking for some games my wife would actually enjoy - she pretty much can't be bothered with anything 3D, except for the odd game that is 3D, but gameplay is essentially 2D.

I was thinking about the history of games I've actually managed to get her to play:

Slippery Sid on Spectrum (Essentially mobile phone fave 'snake')
Bomberman on Snes
The New Zealand Story on the Amiga
Chu Chu Rocket on DC
Chuzzle on PC

Not a lot else, other than the odd driving game and beat-em-up for 5 minutes before she got bored. I was actually looking into picking up a snes - there's loads of games on it I'm sure she'd love, before the Revolution backwards compatibility was announced. I'll be keeping an eye on the press to make sure Snes compaitibilty and game availability is good enough, but it's looking like the Revolution is my personal next gen console of choice. (Especially if they bring out a pink controller - that means she'll be happy )

[Konedima]

The problem with downloading classic games onto the Revolution is that it only has 512mb of flash memory for game saves and downloaded games. Not much of a problem if your just gonna download NES and SNES games but I think some N64 games weigh in at over 50mb - your not going to fit too many of those

[Fost]

[Konedima]

I know I shouldn't turn this thread more into Revolution discussion, but I think Nintendo is crazy not having DVD playback built in to it. One of the reasons we got a PS2 is because it can play DVDs. Also, they've said that the thing to make it playback DVDs will be installed inside it. I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't want to open their Revolutions for fear of hurting something. Plus, anything that simply doesn't just plug in is hard to install anyway.

[Sorrow]

oooooh i am excited as well fost


The two Zelda 64 games <3

oh oh and i'll be able to get turok Rage wars....i had SO much fun playing that back in the old days

dose anyone know about their region limitations?