All-Time Favorite Oldie Game?

[imported_Frith-Rae]

*giggles* ugg..text adventures...

I remember playing a few, and then getting really fed up with the games because I would get to a point where I'd either be 1-hopelessly lost or 2-hopelessly trapped.

"You are in a dark room, there is a chest on the floor and a door to your west"

>open chest

"you are not at the chest"

>Walk to chest

"that is not a command"

>Forward, Forward

"you are at the chest"

>Open Chest

"The chest is locked"

>unlock chest

"that is not a command"

>Use Key

"use key on what?"

>Use key on chest

"you cannot use that here"

>Use sword on chest

"You cannot use that here"

>KICK THE #*#&@(#*&@ CHEST

"You cannot kick that here"

>#@*$&#*($#

"That is not a command"

...that also happened when I stood in front of doors...

"Open door"

"You cannot open the door"

"Use Key on Door"

"You cannot use that here"

>*#%&#(@)#

"That is not a command"...

Never got far with those games....ROFL [:P]

[Shaw Moking]

ahh, the memories...lol, Frith

used to have those books, where you turned to a certain page to decide your fate...which somehow, always seemed certain death, nothing a quick turn back to choose option 2, wouldn;t solve.

[DeathTiny]

hm all time fav is hard to say ...

Some of my alltime favs are :

- Phoenix (coinup shooter the table-version)
- Pirates
- Ultima series (played I or II or both on the good old apple IIe)
- Dogs of War was a nice 2player shooter
- Chaos Engine too (bitmap brothers)
- War/Uridium and all those old shooters were nice timesinks too
- Dungeon Master
- Amberstar / Ambermoon
- Colonial Conquest (Risiko-Type game)
- Way of the exploding fist .. never again played a beat em up that much
- Sensible Soccer ..
- Daggerfall was nice too but it never run without any problems on my comp
- Elite ;) deadly > Elite took ages and the docking with blown up docking comp was really nice
- Silent Service
- Battle Isle 2 ... best round-based game ever for me
- Paradroid
- Breed
- and nearly missed one .. Bard´s Tale

that was the old days collection for me (shure i missed 10-20 arcade-shooter as 1942 etc. but most others should be on the list)

[Aenos]

Daggerfall was nice too but it never run without any problems on my comp

Had some unhealthy problems with it too... i never managed to get out of the first cave where you start due to a freakish invunerable bat, and some invunerable skeletons.

But one nice game is supercars 2, i never really liked cargames, but supercars and those micromachines where you could use weapons at each other was really fun..

Aplus to the bonusquestions you got after completing a race in supercars II, always as confusing and strange, where you alwaysguessed the answers due to the lack of yer English, or just due to the most oddest of questions..

[Tantalyr]

Let me throw Wing Commander (my favorite FPS--in a sci-fi series) into the mix, along with M.U.L.E. from ye olde Commodore 64.

[Dagda]

Oh my...someone mentioned the Amiga. I played a game when I had my Amiga that was just too much mindless fun.Lemmings!!! [:|] Anyone else remember that game? It was addictive, they were so cute, perky and stupid! The PC version didn't have nearly the same graphics or sounds.

LEMMINGS! it's available for PDA ya know... one of my teammates got maoned at for leaving the sound on and while we were working we could hear that theme tune...

oh, and the occasional muttered expletive from him and "OH NO!" from the lemmings then machinegun pops as they exploded because he clicked the nuke icon again :p

[Dvergar]

When playing Daggerfall, its absolutely mandatory to use the patch. Without the patch, you can forget about it. And yea, Arena 2: Daggerfall is a really nice one, especially the guild & ranking system. Not to forget stealing the shops empty at night[;)] And the game itself is so good, that rarely anyone bothers with finishing the main quests, as the game itself offers so many opportunities [:P]

For Amiga, Ambermoon (part 2 of the Amber series) was my favorite, and Nipponon the C64 (oh boy, anyone ever finished that? [:O])

[Catharsis]

Not an very old game, but text based and playable on PDA's....


Dope Wars!

That's gotten me out of many a business meeting:

"Let me just tally up the figures here, and I'll give you my opinon"

<You just found some acid on a dead dude in the subway!>

"Looks good to me....."



I guess the original was a PC game from the '80s, so it may well fit in here as an "old" game.

[Mordoth]

[img]/Web/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif[/img]Mordoth wrote: Oh my...someone mentioned the Amiga. I played a game when I had my Amiga that was just too much mindless fun.Lemmings!!! [img]/Web//emoticons/emotion-8.gif[/img] Anyone else remember that game? It was addictive, they were so cute, perky and stupid!  The PC version didn't have nearly the same graphics or sounds.

LEMMINGS! it's available for PDA ya know... one of my teammates got maoned at for leaving the sound on and while we were working we could hear that theme tune...

oh, and the occasional muttered expletive from him and "OH NO!" from the lemmings then machinegun pops as they exploded because he clicked the nuke icon again [img]/Web/emoticons/emotion-4.gif[/img]

OMG!! [:O] I have to buy a PDA!!!

[Myca Ghimerov]

*giggles* ugg..text adventures...

I remember playing a few, and then getting really fed up with the games because I would get to a point where I'd either be 1-hopelessly lost or 2-hopelessly trapped.

"You are in a dark room, there is a chest on the floor and a door to your west"

>open chest

"you are not at the chest"

>Walk to chest

"that is not a command"

>Forward, Forward

"you are at the chest"

>Open Chest

"The chest is locked"

>unlock chest

"that is not a command"

>Use Key

"use key on what?"

>Use key on chest

"you cannot use that here"

>Use sword on chest

"You cannot use that here"

>KICK THE #*#&@(#*&@ CHEST

"You cannot kick that here"

>#@*$&#*($#

"That is not a command"

...that also happened when I stood in front of doors...

"Open door"

"You cannot open the door"

"Use Key on Door"

"You cannot use that here"

>*#%&#(@)#

"That is not a command"...

Never got far with those games....ROFL [:P]

EDIT: The above is supposed to be the txt rp game post, but the forum managed to scre\/\/ it up somehow...prolly quoting cant be html or something the likes

oh yes XD the memories XD

memories...ancient memories
Zeliard, an old sideslide adventure/rpg if things need to be really old
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for the up until now favorite award

hehe I was grandmaster of the Morag Tong, leader of the mage guild and way up in the thieves guild before I even found out there was a main plotline ^_^ gotta love it
too bad the mutliplayer thing screwed my savegames hehe

[AmonGwareth]

Just to throw in my two cents... My favorite games of all-time:

Oldies but Goodies:
Civilization 1
The Bard's Tale 1 and 3
Ultima IV and V
Xevious (arcade)
Starcraft
Master of Orion 2
MUDs / MUSHs / MUSEs


- Amon

[Kulamata]

Adventure on the PDP11-xx
King's Quest, about #4.
Epic Pinball
Myst

[Sheral]

Not an very old game, but text based and playable on PDA's....


Dope Wars!

That's gotten me out of many a business meeting:

"Let me just tally up the figures here, and I'll give you my opinon"

<You just found some acid on a dead dude in the subway!>

"Looks good to me....."

Heh, I played that for a while too, great fun! Also an early pc game I played that was really simple was Chip's Challenge. simple but quite challenging and addictive.

I also remember Jet Set Willy from the Speccy, the first platform type game I ever played. Also very addictive.

I only ever played one text based adventure. That was also on the Speccy and quite time consuming. Can't remember the name of it now, but whenever I got frustrated and swore at it, I would be put into the 'swear box', which was actually being put back to the beginning of the game lol. Even more frustrating than 'that is not a recognised command LOL.

Another one for the Speccy I had a lot of fun with back then was 'How to be a complete and utter bastard'. YOu were at a party and had to behave like the worst guest ever. The more horrible you were the more points you got. Things like going to the toilet and using the sink instead of the loo, eating and drinking too much and throwing up on people's coats in the bedroom. If you got completely drunk everything went strange and you lost the power to move properly. Ah the good old days ;)

[Mordoth]

Yay!! [:P]

A World Master posted on the thread!! [Y] (Shh! I won't mention names Amon!)

I still wanna play Lemmings again [:|]

Anyone have a spare PDA they can send me?

[Gothia]

Oooh..

Planescape: torment... Loved that one.

And Dungeon Keeper!

[Shaw Moking]

welcome back, Gothia :)

[Gothia]

Thanks :)

Took me a while.. My account got bugged at first. And I've been spending lots of time at Rants Refugees.

[Rilramar]

Zork! all of them
oh..and L.O.R.D. ( Legend of the Red Dragon) from the BBS I used to run I am still not sure why that was so addictive

oo Bards Tale yes..that was the first game I ever played in color on the 286s in the CAD dept in the school where i was training for computer repair

ack and Morrowind..adore it..though I have not played far...I ahve too many games and have completed very few. Lots of memories

[Amerelium]

Eye of the Beholder
Daggerfall
System Shock 2
Baldur's Gate
Deus Ex

[Soulfyre]

Zork! all of them

Pfft.. you only list Zork so you had an excuse to say the word "zork".

Oh yeah.. games.. hrm..

Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is so addictive.
Lemmings rule.. nuff said.
Worms Armageddon. Two words.. Sheep Launcher!
Conker's Bad Fur Day ( Must mention.. Yes.. I am weird. )
Warcraft 2, but I kept seeing little men choppin' wood in my dreams.. [:|]