Games you miss playing

deccan · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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

[ August 30, 2003, 10:17: Message edited by: cybersol ]

Gryphin · #5 August 30th, 2003, 02:11 PM

I miss SE III on purly nostagic reasons. I was playing 20 hours a week when she divorced me.
(a symptom not the cause )

Atrocities · #6 August 30th, 2003, 02:53 PM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
I miss SE III on purly nostagic reasons. I was playing 20 hours a week when she divorced me.
(a symptom not the cause )

Not to offend you, but you do realize that is a sympton of Space Empires Addiction do you not?

The first stages of the addiction are:

1. Obssive behavior often associated with the phase, "Just one more turn."
2. You begin to miss work because you stayed up all night long playing Space Empires.
3. Your partner leaves you because you spend all of your time playing Space Empires.
4. Rapid weight gain.
5. Lack of desire to bath
6. Sleeping at your computer desk.
7. Forum addiction.
8. Days will pass by and you will still think is is sunday when in fact it is Friday.
9. Nothing begins to matter except beating the Eee.
10. You burn up your mouse, and must buy a new one.

Later stages of the addiction are most powerful and best discussed later.

Geckomlis · #7 August 30th, 2003, 02:58 PM

Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
http://www.classicgaming.com/reviews/nes/rtk.htm
I did not know the game was based on a book:
http://www.threekingdoms.com/

I actually got the book (in translation) via inter-library loan this week. It is really quite good.

I could not have been older than 16 when I first played ROTK... I feel old.