[Cainehill]

Originally posted by HotNifeThruButr:
I turned 14 in February, so I'm in the lonely little age group of 15-. I remember downloading Masters of Magic off an abandonware site once, and it KICKED ***! You gotta love them Adamantium hammerhands.

Better than hammerhands - adamantium (or even mithril) berserkers with a few spells cast on them. IIRC, they were 8 to a unit, multiplying the benefit of all bonuses, and they had a thrown attack, meaning that one of the best foot/melee soldiers could also attacking flying units. Awesome.

*puts on asbestos suit* I thought all the old games were supposed to be simple and crappy.

Heh. The graphics were crappy, but the gameplay was often wonderful.

LodeRunner, for instance - unbelievable quantity of hours playing that, trying to figure out how to beat the different levels. Or Wizardry - graphics that could've been done on an EtchaSketch, but addictive enough that I bought a copy before I owned a computer - $70 in, mmm, 84? Sometimes had three of us playing at the same time on computers in the office, including a staff sergeant who made fun of us for games until he tried it.

Or Sword of Aragon, in some ways one of the original precursors to Dominions....