OT: Oldies but Goodies

[TerranC]

Terminal Velocity; Boy, I loved that game...

Originally posted by Aloofi:
Ah, Homeworld was mindblowing, though the sequel sucked big time.

Aloofi, please tell me how the sequel to homeworld can suck when it hasn't even been released yet.

If you think that Homeworld Cataclysm was a sequel, then it's a clear sign that you did read what the box said.

Oh, and if you would like to know about the REAL sequel, go here, and find the link to the Homeworld 2 trailer.

[Kamog]

The first video games I ever played was on the Commodore Pet computer. It had a small monochrome green screen and a slow tape drive. The games came on cassette tapes and they took forever to load. There was Space Invaders, a racing game, a mining game, and a labyrinth game. I thought they were so cool!

And then I played games on the Intellivision. There were some really fun games: Sea Battle, Utopia, B-17 Bomber, Dungeons & Dragons, Bomb Squad, Astrosmash, Armor Battle, and, uh, hmm, what was that game called? The one where you fight robots inside a maze - Night Stalker?

This was a long time ago... I miss those days.

[Narrew]

I never got into FPS's, but 1 game that I really got hooked on was Transport Tycoon, ran in DOS, decent 2D graphics, I loaded up a while back and played it. Chris Sayer was the programmer, he asked who ever had the legal title to it (I think Micropose) if they would sell/release it back to him so he could revamp it (it had been out of print for a long time), they said no.

Oh well, I dont know exactly why I was hooked on it, but I was.

[mac5732]

ah yes, us older geezers played Doom heritic, duke nukem and the quakes, but how about

the Origianl Zork (atari & commodore), Imperium Glactim (by SSI), Baltic 1998 (SSI), Guadalcanal by SSI for the Apple, and there was Naval Game for the Atair by SSI, I forget the name but I have it upstairs with all my other atari and commodore games....It was fun and you could design your own naval scenerios.... played it by the hour...

just some ideas Mac

[Slynky]

Of all the games I played across a modem....

Empire Delux: Worked flawlessly! I just remember getting upset when my tanks failed to roll off the transport and capture a nice city (100% plus).

DOOM II: A good game that could be played over a modem. Lots of maps to download, but I used an editor and made many many deathmatch levels. Most of them were variations of symetrical designs but with changes (evil grin) so that it wasn't a COMPLETE symetrical arrangement.

For me, Duke Nukem was too hard. Too old to play it. A few more keystrokes to rememer than in DOOM II. Yeah, I show my age to all those young "arcade jockies".

[tbontob]

Mac mentioned the old Zork.

Zork was upgraded a number of times and IRRC, it eventually had graphics.

The original Zork? No graphics! All text and you gave instructions via the keyboard. Your imagination was a vital part of the old game.

And Slynky. I too loved Empire Deluxe. First got hooked on its predecessor, Empire.

[Kamog]

Those text-based adventure games were fun. I remember all the commands were keyboard-based, like [N]orth, [S]outh, [W]est, [E]ast, [u]p, [D]own, [F]ight, [G]et, [L]ook, etc. I never finished any of those games because I always got hopelessly lost in the labyrinths (I was too lazy to map things out on a piece of paper). I sort of just randomly wandered around all over the place, fighting stuff, picking up treasure and eventually getting killed.

Then there were those text-based games that had ascii graphics. The rooms were drawn using #### for walls or something, and there were characters like "r" and "S" and stuff moving around that represented monsters and different objects. I forget what the game was called. Never finished that one one either. I kept running out of food and starving to death. Or I'd eat some dead carcass out of desperation and get poisoned. It got kind of depressing after a while.