Games you miss playing

Taera · #1 August 29th, 2003, 10:25 AM

i miss Battlezone. single and multi player. Still the best, for me.
i miss the thrill i had playing doom 2.
i miss the long hours i spent playing SE3, there's no that addictivity in SE4 for me.
i miss civ2, the original one.

there are a lot of games i miss, old games. modern games... they're made to be sold and eye-candy, and do fit in timelines and budgets, plus the monopolies of the gaming world.

Lord_Shleepy · #2 August 30th, 2003, 01:56 AM

Commander Keen...X-Com:Terror from the Deep...the original Oregon Trail...Prince of Persia...Pac Man...Biomenace...Outlaws...Artillery...Centipede. ..Digger...Hang-Man

Do not miss playing Zork. Stupid guess which synonym to type crap...rage...

QuarianRex · #3 August 30th, 2003, 02:17 AM

I miss Armored Core, the original on playstation. A bunch of us would sit around the tube trying to blow the bejeezus out of each other. Constantly trying to re-engineer the mech to better be able to dodge missiles or to be able to squeeze on two grenade launchers at the same time without slowing to a crawl.

Some of the most fun games were the ones with self-imposed limitations like the melee games, or the all rocket games (few things were more satisfying than pasting a buddy in the mellon from across the map with an unguided rocket and claiming that it was due purely to skill

).

The gasps of astonishment and sheer joy of dodging to the edge of the bLast radius of a grenade launcher, taking a mere ten damage of what would have otherwise been an armor shredding death to my stripped down chassis with a laser strapped to the arm.

Ahh... but I ramble.

I miss the laughter, the competition, the sharpening of our collective reflexes. Ahh, the joy.

deccan · #4 August 30th, 2003, 07:50 AM

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Originally posted by Lord_Shleepy:
...X-Com:Terror from the Deep...

Why this instead of Enemy Unknown? Terror from the Deep was just a rehash of the original.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 August 30th, 2003, 08:15 AM

i miss test drive for the a500. even though i still have it, it's one of the games that won't tranfer over, for some mysterious reason - not non-standard.

i can still play it on the amiga, but i'm kinda afraid to...that the graphics'll be to bad, relativily. i could do the entire thing without one cracked windshield. in the one that was good on turns. lexus, i think. could hardly get the ferrari to turn and the lambrougini was worse.

Raging Deadstar · #6 August 30th, 2003, 08:40 AM

I'll be honest the only game i miss playing is the demo of seII. I can remember the time i installed that, and went on a 48 hour playing binge lol. Many sleepless nights because of that game! To use Quarian Rex's quote:

"I just defeated the galaxy on easy mode, with only 4 AI players, I outnumbered their ships 3 to 1. I'm so skillfull!!!!"

But seriously i still dust down the cd from time to time and play it for a few days. The one thing that annoyed me was i never got the hang of tactical combat that much

cybersol · #7 August 30th, 2003, 10:05 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I could loose myself in tribes for literally days. I would play 24 hours or more at a time. The game was simply the best all time game that I have ever played before or since.

Tribes will always be my favorite game.

I totally understand the tribes addiction. I never got it, but in grad school, I had a roommate who was the strategist/leader for one of the top three clans in tribes. He was consumed by it, they had a team practice or a game almost every day, Lasting 4 hours a day or more. Neal was his name, but I don't remember the clan name

I played a little, and though the 4ms ping was nice my old computer at the time just couln't keep up.

Its amazing you can go from a twitch of the finger type game to a slow methodical game like SEIV, Atrocities. I always find the former interesting, but they don't hold my attention like the latter.

As for my own nostalgia, amoung computer games I miss my first few the most. Reach for the Stars (the original) I still play sometimes on the Apple II GS when I am home for christmas (that is where the II GS is). It was a spreadsheet but it was fun and it started the 4X experience for me. Oh, and I was way into cyberpunk around this time. A game called Nueromancer for the IIGS was the best adventure game and the best cyberpunk rendition I have seen. Even though noone ever heard of it.

And my first wargame and multiplayer game was the original Empire at a local bookstore after hours in CGA 4 colors: black, white, baby blue, and hot pink

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