xerxes Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Myth: The Fallen Lords. Best team multiplayer game to date. I only hope CM with the engine rewrite allows the same kind of team play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaylord Focker Posted November 26, 2002 Author Share Posted November 26, 2002 Originally posted by Mike: In no particular order: X-Com, Master of Orion, Fighter Command & USAAF (both Apple 2 games (for me) by SSI), Bards tale Battlefront series by SSG (is that the right name?? Rommel, McArthur in Korea, Halls of Montezuma, etc - I still occasionally play them) The Operational Art of War My criteria: How often I stayed up playing them until 3-4am with work the next daylight period!! Bards Tale rocked!!! One of my friends had that a long time ago!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jard Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Originally posted by Captain Pies: Ahhh such memories (wipes tear from corner of eye). I'd forgotten all about that one 'til you reminded me. Where did you get that screenie? can it be that you are the last person on the planet to own a working ZX Spectrum? let alone a tape recorder to load the games on?I do have it, but it's not that functional... Could be with a minor effort (I think). That screen came from a google search, but the sweet memories it brought.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindan Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 If you like to check out all the good old stuff, try: http://www.the-underdogs.org a great site with many, many classics... highly recommended! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Nice site Lindan. Pity they can't offer my all time fav game Airborne Ranger for download. My venerable 5 1/4" floppy sort of decomposed over the years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindan Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Check out this site: http://www.xcomufo.com/ click on "Xenocide". It seems that some people try to rcode a 'new' version of XCOM:Ufo Defense for nowadays systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murpes Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Originally posted by Lindan: Ultima III & IV and ELITE for Atari ST [/QB]You made a typo and misspelled "Underworld I & Underworld II" as "III & IV and ELITE." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindan Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Originally posted by murpes: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Lindan: Ultima III & IV and ELITE for Atari ST You made a typo and misspelled "Underworld I & Underworld II" as "III & IV and ELITE."[/QB]</font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murpes Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Limited it to PC games - here's my list. DOOM - The reason I failed out of college. Really. System Shock, Ultima Underworld I & I - anything by looking glass is instanly a classic. SS honestly gave me nightmares. Zork - best graphics ever, and I'm sincere about that. No NVidia card can come up with the images I created in my head. I wasted alot of time with Moria & NetHack too. Rally Trophy Championship - Probably the closest I'll ever come to the real thing. Half Life - yeah, it's on everyone's list but I loved that game. The first Wolfenstein - not the original one, the first 3D one. Sam & Max Hit the Road - funny as hell. CMBO - wasting my life away. Glad I'm not in college with this one or I'd fail out again. Wost game ever would be Phantasmagoria. Truly awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easytarget Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 man, an update of X-Com would be very cool that definitely ranks among the top games I've ever played Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moriarty Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Best game of all time? Hmm, Spin the Bottle comes to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 The original X-Com gripped me like no game before or since. An almost perfect blend of tactics, grand strategy, atmosphere and viseral feedback. Thief: The Dark Project, Red Storm Rising, Unreal Tournament and CMBO/CMBB would be the rest of my top PC list. Flashback for the Sega Genesis would be my favorite console game. Raiders of the Lost Arc for the Atari 2600 gets an honorable mention here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawyer Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 "Magic Carpet" was a lot of fun. I'd buy an updated version for sure. "Panzer General" one and two were big for me. CMBO and CMBB are by FAR the best of all time for me. Now if I could just learn how to win... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaylord Focker Posted November 27, 2002 Author Share Posted November 27, 2002 Originally posted by Vanir Ausf B: The original X-Com gripped me like no game before or since. An almost perfect blend of tactics, grand strategy, atmosphere and viseral feedback. Thief: The Dark Project, Red Storm Rising, Unreal Tournament and CMBO/CMBB would be the rest of my top PC list. Flashback for the Sega Genesis would be my favorite console game. Raiders of the Lost Arc for the Atari 2600 gets an honorable mention here.I had Raiders of the lost ark on Atari too! That damn tsi fly used to be a pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Heh, yeah. And that thief that would steal an item if he touched you... The thing I liked about that game is that it was hard. When I finally solved it I felt like I had really accomplished something. Too many games these days are dumbed down for the lowest common denominator. Good thing that's not true of CMBB (see, we're still on topic! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KG_SSpoom Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 X-Com is one of my all time favorites too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generale_Pasquini Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Ummm, all of you are smoking crack. Two Words: MARIO KART Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Ah X-com, I have to say the time I spent playing that was the most satisfying gaming experience I ever had. It had it all. In CMBB I know how the battle will come out (historically) while with X-com you didn't know anything. The first alien raid on one of my complexs was extraordinary! As was my first attack on one of their bases. Great game, all that followed was ash and trash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pies Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 For those wishing to re-live all those happy moments go here Arcade at Home There's loads of other machine emulators out there, you just need to look for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Jerkov Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Originally posted by Walker: Nice site Lindan. Pity they can't offer my all time fav game Airborne Ranger for download. My venerable 5 1/4" floppy sort of decomposed over the years... I have airborne ranger for a c64 emu. Just look up cbm emu's and you'll definitely find that one for it, good stuff. Just bout' all games I had for it I found at... well somewhere... its definitely for an emu, you'll find if it you look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Jerkov Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Originally posted by Captain Pies: For those wishing to re-live all those happy moments go here Arcade at Home There's loads of other machine emulators out there, you just need to look for them.MAME is sweet, still gots a$$-loads of classics for it... [ November 27, 2002, 05:47 AM: Message edited by: Major Jerkov ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Jerkov Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Whoa-oh, under her black wings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Jerkov Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Originally posted by Lindan: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by murpes: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Lindan: Ultima III & IV and ELITE for Atari ST You made a typo and misspelled "Underworld I & Underworld II" as "III & IV and ELITE."</font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberfox Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Greetings, at http://www.spectrum.lovely.net/Elite.html you can play Elite online (XZ Zpectrum) and more at http://www.spectrum.lovely.net/ Good old times..... Cyberfox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBaron Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Since this has switched to everyones favorite game I thought I would go ahead and list mine. X-Com definately was one my favorites. Why won't anyone remake it? Or at least make a real honest to god sequel. Underwater aliens, & aliens from another dimension just don't cut it I heard sid meir bought the rights to it though so maybe theres hope yet Red Storm Rising. I remember playing that game forever, purposly losing missions just so I could raise my kill count, making the war go on for years. My only regret was that they never included some sort of stat to see just how many ships you actually sunk during the game. I swear I must have sunk the entire Northern Soviet Fleet 3 times over. Command HQ. I swear it was the first real time strategy game. Mule. Simple but insanely fun trading game. I remember the bidding screen with that damn bar, trying to keep it as high as possible and seeing who would blink first. Fallout 1,2 & Wasteland. Who knew that a post apocolyptic world could be so much fun? IL-2. Probably the best WWII flight sim game ever made. I just wish I had the money for a high end system with a fancy joystick and rudder pedals so I could get the most out of this game. Goldeneye & Counterstrike. Goldeneye is still fun today and as far as counterstrike goes don't flame me but it was just so much damn fun in the begining running around de_dust with a bunch of noobs not really caring who won, now its been ruined by cheaters and people who are so good at getting headshots or awping its pointless to play anymore. Civilization 1 & 2, and Colonization. Colonization was the best of these in my opionion. Don't much like the new one though. And of course CMBB, last but not least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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