The best of the old games

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 6:14 pm

Truthfully, now: not just a game you liked, but a game you're still playing which is at least--well, seven or eight years old? Is that too much to hope? In any case, name it, tell us why you like it, and how much you will pay for us never to pass that information on to people you respect.

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 6:38 pm

I started playing them out of lack of options, but have grown to love them.

CIV 1: The most serious game out of the list. It is IMO the best in the whole series- not too simple, not too complicated- just right. The newer CIV 2 simplified it, CIV 3 complicated it.

Sam & Max hit the road: I know this game by heart so I only play once in a while, but I really love it. It has a certain charm that never quits- in addition to a couple of great characters.

Scorched Earth/Tank: (it goes by both names).
A very fun game which hasn't really developed a modern counterpart. Basicaly, you get up to ten tanks, you assign any number of them to yourself or the computor, buy weapons/accesories- and try to kill each other! sounds too simplistic to be good, I know, but it really is fun. The large variaity of weapons makes the game fun each time.

Dune 2: The original command and conquer. It is, although the most interesting out of all the Westwood realtime games I've seen. Although it lacks a decent story line, movies, or good graphics- it has great units with very fun missions.
Actualy, I don't think it's better than the newer ones, but it's my favorite for nostalgic reasons.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 7:32 pm

Uncharted Waters (New Horizons) (For the SNES)

I have played this game for at least the last 6 or 7 years. Adventuring on the high seas, a little piracy here and there...trading gold, beads, glass. Finding lost treasures.

Cost..

Well I use to rent any game before I bought it (SNES at least) and picked this game up on a friday..(5 day rental). After returning it, I decided to find the game and buy it.

$65.00 for it, and it took a while.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 11:05 pm

Day Of The Tentacle 2.
From the golden age of LucasArts.

And the ultimate in platforms Super Mario Bros 3. Oh god it took me ages to beat that game.

humanflyz · Post by **humanflyz** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 11:08 pm

I still play Shadowrun for the SNES. I am fascinated with anything amnesiac (not counting the cheesy sopa operas of course), that's why I liked PS:T and movies such as Memento.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Tue Jul 09, 2002 12:06 am

If I still had a SNES (I'm buying a second-hand one soon), it'd be Secret of Mana all the way. And Street Fighter 2 Turbo, I loved that game.

On the PC I still love Thief 2.

This is what being a thief should be like, quiet and sneaky.

Alienbob · Post by **Alienbob** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 12:37 am

X Com: UFO Defense. i have to say that this is one of the most addicting games i have ever played. unfortunatley i havent figured out how to get it to work in Win XP.

its a great game though.

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 3:45 am

4d test drive!
The race game where you can build your own tracks. Loopings, tunnels etc. its very cool.
I still play that game!

Civilesation 1 (sp?), many time while playing that game time passed by VERY fast, till late, late at night.

Monkey island 1, to bad I lost my discs. And my game was corrupt too, halfway through the adventure it stopped for some reason.

Ah, the good old days...

josh · Post by **josh** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 5:40 am

Does Minesweeper count?
I haven't turned on my SNES for 3 years and I've forgotten what games I have for it.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Tue Jul 09, 2002 5:45 am

Originally posted by josh
Does Minesweeper count?
I haven't turned on my SNES for 3 years and I've forgotten what games I have for it.

Do you have Secret of Mana perchance? I've been looking everywhere for a copy of that game.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 5:47 am

A probably little-known game called Moria - it along with another game called Moraff's World started off my addiction to RPGs. I still do play them every so often - Moria in particular, despite having pretty bad ASCII graphics and little to no plot, had the most perfect gameplay. I never did kill the Balrog though...

josh · Post by **josh** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 5:50 am

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Do you have Secret of Mana perchance? I've been looking everywhere for a copy of that game.

Nope. I haven't got a single RPG for the SNES.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Tue Jul 09, 2002 5:54 am

Did anyone ever play the old Dink Smallwood game? Hilarious.

@Josh-Bugger. Ah well, thanks for checking, I guess.

Beldin · Post by **Beldin** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 6:01 am

My vote goes to the X-Com games, too. (there were 2 of them - one with UFO's and the other one under the sea...) - but I can't get them to run in W2K. . .

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No worries,

Beldin

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 6:03 am

Originally posted by mental_nomad
I am with Weasel, on uncharted waters

Is he up in the crows nest again? If so, I think you should wrest the map from him - he'll just get you even more lost

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 6:18 am

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Did anyone ever play the old Dink Smallwood game? Hilarious.

The best freeware game I have ever played.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Tue Jul 09, 2002 6:22 am

Stupid me went and finished the game before I got the ice magic.

And I killed that horrible husband of Dink's aunts after a while, by punching him in the head through a wall about 3000 times. That was a great glitch, he used to kill me every time I tried hitting him fairly, but then he got stuck.

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:24 am

Ninja Gaiden 1, 2 and 3 on NES - and yes I still have my NES working !

Super Shinobi 1 and 2 on Genesis, my Genesis still look as new too

Wing Commander series, MechWarrior 2 + add on, Might Magic - the Sheltem Saga, Baldurs Gate series, Command & Conquer + some other RTS games......now that really takes lots of space on my HDD

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:41 am

Little game called Hidden Agenda, came out around 1987. Fascinating. You were the head of a banana republic, appointing four ministers from three political parties, and interacting every season with up to three NPCs out of eighty in the game. You had to make policies--and depending upon whom you appointed to a specific position, that minister might back your policy, or actually work against its implementation. The idea was to balance the radical and reactionary forces in the country in such a way that you stayed in power for a full term, and dealt with some of the really pressing problems (infrastracture, education, health, economy, etc). If any major power felt you were going too far to one side, you could be easily overthrown by a coup. Lovely game, this.